Weird shit that bothers you

[homegrowndisaster]

That humans can't fly

That I won't live to see what the world is like in 1000s of years

That I can't breath underwater and just swim at the bottom of the ocean for however long I want

That I have to pay for stuff

That annual leave isn't as much as you want

Me too.

And also having to go to the toilet.

That we don't have tails. I'd like one like a Golden Retriever.

It bothers me that I can't play a musical instrument. I would like to be able to play the piano, I don't want to have to learn or practise, I just want to be able to play beautifully.

Another one. Admittedly a weird one 😳

My uncle and I had a serious conversation that we would like a way to eat whatever we wanted but a biological way to remove any food without it being digested so we could eat whatever shit tasted good to us (different options per individuals) but only digest healthy foods, therefore maintaining health and healthy weight.
we came up with a tube that could be attached like the way lungs and stomach are separated so it just goes down the non digestive tube but after the taste in the mouth.

obviously the conversation covered that nothing would impact food production or climate or starvation or that digestion starts with saliva or in fact anything else that we should be concerned about.

Life would be unbearable without sleep though. It would be even more hours a day having to work or entertain ourselves. I think it would be awful if we didn't need it.
I guess that there will be more robots to do jobs that require 24/7 working practices ( hospitals , care homes etc ) as they don't need to sleep!
I also can't play a musical instrument or speak another language.
(I'm sure a micro chip or something will be invented one day that can control our brains to do these things without having to actually learn how to!)

All my life I've thought sleeping was a waste of time.....until I hit my late 50s and now, when I get out of bed in the morning I am already looking forward to getting back in again in the evening.

Why can't human stomachs deal with grass? We can eat other leaves and plants? Grass is so abundant!

well.....

that said some questions are better not asked to begin with.

Space bothers me. The minute I start to think about how big it is and how it is too big to comprehend in any meaningful way that my tiny brain can cope with, I feel a bit sick and terribly fearful.

There was an image of the Horsehead Nebula that popped up on my news feed the other day and I felt dizzy.

someone once said sometimes a question creates more waves, or something along those lines

then considering what other life forms could be in those galaxies then it seems its like stargate, star trek, farscape etc all in one so to speak

The idea that there is other life ' out there' on planets like Earth in their own milky ways and maybe the people are leading similar lives like ours.
I don't see them as traditional alien beings , but actually the same as us.
Hopefully living in more a more peaceful states than we are though

That we can't rewind conversations to settle an argument. DH is forever claiming I didn't tell him something, or that I'd said something that I definitely didn't. I'd love to be able to replay previous conversations to prove that I'm right.

That I’m stuck on earth and will only visit a fraction of 0.00000000000000000000001% of the universe

true one can hope, but i suspect its a whole galaxies' at war etc out there

Absolutely with you on this. It's a real design fault.

i want the truth about time travel,
if one travels back in time to x moment then alters the moment, and returns to the original point in the time line , is that then a parallel universe or is it the same universe but a different set of events due to the time travel

and do parallel universe's actually exist and not just concepts for academics etc

If we saw things in reverse, we would think it was magic.

Like if I hold my hand out and drop a pen from it, onto the floor that’s nothing, but if I recorded that and played it backwards, it would look like I did magic, the pen floating up to my hand.

I think I take all these amazing everyday things for granted.

That we have created a system where we have carved up tiny plots of land and then people purchase and have legal ownership of the land.

In reality we are all equally fortunate to be here as stewards more than anything...but none of us can 'own' any of the earth. To think that some people have more right to acquire land than others is quite preposterous. Land is the one thing that should be fairly available to everyone, always 'rented' never owned.

That London and the Lake District aren't next to each other.

That a week has an odd number of days, months don't all have the same number of days, etc.

That we have periods for such a long time - starting way before and ending way after most of us want to have babies. And that we then have to go through the menopause - why can't they just stop. In fact, why not just do away with periods altogether.

That coin size order doesn't follow value (e.g. 20p should be bigger than 10p).

I love not having periods now.
Menopause is awful , but this is one of the good bits of it once your past all the weird bit before they decide to stop for good.
I wished men had periods too.

Many aspects of coinage systems are rooted in tradition and historical precedent, with certain coin sizes and denominations established long ago and maintained for continuity and familiarity.

Yep, space bothers me too. It’s just too big and we don’t really know what’s out there. Whenever I see movies where they are doing space walks, just tethered to the spaceship by a flimsy looking line with the massive void of space all around them I feel weirdly claustrophobic.
I’m the same in deep water where I can’t see the bottom. I was snorkelling over a coral reef, quite happy until it suddenly dropped off a cliff, like coming over the edge of a shelf. I couldn’t see the bottom any more, got freaked out and swan back so fast DH thought I’d been chased by a shark 😂

I agree that a person can’t really own land - in geological time we’re only around for the blink of an eye.

I’m bothered that I spend more days per week working than living. The balance feels wrong. I feel a bit like a shrew who has to spend most of its hours eating in order to stay alive.

I find it genuinely weird that countries go to war and fight over stuff. What are they even fighting over? And if you're a human in charge, why do you need that thing? Why do you care? Why can't you just get along with the other humans? The whole concept baffles me.