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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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Cuz no paper anymore....

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They've already found a way around this with their laptops. They figured out they can use a shared Google doc for notes.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] village604@adultswim.fan 20 points 2 months ago

Considering how frequently kids got caught passing notes and had to read them in front of the class when I was in school, that wasn't exactly a highly private form of communication.

Few schools have an IT department large enough to police all of the Google documents for note passing.

[–] muxika@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

As an online teacher, I can tell you Discord takes care of that.

[–] Funky_Beak 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Super fun on computer lab day to both communicate with friends and randomly annoy the crap out of others.

[–] cadekat@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago

Oh boy, that brings me back... After they blocked net send, well, let's just say my school board's internal single sign-on had an SQL injection vulnerability and plaintext passwords...

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Btw, story time:

I remember messing around with ciphers like a=z b=y etc... and I share this with another kid. We'd use rubber bands to slingshot folded up paper notes written in cipher to each other during class and in the afterschool program. Like I just get bored and wanna talk to someone, and we both spoke Mandarin so we sort of "connected" with each other quickly. We'd write "fuck you" using this cipher on the whiteboard and we'd laugh... cuz us kids being silly kids...

I accidentaly hit one of the afterschool program staff with those slingshotted "paper bullets", he got mad at me and I got in trouble and I was forced to sit on the carpet while everyone just glanced at me like: "ooh this thoublemaker kid again"

I remember just crying lol

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Have you forgotten about DMs and instant messengers? Email?

And then they're less likely to be caught passing them, too.