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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

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  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.
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What is this metric shit? I'm an American! I measure weight in American units like the hundredweight and the truss and the slug!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

u guys mesure pressure with elephant stomps per giraffe square feet

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

You say that like there's a problem. It's twenty three ox-marmots to the elephant-giraffe.

[–] sapetoku 6 points 1 year ago

My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know what a hundredweight is, but I'm just guessing based on American experience that it's a unit of volume equal to 132 quarts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

1 hundredweight = (1 qt * 32) + 100.7, of course. It’s very intuitive.

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

Chevrolet camaros per gun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ar15s per school shooting.