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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.

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Secondary shower thought, an image of Captain Caveman should be the image representing humans on the Wikipedia page.

Tertiary shower thought, we probably started wearing clothes because our own hair used to be our clothes, and we wanted to replace the hair we cut off when we started grooming.

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[–] tomatosametomato@piefed.zip 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I get "angry" (I don't know, some emotion forces me to take action) when there is a hair in my field of view.

I'm guessing if vision is so important for modeling the world that they'd die without it, they'd do something about it (bind / cut / burn)?

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 2 points 12 hours ago

Yeah. If prehistoric humanity is anything like current humanity, lots of people have been cutting their hair since time immemorial for vision and annoyance reasons alone.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 11 hours ago

Irritated, annoyed.