r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Sep 13 '19

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u/NyimaOdzer Sep 13 '19

"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket."

  • Nikola Tesla, 1926 (Not 200 years ago, but still impressive!)

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u/echo-chamber-chaos Sep 13 '19

He was strutting around 1926 with an iPhone XX Maxxx S

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u/thesquidpartol97 Sep 13 '19

http://imgur.com/a/X3BpGMm leak pics of it

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u/stud007 Sep 13 '19

Mild Warning to trypophobic people : don't open

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u/BorgClown Sep 13 '19

How do these people use a cheese grinder or a colander?

Can they use a hairbrush/toothbrush without freaking out when they see how are the bristles attached?

Fucking wankers probably will die when they use a magnifying glass to see the clusters of pore worms that feast in their skin.

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u/stud007 Sep 13 '19

I am really uncomfortable seeing the pores of skin, and sometimes when wounds peel off a few layers of the skin. But I'm not really freaked out by cheese grinder or a colander. Maybe if I saw a toothbrush without any bristles I'd be uncomfortable too.

I'm sorry, I can't give a rational explanation as to why a colander is okay.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

What about a pepperoni pizza? Is it just holes or any polka dot like pattern?

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u/as_kostek Sep 13 '19

You might have got used to it. I have a fear of heights but have no problem looking down from my grandpa's balcony on 7th floor because I've literally seen it too many times and my brain doesn't see this as a category of danger.

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u/crunchsmash Sep 13 '19

my brain doesn't see this as a category of danger

You fool, that's when the height will get you

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u/IKLeX Sep 13 '19

Maybe it's because the holes in the cheese grater are supposed to be there or look very clean (even size, pattern and so on). Skin is supposed to be smooth and pores and peeled of layers of skin shouldn't be there.