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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

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  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.
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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.

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[–] Daft_ish 74 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Redredme 16 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Your boomer parents? You're 40 something?

[–] Daft_ish 54 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (4 children)

An old person? On my Lemmy? Gasp

[–] Glytch 44 points 10 months ago

On lemmy? A platform made by those who miss the "good old days" when reddit was good? Full of old people? Impossible.

[–] knacht1 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] SmackemWittadic 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How excited will you be when you reach the "nice" age?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] SmackemWittadic 2 points 10 months ago

So you're 69 in spirit! Nice!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Wow, you can fuck right off!

* now, where did I leave my reading glasses? *

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Seriously, people past the age of 30 should not be on the internet. They should be on the golf course or playing shuffleboard or rotting away on a retirement ocean cruiseline somewhere.

/s

[–] dohpaz42 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As an elder 40-something, I agree with you. Problem is, the economy doesn’t. I’ll be working until I die. In the meantime, I need the memes to help keep me numb to all the shit going in around me. Please don’t take those away from me. It’s all I have anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I do enjoy a round of golf. And have you ever played shuffleboard? It's quite fun, especially on a cruise.

Shit.

[–] Viking_Hippie 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A lot of us are, yeah. Even with young whippersnappers like yourself fizzing around on your electrified skateboards and what have you, I'm pretty sure the average age here on Lemmy is closer to 40 than 30 🤷

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I'm 30 and I literally have 2 electric skateboards lol