Showerthoughts
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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- The entire showerthought must be in the title
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Two sides of the same coin.
When I was in my 20s I had all the energy and creativity, but couldn't afford the means to put them to good use.
Now in my 40s I have the necessary disposable income, but my energy has been zapped by trying to get on top of this adulting business. I still get a creative burst, but I have to manage my projects so that I can stick to something I'm actually able to complete.
When I was 38 I finally able to get that sports car I always wanted and my twit of a neighbor who had 6 kids and pregnant with #7 condescendingly said that it was my mid life crises car.
My response was there is no mid life crises there was always a lack of money crises..
Just know, on that day, that neighbour wanted nothing more than to trade spots with you for a week.
Trade for his wife?
I assumed the mom was speaking.
Could have fooled me: I’m old and have no money
Why couldn't I have three money and no kids?
Having disposable income these days comes from having the same luck that made boomers millionaires. Not to say it doesn’t involve hard work, but lots of people work hard. The people who get actual compensation for it are either born into it or get very lucky.
When I was young, I had energy but no money. When I'm older, I'll have money but no energy. It's only now in my 30s and 40s that I have... neither. 😔
The logical correlation would be money is wasted on the rich. Youth --> young : Money --> rich
IOW the idea is about not appreciating what you have ("you don't know what you've got til it's gone"). So young people not appreciating the youth they have is in the same vein as rich people not appreciating the money they have.
Whoever finds a way to convert money into youth is on a winner.
As opposed to the youth into money….
Labour turns youth into money. The young die in factories so the old can live in luxury
Just purchase some blood plasma from young people and inject it.
Money is wasted on the rich and their lavish culture. Don't be ageist about it.
Neither is a waste, but neither is fair.
The young are paid with youth, while the elderly are paid with currency.
The elderly who are lucky enough to have money they can spend spend an awful lot of it telling youngsters what to do.
I often see people driving fast cars like Teslas as if gravity will instantly throw them off the road if they turn the car at faster speeds than 10 mph. They brake like 20 seconds before they are gonna turn, then go slowly slowly towards the street they want to turn in to, then they almost stop and turn the steering wheel.
Not frustrating at all to be behind one of those...
I think some people dont know how gravity works when they are in a car, so they act like they are controlling an oil tanker, just in case.
As a cyclist I honestly applaud this turning behavior ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
idk how you can be upset about people driving safely
This is not safe driving.
explain how people artificially driving faster than they’re comfortable with is safer
If your speed differs drastically from the traffic flow, you're a hazard. If you're unable to adjust your speed to your surroundings, you shouldn't be driving.
It upsets people and is actually illegal to drive too slow. Makes other people angry, they take risks to overtake you, and could cause accidents.
This is in our official driving school books even.
If you are not comfortable driving at speed limit, you need to learn that. Its part of being a good driver. Of course depending on weather.
Safe driving is conscious, fluid driving. If safe driving were just slow driving, we'd best all be going 30km/h everywhere.
Let people drive safely.
Slowing unnecessarily at every then is very dangerous. There is a difference between being cautious and being an obstruction on the road.
They dont drive safely for others. If I walk in front of you very slowly and you cant pass, you would be annoyed. Its the same in traffic.
That's actually why the used market for BMWs is such trash. If you want a manual transmission good luck finding one because the original buyers are the people OP is talking about. People who actually know which cars are good tend to be poor people lol
Eh, downvote me, but manuals are overrated. Humans just can’t react as quickly anymore, especially with the power output now.
Now give me a gently used B58 or N63TU3 engine and I’ll be quite happy. Luckily these people that just “buy the best” don’t know what they have and just putt around town for a couple years.
It's not always about reaction speed or power. Manuals are just more fun.
Sorry but what do you mean you have to react quickly when manuals are overrated? What should you be able to do so fast in manual?
Yeah they do 5 mile journeys which turns the oil into fuel, then they follow the BMW service interval of 20k which is about 4x too long for a performance engine.
Lots of 'gentle use' means the bottom end spent it's whole life at minimum oil pressure, oil which was probably trash most the time.
It's not the clueless pensioners fault, but man the industry sucks now
the quote is by George Bernard Shaw
Wisdom is wasted on the old, and youth is wasted on the young
nothing to do with money, everything to do with the accumulated wisdom of years of living and the ignorant confidence of youth.
I doubt age has anything to do with it. She likely was not begging in the streets when she was young.
If you imagine a line graph, there’s supposed to be a crossover point between the two, a sweet spot.
You are the one who ultimately decides when and how large that sweet spot is.
Not really if you have things like medical issues or poverty…
I think the problem is that as we have moved forward from baby boomer generations the overlap in those two lines has gotten smaller and smaller and in Gen Alpha it doesn’t even overlap at all
Nah.
Some people had influence on it.
But there's not enough "good" spots left and the nepo babies will always get theirs.
The more wealth inequality worsens, the less social mobility there is. A rich idiot like trump can do literally everything wrong but still wind up on top due to generational inertia.
Meanwhile someone that busts ass their whole life, can barely beat "lifestyle inflation" where they can't provide the same level of lifestyle for their kids despite being in a higher earners bracket than their parents.
That stall can kill an entire civilizations drive.
If there's no reward for work, everyone does just enough to not get in trouble. It doesn't sound like a big deal, because we're living thru it so it's "normal". But it's also undeniable that it's not working out well.
Remember that joke about men’s midlife crisis, that they'd buy a sports car when they are 40?
It would be fun to ask the men in their 40s around here what they could buy... I'm still not there, but currently I can buy a pizza.