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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This is why you can taste/smell saline when it’s injected. Trace amounts of dissolved things (which taste like plastic and metal) in the saline are able to pass through the alveoli in the lungs and evaporate into your breath.
Oddly, I think it’s a similar thing with my ADHD meds because about an hour or two after taking them my breath smells/tastes weird.
It's the smell of mucous membranes.
So, the same smell as the inside of your nose and sinuses.
Which is, essentially, the smell of slightly salty water with traces of protein. Which barely smells at all
and when we smell something we are really smelling (that thing)+(boogers)
Which is why peeps with bad breath and bo (often one and the same) don't know. Nor do their fam.
They've gone nose-blind and smell-deaf.
Oh, I definitely knew when I had bad breath. For many years I would regularly get tonsil stones, and those things stink!
For whatever reason, thankfully I stopped getting those around 10 years ago. GOOD!!!
It’s like your house’s smell, your used to it but everyone else notices it
Hmm, is that why my ex flatmate didn't notice that their room and clothes smelt gross?
My favorite is when you smell something so horrible that it seems to get stuck in your nose and you smell it for hours even after leaving the smelly place. 🤢
I worked at a garbage dump one summer.
the putrid smells I had cling to me wouldn't leave me for weeks.
still would rather that than smelling rotting bloated corpses.
dump smell hits you in the mouth and mid stomach.
rotting flesh hits you in the chest and your intestines.
In my area there was a "return to nature" funeral home that started piling corpses in a warehouse. They were sending the family members concrete instead of the actual remains and there was something like 200 bodies piled up. The reason there caught was that the neighbors reported the smell and the police investigated. The FBI ended up doing a several month long cleanup.
Do dead bodies smell like a slaughter house? I used to have to drive by one of those on occasion and I'll never forget that smell.
One time I came home from work and found a deer in my front yard that had been hit by a car. It was still standing but it looked awful. I seriously thought about putting it out of its misery but before I could do anything, it limped off into the woods right behind my house where it collapsed and died.
About three days later, I opened my front door and got hit in the face by the most horrible smell I have ever smelt. Imagine the smell from when you leave a meat package in the trash for a day or two. Dial that up to about 1000. Set it in the hot sun for three days and you'll probably be pretty close. It's so strong it stimulates your gag reflex. I have a pretty strong stomach but I thought I was going to be sick. I couldn't go outside for a week after that because that's how long it took the scavengers to clean up the carcass.
That sounds like such an awful experience
0/10. Do not recommend.
rotting corpses smell very different from slaughter houses. my experience is mostly with cattle, but I would imagine hogs could be similar.
it's a sickening sweet smell that begins with a tickle in the back of your throat, a whisper that triggers your gag reflex. it then punches down into your chest and then stomach when you're close enough to the source.
even if you have never smelled a rotting person, once you smell it you will surely know what you're smelling and you will never, and I mean NEVER, forget it.
sometimes it your upper lip
and sometimes itn't