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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Batfish: "Yes! It is indeed my lips that are weird and make me feel self-conscious."
[alt-text since Lemmy web UI doesn't seem to have a way to add it to the image: photo of a red-lipped batfish. Besides its bright red lips, its head has a large protruding bulge, and it stands and walks on its four leg-like fins instead of swimming like a normal fish.]
What's so weird about a gasket. What SHOULD be there?
"You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."
They're made of meat?
The mouth is a sphincter.
It is connected directly to your butthole.
The mouth is your face anus.
They're even more histologically related to each other than they are to anything else. Lips and anus look surprisingly similar under a microscope.
We are just a coiled tube, surrounded and protected by a system maintenance apparatus.
Humans are just meat silly straws
Fun fact: when two people kiss, they create a long tube that starts and ends with an anus.
So you could also extend that tube woth a third person?
Plot for human centipede right here.
How do they think of these things? Just like this, with a bong.
Ever performed a double butt kiss?
I heard this is called keyhole-to-keyhole
Why, you offering?
Giggity
The fanus.
The mouth is the face anus to the soul.
Wow, embroider that on a pillow.
Delete this comment!
Have you seen genitals though? Now that's some weird stuff.
No :(
Yeah . Both sets are super weird. I can't even..
Mandrills, geladas, Rhesus macaques for a few.
Look at most Carnivorans (dogs, cats, etc) and they tend to have black lips. Is that less weird or more weird?
The human mouth is also the most sensitive area of the body (even moreso than lower areas), so that's almost certainly related. More blood flow and a specialised cell-type...
Yeah if we're saying it's weird meaning it's unusual, then no it's not weird. And if we're saying it's weird meaning bodies are weird in general, then yeah, it's weird that we have colored lips, and also weird that we have bone-like protrusions sticking out into our mouth, and weird that we have little hairs growing right out of the surface layer of our skin.
As soon as you think closely about any piece of it, all the pieces start to seem bizarrely weird.
Piglet would like a word with you.
Also cats. Dogs. Lemurs. Rats.
Basically, any creature that has a pink nose probably has pink lips. We just don't notice because they are mostly covered in fur and proportionately thinner than human lips.
We're all just tubes ... tubin' around.
It'd be weirder if they were green or blue.
sometimes they are blue. it’s usually someone on the way to being a corpse, but i’ve seen it.
That's definitely true
Wanna touch pink rings?
Dr Wesker and Daanni, sitting in a tree, R-I-N-G-I-N-G!
Evolutionarily, it probably helps with both speech and nonverbal language, i.e. facial expressions