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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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Together they can make the combined-arms-gulls.

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

It's Called seagull

It flies

With that logic, firegull are penguins.

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

We have Baygulls. They are tasty with cream cheese.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Water-Gull. Earth-Gull. Fire-Gull. Air-Gull. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire-Gull Nation attacked.

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

Water. Earth. Fire. Air. My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace when the Avatar kept balance between the Seagulls, Landgulls, Firegulls, and Airgulls. But that all changed when the Firegulls attacked.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's all fun and games until the firegull nation attacks.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I used to study animal management and there was a lecturer who wrote his uni thesis on "seagulls" and any time he heard someone call them seagulls he'd shout down the hallway "They're herring gulls!"

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Long ago, the four gulls lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the fire gulls attacked...

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If there are armadillos, where are the legadillos?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I live in Colorado and there are gulls here, we are far from the sea.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago

In light of the above, then, I hereby propose that squirrels get renamed to "treegulls."

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think a "landgull" would just be a pigeon

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah, that's an airgull. A landgull would be a chicken.

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

Nah, that's a farmgull. A landfill would be an ostrich

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

No that's where garbage goes, landgull would be a peacock

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