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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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Destinysdaughter · 28/10/2020 23:59

Who discovered alcohol? It's basically just rotting fruit or vegetables. Who decided that it would be so much fun to drink?

Also, when someone dies, where do they go?

Brilliant thread!

trashaccount · 28/10/2020 23:59

@Teddy1970 What can I say, threads like these are the only times when my very niche and random pieces of knowledge are put to good use Grin

trashaccount · 28/10/2020 23:58

** potentially not dependent on mood, might have read that wrong but at the very least there is a difference between emotional and irritative tears!

Teddy1970 · 28/10/2020 23:58

Good grief trashaccount you learn something new everyday! Well now I know, thanks for that,

Papoy · 28/10/2020 23:55

Having a fish tank at home.... what are they doing in our lounges? So random????

trashaccount · 28/10/2020 23:54

@Teddy1970 Some cool stuff on tears - they're (supposedly) different dependent on mood which explains the different effect on your eye and face! Absolutely crazy.

Things that are actually pretty weird when you think about them?
imjustbxx · 28/10/2020 23:52

I'm pregnant Why does boiled kettle water taste so good. Put it in the fridge or freezer 👅👅👅👅😭😭😭😭 YUM

trashaccount · 28/10/2020 23:52

@PutItInYourPocket
I just did it Grin

That's my contribution to the world sorted!

Teddy1970 · 28/10/2020 23:52

Another thing I find odd is when you've been crying loads your eyes swell up and kind of glaze over, but when you have a stinking cold or a dodgy contact lens with equally streaming eyes they weirdly don't? You can always tell when someones been crying compared to just watery eyes and its always baffled me!

Papoy · 28/10/2020 23:51

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 ?

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 23:49

Like if I put my leg in the air right now and scratched my left armpit, I'm surely the only person in the world doing this action right at this moment

I think we all have to do this as a collective now, just so we can say we did Grin

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Namechanger20183110 · 28/10/2020 23:47

I do the whole "I'm probably the only person doing this in the world right now" thing too! Like if I put my leg in the air right now and scratched my left armpit, I'm surely the only person in the world doing this action right at this moment. At the turn of the millennium, I was 16, and when the clock struck 12 I drank a glass of Dr Pepper as I told myself how special it would be that I would be the only person in the world drinking Dr Pepper at the exact second they entered the millennium!

Therarestone · 28/10/2020 23:46

Sex. It's all a bit weird isn't it.

Motherofchickens1 · 28/10/2020 23:45

@ChanklyBore

Good to know trees are checked. But what about in the woods and forests or.....the ones in my garden....I have five pretty big trees!

About the living in other periods of history. It’s when you visit historically important, but quite small, houses. Like the bronte parsonage or Queen elizabeth 1st hunting lodge orsomewhere, and you think, fucking HELL, I just walked up the same stairs that X person once walked up. The same ones. I have a shared experience with the Bronte sisters, and with Queen Elizabeth 1st. And to QE1, the Bronte sisters would have been incredibly futuristic....

I felt the same when I visited Auschwitz. I kept thinking that I was walking all over a crime scene and that so many people had been murdered where I stood, that we were sharing the same space, I had walked the same walk as so many people whose stories have been passed down
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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 23:43

Hair. We make such a fuss of the hair on our head but shave other hairy areas. Underarm pixie cut or minge bob anyone ?

On the subject of hair, eyebrows.

I've got random patches of hair on my face above my eyes. I wouldn't want patches of hair to grow anywhere else on my face. It sounds like it would be gross but we'd look so weird without them.

Imagine if that just hadn't happened when we were evolving and we were all just getting about eyebrow-less and it was normal.

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Singlemum31 · 28/10/2020 23:40

Technology always gets me, I can Google anything, all the info has bounced up to satellites in space and back down to little old me in secs blows my mind 😅

username1724 · 28/10/2020 23:40

Conception. That every time a child is conceived there was a million other possible children it could have been. Its just luck as to which one gets to the egg and there's a full life there. And all the cells just know what to do. I conceived my second son when I left work early with a tooth infection (consider it pain relief) and if I hadn't have had an infection he wouldn't have been here. An entire life would not exist. The whole knock on effect if every action has a reaction and how far that reaction spreads.

ghoulyghosttunnel · 28/10/2020 23:40

The fact that we are living on a cooling down fireball. The centre hasn't even finished cooling yet.

Hair. We make such a fuss of the hair on our head but shave other hairy areas. Underarm pixie cut or minge bob anyone ? 🙈🤣

ChanklyBore · 28/10/2020 23:38

Intrusive thoughts (like throwing your car keys over a bridge as reference by the OP) I’d imagine are the same thoughts that lead to a lot of the thing we wonder about here. Like cracking an agb and eating it or or combining this and that and baking it. Why? Because we can, and because it is interesting to see what would happy, and because humans are intensely curious and hugely inventive, if nothing else. We all sit there each day thinking it know what happens if I do that, I know what happens if I do this, but what would happen if I did THIS’ intrusive thoughts to one person, inventive thoughts to the next, depending on the result.

LoisWilkersonslastnerve · 28/10/2020 23:37

We can't just exist for no reason. An ant has no concept of what we are, so I think space is just a small cell of something much bigger that we can't see or understand. We are cogs of something else. Great thread op but I likely won't sleep nowGrin

Namechanger20183110 · 28/10/2020 23:37

The fact that this exact second right now is the youngest you've ever been and the oldest you've ever been

trashaccount · 28/10/2020 23:36

@Teddy1970 In that vein, we can also take drugs that totally change our perception of the world. I read a screenshot of a thread that was making a joke how oxygen keeps you in a state of being high and when you stop breathing it in you black out Shock

alibongo5 · 28/10/2020 23:36

@tara738

I always think it's weird, on the brain theme, that brains can control some things and not others. Like why can I move my arm when I want and not burn off all the calories from a croissant just by concentrating extra hard to burn them
I always thought it was weird that your body obviously knows you are pregnant because it knows that you have a baby growing and reacts accordingly but at the same time doesn't bother telling your brain so that you consciously know! Ditto illness such as cancer. Your body knows it's there as it tries to react - why not tell your brain so you can take yourself to the doctor?
mamamilkmachine · 28/10/2020 23:36

Place marking as this thread is amazing and I am loving reading it but must now go to sleep......by pretending to be asleep Confused

Teddy1970 · 28/10/2020 23:34

Dancing in a nightclub, everyone crammed on a dance floor doing strange movements to music, it's really odd when you think about it.

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