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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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Again, you’ve taken a shower thought way too literally.
There’s many careers that one builds the cost of prep into the final product. Do you think wedding photographers are only charging for their time on site? No, they build their time editing the photos and paying for equipment and marketing into the cost. Same as sex workers.
No one actually thinks this is a valid way of figuring out cost of living in an area. It’s a shower thought.
lol, that's perfect, wedding photogs.
Yeah, lets peg the going rate at that of wedding photogs. That's pretty offensive also.
Your argument that sex work is different from any other work because of the prep time is faulty.