this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2025
353 points (95.8% liked)

Showerthoughts

37717 readers
1591 users here now

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:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. 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
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. 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.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 24 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Rizz = Charisma

Based = Cool; Awesome; Good.

Cooked = Fucked (as in up, not sexually).

Cooking = Doing something (usually good, but does not necessarily have to be).

Sincerely,

A 40 year old Millennial.

[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (6 children)

'cooking' specifically implies either creativity or efficacy (or both, some novel solution that results in success)

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Ah but then there is the phrase "let him cook," which tends to be used when someone starts doing something that seems foolish. I would think it at least somewhat relates to "cooking." If you fail, you are "cooked."

Edit: To clarify, this phrase is commonly seen after someone says something like "hey, don't do that;" I did not mean to imply the phrase itself has an inherent good/bad connotation, merely what has been pointed out that they want to "wait and see" the results before making judgement.

[–] moody 8 points 1 month ago

"Let him cook" is more like "I wanna see where this is going"

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (10 replies)