this post was submitted on 01 Jul 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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A lot of people say fedditors but that sounds way too derivative of reddit

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[–] Gaboose@lemmy.world 108 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] C4ptFuture@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Has to be this.

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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 84 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Lemmings. That's why I created Lemmings.world!

[–] damnYouSun@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do like walking off cliffs.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] A_Toasty_Strudel@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

This so far seems to be the generally accepted term that's been making it's way around the platform here recently.

[–] CKOW@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It’s the only reasonable answer given the name really

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[–] Wisi_eu@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Mooglemuffins@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I like Lemmies more than Lemmings because of the implications of the latter

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[–] BendyLemmy@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Rick@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmings is the obvious choice

[–] Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, I'm willing to follow all of you off a cliff.

[–] 20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 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...

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[–] PuppetPantheon@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] WoolyNelson@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] zeekzag@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Lemmings of course

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Lemmy users.

[–] modkhi@vlemmy.net 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lemons? I think it'd be funny, and there's even an emoji for it too. 🍋

But then a gathering will be called a "lemon party". And if you don't know why that's a problem, consider yourself lucky. Or Google it if you are brave.

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[–] Hell@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] Postmortemist@vlemmy.net 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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Lemmings, obviously.

Follow the crowd!

[–] CaffeinatedNerd@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The Lemmons

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[–] Whaler_Shaver@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] foxrumor@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I feel like lemmings is already catching on.

[–] GhostGray@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about a new pronoun like Lem?

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[–] Barabasz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
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