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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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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 171 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So you're the one who stole my bath towel.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 123 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Yes I collect gay bath towels

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

How can you tell the sexuality of a towel?

edit: I think some people thought I was asking about identifying the gender of the towel. As much as I never thought I'd have to write anything like this sentence: I was asking how to identify the partnership preferred by a towel, rather than anything to do with its hypothetical undercarriage.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Wow, toweldar.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

If you notice they get wet before you've used them to towel off, congrats, they're into you. If they're dry as a bone when you use them, they're really not enjoying it, at all. It's not rocket science.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 12 points 8 months ago

Ugh, I can't believe my towel is only into me after it's been used by my partner.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

This might help determine whether or not they enjoy the company of a particular gender, but you couldn't use this method to identify, for example, bisexuality. Unless you take group showers, I guess.

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 21 points 8 months ago

Well, there are worse hobbies...

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

So you're saying my bi bath towels were taken by someone else?

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[–] artifex@piefed.social 120 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Don't tempt them. It's hard enough to cross the street as it is.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 61 points 8 months ago (1 children)

lol .... conservatives would be the first to happily just get rid of cross walks altogether ... both to not acknowledge LGBTQ+ and also to give more freedom to vehicles and get rid of "pedestrians"

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A good wholesome road needs to be safe for our traditional family SUVs and free of these dangerous ((pedestrians)).

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[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"It's for the children! No more crosswalks! Just frogger it, kids!" -Ron DeSantis

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[–] dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 69 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I like this idea. It’s like depressed version of pride flag, indicating LGBTQ people are repressed and in pain

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 8 months ago

Perfect for Florida!

[–] Steve@startrek.website 35 points 8 months ago

Yes, a distress flag

[–] aramova@infosec.pub 43 points 8 months ago

To be honest those twats would already be on board with that.

"Crosswalks? The fuck, you ain't driving your truck across the street to get there? It too damn far!"

-- Florida Man

[–] warm@kbin.earth 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just adopt red and white stripes. See what they do then

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 22 points 8 months ago

Now we just get the uniforms:

[–] s@piefed.world 13 points 8 months ago

It’s giving “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah tbh. And it aligns better with the concept of sexuality/gender being more of a spectrum than rigidly designated buckets.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 39 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Isn't the rainbow meant to represent the spectrum. Like how rainbows show the visible spectrum of light?

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It would be a lot prettier that way

[–] Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are you trying to get the entire dcip3 banned??

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I thought of this because of your comment.

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ironically Bryan doesn't even understand the Bible, as God in the very Bible is described with not just masculine but also feminine and neutral attributes.

They for example are described as being beyond humankind, yet the latter proceeding forth from them. Guy, gal, all proceeding forth from God; in other words, God isn't a man, woman, but beyond either.

It's ragebait that he posts and either he knows what he's doing (likely), or he's just that dumb/hateful (also likely).


The Bible itself is also pretty contradictionary. For example. God punishes slavery, by releasing the refugees from Egyptian servantry; yet he rewards Adam for snitching on Eve, and makes Eve a slave to him.

The closest analogy to the fictional God is a power-tripping CEO like that of United Health.

[–] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sure it has every color but does it have our specific color?

[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this flag only shows saturated hues. This is unsaturated erasure.

[–] chellomere@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Might I tempt you with this alternative proposal?

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[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 months ago

These are all straight lines, give me the real gay flag

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It... is kind of a giant mess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag_(LGBTQ) is a good summary but the modern rainbow color scheme is a somewhat recent iteration.

But much as "LGBT" has become "LGBTQ" and "LGBTQIA" and "LGBTQIA+" and so forth, so too have the flag added and removed stripes. And... a lot of that is intentional animosity since a shocking number of LGBTQIA+ folk are actually REALLY bigoted (the old "jokes" about how bisexual people need to "choose a side" and so forth) and it becomes a whole thing.

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[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago

Don't give Florida ideas

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 7 points 8 months ago
[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Florida always at the ready for ideas that can harm children.

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What in the white skittles?

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Just adopt the Florida state flag?

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[–] BoloMKXXVIII@piefed.social 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Why is Red on the left and Blue on the right? Don't tell the MAGA crowd or they will try to pass another law...

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