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

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

Impregnating a cow and taking away its child so we can use it’s milk for our tea. Madness!!!!!

Blue cheese. When any other food goes blue we throw it out, even other types of cheese but we pay extra and see it as a treat to eat the only blue food. Even blueberries aren't actually blue, can't think of any other blue food.

I'm with you on meringue, snugglesnerd. And cake. Who the hell first randomly put the exact concoction of ingredients in the oven for just the right amount of time?

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?

@ChanklyBore fear not, trees in public places should be safety checked regularly!

That I have to pay rent and buy things - like who decided you owned this space? Why can't we just be free.

Honey lasts ages here because when I remember what I'm eating I can't. Similar for milk. I keep thinking about moving to plant based milk....

Gravity and the Southern Hemisphere. People are living upside down.

The internet, like where is it??? Someone said all the data on the internet weighed about as much as an egg. WTF

And how everything in the universe is made up of 118 Elements. I googled because I actually thought it was 92.

I used to think, well what about wood? That seems complex...

@dayswithaY

Meals. Who decided that you have three a day

Apparently, the white man, when he realised that slaves eating whenever they wanted was decreasing the amount of work getting done.

I can freak myself out if I look at my hand for too long. All these long bendy things on the end of my arm like little tentacles, made for grabbing things.

Imagine if electricity stopped happening. How fast our societies would crumble.

And why is it ok to have a big blob of mayonnaise on a chip, but it's revolting to have it on a spoon on its own?!

Great thread, OP.

I don't know where to start?!

Clapping - how bizarre that we hit our hands together when we're happy

Laughing - as above. Why?!

Language- the words we use, who made them up

Loving this thread! My mind is boggled daily

Meringue. How did somebody decide to do that with egg whites and sugar?!

I remember reading a previous thread on the very same topic and one of the first replies has stuck with me ever since, brilliant in its brevity.

“Trees. Fucking massive plants.”

Sadly I don’t remember who wrote it. But I think it every time I walk up my leafy avenue with all these trees pushing up the pavement. Fucking massive plants, like giant broccoli heads stuffed in the ground, but with root systems going under all the houses. And how nobody checks that trees are just going to stay up, where they are, I mean there are millions of trees just stuck in the ground right next to houses and play areas and schools and we all just basically assume it’s not going to crash tonnes of branch and trunk randomly down upon us.

Ditto most buildings, especially old ones. Who checks they are going to actually stay up? How can they check that? Do things actually not just randomly collapse? Bridges. How do we know they’ll stay up? Tunnels! I could go on. Who checks? The railway tunnels near where I am are over 170 years old and we merrily drive trains through them with much greater speed and frequency than was ever intended!

The loss of life on projects like the above tunnel are mind boggling too. There are plaques to the dozens of people killed building them. Can you imagine now? And yet we have more people than ever before.

Weird that someone ever thought it was a good idea to fly like a bird in massive metal dome things with triangular wings. I need a rope and be physically attached to something if going up. I don't like no safety net.

That we build houses on top of houses (flats/apartments), makes sense in terms of space but let me king the castle your home as you squire away in the servants quarters? Also, earthquakes, upstairs is totally smushing downstairs.

I wonder which two people first kissed? Was it an accident that they fell over , clashed lips and thought ooh this is nice?

Videos of automated processes are completely fascinating to watch. Like how a toothbrush is made. Sounds utterly boring, but some incredibly clever person made a machine that cuts the bristles in exactly the right shape. How did they think of that?!

Was recently sitting in a deckchair whilst camping and looking at the sky - and then it blew my mind that in 6 months time, we'll be the same distance from the sun, but on the other side of it - as in, we're on a planet moving around the sun, even tho the sun appears to move across our sky each day (it doesn't ;)

French kissing - we smoosh lips together and lick each other on the tongue and... we like it?

I also find it fascinating that theres something about it that is a way of exchanging pheromones but we arent even aware of it

Sleep. You’re unconscious for a third of your lifetime. While you are, you’re completely vulnerable.

Eggs. So many of them. Think about your nearest supermarket and how many eggs there are there. Then think of all the supermarkets all over the country. Then add in the corner shops, petrol stations, milkmen even butchers. All of them have eggs. Then think of all the countries that have all these shops full of eggs.

So. Many. Eggs. And they keep being replaced. Mind blowing.

Time. Why are we continually propelled forwards through it. Life wouldn't exist without it but what is it actually?