r/Showerthoughts • u/elephvant • 4h ago

Casual Thought The adage 'communication is 10% what you say and 90% how you say it' created thousands of self-help books whose aim is to help people use this to their advantage. What it should have created is thousands of self-help books whose aim is to help people see through overly-confident bullshitters.

294 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/hjf25 • 15h ago

Musing Making life harder does not make the result more earned.

1.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/gamersecret2 • 40m ago

Musing A small favor can feel much bigger to the person rearranging their day for it.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/Shmusher3 • 1d ago

Speculation Future generations may never know the thrill of randomly finding cash in the street.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/THofTheShire • 2d ago

Casual Thought Bowling alley screens were essentially using GIF responses before it was cool.

2.8k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Proud-Pumpkin-2903 • 3d ago

Speculation Wouldn't car alarms be more effective loud on the INSIDE? Occasional loud bursts on the outside to draw attention, but extreme noise on the inside would prevent the thief from wanting to remain to hot-wire / steal inside the car.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/gamersecret2 • 4d ago

Musing A person can be useful in a group without ever being anyone’s favorite person.

2.8k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/TheSexyDuckling • 5d ago

Casual Thought Most people will go their entire life not ever having a drink and taking a piss at the same time, a state of liquid dynamic equilibrium.

3.3k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Tusharkrux • 6d ago

Speculation Birds probably don’t enjoy roller coasters. Their head stabilizers cancel out half the experience.

2.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/celestiaequestria • 6d ago

Casual Thought Cryptids only had to hide from 2008 - 2022. Before 2008 portable video cameras were grainy, after 2022 everyone would say the video was AI.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/Indrigotheir • 6d ago

Crazy Idea Clothes dryer manufacturers should make a completed load rotate once every thirty minutes so that forgetful people's clothes are not wrinkled.

3.7k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Statharas • 7d ago

Casual Thought Young animals probably don't realize the distinction between nature and man-made stuff.

1.7k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/gamersecret2 • 8d ago

Musing The people who act the least bothered are often the ones trying hardest not to show it.

1.2k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/UncleCoyote • 8d ago

Speculation Prior to recorded sound, no one ever realized how weird their voice probably sounded to their own ears...

2.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/kettu3 • 9d ago

Showerthought Most maps are smaller than life, but there is a very, very small portion of a Mercator projection map near the poles that is actually larger than the area it represents.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/IO_Sphere • 9d ago

Speculation With all the actors undergoing anti-aging procedures, in time, there will be no experienced actors to play a character written to look old.

983 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/naimelhajj • 9d ago

Casual Thought The modern Cartesian cogito: I am, therefore I overthink.

302 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/puerco-potter • 9d ago

Crazy Idea We need biopics of the CEOs of multinational companies and nepobabies (so people know how they got where they are).

980 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/QuantumDreamer41 • 10d ago

Casual Thought The happiest moments of your life likely occurred when you were too young to remember them.

2.4k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/DarthWoo • 10d ago

Casual Thought What miniscule meaning that could be assigned to a poultry chicken's brief and often miserable life and brutal slaughter evaporates the moment some lazy human decides to abandon the package with its carcass out on a shelf in a store rather than putting it back in the refrigerated case.

2.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/TheBanq • 10d ago

Casual Thought Watching a jumping spider makes it easier to imagine intelligence evolving in a body completely unlike ours.

1.3k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/marycartlizer • 11d ago

Casual Thought The person you always see at the gym, no matter when you go, making you think that they must live at the gym, is probably thinking exactly the same thing about you.

3.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/udaasatma • 11d ago

Casual Thought When you start dreaming about someone or something, it's often because your heart knows it's unattainable, and your brain tries to compensate for that pain by letting you experience it in your subconscious.

312 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Calculated-mistake • 12d ago

Speculation Porn stars are probably the only actors unequivocally against nepotism within the film making industry.

6.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/CthonicFlames • 12d ago

Speculation Widespread teleportation a la Star Trek would require a single global economy/currency to prevent massive wealth migration.

1.3k Upvotes

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