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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.

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Where is the cabin cheese? The fourth-floor-walkup cheese? Give me the fancy mansion cheese. Or skyscraper cheese, ooh la la.

Leave the bathhouse cheese alone, though

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[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 55 points 1 day ago (5 children)

What makes you think it's the building naming the cheese and not the cheese naming the building? Why can't we live in roqueforts, in masdaams, in cheddars?

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I live in The Tower of BabyBelon

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

Bad news about the tower, guys... :-/

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I was going to joke that Id prefer to live in a Jarlsberg, but when looking up Jarlsberg to spell it correctly I discovered its named for Jarlsberg Manor, which is (and this is true) a building

The more you know

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Roquefort-sur-Soulzon would have taken its name from a fortress, too, so that counts.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You can live in Cheddar. Nice town, good hiking opportunities.

[–] enthusiasticamoeba@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Or Gouda. For extra fun while you're there, pronounce Gouda the way it's typically said in English and watch the Dutchies flinch as little parts of their soul leave their bodies.

if you do it you legally have to buy one cheese wheel at the cheese auction there

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wait, how is it supposed to be pronounced?

[–] RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

GHOW-da is about the closest English approximation. The G sound is quite different in Dutch though.

[–] enthusiasticamoeba@lemmy.ml 2 points 19 hours ago

https://youtube.com/shorts/SInLePq2Ryo

Here is how the Dutch say Gouda, with Van Gogh thrown in as a bonus.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Named after the process.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

But not in a cheddar!

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Cheddar is a village in southern England
...and Maasdam is in the Netherlands

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

European cheese villages, unite!

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 3 points 21 hours ago

I think it would be easier to list the French cheeses that are NOT named after a place.

[–] zout@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maasdam and Gouda (among others) are towns.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Saleh@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know how we say that Mushrooms are the largest organisms on earth, because the Mycelium is interconnecting all through the forest and we only see the fruiting bodies?

Well, most reasonably modern towns have all their buildings connected by the fresh water and sewage pipes and possibly gas-pipes. I'll exclude electricity, because the cables don't really have a volume they enclose.

So you could argue that most towns in Europe are indeed a building.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Nice. Is there an europe cheese? ( Not "European", but "europe")