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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
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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] 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's a digital image of a painting!

(Six, if you fold the pages back.)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

... or a web link to the digital image ... but, a link is a pipe, so ... Ceci est une pipe !

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This one took me a minute. But yes, it's not. Don't linger on that thought too long, though. The words that you read right now... are those my words?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Am I the one writing this comment or the one reading it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

If you immediately know that the caldlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I love the (currently one) down vote on your post. Clearly not a connoisseur of René's work.

Your shower thought on the other hand is on point!

Nicely done.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Agreed. OP did well.

And it's an opportunity for me to re-post this seminal picture (or, one instance of it):

Image by Wendy D. Stolyarov

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

😆 that's a good one! I haven't seen it before, and I thought I'd gone through all of them (to date)! Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=Lh8z9fFJgVA

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I have never seen that! I wish I could upvote you twice, you wonderful person.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

It really isn't, because this is what I see:

If you use Jerboa, don't be fooled, the image I uploaded isn't actually broken. This is just what broken images look like.

[–] PartyCat 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, clearly that's a pipe.