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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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- The entire showerthought must be in the title
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- 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.
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If they're not wealthy it's usually individuals that are in some way special and exceptional because they have a power by birth, accident or because of a rare doohickey.
Hmm. So that’s where the exceptionalism argument comes from. Kinda makes sense too, since you have to be exceptional to have exceptional powers. Can’t really make a movie about usual people having exceptional powers, now can you. Like, the whole point of the movie is to look at the life of someone who has strange powers, and getting to that point has to be somehow really weird.
Extraordinary is a sitcom where everyone has a power. I really liked it
Oh thanks. Now the following two weeks of my life will be consumed by binging a new TV series. Better start canceling those appointments and then switch my phone off.