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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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[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 105 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This seems like a case of "I don't see it, so others don't either"

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Been thinking on this lately and I get OP. People used to chew gun in the 80's and 90's, a lot. Now it would be weird to see someone doing so.

[–] THE_MASTERMIND@lemmy.today 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It was weird to see people chew guns then too its an accident waiting to happen.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I think most people who chew gun know what they're aiming for. But yeah, it can go wrong.

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[–] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 46 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do you want to see me chewing gum? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 73 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I can never see that face the same again ever since I was in a 9 month relationship with a girl whose snapchat name was the lenny face and eventually I forgot her name, was too embarrassed to ask her to remind me (because it had been like four months), so I spent the next ~5 months of my life with a psychoromantic connection to that fucking emoticon.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I forgot her name, was too embarrassed to ask her to remind me (because it had been like four months), so I spent the next ~5 months of my life with a psychoromantic connection to that fucking emoticon.

That's hilarious. What a time to be alive

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[–] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Are you a living episode of Seinfeld? This sounds like a scenario George Costanza would get himself into.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My whole life I thought I was Costanza... turns out... I'm Kramer.

Nightcall by Kavinsky (Bineural Remix) plays

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[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did you ever figure out her name? I hope it was Linda.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] dukatos@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fellow Disco Elysium enjoyer?

[–] dukatos@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but this was also the name of Seinfeld's girl.

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[–] TeckFire@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Don’t see ads for it anymore either. I kinda miss the old “how it feels to chew 5 gum” ones

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

I smoked one of my buddies out on DMT and when he came back to reality I said "that's how it feels to chew 5 gum" and it was pretty funny.

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I hope i'll never get as far as missing a commercial

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[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 8 months ago

I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum.

[–] Teon@kbin.social 27 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Not only is the plastic gross, but the artificial sweeteners are nasty.
Some of us don't taste sweetness, we taste the chemical.
Gum stopped being fun.

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[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 23 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Doesn't help anything that most "gum base" has PLASTIC in it.

[–] StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yea I loved gum right up until the recent study clearly linking microplastics in the body and chewing gum.

[–] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Really? I am not entirely surprised but did the study say how the plastic was getting in there?

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Turns out the flavor crystals were just ground up spoons

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[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 months ago

Yeah the microplastics in gum thing really threw me off when I found out about it.

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[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 22 points 8 months ago (3 children)
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[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago

I can't see you. The theory checks out.

[–] bjg13@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I chew gum, too, I just do it in private where no one can see, like any other decent human being.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not me, I'm a fucking degenerate.

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 21 points 8 months ago

I feel like the consumption of gum has shifted from just chewing it to being a more glorified mint/on the go way to brush your teeth.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Well, it's in their mouth, duh.

[–] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Well I guess when there's a species of giant people eating gum-chewers we really should have expected a decline in its popularity

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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 14 points 8 months ago

I got offered some gum on the a plane ride the other day and it really made me to stop and think how I went from doing that every time to not doing it for years.

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Why is all made with fake sugar now. That shit hurts my stomach

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[–] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

I smoked for about 10 years and replaced that with vaping. Then I replaced vaping with chewing gum in January.

I chew 2 pieces of Extra 6-7 times a day and Blockheads multivitamin gum twice a day.

I also carry strips of foil I can spit into if I'm at my desk or not near a bin.

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[–] ma11en@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

They're probably vaping instead.

[–] Alto@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago

It's me. I'm singlehandedly keeping the gum industry alive.

[–] FragrantOwl@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

You don't know what I see and don't see. How dare you.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Im not big on chewing literal microplastics… I used to love chewing gum before I learned that though

[–] person@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh my! I thought it was made from some kind of tree sap! Apparently those do exist, but all of the ones you find in stores are platic based!

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean I'm 100% not above chewing literal plastic if I'm bored enough.

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[–] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

All out. Time to kick ass.

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[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

If I see a balding, shorter guy with a buzz cut and a tan line on his face from his wrap around sunglasses, I expect him to be chewing gum.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I see it occasionally. I wonder if it dropped in popularity when cigarettes did. And everyone has their heads up their phones. So they are less observant of what's going on around them, and maybe there's less demand for walking-around-diversions like gum.

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