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.
Wait until he learns about the word smartphone.
It was just kind of a trend in the twenties to add the suffix "ie" to anything when something new was invented
We're not much better, we've had tends for -r and -io.
Movr, movios.
Don't forget dropping the last vowel! I wonder what they spend their vowel savings on...
Saving them up for a later trend probably. Moviesie.
Moviiiiis?
Is it wrong that I kind of like that one?
Other examples?
Imagine if the guy who named movies with sound talkies also named movies... wait .. oh no..
Everyone still "video tapes" everything on their phones.
Do they....?
I'll be honest, I haven't heard anyone say that ever when using a phone.
Maybe "videos" as a verb but generally "records" in my experience
They were joking...
What makes you think that?
Because no one ever said this.
In a thread about a word being ingrained in our culture, where's the joke in claiming another word is also ingrained in our culture?
I may be wrong, but it seemed pretty sincere to me.
I find things that carry over despite having little to do with the original. Tape for example. We were saying that for a while when digital recorders and cameras on phones could do video.
Same with the disk icon. Still used for save despite most millennials now having no idea what the thing is.
Most millenials grew up with floppy disks. You're thinking of Gen Z and Gen Alpha
Oh God there's a new one?
Ah, you must be from gen Z.
Yes new generations will continually be created and older generations will always sneer at them.
Lol that is the usual pattern right
I don't know how to tell you this....
Gen Alpha are everyone born 2010 and later, so yeah, they're 13 at the oldest.
I know what it is but no idea how it works. I grew up with cassettes for music and CDs
Bird is the word
What is the word movie?
It's a word movie, how do you not know this? /s