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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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  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
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    • 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
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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean you are welcome to do some research as well, but so far, I've done a lot of searching, as I said I found results on Silver and Garlic, but I can't find anything that predates 1922 in which vampires seem to have any kind actual death. There's a few notes of vampires that are non powered normal people around sunlight, which I guess could count as a weakness. But that wouldn't make any actual tattoos like the shower thought we're discussing here.

[–] INeedMana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Sorry, tonight I can only go as far as Wikipedia

If an upiór harassed a human at night, the remedy was to stop the upiór returning to its grave - at dawn it would disappear or change into black tar

There are two citations for that sentence but digging out the sources is too much for me tonight. Maybe there is the reasoning behind changing into tar and reference to some older sources

I think there might have been also some mention of power of the sun in some Mickiewicz work. But apparently not in "Upiór". There it complains to Venus

But true, that is not exactly the express-sunburn OP wrote about