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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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sashh · 11/04/2019 12:00

BitOfFun

He has some odd ideas.

Re the cats. I used to foster for cats'protection. Usually the cats were rehomed with new people but I had a couple hat were with me while their owner was in a shelter and then they went back to their original owner.

I went to drop them off, they seemed quite pleased to see their owner again but then one of them walked out of the room, made a 'mow' noise and the other followed. They then went up and down the stairs multiple times mewing and chatting to each other.

I live in a bungalow so they must have been missing stairs.

BlindAssassin1

I rub my feet together when I'm tired. I know my dad and brother do the same. We had a family get together so I asked some other people and apparently my uncles (my dad's brothers) and cousins do the same.

ILoveMaxiBondi · 11/04/2019 12:07

Pets are so trusting. Like my dog. I can’t explain to him that I will never back after work, but he knows to stay calm. He’d stay calm even if i never came back and someone else came for him, he would just trust this new person that was taking him to a new home was going to look after him and treat him well. He wouldn’t run screaming from them crying for me. He would jay go where he was told without any understanding of what wasn’t happening.

ILoveMaxiBondi · 11/04/2019 12:08

That I will be back after work!

pisspawpatrol · 11/04/2019 12:17

Ohh yes, Ilovemaxibondi I often wonder what goes through the cat's head when we leave the house. Does she know we're coming back, or does she just think that every time we go out that we just cease to exist or think it's the last time we'll ever see her? Is she surprised when we appear again? What would she think if one day we never did come back and would she even notice unless she ran out of food?

rebecca102 · 11/04/2019 12:19

@MissFitton hahaha omg 🤣

wannabebetter · 11/04/2019 12:26

Thinking about people long dead who existed and had families, celebrations, problems and dramas which probably seemed really, really important at the time, but now, as they are dead and gone, really weren't important at all..... just makes me want to run away and live a simple life and not stress about anything!!

SpamChaudFroid · 11/04/2019 12:28

The eco-system in the body is a weird one. It makes me think are we the equivalent of bacteria living on a cell in a living being that we perceive as the universe?

wannabebetter · 11/04/2019 12:28

Oh, and day and night - as a planet we are sustained by this giant ball of fire which is so bright you can't look directly at it and is so hot at times that your skin turns red and falls off, and yet for 8 hours every day it completely disappears!

ILoveMaxiBondi · 11/04/2019 12:30

Agree wanna. It’s like that question “will this matter in 10/20/100 years?” If not don’t stress about it. I need to take a leaf out of that book.

thecatsthecats · 11/04/2019 12:37

pisspawpatrol They know, I think. That's why they get fucked off when they see me packing (and pack themselves), and when I put the feeder down.

We don't actually know that we're all seeing the same colours.

We can measure the light so that we can be confident of the colour spectrum (red, orange, yellow, green), but there's no way to tell that our brains are interpreting them in the same way.

So person A could agree with person B that an item is red and another is orange. But A's brain could interpret that red and orange as the colours B calls blue and green, and we'd have no way of knowing, because each person would be agreeing that the colour society has told them is red, is red...

dustarr73 · 11/04/2019 12:41

I only said this to my dp the other day.I have known my dp longer than i have known my mother.
My mam died nearly 20 years ago,i have been with dp 28 years ago.I know its only a year but it blew my mind the other day.

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Shitshitshitshit · 11/04/2019 12:45

That way of thinking got me out of my last awful relationship. It was incredibly hard to leave but I kept thinking, in two years time you'll look back and be so happy you did this and it won't matter anymore, just do it.

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lovelygreenjumper · 11/04/2019 12:46

Lots of things about 'sunshine' type holidays are really strange if you think about them (this dawned on me a few years ago whilst sitting by a swimming pool):

  • People of all ages, shapes and sizes most of whom would me mortified if they accidentally revealed their underwear to a bunch of strangers, but on holiday choosing to sit around all day in skimpy swim wear
  • Hotels centred around a pool, with beds, bars and sometimes food so people can lounge around in swimwear all day more easily
  • People travelling thousands of miles and paying thousands of £ to do this
  • People doing this intentionally, even though they then have to smear themselves in foul greasy suncream to avoid being burned and looking for ways to keep cool even though they have paid to go where it will be hot
  • Who was the first person to come up with this as an idea? And why did everyone agree instead of assuming he/she was insane?
[I love a sunshine holiday but it is truly odd]
Omzlas · 11/04/2019 12:51

Have I ever drunk this glass of water before? Or has someone I know drunk it before?

Has someone decomposed and their atoms etc gone into the food I'm currently eating? (Makes it difficult for me to eat fish when you hear about bodies being disposed of at sea or bodies being washed up)

If there was nothing before the big bang, how did the BB happen? If there was nothing, what happened and how, if there was nothing?

The act of pregnancy - growing another human inside your own body

Head hair grows continuously but pubic hair, leg hair, arm hair doesn't, why not? Why do we not have eyelashes that reach our hairline?

How and why did breasts become something sexual, when their original purpose was to make milk and sustain tiny humans?

And YY to the colour thing, that's bothered me for years

StormyLovesOdd · 11/04/2019 12:54

That all of my baby girls eggs (so my future unborn relatives) are inside her when she is born

rebecca102 · 11/04/2019 12:55

The fact my daughter wouldn't exist if my parents and my partners parents and both their, parents, parents, parents etc never got together. Like it would have only taken one people to change the entire dynamic of an entire family. It's weird.

rebecca102 · 11/04/2019 12:56

*person

AssangesCat · 11/04/2019 12:58

@BillywigSting

Some boffins made the blackest black ever recently (as in it reflects basically no light at all) and it's apparently quite disconcerting to look at

Something about the way you've worded this just really tickled me. Thank you.

optimisticpessimist01 · 11/04/2019 13:02

Aeroplanes- I know there's more to it, but it's just a big metal can literally flying through the sky, over oceans and stuff and not crashing every single time

The universe- I cannot even begin to comprehend the universe with my tiny little brain. The infinite-ness of it, the fact that there's so many planets out there that there must be other life forms, but we have 0 proof of it. Blows my mind

thecatsthecats · 11/04/2019 13:06

lovelygreenjumper

And most people sitting around that pool never once swimming in it. The only reason they are in clothing designed for swimming is that it is acceptable to be on display in that, but not in items of clothing covering the exact same physical areas of flesh.

(not complaining - I almost always get the pool to myself on holiday!)

SerenDippitty · 11/04/2019 13:09

Dreams. The fact that we all have the same kind of dreams.

dustarr73 · 11/04/2019 13:15

Talking f dreams,we only dreams of people we have seen.So all those weird people/places/things in dreams.We have seen in real life.Freaky

optimisticpessimist01 · 11/04/2019 13:21

I think life itself is weird- not in a re-productive existence type of way, but that everyone's life has ended up being what it is now because of teeny weeny decisions we make every day without even realising

And how different our lives could be if just 1 of those tiny decisions was slightly altered.

Even something little like having sex with DP the next day instead of the day we did might've led to a boy not girl, or still a girl but a completely different girl

NewShoesNeeded · 11/04/2019 13:26

Only got to page 17 and so apologies if this has been already said....

I can picture people's faces perfectly clearly in my head (or with my mind's eye is it called?), my family, friends, colleagues, even the check out lady from the Co Op..... but why for the life of me can I not clearly picture my OWN face in my head?!?

Forthepurposesofthetape · 11/04/2019 13:29

Oral sex - why would you want to put your mouth anywhere near where someone urinates?! 🤢