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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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Given we learned way too many men think it’s gay to wipe your butt after popping
I very much doubt they’re washing their ass either
"I'd rather have an itchy asshole, skid marks, and a smelly ass than BE GAY, that's worse than any of those things!!" and then they wonder why they're single 90% of the time and if they ever get a woman it's from an arranged marriage.
Assumed it's mostly an Asian thing. Is arranged marriage a thing in the west?
In several parts of the South, yes. Also happens in a few Latin American countries.
We did? I thought it was like one social media post meme floating around.
This is unfortunately is a very real thing you can encounter while just dating random dudes
If it was fake so many women wouldn’t have personal experience with this
Like I said I’ve only ever seen the meme mention this. You’re the first person I’ve ever seen say this directly.
But if that’s your experience, that’s your experience. Im still trying to get used to the idea that some people apply bars of soap directly to their body instead of making a lather.
As a former massage therapist (not “masseuse”)… I’ve encountered dozens of men who would show up with a dirty ass. Skid marks when they get up off the table. WTF. Got expensive throwing sheets out.
Lmao wtaf
Jesus mary fucking llamas, I can't imagine getting naked in front of a massager, much less being unclean in front of one.
Well, we do make sure to drape with sheets so we never see your bathing suit area. We aren’t in the room when you get undressed and under the sheet. And lots of people leave their underwear on. Somehow the dirty butt ones almost never do though 🤷♀️
Besides myself I’ve met plenty of women who dated or were still dating men who don’t wipe their ass. It ranges from not wiping at all to barely wiping
And no, none of them had good high fiber diets or I wouldn’t have heard the stories to begin with
Wait.....I'm a guy. I wipe my ass. Am I supposed to be not wiping my ass? Is that a womens thing? Like crying at movies and drinking tasty mixed drinks, uh, I mean fruity mixed drinks?
Ok. Fine. I'll stop wiping. Maybe that's why I'm single. Women think I'm gay because my pants lack brown streaks.
I’m sorry if the verified behavior of other men has triggered you
Get well soon
Just out of curiosity what about the response above seems like being triggered?
For me it's kind of funny joking about toxic masculinity as a coping mechanism for having to live in a society
Tbh the sarcasm went over my head because you just never know these days
That's true. Poe's law and all that.
I make the lather with the bar of soap. I rub it on me until I get the lather going. Then I stick the bar inside my butthole until I get a lather in there.
I poop bubbles, bitch!
.....there is no way thats good for the mucus membrane in your anus...
Haven't had one of those for years. Washed it clean out. Don't miss it. Don't need it.
I'm still trying to understand why you need a cloth or luffa to wash your body.
I think some people really like to remove skin as part of the "cleaning" process
There are 8 billion folks on the earth, and half are guys. I'm sure there are a few who have that thought, but it's just like anything else: numbers make a mockery of all/none or even most/some claims.
The part about it being gay is also just for trolling/stupid dunking purposes. I would bet that if you got the people you were asking the question of to read a few books and learn to express themselves, you'd find that most people don't scrub their asshole because it's generally seen as dirty and contaminated, so they limit themselves to using the toilet paper, thereby not contaminating their hand or wash cloth in the shower. Nothing to do with thoughts of it being gay or not.
Gotta pop it out
Popp
Pepp
It's obviously not gay to wipe your butt but every time you poop is excessive. Unless you have some kind of GI issues, once every ten poops is plenty. Anything more than that is just wasteful
Welcome to Lemmy, Ken M. You've been missed.
I hate that I actually can't tell if this is a joke
That's why I have a poop counter so I can keep track
Sounds over-engineered, unless your “poop counter” is nine brown smears on the toilet lid.
I make those smears with the poop knife
Poopy knife, happy wife!
What?
Oh shit, I just read diarrhea.
That is some quality mild trolling, the best kind
What.
There is ALWAYS residue, you nasty little bugger, the amount just depends of how much your body absorbed the water from the poop before. Sometimes I have shits that require me to wipe a dozen times or more.
Just seems like a waste of paper to me. I go ten or so poops, then wipe and get up from the toilet. Cleaning while you cook makes sense, cleaning while you poop is odd.
Is this why circumcisions are so common?
Because it's gay to pull back your foreskin when pissing?
Pulling back the foreskin makes it way more challenging and uncomfortable to piss. I don't really discuss the status of my foreskin with anyone, so maybe I'm unexpectedly in the minority, but ... What?
No it doesn't?
If it's uncomfortable to move the foreskin and completely uncover the dick head you might have phimosis AKA the one real reason to get a circumcision
(But of course you shouldn't just take medical advice from a random internet stranger, if it's bothering you try talking to a real doctor)
The act of pulling it back isn't uncomfortable. Peeing while doing so is what is, at least for me, uncomfortable.
I'm still not sure I believe in those people. Sounds made up.
there's no easy way to tell this but: i met one of them - it came up in conversation somehow. a few days later when we met again he told me how great he feels bow that he properly washes his ass in the shower...
Wait.. Wat?
I didn't get that memo.
weak, I wipe my ass during popping
This user don't let shit bother them