It's precisely because you don't bring your phone into the shower that allows your mind to wander and make novel connections which you may then share later.
The shower is one of the few places where you don't bring the phone with you, so you are not distracted by external stimuli and are free to think deeply for a long time without interruptions, allowing you to form novel and complex thoughts.
If you have a bit of memory retention you then jump out of the shower and post on feddit.
It’s named shower thoughts because they’re thoughts you have in the shower. When you’re on the shitter you’re usually on your phone, not solving the world’s problems like you do when you’re in the shower.
"It's clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than me."
The personal pronoun, "me" is used when it is the object. However, that's not the case here. I'm not being held. Thoughts are the object. I'm comparing how well they hold onto thoughts with how well I hold onto thoughts.
The sentence, "It's clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than I", has an implied verb. This is common in informal conversation.
The meaning I would expect an English speaker to understand would be, "It's clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than I can."
but you might think of something in the shower and then share after it, but there should also be a shitter thoughts as I get messages from people on the shitter
idk, my shower thoughts are usually hypothetical arguments I imagine having with people that would almost certainly never act in the way that leads me to imagine the argument with them to begin with
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Wytch@lemmy.zip · 128 pts · 327d
It's precisely because you don't bring your phone into the shower that allows your mind to wander and make novel connections which you may then share later.
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 48 pts · 327d
Yes.
It’s shower thoughts not shower posts
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 327d
This property of water dates back to the story of Archimedes in the tub shouting "Eureka!"
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 327d
Good point. This makes the entire rest of Lemmy the "shitter thoughts" umbrella community as thats where everyone is posting and commenting from.
NABDad@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 327d
You guys can remember your thoughts long enough to post them after you get dried off?
black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 327d
That's the quality filter that keeps them good
meekah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 327d
Sometimes
BlindFrog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 325d
More of my brain cells are left intact scrolling the fedi vs scrolling tiktok
trigg@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 327d
Is that not shitposting?
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf · 3 pts · 327d
Only in a technical sense.
judgyweevil@feddit.it · 21 pts · 327d
The shower is one of the few places where you don't bring the phone with you, so you are not distracted by external stimuli and are free to think deeply for a long time without interruptions, allowing you to form novel and complex thoughts. If you have a bit of memory retention you then jump out of the shower and post on feddit.
village604@adultswim.fan · 4 pts · 327d
I bring my phone into the shower, but it's for music control.
NABDad@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 327d
Ah. That's my problem.
AmidFuror@fedia.io · 2 pts · 327d
You're taking too long in the shower. Think about water conservation.
judgyweevil@feddit.it · 1 pts · 327d
Even a minute cold be considered a long span of time compared to our short attention span
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 327d
My shitter thoughts are "HUUUGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! pant pant pant HUUUUUUUGGGGHHHHH!!!!!! SPLASH!!!! OH THANK GOD FINALLY!!!"
nieminen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 326d
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 327d
Why would you shower while you shit?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 327d
When else do I get to waffle stomp?
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 327d
Don’t bring my phone to the bathroom either.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 327d
I don't get many ideas on either platform.
tyler@programming.dev · 4 pts · 327d
Wait. Y’all aren’t taking your phone into the shower with you?
West_of_West@piefed.social · 5 pts · 327d
They're waterproof for a reason
village604@adultswim.fan · 3 pts · 327d
How else am I going to control the music that's playing on the vent fan speaker?
redlemace@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 327d
No, just my hasselblad 500. Why do you ask?
hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 327d
My Motorola Defy works during shower /s
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au · 2 pts · 325d
It’s named shower thoughts because they’re thoughts you have in the shower. When you’re on the shitter you’re usually on your phone, not solving the world’s problems like you do when you’re in the shower.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 327d
You answered your own question. Are you master baiting us?
NABDad@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 327d
No. It's clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than I.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 326d
If you were speaking about someone else, would you use "he/she" or "him/her" in this context?
Because if it's the former, then you use "I" to replace it, and if it's the latter, you use "me".
Doesn't sound right.
Sounds better.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/pronouns-personal-i-me-you-him-it-they-etc
NABDad@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 326d
You are saying I should have said:
"It's clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than me."
The personal pronoun, "me" is used when it is the object. However, that's not the case here. I'm not being held. Thoughts are the object. I'm comparing how well they hold onto thoughts with how well I hold onto thoughts.
The sentence, "It's clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than I", has an implied verb. This is common in informal conversation.
The meaning I would expect an English speaker to understand would be, "It's clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than I can."
mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud · 2 pts · 327d
but you might think of something in the shower and then share after it, but there should also be a shitter thoughts as I get messages from people on the shitter
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 327d
idk, my shower thoughts are usually hypothetical arguments I imagine having with people that would almost certainly never act in the way that leads me to imagine the argument with them to begin with
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 325d
Shitter thought: "I wish I had TP..."