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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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  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
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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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[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yes and no.

You need to have +5 years of history in entertaiment business and/or in community work and somebody else needs to nominate you. Then if the commitee acepts you and you pay the sponsor fee you get the star.

But yeah. If you have lots of money and friends in right places you can pretty much buy it, but its not like any bluecollar worker can just take a loan and buy one for themself without any merit.

Its not really that different than how people get wings in hospitals or libraries named after them. Except Hollywood star does not benefit normal people in any way.

[–] GuyFawkes@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Another fun fact is that once a star is there it’s there - no mechanism to get it removed.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I suppose a crowbar could lift it up, unless it's laid in concrete or something? In that case a jackhammer could probably do it fine, but if you really wanna make sure it's removed, you could drill a hole in the middle and put a bit of dynamite in and blow it apart.

[–] GuyFawkes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

They fix/replace them when that happens. 😔