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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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It’s a relatively interesting difference between our two countries, in the 1940s the USA was being introduced to movie stars who had the “Hollywood smile” which led to a lot of people turning to cosmetic dentistry.
In the UK in 1948 dentistry became available for free on the NHS, with a focus on health rather than cosmetics. Sadly in 2006 they changed the deal for dentists so they had to perform hundreds of procedures before they could claim any money, rather than the pay-per-procedure they had been on before. In the last 20 years it’s become almost impossible to find an NHS dentist because they have all quit, and the UK has got too used to getting it for free so it’s not considered something you need to pay for.