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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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I can eat sushi, pizza, samosas, kebab (kabobs, döner or shawarmas depending on your frame of reference), gyoza/pot stickers/tortellone/pasteczki (or whatever), noodles/ramen/spaghetti, knödeln/kroppkakor and so on and so on. Leaving lots of cultures unsaid.

I can enjoy music, cringy cultural movies (animated and not), fun cirque sessions (even without animals being endangered), go to festivals for various cultures, enjoin then in our cultures of scouting, mountaineering, hiking and share my love of enjoying nature.

I can drive electric cars, communicate on Internet forums, keep in touch with new friends as well as loved ones across the world.

I would be in a much poorer world without you all.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Looking back at the history of England. We have had wave after wave of immigrants/invaders. Each wave brought a period of tension. That period was followed by a period of innovation.

The new people, with new views means old ideas are re-evaluated. New skill, flavours and modes of thought became part of our culture.

Even our language improved. Part of English's power is the level of nuance with word choice. A loft of that comes from melding multiple root languages in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

The Normans did fuck things up, though.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

dont let the fascist whoresons read this, they will frame you mentally deranged and a danger to their homogeneous society

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Fuck their homogenous society, its total lack of art, its dog shit food, and its boring everything. Plus its queerphobia and intellectual stasis. Stillness is death. They have guns; they can get that for themselves any time they like.

Plus I'm kind of autistic. People already look too much the same. If they stopped being different colors and sizes with different types of hair i would not be able to go outside.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Some for me. So many cultures, languages and cuisines mixing. But in my case even im an immigrant but the plot twist is im european. Overheard someone talking about how bad immigrants are and they proceeded to say "but youre one of the good ones". Only context you need to hear is im white.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

"Unser Jud' ist eh gut."

That's a sentence that was often used in Nazi Germany/Nazi Austria. It means "Our Jew is good anyway, [but the others are evil]". It basically means that you keep believing the propaganda, even if the people you know don't fit to the propaganda at all.

Nowadays this sentence is used to satirize the statement you posted.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It didn't take long before they started deporting anyone and everyone. By no means just violent criminals. Horse shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What happened to the bull(shit)?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

You want to diversify your shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

But careful not to go apeshit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 hours ago

Simple minded. They encouraged people to come here by not deporting people then jolt everyone who came here. They couldn't fast track everyone here make them citizens and the. Hate the border how they want? Before you say it's impossible there is plenty of money to do this. All those workers fired there's room ti start a new department etc.

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