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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Batfish: "Yes! It is indeed my lips that make me feel self-conscious."
[alt-text since Lemmy web UI doesn't seem to have a way to add it to the image: photo of a red-lipped batfish. Besides its bright red lips, its head has a large protruding bulge, it and stands and walks on its four leg-like fins instead of swimming like a normal fish.]
What's so weird about a gasket. What SHOULD be there?
Have you seen genitals though? Now that's some weird stuff.
Yeah . Both sets are super weird. I can't even..
"You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."
They're made of meat?
The mouth is a sphincter.
It is connected directly to your butthole.
The mouth is your face anus.
Humans are just meat silly straws
We are just a coiled tube, surrounded and protected by a system maintenance apparatus.
Fun fact: when two people kiss, they create a long tube that starts and ends with an anus.
Giggity
So you could also extend that tube woth a third person?
Plot for human centipede right here.
How do they think of these things? Just like this, with a bong.
Every performed a double butt kiss.
Why, you offering?
The fanus.
Delete this comment!
The mouth is the face anus to the soul.
Mandrills, geladas, Rhesus macaques for a few.
Look at most Carnivorans (dogs, cats, etc) and they tend to have black lips. Is that less weird or more weird?
The human mouth is also the most sensitive area of the body (even moreso than lower areas), so that's almost certainly related. More blood flow and a specialised cell-type...
Yeah if we're saying it's weird meaning it's unusual, then no it's not weird. And if we're saying it's weird meaning bodies are weird in general, then yeah, it's weird that we have colored lips, and also weird that we have bone-like protrusions sticking out into our mouth, and weird that we have little hairs growing right out of the surface layer of our skin.
As soon as you think closely about any piece of it, all the pieces start to seem bizarrely weird.
Wanna touch pink rings?
It'd be weirder if they were green or blue.
sometimes they are blue. it’s usually someone on the way to being a corpse, but i’ve seen it.
That's definitely true
Piglet would like a word with you.
Also cats. Dogs. Lemurs. Rats.
Basically, any creature that has a pink nose probably has pink lips. We just don't notice because they are mostly covered in fur and proportionately thinner than human lips.
We're all just tubes ... tubin' around.
100%.
Give me a wolf muzzle any day. Having a human face just feels wrong.
-- Frost
Exactly! 🐺
-- Frost
My dog disagrees.
Does your dog have a noodle ring around their mouth ?
Under the overhanging fur, yes. Mammals have lips.
I think our definition of lips is different
Are you suggesting that people with long mustaches don't have lips?
Evolutionarily, it probably helps with both speech and nonverbal language, i.e. facial expressions
Yeah that's my guess. Since we use language so much and are social. It would help to make facial cues like the mouth shape, more visible.
I speculated that lighter skinned people have more pink lips and are generally thinner, compared to darker skinned because darker skinned people generally have larger lips, which would make up for any visibility loss from less contrast.
Humans just really need to see what shape the mouth is at any given moment.
That's kinda weird too even if it makes sense.
My understanding is that fucus on the mouth in social interactions is also influenced by culture. That's why some cultures generally represented a happy face with the emoticon :) while others used ^_^
The former is focused on the mouth and the eyes lack meaningful expression, while the latter is the opposite.
I prefer it to my brown ring.
You could always get it bleached to match!
Some other animals do have lips.
Fish. I think that's it. Maybe you could argue snails.
But they ain't pink