Here are this week’s shower thoughts.
1-5 Shower Thoughts
1. People who drink and claim to be drunk are never as drunk as the people who drink and claim to be sober.
2. There’s a neverending waterfall of poo hidden inside every skyscraper.
3. There is a certain point in everyone’s life where “How high can you count?” changes from a matter of knowledge to a matter of will.
4. Being angry at science is no different than being told how an engine works and being angry at the mechanic.
5. The Simpsons have owned the same vehicles for 30 years and are still no closer to financial independence.
6-10 Shower Thoughts
6. The minimum wage is also a lot of people’s maximum wage.
7. It’s honestly impressive how humans have managed to sexualize every single living being and object on earth.
8. In the first Harry Potter the security for the philosopher’s stone was so weak it was broken by eleven-year-old kids and these people still kept their jobs.
9. Saying you’d be happy if you died tomorrow either shows that you’re really happy with your life or you’re really depressed.
10. There must be a lot of people who didn’t realize their thoughts were socially unacceptable until they expressed them here.
11-15 Shower Thoughts
11. Leaders who are socially anxious and have stage fright are the most reliable ones because we can be sure that they don’t do it just because they love their own voice or just for the attention.
12. Lex Luthor got cancer from kryptonite. Therefore, kryptonite is his kryptonite.
13. Web sites tell you “We value your privacy” and then continue and list all the ways they will violate your privacy.
14. A penny saved is actually better than a penny earned because the penny saved has already been taxed.
15. The cars in the Flintstones were foot-powered because the dinosaurs haven’t gone extinct yet.
It’s more relatable to have the Simpsons just getting by, and there have been numerous episodes where new cars have been purchased (Canyonero), but for plot reasons they are gone by the episode’s end. By now, maintenance of the cars is what’s preventing them from being able to get new ones; Homer has said that the cars are from the now-vanished Eastern Bloc and “made out of tractor parts”.
The Philosopher’s Stone security weakness isn’t that it was simple enough that an 11-year old witch and wizards could have defeated it: it’s that too many people were involved in creating it, providing Quirrell more opportunities to obtain the knowledge of the security features and how to get past them. What was wrong with keeping it hidden in Dumbledore’s desk, if for whatever reason it needed to be removed from Gringotts at all?
Unfortunately, social anxiety and stage fright (the latter of which is really a subtype of the former) aren’t exactly leadership qualities; it doesn’t inspire confidence if your leader isn’t themselves confident and able to cope with being the centre of attention.
You can hate 10% of people based on their personality: “I hate egotists, I hate know-it-alls, I hate people who generalise and don’t realise that the real world isn’t as clear-cut as they think it is… “