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

I love sharing a bed with DH. It's a lovely way to start and finish the day. So cosy! The DC also share this view so it gets a bit squished by morning.

How many people have actually been made ill through poo particles contaminating their toothbrush?

The fact that we use toothbrushes more than once. Really grim

Not sure if its mentioned, sorry.

But reading.
There's some weird shapes carved into wood or written on paper, that when we look at them make words that we can actually sound out, and then you can read lots of them together and it makes shapes, images and movements inside your own head, all from random shapes.
It just boggles my mind whenever I think about it, its just amazing really.
Not to mention how many different languages there are, so someone in another country has to see different shapes, or shapes formed in different orders to see the same images in their heads.

It's also why thinks like the Potato Famine had such long effects. If not only affected pregnant women and their babies but for the girls, their children too because of the epigenetic changes when the babies eggs were being made

I agree about the baby thing. I’m 34 weeks pregnant and sometimes when I think about how many teeth and organs are inside me it really weirds me out.

Also - a weird shower thought I had the other day! Women are born carrying all the eggs they will ever have inside them. That means that when I was a baby in my mother’s womb, she had inside her the egg of mine that was fertilised to become the baby I’m now carrying. And if my baby is a girl, I have inside me the eggs that will turn into my future grandchildren, if she has children of her own. That really blew my mind!

Demonic Cuntings...and how anyone has had sex with him 🙁

@DryRoastPeanut your post made me think of the ending of the old guard on Netflix

Hopefully not a spoiler for anyone but it's a good film with an interesting and thought provoking ending

Not caught up on thread but for those interested in alternative maps etc I'm just watching west wing and for any unfamiliar there's an episode - season 2 episode 16 around 25 mins in where exactly this is discussed

2 main characters basically go in expecting a boring pr exercise, they simply need to get over with, and their jaws dropping upon being told that not only are major areas not correctly portrayed on standardly used Mercator maps in terms of size but also in terms of actual location

The characters are basically 'wtf?! So we haven't been living where we THOUGHT we were living the maps are all wrong?' And the quirky lobby group person goes "er...yep! Basically'

Lobby group person is one of my favourite actors, he's not famous as such but he's one of those he's in loads of things and most will know his face AND his distinctive voice/speech pattern - John Billingsley

Trekkies will definitely know him.

Just a really funny scene

I often say to dh is daft we have to share a bed, it is like we can't afford one each. He just looks at me like I'm mad.

Sharing a double bed with your dh/partner. We don't have to sit on a double chair together. Or share a double plate to eat our dinner. Or have bath together. But have to sleep in the same bed.

Don’t know if this has already been posted but perfume scents, my sister smells amazing in this musk perfume.. I bought some and it’s just smells awful on me! It’s so strange how it can smell so different on people.

Another thing I find weird is taste. For example, my mum made a chocolate cake that 10 of us had a piece of after tea. Everybody apart from me and my niece said how nice it was. To us two there was something not quite right about it. It turned out that she was originally going to make a lemon cake and put a tiny bit of lemon into the mixture before changing her mind. Why was it only noticeable to two of us?

Also, on the subject of pee, isn't it a peculiar evolutionary failing that we can be desperate for a pee and simultaneously very very thirsty.

*pee

This is a weird one

Your bladder will let you know when you need to pre but how does the brain know the difference between sitting on a toilet seat or just a normal seat?

I think of my three daughters and their children and I wonder how different the world is because I had my children. One of my grandchildren or great great great grandchildren could invent time travel or cure cancer.

Also I get a bit mind blown when I think of that perfect unbroken line of women before me, my mum, my grandmother her mother etc, stretching all the way back to the first recognisable human and even further....

That we are living on a rock circling a star in space and that we are destroying said rock.
The fact that could bemillions of other rocks with lifeon them or that we might be the only rock with life. Either way life is bonkers!

Food - I often how many people have died in the past eating certain poisonous food stuff before it became common knowledge throughout mankind that those foods were to be avoided.

@mumsnethq can we nominate this thread for classics?

What a good & crazy thread - feels like I’m falling down the rabbit hole reading it 🤯 or we’re all in some sort of giant virtual That-70s-Show circle smoking pot.