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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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because eating men's meat is gay, and so on

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 123 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I worked in record stores in the olden days, and got casually familiar with several regulars. One day, a regular customer was buying an album, and I mentioned that some artist had just dropped a new album, if he was interested.

He got very serious, and said "That album is by a man. Do you think I'm gay?"

I was instantly confused, and just asked " What?"

He was getting angry now, and repeated "Do you think I'm gay? Only a gay guy would but an album by a man!"

I had never encountered this attitude before, and I have never encountered it since, but here it was - if a man bought an album by another man, he is gay. I had never noticed that every artist this guy bought was female.

I tried explaining that your musical choices do not reflect your sexuality, but he just yelled at me, called me the F-word a bunch of times, and left, and never returned

I had never cared to think about it before, but after that experience, I came to the conclusion that he was DEFINITELY gay.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When I was a very young kid, I used to think it was weird if boys liked songs by women. Now I don't give a shit, but it was something I used to think.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

When I was a young kid, I liked songs by women because they were in my range. I'd go back to being 14 for one reason only. When my voice changed, I had a 10-11 month period that I could sing Soprano 1 to Bass 1. Couldn't do Bass 2 at that point. Then my voice cracked and I could barely sing for a few months. These days I have trouble getting up to an Irish Tenor.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 116 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Now this is a shower thought.

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

A suspicious one imo

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 73 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Hello there, human meat butcher, fetch me a flank of a former league of legends player that died after a diet of nothing but energy drinks and chicken tendies. Nono, this one isn't pale enough. I want only your finest. Bring me muscles that have never been used.

[–] rehydrate5503@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Will Mountain Dew DOTA2 veal be ok?

I said League, and it has to be one that unlocked all the skins.

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[–] Blubber28@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Butcher: "Excellent choice! Now, in case this is your first time using salted meat, I should stress that it must be desalted by leaving it in some water for a few hours, changing the water frequently. After that, it is perfect for roasting!"

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

"one cock sausage coming right up"

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 day ago
[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 21 points 1 day ago

I am both jealous of and horrified by your brain.

This is so insane and yet true.

[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

I'm never showering with you.

[–] BranBucket@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What's the quote about virgins from that vampire show? Something like: If you're going to eat a sandwich, wouldn't your prefer if no one had fucked it first?

This seems similar.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 day ago

There'd also be people who refuse to eat human meat and everyone else would make fun of them.

[–] gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 day ago

Well, someone was hungry in the shower!

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would happily eat any of y'alls flesh for sustenance. I mean that. ❤️

Gee, thanks.

[Checks door locks again, just to be sure]

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

"Meat with a first and last name tastes best!" - from Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

Not a book for most people, hell sometimes I wish I hadn't read it. But if you want to get into a fiction book on the subject this one is pretty fucked up. It'll probably live rent free in my head for the rest of my life...

A few other quotes that have stuck with me:

After all, since the world began, we've been eating each other. If not symbolically, then we've been literally gorging on each other. The Transition has enabled us to be less hypocritical.

I know that when I die somebody’s going to sell my flesh on the black market, one of my awful distant relatives. That’s why I smoke and drink, so I taste bitter and no one gets any pleasure out of my death.

No one can call them humans because that would mean giving them an identity. They call them product, or meat, or food.

They gave human meat the name “special meat.” Instead of just “meat,” now there’s “special tenderloin,” “special cutlets,” “special kidneys."

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That book was a great read. I really enjoyed it, the themes of capitalist consumerism and greed were neatly wrapped up in the madness of cannibalism.

The ending where >!the guy ends up killing the woman that became too human in his eyes!< was a great twist. Would definitely recommend that book to anyone who enjoys reading.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Not sure if it's just me but the part tagged as spoiler isn't hidden for me...?

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[–] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the only book that's ever given me a nightmare. And you should 100% read it.

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[–] hexagonwin 3 points 1 day ago

how do you even get ideas like this

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

Not exactly cannibalism but mummia (powdered mummies) was popular in Europe from the 12th to 19th century.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I already find it kind of weird when people talk about eating meat, especially 'breasts', but no one else seems to so maybe I'm weird.

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[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a show about this. The Promised Neverland. [Redacted] raise children on farms and educate them because apparently, smarter ones taste better, but the taste drops at puberty, so they're given 12 years max before they're "harvested." Saying puberty, it sounds perverse, but there's no perverted element whatsoever to the show. It's just straight up horror.

The show is available (at least) in both English and Japanese. There's a film (on Amazon Prime) that is in Japanese. I'm not sure if it got an English translation. It's better than one might expect. At one point, Amazon was going to make an English version of the film (based on the manga, not based on the existing movie) but it never happened.

Minor spoiler: they don't care about race or gender, only IQ. The smartest ones go to the richest [Redacted], but commoners can typically get the "average" kids. Damn. That sounds Epstein as hell. It really isn't. They're strictly being raised as food, as cattle. (That, in and of itself, is a minor spoiler, but it's revealed in the first episode.)

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I like how you defend it multiple times. Guys this fictional dystopian story about human children raised like cattle to be harvested isn't as bad as our reality where they're sex trafficked to billionaires, I swear. Just some lighthearted horror sitcom. Look they put up a big seasoning box so the kids can play with that instead of sand. Ha, they keep sneezing. How cute.

Yeah, it's actually a good show. Maybe give it a shot rather than shooting the messenger? Skip the second season though, it's kind of a train wreck. (Long story short, they crammed about five seasons' worth of content into one to satisfy contractual obligations. That said, the first season stands on its own well enough. If nothing else, pick up the manga from there and get the full story.)

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[–] DesertCreosote@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sounds perfect for a pie shop.

Menu:

  • Priest
  • Greengrocer
  • General (served with and without his privates)
  • Piccolo player
  • Locksmith

Coming soon:

  • Beadle
  • Judge
[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

White meat and dark meat are already a thing.

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

And white and yellow chicken

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[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago

brb got a business idea, but first I gotta call one of those lab-grown meat businesses

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Now you're giving me an idea to tweak dude bros by pointing out how they're eagerly shoving male beef down their throats

For it to be consistently available in national grocery chains, it would probably have to be industrialized like the current meat industry. That puts a lot of limits on how it could work. For starters, there are a lot of species of animal that people will hunt for food that aren't economical with industrial farming/ranching methods. Their meat is expensive, available minimally in the supply chain and relegated to specialty shops.

So now, we're in a position in which there's a globally massive demand and supply for the meat, just to have commonly at grocery stores. That implies the meat is mostly farm-raised. We're probably looking at a population of around 100 million. Using other aspects of the meat industry as a model, the meat is probably mostly juvenile, female and without a lot of genetic diversity. This analogy is getting uglier by the second, and I don't want to flesh it out any further.

All the other alternatives would make for more expensive, lower quality meat, which consumers don't like. Thankfully, human burgers are probably not on the menu for the foreseeable future, and if they were, it would likely be a short, self-limiting horror show.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

An obscenely crude platformer came out a couple years ago called Hell Pie, where you play as a demon chained to a cherub and you go to different "worlds" to get her ingredients to make a pie for Satan's birthday.

One of the levels takes place in and around a giant restaurant that serves all the people of the world (meaning all the NPCs and other characters you've seen throughout the game) and they have a "mystery meat" that's so delicious people can't get enough. One of the side areas in the exterior of the building, is a small caged-in area on a flat metal surface, with tents and fire barrels and a bunch of naked humans who look like they've been in captivity for their entire lives. Like skin-and-bone, bug-eyes, all huddled together and acting like scared animals.

It was one of the few areas in the game that actually kinda fucked me up.

I mean women's meat would probably just be better. There's a reason we don't eat bulls or roosters generally. But yeah there's probably a lot of people who would prefer it for stupid reasons.

only women's meat

"Gamer Girl Bathwater" is about to have a dark twist... 👀

(hint: murder)

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Risky click of the day. Was totally worth it though.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 day ago

Nah. The worst idea is identifying another ethnicity as making better tasting meat and saying that it isn't an issue to eat people outside your kin or kith.

Then you subjugate the population as breeding stock to create food for your society because the superior humanity shouldn't concern itself with the treatment of lesser peoples. After all, if they didn't deserve to be eaten, then why do they taste so good?

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I would only eat humans that had a net worth of 100 million and up.

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