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
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.
You think that's fucked?
The inability to pronounce "R" is called Rhotacism.
If you have it you're literally unable to say the name of it
18 across says “every third letter in the word for “inability to visualise””.
You'd need to figure out what word this is, and then visualise every third letter of it. Which you can't do if you have it!
The word is
Aphantasia
So the answer for 18 across was aaaa?
Yep, the whole crossword puzzle is like that.
The fear of long words is called "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia."
That's awefull and hilarious at the same time!
I suffer from a very sexy learning disability.
What do I call it Kif?
sigh
Sexlexia.
From Oxford Languages (what Google uses):
late 19th century: coined in German from dys- ‘difficult’ + Greek lexis ‘speech’ (apparently by confusion of Greek legein ‘to speak’ and Latin legere ‘to read’).
Good to know, in general, but the irony of this term is still funny to me.
What's this got to do about my Dyson?
I don't want my son to dy!
all those kinds of imparements are puns. like haveing a lisp. or to stutter. all speech and reading imparements are words that are hard to pronounce or read by the people affected. no idea why. just saying its the rule and no exception.
Ah wow.
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