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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:

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    • 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.
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] JackFrostNCola 2 points 2 days ago

Do you remember the scene from "theres something about mary"?
Zippers. Pure evil.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

⅗ of those already fit the statement. No I won't be elaborating on which.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] meekah 2 points 2 days ago

Bad Flowey!

[–] SomethingBlack 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

456,976 total combinations.

Who's going to start putting together the dictionary of evil acronyms?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Eh, task ChatGPT with it.

[–] AllYourSmurf 1 points 4 days ago

Make Ambrose Bierce proud!

[–] slazer2au 8 points 4 days ago
[–] Zachariah 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Elegant vigilantes in lingerie?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Lemon stealing whores.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Evil Villains In Love

[–] ChicoSuave 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

There was a miscommunication on the phone, they ended up sending the gravy seals.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

EVIL - Elon's Vile Incel League

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Do you mean acronyms or initialisms? I can't think of any 3 letter acronyms which are groups or agencies. All the ones I can think of are initialisms.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I know what an initialism is and I definitely know the difference! It's you who doesn't because you won't explain in detail real quick!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Acronym is said like a word (NASA, FEMA). Initialism is just the letters (FBI, CIA).

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 3 points 4 days ago

Well, yeah, everyone knows that. Jerk.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

CIA/NSA/FBI

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I once genuinely got asked in the middle of a meeting with our client at work: "When will our SLA and KPI be BAU? Do we need more SQEP?" Had no idea what any of that meant other than SLA so just blagged my way out of that one.

[–] TexasDrunk 4 points 4 days ago

I've got a friend that, when cornered by acronym soup, starts discussing very detailed analytics for whatever they're talking about. He says the acronyms don't matter as long as the audience is sufficiently bored by whatever your answer is.

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

Was your blagging successful? Did you come out the GOAT, or was it a SNAFU?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I think so. Nobody BBU so hopefully.

[–] WhereGrapesMayRule 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yarn esthetic syndicate

[–] thenextguy 4 points 4 days ago

ITYM TLAs and FLAs

[–] snekerpimp 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That’s the beauty and curse of language. It is constantly morphing and changing depending on public sentiment. I truly believe in another 40-60 years, “fuck” will be a perfectly normal word for a 6 year old to say instead of “oops”.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Oops and fuck do seem mostly interchangeable.

For example: "get oopsed"

Kinda clunky but still works.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

"get oopsed"

That's how we ended up with a 6 year old in the first place.

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

I'm going to oops you silly

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Motheroopser

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 2 points 4 days ago

I think get oopsed has legs. Going to try it out on my kid next time he tries his luck with me in Nidhogg.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Why not 5-letter acronyms? I mean, "NSDAP"? Arguably the most evil acronym of all?

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 1 points 4 days ago

Just a lot more of them.

[–] lefixxx 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How could something positive like inclusion equality and diversity be used for evil? /s

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 4 points 4 days ago

There is no way that someone could take the joy doge brings and use it for evil. /s