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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.

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Pro tip: if you're going to shower at the gym make sure you have a towel BEFORE you get all wet

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[–] limer@lemmy.ml 75 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Just because:

A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.

Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1))

[–] princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] tuck182@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Hey, you sass that hoopy limer?

[–] dontpanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everybody beat me to it. So long!

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

...and thanks for all the fish 😜 🐬🐬🐬

[–] presoak@lazysoci.al 11 points 1 day ago

The first useful thing we invented was the pointed stick.

Second was string.

Third the towel.

The towel hits a sweet spot. It's got development history. It's got archetypal grounding. It's the Zeus of inventions.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago

Only 116 days until Towel Day