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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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- 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.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS
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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That's... what everyone's telling you to do...
Your premise is simply incorrect. Can't you accept that?
But, for an example of "huffing one's own farts", may I direct your attention to...
Your behaviour in this thread?
It doesn't matter if it's 100%. Or 99%. Or even 90 or 30. It would still be quite the nuke.
I think this is dead obvious. And I mentioned that.
But you can't get past that can you?
It's like you have your eyeball pressed up against the bark of a tree, insisting that there is no forest.
(That's what we call a "metaphor".)
You said "everybody".
That's right. I did. And people who can't see past that particular bit of treebark for the sake of discussing the forest are what we call... oh, something deeply derogatory. I forget. Use your imagination.
Why should my imagination be making your point for you? Aren't you able to do it yourself? I'm not missing the forest for the trees, I'm pointing out that the trees in the forest are dead
If you say "every X is Y", and there is even a single piece of evidence against that, you are wrong. Thats just how it works.
If you wanted to say, "i wonder what would happen if everything people said about others behind their back was revealed to them," then we'd be talking only about that. But you didn't.
I made a post just for you. Well, and most of the people here actually.
Nah that's definitely still just for you to continue huffing your own farts
Yes. And then when someone said otherwise you just doubled down with absolutely no additional logic.
And when they suggested that your personal experiences might be coloring your views, you accused them of being in denial.
All in all the "I'm an asshole" energy is coming through loud and clear... Not to mention your very premise reveals that you think it's normal to speak ill of people.