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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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mcgonagalscat · 28/10/2020 21:58

Cameras. How does that magic work? Video cameras - like, where would you even start if someone asked you to make a video camera

dayswithaY · 28/10/2020 21:58

The3rdWatermelonThis blows my mind too. If you walk through a graveyard and see the grave of Fred Jones who died in 1936. Everyone that ever knew him, loved him, worked with him, is now dead. His wife, all his siblings, all gone. Probably his children too, the only living relatives are people who know nothing about him. Anything he achieved is gone and forgotten. Did he even exist?

Onxob · 28/10/2020 21:57

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.

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 21:57

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.

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SonjaMorgan · 28/10/2020 21:57

*feels

SonjaMorgan · 28/10/2020 21:57

Rich people hoarding money. I mean you will never be able to spend it all so why bother?

People who don't enjoy food.

Driving my car. The more I think about shooting down the road at speed in a tin box the weirder it feeling.

dolphinpose · 28/10/2020 21:55

Domestic cats. DS2 and I often discuss our amazement that some tiny lion has decided to live with us, share our beds, sit on our laps, stroke us with its paws, purr for us, come running when we call, come and greet us when we get home.

zigaziga · 28/10/2020 21:55

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.

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 21:55

@TremendousWitch

Cocks are very weird, like this vulnerable ball bag and stuff.
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I get the sex thing too. Like you actually put a body part inside someone else...(and I'm sorry to be gross), I have a hole in my body that DH puts part of his body in... For fun Hmm

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BakedTattie · 28/10/2020 21:54

I can’t even think about space. It blows my mind so much I get scared.

Rosiejim · 28/10/2020 21:53

Punting nails is pretty weird. Like this weird hard stuff grows out of your fingers so we paint it.

itwasrebekahvardysaccount · 28/10/2020 21:53

I always think about things like this 🤣

Eyes and penises

Crystalknobs · 28/10/2020 21:52

@KarmaNoMore that 2 people have the same thoughts at the same time!

MadameMeursault · 28/10/2020 21:51

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?

2bazookas · 28/10/2020 21:51

@PutItInYourPocket

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?

Just wait till that wriggling belly -blob is 6ft tall with a beard and huge feet, and you think to yourself "Wow, I made that, not bad for a first try; but how the hell did it ever fit? "
KarmaNoMore · 28/10/2020 21:50

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Wherrsmaclickypen · 28/10/2020 21:50

The wild idiosyncracies and diversity of species.

e.g. Beavers. That building drive and instinct. Whats that all about.

I spend way too much time thinking 'what if I was born a little beaver who couldn't be arsed to build dams and wanted to be an astronaut instead'.

bossybloss · 28/10/2020 21:50

Camping ...lying inSide what is essentially a canvas bag in the middle of a field , with other people in their own canvas bags .....

musicalfrog · 28/10/2020 21:49

How they invented space travel before they invented colour television.

Crystalknobs · 28/10/2020 21:49

How do we know that what I see as red , is the same colour as you see ? and what food I taste has the same taste to you? It irritates me that we’ll never know!

Spelunking · 28/10/2020 21:49

@missmouse101

How does something as massive and heavy as an aeroplane stay up in the air?

Also, how on earth did sponge cake get invented?! Whoever thought 'if I mix flour, butter, milk and eggs and bake it, it will turn into a delicious soft sponge...' You'd never guess those ingredients would do what they do! What other combinations haven't been invented yet?

Definitely cooking. Why would you think to split the white and the yolk from an egg? Why would you even try an egg or think to cook it?
KarmaNoMore · 28/10/2020 21:48

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Heartofstrings · 28/10/2020 21:47

@dayswithaY I am THAT person who will mix up meals. Happily have a "dinner" for breakfast, maybe a breakfast for lunch.

Laiste · 28/10/2020 21:46

Following on from the beach thing mentioned by pp:

I often think about explaining to an alien how for humans it's perfectly ok to wander about semi naked, even to a shop, as long as you are within a few meters from a largish body of water. It has to be bigger than a pond.

Once you get too far from it it's deemed not ok to be dressed like that.

discodave88 · 28/10/2020 21:46

Is the bottom of the sea full of fish poo? 🤣🤣

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