50 Shower Thoughts That Were Funny Until You Realized They Were Technically True (New Pics)
Interview With ExpertHave you ever stopped for a moment and let your brain generate some truly strange, yet intriguing concepts? Well then, the “Random Shower Thoughts” Instagram page might be for you. It’s dedicated to funny, relatable and thought provoking ideas that people randomly had.
We got in touch with Emma N Cahill, PhD, Lecturer in Neuroscience at the University of Bristol to learn more about ideas and memory. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorite posts and be sure to share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Just Another Random Shower Thought
Oh yes! There is nothing more annoying or rude than someone who completely ignores you when you ask them a question.
Marriage was like that for me. Was lonelier with him there then when he wasn't.
Do You Agree?
On those nights I stay up too late, because I know I don’t have to get up and go to work in the morning.
Yup, bed at 1am last night. Glorious!
Load More Replies...The anticipation of any event is far more emotionally charged than the actual event. For better or worse.
That's why Friday was always my favorite evening, even now retired it seems more special.
Bored Panda got in touch with Emma N Cahill, PhD, who is a Lecturer in Neuroscience at the University of Bristol, and she was kind enough to share some details on how memory, ideas and human attention spans work. In this day and age, we were curious to learn if people can actually do something to improve their attention spans.
“Yes, we can retain more information for longer if we try to make links across ideas. This is called “Elaboration”, where we make multiple associations between things that you want to memorize. Our attention span depends on a lot of factors, including how we are feeling at the time, the most robust approach is probably to remove distractors rather than trying to increase focus. Put the phone away!”
Bring This Man His Job!
The company doesn't seem to realize how thoroughly they were burned here.
I think they do. :-D Otherwise, I'm not sure they'd detail the way they were burned. Also, sad as it is, I give them credit for answering. That's a sign of respect no-one in HR seems to have. I've been told IN INTERVIEWS, "Well, we've had many strong candidates, but you're certainly among the strongest. We're going to have discuss this internally, but if we don't go with you, please see that we have numerous other positions that you may be a good fit for." And then THEY ghost me.
Load More Replies...They don’t want people to apply just for the money….😂…..So, why are they running a business? Just for fun, because they can’t think of anything better to do?
Their reply would only not be a self-burn if they were a non-profit or not-for-profit 😂
Load More Replies...They’re acting like they’re the ones doing the rejecting. “You’re not leaving me, I’m leaving you!”
It seems like they also made a point to mention that he blew off a job he already has to come to an interview for another, maybe rival, company. Perhaps if he mentioned that early in the interview, that was the reason he was given a ‘low ball’ offer. Maybe the company didn’t want to hire someone with no loyalty to their current employer and would call out to apply elsewhere.
What is it about employers that they think we go to work for the "fun" of it? We work to make money. Period. And no, "we" are not like a family. If that were true, you would completely understand when I have to stay home with a sick kid and wouldn't dock my pay.
In other words it took them weeks to find a victim to work for them considering their other option was this person who told them to pound sand in their a*s
Thoughts?
I'll try that. 05:17 UK time and the cats are guarding me while I whimper with self-pity because sciatica is a beech!
I have often wondered what kind of tree sciatica is. Now I know: it's a beech.
Load More Replies...It's the actual, physical truth. And while you are offline, your brain tissues shrink and fluid rushes about cleaning up the place.
I wish my Mum would have admitted that she just found me in the bin. I was actually quite happy there. People throw away cool stuff to play with all the time.
As an abandoned child raised by my resentful grandmother, my "where did I come from?" query was answered, "under a garbage can." That was her opinion of my mother (and to an extent, father too). For the longest time, I thought she was just being funny. She wasn't.
Of course, memory doesn’t necessarily have a “silver bullet” solution, she shared. “Some types of memory are prone to interference by information that comes shortly afterwards, like how it is difficult to remember a numerical code when a few are presented in a short space of time, that relies on short term memory. Being accurate at remembering is really pretty tricky because memory is a reconstructive process.”
Facts
In the old days we had to show our baggage claim ticket to a 'guard' who would check it to the bag we were taking with us. Apparently airports are only allotted so many 'guards' and moved them all to the beginning of the terminals.
The airport security is not there to guard your luggage from being stolen. It is there to stop you from bringing things on the airplane that they really, really, really, don't want on the airplane. Once that luggage arrives at its destination, it is no longer a security issue.
I never check luggage. Also I can't deal w/ the movement of the carousel.
I didn't realize what my online order must have looked like to the guy who brought it out until I saw him trying and failing to hide a smile. My order was prep for a colonoscopy - two industrial strength laxatives and a 48-roll bale of toilet paper. You were right to be smiling, my guy.
I've told this a few times here, but one time decades ago, my parents were arriving to help me move, I needed some supplies for packing, and I was living in a big city so I didn't have a car. So at about 6AM on a Saturday, I put on the sorta clothes you don't mind getting ruined, ran to the hardware store, arrived sweaty and probably looking like hell, found a greeter and panted, "I need your help; I need a large knife, some rope, some masking tape, and a shovel." She looked at me startledly, and I realized how I must seem, so I added, "Oh, like you knew her." Thank God she also recognized the silliness of it all.
Some birdseed mix accidently got spilled in our garden and we didn't think about it until it sprouted and we noticed that our own cats (we had 5 at the time) and dogs (2) as well as other cats were using it as a kind of pharmacy or just liked the taste. We decided to sow a whole patch with it. (It also looked great and wildlife seemed to love it.) On one shopping expedition into town I stopped by a store that sold bulk flower and vegetable seeds for gardens and bought 2 kilos of the mix. As she was wrapping up the purchase, the clerk said "You must have a lot of birds." "No" I said. "We have cats." I'll never forget the look on her face. To this day I dread to think what she must have thought.
The bread implies you're planning on living long enough to finish a loaf
Still trying to figure out what kind of sandwich uses a bathtub plug...
Did something similar once...Just happened that at the time I needed an axe, hacksaw, heavy duty bags, gorilla tape, rope and bleach/drain cleaner. Realised what it must have looked like when I was unloading it all into my car after I got out of the shop.
That's a classy way to do that. Obviously the first step, but kind to give folks the chance to not embarrass themselves further.
to paraphrase Ron White, at this stage you have the right to remain silent but you don't have the ability.
Fortunately, it’s not all doom and gloom, once you start to figure out how your memory actually works. “People can be better at remembering certain types of information because they have practiced techniques in how to encode the information in a richer way by using associations or thinking of memory triggers,” she shared with Bored Panda.
I’m Forgetting Something
I'm a bit leery about brains in general. You know those scientific/medical articles that say the brain is the most important organ in the human body? Isn't that exactly what a brain would have you write?
Or that we recognize something in a multiple choice, but can’t remember it? Or the converse?
That one’s easy. Recognition and recall are different pathways into memory. Some pathways are stronger than others.
Load More Replies...This is probably what it was meant that our brains don't trust ourselves.
They’re Mad Annoying Fr
Same with wasps and bees. "Look, d****t, there is a large open thing there called a window, you flew through it, now fly out!!"
Man goes int a shop and says, can I buy a wasp please? Salesman says, we don't sell wasps. Man says, well you've got one in the window!
I can only apologies, don't down vote me but that wasn't the "toys" that first came into my head.
Duly noted. But it did say @AnimalHumors... In our world, that is called A Clue. To what, you may ask... To context, my young Padawan.
Load More Replies...This raises the question, why exactly are we struggling with remembering things and connecting ideas these days? “There are many distractions in everyday life: open tabs on the computer, the bleep of a phone, advertisements, doom scrolling and click bait headlines. These tend to be designed with noises or stimuli that are ‘salient’ and sensational, and so attention grabbing.”
Me? I (sometimes) abbreviate. As in -- WTAUF????
Load More Replies...New spin to old lore. The spider may be actually enjoying the process...
Load More Replies...It only climbed back up after the sun came out and dried up all the rain.
“How prone we are to fall for their temptation is probably a combination of how we are feeling and whether you have learned what you want to ignore. Thankfully we can become desensitized to many of those stimuli, so we are not just doomed to react under their control,” she shared.
Thoughts?
They’re preparing you for the workplace, where the same thing happens.
After all, didn't the Commerce Secretary promise you, your kids, great grandkids, and everyone else in your family, that a factory job is yours for life. Bless his really little heart.
Load More Replies...As a teacher, I can tell you that you start that first hour class differently than all the others for precisely this reason.
Teenagers biological clocks are naturally set to stay up later and wake up later. You can go to bed early, but if your body doesn't think it's time to sleep, you just lie awake for hours.
Load More Replies...What’s Your Favorite Movie?
I can't even watch movies like that. I screamed at my husband about not warning me about jon wick.
Load More Replies...Sometimes movie directors abuse this principle too far. Sorry, J. J. Abrams and his Star Trek reboot crew: once you k**l off billions of people, it's hard for me to give a f**k about Captain Kirk. (Also, can we give ANY thought at all to Spock considering what happens to Pike in the original timeline? ICYMI, the original series' only two-parter featured Spock hijacking the Enterprise and risking the last remaining death penalty in the Galaxy to take Pike to a forbidden planet so he wouldn't have to live out the rest of his life in a Hell on Earth.
We used to count the deaths in the James Bonds but unfortunately with Spy Who Loved Me there were too many so we just quit.
Speak for yourself. I felt ever death in Die Hard. They were just trying to get money at Christmas. They probably needed money for gifts for their kids
I would absolutely agree that this is unnecessary and disgusting. What if said guests have religious reasons for not eating certain types of meat, food allergies, ot other health-related considerations, such as pregnancy, Crohn’s disease, etc. ? For example, I know someone who is allergic to pork because she has Crohn’s disease in her family and she keeps kosher in general. I have known other people to develop significant changes to their responses to certain types of meats, such as seafood, as a result of pregnancy, surgery, etc. this is evil!
Debbie Downer strikes again. Maybe it's just a joke?
Load More Replies...Why would you have people you don't like as guests in your home?
She looks almost like she's holding back a laugh. I like it, too
Load More Replies...The positioning of a couple of those pillows though is somewhat suspect I feel.
There's no way to position them where it WON'T look a little suspect
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What is the bottom half of a mermaid? It can't be a fish, because fish tails are vertical and their bodies move side-to-side when they swim, yet mermaids have always been depicted with horizontal tails and swim with an up-and-down motion, like mammals. However, mammals have smooth skin, often with hair but mermaids are always scaly like fish. Discuss.
The bottom half of a mermaid is also mermaid, that's why it is called a mermaid and not a fishwoman. It's a maid of the mer/mare, as in from marine = sea. It's a woman from the sea. That why she has a tail. So she can swim, since walking in the water isn't very efficient. That's also why there are no terramaids in the deep sea.
Load More Replies...I have only one question... How do mermaids be born... do they hatch form eggs?? Are they born like human babies? And what do they eat?
The "eat" part is easy. Sushi and seaweed wraps.
Load More Replies...🎵🎶They all wanna be free, wish they could be, part of that world...🎵🎶...
Yes. They have periods of being completely human and periods of being half-and-half.
Load More Replies...Someone Cash App Me $100 I’m Tryna See Something
It certainly depends on whether you have that money or not. "How to I get $100 quickly" is a different question than "let's order some frivolous s**t from Amazon for $100".
I do high dollar settlements with other people's money. After a day of "eff it toss in another $10,000 if it will sell the deal" I come home and there's no way I'm renting a movie for $10.00 that's way too much.
Give him $500, then take back $450 15mins later. He will definitely learn something from that. It's a harsh lesson. Hopes & dreams and then reality.
Load More Replies...Don't make me go pedantic. You wouldn't like me if I go pedantic.
Load More Replies...Also what a waste of opportunity that not every hearing person is speaking Esperanto
Almenaŭ nun ni ĉiuj povas skribi kaj legi en esperanto! Jokes aside, there is an universal constructed sign language of sorts, "International Sign language" (sometimes referred as Gestuno, but not really). Unlike Esperanto, it has gained some traction, but I'm not sure how much (I only read about it, but I'm not part of the community).
Load More Replies...Yes, and don't we think it would be easier if there was just one language?
Load More Replies...Grammar and syntax couldn't be the same but nouns and un-conjugated verb tenses could be. That would be enough for basic communication for most things. But since most people now carry devices that can translate the written word to text or speech, it's increasingly unnecessary.
However that does result in a reliance on technology, that can fail and is reliant on power and many of the recent devices internet.
Load More Replies...It is not a dumb question if you think sign language was created by someone, but the truth is it arose independently as a proper natural language. Also, even if it was somehow unified, shortly it would drift into separated dialects anyway, because that's what happen to all languages eventually.
What a stupid statement. Why should deaf people use a language they can't share with the hearing people around them?!?
I think you're missing the point; since sign language was a new and standardized language they could have made the signs the same across all languages. A similar example is Chinese, the spoken dialects are practically incomprehensible to each other, but they use the same written language (since it's not a phonetic alphabet), so Mandarin and Cantonese speakers can read the same newspaper even if they can't speak to each other.
Load More Replies...France, Romania and Turkey just eliminated the last pretenses of electoral democracy; Germany just declared its largest political party to be a terrorist organization; Italy's mainstream media CLAIMS (I'm in no position to know how reasonably) that its governing party is literally F*****t; and the British party that controls 80% of parlaiment (despite winning 30% of the vote)) just fell to 3rd place in polling behind the supposedly f*****t party celebrating the destruction of the 2nd place party, but you go ahead and worry about America for deporting murderers and canceling student visas of people who fundraise for terrorist organizations.
Load More Replies..."He promised me I had the makings of a tRump steak. But after all the lies, he turned everything into cow s hit! Should have known better. He once owned a casino, but he bankrupt it. Now that's talent!"
Falling for a cheesy pick-up line? You must be toasted!
Load More Replies...I was more appreciated when I'd drag myself to the local 7/11 at 3:30am to pick up her tampons!
I know! How could a dinosaur become synthetic oil??? 🤔😉
Load More Replies...This is not true! It all came from plant matter, before organisms evolved that could break it down and recycle it as food
Plant and animal. It"s marine organisms such as algae (plant) and plankton (animal).
Load More Replies...Actually this is extremely sad because the girl who voiced Ducky was killed by her own father 😥
My 12yo is the opposite. They HATE tomato based sauces (yes, even pizza!) but LOVE raw tomatoes. I have to buy 3 things of cherry tomatoes: one for each of my kids (they'll eat a whole container ina single sitting if I don't pay attention!) and one for meals!
I'm like that work bananas. I'll eat one whole, but nothing with that flavor added
Load More Replies...It's all texture. I can't deal with cooked tomatoes, but raw tomatoes and tomatoes in a sauce feel completely different. Of course, taste is a factor for some people, this is just my experience.
Tomatoes taste much better once cooked! Hate raw tomatoes.
Raw tomatoes and cooked tomatoes have different flavors and textures. Just like most every other food.
I never had this problem because my mother introduced my twin sister and me too all kinds of fruits and vegetables from the second she found out she was expecting us! I will eat just about anything but those things to which I am allergic.
The taste of tomatoes is fine, but it’s the texture that freaks me out
No, we don't. We also won't spend that kind of money on whatever those are.
Speak for yourself. I do. I think these are totally the same car. Maybe some different rims. But same car.
Load More Replies...No, we don't. We think men are silly for having the only difference the hubcaps.
Ask me an antique or textile question. I'll do much better.
Load More Replies...Two different generations? The third car is definitely different from the first two.
Load More Replies...Wow
Neither are most humiliatingly stupid criminals.... (I feel like the polite thing would be to reassure you that you are, but having never seen you, all I can do is accept your word.)
Load More Replies...There was a gas station I used to frequent, and perhaps 6 or 7 times, I had people come up and say, "Hey, Jenny," and start talking to me. I'm not Jenny. And they didn't say, "Oh, sorry, I thought you were someone else." I had to tell them. One day I was sitting the park behind that store and a guy comes up and addresses me as Jenny. I said I wasn't. He got really mad, thinking I was messing with him.
You may not recognize your doppelganger. We don't really see ourselves the same as other people do. When we look in the mirror, we see an opposite version. Even in a photo, we don't see ourselves in the same way.
I’m a twin. I’m used to being poked, prodded, and interrogated every which way, and so is she.
I had one as a teenager. I never met him, but his family was always assuming I was him whenever they encountered me.
What’s Your Dog’s Name?
Cats groom their claws with their teeth actually. Although it's more removing the old shells than trimming them. The most annoying thing is when a shell gets stuck in their teeth and then they're walking around doing all sorts of crazy movements with their tongue, until you help them.
Well, how did humans keep their nails/talons trimmed back epochs ago before nail-clippers were invented? What did our far-off ancestors do? Bite their nails? Strop on a tree? Or was it just down to wear and tear? It's an effort for me to use nail-clippers on my toes these days!
Mostly wear and tear... and nibble. "I just broke my fingernail!" "Uh, I'm sorry... I'm ashamed to admit it, but I just tend to nibble my nails." "What about your toenails?" "What part of ashamed did you not understand?"
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My dearest friend (RIP Jeannie, I love you and miss you everyday) used to call my house the next day after a night of carousing that she did not attend, and ask who was at my house with me. She would show up at my house about an hour later with fast food burgers, fries and cokes for all of us. She said our retelling of the previous night's antics, our banter and humor, brought her joy and was ample payment for the food she brought. I am crying as I type this. Later, I realized that she was at the was beginning of the illness, unknown and undiagnosed at that time, that eventually caused her untimely death. No one is truly gone, if, and when, you remember them.
Jeannie sounds awesome, and so do you. You should keep your friends in your mind a bit. I have lost more friends than I would like, too early. I remember them often. Sometimes I do things for them. Sometimes I just stop and smoke a cigarette for them when I'm alone. It's like a little candle for 5mins. Or I buy a drink and pour it away. Like a ritual. It has been years, and still I do this. No one knows why I do it except my dead friends. But they know. 😐
Load More Replies...He'd be so grateful that he'd fall in love with the grillmaster.
Load More Replies...Oh come on! No-one in the UK uses it in that sense since the 70s.
Load More Replies...When I noticed this, it instantly became something I'm self-conscious about as having such a round face. It makes me look plumper than I am.
Sometimes I'm not so sure. My not -even three years old great grandson will get his grandma's phone, call his great grandad (me), and have this amazing conversation in toddler speak for 10 minutes, and then will say "bye", and hang up. And he doesn't need a gun to have a loaded diaper!
Reminds me of my late MIL, kids sat there and watched "Scarface" with all the violence and gore. The next movie they watched was "Porkys"..she found the s*x disgusting?
Yes .... the point of the post was they were being sarcastic.
Load More Replies...Only female mosquitoes drink blood, so there's no such thing as a male vampire.
Load More Replies...Their hair doesn't grow, so I imagine their beards and fingernails don't either. They're dead, remember? Don't need toilets for the same reason.
Load More Replies...I Need To Start Working Out
Being, part Irish, part scottish, and part Native American (all peoples used to living on a starvation diet in ancient times) my metabolism is super efficient. I could literally live on a small bowl of rice and a daily vitamin. Which would be great if there was a famine but sucks when you try to lose weight. (And DOUBLE sucks when you love food!)
My body works against me all the time.. and I can't tell if I'm hungry or satisfied, or thirsty... I don't recognize what a "gut feeling" is, I don't feel joy, pleasure, happines or an inner warning, so I'm always trusting the wrong people, I can't even take a nice shower because my body insist on register the water droplets as burning acid (no matter the water temperature) sunlight hurt my eyes, loud noises makes me nauseous, and my eyes keep opening in the middle of the night no matter how tired I am... the da.mn body won't sleep more than 2 o 3 hours at best and then it feels like a trainwreck all the time when it's awake. This body does nothing else than work against me 27/7. It never ends
I don't know what country you're in and whether this is financially possible, but doctors should be able to help with the water thing as it sounds like one of the conditions where the skin overreacts to external stimuli (I don't know enough about medicine or your symptoms to know which one). Hopefully they could then give you either targeted painkillers or meds that suppress the cells from reacting so harshly. Good luck cause no-one should have to live with that every day.
Load More Replies...There are so many "whoops I accidentally screwed up" or "look what my kid did/wrote" posts that are clearly staged/fake online these days.
Load More Replies...I would like a blanket so I can nap comfortably while I wait. It's always an extra 20 minutes wait in the room.
Load More Replies...Where Are You From?
Until they improved on earthquake construction, the tallest building in LA was City Hall. You've probably seen it the old Superman series of the 1950s. Now, literally, the sky's the limit.
The first high rises weren't that high compared to today's skyscrapers.
My first thought was that no, they probably gradually worked their way up to their tallest building. But then I thought to Boston, at least in the 90s, where they had two enormous towers (the Hancock Tower, and the Prudential Center) and that was pretty much it (outside of the Financial District, tucked away in a corner, over a hill). Also, Oklahoma City recently topped their tallest skyscraper by about 350 feet.
You're thinking of the tallest building *today.* But at some point in history there were only 1- and 2-story buildings and then a 10 story building went up. So *that* was the only high-rise and would've looked awkward.
Load More Replies...Goodnight
But If we don't sleep enough there's an even higher chance we won't fell like waking up, so
I get out of bed despite the fact that there is less than a 100% chance that I'll get back in.
The only thing certain is the uncertainty of everything that exists.
I’ve Thought About This Before
Always wondered whether there might be a fourth or even fifth colour that no human can see and so we don't even know to try and find it by using other methods than our own eyes.
There is. Some have an extra cone which allows them to see more colours. Also, we know about infra-red and ultra violet, some animals can see those colours.
Load More Replies...Never had a problem with Temu, but I have the sense to check the dimesnions. Also not to buy furniture from the ''miniatures'' category -_-
Sounded so wonderful in theory, was pretty disappointing in reality. Meh.
Daughter just HAD to have the Diet Key Lime Faygo at the store. Got out to the truck, opened it...yeah...tastes about how you would think. Yellowish, flattish, sourish. So as to not waste money, took it home and swapped my wife's Mt Dew with it (poured it in a MD bottle). The look on her face...classic!
Load More Replies...Not really very good. Too much ginger to taste like Sprite, not enough ginger to taste like ginger ale. Failure in both directions. Now, some good ol' Vernors, on the other hand...
That’s A Vibe
My lil bro started balding in his 20s. All my brothers got married before me. Aaaaah. I'm a pariah. XD jkjk I'm good.
This Is Kinda True
Thoughts?
Except people who abuse dogs. They don't deserve dogs or w e e d.
Load More Replies...It’s cereal in America. The Reese’s chocolate peanut butter candy…puffed. It’s not that good imo…has a weird film on it
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Back when a person being X-rated meant two good things about them.
Load More Replies...Could be regional preference - grape was way more popular where I used to live😂
Load More Replies...I'm Hispanic; not Mexican. A man I once dated was SHOCKED that our culture DOES NOT EAT tortillas. :o)
Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias has a video called Racist Gift Basket. It's pretty funny.
Wish I could still eat watermelon. Loved it as a kid, but now that I'm getting older, it makes me burp WAY too much to be worth it. :(
Me too. I lost the entire cucurbita family for the same reason. I still eat them but I know there will be some uncomfortable emissive consequences later. And for an hour or two.
Load More Replies...Gave me goosebumps. No, wait. I think that's the rash I got in Texas.
Gave me goosebumps. No, wait. I think that's the rash I got in Texas.
