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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] 3 points 1 hour ago

!remindme sixty years when i confirm

[–] [email protected] 2 points 51 minutes ago

what about thirmty three

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Mine touch at pebenty peben.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

And then they touch for every number until 1 trillion

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

One point five.. d'oh!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Made me silently count to ten to confirm. Mind expanded.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I'm still counting

[–] [email protected] 36 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They do if you kiss yourself in the mirror, but only on the lips

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

You can only kiss your lips in the mirror

[–] [email protected] 21 points 14 hours ago

I love this! It doesn't seem like it could possibly be true, but my 30 seconds of testing haven't debunked it.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yup, I can't get past 5 in Norwegian.

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

It's 'fem' in Swedish too, guessing it's something similar in Norwegian? In Hebrew the first is 5 too (Chamesh/חמש), so that's an interesting pattern

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Not in German tho. Sieben

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Kolme - that’s 3 in Finnish

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago

Portuguese: 1 (um)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

In English, my lips touch when I make the "f" sound at the start of four. I am also pretty sure they touch for one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Nope, for me my bottom teeth touch my upper lips.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

The F sound is usually a labialdental fricative in English. So you are putting your bottom lip on your teeth and letting some air go by to make the F sound.

English has bilabial plosives where you touch both lips together and let air stop for a moment which makes the P or B sounds.

English doesn't have a bilabial fricative so you might be doing this in your dialect and it doesn't stand out to anyone because it doesn't otherwise have a phonetic meaning. But, interestingly, in other languages a bilabial fricative has distinct meaning from a labial dental fricative. I believe I've read that in Japanese the "F" in "Mount Fuji" is actually a bilabial fricative and not the normal F that English speakers use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

My upper teeth touch my bottom lip when I do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

I cover my bottom teeth with my bottom lip at the start so the lips touch on 'four'

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

I'm not sure about this. The only way I can make my lips touch when saying that number is if I actually say pour.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Thought the same, but you're right, putting both lips together makes a plosive.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Egy, kettő, három

3 in hungarian

[–] [email protected] 1 points 47 minutes ago

ce, ome, yei, nahui (Nahuatl)

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

Maybe, but how long do you have to count for your eyelids to touch?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

En, to, tre, fire, fem.

1000000 / 5 = 200000

Here's the proof that Danish is 200.000 times better than English.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

In romanian, it ends at 4. Romanian is 25% better than dutch and 250000 times better than english

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

250000 times better than english

That's a very low bar tho

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 22 hours ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

It applies to any English-speaking country, which makes sense since it's written in English.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What if I say "um" somewhere because I lost my place?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Oh shiiit thats trippy!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago

Joke's on you, I'm Roman.
My lips already touch at 𝕄.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (3 children)

that's one hell of a water bill if you were in the shower counting to one million.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

In Belgian French it's 70, and in French² it's 1000

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

correct me if I'm wrong, but it's up to 1000 in Spanish, right? I'm wondering if I'm saying 9 right.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

Un deux trois... Mille ! In French (France 🇫🇷) 1000 before lips touch.

... Soixante-neuf, septante ! In French (Switzerland 🇨🇭) 70! (in France it's soixante-dix 😂)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

[OFF TOPIC]

TIL there are italic emojis. 🏠

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