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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] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's like once you've had Extra Krispy

You'll never go back again

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

if you cook something long enough for it to get crispy, that's still used as a favourable descriptor

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

wait till you learn about a crisper drawer

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As an American, the fuck you going on about? A crisp stick of celery makes a crispy crunch when you bite it. All you did is make weird classification for the adverb of the same word as an adjective.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Both are crunchy. Yup.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

It's almost like multiple types of food can have a brittle texture...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

All of these examples are crunchy

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

What this gotta do with america 😭

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

As opposed to the UK, where a crisp is a chip and a chip is a fry.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I like mixing some milk into my crisps to make sogs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

And South Central, where a Crisp is a dyslexic gangbanger.

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

But in the UK, is a crisp "crispy" or is "crisp" a derivative of another term or phrase?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

It's called a crisp because it's crispy (at least to my knowledge).