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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: 1

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I fully expect what the first reply to this might be.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That's not an example of irony though?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

*I love using thumbs up in a way that invokes absurdist situational irony by laying out an absurd situation that the other person expects an explanation for, but instead receives a friendly affirmation in the form of the thumbs up emoji, which exemplifies situational irony by subverting the other person's expectations of what the situation is actually about.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Still not irony, are you American by any chance?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

?? I don't really understand what your goal is here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Americans tend to have poor understandings of what constitutes irony.