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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.

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Inb4 muh guns good tho, find your own shower this one's mine >:)

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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 8 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomerium

"Weapons were prohibited inside the pomerium"

You right now:

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 14 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I stand corrected. Learn something new every day. Thanks.

edit: I don't know why you are getting downvotes. You corrected me with a proper source. and I stood corrected. That's the proper civilized way of doing things.

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm stun locked this has never worked for me before, sorry for being a bit of a sassy bitch

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 12 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

That was sassy? I thought it was hilarious.

I thought you had actually taken the time to look at my comment history, discovered that I majored in Near Eastern Classical Archaeology and was making a riff on that. I thought it was great!

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 8 points 16 hours ago

Hahaha I had no idea lol, my meme truly transcended my original vision

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Now kiss ;)

(But seriously, it’s nice to see people being awesome online.)

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 15 hours ago

Haven't brushed my teeth yet today. I'm gonna have to decline.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

But it was possible to sneak in daggers (the proverbial weapon for political violence; see sicarius). Since Julius Caesar's assassination occurred outside this boundary, the senatorial conspirators could not be charged with sacrilege for carrying weapons inside the sacred city.

Seems banning weapons didn't work back then. Gee, it surely wouldn't happen today either. And only some people were charged with the crime while politicians could escape charges of literal murder.

If anything you've shown that we've done this before and restricting weapons only allows certain people to have weapons. No thanks, I'll hold onto my rights before ICE tries to take them.