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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:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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I was watching This Is England from 2006, and it reminded me of the olden days of yore, in the fabled before-times, where people would just bunch up together every Friday in someone's flat, get drunk, blast music, and talk without distractions.

I can barely remember it now.

Anyway, get off my synthetic lawn.

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[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I took a few months off from Lemmy and it's amusing to me that upon returning I find that almost every post in this com still breaks rule 2.

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'd prefer this over whatever they have on reddit right now. Like in my opinion, being lax with certain rules is fine.

[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago

Fair enough. My comment wasn't meant as criticism, I just genuinely find it amusing that the rules comms on Lemmy have just aren't enforced at all.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Guessing you spent all that away time on Reddit.

Feel free to stay there next time.

[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Eat shit. Lemmy has more bullies than reddit ever did. I've been permanently banned from Reddit for criticizing fascists. I spent that time on Bluesky, which is just as toxic as Lemmy. Seriously go fuck yourself.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 0 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

You ever tried to see if your dong can reach the hole?

[–] cally@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The thought is in the title, the explanation of how they thought it is in the post body

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Spirit of the law not letter of the law, that's how I see it.