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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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HaroldsSocalledBluetits · 10/04/2019 23:08

Anyway chicken shacks are a thing aren't they. I mean they have history, part of culture.

AnnieMay100 · 10/04/2019 23:10

Good post! Friendships - find a random human and spend lots of time together
There is a ‘last’ for all childhoods - last time you carry your child, last time they play with a toy, last time you read them a bedtime story
The universe - I used to get in tears as a child that no one could explain what’s outside of it!
Different Religion - (sorry if it offends) people who believe in something with no evidence of which ones correct if any
Communication - we know what each other is saying/doing naturally but can’t do this with animals after many years living on the same planet as each other
Flying/rocket to outer space - will never come to terms with how this was possible or how they worked it out!
Having to work and buy things when we were all given the planet with everything we need to survive for free

Newadventure · 10/04/2019 23:14

How the world is segrageted into parts/sections then people fighting and killing eachother protecting and guarding it from other human beings, forgetting that we're all part of the same whole planet.
It's one thing that we all (as humans) own together and are part of, not 195 separate bits.
Money is weird too, like, can't we just swap stuff instead??

HaroldsSocalledBluetits · 10/04/2019 23:14

Never mind rockets - planes don't make sense! What keeps those babies in the air?!

AnnieMay100 · 10/04/2019 23:15

Also the water on this planet was drank and peed out by dinosaurs

Mother87 · 10/04/2019 23:19

Flying through the air in a metal tube weighing tonnes... And then they try to sell you liquid toxins (enough to make a profit but not enough for you to become bothersome to them) and cancer-inducing sticks in huge packs...After showing you safety procedures because they care about your survivalGrin

Yes to kissing - just why?? And how many people in long-term relationships still suck each others lips and rub them against each others for hoursBlush

cushioncovers · 10/04/2019 23:19

The fact that you don't actually ever own your home as such, you just buy a certain amount of time in it. Then when you die someone else comes along and buys a certain amount of time in it and so on.

cushioncovers · 10/04/2019 23:21

There used to be an old block of flats I often drove past and it got knocked down as the whole area is being rebuilt.

I had a weird time trying to get my head round the fact that what is now just mid-air 40 or 50 feet above the ground, was someone's home where they walked around, ate their tea, slept, had a poo etc. Is that empty space the "place" where they lived? Or is the "place" really just the bits of wall and floor etc. that have now been knocked down?

^^ this

timefora · 10/04/2019 23:21

Gravity. What if it just stopped working one day and we all floated up into space. Scary thought.

gauntletthrown · 10/04/2019 23:22

Land ownership.

What gives anyone the right to own part of this planet really?

cushioncovers · 10/04/2019 23:22

That humans are the only species that have to pay to live on earth.

chilledteacher · 10/04/2019 23:23

Christmas Trees. It's a tree inside the house that we put lights on. Wtf!!

BitOfFun · 10/04/2019 23:24

That we actually see everything upside down but our brain converts it to the right way up.

TowelNumber42 · 10/04/2019 23:27

We are all made of dead stars.

The atoms in your body, and in everything else on our planet, are the detritus of stars that died and exploded billions of years ago then the dust coalesced into Earth and over time the atoms arranged themselves into us.

keepforgettingmyusername · 10/04/2019 23:27

Every Christmas, everyone seems to be transported back in time to a place where it's normal to listen to music from the 1950s and eat goose and mince pies and have a tree in your house.

gauntletthrown · 10/04/2019 23:27

Money.

We stress over it and say people have too much and some not enough but it's not even real is it?

Mother87 · 10/04/2019 23:28

Pmsl @ SPARE FINGERS ON AN ARMGrinGrinGrinGrin

cafenoirbiscuit · 10/04/2019 23:29

Following on from the ‘no new water on earth’ posts. We can’t know whether we are drinking the same water as Jesus did, Elvis, Peter Sutcliffe..... there’s really no way to tell.

I’m still off to have a cup of tea though, irrespective of who it’s been through before. I think. 😱

BitOfFun · 10/04/2019 23:29

That the higher up we move from sea level, the slower time goes.

TowelNumber42 · 10/04/2019 23:30

Sleep. WTF is that about.

LunchBoxPolice · 10/04/2019 23:30

Smiling. It's like "HI I'M HAPPY AND TO PROVE IT I'LL SHOW THESE EXPOSED PARTS OF MY SKELETON".

BitOfFun · 10/04/2019 23:32

And that all of us alive on this planet right now represent around 7% of all the humans who have ever lived.

TowelNumber42 · 10/04/2019 23:32

Hair styles. We have a mane that we cut and shape elaborately.

BertrandRussell · 10/04/2019 23:33

“Living in a home and having a four legged furry thing walk in and about it.”

My mum used to say it was weird that she shared a flat with someone with a furry face.......

LunchBoxPolice · 10/04/2019 23:33

I thought of another - intelligence. Like why am I sat here wondering about smiling, while other people are getting PHD's etc

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