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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago

People were getting crazy with acronyms back then. Like Wine - "Wine Is Not an Emulator".

[–] 0x30507DE@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

At least it ain't VHDL, which stands for VHSIC Hardware Description Language, or, in full, Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language. Its name is as much of a clusterfuck as the language itself.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

ARM is Advanced RISC Machine
RISC is Reduced Instruction Set Computer

[–] Pat@feddit.nu 1 points 11 hours ago

*Acorn RISC machine, originally.

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Acorn RISC Machine!

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

At least it isn't recursive.

Wine.

[–] Skyline969@piefed.ca 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] morto@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

GIMP has a recursive acronym inside of it

[–] mschae@discuss.mschae23.de 11 points 1 day ago

GTK has has a recursive acronym inside a regular acronym inside of it

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wait until you find out what GNU stands for

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Send the message to the next clacks tower, do not log message, at the end of the line, send it back.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

($1 is Not Unix)

[–] remon@ani.social 6 points 1 day ago

Air Intercept Missile

I don't see it.

[–] diarcesia@reddthat.com 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Also FedEx Express: "Federal Express Express"

[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I always use my PIN number at the ATM machine.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

Better clean your hands after touching those buttons. Don’t want to catch something nasty like the HIV virus.

[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

Good one!! I was just trying to think of others like this.

[–] Sibshops@feddit.cl 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] jdr@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Don't you know about the HURD? Everybody knows that the HURD is the word!

[–] redparadise@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

GNU's Not Unix

[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

😂 got em!

[–] agentTeiko@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If I recall AOL was changed to just be AOL like how KFC is now just KFC around when they merged with time warner

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 13 points 1 day ago

KFC Time Warner: bringing chicken to the big screen.

[–] aaaa@piefed.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ask a PHP developer what it stands for

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] morto@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Pretty Huge Programs