If you’ve ever found yourself randomly having a sudden but striking realization about something totally random… well, you’re not alone. They are known as ‘shower thoughts’, and as the name suggests, they tend to happen to a lot of people while they’re in the shower. Here are a selection of some of our favorite things people have thought about and shared online.
1. Whoever created the tradition of not seeing the bride in the wedding dress beforehand saved countless husbands everywhere from hours of dress shopping and will forever be a hero to all men.
2. We laugh at dogs getting excited when they hear a bark on TV, but if TV was a nonstop stream of unintelligible noises and then someone suddenly spoke to you in your language, you’d be pretty fucking startled too.
3. When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
4. Dads probably bond with dogs so much because, in our society, men don’t get shown a lot of affection but dogs give tons of affection regardless
5. Being able to tolerate the sound of your own voice in a video is probably the highest form of self acceptance.
6. Girls don’t compliment guys because they’re likely to take it non-platonically, guys take it non-platonically because it happens so infrequently they don’t know how to handle it
7. If elevators hadn’t been invented, all the CEOs and important people would have their offices on the first floor as a sign of status.
8. Being able to do well in high school without having to put in much effort is actually a big disadvantage later in life.
9. During a nuclear explosion, there is a certain distance of the radius where all the frozen supermarket pizzas are cooked to perfection.
10. Anxiety is like when video game combat music is playing but you can’t find any enemies.
11. The sentence “Don’t objectify women” has “women” as the object of the sentence.
12. Somebody at google was just like “yea, just have someone drive down every road on earth”.
13. College students don’t want to go to graduation ceremonies, but they go to please their relatives, while relatives don’t want to go but go to support the students; we should all just be honest and skip that ceremony and go out for pizza.
14. There is probably at least one white guy, adopted and raised in China, who speaks English with a Chinese accent and strangers just assume he’s a total asshole
15. Apparently, a lemon is not naturally occurring and is a hybrid developed by cross breeding a bitter orange and a citron. Life never gave us lemons; we invented them all by ourselves.
16. Being 35 and not wanting to work in the field for which you’ve prepared is like being half way through an RPG and realizing you’ve built out your skill tree all wrong and you can’t respec and you can’t make a new character and there will never be another video game again
17. It kinda makes sense that the target audience for fidget spinners lost interest in them so quickly
18. Avatar, the highest grossing film of all time, seems to have made zero impact on culture. No one references the movie and no one really talks about it since it was released 10 years ago.
19. You aren’t paid according to how hard you work, you are paid according to how hard you are to replace
20. Since there are 3600 seconds in an hour, and most people make less than $36.00/hr, their time is worth less than a penny per second. It’s literally worth your time to pick up a penny from the ground.
21. Security at every level of an airport is absolutely ridiculous. Until you get to the baggage claim. Then it’s just like take whatever bag you want.
22. Being a real grown up isn’t cooking a fancy dinner, it’s having a clean kitchen when you go to bed after cooking a fancy dinner.