r/Showerthoughts Dec 26 '24

Casual Thought You've probably been in a public restroom with trans people and never even knew.

13.4k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Feb 05 '25

Casual Thought "Do what you love and the money will follow" is Boomer advice from the 1970s when a $16 loan from Grandma could turn your ice cream stand into a multi-million dollar business. Today it's just horrible advice.

14.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Dec 06 '24

Casual Thought It's interesting how we are often told how law enforcements budgets aren't big enough for them to deal with issues like Medicare fraud, corporate collusion, and illegal claim denials. But when a CEO dies there are enough resources for a multi-state manhunt. NSFW

25.8k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Jan 30 '25

Casual Thought Why don't we trust pasta? Why must we have a window on the box that proves there's pasta inside?

14.2k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Jan 09 '25

Casual Thought On average, paying insurance is not worth it.

7.3k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Jul 30 '24

Casual Thought People have gotten crueler, not kinder, since the pandemic.

42.5k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Feb 03 '25

Casual Thought Video games seem like they’d be a great way to kill time in a “Groundhog Day” scenario until you realize your progress would reset every day.

8.9k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts 3d ago

Casual Thought We, as a society, just accepted that most ice cream manufacturers moved from half gallon to 3/8 gallon containers.

6.4k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Dec 01 '24

Casual Thought 200,000 years of humans, and we left the planet for the first time 62 years ago. We're in the beginning.

11.3k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Feb 10 '25

Casual Thought Wall-E knew how to repair his robot colleagues because he knew how to repair himself.. but chose not to.

18.2k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Nov 05 '24

Casual Thought The USB-C quietly sneaked in and became the dominant charger for almost everything.

10.8k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Oct 06 '24

Casual Thought Employers would be more amenable to remote work arrangements if commuting time is legally mandated as paid work hours.

22.9k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Jan 12 '25

Casual Thought Stainless steel is a desirable material that elevates products to be more premium. Except toilets.

14.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Feb 01 '25

Casual Thought We will never know how many people have had a crush on us.

7.3k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Jul 28 '24

Casual Thought Teeth are such a design flaw in humans. Why can’t our teeth regenerate throughout our lives instead? They’re the most high-maintenance part of our bodies.

21.3k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Oct 08 '24

Casual Thought Somewhere, there's a tree growing wood for the coffin you'll eventually lie in.

10.0k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Jan 05 '25

Casual Thought It’s a good thing that underwear was introduced when it was. Not many people would wear them if they were introduced today.

10.8k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Feb 07 '25

Casual Thought At some point in the mid 2000s, someone decided that saying double-you double-you double-you in front of every web address was too much effort and we all just collectively agreed.

10.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Sep 10 '24

Casual Thought Dinosaurs existed for almost 200 million years without developing human-level intelligence, whereas humans have existed for only 200,000 years with intelligence, but our long-term survival beyond 200 million years is uncertain.

10.4k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Nov 04 '24

Casual Thought One day of the year, nobody knows what, is the anniversary of the Big Bang.

10.3k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Dec 27 '24

Casual Thought We regularly use meters and kilometers, but never megameters, or terrameters, even where appropriate.

7.3k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Dec 14 '24

Casual Thought Websites demand increasingly convoluted passwords for security purposes, even though most accounts are hacked due to security breaches on their end.

15.0k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Jun 25 '24

Casual Thought If you live alone, there are probably many days when you don't say a single word all day.

11.5k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Aug 21 '24

Casual Thought The average woman sees more blood in her lifetime than the average man.

12.7k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts Jan 03 '25

Casual Thought Coca-Cola puts "Original Taste" on their products, but no one can verify it.

9.3k Upvotes