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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.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I still find it upsetting that nowhere in the ghostbusters lore have they ever touched on why a ghost randomly gave Ray a blowjob, or how he knew to let it happen.
Like......first off. HOW was that in a kids movie??? Secondly, it's just there. Like the ghost knew Ray wanted it, and Ray knew to let it happen. Then the movie just moves on, and other than Ray being embarassed to explain he had it happen, it's never mentioned again.
And speaking of not making sense....the second movie starts off with the city of NYC not believing in ghosts. They JUST had a 50 foot marshmellow man make global news a few years earlier! It would have made more sense for them to be out of business because they think all the ghosts have been busted, and therefore nobody hires them. Instead, we see people snickering and calling them crockpots.
Just imagine if in 2008 nobody remembered 9/11 and called TSA crazy for thinking planes could be hijacked. Thats the level of news coverage a 50 foot tall marshmellow man destroying NYC would get.
And and and!!! What about at the end of the movie when they cross the streams, and blow up a building in NYC, but are somehow perfectly fine afterwards? And then Winston yells I LOVE NEW YORK!!!
Why did he yell that? That makes no sense! The mayor spent the whole movie trying to shut you down. The citizens treat you like criminals. The city has attracted an invasive species of afterlife spirits that seek to kill you. You just attempted a move that had a 50/50 chance of destroying the universe. And AFTER surviving a massive bomb on the roof of a building, you randomly yell that out.
Ya know what? Winston had a concussion. I'm going with that. It's the only thing that makes any sense. He's suffering from a concussion and doesn't know what's going on.
So how's your guys day going? I'm doing fine as you can see. I'm clearly not a lunatic.
What makes you think Ghostbusters was a kids movie?
It came out in the 80s, when I was a kid, and every kid I knew saw it. Because of that, they made a kids cartoon.
Plus the toys, and video games (during a time when video games were only for kids)
As someone else who was a kid in the 80s, I promise you that almost no movie that you or I saw in that entire decade was a kids movie.
What are you TALKING about??? Die Hard is ABSOLUTELY a kids movie! It's even a Christmas movie for gods sake! Yippee Ki Yay Mister Falcon!
What do you mean? Everything was a kids movie back then.