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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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- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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President of Africa.
I've heard a fun fact about this! Nowadays, at least in North America, they make great effort to always use the full names of people that become infamous to reduce the poisoning of names like that, as well as to minimize the incidence of living people with the same name.
Of course he's a cop
Nominative determinism
Not yet, there are people who have, and will, name their kids Donald. They might actually give him the "t" middle initial too.
Just make their middle name Duck and you are golden.
Hillary. No one names their daughter Hillary and haven't for a while now.
Grover, Kermit. These were also common names. There was president Grover Cleveland. Teddy Roosevelt named one of his sons Kermit. Sesame Street had such a strong cultural impact that these names also fell out of use.
Kermit Roosevelt. I'm sure with a name like that, he definitely didn't do anything of consequence that ripples through geopolitics to this day.
I dated a girl named Hilary once. She was okay.
Must have been hilarious.
Elmo too certainly
One of the funniest videos of politicians that I've seen recently was a casual meetup of Poland's PM Donald Tusk and the then incoming Hungarian PM Magyar. He had just defeated Viktor Orban, Putin's fifth column in the EU and authoritarian asshole of the year. Magyar introduces one of his ministers to Tusk. I don't remember which ministry but her name is also Orban. Tusk is ever so briefly taken aback by the mention of that name, which Magyar realizes and quickly adds: "No relation." They giggle at the mixup and Tusk just fires off nonchalantly something like: "Well, my name is Donald." They laugh and move on.
#WholesomePolitics
Nobody names kids "Adolf" here, even today. That name is thoroughly burned.
I am German and have an uncle whose name is Adolf. His dad/my grandpa also had the name Adolf, but he got the name before WWII.
My parents told me that my uncle has this name because my grandpa misunderstood the nurse when my uncle was born. He supposedly understood "What's your name?", while she asked "How should he be named?". He then said "Adolf" obviously, because that's his name. And it's said that once they figured out the error, it was too late to be undone.
There's a certain scepticism about this story being real. But for sure my grandpa didn't do it to honor Adolf Hitler (aka being a Nazi. I don't know about his doings during WWII tbh, but at least how I perceived him, he didn't have any sympathy for Nazis), maybe he did it because he wanted to name a son after himself while the name was burnt..
Just a tidbit from my life :D
your uncle prob thought “if I dealt with it my whole life someone else will now, too”
Adolf Israel Jihad
I wonder if it could be refined to be less…literal? “Adolfo Semit Al-Jihad” or something.
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A mechanic in Denmark has Adolf has his middle name. He's about 50. I only went there once...
A mechanic in Denmark has Adolf has his middle name.
He's about 50.
Is Isis still off-limits?
They simply changed their head headchopper's name to Al Jolani and suddenly presidents can shake hands with him and do business.
So who TF knows?
eyesis
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I think the name Donald has been out of style since before Trump was born.
Imagine spending your whole life being compared to Donald Duck.
The most recent famous Donald I can think of is Glover, who was born in '83.
Yeah I was just thinking that, all the others I could think of were at least 60.
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Nobody shied away from Joseph after Stalin.
why would they?
Ah the innocence of youth.
Indeed
There is a very famous Joseph in a old fairy tale book which most people associate with that name.
But Donald or Adolph?
I mean at least Donald has a Duck, Knuth and Glover.
But Adolf, yeah you named your kid after him...
Its literally just a name and was a very popular name before Hitler. I don't see why you would have to be named after him. Are all Josephs, peter, Paul's,Mathews marks named after the bible. No they are just names.
Sure. Go ahead. Name your kid Adolf.
No one is going to think you're a Nazi...
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My grandpa’s name is Donald. I was gonna name my kid after him.
Sorry, grandpa.
The solution is obvious: name your kid Grandpa.
Middle name, maybe?
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