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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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WinterHasCome · 28/10/2020 22:40

Food. As in, every item of food that you can possibly think of, had to be eaten for the first time at some point, without the eater knowing whether it would be nice/disgusting/safe/able to kill them.

Tillygetsit · 28/10/2020 22:40

How do we know we're seeing the same colours? We're taught that something is red but my red might be my yellow in your head, we've just been told red.
I'm not explaining this very well am I?

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 22:38

My previous post also makes me wonder how we used to be so brutal in comparison to how reasonable (somewhat) we are now.

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Onxob · 28/10/2020 22:37

@dayswithaY I remember going for breakfast on my first morning in Bali and being agog that rice dishes were being served! What?! Where was the cocopops? Same in India and I assume most of Asia? That's when I too pondered on how weird it was to have certain foods at certain times of the day. Now I eat what I want, whenever I want - it's my little rebellion against the system Grin

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 22:36

That there were actual people like you and I who just happened to be born during other parts of history.

I mean, we're quite fortunate really that we weren't born during medieval times for example. But for some people, just like us, that was their reality, not just something we learn about in history lessons.

Or there was a time when the queen/king could literally just decide to cut your head off if they wanted to. Imagine the uproar now if Liz tried that. But it happened and it was just normal.

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Eckhart · 28/10/2020 22:34

Guitar design. Why are the strings tuned like that? It seems so random and confusing. There must be a reason but I just can't imagine why anybody would make it like that on purpose.

RiftGibbon · 28/10/2020 22:34

@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?

September, October and November did used to be the seventh, eighth and ninth months - the year used to start in March. Then the calendar changed.
MagentaRocks · 28/10/2020 22:32

That the human race will die out and the earth won't exist. The sun is about half way through its life so in 5 billion years (give or take) the sun will get so hot it will start to kill our planet. Then there will be nothing.

hilariousnamehere · 28/10/2020 22:32

Handwriting! How we make marks on a page with ink or pencil and it can be understood by everyone who can read our language, even though everyone's writing is completely different.

Also recognising handwriting - often after years of not seeing it a card will pop through the door and I know who it's from and I have no idea how I remember to recognise it, it's not like a face is it?!

And books - someone said it's amazing how reading a book is like hallucinating while staring at some pulped wood. I adore reading and easily get lost in books and this made me laugh and also 🤯

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 22:31

@Igotthemheavyboobs

I think it's hard to think everyone else sees everything in a completely different way to me. Even slumping to a lower height or standing on a stool to be taller gives you a different prospective of the world.
And that brings me to the colour thing I think a lot of people mention. Does everyone see the same colours? Is your purple my green?
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dexterslockedintheshedagain · 28/10/2020 22:31

Records.
As in, how does a noise (something intangible) get to be on a piece of vinyl (tangible) then when touched with a needle put out noise (intangible)??!! Why can't you see it on the vinyl??
Just blows my mind.

Igotthemheavyboobs · 28/10/2020 22:30

I think it's hard to think everyone else sees everything in a completely different way to me. Even slumping to a lower height or standing on a stool to be taller gives you a different prospective of the world.

QueenPaws · 28/10/2020 22:30

@Crystalknobs definitely. I was "is this it?"
Like we work to retire to live in the homes we worked to buy Confused to not work and enjoy the life we should have had but we are too old to do much/don't have the money/have health issues then die. Bizarre

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 22:30

@WonderMoon

Sometimes when I'm stuck in traffic, I look around and start smiling to myself , just thinking about how we all just drive around in these little metal things with wheels on.
And how we're all sat down as well on a chair. But going fast.
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MrsMaryBOOface · 28/10/2020 22:29

[quote Nostrings457]@Mizydoscape i have thought this for so long but not been able to put it in to words but you nailed it!

@MrsMaryBOOface i have never even had this thought before but now i am lay in bed imagining my neighbours in bed like sims[/quote]
Grin and the other OPs reply saying about blocks of flats and wanting to have x ray vision to see them all inside- I get that too!

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 22:28

One thing I do wonder sometimes... What if any time we have a sort of near miss experience, like if I'm driving and someone cuts me up and I just miss hitting them, what if I actually did hit them, died and then an alternate reality spiralled off where I carried on living and that's just life going on and on and we never knew.

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CrocodilesCry · 28/10/2020 22:28

Blowing out candles on a birthday cake.

I've always thought it was pretty rank. I'm wondering if it's now a thing of the past!

Eckhart · 28/10/2020 22:28

Gravity and the Southern Hemisphere. People are living upside down

That's where the word 'antipodean' comes from. Anti (against) pod (feet) because we civilised idiots in the northern hemisphere assumed they must walk on their heads in the southern!

Blackcountryexile · 28/10/2020 22:28

I remember looking at DD when she was a newborn and thinking now there was someone who knew what it was like to be me.

tinkywinkyshandbag · 28/10/2020 22:27

Singing. Making special musical sounds with our mouths. And "songs", a special kind of singing that lasts roughly 3 minutes. And that you listen to again and again.

sorrysaywhatnow · 28/10/2020 22:27

I've always found it amazing that because women are born with all their eggs, I was there at my own mothers birth, and my daughter was present (in some form) at mine.

WonderMoon · 28/10/2020 22:27

Sometimes when I'm stuck in traffic, I look around and start smiling to myself , just thinking about how we all just drive around in these little metal things with wheels on.

Custardcream67 · 28/10/2020 22:26

Human body. It’s baffling how amazing it is. All of the detail on how it works...why do we have to be so complicated? Why Can’t we just eat what we want and not store excess as fat. It’s just baffling to thing we evolved from single cell organism to what we are now. Crazy.

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 22:26

@Whatelsecouldibecalled

Oral sex. Think about it in the cold light of day - licking areas where you have wee come out off.

In the moment- yes please!

Weird

Oh god, this 🤢
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Whatelsecouldibecalled · 28/10/2020 22:26

Agh. Of. Not off

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