this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2023
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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 130 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah but some people are more traffic than others.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

insert lifted truck hogging 2 lanes

insert soccer moms with massive SUVs

Lol

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Insert the guy in a Prius going 30 mph under the speed limit and slamming on his brakes for no reason.

Insert everyone in the passing lane that isn't passing.

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

Honestly “soccer mom” is probably a better use of street capacity than most usage of cars. One adult and six kids in a Suburban is much more efficient than three adults each with two kids in the back of three sedans.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

If you swerve in and out of lanes to try to get ahead, you can be traffic for an easy 3 or 4 lanes!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Love the peeps that risk killing everyone around them to get ten feet ahead in bumper to bumper traffic.

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

And only end up being farther back than if they had just stayed put, as everybody else had the same thought, making the new lane the slower one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

And even if it doesn't, they lose any time they could have possibly gained the moment they get off the highway and hit a red light.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just one more lane bro and we fix traffic, trust me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think people downvoting this didn't spot the sarcasm.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh good. This is gonna be just like reddit. Things that are literally decades old.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't reddit content just a reflection of people, and people also exist on this platform

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You aren't stuck on Reddit. You are the Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Oh....oh God...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Did you expect people would really change compared to how they acted on Reddit?

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

What's wrong with this post?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy isn't reddit, but whatever it is, they're both the internet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Be the traffic you want to become.

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

Ahh, the Lemmy meme.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You aren't shitposting in Lemmy, you ARE the Lemmy!

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

You are the shitpost in Lemmy!

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, I am the main character. The world happens to me, get these NPCs out of my way.

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

Jesus Christ has come for his second resurrection, and his name is Intl

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

We do not live in a society. We are a society. 😔

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You aren't in an orgy. You are the orgy.

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

So then what’s happening when I drive and there’s no traffic? Am I nothing???!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Youre never “nothing”… youre always something special! I promise :)

Example: when there is no traffic, youre still a noise & particulate generator that lowers property values, warms our planet, and makes the built environment more hostile/dangerous and depressing for everyone nearby.

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

Whew thank god. Who cares if I’m ruining everything as long as I exist!

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

The traffic is stuck in the traffic🚦

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mix powdered traffic into your traffic.

More traffic per traffic.

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

You were watching Not Just Bikes in the shower?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Been working remote since onset of pandemic. Never going back to the office bro. Couldn't pay me enough to share the roads with the rest of the grinders.

So many hours wasted in traffic.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

State Anthem of the Soviet Union plays in background

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

There is not not enough parking, there are too many cars

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

mmm yes, the traffic is made out of traffic

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

"I'm stuck in traffic" implies they aren't part of it but that it is something that is happening to them.

You're not stuck in it, you are it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This is a Bill Burr bit.

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

They're not mutually exclusive states. You can be part of the traffic, but if you can't get out, you're still stuck in it. You're part of traffic but not stuck in it if and only if you have the opportunity to exit the traffic experience.

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

Now I'm stuck in the damn traffic that I've helped damn create. Dammit!

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