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this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2026
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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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im old enough for my parents to be sending me to go get the paper and sometimes I would be at a friends when their parents wanted them to and went with on the trip.
What's interesting is how everything merged into the same thing online. For example, ABC News is the news division of the TV network ABC. USA Today is a newspaper. KTLA is a radio station. All those websites look pretty similar today. They all have text-only stories like a newspaper. They all have video stories.
You'd think maybe TV stations would say "we're not going to do text-only stories" or newspapers would say "we're not going to do video". I wonder if we're ever going to get to a time when there is a distinction between them again.
I would come home from school and read the paper.
Started with the comics. Gotta have that daily chuckle fix. And Dear Abby and the astrology stuff is right there.
Then the sports section.
And then a few headlines, maybe a little entertainment, a crossword if i was feeling that bored....
When i was an adult we had cable news you could consume with alcohol. Which was a different problem.
I'm eking out into oldness. Don't remind me.
We still get a "local rag" that we peruse every Sunday morning. Oh no, John Meyer has died and the Hauptstraße is closed again.
People still read the newspaper at the bakery cafe (they take the Badische Zeitung).
I remember when radios were called transistors.
I delivered newspapers for people to read (shit, slave wage job btw, even for a kid)