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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:

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Fediverse users are femurs?

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 89 points 10 months ago (13 children)
[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We solved this like a year ago! Though I had completely forgotten what it actually was.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago
[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 21 points 10 months ago

Lemmings is just the best name for us. It's so anti-corporate, you can rest assured not a single PR team would ever greenlight it in the history of PR teams. We don't need a PR team to approve our nickname, we don't want a PR team to approve our nickname, we don't want to have anything to do with whatever a PR team wants.

In case anyone was unsure, lemmings don't even jump off cliffs, that was literally just Disney staff throwing lemmings off cliffs like a bunch of psychopaths.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I’m the little dude who lays 3 stairs and then goes boldly forward.

[–] DrunkenPirate@feddit.org 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I‘m the one with that rope. A Lemmnja.

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

I’m the diggy diggy hole lemming

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[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Lemme lend my fellow lemmings some lemons.

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[–] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 74 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] elvith@feddit.org 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Guys, come quick!!!! I found the cliff!!!!!

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not falling for that one again, Mr. Disney Documentarian.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 10 months ago

sets fire to your neighborhood

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago
[–] binomialchicken@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I am more attached to the idea of the fediverse as a whole than to Lemmy.

I think we should all be called "feds."

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 4 points 10 months ago

Fediversians

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 9 points 10 months ago

I'm not so sure of your solution, but as an Mbinner....

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Activity pub
... Activists?

Fediverse
... Versus?

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[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 23 points 10 months ago

Lemming is the correct answer, but I'll also accept Lemmin' mostly because I'd love for there to be some kind of meet-up, like a Lemmin' Party or something.

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Nougat@fedia.io 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't want to be grouped together with any of you.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Which is why you've chosen to be a kbinite.

to be fairThat's where I started too, much much better web interface than base lemmy. But then .social got flaky and I tried out Voyager and here we are.

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

The fun thing about demonyms this is that there's no grammatical rule for them.

It's just kind of socially agreed upon.

Nobody from Boston would say they're bostonite. They would say a Bostonian.

However, there are many more miltons. In the world around there are miltonians and miltonites.

People from Liverpool are liverpudlians.

People from Venice are venetian.

People from St Kitts are called kitty cats.

[–] Poots@mander.xyz 5 points 10 months ago
[–] m_f@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago

Another good one is Glasgow -> Glaswegians. Here's a pretty interesting article about a few odd demonyms:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/demonyms-linguistics-nicknames

The demonym “Glaswegian” comes, linguists think, as an analogy of the Irish city of Galway. “Glasgow” and “Galway” are two fairly similar looking words. And Galway has long had its own analogy with another similar-looking word: Norway. Galway’s demonym is “Galwegian,” as an analogy of “Norwegian.” So “Glaswegian” is a sort of a photocopy-of-a-photocopy of Norwegian. Not something anyone could ever guess!

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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

I found this humerus.

[–] wick@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Redditors but with extra steps

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do we need a name? Most social networks don't have a special name for their users.

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[–] TedJ70@aussie.zone 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lamingtons. I will hear no debate on this.

[–] trk@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago

I would also like to die on this hill.

Lemmings is dumb. Lamingtons is rad.

[–] jdeath@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

don’t you dare compare us with those R-words!

[–] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

An interesting comment from when this was asked a year ago.

Funniest one imo is Lemmegians (as in Norwegians). Not a very practical name though.

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[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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