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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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Fuck me, all I said was there’s no culturally significant skateboarders coming up any more and you’re bringing a whole racism thing into it. Chill the fuck out dude
First time?
> Accuses every generation after theirs of being useless
> Gets pissy and defensive when their bad logic is pointed out
No one called you racist, bud, but clutch those pearls.
The guy compares my post to White supremacist rhetoric and I’m the one clutching pearls? lol
I know he didn’t call me racist. I said he brought racism into it, like as though it was anything like on the same level and not a ludicrous pearl-clutching analogy. Also “accuses every generation of being useless” is a way OTT characterization that you’ve inferred solely so that you can have something to get mad at. It was a lighthearted showerthought about a skateboarder.
Yup, still are, ignoring the point of the comment in favor of the "ludicrous" context of their anecdote. "It's just a joke" is also a poor, worn out excuse to discredit criticism.
Oh wait I see, you're in training for when they add Extreme High Horse Riding to the X-Games. Careful you don't fall off.
Nobody was calling you a racist but if it's that upsetting that someone pointed out that your ~~tactics are~~ logic is similar that's on you.
Edit: tactics is unnecessarily accusatory and that wasn't my intent and I don't think it was the original commenters intent either. Changed "tactics" to "logic."
"your tactics" is still like, several notches above a sane take on what OP actually posted. This is not a remotely problematic post, at least not in the sense you guys are implying.
You're right, tactics is accusatory when it shouldn't be. There's no evidence of motive or intent. Let's call it "your logic" instead.