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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:
- 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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Now I'm sitting here wishing I had rifling in my barrel so the pee would come out spiraling like those nozzles on some power washers.
but the individual particles in the stream are going to follow a ballistic, not spiralling trajectory. I think the spiral nozzles have to rotate; they can't just be rifled.
I think they have a ball bearing on a groove, so the water pressure rolls it around in a spiral.
I want my dick to work like one of those tshk-tshk-tshk sprinklers
Based in exp if wager you do not
That sounds like post sex pee meets prostate problems.
A long time ago I read somewhere that the human penis is indeed rifled.
It's wrong. The stream twists because of the shape of the urethral opening.
Doesn't that count?
I don't think it's a twist so much as an oscillation
No, rifling is spiraling internal grooves. The urine stream twist happens because of the opening shape and water's surface tension.