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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:

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If Back to the Future we're remade today, he'd be going back in time to 1995.

I'd like to see a remake of Back to the Future just so we can have a scene where Doc Brown refuses to believe Donald Trump will be president.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Like the Sly Stallone comment in demolition man about the Schwarzenegger library.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

In retrospect, the standard of what seemed ridiculous and over-the-top at the time was a bit higher.

Idiocracy isn't even remotely funny nowadays, it's genuinely just very anxiety inducing now. And it's honestly too fucking positive. A government actually trying to fix issues? Yeah, right.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’d like to see a remake of The United States of America where Donald Trump is never the president.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

The allure of fantasy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Even better: Make the alternate timeline a utopia with doc Brown saying he hasn't had time to analyze the differences and leave it at that. Throughout the movie have framed portraits of Bernie Sanders ifrom 1995 n the background of any scene indoors.