Things that are actually pretty weird when you think about them?

@dudsville I always think the same about dancing. I usually dance if I’ve had a few drinks but if I’m sober I think WTAF it’s just so weird just moving body parts round.

Also as a few people have said, the making babies thing. I always say obviously I know how they are made but it still blows my mind that you can actually make a new human being. Amazing.

The moon is an actual place, not just a light in the sky.

And all of the people who had to have had sex in order to produce me!

@nildesparandum

Your post blew my mind. That must be absolutely amazing, to see similarities to your husband, generations down the line.

Congratulations on your dynasty!

Eye contact. Freaks me out.

Re to pp about adult children.
I am the mother of a grandfather. Yes that baby lying inside me all those years ago has now produced children of his own, and now his children are producing children. Also one of them looks very much like his great grandfather, my late husband, and is a carbon copy in personality of his grandfather, my son.

@Spelunking You're very welcome I find looking at those maps and the ones with the countries shown properly to scale (Africa is WAY bigger than you probably thought) so disconcerting! I'm so used to the norther and European centric ones!

The pregnancy/alien thing, my ex was SO inexperienced and uneducated on "women's things" it was quite shocking! The first time the baby visibly moved in my belly that he saw he freaked the fuck out and needed persuading it was totally normal! He phoned his mum to ask her! 😂😂

When he got accidentally squirted in the face with breast milk the first time he threw up!

@StrictlyAFemaleFemale I'm not a fan of school uniform myself. It's not the leveller or unifier it's claimed to be

@ShizeItsWeegie interesting as I'm frequently criticised for not drinking enough. I rarely feel thirsty but can reach the point I have a headache that I know means I need a drink! I have to remind myself

Life. What are we all doing here? What is the point of it all?

@SleepOhHowIMissYou

Love the video. I consider myself re-educated. The multi-party-blower is fab!

While walking to work once I was desperate for a wee and I looked all along the residential street thinking how weird it was that I was surrounded by hundreds of toilets in peoples homes but I couldn’t use them. It made me wonder, what’s least socially acceptable? Knocking on a stranger’s door to ask to use their toilet, or peeing in a bush outside their front garden? (Luckily I made it to work in the nick of time!!)

[quote Eckhart]@SleepOhHowIMissYou

That's not what they're called, though. If you asked someone for a party blowout, they'd say 'What?'

Or were you giving them names?[/quote]
If I were to name them they'd be called Keith and Nigel (Keith being the blowout, obviously).

Sex. Might be my peri menopausal-ness but I've come to the conclusion that that's pretty weird.

@MagentaRocks @PizzzaExpressWoking

Thanks. They have loads of names, all descriptions, rather than one specific name that everybody would recognise. Like saying 'Wheeled Passenger Box' because of not having the word 'car'.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_horn

I didn't know they were called 'checkout dividers' and neither has anyone I've asked. One frined invented the term 'shopper-stopper' which I quite like.

Hmm, have just googled and its 98% of atoms every year, but some in bones and tooth enamel hang around permanently. Your liver is totally replaced every 6 weeks....

For me it's the one about all the atoms in your body being replaced so none of the original you is left....can't remember how often this happens though!

Bottled water. How something that has been filtered through glaciers or volcanoes for thousands of years gets put in to a bottle with a best before date!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=t-FC_1zhpdk

@Eckhart the ones that blow out are called party blowouts and the horns with paper fringes are blowers. Google the term and you'll get lots of opportunities to buy them, or give Carol Middleton a ring, she'll tell you.

The size of the universe.

Consciousness, and love.....and the Universe. That we have our own sun and moon that is so perfectly aligned to earth to sustain life. A fraction out either way would make life impossible. The odds of that happening by chance are incalculable, comparable to a blind man picking up a coloured grain of sand out of all the deserts in the world by chance. It's mind blowing.

Cats or dogs. Sometimes I look at one of my two cats and think, well this is fucking mental, you are a living creature, what do you think, what is this whole set up to you? I get a whole "space is big" mess up in my head and have to look away and not think about it.

Sex. If you really think about it, it's the most ridiculous thing ever. I feel as though our brains must do some compartmentalising when we do the sex to stop us from hooting with laughter about it. I mean seriously, it is so strange.

Also, the notion of reality. Sometimes I just stop and think, what is real, is all of this real, am I real? And I'm having another "space is big" mess up in my head and everything is just really weird. That mostly happens when I suddenly see things as though it's a video or a film and not real looking. I'm having it now because I'm talking about it. What even are fingers?

[quote Eckhart]@SleepOhHowIMissYou

That's not what they're called, though. If you asked someone for a party blowout, they'd say 'What?'

Or were you giving them names?[/quote]
They are called party blowers - google them.

And checkout dividers.

They're called party blowers (I assume "blowout" is an autocorrect) or party horns. They have various different names but those are the two main ones.

Checkout divider is pretty much universal (well, in English at least).

@SleepOhHowIMissYou

That's not what they're called, though. If you asked someone for a party blowout, they'd say 'What?'

Or were you giving them names?

On the subject of 'who would our children be if they'd been conceived 3 seconds later', and 'a woman already has all her eggs when she is born'... think of all the millions of children that don't get conceived. The potential of each couple is phenomenal. And quite terrifying.

I mean, for example, if Hitler had been conceived 3 seconds later, he wouldn't have been Hitler. Well, he would have been, but just that nice Adolph bloke, who's always got a kind word for everyone (or something)

[quote Eckhart]@Bettina500

I started compiling a list of things we don't have a word for in English.

So far, I only have: Those things you blow at parties, that unfurl lengthways and whistle; the thing you put between your shopping and the next person's shopping on the conveyor belt at the supermarket till; another one I can't remember.

Can anybody think of any others?[/quote]
Check out dividers

And

Party blowout