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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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Together they can make the combined-arms-gulls.

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[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 22 hours ago

If seagulls fly over the sea, then what flies over the bay?

Bagels.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think a "landgull" would just be a pigeon

[–] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah, that's an airgull. A landgull would be a chicken.

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah, that's a farmgull. A landfill would be an ostrich

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No that's where garbage goes, landgull would be a peacock

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, that'd be a fancygull. A landgull would be a rat.

[–] Waywardmessiah@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No that would be a politigul. A landgull would be a gopher.

[–] irmoz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, that's a dirtgull. A landgull would be a kangaroo.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago

In light of the above, then, I hereby propose that squirrels get renamed to "treegulls."

[–] listless@lemmy.cringecollective.io 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wrong.

Seagulls imply the existence of Rivergulls, Lakegulls, Mountiangulls, Desertgulls, Forestgulls, Plaingulls, Valleygulls, Hillgulls, etc.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

No no no, you're all wrong. It goes Agles, Beagles, Seagulls, Deegles, Eagles, etc. We've proven the existence of 3 of these species already, but the search continues for these other mysterious creatures the certainly must exist. In this TED Talk, I will...

Archipelagulls

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Captain Planet Gull: "Give me those chips and I'll poop on you!"

You: "... don't you mean 'or' you will poop on me, not 'and'?"

Captain Planet Gull: ...

You: ...

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

I've seen many seagulls in my life.

But I've never seen any of the others.

And that's terrifying. Stay vigilant.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's all fun and games until the firegull nation attacks.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

My brother and I discovered the new Gulliver...

[–] three@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If there are armadillos, where are the legadillos?

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

Given how much cuter a goldfish is than a silverfish, whatever a bronzefish is must be a absolutely disgusting.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And what about the Dillos who don't want to be armed?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

unarmadillos?

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[–] the_abecedarian@piefed.social 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Attention Bajoran workers...

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago

I never knew that. I thought it went from beagle to seagull and then on to eagle…

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Don't forget heartgulls. Everyone always forgets heart.

[–] remon@ani.social 17 points 1 day ago
[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 day ago

Reminds me of a John Hodgman bit - we have ice hockey, field hockey, and air hockey, implying the existence of fire hockey.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Bay-hull; loves explosions.

[–] TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I used to study animal management and there was a lecturer who wrote his uni thesis on "seagulls" and any time he heard someone call them seagulls he'd shout down the hallway "They're herring gulls!"

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 10 points 1 day ago

Seagulls are not just herring gulls though. The term is used for any gulls people see near the sea. In the UK that's herring, great black backed & and lesser black backed, black headed, common, and kittiwakes.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A birdwatching friend of mine has decided that if he ever discovers a new species, he's naming it "seagull" regardless of where he finds it or what it looks like just to piss off all the ornithologists.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Most of what we consider "seagulls" dont actually go out to sea. It's all lies.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago

They're seaadjacentgulls.

[–] Carcel@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The seagull is the state bird of Utah. About 400 miles from the nearest ocean.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

So they are lakegulls then.

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

Long ago, the four gulls lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the fire gulls attacked...

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

We have Baygulls. They are tasty with cream cheese.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"By your powers combined, I'm Captain Gull!"

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[–] Taco2112@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I live in Colorado and there are gulls here, we are far from the sea.

[–] huxley75@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Don't forget bay-gulls. They love fish, especially smoked salmon

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Don't forget THA GOOD SHIP MERRY GULL!

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Water-Gull. Earth-Gull. Fire-Gull. Air-Gull. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire-Gull Nation attacked.

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

Water. Earth. Fire. Air. My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace when the Avatar kept balance between the Seagulls, Landgulls, Firegulls, and Airgulls. But that all changed when the Firegulls attacked.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

You have to go pretty far back (to proto-Celtic, it looks like) to find a linguistic ancestor for the word "gull" that doesn't just mean "that specific bird."

But in proto-Celtic, it looks like "weilanna" probably meant "wailer." As in, "one who wails," though we don't know exactly what the suffix "-anna" means. A similar word in that language would've been "wailos," which even though it sounds similar seems to have been unrelated to our modern term "wolf," as it comes from a different proto-indo-european root.

Anyway, the word "gull" does refer to the sounds that it makes more than anything else. So in figuring out what a landgull, airgull, and firegull might be, we need to find something noisy. Or just something annoying, given the derisive connotation of "wail."

Edit: This is, of course, assuming that we're looking for different existing types of animals to be these creatures, rather than just (for instance) creating new, elemental forms of gulls; or "reskinning" seagulls with different elements; or inventing all-new animals to fill those roles.

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