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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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    • 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
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[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

If you divide a woman in half horizontally one side has poop and the other side has boob and both are plaindromes. Also you will go to jail.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Ah, the food of Theseus.

[–] cloudshouter@lemmy.zip 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Kissing is just sucking on the better end of two digestive tracts.

[–] StankStain@lemmy.today 3 points 11 hours ago

don't knock the other side till you try it

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

but if go backwards, you get assburgers.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

And you are either an angry assby or a nice assby.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 11 points 19 hours ago

Yeah, it's called the pyloric sphincter.

[–] numbermess@fedia.io 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This suggests the existence of the poop event horizon. Science totally rocks man.

Since you can empty your stomach back up, I guess the event horizon for food is after the stomach. After that the only way out is down.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago

Rocks big part of science. But science not totally rocks. Science more than rocks.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 55 points 1 day ago (14 children)

There's no single point -- it's a gradual process.

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[–] bryndos@fedia.io 74 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Chozo@fedia.io 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] neidu4@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 1 day ago

That point is much closer to your mouth than it is the other end of the system.

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You guys think of weird ass shit in the shower.

[–] tektite@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 day ago
[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Umm no? Have you never vomited? I'm not sure I'd call that "food". I guess, maybe, it's still food after you've finished chewing it; you could spit it out into your hand instead of swallowing, and someone else could choke it down. But it stops being food long before it hits the intestines. At some point when it starts mixing with stomach acid, probably.

[–] Azzu@leminal.space 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So you're saying the point is somewhere in the esophagus?

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The point when it goes from food to vomit, yeah. I’m not sure when it goes from puke to poop, though. Maybe that happens in the intestines?

[–] kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It becomes shit in the large intestine. Before that, it is kind of food leftovers mixed with intestinal liquid. Does not even smell like shit at that point, just more or less like food, still.

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Really? Then why does puke smell so awful? Is it all just stomach acid making it stink like that?

[–] kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Seems like it, though I have not looked into that. I just have a lot of personal experience, with the small intestine pre-shit, because I have an ileostomy.

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 2 points 10 hours ago

Ah, I wasn't going to ask. So thanks for answering. :-)

It’s called chyme from the moment it’s swallowed

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Some dogs eat shit (literally)

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have a dog that did that until the older dog died. Didn't like her own product I guess.

[–] AliOski@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago

I'm in a silent study room full of other students and you're making me laugh uncontrollably, thanks

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

See, still food.

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fun fact: some people stop it near the top or middle, and alter nature's plumbing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileo-anal_pouch

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

(only vaguely relevant, but I love this one so much)

What do you call Alternative Medicine that works?

spoilerMedicine

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
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