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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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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What if I say "um" somewhere because I lost my place?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Then it's your fault for not saying "uh" instead!

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (2 children)

that's one hell of a water bill if you were in the shower counting to one million.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not if you count using a logarithmic base 10 scale!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Just yell 10! and you've counted way further already

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They do if you kiss yourself in the mirror, but only on the lips

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You can only kiss your lips in the mirror

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yup, I can't get past 5 in Norwegian.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (9 children)

En, to, tre, fire, fem.

1000000 / 5 = 200000

Here's the proof that Danish is 200.000 times better than English.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In romanian, it ends at 4. Romanian is 25% better than dutch and 250000 times better than english

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

250000 times better than english

That's a very low bar tho

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] neidu3 9 points 1 month ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

I love this! It doesn't seem like it could possibly be true, but my 30 seconds of testing haven't debunked it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And then they touch for every number until 1 trillion

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My lips touch when I say one.

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[–] nore 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Portuguese (Brasil): 1 (um)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh shiiit thats trippy!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

!remindme sixty years when i confirm

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Made me silently count to ten to confirm. Mind expanded.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Joke's on you, I'm Roman.
My lips already touch at 𝕄.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Mine touch at pebenty peben.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Egy, kettő, három

3 in hungarian

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Un deux trois... Mille ! In French (France 🇫🇷) 1000 before lips touch.

... Soixante-neuf, septante ! In French (Switzerland 🇨🇭) 70! (in France it's soixante-dix 😂)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Just counted out loud, one....lips touched.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

and how high did OP have to count before he touched somebody else's lips the first time?

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

In English, my lips touch when I make the "f" sound at the start of four. I am also pretty sure they touch for one.

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

I'm not sure about this. The only way I can make my lips touch when saying that number is if I actually say pour.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Nope, for me my bottom teeth touch my upper lips.

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

The F sound is usually a labialdental fricative in English. So you are putting your bottom lip on your teeth and letting some air go by to make the F sound.

English has bilabial plosives where you touch both lips together and let air stop for a moment which makes the P or B sounds.

English doesn't have a bilabial fricative so you might be doing this in your dialect and it doesn't stand out to anyone because it doesn't otherwise have a phonetic meaning. But, interestingly, in other languages a bilabial fricative has distinct meaning from a labial dental fricative. I believe I've read that in Japanese the "F" in "Mount Fuji" is actually a bilabial fricative and not the normal F that English speakers use.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

what about thirmty three

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

Nah, definitely happens at 300 with 三百

Edit: in japanese, but I didn't list my language since OP didn't bother.

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

This is my favourite shower thought post so far.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

forget what number you're on and say, "um".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In a lot of Indo-European languages you're stopping right at 5, *pénkʷe. For example Greek (πέντε pénte) and Sanskrit (ञ्चन् páñcan).

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

Un, dau, tri, pedwar. Nope, they touch at what you call four.

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