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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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[–] Big_body 116 points 2 years ago (1 children)

/c/gonewild -> /c/lemmyseeyounaked

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Or lemmysmash

[–] AllYourSmurf 93 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just c/LemmyTellU. That way we can have

c/LemmyTellU about this new thing

c/LemmyTellU that something is happening

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

Be the change you want to see

[–] LillianVS 34 points 2 years ago

As an enjoyer of puns, I agree

[–] wama 12 points 2 years ago

Dude that's genius!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

omg yessssss

[–] edythecullen 3 points 2 years ago

Ha!

We should also have a c/LemmyAskYouSomethinRick because that popped into my head when I saw this.

[–] DharmaCurious 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Okay, serious question... Is lemmy supposed to be pronounced like the contraction of let+me? I've been pronouncing it like... Limb+E.

[–] edythecullen 2 points 2 years ago

No, you're correct. The software was named after the small rodent (lemming). One of the co-creators of lemmy talks about the name here: https://lemmy.ml/post/70319

It's just that "lemmy" sounds like you're saying "let me" quickly and not enunciating properly.