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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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cyclingmad · 28/10/2020 23:15

Also only recently realised babies are born with their adult teeth, so what's the point of having baby teeth Hmm

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 23:15

Another thing about the whole 'people of the past'... Whenever I see a skeleton/skull/bone in a museum it just blows my mind that that was an actual person. They might have just been a proper bog standard person, like me, and now they are in a glass case being gawked at hundreds of years later.

I saw a mummified hand once in a museum. What if my hand gets dug up in 300 years and stuck in a museum?

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butterycooler · 28/10/2020 23:14

Also, water blows my mind. Nothing can live without it but it offers no nutritional benefit and too much will kill you.
It's one of the few chemicals where it's solid form is lighter than its liquid form. If that wasn't the case then the Artic ocean would be a solid block and there wouldn't be ocean currents, life as we know it wouldn't exist.
And it all just goes round and round the planet on an infinite loop.

cyclingmad · 28/10/2020 23:14

Why do women have to bleed to reproduce? Think about it, animals don't so why were humans designed to?

Why is time measured be seconds and theb minutes and hours and why 60 minutes is one hour and then 24hrs in a day, why not have 4hours in a day where each hour is 180 minutes long who came up with this?

OneWildNightWithJBJ · 28/10/2020 23:13

Most of these! Definitely the universe and the Internet.

Also (only read half the thread so far, so someone may have mentioned it), how everything on this planet is made from the earth/elements. All our clothes, cars, computers, medicines, buildings... A bit like the pp saying everything is made in factories, but before that, all the materials have come from the earth!

needanewidea · 28/10/2020 23:13

[quote trashaccount]@butterycooler On mention if this, the entire premise of "twins" is weird. Like I (vaguely) understand it from a scientific perspective, but I wonder how well it fits into the ideology of "if you saw yourself on the street you wouldn't recognise yourself"?

I dated a twin once, I'm kicking myself for not asking![/quote]
If you think twins are weird, try looking up Chimerism. One person (or animal) made from the DNA of two people (or animals).

Eckhart · 28/10/2020 23:12

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.

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 23:10

There's too many. I should be asleep but now I can't. Now I'm lay awake in bed thinking of all my neighbours lay in their beds along the row of houses 😂

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TableFlowerss · 28/10/2020 23:10

I think what I struggle with most with the concept is that there are so many interpretations/ideas/variations.

Even if there was the possibility that there was actually a god- there can’t be hundreds so there’s going to be some upset people as which god is it? Who’s right who’s wrong?

needanewidea · 28/10/2020 23:10

@MudSmudge

Rain - that's fucking mental. Like, the idea that a liquid just turns into a gas for no visible reason and then turns back into a liquid for no visible reason. Mental - it's basically flying water and I think aliens would be baffled.
Also that water had been around forever - so the water you drink could have been part of cloud, a lake, the sea. It might have been swum in by dinosaurs or flown through by birds before. It could have been through the bodies of many other beings - perhaps as a drink for a tiger or been cried as tears of someone who lived thousands of years ago.

That's weird! But amazing IMO.

Toptotoeunicolour · 28/10/2020 23:09

The fact that if you stare at a person's ears for long enough, you see that humans are in fact monkeys. Try it.

trashaccount · 28/10/2020 23:09

@butterycooler On mention if this, the entire premise of "twins" is weird. Like I (vaguely) understand it from a scientific perspective, but I wonder how well it fits into the ideology of "if you saw yourself on the street you wouldn't recognise yourself"?

I dated a twin once, I'm kicking myself for not asking!

foilflower · 28/10/2020 23:09

@Crystalknobs

Space is weird, how do we know that it goes on forever? I often wonder if we and the planet we live on are being kept as little pets by a giant . I imagine the giant keeps us in a goldfish bowl and watches us .
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks like this! I sometimes wonder if we’re so tiny that we can’t see the true - much bigger than we imagine - bigger picture. Just like the tiniest creatures that we know would have no idea of the scale of our world, what we know of could be just a small part of something much bigger (yes, like a goldfish bowl kept by a giant!). Grin
Twillow · 28/10/2020 23:08

Definitely how can people STILL support Trump.

How does wifi work?

Gravity isn't what you were always taught.

If God exists why can't he be arsed to prove it.

butterycooler · 28/10/2020 23:07

Humans have 2 eyes, a nose, a mouth, 2 cheeks, a chin and a forehead. And yet we all look different from each other (apart from twins) it blows my mind that there are so many different combinations that 7 billion people look different from each other.

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.

Along the cooking theme. Who looked at wheat and thought "well I'm going to wait until it goes brown and looks like it's dying, then I'm going to take the top bit and squash it between some big stones. Then the powder produced I can mix with sugar and water and this mould type stuff, mix it together and leave it for a bit, then roll it around before baking it. I'll call it bread"

trashaccount · 28/10/2020 23:07

@TableFlowerss Religion does baffle me a bit too - though I'd be desperately keen to assign myself to one if I could believe in one that aligned with my moral views. It seems a happier or possibly more focused life.

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 23:07

@TableFlowerss

Probably going to get flamed here, but I didn’t start the OP for this purpose, but it’s the one thing that blows my mind when I truly think of it. In relation to this thread....

That so many people in this day and age, (given what we know through science/evolution etc...) still believe there is a ‘god’ that created us and will judge us upon our death and we’ll go to heaven....

Fair enough people can believe in what they want and they’re doing no harm but it still blows my mind.

No I totally understand what you mean. I have absolutely nothing against people believing in whatever they want to believe in, I have a lot of family who are very devout Christians. But when you think of the basic premise of it, it is a weird concept.
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sweetkitty · 28/10/2020 23:05

Sex - when you think about it it’s just weird.

Eckhart · 28/10/2020 23:05

@PutItInYourPocket

This thread is peak mumsnet. You have won.

TableFlowerss · 28/10/2020 23:04

Probably going to get flamed here, but I didn’t start the OP for this purpose, but it’s the one thing that blows my mind when I truly think of it. In relation to this thread....

That so many people in this day and age, (given what we know through science/evolution etc...) still believe there is a ‘god’ that created us and will judge us upon our death and we’ll go to heaven....

Fair enough people can believe in what they want and they’re doing no harm but it still blows my mind.

Blurp · 28/10/2020 23:04

@Vulgarlady

Illustrations in books

How does a baby know that a small circle on top of a big circle with 2 pointy triangles on top represents a cat? A lot of children’s images are very abstract to say the least. Peppa pig hardly looks like a real Life farm animal.

On similar lines, how does a toddler tell the difference between a cat and a small dog? Or even a dog and a horse? What is it that makes a horse look so utterly different from all the breeds of dog out there? Surely a whippet looks more like a small horse than it looks like a pug? So how does my toddler know that the whippet and the pug are dogs, and the horse is a horse?!
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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 23:03

On the subject of the earth, how everything is so finely balanced, like literally on a pinhead. If one certain gas or element changed slightly everything could just fall apart. Our existence really is so fragile.

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trashaccount · 28/10/2020 23:03

@PutItInYourPocket Yes! Or I get the feeling if I'm walking on a wobbly bridge to keep jumping until it snaps. No real reason why, I guess just to prove I could Grin

MaraScottie · 28/10/2020 23:03

Earrings. The fact we decorate our head-protrusions with bits of metal that dangle.

Eckhart · 28/10/2020 23:03

@Blurp

2. Dinosaurs might have lived on my street. It's entirely possible that, many years ago, a dinosaur walked in the ground that would eventually become the street I live on now

Really made me laugh. I know it's not what you meant, but I couldn't help thinking of the T-Rexes at number 6 gossiping about the pterodactyls over the road at number 3...