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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That one's already come and gone lol

[–] gezginorman 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

for me too. we're this century's people now

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 1 points 1 year ago

So it was destined

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As someone born in 2000: No cause that day will not come.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Year 2000 is 20th century. 21st century started on January 1st, 2001.

[–] alvvayson 12 points 1 year ago

I know this, yet I still celebrated the new century/Millenium with the rest of humanity on Jan 1st, 2000.

It's just aesthetically more pleasing to conveniently ignore the technicality.

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

i don't like that, so i will forget i ever read it

[–] BurnedOliveTree 3 points 1 year ago

Well, technically this was still the XX century

[–] NABDad 7 points 1 year ago

32 was a birthday I looked forward to. It was the point where I had known my wife for half of my life.

For some reason, 48 didn't seem significant.

[–] MiddleWeigh 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For me, it was the year I turned 22. At that point I was older than both parents when they had me. I realized how incompetent i was, and how little life I had lived, completely incapable of raising a human. My parents sacrificed a shit load just for me to be alive, and did their best in the time they were born into, and all the external forces at work on a young mind, and the choices at hand. I still don't have kids lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't know how long ago that was for you, but I hope you don't feel like that anymore.

FWIW 22 seems awful young to be having kids.

[–] mojofrododojo 3 points 1 year ago

re: 22 - totally agree, we waited another decade and I think were just barely ready even then. I have peers that had kids at 18 and they're graduating college, that blows my mind.

[–] psud 2 points 1 year ago

My ex and I were 22 when we had ours. There's good and bad to it

[–] sheogorath 1 points 1 year ago

If you have the economic capacity, I'd say go for it.

[–] mojofrododojo 6 points 1 year ago

whoa interesting observation. I'm coming up on this, if I read right. Born in 76 - so 24 years before and after....

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

61 for me....if I can remember this

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No, early 2000s

[–] cdf12345 2 points 1 year ago

My birthday a few years ago, I realized I had lived exactly half of my life before 9/11 and half after 9/11.

Then I got depressed because from that point forward, the majority of my existence would be in a post 9/11 world.