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

As someone who remembers the time when you had to book an international phone call days in advance, and the operator would call you at the designated time to "put you through to Australia", and you could only talk for 3 mins because that cost a small fortune, and also as someone who queued outside a phone box every Sunday night to phone my parents to let them know I was still alive, being able to chat for hours to people in different countries at the same time, for free, still blows my mind.

Great thread btw OP

Loving these .

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 .

Cocks are very weird, like this vulnerable ball bag and stuff.

Factories. The fact that nearly every single thing in our houses, workplaces and everyday lives, is made in a factory. Even walking down the street - street signs, street lights, bulbs, fence panels, benches, bins, the bags that go in the bins.... Everything is made in a factory. How many factories must there be in the world?! Where are they all?? And then you see factories on TV and they are so enormous, like one whole massive factory just making crisps for example. So how many enormous factories must there be making every single food product
/brand we buy?! I still remember the first time I ever thought about this... blew my mind!

Covid tiers. Im in Lincolnshire, near Nottinghamshire border. Tier 1. But a few miles is tier 3.

Phones. How we can speak on the phone and hear other people, in real time. It’s just crazy.

The fact that DH and I made 2 other humans. I mean, they just didn’t exist at all and now they are whole human beings who have their own personalities and thoughts and feelings etc and they live in our house with us 🤯
They’re 9 and 11 and I still can’t get my head around them often!

The bit on the weather when they tell you what it was like earlier today.

Yeah, it was rainy, I know, I was out in in. Not much of a 'fore' cast.

So many of these things - and they make me feel really weird.

But also 'technology' im typing this on a 'phone screen' and immediate, all of you, all around the world can read it.

Phone. I can phone my friend in NZ and we can talk. NZ anywhere in the world and we can talk. How, just how?

Fire is pretty mind blowing

Electricity is just magic

Drinking other animals milk, imagine putting cats milk on your cereal.

Freezers, I don't know how they work

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!

I actually was thinking the other night how I feel sad eating meat now because I've just had a baby and I'd hate it if someone ate my baby so why should I eat other animals babies?!?

I said this to my husband. I've never seen him laugh so much.

Pets, that we have a complete different species just living in our house. We just bumble along together with some weird understanding of each other.

That no one else knows the person that you think you are except for you. Each person you know only knows a small part of you and have an opinion on who they think you are based on that small part but it's never actually who you think you are.

Cars - do we really get into metal boxes and hurl ourselves around at 70mph changing lanes back and forth only metres away from other boxes hurtling at 70mph?

@TheSpottedZebra also this !

Make up

Drinking cows milk

Donald trump

That females are born with all the eggs they'll have. So not only did I grow inside my mother, but the egg I came from was formed in my granny!

And on a deeper level, all the atoms in our bodies have existed since the beginning of the universe

Yep that's weird definitely, and how we are all star dust.

Also, thinking astronomically, how really, really fantastically small and unimportant we all are in the universe. It makes me think how pointless our existence is!

Sex ! Hahaha . Don’t get me wrong it’s biology n also awesome but I just sometimes really think about it n think it’s weird like ok your hot n I like you so u wanna like lay together n roll around a bit 🤣🤣

Eating meat. It's gross when you think about it and yet I'm not a vegetarian.

On the water thing, it's weird to think that we are drinking the same water that the dinosaurs drank and peed!

The fact that humans are made up entirely of just chemicals and somehow they come together to make living, thinking people. How??

The fact the a whole world of information can be sent into your phone through the air!

My mother.

And on a deeper level, all the atoms in our bodies have existed since the beginning of the universe