this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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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:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. 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
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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EDIT: ... changed title from 'monkeys' to 'apes' ... thanks to @Diddlydee@feddit.uk for pointing it out

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[–] Gregg@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was the best of times

It was the blurst of times

[–] xkbx@startrek.website 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

ACK!!! ACK!!!!! ..... (picks up feces from between the keys, slings it at you) ..... AHHHHHH!!!!!!

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nah, it’s mostly me, I wrote a bulk of the internet comments years ago and they just get recycled with updated references by some unpaid interns.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Fucking lol, love it

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] f43r05@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago
[–] liverbe@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You forgot the robots on fake typewriters.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

* robot monkeys on typewriters

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

]0ge s'o;ilkjgewn[obsdn[odsf'lkdgfj ads;flkdjfs it was the best of times it was the blurst of timeaas d[oppiqg

[–] ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

For now, until the organic apes are replaced by computer apes

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's not true, some of us are swiping on the keyboards with our phones.

[–] AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Damn right.

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

and one of us already wrote shakespears works

[–] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And one of us litterally wrote shakespeare already!

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

While billions upon billions of us are just writing complete nonsense

[–] Onionguy@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Splonge. Splababui.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I know I've seen "to be or not" at least once.