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.
And I bet Chaka mad that it isn't.
Yeah how come Bowie got emojis π¨π»βπ€π©π»βπ€π§π»βπ€
but Prince, George Michael, and Freddie Mercury got sweet fuck all? Yes, I know Freddie died pre-emoji you absolute pedants.
Edit: And what's with all the downvotes? MFer can't even have a thought in the shower without getting downvoted. Smh.
Prince is apparently a very sensitive subject.
Images that are adopted as Unicode glyphs (including emoji) have to be in the public domain, i.e. not copyrighted or trademarked. When they were assembling the Unicode codepage for characters from vintage computer character sets, they left out the Atari ST Dobbshead character because the intellectual property status of the piece of vintage advertising clip-art it was derived from was unclear. Presumably someone (Princeβs estate and/or Warner Music, Iβd guess) owns the copyright and/or has a trademark claim on the Prince symbol
What would be the use? What emotion or expression would it convey?
Yes.
What are we going to use for "no" then?
Same symbol. It's like ciao or shalom.
Isn't it like 4 Unicode pieces layered over one another ?
Hey you're right
(Likely will look less or more accurate depending on your web browser/OS/etc.)
Im pretty sure there is some tool that can approximate any shape by layering an arbitrary number of Unicode pieces
You have symbols all over your shower too ehh? Mine are mostly red and 5 sided.
No
Why?
In case you ever need to use it.
Who wouldnβt need to use it?
Add it to unicode too.
In case anybody doesn't know the story behind the symbol, Prince created it because of a dispute with his record company. They wouldn't let him do what he wanted and wouldn't let him out of his contract, To perform outside of his contract he could change his name, but legally wouldn't be able to refer to himself as the guy who used to be Prince - because that would be still using the name. This is a standard feature of recording contracts.
So he changed his name to a symbol and didn't tell anyone how to say it. But people had to call him something, so after some brief confusion concert venues and the media settled on, "the artist formerly known as Prince." He didn't tell them to mention his former name, they did that on their own. And his recording contract didn't apply to them, so the record company had nobody to sue. Essentially he was still performing as Prince, and the company just had to suck it. I will never stop admiring the brilliance of this.
I'm not generally a fan of Rosie O'Donnel or her comedy, but my roommate at the time used to watch her talk show, and she first started calling Prince "Tafcap" and then eventually went to "Taffy." That was pretty funny.
Interesting... I never heard of "tafcap" and have no idea what it would mean. But a lot of slang goes over my head.
Sorry if I wasn't clear- TAFCAP. The Artist Formerly Known As Prince.
TAFKAP makes sense. Had she gotten the point she might have just called him Prince lol.
Oh, K and not C.
I'm an idiot.