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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Not just any guy, but Marilyn Manson, who used to play Paul on The Wonder Years. I'm not sure what was more shocking, learning about this, or learning of Mark Paul Gosselaar's fatal motorcycle crash. Taken from us far too soon.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I suspect people living in Sarajevo in the 90's resent that opinion.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It was a long time before that when (allegedly) a rib was removed from a man to create the first woman so he wouldn't have to suck it himself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

This was what I thought the OP was talking about at first. It took me a minute to remember that urban legend from the 90s.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

What about Ozzy eating a bat on stage?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Or when Ozzy wouldn't go on stage without a brandy glass full of M&Ms?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Was that Ozzy? Whoever it was, it was a request for a bowl of only brown M&Ms backstage and their reasoning was that, if that request wasn't fulfilled, whoever was responsible didn't do their job and they'd assume that other, necessary stuff also wasn't done properly. Kind of a canary, in a way.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Peak fake news control... I wouldn't call this "innocent"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (10 children)

There was also the rumor of the actor who put the hamster up their bum.

It was all innocent stupidity and none of it was malicious though.

[–] [email protected] 134 points 4 months ago (12 children)

What? The Rodeny King beating and subsequent riots, OJ Simpson murdering 2 people, Columbine, the first time the WTC was bombed, 1500 people died near Mecca, and like 3 civil wars in Africa

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (12 children)

I mean as bad as those things were, none of those things come close to recent events. Look at your examples and compare them to "worldwide virus kills millions and the entire planet goes into quarantine for a couple years" or "president of the United States fails to get reelected so he foments a literal coup on the US government and his rioting mob breaks into the capitol building trying to stop the transfer of power. And then 4 years later that criminal gets elected to be president again".

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

🎵We didn't start the fire 🎵

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Funny you mention that. When I saw the comment, I was listening to the Fallout Boy version

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What's the mecca thing? I don't remember that one

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Not to mention all the shit that wasn't being captured on any kind of recording at the time.

The rose tint feels so fuckin good tho, right?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

yeah and for a lot of people who'd be using lemmy, the reason they weren't aware of all this shit is our parents kept us safe from it

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I mean - I probably got to live the very best of the 90s Americana as a suburban kid with an old computer and a modem in it.

I still saw a lot of shit going on in the world. I mean ... AIDS pandemic, anyone? Remember fear around shaking someone's hand?

Sometimes I think the problem is that at any GIVEN time, like 2/3 of people aren't paying attention to what is happening outside their own immediate experience.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe OP should have used the word ridiculous instead of outrageous. Removing ribs for such a thing is ridiculous IMO.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think "bizarre" would be more fitting

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