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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. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • 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.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
    • If you feel strongly that you want politics back, please volunteer as a mod.
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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[–] Ennon@lemmy.world 93 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 55 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They're typo must have been intentional.

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 45 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] Slopz@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] notintheface@feddit.nu 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All this is causing me physical pain...

[–] abcd@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It should of caused physical pain to the people writing this way

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[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I *ate all of this

[–] herescunty@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I hate all of these two

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] mythos@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago
[–] axtualdave@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Uh, you can use contractions. Must'f.

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[–] sethboy66@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Your probably right.

[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

*international

[–] PearlsSwineEtc@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Its the same thing for all intensive purposes.

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 54 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I swear, I saw this exact post on reddit 18 years ago

[–] kratoz29@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

You have a good memory.

[–] ahto@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

I was gonna call you out on 18 years being way too long ago... Then I realized that 2005 was, in fact, 18 years ago. I feel old now.

[–] ndr@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

What did they compare Reddit to? Digg?

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[–] Tenniswaffles@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's good to see people's feelings of superiority have carried over from Reddit.

[–] Heldenhirn@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Klear@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS!

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[–] nicotinell@lemmy.ml 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Your wrong, their its no difference!

[–] gjoel@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Neuraxis@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thats' the queens English right their.

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[–] Prater@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your so write about there basic grammer beeing so terrorible. It was so incredibly alloying.

[–] LinksMasterSw0rd@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Prater@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Your weary welkome

[–] Gullible@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

I like never reading “should of”, as well. Every browser and phone’s autocorrect aggressively suggests a correction to “have.” Sometimes you don’t notice an apostrophe appearing in the middle of a word, so I can forgive “it’s,” but there’s little excuse for fighting with autocorrect to write “should of.”

[–] MyRobotShitsBolts@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Its nice when somebody gets it right.

[–] pocopene@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago
[–] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

I read you're comment and it's usage of its isnt correct 😳

(this killed me to write haha)

[–] PearlsSwineEtc@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Correct grammar is remarkable; its' place is here!

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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] authorinthedark@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 years ago

its it's own reward

[–] Uschaan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

It's sure is! /s

[–] Xenxs@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agree, its refreshing to see people bring there best grammar skills.

[–] Noxvento@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Not every lemming is a native speaker.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I don't get it, its not that hard, each word has it's proper grammar and usage.

[–] davconde@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

For real, its not that hard to get it right.

[–] null_@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Fewer mobile users maybe? For whatever reason, autocorrect/autocomplete suggestions on iOS always tries to add inappropriate apostrophes to plural words. Without fail, every single time. I sometimes reflexively tap the autocomplete suggestion to finish longer words and it’s really aggravating.

[–] nothendev@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

Because there is a higher barrier of entry, people know what they are doing. That's a good thing.

[–] trouser_mouse@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I barely know what website I am on either

[–] PostalDude@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

or there and their

[–] skillissuer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

it's a typo unlikely to be made by ESL posters

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Its mind boggling how even native english speakers can't get that right

[–] Dark_Arc@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Is it though? It's almost a pendantic quirk of the written language that things need spelled differently that sound the same.

Like, we ask know what you mean if you say "I was talking to the Johnsons and there cows ran away. Its total madness in this town lately."

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