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?

Dust

Sleep!! I always think this one. And I always think it about neighbors too. Like if you took the houses away there's just loads of people lay unconscious in a row.

This is the kind of weird thought that keeps me awake at night

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.

Dust is made out of people’s skin (mostly).

I tell you what is a major design flaw in the whole humans having babies scenario- why do the males of the species only get involved in the actual making of? Penguins- daddy looks after egg frequently, seahorses- daddy does the actualcarrying and giving birth part, emus- daddy incubates the eggs. Why do human males get away without doing any of the non-fun bits of child production? And why on Earth are we born so damned immature?! Cows have the same gestational period yet they come out able to chuffing walk!! And they have more legs to contend with than we do!

Living in a block of flats. Like it's a bunch of hamster cages stacked upon each other. (I'm not as judgy as that makes me come across, promise).

How telephones work. It is absolutely magic.

Sleep - humans basically lie on a soft shelf unconscious for hours on end

CharDeeMacDennis

Speaking... we transmit our thoughts from our brain to another person's brain by making sounds whose meanings we have collectively agreed upon confused

This! It baffles me how we are able to do this!

Clubbing/raving - I seldom did drugs in my partying days so I'd quite often stop and think 'This is a really weird thing to do, dancing when we should be asleep to repetitive music at ear-damaging volume'. Still enjoyed it though!

Eating and drinking - constantly refuelling the body to stay alive.

Driving.

Everyone just pootling along in cars behind each other.

People in their houses. When I'm running I just find it so weird that everyone is in little boxes.

We're all weird.

Cooking

Preparing the meal for ages, cooking it, eating it, washing up. What a lot of faff over and over and over again

All human behaviour basically!

Language and the acquisition of language, and especially dialects.

The gut biome. Like a living creature inside your gut, feeding, excreting, making chemicals which we respond to. Fascinating and weird.

Inviting different species into our homes to live alongside us.

But pretty much everything is weird when you think about it!

Human hair extensions. Western women are literally wearing someone else's hair for beauty reasons. It's like some kind of Ed Gein skin suit serial killer shit when you think about it.

I also don't understand milk. Who was so hungry they decided to suck on an udder?!

And cheese. Cheese really bothers me. Some one was so hungry they decided to eat the stuff out of the cow that had gone off!! Why?!

How babies are made.

BlythesEyes (that just autocorrected to 'Bothered' ) I always wonder about furry four-legged domestic companions - how the hell did that come about? And did the cavemen/women have issues with waking up and finding giant wolves/lions lying slobbering on their chests at 5am?

Kissing - oh i like you more than most other humans, lets press our mouths together and muck around that way for a while.

Pets. Lifelong prisoners in our homes just so we dont feel lonely/want something to look at etc.

Male humans not like penguins because we don't lay eggs.

Babies born not sufficiently developed because larger brains.

Not that weird.

However, our males could easily lactate, but I suppose women make enough milk already anyway.

Space. It's infinite and we are so tiny and insignificant in comparison. I can't think about it for too long because my brain can't cope

Crying at movies or getting scared watching a horror or thriller. We know it’s not real yet we get so invested.

Dh’s Contribution.. sweetcorn. He says it’s pointless as it comes out the same way it went in.

Language. All the different ones, how it evolved, how one human couldn't understand a single word another human says if they spoke different languages, the ability to read, different accents, how humans can make their voices make sounds that can be interpreted by others, but also write symbols which represent those sounds which can also be interpreted in the same way.

It's crazy!

Another vote for sleep. Everybody lies down at a similar time and does it. What the what?!

The universe blows my tiny mind.

And magnets! I was looking at them the other day thinking how weird it is that if you hold them near each other they push away from each other with an invisible force.

Eggs and milk- yes! Who decided it was a good idea to drink cow lactation juice and chicken embryos?! Bleurgh.