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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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[–] [email protected] 57 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Look at this fella with no favourite rock

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Ha, what a ...wait, do you think they also don't have a favourite stick?!?

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

Or a favourite cave?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

There was definitely a time when nobody pretended their favorite stick was a gun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I have a jar of rocks and two sticks. That guy doesn't know how to human.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wearing Jewels is the advanced form of carrying a pet rock.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We're not so different than the penguins that prostitute themselves for rocks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, the penguins don't care about the rocks they're just kinky like that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

The rocks just make it classy.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago (5 children)

This is lemmy. Everyone has a favourite rock.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

They're fucking minerals Marie

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

I can't pick a favorite.

They're all neat.

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

Mine is cummingtonite

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (22 children)

I thought I was weird after seeing that black stand-up on kill Tony saying he had some of his favorites in his pocket. My step mom and I went hiking and she found two really cool rocks, one was gray and has streaks of purple, the other one was dark but with orange streaks. They live on my dashboard.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I mean when I was young and used to play with rocks I had a favourite rock, I mean even painting rocks was a thing. No need to go thousands of years back lol

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Paleontologists have found Neanderthal stone tools (knapped stone) made with high quality stone taken from kilometers away. This means that they had favorite tools that they wanted to keep with them, while other low quality stones where used few times before being discarded near their collection point

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

"Yo dude checkout my secret rock spot, it's 13 kilometers over there"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Even way back then, they already used the metric system!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

It was the most natural thing to do

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

There's an area in the cascade range (western US, specifically oregon) that is a giant field of knapped obsidian, that was used as a training ground for young knappers, as well as a trading ground to trade knapped obsidian that has been found all over the western US. Not just miles, but many many miles. I'll see if I can go find a link.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wasn't that long ago that people even had pet rocks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Ehhhhh, believe it or not the 1970s was 50 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The 70s will remain thirty years ago until the day I die.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Can't be. I was born in the 70s and I'm only what the fuck?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Doing volunteer trail maintenance. All the people swarm the tool pile trying to claim their favorite pick mattock or grub hoe. It's adorable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You're my favorite grub hoe.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wait till this guy finds out about the Kaaba

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Wait... do you guys not have a favourite rock?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm partial to grunge and prog

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No.

I can't pick a favorite they're all so cool.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

After very careful consideration I have selected my top 3 favorite rocks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fuck me I forgot the black sparkly one. I am back to crippling indecision.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

fuck those are some good rocks

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (5 children)

One of my favorite rocks is stoner rock.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

You don't have a favorite Rock?

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

My favorite rock has a first name, it's H-O-M-E-R. My favorite rock has a second name, it's H-O-M-E-R.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

It's a mineral, Gurk.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Like I have a favorite spatula.

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

I have a favourite kitchen knife, so it's plausible

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Don’t mind Geologists

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Sea otters exhibit this behavior. They keep their favorite rock in their pouches and use them to crack open shellfish.

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