/r/Showerthoughts
A subreddit for sharing those miniature epiphanies you have that highlight the oddities within the familiar.
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A subreddit for sharing those miniature epiphanies you have that highlight the oddities within the familiar.
"Showerthought" is a loose term that applies to the types of thoughts you might have while carrying out a routine task like showering, driving, or daydreaming. At their best, showerthoughts are universally relatable and find the amusing/interesting within the mundane.
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1. All content must be original and unique.
Submissions that match (or echo similar sentiments to) ideas offered by other people will be removed, regardless of whether or not those ideas have appeared on Reddit. Blatant reposting and plagiarism may result in a ban.»2. All posts must be showerthoughts.
For an explanation of what a showerthought actually is (and is not), please read this page.3. Your entire thought must be in the title.
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In the scene in Scarface where he reunites with his family, he looks adopted
01:44 UTC
Zombies having extra durability makes no sense
01:32 UTC
South Korea is functionally an island nation, despite being connect to the rest of Asia geographically.
00:54 UTC
The more expensive a house the less likely the buyer will use a mortgage to pay
00:39 UTC
Brassica Oleracea (Broccoli, Kale, etc.) is the dog of the domesticated plant world
Okay, so this started after I went down a Wikipedia article trail and learned that Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Kale, Brussel Sprouts, Gail Lan, and Collards are all the same freaking species. Not same genus or same family, but same species. So II had a shower thought of oh this plant is the dog of the plant world, a species that is still just one species but we've turned it into completely different looking things. I thought I was clever. Then I decided to Google it and realized that people both smarter and way more knowledgeable about plants already came up with the analogy, wrote papers on it, and made fun pictures to go along with their scientific papers....
00:01 UTC
Tapatio and ranch are the only condiments a man really needs
00:00 UTC
Given the combination of electricity and water, it's surprising that washing machines don't kill more people.
23:56 UTC
There are a lot of books teaching preschoolers how to identify tigers, elephants and giraffes, considering they’ll never encounter one in their local neighbourhood
23:35 UTC
A Hip Hop beef is grown men writing angry poems to each other
23:27 UTC
Your best friend from school thinks about you as often as you think about them.
22:20 UTC
The word parallel has taken an ”L” with the missed opportunity to use parallel L:s.
22:12 UTC
A lot of snack foods are flavored to taste like other snack foods. (e.g. Oreo flavored pop tarts)
21:54 UTC
Work isn’t a vocation for most people.
It’s the least shit job available for the most money.
21:26 UTC
It's a strange miracle that email survived after instant messaging became a thing
21:23 UTC
Just imagine how many serial killers, murderers and criminals are passed through the history without being judged, even unknown in the first era and the medieval times.
Assume that you lived in 2000 B.C, a psychopath broke into your house and brutally murdered you without a spesific reason just like other hundreds of serial killers that we know today because of the internet. We know how those crimes happened and how those murderers got caught or executed because of the organized police and detectives. So what evidence is going to make your murderer caught if there is no witness? They won't be able to check any security cameras, fingerprints, your last phone signal, etc.. If we say that the surveillance cameras are invented in the 1870s, DNA testing in 1984 (which are solid evidences for a crime) just imagine the amount of unknown criminals and wrongly accused people for thousands of years in the hostile human history. jeez
21:12 UTC
Most humans will never see a living whale.
20:40 UTC
Chuck Norris doesn’t get talked about at all lately.
20:11 UTC
People treat pets as their kids, they like it if others pet their pets, but won’t allow the same for their kids
20:09 UTC
Locks get shot more often than people get shot
20:03 UTC
Everyone will pay 100$ for a pair of shoes but no one will pay 50$ for a shoe
20:02 UTC
It’d be so disorienting to create a series of movies where the movies don’t take place in the year they were made.
19:49 UTC
Extroverted people fart more because they talk while eating
19:41 UTC
There’s too much hair
19:27 UTC
Bad people only get accepted by other bad people, making it far more difficult for them to become good people
17:46 UTC
A watering van is a grower not a shower
Because it grows plants and it doesn’t have enough water to clean you
17:44 UTC
When driving on the highway, you are least likely to encounter vehicles driving the same speed as you.
17:38 UTC
Something might happen that causes you to fall asleep every night, but you don't remember it in the morning
It's hard for me to explain, but it keeps me up at night. Basically, imagine each night before falling asleep, something happens, like a specific feeling of falling asleep, or something weirder, or supernatural, and then you don't remember it happening in the morning.
17:37 UTC
The odds are still low, but someone may have gotten lucky numbers in a fortune cookie that have matched a winning lottery but didn’t use them
Or they don’t play; as I don’t. Another thought: with how many fortune cookies are out there, and assuming the numbers are normally pseudo-random, many winning lotto numbers might exist in sealed fortune cookies that haven’t been opened yet
17:18 UTC
Some may not hear that well, but are excellent listeners. Some may not see too well, but see things for what they are.
17:15 UTC
Trans women will look better for longer
So long ago I noticed that men while getting older in comparison to woman somehow look better with every year passing 35. Men usually are uglier in the younger ages but slowly starting to look better with age. It's almost completely opposite for women. Of course it's not always the case but this is something I noticed. So if you have a beautiful trans woman in her twenties she will be looking hotter for a longer time.
17:02 UTC