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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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- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- 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
- Posts must be original/unique
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God damn. Mark Twain is over here talking about the internet. I started hearing about the internet when I was 13. So I can remember a world without the internet, but it still feels like it's always been there. Same thing with CallerID. Imagine cell phones without callerID.
Hell for that matter, I can remember NOBODY having a cell phone. I remember car phones. A landline style phone installed INTO your car. But it still feels like cell phones have always been around.
Sadly, I remember a world before school shootings. Yeah, imagine if the whole year there were 0 school shootings. And 0 the year before that. And 0 the year before that. Then in 1998, Columbine happened. Those 4 kids were pussies! They claim they did it because they got bullied. I went to school in a place where on any day, for no reason at all, you could be in a fist fight. It was just a rough school, with a bunch of hormonal angry tough psychopaths. I've seen videos of them interviewing the survivors of Columbine. The impression that I got was that their bullies were rich preppy boys who tie their sweater around their waist because it might be a bit nippy on the golf coarse after school. If THAT guy can bully you, you deserve to be bullied. If those 4 kids at any time in their life had balls, and just punched a prep in the mouth? 27 kids would have lived to see 1999. Including themselves. And people say violence isn't the answer....