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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:

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[–] 58008@lemmy.world 57 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They do if you kiss yourself in the mirror, but only on the lips

[–] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You can only kiss your lips in the mirror

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wise man once said.

Another thought to disturb restful slumber, especially if you are vain: in a mirror you can kiss yourself only on the lips.

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Geez, how many accounts does Neil have here...

Not enough, Lemmy is embarrassingly credulous at times.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 58 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] espentan@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Yup, I can't get past 5 in Norwegian.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 85 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What if I say "um" somewhere because I lost my place?

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 29 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Then it's your fault for not saying "uh" instead!

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 69 points 5 days ago (2 children)

that's one hell of a water bill if you were in the shower counting to one million.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not if you count using a logarithmic base 10 scale!

[–] kernelle@0d.gs 9 points 5 days ago

Just yell 10! and you've counted way further already

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[–] djmikeale@lemm.ee 56 points 5 days ago (5 children)

En, to, tre, fire, fem.

1000000 / 5 = 200000

Here's the proof that Danish is 200.000 times better than English.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In romanian, it ends at 4. Romanian is 25% better than dutch and 250000 times better than english

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[–] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

As long as you have that ridiculous "to og en halvfjers" counting system, you do not have a superior system 😉

[–] djmikeale@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Haha! Yeah truth be told, our number system is completely stupid 😂

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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

And then they touch for every number until 1 trillion

[–] bremen15@feddit.org 37 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago (5 children)
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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

!remindme sixty years when i confirm

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

there was this one but it had to be whitelisted and i didnt want to spam so i just faked it :)

https://github.com/PangoraWeb/remindme-bot

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago

I love this! It doesn't seem like it could possibly be true, but my 30 seconds of testing haven't debunked it.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Mine touch at sebbin.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 days ago

Mine touch at pebenty peben.

[–] KammicRelief@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 5 days ago (5 children)
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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Made me silently count to ten to confirm. Mind expanded.

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[–] nore@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Portuguese (Brasil): 1 (um)

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what about thirmty three

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

1000 touches.

In french :-)

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Touche, ça touche pas

Et touche pas ça touche

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Ha ha je connais celui là 😁

[–] Whulum@lemm.ee 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Oh shiiit thats trippy!

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 16 points 5 days ago (3 children)

My lips touch when I say one.

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[–] wieson@feddit.org 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 11 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Egy, kettő, három

3 in hungarian

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 11 points 5 days ago

Joke's on you, I'm Roman.
My lips already touch at 𝕄.

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Unless I do it in my native language, Finnish. Then I'll only get to three.

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[–] Labna@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Un deux trois... Mille ! In French (France 🇫🇷) 1000 before lips touch.

... Soixante-neuf, septante ! In French (Switzerland 🇨🇭) 70! (in France it's soixante-dix 😂)

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[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

In English, my lips touch when I make the "f" sound at the start of four. I am also pretty sure they touch for one.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Nope, for me my bottom teeth touch my upper lips.

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The F sound is usually a labialdental fricative in English. So you are putting your bottom lip on your teeth and letting some air go by to make the F sound.

English has bilabial plosives where you touch both lips together and let air stop for a moment which makes the P or B sounds.

English doesn't have a bilabial fricative so you might be doing this in your dialect and it doesn't stand out to anyone because it doesn't otherwise have a phonetic meaning. But, interestingly, in other languages a bilabial fricative has distinct meaning from a labial dental fricative. I believe I've read that in Japanese the "F" in "Mount Fuji" is actually a bilabial fricative and not the normal F that English speakers use.

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