r/Showerthoughts 9d ago

Speculation With just how many possible combinations there are, you probably say a never-before-uttered sentence every day.

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u/UnlikelyExquisite 9d ago

Especially true when you have young children.

"No, you cannot put the little pirate's wooden leg in your brother's nostril."

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u/FormerlyKA 9d ago

I have cat kids and I'd never thought I'd have to say this but

"Leave your sister's butthole alone!"

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u/CoroteDeMelancia 9d ago

This is definitely not the first time someone has said that

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u/Asteroth6 9d ago

Might get nuked, but I’m just going to say it:

You don’t have cat kids. You have cats. I’m glad they give you joy, but you are not a cat mom/dad, you are not a parent of fur babies, you own cats. Please don’t be that person.

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u/FormerlyKA 9d ago

I prefer cat kids as a phrase because then nobody stays telling me how, as a woman, I'm somehow required to be desperately for people kids when I'm not. I'm 33, I decided no human offspring when I was like 15, and I'm tired of 70+ yesr old people telling me what to do with my anatomy.

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u/OceanF10 8d ago

nothing screams strong and independent woman like holding on to 18 year judgments and rebelling against the elderly

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u/pina_gram 8d ago

Bodily autonomy and knowing what makes you happy in life are pretty awesome things. Why would you see this as a negative?

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u/Routine_Bend_1323 7d ago

Nothing screams strong and independent woman like holding on to and standing by your values

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u/FormerlyKA 7d ago

Nothing screams "doesn't regularly work with the elderly" like that post. I work in a hospital orthopedic unit. Most of my patients are Fox News conservatives who think I'm secretly desperate for kids because women are somehow required to do that.

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u/asamorris 7d ago

The aristocats!

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u/tombolger 9d ago

You didn't have to say it. The cats don't understand you so you saying it didn't accomplish anything anyway.

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u/yourallygod 9d ago

Depending on characteristics/how they were raised they very much well can know even if they don't fully understand english they can understand the tone and other thangs :b

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u/Omiyaru 7d ago

Yeah, that's not true, I give my my cat disapproving looks when he's on the table and he gets down, I tell him down, he gets down, I snap he gets down, I point down, he gets down.

And my other cats come when you call them by name

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u/KuFuBr 7d ago

I think they meant your cats don't understand the exact words. That you could've said "grass is green, but Shrek is greener" in a disapproving way and it would've resulted in the same outcome.

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u/RatioExpensive6023 6h ago

In my experience, cats always know more than you think they do.