this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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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:

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.

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A lot of people say fedditors but that sounds way too derivative of reddit

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[–] Gaboose@lemmy.world 110 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] C4ptFuture@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Has to be this.

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[–] FooBar101010@lemmy.world 87 points 2 years ago
[–] rikudou 85 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Lemmings. That's why I created Lemmings.world!

[–] damnYouSun@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I do like walking off cliffs.

[–] rikudou 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] myxi@feddit.nl 83 points 2 years ago (11 children)
[–] A_Toasty_Strudel@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

This so far seems to be the generally accepted term that's been making it's way around the platform here recently.

[–] CKOW@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

It’s the only reasonable answer given the name really

[–] Sputnik34@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

This and it isn't even an option

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[–] BendyLemmy@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] Wisi_eu@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] Mooglemuffins@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I like Lemmies more than Lemmings because of the implications of the latter

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[–] burgundymyr@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago
[–] TheFANUM@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] toastman@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] Rick@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Lemmings is the obvious choice

[–] Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, I'm willing to follow all of you off a cliff.

[–] 20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Did you know, the famous shot of lemmings falling of a cliff in the documentary that started the ideas that lemmings will just die following their peers off a cliff was actually a bunch of documentary makers pushing a bunch of lemming off of it to make a cool shot and not actual lemmings behavior ? You probably did actually...

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[–] Marmotter@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago
[–] foxrumor@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

I feel like lemmings is already catching on.

[–] toiletobserver@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Hell@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] WoolyNelson@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago

Lemmy users.

[–] Whaler_Shaver@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] modkhi@vlemmy.net 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Lemons? I think it'd be funny, and there's even an emoji for it too. 🍋

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[–] KuchiKopi@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (7 children)
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[–] o0joshua0o@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago
[–] HangoverTuesday@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Motorheads, of course.

[–] klay@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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[–] Deez@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] bladewdr@infosec.pub 7 points 2 years ago
[–] HunterBidensLapDog@infosec.pub 7 points 2 years ago

Lemmings, obviously.

Follow the crowd!

[–] Postmortemist@vlemmy.net 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] GhostGray@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How about a new pronoun like Lem?

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[–] CaffeinatedNerd@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

The Lemmons

[–] Camzing@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago
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