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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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Are you referring to David Mitchell the comedian, or the author of Cloud Atlas?
Or are they both the same person, too?
The very successful comedian. They both use humor in the same way ... they take what someone asserts and then runs very far with the argument to prove how it is absurd.
It is not that they look alike ... it is one was rough-handled out of a communist state and the other has been anxietied from the hearth of a empire on life support and yet their humor uses the same structure.
Sorry just something that I actually thought of while in the shower
Neither of them look remotely like Slavoj Zizek