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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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[–] LimpRimble 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

How do you gild things here?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the place for my joke!

Did you hear about the man with five penises?

His pants fit LIKE A GLOVE!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It's even better if you tell it in a Sean Connery voice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

They'd probably just wear socks or 80's style leg warmers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

They would mostly wear hats.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Maybe a tiny skirt on the arm that is a penis

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There is no suitable place for an Octopus to wear either pants or a skirt. Octopuses are almost entirely made of face. There is no torso, no waist, no lower body. We call the appendages around the mouth “arms” (not “legs”) but they are more analogous to prehensile whiskers. I think they would be more likely to wear a cap or headband. A balaclava would be interesting.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

An octopus with a helmet would be unstoppable

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Many octopodes can change the color and pattern of their skin at will.

Our clothing and tattoos are but crude facsimiles of their capabilities. Cephalopods have no need of such frivolities.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!"

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Why the fuck would octopuses have to wear clothes?! Come to think of it... why do humans have to wear clothes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I think a big part of it began for survival. Since take this for example those living in colder environments after we lost our dense hair across our bodies. They had to wear things made from pelts. To sustain life in colder regions. Same goes for warm environments. The important areas of the body. It’s better to wear light clothing than get sunburn. Mainly if you don’t wish to go through the adaption to not need clothes. That’s gonna take 1000s of years of blisters, sunburns and more.

Beyond that. Let’s say you didn’t wear a shirt. Most times. People wear pants/shorts or something on their lower half for modesty and not to have their dick swinging. I mean have you ever thought how much of a nuisance it’d be. If you were running the jungles or forest with nothing holding that in. You’d slap that shit on trees, bush and sticks. That’s not fun. Alongside the bugs and more.

Now people here have mentioned hypothermia and myself. I can wear limited clothing in -1F. Barefoot shoes, Shorts and Tshirt enough to maintain a good balance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I don't.

flaunts

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (5 children)

If that's the reason why are you doing it in summer?

If you say protection from sun, how about warm cloudy day?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

Well, thousands of years ago my ancestors came into this place for some fucking reason, and noticed that being naked and hairless means you're cold at almost all times, save for a few exceptionally warm days in the summer, and in summer, you'd get sunburn or skin cancer, and be covered in ticks and mosquito stings.

They decided to fix their furlessness by wearing the furs they got from the animals they ate, and later discovered spinning, weaving, and sewing. As time went on, being naked became a taboo, and thus people kept wearing clothes even in occasions that don't require it.

And clothes do tend to have meaning beyond just protecting you from the cold and the sun and bugs. Style and social status.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

wait - read your comment properly, but you can still get sunburned on a cloudy day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

You live in a warm place, I think

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

They'd wear swimsuits, of course. Who wears skirts or pants in the water?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why wouldn’t they just wear stylish hats?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Is that xxxxxxxxxxxxxxl or is it xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxl

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Now that's a proper hat. Shelter yourself and 6 of your friends from sun or rain!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

England would still force them to change into trousers on the mainland.

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

Dress Act 1746

....when a Scot wearing a kilt travelled to the mainland, they'd have to change into trousers, There's changerooms still standing along the coast....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

That's fucked up...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Octopuses have 8 arms and no legs. They'd probably wear halter tops.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Squiddly Diddly just Winnie The Pooed it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Perfect. No notes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Pants are a status symbol in octopus society. Custom tailored, and you have servants to help you put them on.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Ain't nobody got time to put 8 legs though 8 pant legs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They'd wear four pairs of jeans and older octopuses would criticise them for sagging their waists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

No they would wear an octuple of jeans.

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