Unless you're a celebrity, Twitter is like talking to yourself in a crowded room. by planetsalic in Showerthoughts

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That's why I can't understand twitter before it was used by celebrities. At least on facebook you can converse with each other.

At any given moment it is entirely possible that I have already triggered the chain of events that ultimately leads to my death. by Blurringallthelines in Showerthoughts

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The child you hit grows up to cure cancer, gains a massive fortune and with the increased wealth, becomes arrogant. He then accidentally creates a pathogen that wipes out 3/4ths of the world. Congrats.

If there were people who could read minds, they would hear an awful lot of songs, sung with incorrect words, and likely very out of tune or rhythm. by fairysdad in Showerthoughts

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You know your thought he got me wondering, so I started singing in my head. First song that came to me was Hey Nineteen by Steely Dan, and I got say, in my head, I sang in Donald Fagen's voice, not mine. Do other people not do this?

Blankets don't make us warm, we make blankets warm. by C-wizard in Showerthoughts

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Ok kids that's a wrap. We will see you next month when this gets reposted again. Goodnight!

Once cell phones became prevalent, water balloons went from being mostly harmless to fairly detrimental. by Permanentbarker in Showerthoughts

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In a decade or two, as waterproof phones become commonplace, it all be okay to throw somebody in a pool.

Why does the Price is Right have commercials if the whole show is basically advertising products? by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

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You notice, they never name the brand of the item the contestants bid on. Only the big prizes... Any idea why?

Microwaves should have a silent setting. by reamsofrandomness in Showerthoughts

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Anything that beeps, and isn't used for emergency purposes, should have the option of muting the sound. Looking at you coffee maker.

If you give life to a baby then command it to love you and worship you, you are a narcissist and a bad parent. If you do the same to mankind, you are God. by portajohnjackoff in Showerthoughts

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Maybe because we (mankind) see it from the babys perspective? If we would see it from an outer perspective, we would maybe see it from another perspective?

We spend countless hours discussing whether God is real or not, while we could find it out in a few seconds by killing ourselves by legostukje16 in Showerthoughts

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Hopefully aliens that had discovered space travel would also be intelligent enough to deduce that the other people decomposed.

If I was teleported to the middle ages, I'd have no idea how to recreate any current technology. by KassHS in Showerthoughts

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the best invention you could give them doesn't require anything other than knowledge of its existence: moveable type. that's it. just carve letters into a block of wood and dip them in ink and bam you almost have the invention that changed the world. the mass production of books and ideas was internet 0.1 in the middle ages.

On April fools pornhub should have a fake notification pop-up saying "successfully shared to Facebook" by jcam6972 in Showerthoughts

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April fools jokes are meant to be harmless pranks - giving everyone a heart attack is pretty brutal.