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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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- 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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You know the walls are too thin when, after sex, you hear your neighbor light up.
She's moaning. I'm groaning. Neighbor is coughing.
I have a question about this conceot actually
So I grew up in terraced houses from the 1900s or earlier, stone walls. Unfortunately, i could hear my parents talking, arguing and boinking from my room - but the last one only seemed to be a thing when i was a teenager. I could also hear the old guy next door walking around, telephoning and opening drawers.
But i was lucky enough to only have single guys who lived alone either side of me the entire time. So I wonder: do most people in terraces and apartments have to hear their neighbours having sex? Is that like a normal part of childhood? Other kids seemed to know about sex before me so I figure that might be part of it.
Or did my childhood home just have bad acoustics + insulation?
For most of history people didn't have rooms.
Yeah, and i find that pretty fascinating. I'm in the "hearing/seeing other people have sex doesn't bother me" camp but most people regard it as a very big deal
I never really noticed, but I might have just been lucky. I heard sex in the same house, though. /shudder
People have sex. Sometimes, there are other people in the same house while that happens. Why shudder?
It was family. I don't want to picture my brother's or my mother's O face.
SMELL you light up… and smile.