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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The trailer alone made the whole world afraid of driving behind a log truck.
Scrolled pass this a week ago, and just had a flashback after seeing news that two people were crushed under logs in a car crash in Poland. They survived, but yeah, there's that.
Jaws permanently changed our dynamic with an entire species and the ocean in general, and with just two notes.
Duuun dun.
Duuun dun.
It made kids afraid to swim in swimming pools!
Jaws and those notes hit something primal
Well, two notes, a dead dog, and a dozen bodies/parts
Similarly, Final Destination 3 made everyone (or at least me) absolutely TERRIFIED of tanning booths
Fun fact: a tanning bed is a true "final destination" machine that will get'cha in the long run #FuckCancer
Yeah I was gonna say they're actually up there with cigarettes apparently, including being addictive, somehow.
I watched Final Destination 3 when it was new and that was the scene I remember the most. Horrifying.
Meh. This is the first I've heard of this in a very very long time.
I'd argue The Matrix Trilogy, Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail, and the Lord if the Rings Trilogy have had far greater cultural impacts. They're referenced quite a lot, especially The Matrix.
Yea if we're talking about biggest cultural impact I don't think final destination is even in my top 50. It's not even in my top 10 horror (IT, Psycho, Blair Witch Project, The Shining, Alien, Jaws, Saw, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Silence of the Lambs, The Exorcist)
I'd say LOTR is far more ingrained in society. The Matrix gets lots of references within our cohort, but Tolkien set the rules and visuals of a vast amount of fantasy and myth that we now assume to have always existed. I'd also throw in Star Wars above Matrix. But yes, I'd definitely agree any of these rank far higher than a morsel of paranoia that already existed on the road
wasn't most of that fantasy pre-existing?
My understanding is that it solidified some rules and introduced rules and assumptions about interactions and capabilities.
There was only one matrix film, that's why it was called The Matrix
I guess you also just watched the Honest Trailers video.
You got me!
That's a highly exaggerated opinion. Sure, on the one generation it came out during, it made many people afraid if that, but there were many others that did similar things. I know it's a different generation, but as someone else mentioned; JAWS had a much bigger impact, even beyond the generation it was released during.
Never watched final destination, but I always give some distance for those lorry because i see what an exploding tire can do to you. Those thing is usually filled up to 100psi/120psi, not gonna be good if those hit you or your car. Not to mention the chance of a runaway tire is never 0, or they switching into your lane without noticing you're there.
It's also the scariest thing to drive pass you if you're cycling.
Mythbusters covered tires from trucks - tire treads at highway speeds can go right through a windshield (and have killed people this way).
I spend as little time behind/beside thm as possible.
You weren't afraid of them before?
The trailer alone made the whole world afraid of driving behind a log truck.
Never seen the films or their trailers, but I keep a healthy distance to vehicles like that anyway.
Logging truck encounters drastically reduced when I moved from BC to Ontario 🙏
Heavy wheelers in busy traffic should be treated like a major threat. Especially for bikers.
Wait. That was the second one?
There are five of them! A sixth movie is coming out this June.
Yeah. The first one was about surviving a flight accident. The second one about surviving this mass crash.
Ahh the movie I wanted to watch but couldn't because it's only on Max
The physics on this just always really bugged me.
The beginning of one scared me the moat
Nah Nah Nah
If that was the case then why did they make a final destination 3? Because it turned out that wasn't the real final destination turned out the 5th destination was the final destination.