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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.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] ns1@feddit.uk 36 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Who else is thinking of that one scene near the start of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country?

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I assume that the Federation has better space OSHA regulations that mandate more reliable artificial gravity than the Klingons.

[–] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Or Star Trek: First Contact, when Picard, Worf, and redshirt Neil McDonough test out their zero G combat training, further cementing the fact that Star Trek only remembers that space has no gravity when it's relevant to the plot.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

They do throw things out the airlock an awful lot. Though, somehow, Borg don’t have the strength to stop it but Beverly Crusher does.

[–] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Beverly Crusher fucked a ghost. She can do anything.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

and had her own PERSONAL UNIVERSE she got trapped in.

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My wife abused star trek of being a soap opera at some point. At first I thought, maybe she's just showing up at the worst possible time?

No. It's all of the time. Every episode has some weird soapy bullshit. Beverly fucking a ghost, LaForge fucking a hologram, Riker fucking anything with genitals INCLUDING a hologram. Everybody be fuckin. That's not even the soapiest thing. Voyager is basically Soaps in space.

I love classic trek, but guys I think it's a soap opera.

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 1 points 14 hours ago

Uhm excuse me, it's called a space opera.

[–] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

guys I think it's a soap opera

It always was, but it was our soap opera with spaceships and laser guns.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Good ol' Blazin Bev

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 3 points 2 days ago

That was my first thought and I am having trouble thinking of additional examples.