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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I always figured it was because metal is harder than rock.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (4 children)

But rocks are harder. Metal can bend where rocks would break.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're talking about brittleness and tensile strength, not hardness. Hardness is measured with the Mohs Hardness Scale, and there is significant cross-over between "rocks" and hardened metal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you think any of the stoned motherfuckers in 1971 gave half a shit about this pedantry? Lol

“We don’t make cars from stone like the Flintstones, we make em from metal because it’s tougher” is as far as it goes my man

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I think there were pendants in the 70s

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah! Might good sir be a fellow Mechanical Engineer?

(no one else considers stuff that break instead of bend to be "harder")

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I‘d argue many people outside of the field are able to grasp it too

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But most people don't differentiate between hardness and toughness in day to day language

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's just because it's really hard

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Rock is usually harder though, but steel is more tough. Compared to a lot of other materials steel is still really hard, to be fair. At least that's my understanding, as someone who just googled "hardness vs toughness" lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh, my bad. that went completely over my head lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You silly goose

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

depends on the "rock" and the "metal" (usually an alloy)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

But metal can also split rock. Or crush it, or pulverize it, or drill it, or etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

But rock beats scissors and scissors are metal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What about lead vs obsidian?

Check and mate, music nerds.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Diamond is the hardest metal. Ask any astrophysicist

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Van Halen, then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Neil Diamond is the softest.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

Garage is adjacent to House. Typically smaller, usually hotter, and often used when you want to go faster.

Jungle is way the fuck out there but it is always an adventure. Full of endangered species and ancient treasures, more organic and mysterious.

Breaks is when you’re broke and at a strip club in Florida.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I’m so glad you invented metalbending

[–] JasonDJ 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Toph is gangster as fuck

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It's called progmetal

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Does that mean heavy metal is just metal that is toxic in low doses?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

#civilized!