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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:

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I can eat sushi, pizza, samosas, kebab (kabobs, döner or shawarmas depending on your frame of reference), gyoza/pot stickers/tortellone/pasteczki (or whatever), noodles/ramen/spaghetti, knödeln/kroppkakor and so on and so on. Leaving lots of cultures unsaid.

I can enjoy music, cringy cultural movies (animated and not), fun cirque sessions (even without animals being endangered), go to festivals for various cultures, enjoin then in our cultures of scouting, mountaineering, hiking and share my love of enjoying nature.

I can drive electric cars, communicate on Internet forums, keep in touch with new friends as well as loved ones across the world.

I would be in a much poorer world without you all.

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[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

The only reason there is to love American culture is the blending of different immigrant cultures.

[–] aniqu@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Just out of curiosity: what are pasteczki?

[–] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If they meant paszteciki, it looks like what the anglosphere knows as a sausage roll?

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[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] worldistracist@lemmy.cafe -5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ah yeah isn't that nice to have underpaid third world wage slaves cooking for us? So wholesome

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[–] Kurious84@eviltoast.org -2 points 2 days ago

Simple minded. They encouraged people to come here by not deporting people then jolt everyone who came here. They couldn't fast track everyone here make them citizens and the. Hate the border how they want? Before you say it's impossible there is plenty of money to do this. All those workers fired there's room ti start a new department etc.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world -5 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Couldn't agree more except one little nitpick. Pizza was invented in America.

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