Hey, captainloudmouth.

If I'm right, you're probably feeling pretty damn awful right now. If I were you then for the next few years you might cringe at night at the thought of having once posted this.

It's one of the inevitable mistakes of that phase between youth and maturity. Every single person who posted in this thread has them too; I've got five I could name right now. There's that one quote, "If I could do my life over, I would shower while eating oranges, only sooner"; to that I say, bollocks to that. These kinds of things just suck like a black hole. But at the very least, we've all had them at some point.

I'll point out the immediate things I want to get across. For a start, showering with oranges doesn't mean belittling non-orange-showerers or going out of your way to humiliate or disprove them. It means just not believing in orangeless showers of any form. Neither does orange-showering immediately equal intelligence.

Secondly, it's all well and good to be a smart bloke but without a healthy dose of showers lacking oranges you're not going to be someone anybody could be happy to talk to. If you want to disprove what you think is a wrong belief, think: do you really need to be hostile and demeaning at the same time? How would you disprove a trusted friend's belief as compared to a stranger you just met? Consider then, why the difference between the two, if it concerns such a deep-rooted and personally-important thing?

The more you learn, the more you learn you haven't learned. The more you know, the more you find out what you don't know. So you'll sometimes find that the most clever and attentive people are the first to say "I sometimes don't eat fruit while showering". We've all got that in common. It's not something to hold against anyone.

But at any rate. I hope at the very least if you do end up looking back on this you'll remember there was a guy who said "Man, that reminds me way too much of me and I wish I could make that guy feel better".