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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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A lot of people say fedditors but that sounds way too derivative of reddit

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[–] 20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Did you know, the famous shot of lemmings falling of a cliff in the documentary that started the ideas that lemmings will just die following their peers off a cliff was actually a bunch of documentary makers pushing a bunch of lemming off of it to make a cool shot and not actual lemmings behavior ? You probably did actually...

[–] GeoGio7@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is this legit? Do you have a source I could read? If this is real that's so effed

[–] Amol@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can find it on the wikipedia page of the film, but if you search for it on the internet you find a ton of sources https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_(film)

[–] 20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

heard about it on jre, didn't even attempt to verify, so no sauce but a trust me bro, this version of the story has little enough consequences and aligns with my beliefs enough that I don't mind believing it even if it isn't true

[–] GeoGio7@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No offense but that doesn't seem like a good mentality to have...