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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.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Trumpers would start eating asbestos for breakfast just to pwn the libz
I wish they would
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There already is lol.
I beg your pardon?
Contracting silicosis to own the libs. Then use some sort of donkey enema as a cure.
Is that giving a donkey an enema or preforming an enema with a donkey or is it utilizing a donkey to perform an enema..
I think it means using an enema made for donkeys for yourself.
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There'd be motherfuckers on TikTok snorting lines of asbestos
And MAGAs would grind it, bake it, and eat it. Just to own the libs.
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I was surprised to find out that people also were against seatbelts. Weird
Yeah, one of my grandpas always chafed against wearing one, especially the part that comes across the chest. He was always "forgetting" to put it on, and holding it down so it wouldn't like press against him.
Meanwhile I don't even think about the seatbelt. Actually it feels wrong if I forget to put it on for some reason.
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they do make it significantly harder to grab items from the back seats when at red lights, especially if they are the bs locking type.
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Oh god yes. They all literally invented a fake illness called "seat belt burn." I kid you not. And this was the 80s before commercial Internet, so it spread organically.
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My country banned smoking in all public indoor spaces almost 20 years ago. As a smoker at the time I thought it was ridiculous, felt that my rights were being violated and thought it would never last. The quality of life improvement it made is massive. Today I vape rather than smoke but wouldn't dream of doing either indoors or being where someone else is. It was 100% the right move. Not quite the same thing but you sometimes can't really understand the benefits of an alternative to the status quo, even if you understand it logically.
I don't generally mind the smoking bans, but I wish there existed some indoor spaces where it could be done. They are very limited and mostly exclusive.
Smokers can never smell themselves so they don't think it's a big deal.
We DoN't NeEd VaCcInEs We'Ve GoT aSbEsToS!
Back when asbestos was banned, everyone trusted the government. Nobody trusts the government anymore because of its constant foreign wars, corrupt candidates, and human rights abuses. We cannot do things like mandate vaccines and ban cars if the very government that would enforce that ban is this tyrannical and shitty.
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I'm SO glad I live in a city with a decently functioning tram system. If something like that was proposed today, there'd be thousands of people complaining about being forced out of their cars or the city losing its charm or whatever nonsense.
Texas just defunded their rail project
The Dipshit tried to bring it back his last term. Guess which country is the top producer of asbestos?