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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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Crystalknobs · 28/10/2020 22:10

QueenPaws I agree, we’ve made our existence so complicated , which is why I’d like to be a cave woman and just concentrate on living.

Prettybluepigeons · 28/10/2020 22:09

Adult children.
My son is a man and I sometimes look at him and think " You used to live inside me"
So weird

Snowbeau · 28/10/2020 22:09

@raspberryboom absolutely with the factories!
And also, is there a factor that makes factory machines? And how are they made? Surely there's only one factory machine needed for (say) wrapping the marzipan around the battenburg. So by default the person who invented this amazing machine has then lost their job as it's not a high demand machine and so once one has been made then that's pretty much it until it breaks. But then what machine makes the machine? And where? And how????

QueenPaws · 28/10/2020 22:09

@The3rdWatermelon that really hit something in me. I recently did my family tree (back to about 1500) and it was fascinating
Every so often I get a memory like today in the shower, I smelt a shower gel and bang, back in time. Had to ring my dad and ask if grandad grew tomatoes. Dad was confused but yes, and the shower gel took me back to that smell of warm tomato

Shizzlestix · 28/10/2020 22:07

Sleep: being unconscious for hours is weird.

Cooking: who thought of the idea to cook stuff and plant/grow stuff? Why?!

Babies: they ARE like parasites, taking everything from the mother. And why is it often so difficult to get them out? Why is it so hard to reproduce? Surely it should be easy?

Instruments: who ever thought up putting strings on wood and twanging them? Bizarre.

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 22:07

Won't lie, in my younger days I did used to eat last night's left over takeaway for breakfast. Curry at 8am 👍

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CovidStoleTheRainbow · 28/10/2020 22:06

I love your OP, I can relate to both.
When I first found out I was pregnant with my first baby, after I got over the shock and wow I had an almost rejection feeling because I felt like someone else was living inside me and it felt alien and very wrong.
It's not someone else's blood, but it was their jizz and it made a parasite!

On a serious note I've always thought I'd be both eternally grateful and squeamish at the idea of a blood transfusion, if I had one.

QueenPaws · 28/10/2020 22:06

Life in general. Like we are worker bees. We work to pay for a home we aren't in (because we are working) and a car to get to work (that then sits at work all day)
Sometimes I'm a bit "what is the point of it all?"

RiftGibbon · 28/10/2020 22:06

@dayswithaY

Meals. Who decided that you have three a day. Why do breakfast, lunch and dinner always vaguely stick to the same theme ie, cereal, sandwich, meat and two veg. Why is it not ok to have a chicken salad when you get up in the morning? I know anyone can eat whatever they like but really most people don't do they? Why don't people have apple crumble for lunch and cornflakes for dinner. Who made these rules? I want to know whose idea it all was!
I had apple crumble for breakfast today. It was left over and was only going to go to waste otherwise.
SunshineCake · 28/10/2020 22:06

@MadameMeursault

Why am I in this body and in this life and not in someone else’s body and someone else’s life? My mum had a miscarriage before she had me, what if she hadn’t, would I have been that baby, or the person born in the world just before I was born, or my younger brother, or never existed?
You wouldn't have been that baby.
BrunoMars · 28/10/2020 22:06

That people still believe in religion

KenzoBaby · 28/10/2020 22:04

Surprised more people haven't said "eating". Especially as a social activity.

I know, let's all sit together and use our teeth to mush up our food so it can go down our throat.

Why is that sociable but (except in Roman times) going to the toilet/bath isn't?

The one about being made of the same atoms as was once a star blows my mind. Also thinking that the glass of water I drink came out a dinosaur!

Also ironing, given how advanced we are we still have to use a hot stone to get creases out of our clothes. I thought by the year 2000 we'd be wearing silver spacesuits.

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 22:04

To clarify, I mean my unborn baby!

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 22:04

Me and DH were saying yesterday actually, after the midwife told me that baby can sleep for around 40 mins at a time, do they dream? Like I know they don't know anything yet so can't dream like we do but, is anything going on? Like maybe noises or something? I don't know.

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LemonadeFromLemons · 28/10/2020 22:04

@Disorganisedfish

I’m with you all on the sleeping thing. About the same time every day, humans collectively lie down in special clothes and sort of switch our bodies off to recharge them. It blows my mind that we are that simplistic when it comes down to it!
Come to think of it the fact that we are all making ourselves so vulnerable doing it!
JammyGem · 28/10/2020 22:03

Reading is still weird to me. It's just squiggles and yet our brain makes sense of them and can create whole worlds in our imagination. Don't even get me started on different languages!

musicalfrog · 28/10/2020 22:03

On the language thing. How does my 4yo know how to perfectly pronounce most of the words she uses, but is only just learning what they look like written down? It's a small window of knowing one but not the other, and it's a really odd one to think about!

smellywellies9 · 28/10/2020 22:01

DANCEFLOORS
Going to a specific area of a room, so that you can wave your limbs around to music with other people doing the same too. Considering how serious humans usually are, this always makes me smile

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 22:01

@mcgonagalscat

Cameras. How does that magic work? Video cameras - like, where would you even start if someone asked you to make a video camera
Yes. How does this contraption capture a moment in time like that. It's mind boggling.

I do hope no one is reading this high 🤣

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Frenchdoors1 · 28/10/2020 22:00

@PutItInYourPocket

Does anyone get the thing where if they stare at the same word for too long or say it lots of times it starts to look/sound wrong?

Sometimes I'll question myself if it's even spelt that way even though I know it is because it looks so weird after a while.

Haha, yes I've done that and it is weird.
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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 21:59

@zigaziga

The sleeping one is weird, PP are on to something there.

I’ve always found organised religion weird. A deity creates us all. Provides a random set of rules. Is inherently a good (perfect) being but also kind of needy and requires us to sing songs about them and to them about how perfect they are and how we all love them. I created my DC and I’d find it really weird if on all Wednesdays afternoons they all sang songs about me.

So true. I get all awkward and flustered when anyone tries to just give me a basic compliment. Never mind worshipping me every Sunday.
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12frogsincoats · 28/10/2020 21:59

I was thinking earlier how a lot of us get squeamish at finding random hairs stuck to us or things around us, but we wouldn't think twice about touching someone's hair when it was still attached to their head

Crystalknobs · 28/10/2020 21:59

That everything that happens in life depends on so many other events and decisions made by other people that have no idea I exist or the fact that their decision had affected me.

SunshineCake · 28/10/2020 21:58

Who decided that blue is blue and red is red.

How planes stay up.

How ridiculous sex is.

When I did eat breakfast I sometimes did have last nights left over dinner. I eat what I want when I want and don't follow rules like that.

MadameMeursault · 28/10/2020 21:58

@VeggieSausageRoll

I often wonder if I've ever drank the same water molecule twice...

And the thought that solid objects are actually made up of empty space (ie the spaces between the atoms that make up the materials)

And that we're all stuck to this blob of rock flying around the solar system at 67,000mph, and that blob of rock itself is then spinning at 1,000mph.

Things like this are the reason I don't sleep well!

And the air has particles in it even though it looks completely empty!