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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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[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 33 points 2 months ago

Every one of them that doesn't successfully kill me is breeding a super mosquito killer.

[–] br0da@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is why I stay liquored up. One of these mosquitoes bites me, they take back that elixir to their family. Dad mosquito shows up hammered. Turns out he missed their kids soccer game (again) Wife is taking the kids to stay with her sister in Albuquerque. Kids only see the dad on the weekends where they have built up an immense disdain for him. This lends to their emotional trauma where they spend the next several years acting out their pain…wait

I need to rethink this

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Your patriarchy is showing. It's only the female mosquitos that bite.

[–] br0da@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

When does this movie hit theaters, or is it made for TV?

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Since when is Daddy a sex? It's clearly a gender that is not exclusive to males.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Trans mosquitoes? Interesting idea.

[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How exactly are they evolving if you kill them? Surely the ones you don't kill evolve 🤔

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Exactly, I kill the slowest, leaving the fastest to breed.

[–] fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 months ago

Counter: you’re killing the ones that like the taste of a human and thus they’ll evolve to avoid humans.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We need this system institutionalized for humans. Except instead of slowest, we just kill the assholes.

reads news about UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson

Oh, I see we've already started! Pardon me! I was a tad behind the news.

[–] groet@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago

That's pretty hard to do. Just consider the executioners: everyone that wants that job is an asshole as they want to kill other people and would have to be killed themselves. And if you make somebody be the executioner that doesn't want to do it (a not asshole), then the people forcing them to do it are assholes as they are forcing somebody to be an executioner against their will!

[–] Rokin@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago

Every mosquito you don't* kill

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Every spider you kill that you see makes them better at hiding in your house

[–] sxan@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

That's the ideal outcome: mosquitoes avoid me.

[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I've had that thought about animals.

Wild animals always run away when I'm walking thru the woods which is kind of a bummer.

However I remember that every deer that approached a human in the past was killed and eaten. Every animal that didn't run away was eaten or domesticated.

The ones that ran away survived and had more offspring

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I made a pact with mosquitos; they can bite me when I sleep as long as they don't annoy me with buzzing.

It's extremely effective and both parties have been very happy.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

I noticed that about the lantern flies this year. The past couple of years every time you saw a lantern fly anywhere you could just squish it without any serious effort. This year you had to be really fast or chased them for five times.

[–] sircac@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That’s why I effort at maximum into keep my kind away of being successfully bitten at all: none that targets me may bite me, none that bites me may survive, they better keep perpetuating without successfully using me.