They're also no picnic for people who want kids but can't have them despite years of trying.
Showerthoughts
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
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
Yep or have lost a child
Is this really a showerthought?
If you cry in the shower it saves on water and tissues.
Seems like a really difficult, odd thing to gatekeep. It's defined as "thoughts that pop into your head while you’re doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming." It's literally almost meaningless.
I always think of shower lights as things like: “I wonder what an animal that evolved wheels would look like”
I really like that showerthoughts is apparently far less harshly moderated than r/showerthoughts. Posting over there feels like a mine field where the chances of getting your post deleted over a trivial mistake seem to be much higher than the chances of being able successfully post there.
I'm sure this post wouldn't have survived at r/showerthoughts and I would have missed out on it.
I had a horrible childhood and I'm not in touch with my parents, so I'm really glad you said this. I dread mother and fathers day each year. Have you found [email protected] it's great for people like us
I didn't know about that one; seems cool.
It's a good group hope it helps