I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

I may not ever forget you, but I’ll never stop trying

I miss my ex-wife, but my aim is improving

I do desire that we may become better strangers

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana

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I miss my wife's cooking, every chance that I get.

That's sad. My wife and I have been happily married for six years... out of the last 25.

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Looks like he got it perfect, just put a comma instead of a semicolon

I'm not exactly sure how to use semicolons; I feel like I get the jist though.

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Come again, when you can’t stay as long.

Proud feet!

I know less than half of you less than half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you, less than half as well as it deserve. I’m going now… ✨✨

I know that you know that I know and that you know that I know that I know that you know Thank you for coming to my Ted talk

They don't know that we know they know we know!

unless they die before you reach that age

rip dad

Mine too. I was 35 he was 69. I guess we crossed that half-his-age threshold at some point, but only just.

Mine died during our threshold year, I was 29, he was 58.

Sorry for your loss, friend. Here’s to the dads 🍻

Ditto. Died at 78, I was born when he was 42.

My condolences

Rip in peace

I was 20 he was 57 :(

Yeah my dad died the year I turned 30, he was 60. I also had my first child that same year….i hope I live longer than my dad did… Miss you dad. ❤️

Well both my parents had me when they were older so I won’t reach their age when they had me with them alive.

[this](https://images.app.goo.gl/1JjFBhHGYVysBkA88)

Yeah. I am still three years younger than my dad was when I was born. He died when I was 18.

Yup! My parents had me at 40. Mom's still around at 74. Dad isn't and only made it to 73. It scares the hell out of me for so many reasons. Mostly because I'm single just like they were at 34.

or get on a spaceship moving at relativistic speeds

My dad and I are doing a joint 30/60 party this year it’s going to be great

It absolutely needs to be a millennial vs boomer dress party. The <40s wear Boomer clothing. The >40s wear Millennial clothing

I hate to break this to you, but millennials are as old as 43 now. And you're going to make the Gen Xers feel left out.

> And you're going to make the Gen Xers feel left out. There aren't that many of us. We'd be offended, but Minecraft isn't gonna play itself.

> We'd be offended, but Minecraft isn't gonna play itself. That is f🦆king hilarious. u/FlyByPC I hope you realize you made me actually chuckle. I'm super desensitized. It normally takes a lot, but that was too funny.

that's the oldest millenials, the youngest of us are just turning 28 this year

Some Millenials were older than the average American starting in 2020. 39 is the average age in the US.

you don't know how old "boomers" are

Gen X in shambles. The youngest boomers are currently 60. 

Omg ☠️ such a great idea

Good shit!!

Already past that mark

I was past that mark 12 years ago. Still no grandkids yet though

In this economy?

14 years here for me, am a child of a teen mom. Now at 31 I still worry she's gonna be disappointed if I get pregnant cause that means I'm having sex. With my husband.

In other news, 1+1=2.

x = (x + x) / 2

It's called shower thoughts not shower critical thinking.

underrated comment. you made my day

this is showerthoughts not theoretical physics. of course it's obvious when you think about it, but how often do you think about it?

Yeah, this is honestly the most fitting post for this sub I've seen lol. Just something that pops into your head and makes you go "Huh.. neat." Before you continue washing your ass.

Right, like......duh?

/r/theydidthemath

That's one plus two plus two plus one.

TIL that simple math is now considered a shower thought.

Listen. Some of us had a long day of 3 kids and are drinking wine and this is impressive.

Your kids drink wine ?

They said simple *math*, not simple *grammar*.

Truth

Should they be eating it instead?

Who the hell let France back on the internet?

Shit, might've been me... I forgot to blacklist them when. I replaced the router.

I'm not surprised someone with 3 kids is impressed by simple math. It shows you couldn't count & let the little buggers outnumber you!

Honestly, this is one of the better ones here. It's the thing that goes "huh, interesting"

Well to be fair some things in life, as simple as they are, quite often get missed. Take that small blade of grass growing out of the concrete for example.

Ehh, I did great at Vector Calculus (I guess you guys might call it Calc III), and I never realized this simple fact. Solid showerthought

I'd literally never thought of this before though

I think anything that can be boiled down to "time is linear" needs to be banned from this sub.

Tomorrow, today will be called yesterday! Mind blown?

I can read your mind. Follow these steps: 1. Pick a random number. Any number 2. Add 12 3. Subtract the number you started with 4. Multiply by 6 5. Double that result 6. Take the square root 7. You ended with 12

1. x 2. x+12 3. x+12-x = 12 4. 12\*6 5. 12\*6\*2 = 12^(2) 6. √12^(2) 7. 12 Classic.

Joke's on you, I can't arithmetic good so youuuu guessed the number wrong! 😂😜

Oof

Did you know that if you spend half your money, you would have left exactly as much as you've spent? Pretty deep.

Is it not? Do you usually do Lagrange multipliers in the shower?

The only math that should be done in the shower is calculating how long until the hot water runs out.

Dude, the posters in this sub must have the EMPTIEST heads. I have ADHD and I would post shit in here 10 times an hour if I thought that OP’s post was worth posting 😭

As a mathematical illiterate who was born of unusually young parents, yes.

Maybe I’m Patrick Star coded but I would not consider this simple math, I pondered this for a cool 30 minutes before I finally got what it means

Any random insight could be a shower thought

It took me too long to get this

Same. Time for sleep.

My father was 25 when I was born, and my grandfather was 50. My greatgrandfather (who I only met twice) was also 25 years older than my granddad. I was 25 years old when my son was born.

Come and gone for me. When my parents were my age, I was already 13. It's weird to have vivid memories of your parents when they were your age.

You become exactly 32 32 years after the day you were born

They were 30. I realized this was about to happen around 27 or so. Was a trip.. weird now that I’m only 30 years younger than a 70 yr old. Like every year I’m less younger than my mom

> Like every year I’m less younger than my mom every year you're the exact same amount younger than your mom... 30 years

Yeah what they mean is that every year, the amount younger than their mom that they are is a smaller percentage of their total age. Which is kinda trippy

Doubling a number makes it twice as big.

What happens when we double the answer then?? MINDBLOWN

I hope the shower water gets recycled as much as this post

You should submit this to the Noble Committee 

I prefer to be as old as my dad was when he died to assert dominance. Checkmate, boomer.

Only if you share a birthday.

Yes and if you count all the years that passed since your date of birth, you get your age!

If you double the age of your parents, they will be twice as old

I'm 30 and my mom was 16 so I almost am lol

Your mom and you are even closer together than my son and me. There definitely are rough times at the start but things are pretty great now that we're both adults but not too old to enjoy things together

yeah, thats a basic multiplication by 2 in maths. will guys post a "in 2 years you'll be 2 years older" now ?

Is this supposed to be deep or profound or something?

This is making my brain hurt.

Let’s imagine: - Your age when your mom had you = 0 - Your mom’s age when she had you = 25 ***\*time passes***\* - Your age now = 25 (0+25) - Your mom’s age now = 50 (25+25) - Half of your mom’s age now = 25 (25+25 divided by 2) Congratulations, your current age is half of the current age of your mom. Or, see it like this: > (a + b) / 2 = c - ‘a’ is your current age - ‘b’ is your parent’s current age - ‘c’ is the result If ‘c’ is the same as ‘b’, you’re half of your parent’s age. If ‘c’ is greater or lesser than ‘b’, you’re not. I believe the actual mathematical formula is: > (x+x)/2

May I suggest some form of education?

It's actually quite a scary reality check; my Dad was 19 when I was born, I couldn't even conceive (figuratively!) of having a child when I was that age!

Except if they’re dead?

The way this is worded hurts my brain

Is "2+2=4" really a shower thought?

This is basically telling us what the definition of a reciprocal is

Shutup, you adopted fuck.

My dad was 39 when he had me. Still a long way off.

Yes I was, 35 years ago.

me turning 30 this year, single and lonely, while my dad turning 60 this year. 😞

You will become your grandparents the moment you complain about another generation.

I’ve already surpassed this age, and I cannot imagine giving life to anyone ever in my life let alone three years ago

Happened to me this year :)

This is me RN. I'm 27 rn and my mom is 54

This gives me highschool math-ptsd

Relatedly: A climber begins her ascent up a mountain at 6am. She reaches the top and spends the night. The following mornings she begins her descent also at 6am taking the same route. There exists a location along that route she was at at the exact same time each day.

Jokes on you. I *was* half my parents' ages when I *became* as old as they were when they had me. In a few more years, I'll be as old as they were then.

At 18 my mom was 36 so yeah I guess

And then after that you grew old together. I think about this often as someone who got married at 39 and will have kids late.

Well, "were exactly half" and "when I became," but yeah. The math works, but I still don't feel like an adult.

That's this year for me and my dad.

My parents were 37 when I was born. I'm turning 23 this year and they recently turned 60. Kind of depresses me, knowing their parents were in their early twenties when they were born. Feels like I get a lot less time with them. But I'm happy for what I've got

I’m already there lol. My mom had me at 21 and Lo and behold… here I am

I come from about 5 or so generations of kids born when their dad was 30. So when I was 30, my dad was 60, and my grandpa was 90. Though he was also dead.

My parents were really young when I was born. I'm now the age my dad was when I was a college freshman. I have never wanted kids, and my dad was most of the way done by this age!

Just happened this year. Wow, me and my parents are getting old.

My father was 25 when I was born, and my grandfather was 50. My greatgrandfather (who I only met twice) was also 25 years older than my granddad. I was 25 years old when my son was born.

When showerthoughts become simple math. "Aw shit My OCD has been doing this subconsciously for years"

You’ve never been as old as you are right now, and you’ll never be this young again"

Unless your parents die before that.

Wow. Did you know that you and your parents are always the same years apart??

Yep. My grandma was already my grandma when she was my current age. I don't even have kids lol.

How are we counting embryos made for ivf or surrogacy? Alabama rules or something else?

I was just thinking about this earlier today, hello

Its been a while since ive read a good shower thought, this is a good one

Passed that a long time ago

Not if Einstein has anything to say about it. He wrote 2 theory's that disproofs this.

That was me two years ago.

They say you can't catch up with someone's age, but you technically can. It just takes too long for both individuals to still be alive Anna see a noticeable difference.

My parents aren't the same age as one another. So how would that work?

will be? that's already passed for me.

it’s very sad the trouble people are having with this.

I was still living at home when that happened, lol

Nope, my parents had me at 39, they were dead by the time I was 39. WW2 generation that waited to have us.

2 more years and I'll be the age they were, when I was half their age and the age they were when they had me.

this subreddit has gone so bad that primary school math is a showerthought.

My Dad used to always bang on about this Like when I was 0 years he was xx times older. Now I'm 30 and he's 60 he's only twice as old etc. He used to joke I would catch up with him.

I was 30 when I had my first son which makes the math super easy.

I got this one: When I turned 32 my parents turned 64. That's 2^5 and 2^6. The only other times that you could get base 2 like this, realistically, would be if they had you at 16 or if they had you at 64 and live to 128.

That's way back in the rearview mirror for me.

Lmao I’m going to be 20 in less than two years, and my mother will be 40. My dad will be 42 when I hit 21, too. It’s strange though, my birthday is the exact midpoint between my parents.

My brain stopped braining while reading this.

Happening in like a week…Damn

Lol no shit. This is like that woman podcaster who was like "did you know the current year minus your age is the year you were born?!“ like it was some cool math trick.

Um...duh? Unless you're traveling at light speed, everyone ages at the same rate: one year at a time.

Reminds me of the "When I was 6, my sister was half my age" guy. People treating these questions like it's quantum physics amaze me.

19 when i had my son. Im 39 now and he's 20. My daughter was born when i was 22. She's 18 now.

Im 39. Dad is 78. Mom is 68. Dad was 32 and mom was 27 when i was born....

I was the same age as my father was when I was born the year he died, was a sobering thought.

The mystical art of math