Showerthoughts

r/Showerthoughts • u/Eruionmel • 2h ago

Musing We evolved to sneeze through our noses to clear out irritants, but we socialize ourselves to sneeze through our mouths because it's less disgusting and more controllable. Making sneezing a voluntarily vestigial trait.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/Happy_Contest_1635 • 5h ago

Casual Thought You might have already experienced the last time you met someone, but it seemed like an ordinary goodbye.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/rarra93 • 1d ago

Musing The fracking industry is likely very happy with itself now that all negative attention is on data centers.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/chili81 • 1d ago

Casual Thought Previous generations had newspaper to start fires. Now we have to turn to online shopping delivery boxes.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/Arokthis • 1d ago

Musing If Niven's "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" holds true for all Kryptonians, then the dogs of Earth are in deep trouble if Krypto isn't neutered.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/BarrettM82A3 • 1d ago

Casual Thought Is it possible to clone a dead person, and if possible who are some of the most notable historic figures we have enough material to clone?

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r/Showerthoughts • u/Simpson17866 • 1d ago

Speculation “Calvin And Hobbes,” where Hobbes is both a real tiger and a stuffed toy at the same time, is the world’s most elaborate, longest-running Schrödinger’s Cat joke.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/fivedogit • 1d ago

Casual Thought Some guest actors in your favorite show - the one you've watched on loop for years - didn't care for it. They don't know the characters or lines like you do. They were just doing a job.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/ActuallyMan • 2d ago

Musing People are desperate for digital information during a global cyberattack.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/collin-h • 2d ago

Casual Thought Every car is on its way to a gas station, eventually.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/agoostaholic • 3d ago

Casual Thought Type A people journal their futures.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/joelman0 • 3d ago

Casual Thought Having a Wednesday holiday is so weird: it's like having two Mondays and two Fridays.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/jingo800 • 3d ago

Casual Thought A lot of people alive today are going to die liking 100-year-old music.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/GodRaine • 3d ago

Casual Thought People who say you can wear jeans for weeks between washes assume you have good hygiene, but the people who wait that long probably don’t.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/Dodger7777 • 4d ago

Casual Thought Lemon Warheads are the candy that tastes most like the actual fruit. NSFW

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r/Showerthoughts • u/GlassPanther • 4d ago

Speculation It probably sucks to be the guy who had all of his graphic design stolen by AI companies because now everyone probably thinks everything he makes is AI.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/zav3rmd • 5d ago

Musing The middle finger only works at the proper orientation because flipping it palms facing forward doesn’t really work.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/b3terbread • 5d ago

Casual Thought They say it takes 10,000 hours to master a skill. Doomscrolling might be the only thing most of us will ever put that much time into.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/spiderpig20 • 6d ago

Musing A real Menger sponge would be invisible.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/cloudkeeper • 6d ago

Musing "Anything that can be destroyed by the truth should be." sounds sensible until you apply it to things like "a child's sense of wonder" or "a person's self esteem".

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r/Showerthoughts • u/Shadowmirax • 6d ago

Speculation Would we describe an extraterrestrial who studies humans to be a xenobiologist because we are aliens by theirstandards? Or a biologist because we aren't aliens by our own standards?

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r/Showerthoughts • u/TheBanq • 6d ago

Casual Thought Generating unlimited amounts of wealth is like having no level cap in a MMORPG.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/Silly-Cloud-3114 • 7d ago

Casual Thought Noon only lasts an instant. Because before 12 pm is morning and after 12 pm is afternoon.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/jerkenmcgerk • 7d ago

Musing With robots (AI) doing everything in the Jetson universe, why was George Jetson needed at Spacely Sprockets?

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