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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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trashaccount · 28/10/2020 23:33

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Things that are actually pretty weird when you think about them?
Things that are actually pretty weird when you think about them?
Things that are actually pretty weird when you think about them?
Eckhart · 28/10/2020 23:29

I've probably just woken the neighbours laughing at that description of periods!

onemorerose · 28/10/2020 23:28

@cyclingmad you’d probably never know if an animal bleeds unless it’s a pet living in your home.

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 23:27

On the subject of periods. This is just my favourite description of them.

Things that are actually pretty weird when you think about them?
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TableFlowerss · 28/10/2020 23:26

Also when you watch Brian Cox explain about the universe and how big it is.

I mean where does it end? It can’t do it must go on forever but how’s that even possible? 🤯

sst1234 · 28/10/2020 23:24

That time, that most straight flowing of things, is linear at all. Our whole way of living, planning, doing is based on the assumption that one thing happens after another. But actually because of space/time continuum, events that occur at the same time for one observer, could occur at a different time for another.

MadameBlobby · 28/10/2020 23:23

And also babies/pregnancy

That if I hadn’t got pregnant the months I did but say the next month, the babies I would have had would have been completely different to the ones I had, and my own kids wouldn’t exist, but these other ones would be my world

trashaccount · 28/10/2020 23:23

Also the fact that my body tells me so many vital things about my health and well being, but I have absolutely no idea when I need to drink water. I think I'm in a perpetual state of dehydration but I feel absolutely fine!

cyclingmad · 28/10/2020 23:23

Oh wow I never knew!!!! OK but still why where we designed this way and female animals too! Do female cats have periods, guess the cats that roam my garden are make ones then.....

MacbookHo · 28/10/2020 23:22

@Isteamagoodham

Along the same lines, (sorry this is slightly grim), I remember reading a quote (I think from Tess of the d'Urbervilles) where it says about the important days of the year, birthdays etc. It points out that the day you're going to die is in the year somewhere. and every year you pass over that date without realising/ thinking about it. Which is true, if quite creepy and weird when you think about it! That quote always creeped me out and stayed with me.

I love that idea too, but I didn’t know it came from Tess. I thought I read it in “One Dat” by David Nicholls. Did he nick it from Hardy?

ItsNotPinkItsSalmon · 28/10/2020 23:22

@cyclingmad

Also only recently realised babies are born with their adult teeth, so what's the point of having baby teeth Hmm
They develop over time they are not born with them as such.
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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 23:22

[quote trashaccount]@eckhart The fact that when you die you often shit yourself, only to slowly decompose in the ground yet a few days earlier your partner may have fancied the pants off you Confused[/quote]
Aw talking of a few days earlier, it makes me incredibly sad on the thankfully rare occasions where I've been friends with someone on SM who's passed away and you see all the stuff they posted like a few days before Sad

It's very scary though really how we just have no idea what's coming one day to the next.

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Callcat · 28/10/2020 23:20

The sky. Its blue, with fluffy things, but sometimes it's grey and red and orange and purple. And we mostly ignore it. But it's fucking weird! We're living under a big blanket of colour. If you came from a dark planet, our sky would seem so trippy!

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 23:19

"that man pulled my tooth out! And I let him!". My daughter has had lots of surgeries and I mildly freak out when I think that someone has literally touched her heart, or seen inside her brain

This just reminds me of the surgery I had a while ago where some guy stuck a pessary up my arse. I fucking hate the thought of it. There's some guy walking about somewhere who stuck something up my bottom whilst I was asleep as part of his day job. It makes me cringe 😂

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trashaccount · 28/10/2020 23:19

@eckhart The fact that when you die you often shit yourself, only to slowly decompose in the ground yet a few days earlier your partner may have fancied the pants off you Confused

MadameBlobby · 28/10/2020 23:19

Christmas trees. Just the general idea of putting up a tree inside your house. I say this every time we put ours up.

Eckhart · 28/10/2020 23:18

It's weird how revolting we are on the inside. You know, like how utterly gorgeous a 6 pack looks, and yet millimetres beneath is a writhing mass of hot, stinking intestines and a stomach full of what, in other circumstances, is just vomit.

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 23:17

[quote Eckhart]@cyclingmad

Animals do have periods. I remember being very startled to discover that you can buy 'period pants' for dogs, so they don't get blood everywhere![/quote]
I can confirm. I remember my dad buying nappies for our female dog 😂

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FreezerBird · 28/10/2020 23:17

The space inside atoms. Why am I sitting on this settee and not falling through it?

Surgery/medical procedures. I had a wisdom tooth put a couple of years ago and for a couple of weeks afterwards every now and again I would have a sudden moment of thinking "that man pulled my tooth out! And I let him!". My daughter has had lots of surgeries and I mildly freak out when I think that someone has literally touched her heart, or seen inside her brain.

butterycooler · 28/10/2020 23:17

@Eckhart

Also, all the people that existed in the past, because records and documents weren't really kept, the majority of their thoughts and lives and everything they did are gone forever

Most of our society will vanish altogether because more and more things are virtual, and even buildings aren't meant to last very long these days. In a few hundred years, they'll think all we did was carry toothbrushes round in plastic bags.

This would be funny if it wasn't so tragic
trashaccount · 28/10/2020 23:16

@Pommersy Bit weird that your grandkids may also see everything you've posted on your social media too - I only have some pictures and memories of my grandparents.

Eckhart · 28/10/2020 23:16

@cyclingmad

Animals do have periods. I remember being very startled to discover that you can buy 'period pants' for dogs, so they don't get blood everywhere!

imjustbxx · 28/10/2020 23:16

@ThunderSkies thank you for the warning 😂😂 I hate when I read something I wasn't prepared for ewww that's so disgusting to think about

Pommersy · 28/10/2020 23:15

Like previous posters were saying it is strange and a bit sad to think of all the lives gone before but now forgotten forever. What will happen in the distant future to all the millions of social media accounts belonging to dead people? Will they be deleted after being inactive for a certain amount of time or will our great great grandchildren be able to find them?

trashaccount · 28/10/2020 23:15

@needanewidea Ahhhhh! The concept of giving birth to your "sibling" 's baby!!

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