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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.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Pffft, the boomers have all the river spots. Try a Walmart carpark.
Not with those flock assholes hanging around the lots.
They flipped those vans for $1M.
It's a shame conversion vans stopped being a thing long ago...
No they didn't. Now they're just called "#vanlife" and cost a lot more.
What the hell are you talking about? Converting a van to a camper has never been more popular than it's now.
You're confusing today's influencers taking you on a trip of them converting a van VS being able to walk into a chevy dealership and walk out with one, and it actually being affordable.
All they needed was shag carpet and a bed.
Last I heard vanlife is actually really gentrified especially after the used car pricing hike during covid.
My best friend lives in Pacifica, CA. Lots of people living in vans, and honestly it seems like a simple way to live.
I did it involuntary for 3 years.
It can be extraordinarily stressful and unpleasant, what with high temperatures, the toilet situation, and parking stealthily in an elephant sized vehicle that is the opposite of stealth. Getting messed with by gronks, and moved along by authorities.
Having said that, your outgoing costs can be very, very low, the cost of travelling locally is low, and you have all the comforts of home wherever you go. It was a good way for me to save a shitload of money in a short amount of time
Came here to say that it became a popular lifestyle.
I wish we could do that. Fuck having a house payment that goes up $200 a month every new year.
Waterfront property in this climate? Once a century floods are happening weekly. On any given day you could wake up living, however briefly, in a van in the river.
If you do that, I’m gonna bunk with you, buddy!
We’re gonna be buddies! We’re gonna be pals! We’re gonna wrassle around!
Crazily, I know someone who walked away from a profitable business to do just that.
I've never heard that phrase in my life, what was the joke if that's the punchline?
Thanks, I dunno if that was particularly iconic but that's definitely where this post comes from
It's from an SNL skit from ages ago - I only know it because my high school band teacher referenced it enough that he had to show it to us so we'd get it.
Chris Farley plays a motivational speaker whose whole schtick is basically "[don't fuck up your life] or you'll end up LIVING IN A VAN, DOWN BY THE RIVER!" Over the course of the skit, it becomes apparent that his angle is less "don't fuck up your life and have to deal with a tough recovery," and more "don't fuck up your life and end up living in a van like I currently do."
It was a play on inspirational speakers and life coaches. Experts, who ended up as inspirational speakers and life coaches.
It’s a Saturday Night Live skit with Chris Farley. His lines became very meme-tastic.
I've lived in vans by rivers. It wasn't that bad.
I'm thinking a little shanty out in the woods
Prime van camping spot.
I follow a few vanlifers and damn it looks tempting and I am thinking of doing so next year for a few months. Might even film it too.
the secret of all these "nomad" lifestyles is to have enough passive income via investments and shit that you dom't actually have to work that much (if at all) anyway, so you can just spend all your time traveling instead
Most ones I follow make all their money from YouTube and Sponsors. It's pretty popular and doesn't take much to get monetized and to get sponsors.
I visited my family who live in Encinitas, CA earlier this year. It's honestly kinda gross how many "vanlifers" either live there or were visiting semi-longterm.
Like I would walk to the beach almost every day, and I'd see so many vans that had been converted or in the process of being converted parked out front of multi-million dollar homes. And they were all brand new vehicles too.
I was excited to quote the sketch when my friend decided to live van life a long time ago. But he was too young to know about it (I made sure to show it to him before he left). Then he ended up taking a job for a rafting/tubing company for the summer. He actually did end-up "living in a van down by the river."
Waterfront property? In this economy?
I always thought Cobain was onto something
Cobain't plz and ty