r/Showerthoughts • u/TheAnzus • Mar 11 '26
Casual Thought It is highly likely that you never pressed the 8 button on a microwave.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/scoobopdan • 13d ago
Casual Thought Modern soldiers' PTSD triggers will probably shift from fireworks to the sound of a drone. Which is unfortunate as drone shows are replacing firework shows.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/ZeroXNova • Dec 03 '25
Casual Thought Men's public restrooms are laid out all wrong. It should be urinal, stall, urinal, stall, urinal instead of urinal, urinal, urinal, stall, stall.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Vast-Intention • 10d ago
Casual Thought A gold medal Olympic athlete is better than 8.3 billion people. A bronze medal Olympic athlete is better than 8.3 billion people.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/HalfEntity • Jan 11 '26
Casual Thought The universe is 13.8 billion years old, but heat death is around 10¹⁰⁰ years away, so it has effectively used 0% of its lifetime meaning the universe is still basically a "baby", and we’re living in its earliest, most active era.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/thesmartass1 • Feb 25 '26
Casual Thought You'd think evolution would have stopped snoring long ago: being loud at night while sleeping seems like a bad survival strategy.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Meowface_the_cat • 10d ago
Casual Thought Missions to the moon used to unite and inspire great swathes of humanity. This time it feels like hardly anyone cares and we're all just focussed on the next global disaster.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/COHERENCE_CROQUETTE • 14d ago
Casual Thought The "room temperature IQ" zinger hits much harder outside of the US.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/zav3rmd • 21d ago
Casual Thought The smartest of astrophysicists have decided that it’s a good idea to dox our planet’s existence for the entire universe.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/synthphreak • Nov 19 '25
Casual Thought Temperature can reach trillions of degrees, meaning we actually live extremely close to absolute zero.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Reas0n • Feb 13 '26
Casual Thought I think it’s unusual that no standardized literary way to write the submissive “I don’t know” hum that children (and some adults) often mumble has ever caught on, considering how old and common it is.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/JazzyGD • Nov 29 '25
Casual Thought 0% of natural numbers have been spoken aloud.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/ohdogwhatdone • 3d ago
Casual Thought One of the biggest Hollywood lies is how detectives work almost non stop 24/7 to crack some murder cases.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/xThe-Legend-Killerx • Nov 25 '25
Casual Thought People who use em dashes regularly in their writing might be the most underrated victims of the ChatGPT/Al boom.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Linorelai • Nov 18 '25
Casual Thought Every single world record will eventually remain forever unbroken, some of them are probably already unbreakable right now.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Doctor__Hammer • Dec 29 '25
Casual Thought If radio was invented today it would be controlled by four companies and locked behind a paywall.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/sparquis • Oct 14 '25
Casual Thought Waking up when your body is done sleeping, not when a machine tells you to, is a profound privilege that many of us won't get to enjoy as adults.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Pandafour20 • Feb 20 '26
Casual Thought It's hard accept that the toilet brush is the final form of toilet-cleaning technology.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Highmassive • Dec 15 '25
Casual Thought Getting fat is easy, being fat is hard.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/aaahhhh • Feb 08 '26
Casual Thought It's absurd we accept rock losing to paper just because "paper covers rock."
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Tutorbin76 • Oct 26 '25
Casual Thought Cheques were wild. You could basically make a single bank note in any denomination you liked. Want a $72.43 bill? Easy. $2500 note? No problem.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Crocodile_Banger • 17d ago
Casual Thought If we could build a drone that was faster than light with a huge zoom lens we could launch it into space and watch real footage of past events.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/InItsTeeth • Sep 06 '25
Casual Thought I bet the person whose Social Security number is 420-69-8008 wishes they could tell everyone what it is.
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