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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 most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

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[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

A group of friends and I had a little website we used as a precusor to modern day social media. I made a comment on a post on there where I linked to an image on SA. Little did I know that Lowtax didn’t use goatse. No he used a very high resolution close-up image of the head of a penis with a drop of pre-finishing liquid oozing out.

So I post this comment from my desk and go back to work. About 30-minutes later, my roommate, who sat a few cubicles down from me says my name. Not like normal, his voice broke as he was saying it. I’m like, “what?” He says, “what did you post to the site?” I told him and he says that is not at all what he’s seeing. I go over there and holy shit all 1600x1200 pixels of his 21” CRT is filled with this engorged dickhead!

We reached out to the site admin and told him what happened. He deleted the image ref and I posted a comment explaining what happened.

Another time, at my same cubicle desktop, I updated my Linux workstation and went to lunch. When I get back, my screensaver is just a whole bunch of very explicit porn images. Apparently Jamie Zawenski(sp?), the maintainer of xscreensaver, thought it would be a good idea to introduces a new screensaver that went out and eandomly pulled images from anywhere on the web. So that was fun.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Forgot to add the SA image was cached in my browser. So when my roommate asked me about it I brought it back up and, of course it looked fine to me! No dicks to be seen.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorry if I'm stupid for asking this but what are you referring to when you say SA?

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Something Awful, it was a link aggregator and comment site like Reddit before Reddit was a thing.

I didn't use it much but I did like that they had voting on posts in multiple dimensions (like funny, insightful, etc).