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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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Pretty sure we are the only animals with pink rings around our mouth. It's flipping weird.

It probably helps with verbal language understanding as humans often use mouth movements to interpret words (see McGurk effect). But I still think it's weird.

Big pink rings.

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[–] tomiant@piefed.social 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

The mouth is a sphincter.

It is connected directly to your butthole.

The mouth is your face anus.

[–] Murse@slrpnk.net 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Fun fact: when two people kiss, they create a long tube that starts and ends with an anus.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So you could also extend that tube woth a third person?

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Plot for human centipede right here.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

How do they think of these things? Just like this, with a bong.

[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Ever performed a double butt kiss?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

Why, you offering?

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

I heard this is called keyhole-to-keyhole

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The mouth is the face anus to the soul.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

Wow, embroider that on a pillow.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 2 months ago

We are just a coiled tube, surrounded and protected by a system maintenance apparatus.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago
[–] mimic_dev@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Humans are just meat silly straws

[–] Chaotic_Altruist@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

They're even more histologically related to each other than they are to anything else. Lips and anus look surprisingly similar under a microscope.

[–] fisch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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