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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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Shitshitshitshit · 11/04/2019 07:19

Catching up this morning.

I find cars weird too. When I'm driving down a motorway, if you took the outer shell away, we're all just sat down in the same position going 70 miles and hour.

Also fingers... Just like our arms have sprouted other little arms.

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Shitshitshitshit · 11/04/2019 07:22

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

Yep! There's literal geniuses out there, people saving lives, people making billions through smart business etc... And I put the kettle in the fridge this morning.

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Shutuptodd · 11/04/2019 07:39

I remember being very upset when I lost my last baby tooth as it was the last time that would ever happen to me. I dont know why it upset me so much it just seemed so final.

Also how some people are so clever and others (me) work their ass off and can only manage c grade GCSE's no matter how hard they try.

How my nan talks about people who were born over 100 years ago.

DanielRicciardosSmile · 11/04/2019 08:01

There are people alive today whose grandparents were born in the 18th century.

Are you sure about that? Even the last year of the 18th century was 220 years ago. A generation is, on average, considered to be 25 years, so for their grandparents to have been born in 1799 they'd have to be 170 years old.

Do you mean the 1800s?

thenewaveragebear1983 · 11/04/2019 08:08

Cat behaviour. Our cats hang out downstairs, but if our bedroom door is open, they hang out up there instead. Which means each day they must do a recce of the options by doing a little stroll round the house. Does one of them then tell the others the bedrooms are open? Or is it every cat for himself? Same as when they find a new good sleeping spot- do they just clock it walking past and think 'oh that looks a good place for a kip'? In which case, why the ridiculously uncomfortable places? One of ours will climb into any carrier bag left on the floor. Why??? Does he think 'yes! A carrier bag! Perfect!' In the same way a human would if they found a tenner?

happinessischocolate · 11/04/2019 08:13

The housing market. A bit of land and some bricks is worth so much people have to work for 25 years or more to pay for it.

BarbieJellyBabyBrain · 11/04/2019 08:15

I also find it weird that for thousands of years, different civilisations were just getting on with their own shit all over the world, without any knowledge of each other at all. As time went on, they would have begun to hear stories of other people, but never would have seen them or met them. They would have been almost like 'aliens' I guess to them.

And they didn't know what the moon or the sun was, or why any of it was happening. They just got on with it.

Ah, a simpler time Smile

BertrandRussell · 11/04/2019 08:24

My grandfather was born in 1848.

Obviously I never met him.....

BathshebaKnickerStickers · 11/04/2019 08:28

I’ve always wondered how my Mum’s dog sees the car.

She knows the word car, she jumps into the car, she sits there for a while, and then jumps out of the car in a TOTALLY DIFFERENT PLACE.

She had no idea which different place it would be.

Is it the beach, or the park, or Not-Mummy’s house (my house). ..?

Sometimes she gets in the car and goes with Mummy to the supermarket, so she doesn’t get out of the car. So she goes, sits in the car, and gets out at home....

DanielRicciardosSmile · 11/04/2019 08:31

*My grandfather was born in 1848.

Obviously I never met him.....*

Yes, that's 19th century which is perfectly feasible. The 18th century (1700-1799) on the other hand...

frenchonion · 11/04/2019 08:32

Music. How a bunch of sounds are put together and we like it or we don't like it. And whether there is only a finite amount of music that can ever be made?! And why do we like it?!!

BertrandRussell · 11/04/2019 08:35

“Yes, that's 19th century which is perfectly feasible. The 18th century (1700-1799) on the other hand...”

I know. Hmm

frenchonion · 11/04/2019 08:35

Also clothes. We are born naked and then we cover ourselves with clothes, and not just that, that we think some of these coverings are nice and some are not. What makes one loop of material that covers our bum nicer than another?

headinhands · 11/04/2019 08:36

Books are people from the past sending messages from their brain to your brain.

BertrandRussell · 11/04/2019 08:36

The fact that until fairly recently, most people would have had only a vague idea what they looked like.

headinhands · 11/04/2019 08:38

That to any other intelligent life in the universe we're aliens.

headinhands · 11/04/2019 08:44

Also fingers... Just like our arms have sprouted other little arms.

Yy! I could do with another batch of little arms coming out my fingers for the really fiddly stuff.

missbattenburg · 11/04/2019 08:47

Last things always twist my mind. Things you know are your last are fine. Like your last day at school. It's the things you don't know until later.

The last time I saw my childhood friend. The last time I watched my grandfather making something in his workshop. The last time I went to a nightclub. I don't MISS nightclubs, just if I'd known it was my last time I'd have concentrated more. I think 'what other lasts have I had but don't know about?' Have I had my last camping in a tent or my last snog a stranger or my last trip to New York for eg?

Agree with one day your mum put you down and never picked you up again. It would have been nice to know it was the last.

dustarr73 · 11/04/2019 08:48

Tattoos,why? I love mine but who was the first to think.I know what im missing on my body.Im going to draw on myself

Fadingawayagain · 11/04/2019 08:59

Not so much weird but amazing. After watching our planet it’s amazing how everything in nature just has its place and knows what to do! Really incredible to watch. From animals to plants amazing wow factor when you really think about it

Moralitym1n1 · 11/04/2019 09:01

*Getting married.

Saying some words and your bound together legally.

Choosing one person and being like your my partner you cant fuck any one else.*

Whole it may be unrealistic for life for many; paid bonding and monogamy are totally natural (and for totally understandable reasons related to reproduction and resources).

Moralitym1n1 · 11/04/2019 09:04
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Moralitym1n1 · 11/04/2019 09:04

*pair bonding!

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Shitshitshitshit · 11/04/2019 09:05

Re our planet, I was watching a documentary not long ago (the one narrated by Will Smith, can't remember the name), and it was pretty scary. They were saying how perfectly everything is balanced. If anything at all were to shift (certain gas levels etc...) even by the smallest amount, it could be devastating to life on Earth.

I don't like to think of us balancing so finely on a pinhead like that.

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Shitshitshitshit · 11/04/2019 09:06

paid bonding

That sounds like something else entirely Wink Grin

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