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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:
- 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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- 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
- Posts must be original/unique
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I used to write horoscopes for a magazine. Guess what my background was? I was the IT support guy of the magazine publisher.
No experience needed to write generic horoscopes, people who believe in it will believe whatever they read anyway.
How could it be a lie when horoscope is never the truth anyway?
I didn't remember it fondly, it was just a task my boss asked me to do while my actual job was IT support.
I hear Aliens never happened, so fuck James Cameron's documentarian status, right? I've got a similar complaint with a documentary about three bears and some porridge.
Let fiction be the fiction it is.
I'm starting to suspect Garfield now...