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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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Pretty sure we are the only animals with pink rings around our mouth. It's flipping weird.

It probably helps with verbal language understanding as humans often use mouth movements to interpret words (see McGurk effect). But I still think it's weird.

Big pink rings.

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[–] tomiant@piefed.social 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

The mouth is a sphincter.

It is connected directly to your butthole.

The mouth is your face anus.

[–] Chaotic_Altruist@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 hours ago

They're even more histologically related to each other than they are to anything else. Lips and anus look surprisingly similar under a microscope.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 12 hours ago

We are just a coiled tube, surrounded and protected by a system maintenance apparatus.

[–] mimic_dev@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Humans are just meat silly straws

[–] Murse@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fun fact: when two people kiss, they create a long tube that starts and ends with an anus.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So you could also extend that tube woth a third person?

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Plot for human centipede right here.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 12 hours ago

How do they think of these things? Just like this, with a bong.

[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Every performed a double butt kiss.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 12 hours ago

Why, you offering?

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago
[–] fisch@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Delete this comment!

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The mouth is the face anus to the soul.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 12 hours ago

Wow, embroider that on a pillow.