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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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cross-posted from: https://jorts.horse/users/fathermcgruder/statuses/111734226439984153

Elder waitresses should be called something else, like waitrons or waitriarchs.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Server. Everyone is a server.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

And a group of servers is called a kubernetes.

[–] Dremor 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shouldn't it be a "cluster"?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought about that, but I didn't think that got the joke across as well. Probably overthought it but 🤷‍♂️

[–] Dremor 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I doubt many people outside of IT know what Kubernetes is 😅. At least with "Cluster" you get a "Why?" Instead of "What?".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Right, but at least for now that's most of the demographic on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Academically perhaps. In the field it's colloquially called a "hospitality night".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Nginx wench

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am super lazy so I often pick terms like this by default so I don't have to spend cycles thinking about age or gender.

[–] Dremor 3 points 1 year ago

Using which Linux distro?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Waitress superior

[–] feedum_sneedson 16 points 1 year ago

Waitriarchs is very witty, well done.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You’re thinking of an Eldritch Waitress. What OP meant was a waitress that fuses metal objects together.

[–] Aremel 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a wailder. OP was thinking of a waitress that works with locks.

[–] Cocodapuf 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's a waitcracker. OP was thinking of a waitress who just walks into a house of bears, eats their food and falls asleep.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] Uglyhead 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Uglyhead 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

How dare you say that about their mother!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

"Bar wench! Where's me grog?!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

In a few languages you refer to people based on their relative age vs yourself. So a young waitress is one word, a older waitress is another, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fellow human seems to work.

[–] daemoz 4 points 1 year ago

hey are you a fellow human? yeah cool grab me a glass of water please uhh i don't work here

We are hiring a fellow human for low wages but you might get great tips what do i need to do? youll be a servant to rude dirtbags. can i call myself a waitress instead please? No our culture requires official titles to be fellow human for all staff and patrons and you will all go by the name Sam

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but if I start shouting that in a restaurant I'm going to get everyone's attention instead of the old lady responsible for my meal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know. They seem more powerful.

[–] mriormro 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Meaningless titles with superfluous connotations just leads us to more useless middle management.

We don't need a new term.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Should new ones be called waitrwards?