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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. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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Maybe many Lemmy users don't understand "shower thoughts" because they don't shower. (lemmy.tespia.org)
submitted 5 months ago by navi@lemmy.tespia.org to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Some of the posts in this community are just crazy out of whack.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 86 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oof, shots fired.

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago

all wounds septic

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 63 points 5 months ago (2 children)

BaskinginmyownfilthThoughts doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Oh but it would be so much more accurate. Someone please create that community.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

c/MoulderingThoughts

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 46 points 5 months ago (4 children)

anecdote: during the pandemic every day seemed the same. i sometimes forgot ro shower for a few days. so i put a water sensor in my shower. when i shower, it starts a macrodroid automation that records the date. another macro plans and reminds me when it's shower time.

[–] halfapage@lemmy.world 59 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Don't you like... Feel the need to wash on your skin? No microcontrollers required?

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 73 points 5 months ago

Yes, I, too, feel very real emotions like a desire to run water over my human skin. I definitely do not require microcontrollers to instruct me on when it is time to do so! Just like all completely normal humans. Of which I am one.

[–] Ithral@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Not always, I'll often forget to shower until I look in the mirror and realize my hair needs to be washed. Peak pandemic I'd sometimes go a few weeks without showering until I could smell myself. Just not something that's on my mind most of the time.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

OP doesn't lie

[–] halfapage@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Oh well, fair enough. Glad you found a solution that works for you.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We have a great macrocontroller, a brain.

Maybe not as reliable but definitely easier to program.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

Except those times where it just stops writing to log files. Sometimes I'll be in the shower zoned out and find myself on the last step of my routine without remembering completing any of the steps.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lieutenant Commander Data, is that you?

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

Nah, they didn't say anything about implementing voice activation by the command "engage".

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[–] helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 20 points 5 months ago (4 children)

you guys have thoughts?

[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

An excruciating number, yes

[–] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 2 points 5 months ago

Give them time, thoughts take longer than hope to wither and die

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[–] xep@fedia.io 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I don't know how I'm going to recover from this burn...

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Take a shower

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

I don't know this one. It might be too advanced for my Duolingo....how about

Por favor, haces una lavarse pronto!

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Mustache, or huge gaping mouth?

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

Lukewarm water helps prevent the skin from peeling or shrinking at the burn site

[–] UnpluggedFridge@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

My shower thoughts are always repeating cycles of "fuuuuuuuck this feels niiiiiiiiice" and "time to turn up the heat a smidge." Am I doing it wrong?

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Yes. Not enough daydreaming about winning arguments, mixed with intrusive thoughts and general self-loathing.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

my shower thoughts are always "God damnit get this shit over with, I want to get out of this fucking water coffin already.... I wonder what would happen if you cooked rice in milk? GOD DAMNIT WHY CANT WE HAVE STAR TREK SONIC SHOWERS YET"

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

If these are blue and spiky I might prefer regular ones

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago

Uggggh I'm jealous. The city is working on the civic plumbing for months and basically the work their doing means my on-demand hot water heater barely goes up to "tepid."

Don't get me wrong, I'm thankful for the infrastructure work.

Maybe I'll go shower at the gym or a friend's lol

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[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Excuse me, I shower once a fortnight whether I need it or not!

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Bro u shower too much

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Once a day is definitely not too much.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Excuse me, but do you know how many people I have to kill to take a shower around here?

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Sir, this is a Wendy's. You're not allowed to shower around here. You have to go home to do that.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 5 months ago

I'm only subbed because I'm too disabled to shower myself.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't ever have philosophical thoughts in the shower. I just think ordinary things that people usually think of outside the shower. And I shower once a week, so... yeah idk what a "shower thought" is. But I just come here for the philosophy goodness.

[–] Katrisia@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Similarly, people interested in philosophy (and other theoretical stuff) might take a break and think of different things like "but how's the soap made, anyway?".

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I cunt believe you've done this...

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[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

Or don't think

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Lemmy showerthoughts is the mind dump community I always wanted

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Then where are they even having thoughts? I don't think the location is what's different. I think they're just on different drugs.

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