Things that are really weird when you think about them

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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?

Hotel rooms have freaked me out recently. Sleeping in a bed that thousand of other people have slept in.

Going to the hairdressers. I often think of it when I'm having mine done, we are primates who choose (often at great personal expense) to style our hair, it just seems bizarre when you think about it.

Yes! I was just thinking about this the other day! Also, going for massages and facials, paying people to do that.

Buying bin bags. Which we put straight in the fucking bin....errrrr?!

ChrisPrattsFace YES!! I've often thought the same about colours. My job entails lots of colour matching and colleagues quite often disagree over something being orange or red, or red or pink!!

Hugs (eventhough I love them!)
Have always found this so funny:

And thinking about the fact that I was in my Mum once

God, yes. Really weird thought.

Lokicat 😁

That it's totally acceptable for adults to drink breast milk from a cow...but not a human.

Yes jam, a sign of how removed we’ve come from the natural world. We don’t see cows milk as animal milk. Just as food. But the milk that is naturally perfect for humans- we say urgh!

I've always thought a lot about humans producing milk like animals (which obviously we are). It's obviously natural and I've no problem with breast feeding babies etc... but when I think about it too long it does make me feel a bit funny. My boobs are basically the same as udders on a cow.

All water molecules have been on earth for millions of years but it’s highly unlikely you’ll drink the same one twice. Unless you’re adrift at sea and drinking your own urine or something.

Who knows? billions and billions of years of water being 'recycled'. I don't care, as it happens, because it gives me life. But it's fascinating that water never changes. We 'deal' with it, but the volume never changes.

a sign of how removed we’ve come from the natural world

Agreed.

Drinking alcohol. It's literally a bunch of people standing around poisoning themselves for a few hours of a jolly.
Then feeling awful after. It really doesn't make sense!

Potatoes... you put a potato in the ground, it makes a plant and then there are just more potatoes when you dig the plant up.

Also pets. At what point did the human species think "oh that wild animal of a totally different species looks soft and/or nice to cuddle with. Lets invite it to live with us." I often look at my (very beloved and totally adored) cat and think its so strange that I just invited this four legged, fluffy idiot of an arsehole into my house to live with me, and I somehow also got tricked into paying for expensive food for it.

Also a bit freaked out by Legopeople pointing out that we calmly go about our business on the anniversary of our death every year - as important a life event as our birth day- because we don't know. And for one in 364.25 of us, on that death anniversary every year we'll be saying yay, happy birthday to me and accepting happy celebratory cards and cake.

My one is driving at 60mph on a good straight A road a few feet away from vehicles doing a similar speed in the opposite direction a few feet away. What if my brain suddenly went mental for one second and made me wrench the steering wheel to the right as a car approached? We would both die. My brain has never done anything of the sort but yet it goes unconscious at night, makes my eyes leak tears when I am sad, makes my heart rate and blood pressure increase when I am scared or excited. I can't control it so what has reliably stopped it for 40 solid years from going mad- just for a split second- and killing me? Ditto my heart beating for 40 years so far. If I suffered a fatal cardiac arrhythmia or coronary artery blockage tonight everyone would be shocked as I have no history of problems and am "only" 40, but if you ran an engine solidly for 40 years, idling and speeding up and then it conked out suddenly, you wouldn't be shocked or upset that it hadn't worked for longer.

Rain.

Just small bits of water falling out the sky?!?!

And on that note also clouds (and hail, snow, etc)

Oh and black holes!!! Things get sucked in, in to where?! How can then be an 'in' in a space. Wheres the other side?!

That it's totally acceptable for adults to drink breast milk from a cow...but not a human.

Yes, but we eat cows as well, we don't eat other humans. But then I suppose babies don't eat humans either?

Some people eat other humans...

I'm loving this thread - preparing for a sleepless night with all these thoughts swirling around!
One that i often think about is when your grandmother was pregnant with your mother, the egg that became you was already inside of her.

And some babies have a good go at eating their mothers while feeding

What if my brain suddenly went mental for one second and made me wrench the steering wheel to the right as a car approached?

Yes.

I have moments where, for example, I'd be standing on a bridge and my brain will be like 'just throw your keys off' and I know really I'm not going to do it but I'll think about it like, yeah I could do that.

This is a great thread. Nominate for classics

Another thing I find weird/or thoughtworthy is knowing that absolutely anything can be justified given the right person and circumstances.

That it can take hours to cook a meal that usually takes less than 10 mins to eat.