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

I hope this thread keeps going - I’m enjoying it so much!

Yes, sex. And also religion.

They’d probably be underground. If you’ve ever been to the Jurassic Coast you can see the layers in the cliffs.
This is mine. The idea that the land we live on now is layers and layers laid down over all sorts so that fossils etc have to be excavated but the Earth isn't bigger, it's just moved from places.

How come nobody has ever seen a dinosaur ghost? 🤷🏻‍♀️

@WizWoz You do get sedation for some procedures, twilight sedation they call it. When they don't give you enough of it you become aware of what's going on and it's horrible. It's happened twice to me and I now demand more drugs to ensure I don't "come to" during the procedure. The feeling afterwards, if you've not "come to" is brilliant though. You're high as a kite which is a very different feeling to the one you get after proper anaesthetic.

I wonder how much of our lives are influenced by others? In my family I was the clever, impractical one. My Dad has a very skilled practical job. If the message had been "you are good with your hands just like Dad" would I have ended up doing a more practical job? So how much is what we are told from a very young age, and conditioned into is and how much is our true self? I was lying in bed last night and thinking why is it so outside the realms of possibility that I could do the same job as my Dad...my life could have been totally different!

Zoos. There's a herd of elephants and a family of orangutans living just down the road from me.

Also when I went on holiday to Egypt I remember thinking "what on Earth am I doing in the middle of the desert??"

We live in an environment now so unlike the one we evolved to inhabit. Lots of humans would have died or become ill from eating poisonous plants and mushrooms, but knowledge would then be passed around the group not to eat them. If you’re a hungry hunting/scavenging human and you find an egg to eat and you’ve seen a different creature eat one, you would eat it. Then that knowledge is passed down that eggs are safe and nutritious. A lot of what we know today will have been on behalf of other’s trial and error. No-one suddenly made a Victoria sandwich, but they may have had a couple of things to mix together and thought “let’s give this a try” heated it, and ended up with some hard but edible lump. The process would then be refined over generations to try to improve it, as they wouldn’t be in a position to think “That was yuck, I’ll order takeaway instead!”
I find the natural world fascinating but the things we feel the need to do in polite society bizarre!

I always find it really strange that everyone else on the planet is going about their business, even though I can't see them! Like right now, in Rome (for example) people are having a late lunch, maybe a glass of wine. Of that David and Victoria Beckham are sat watching TV or arguing! I just can't get my head round it!

Also I often think, what if we're all Sims, being controlled by a player. Bizarre but I think about it all the time!!

The Pauli Exclusion Principle. The idea that if you change the frequency of electrons in something by say heating it you make all the electrons in the universe change because no two electrons can occupy the same frequency.

Therefore, if I make a cheese toastie I am, for a short time, Queen if the Universe - or something like that.

www.theguardian.com/science/life-and-physics/2012/feb/28/1

@Probablygreen
I’ve always thought this too. I can see how an indigenous language could start and evolve within a community, but how did the first translators ever get past basic stuff? Maybe some bilingual children had to be raised once the two communities mixed!

Re the Russian doll eggs, it doesn’t go on indefinitely there will only be a pregnant lady, a foetus, and the foetus’ eggs. No further eggs in eggs. The eggs in the foetus are a single cell with only half the genetic material to begin production of a new human. Only once that egg meets and gets cosy with an X sperm will it have the potential to make its own eggs. Same as the eggs in the foetus don’t have fingernails or eyelashes etc....

The Queen doing normal human stuff like farting (all that rich food), weeing, pooing, shaving her bits and having sex. I don't spend a lot of time pondering about this but I really hope she plays 'pull my finger' with Philip

Ooh. I know this one! It was the Babylonians, wibble.

Time. Who decided there would be 24 hours in a day, 60 seconds in a min. etc

Tap water, its recycled pee! i know its treated ect, but i just cant make myself drink it ,only bottled water. There are other reasons i wont but wont say on here.

You do know the bottled stuff is also recycled pee?

Sometimes if I'm laying in the bath I look at my bare feet and think one day those feet might be on a mortuary slab with people bustling round doing their everyday jobs..
Or if I'm cooking food in a pan I look at it and think that's going to be in my body soon.
Also why are there thousands of different types of wasps or any species? Literally thousands of slightly different types of the same thing? If it is God how could he be arsed to make so many different ones?

One of mine is nakedness and how close it is to all of us all the time. We walk around with (usually) one or two thin layers of fabric that are all that stand between us and total nudity. It takes less than a second to expose yourself, and if you did so in the wrong place it could end your whole career and reputation.

I also find it both interesting and weird how nakedness is, in most circumstances, so much further from standard dress. Like, if for some reason you lost all your clothes and all you had to wear was a Peppa Pig onesie, and you had to wear that to a law court or a wedding or in some other really formal context, it would still be a billion times better than being naked, no matter how inappropriate that outfit was.

I started compiling a list of things we don't have a word for in English

That thing that grows in to a marrow if you leave it in the garden too long. In France it is a courgette (a small courge), in Italy it is a zucchine (a small zucca).

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

I don't know if this is true but I heard it was because Roman women should not drink wine when their husband wasn't at home, so it started as a way of checking your wife's breath.

He/she surely couldn't have just appeared....

Dancing - we hear music and it makes us feel good and then we start throwing shapes. Babies will jig about when they hear a beat.

Tap water, its recycled pee! i know its treated ect, but i just cant make myself drink it ,only bottled water. There are other reasons i wont but wont say on here.

Walking.

Most animals give birth and the kids can just instinctively walk yet we spend months agonising over it and "teaching" and encouraging children to walk. Also imagine if we kept th in until they were old enough to walk... (Stares at 50lbs on 10 month old baby)