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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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In Ancient Rome, public loos were holes in large plates of marble, everybody just sat (shat?) next to one another, there were no cubicles or walls. People conversed happily about business and family, squeezing and a huffing and a puffing. I always have to think about that, as I let go loud trumps and farts or liquid gas - shamelessly- in a public toilet. Lay back and enjoy! Taking a good crap is an integral part of human life; be proud of your achievement.
Guys from my high School went to the restroom together and shat together. The restroom had 20 toilets or something and they would talk together as the Romans did.
If one of them could make a poop so long it touched the water before slipping the butt (my English is really challenged here, haha. No idea if that sentence made any sense) they would shout "touchdown!" and he would the king of poop for that day.
Are you from a Nordic country perhaps? They are all Badass. I once visited communist Bulgaria. Toilets next to the highway consisted of a circular gutter with a pole in the middle. Patrons would jointly drop their pants, crouch down, hold the pole and aim your buttocks at the gutter. Enough place for 4-5 guys; but we didn’t converse much, due to the heavy diet, everybody was concentrating and had red faces from the effort. No need for background music when you grunt.
Yes, I'm from Denmark, but I didn't know we known as badasses, haha.
A Dane knows no shame, only pain.
When I hear someone make noises in a bathroom stall, I (unwillingly) get vivid imagery of their sphincters moving as air or feces comes out
I have no idea if my noises will make other people imagine mine or not
I'm just private when it comes to that stuff. I don't really enjoy... "existing," to other people, whenever I defecate
You would not fare well spending a weekend in the county jail.
A county jail isn't made to be "fared well" in in the first place.
Only begins to explain everything wrong with the prison system. Everything is designed to make it as cheap and profitable as possible