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

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 20:33

I've just been thinking about this as I've been lay in the bath.

I'm currently pregnant and baby goes mad when I'm in the bath and I was watching him kicking and squirming inside me and just thought... This is actually pretty odd when you think about it. I have a living thing that's moving around inside me!

A friend had to have a blood transfusion not so long ago and she can't think about that for long without feeling squeamish that someone else's blood was inside her!

What other things do you find strange when you really think about them?

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TeamLucille · 29/10/2020 00:34

@BoyTree

If your clothes are too comfortable, they're probably not appropriate for public and you certainly shouldn't go to work in them. The more important the thing you are doing, the less comfortable your clothes should be in fact, because if you prioritise comfort over the way you look, others will view you as a lazy slob for some reason.
huh?!?

I am sure you are joking but I don't get it.

Twiggywinkle13 · 29/10/2020 00:32

The internet. It blows my mind. One day will it have so much information that it’s full?

Also other life forms. Only humans on earth would be arrogant enough to think we are the only life form in an entire infinite universe. On that same note - space 🤯

BoyTree · 29/10/2020 00:32

If your clothes are too comfortable, they're probably not appropriate for public and you certainly shouldn't go to work in them. The more important the thing you are doing, the less comfortable your clothes should be in fact, because if you prioritise comfort over the way you look, others will view you as a lazy slob for some reason.

amimakingitup · 29/10/2020 00:30

And advertising. We all know its made up bollocks, definitively, so how can it work?

PastMyBestBeforeDate · 29/10/2020 00:29

@The3rdWatermelon I am obsessed with family history and frequently when I am typing the name of a child who died I think how mind blowing it would be if the parents knew that 300 years in the future somebody would be taking a moment to think how sad it was that this child died.

amimakingitup · 29/10/2020 00:28

Recognising voices. I get (just) that there's enough variation potential in faces for us all to have distinct ones, but voices? mad.

Lizadork · 29/10/2020 00:28

What blows my mind is the fact I won't ever even know 0.1% of all the knowledge there is on this planet or have read 0.1% of book avaliable. Would take more than a life time to finish the book in our local library every, times that by a million libraries around the world and I have no chance of catching up no matter how studious I attempt to be.

I'll never live long enough to finish what is on Netflix right now either Confused

Namechange2220000 · 29/10/2020 00:28

That when I cut up some fruit, or crack an egg, that I'm the only person who's ever seen this bit of food 😂

titnomatani · 29/10/2020 00:24

@Chameleon72

Honey, how the bees produce it, and we eat it. Yuk.

You don't want to know how dogs are made then! 😂

TeamLucille · 29/10/2020 00:22

God, who made God.

Men, some would say Grin

TeamLucille · 29/10/2020 00:21

Milk and honey just come from survival surely. Someone saw another animal and decided to steal their food.

almondfingers22 · 29/10/2020 00:18

God, who made God.

Fancycrackers · 29/10/2020 00:18

@Papoy

When my grandmum was pregnant with my mum.... I was an egg (follicle) in my mums ovaries ... so I was once in my grandmum 😅

How weird is that ?

This made me think of Babushka dolls. It's so bloody amazing and mind blowing🤯
Teddy1970 · 29/10/2020 00:18

Why is planet earth the only habitable planet in our universe? Ok, I get there is probably some life form on the other planets but to actually live like we do? Build houses and work and raise families etc, I find that fascinating, and what is beyond our universe? The vastness of space is actually quite terrifying.

Namechanger20183110 · 29/10/2020 00:17

If I'm on an aeroplane for example ; I'm not a confident flyer, but I tell myself that it's mind over matter and that the chances of a crash happening are very low. But then I think about those poor souls who have crashed in the planes in the past, and did they think and tell themselves the exact same thing, and it actually happened to them. And if they did tell themselves, did they get a chance to process the fact that they thought about it happening only an hour before and that it's actually happened to them?

Whenever I look at old black and white photographs from the early 1900s and 1800s, I look at their faces and think wow they look just like us. Like they could have lived today and not looked out of place if they wore current fashion. And I wonder why they were destined to be born then and why we were destined for now

SleepOhHowIMissYou · 29/10/2020 00:15

That vision and smell is different for different animals. We can only see our own spectrum of colours but animals can see more colours and can detect smells that we cannot.

PerveenMistry · 29/10/2020 00:13

Hands.

Teddybelle · 29/10/2020 00:12

So weird that so many of the things I think are weird are already here! I’ve often thought that having a special room, furniture and clothing dedicated to sleeping is just so odd. Good to see I’m not the only one. And toilets! We all do it and no one says anything when you leave the dinner table to pop to the loo, but it’s just so strange and ugh that everyone knows exactly what you’re up to.
And then there’s hymns or mass singing. Sometimes I watch people singing their hearts out with music and rhyming words and think geez, this is pretty random...

imjustbxx · 29/10/2020 00:11

It's weird to think that insects see us as giants

ViciousJackdaw · 29/10/2020 00:09

How a woman giving birth is not the first person who sees, or even touches her baby.

Why is a steak cooked under the grill described as 'grilled' but a slice of bread done the same way is 'toasted'?

Who on earth decided to stick their hand in a beehive, probably getting stung to fuck in the process, just to see what the bees 'secretions' tasted like?

GameofPhones · 29/10/2020 00:07

That people can be seen and heard after their death in films and audio recordings, yet when it first happened people weren't freaked out by it (maybe they were, but I've not heard about any freaking out). I often wonder if the loved ones of the deceased happen to see or hear them like this unawares, and how they react to it. Ideally, they would be warned in advance, though obviously this is not possible.

PopsicleHustler · 29/10/2020 00:01

I respect everyone's way of life

But I just dont understand how people dont believe in God. Look how amazing the world is, the moon, the stars, the rivers ,the mountains. Who created it all........

nylsb · 29/10/2020 00:00

Attraction. Why do we get attracted to one person but not someone else. Why is such a person so attractive to me yet someone else could look at him and not see it at all.

CutToChase · 29/10/2020 00:00

The idea that you have this intricate existence and then you just disappear just seems so sad weird and impossible to me. But I'm not religious so that just leaves me with alcohol as a way of getting over it

alibongo5 · 28/10/2020 23:59

@FastFood

I was listening to Verdi's Requiem the other day, the very dramatic Dies Irae and thought: it's basically air being moved around metal, wood and human flesh.

Also:
how do you get into ski jump? How do you even start?

How do you make a living as a philosopher?

Why having 12 months of 30,31 or 28 days rather than 13 months of 28 days?
Will we ever update the calendar system?

Why no one cares that September, October, November and December are respectively the 9th,10th, 11th and 12th months when their names clearly indicate that they should be 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th?

Watch this - it is a brilliant interpretation of how the calendar should be reformed
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