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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Not really. Just look up the some slang words from 2000's you've never heard of but what everyone in my generation would've been constantly using.
Ofc some of them are still around, but most aren't.
idkmybffjill
Even old people will just stop using them, like “groovy”.
Groovy is acceptable, but only in the way Ash from the Evil Dead uses it.
Marvy fab yo
Psssh, next you'll tell me people aren't saying "hail to the king, baby"?
Dude, that's totes bogus. Get outta here with that whackness. /s
Can't speak for anywhere but where I've lived, but I've heard groovy on the US west coast pretty recently, though not regularly. There was a niche little clique of geeks out in east Texas that'd say it pretty regularly some years ago though. Hippie activist/tabletop enthusiast type vibe, that group. Good people. Groovy, even.
"cooking" in the context of doing something well has been around for a long time. Think, "now you're cooking!" Or the less common "now you're cooking with gas!"
I think it's just in more frequent use currently. It will be interesting to see if people stop using it after it goes out of fashion with the youth.
Language is freaking fascinating.
Yo dawg, that would be like totally tubular unless the geezers spaz out like lamo rents gettin all agro after gettin to tha crib and finding all da homies having a jammy jam in the hizzie. Ya feel me, cuz?
Word up, homie.
What does lamo mean? I understood the rest, and yes, my back hurts.
Misspelled "lame-o" is my guess. Though my spelling of it is a guess as well.
Misspelled? Letters used to cost money, you know. 160 chars/msg.bst to shrten evrything
Based has been around forever, it's not some new slang.
forever
Maybe like 10 years? That seem about right?
Some searching seems to suggest that “Lil B” started the words come back around 2010
Lil B in quotes like he's a massively obscure figure from the past. The years really don't stop coming.
Nurse! I vibe coded in my pants again
Gyatt so Ohio, on god.
I'll be ambling through nursing home hallways in a threadbare robe on the way to the ol' skibidi while some orderlies with multicolor levitating hair make modem noises at each other.
That'll just be the microplastic poisoning setting in though.
You had me in the last sentence... sadly
I haven't heard swag in a long while and so I'm not sure how many of these words will actually be used enough later on.
As an old person today, I have no clue what these words mean. Assuming cooking has nothing to do with food. I've never heard rizz. I've at least heard people use based, though I don't know its use.
Rizz = Charisma
Based = Cool; Awesome; Good.
Cooked = Fucked (as in up, not sexually).
Cooking = Doing something (usually good, but does not necessarily have to be).
Sincerely,
A 40 year old Millennial.
'cooking' specifically implies either creativity or efficacy (or both, some novel solution that results in success)
Ah but then there is the phrase "let him cook," which tends to be used when someone starts doing something that seems foolish. I would think it at least somewhat relates to "cooking." If you fail, you are "cooked."
Edit: To clarify, this phrase is commonly seen after someone says something like "hey, don't do that;" I did not mean to imply the phrase itself has an inherent good/bad connotation, merely what has been pointed out that they want to "wait and see" the results before making judgement.
This version of cook seems aligned with "hold on."
As in "it's not yet apparent that what's happening makes sense/is good."
Where's that tiktok linguist kid when ya need him.
in the nursing home talking about how I rizzed up the nurses (i didn't)
Gag me with a spoon
I was today years old when I relaised that "gag" in that phrase presumably means "make me vomit" not "silence me". I've spent many decades being confused about that...