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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.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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What in the white skittles?

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 179 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So you're the one who stole my bath towel.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 130 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yes I collect gay bath towels

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

How can you tell the sexuality of a towel?

edit: I think some people thought I was asking about identifying the gender of the towel. As much as I never thought I'd have to write anything like this sentence: I was asking how to identify the partnership preferred by a towel, rather than anything to do with its hypothetical undercarriage.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Wow, toweldar.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If you notice they get wet before you've used them to towel off, congrats, they're into you. If they're dry as a bone when you use them, they're really not enjoying it, at all. It's not rocket science.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 week ago

Ugh, I can't believe my towel is only into me after it's been used by my partner.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

This might help determine whether or not they enjoy the company of a particular gender, but you couldn't use this method to identify, for example, bisexuality. Unless you take group showers, I guess.

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago

Well, there are worse hobbies...

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[–] artifex@piefed.social 122 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Don't tempt them. It's hard enough to cross the street as it is.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 63 points 1 week ago (1 children)

lol .... conservatives would be the first to happily just get rid of cross walks altogether ... both to not acknowledge LGBTQ+ and also to give more freedom to vehicles and get rid of "pedestrians"

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A good wholesome road needs to be safe for our traditional family SUVs and free of these dangerous ((pedestrians)).

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 6 days ago

Sounds a lot like pederasts... Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"It's for the children! No more crosswalks! Just frogger it, kids!" -Ron DeSantis

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[–] dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 71 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I like this idea. It’s like depressed version of pride flag, indicating LGBTQ people are repressed and in pain

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 week ago

Perfect for Florida!

[–] Steve@startrek.website 36 points 1 week ago

Yes, a distress flag

[–] aramova@infosec.pub 44 points 1 week ago

To be honest those twats would already be on board with that.

"Crosswalks? The fuck, you ain't driving your truck across the street to get there? It too damn far!"

-- Florida Man

[–] warm@kbin.earth 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just adopt red and white stripes. See what they do then

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Cat in the hat style

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 23 points 1 week ago

Now we just get the uniforms:

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nobody tell them about the cishet ally flag which is almost exactly this... ;)

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Having just checked that flag, damn, we don’t get any fun colors?!?

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The ally flag gets fun colors! It’s the black and white background with a rainbow ∧ shape. I wear this as a pin sometimes. Also my favorite restaurant has one hanging proudly inside.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I am 100% in favor of the message behind this flag, but holy crap it's a real eyesore. Same with the Progress Pride flag and some of the other LGBTQ flags. I keep hoping some skilled graphic designers out there will come up with cleaner designs.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Idk, I like the Progress Pride flag. Imo it makes sense and represents pretty much everyone. Yeah it has a lot of colors, but the design itself is pretty straightforward

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah tbh. And it aligns better with the concept of sexuality/gender being more of a spectrum than rigidly designated buckets.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Isn't the rainbow meant to represent the spectrum. Like how rainbows show the visible spectrum of light?

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It would be a lot prettier that way

[–] Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you trying to get the entire dcip3 banned??

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I thought of this because of your comment.

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[–] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Sure it has every color but does it have our specific color?

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It... is kind of a giant mess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag_(LGBTQ) is a good summary but the modern rainbow color scheme is a somewhat recent iteration.

But much as "LGBT" has become "LGBTQ" and "LGBTQIA" and "LGBTQIA+" and so forth, so too have the flag added and removed stripes. And... a lot of that is intentional animosity since a shocking number of LGBTQIA+ folk are actually REALLY bigoted (the old "jokes" about how bisexual people need to "choose a side" and so forth) and it becomes a whole thing.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I love the intersex-inclusive progress pride flag, which adds designs to the left that explicitly include three under-represented groups (BIPOC, trans+, and intersex).

I once had someone, in earnest, complain at me that if we kept adding chevrons, the flag would have to get wider, and showed me an image that was like 1000 pixels by 20.

And then got mad at me when I asked if I could have that as a scarf :)

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[–] s@piefed.world 13 points 1 week ago

It’s giving “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 7 points 1 week ago
[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Don't give Florida ideas

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just adopt the Florida state flag?

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Florida always at the ready for ideas that can harm children.

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[–] BoloMKXXVIII@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why is Red on the left and Blue on the right? Don't tell the MAGA crowd or they will try to pass another law...

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