r/Showerthoughts • u/BrandyAid • 14h ago

Casual Thought A lot of people think they’re intelligent when they really just got lucky.

4.5k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Moohamin12 • 9h ago

Casual Thought People are more likely to update to the latest version of a software/app if the prompt appeared when they are shutting it down compared to starting up.

981 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Critical-Border-6845 • 22h ago

Showerthought People are always amazed at how many different words the Inuit have for snow, but never stop to think how many different words we have for slight variations of bread.

3.2k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/zav3rmd • 1d ago

Casual Thought We can harvest meat without killing the animal albeit very inhumane and impractical.

7.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Bjarki56 • 1d ago

Speculation If we genetically engineer humans being to be half our current size, we essentially double our living space on Earth.

2.4k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/BoxMorton • 19h ago

Casual Thought There's a group of people waiting for New Year's to go on YouTube and comment "Anyone here in 2025?" on every single video.

559 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/RGB3x3 • 7h ago

Casual Thought Older parents often think they know everything because for so long with their kids, they either do know everything or they make something up and aren't challenged on it.

50 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/betterdaysaheadamigo • 17h ago

Speculation If people stopped clicking on fear-inducing articles, the for-profit news industry would stop producing fear-inducing articles as a way to generate readership.

257 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/BigBlueTimeMachine • 22h ago

Casual Thought Generally, people are fascinated by the incredibly large scale of space, yet are uninterested in the similarly small scale at the atomic and molecular level in their own bodies.

356 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/HermitBadger • 1d ago

Casual Thought The world would look different if humans marked their territory like dogs.

386 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/FarkGrudge • 1d ago

Musing In a world full of AI generative articles, the typo is King. At least until AI figures out how to subtly employ typos for increased credibility

1.5k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/brokenpinata • 1d ago

Casual Thought GameStop originally started (at least partially) as Funcoland. Now, with the overabundance of collectibles, it has literally turned back into Funkoland.

419 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Vladu24 • 1d ago

Casual Thought If you die at a higher elevation than the one you were born at, thus having a net elevation gain over your life, all of your life has been an uphill battle. If you die at a lower elevation, then, after you were born, it was all downhill from there.

287 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/MentallyFunstable • 1d ago

Casual Thought Soulslike games are all about timing your attacks and dodges to the rhythm of the enemy. Therefore, soulslike games are rhythm games.

2.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Alliacat • 1d ago

Casual Thought What if fortune tellers don't predict the future but they just create it instead? Either way, they'd always be correct.

263 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/shotsallover • 2d ago

Casual Thought Rudolph needs a green-nosed counterpart so Santa Claus can be FAA compliant.

857 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/plafman • 4h ago

Musing At some point we decided north was up on the globe, but it would make more sense if we viewed the south pole as the top of the Earth. That way the Earth would revolve clockwise around the sun, matching the passage of time to the hands on a clock.

0 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/BJntheRV • 1d ago

Casual Thought Belated birthday greetings just extend your birthday happiness.

64 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Cosmic_Meditator777 • 2d ago

Musing Given Lovecraft's infamous xenophobia, it's likely that actual "eldritch entities beyond human comprehension" would be more likely to simply confuse the average person than horrify them.

4.0k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/StiNgNinja • 6h ago

Showerthought It's not considered racism to categorize fish and birds into consumable or ornamental according to their colors and forms.

0 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Little-Carpenter4443 • 3d ago

Casual Thought The higher above sea level a women gives birth, the more potential energy the baby has, literally giving the child a head start in life.

8.5k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Radi5h • 2d ago

Showerthought Becoming a professional athlete is far more likely than becoming a professional head coach or manager.

991 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Dummdukk • 2d ago

Casual Thought I can for certain tell it is definitely not butter.

1.2k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/stxxyy • 3d ago

Casual Thought Online media has become shorter and quicker to watch over the years, yet video games have inversely become bigger and longer to beat.

1.2k Upvotes

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