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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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[–] BenThereDoneThat@lemm.ee 98 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What the Full are you taking about

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] BenThereDoneThat@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 67 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Just like sodium and chlorine, the combination of the two is a lot milder than either half.

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Instructions unclear.

I just dumped all of my NaOH into my HCl and the flask is getting really hot.

What do now?

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 34 points 10 months ago

Drop some Mentos in it.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago
[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Remembering my chemistry professor telling us about how he went half deaf. As a young TA he had access to a brick of sodium and thought it would be a good idea to throw it into his parents pool

[–] pipe01@programming.dev 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My dumbass was trying to combine the words lol

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago
[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's also "heat" and "duck" combined.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also "helicopter" and "buttock" put together

[–] elfin8er@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Also "helium" and "sock" put together

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 13 points 10 months ago
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Back in the 80s my roommate and I tried to invent a new swear word. We settled on "cuck!" Definitely sounded dirty but meant nothing, at least to us. And I really don't think it was slang yet back then.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 7 points 10 months ago
[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Holy forking shirt balls.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm tired of all these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

That's what you get when you fight a stranger in the Alps!

[–] JiminaMann@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago

Fulling heck

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 4 points 10 months ago

I'd guess that it originates from Hekkenfeldt, an old Nothern European name for Hekla (Heklufjall), an Icelandic volcano believed to be the entrance to Hell and a meeting place for witches.

[–] _NetNomad@fedia.io 3 points 10 months ago

the reason they don't combine into the worst no no word is because of an integer overflow

[–] AwkwrdPrtMskrt@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago
[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Occasionally the showerthoughts here reach the quality level of the R-site.

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, it's much more versatile:

"Heck you man, I'll heck you up so bad you'll hecking wish you hecked up and went to heck."

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fuck works for all of those too.

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Oh, shove it up your heck!

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Hecking heck

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Flamangoman@leminal.space 1 points 10 months ago

Helk yourself fulk wad!

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago

That's heckin untrue! Some of us just like how it soooooounds!!!

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

https://www.etymonline.com/word/heck

heck(interj.)

euphemistic alteration of hell, by 1865.

Wow, there's nothing there. That's the only info we got. I'm starting to be sold on the hell+fuck idea

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

H-E-double-sippy-straws

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] fubo@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Mother mother duck