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Things that are really weird when you think about them

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Shitshitshitshit · 10/04/2019 18:55

Someone said to me today that balloons are like a plastic bag of someone's breath...

I'd never thought of it like that before and to be honest it made me feel a bit nauseous!

Do you have anymore examples of things that are actually really fucking weird when you think about it?

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misper · 10/04/2019 21:47

*TheNemesisOfLame

Also what happens at the edges of things. At an atomic level.

If everything is trying to become stable by forming molecular bonds - where for example does a table end and air begin.

That's freaked me out for years*

Yep this too!

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Shitshitshitshit · 10/04/2019 21:47

The cruelty of the dark ages and mediaeval periods

I often wonder how we went through various stages of history. How did so many people act and think so awfully when now it would be inconceivable.

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BrylcreamBeret · 10/04/2019 21:49

Photographs. Freezing a moment in time on paper forever. You cannot and will not ever get that moment back but you can look at it, wtf?? Disclosure: I don't know how photographs happen. Will someone please explain like I'm an alien?

BathshebaKnickerStickers · 10/04/2019 21:49

All the atoms that make up me, and all the atoms that make up DH were created in the nano second of the Big Bang 40 billion years ago.

And all my atoms made me

And All DH’s made him.

And all these atoms met in a dodgy pub in Dundee on a Saturday lunchtime on a January Saturday in 1998.

And all the atoms in him liked all the atoms in me.

The80sweregreat · 10/04/2019 21:49

I used to sit on the top deck of the bus and stare at the houses too. Wondering who lived there and who they all were. It was good in the winter as it was dark early and the lights were on.
If their lives were anything like mine.
Same with trains which tend to run at the back of houses!

Tinkobell · 10/04/2019 21:49

Human hair. How come it (largely) just grows from a single patch on the head? Then we pay people to chop it off and shape it....weird!

CharityConundrum · 10/04/2019 21:49

Pretty much everything I try to explain to my kids! When they are in the 'why' phase, I always try and give them a legitimate answer and I still always end up either reading someone's doctoral thesis to try and find out an answer or just saying 'nobody really knows'.
Why do birds fly?
Why will a bread roll go off slower in an airtight box?
Why haven't we evolved past the point of needing sleep?
Why are people allergic to things?
Why do things smell?
Why do trees grow upwards even when there is no competition for light?
Why is the shortest distance between two points a straight line?
WHY?!?!?! WHY?!???! WHY?!??!?!?!?!

YoYoYumYum · 10/04/2019 21:50

We are all closer to our death than we were one second ago.

thenewaveragebear1983 · 10/04/2019 21:51

That you'll be the first to see inside a conker

that If you lie on the ground you're essentially being held onto a giant rock in space, purely by the sheer force of gravity and the speed it is moving (which we cannot feel). You're literally hanging on the edge of the planet with absolutely no way of holding on!

Did you know tonic water (quinine) glows in ultraviolet light? I only found that out today!

Cherrysoup · 10/04/2019 21:53

Who decided that words in some language should be masculine and feminine? Why??

Tinkobell · 10/04/2019 21:53

Orgasms. Very nice, I'm not complaining - but what's the point or explanation?

ravenmum · 10/04/2019 21:53

Is it right that atoms aren't made, they are just redistributed? All the atoms in the universe were created in the Big Bang?

The80sweregreat · 10/04/2019 21:53

Death is a big mystery.
Then you start wondering why we're here at all. What the point?
It gets maudlin.
We do not know our exact date if death. Maybe this is a good thing!

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Shitshitshitshit · 10/04/2019 21:53

I read once that kissing is a stylised mimicking of the way ancient people fed their babies

I'm not going to be able to kiss DH without thinking about this now.

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peridito · 10/04/2019 21:53

Yes = sleep and dreams are pretty weird .

@The80sweregreat I was in an old house once when it suddenly occurred to me that the shadow being cast by the middle half of the sash window would be the same shadow that had been cast over 100years ago .

And I look at some buildings near a road where I discovered recently that my grandfather had lived as a small boy and think "oh my grandfather would have looked at that building " .

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Shitshitshitshit · 10/04/2019 21:55

Orgasms. Very nice, I'm not complaining - but what's the point or explanation?

I always thought it was about procreation. Like if we enjoy sex, we'll want to do it more and make more babies.

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ILoveMaxiBondi · 10/04/2019 21:55

Going to go a bit dark here but I’ve often questioned why human beings want to stay alive. Particularly in really bad times. When everyone is suffering and struggling and likely to die very slowly and painfully, what is it that makes us keep going when we know we have another option. I mean even before religion became a thing.

Icedlatte · 10/04/2019 21:55

Most of the inside of your body is pitch black, and has not been/is not exposed to light until a surgeon cuts you open for the first time.
Is my heart red if it's never been in light?!

The80sweregreat · 10/04/2019 21:56

Buildings are odd as they just here , unless they are demolished or something, they just stay put ( like trees) but we just move on!
Or survive the blitz ( like St. Paul's did)

NewPapaGuinea · 10/04/2019 21:57

Like with all life, the dominant traits survive and the weaker ones die out. All the non-orgasm people died out through lack of procreation.

JustDanceAddict · 10/04/2019 21:58

That dinosaurs lived where we live, etc. (Well, in certain places)

Radio waves

Def agree w language and how it evolved

How different countries were once a homogenous lump!

The fact that we’re all tiny specks in a massive universe!

ILoveMaxiBondi · 10/04/2019 21:58

And I look at some buildings near a road where I discovered recently that my grandfather had lived as a small boy and think "oh my grandfather would have looked at that building "

In the house I grew up in there was a warped tree outside my bedroom window that I was terrified by at night. I used to get up an peek through the curtains to see if it had moved closer to my window. I often wonder if the current residents are ever freaked out by it and if the people who lived there in the couple hundred years before me were too!

YouveCatToBeKittenMe · 10/04/2019 21:59

It weirds me out a bit that if you face a mirror with another mirror the reflection basically goes on forever............

BarbieJellyBabyBrain · 10/04/2019 22:00

I read once about the fact that when you look at the earth from space, you are actually looking at every single person who has ever lived, ever.

Shutuptodd · 10/04/2019 22:01

@Tinkobell no idea never had one.

@lololove that used to scare me all the time. My dad dropped dead suddenly while talking to me and making a cuppa. He was chatting about the next day but he never saw it. It really messed with my head for a long time how suddenly life could just stop. (I was a teenager so just thought you either got hit by a bus or were ill)

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