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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

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Not actually a shower thought, saw an old document that labeled it air-port. I don't think I would have ever made the connection.

(I've found people can be rude about word breakdowns, but I'm posting it anyway. Be better.)

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

Train station and bus station. Why isn't it called boat station and plane station?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Because a station is a place you pull up to an leave going the same direction, and a port is a place you enter and then go back out the same way.

Airplanes come down to a port, then go back up.

Boats come into a port, then back out to sea.

Buses come into a station, then go along their way. Same as trains.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Buses come from a road and then go back to the same road, so this line of reasoning makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The buses never leave the road. The station is on the road.

When buses pull into spaces, then back out, it’s called a bus port.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I don't know what bus stations you've been to, but every bus station I've been to was something like an airport. Everything else has been a bus stop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Don't come here with logical arguments! :(