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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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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 1 hour ago

Now we just get the uniforms:

[–] s@piefed.world 13 points 6 hours ago

It’s giving “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”

[–] aramova 38 points 9 hours ago

To be honest those twats would already be on board with that.

"Crosswalks? The fuck, you ain't driving your truck across the street to get there? It too damn far!"

-- Florida Man

[–] dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 65 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I like this idea. It’s like depressed version of pride flag, indicating LGBTQ people are repressed and in pain

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 38 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 9 hours ago

Perfect for Florida!

[–] Steve@startrek.website 36 points 10 hours ago

Yes, a distress flag

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 151 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

So you're the one who stole my bath towel.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 107 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Yes I collect gay bath towels

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 22 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (8 children)

How can you tell the sexuality of a towel?

edit: I think some people thought I was asking about identifying the gender of the towel. As much as I never thought I'd have to write anything like this sentence: I was asking how to identify the partnership preferred by a towel, rather than anything to do with its hypothetical undercarriage.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

If you notice they get wet before you've used them to towel off, congrats, they're into you. If they're dry as a bone when you use them, they're really not enjoying it, at all. It's not rocket science.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 7 points 9 hours ago

Ugh, I can't believe my towel is only into me after it's been used by my partner.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

This might help determine whether or not they enjoy the company of a particular gender, but you couldn't use this method to identify, for example, bisexuality. Unless you take group showers, I guess.

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[–] Steve@startrek.website 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

Wow, toweldar.

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 21 points 11 hours ago

Well, there are worse hobbies...

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[–] artifex@piefed.social 101 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Don't tempt them. It's hard enough to cross the street as it is.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 54 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

lol .... conservatives would be the first to happily just get rid of cross walks altogether ... both to not acknowledge LGBTQ+ and also to give more freedom to vehicles and get rid of "pedestrians"

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 22 points 11 hours ago

A good wholesome road needs to be safe for our traditional family SUVs and free of these dangerous ((pedestrians)).

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

"It's for the children! No more crosswalks! Just frogger it, kids!" -Ron DeSantis

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[–] warm@kbin.earth 23 points 10 hours ago

Just adopt red and white stripes. See what they do then

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 6 points 7 hours ago
[–] RedStrider@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

beatles pride flag

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 hours ago

Don't give Florida ideas

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Florida always at the ready for ideas that can harm children.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Nobody tell them about the cishet ally flag which is almost exactly this... ;)

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Having just checked that flag, damn, we don’t get any fun colors?!?

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The ally flag gets fun colors! It’s the black and white background with a rainbow ∧ shape. I wear this as a pin sometimes. Also my favorite restaurant has one hanging proudly inside.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I am 100% in favor of the message behind this flag, but holy crap it's a real eyesore. Same with the Progress Pride flag and some of the other LGBTQ flags. I keep hoping some skilled graphic designers out there will come up with cleaner designs.

[–] yumpsuit@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Few things are more gloriously heteromasculine than intentionally drawing aggro away from your homies by being the eyesore rodeo clown 🤠

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Idk, I like the Progress Pride flag. Imo it makes sense and represents pretty much everyone. Yeah it has a lot of colors, but the design itself is pretty straightforward

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah tbh. And it aligns better with the concept of sexuality/gender being more of a spectrum than rigidly designated buckets.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 39 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Isn't the rainbow meant to represent the spectrum. Like how rainbows show the visible spectrum of light?

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 28 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

It would be a lot prettier that way

[–] Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 22 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Are you trying to get the entire dcip3 banned??

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 21 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I thought of this because of your comment.

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[–] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 6 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Sure it has every color but does it have our specific color?

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[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 hours ago

These are all straight lines, give me the real gay flag

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 13 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

It... is kind of a giant mess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag_(LGBTQ) is a good summary but the modern rainbow color scheme is a somewhat recent iteration.

But much as "LGBT" has become "LGBTQ" and "LGBTQIA" and "LGBTQIA+" and so forth, so too have the flag added and removed stripes. And... a lot of that is intentional animosity since a shocking number of LGBTQIA+ folk are actually REALLY bigoted (the old "jokes" about how bisexual people need to "choose a side" and so forth) and it becomes a whole thing.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I love the intersex-inclusive progress pride flag, which adds designs to the left that explicitly include three under-represented groups (BIPOC, trans+, and intersex).

I once had someone, in earnest, complain at me that if we kept adding chevrons, the flag would have to get wider, and showed me an image that was like 1000 pixels by 20.

And then got mad at me when I asked if I could have that as a scarf :)

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[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Just adopt the Florida state flag?

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 1 points 7 hours ago

the united colors of benetton would approve of those flags

[–] BoloMKXXVIII@piefed.social 5 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Why is Red on the left and Blue on the right? Don't tell the MAGA crowd or they will try to pass another law...

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