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?

YemenRoadYemen

But the same argument still applies. If blue to you looks like yellow does to me, we'd still point to the same colour on a chart if asked to point to blue.

The name of the colour is just a word used to describe something. The thing we're describing might not necessarily look the same to both of us but we'd still call it that word.

But, but ... no, we wouldn't.

Because we'd be using the same word - blue, say, and then both pointing to a colour that clearly looks blue to both of us.

But the same argument still applies. If blue to you looks like yellow does to me, we'd still point to the same colour on a chart if asked to point to blue.

No you wouldnt,because you would point to yellow.Because you dont know what blue looks like.

Oh not this one again. We can tell when people see colours differently from the average. We all have the same colour receptor cells and the same brains, why would you think we see colours differently?

There's a reason why we can all see more shades of green than any other colour and why colour blindness is rare. Colour is dictated by the laws of physics and we have adapted to be able to use it for survival according to the laws of biology.

Having pets.

I'm confusing myself now 🤣

I don't want to derail the thread with the colour thing, but there is clearly way too much universal agreement as to what colours look like for there to be any ambiguity here.

We will look at paintings in a museum and marvel at the artist's use of colour / light. We call Ireland the Emerald Isle - we agree that emeralds are the same colour as trees and plants. We all describe trees and plants as green - except in Autumn when they turn red and yellow.

We can all envisage the exact blue of the sea at a tropical island.

The distinct colours of a sunset.

A great white shark is so called because of the colour of its underside.

People with ginger hair are sometimes called carrot-top, because we can all see the similarity in colour.

NoParticularPattern google the 4th trimester. There is a strong theory that human gestation time has decreased as we have become more intelligent with bigger heads but human female pelvis hasn’t widened.

OK thanks BadPenny - thought I was being really dense!

I don't actually think that we all see colours differently, it's more of one of those 'what if' thoughts.

I don't actually think that we all see colours differently, it's more of one of those 'what if' thoughts.

Yes, I know that the laws of physics mean that it's pretty definite that we are all seeing the same, but because no one has ever seen the world through another's eyes there is that element of 'what if'.

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?

All hair continuously grows, but each type of hair has different life cycle lengths. Your eyelash hair will complete its cycle in a matter of weeks and then it falls out and a new hair starts to grow in its place. Head hear life cycles are years long. Some people their hair grows for 2-3 years and then falls out so their hair will never be bum length. Other people, their hair will grow for 10 years and reach their ankles if they let it.

but because no one has ever seen the world through another's eyes there is that element of 'what if'.

It would be carnage at traffic lights if we didn't all agree.

There is a strong theory that human gestation time has decreased as we have become more intelligent with bigger heads but human female pelvis hasn’t widened.

I wonder If that’s to do with birth intervention like caesarians and forceps etc? Like the babies born to mothers with smaller pelvises would have previously died during birth so not carrying on the genetic tendency for small pelvises but then they had intervention so survived and Small pelvises continued.

Haven't rtft but milking animals for milk.The first person to do that must have been a bit weird.

And from the milk thing, cheese! We'll just wait for this animals milk to go bad and then eat it.

I think it's weird that Kevin Costner is called Kevin.

If you met him, you'd be like 'Hi Kevin'.

Like I say, weird.

It would be carnage at traffic lights if we didn't all agree.

But it wouldn't matter if we didn't agree because the colour that I see as 'red' would still be 'red' to you (and at the top of the traffic light) even if you saw it as what I would call 'green'.

Like I said, I don't think people really see colours differently, because physics, but the just the fact that we all agree on the names of colours doesn't alone mean that we are all seeing the same thing.

Except that it does!

Another thing,you fancy your dp but not their brothers/sisters/family members[usually].Why?
What sets him apart that you only fancy them.

They look different, and have a different personality? And probably different political views!

@YemenRoadYemen yes i get that,i mean they would have to be similar someway as they are family.

What sets him apart that you only fancy them

I was thinking last night looking at DH how clever 'chemistry' is. Love in general in all it's forms, butterflies in your stomach, longing to be near a certain person etc...

It's all amazing really.

I don't think it's something that falls under the category of 'really weird when you think about it'. It's not weird at all that you don't necessarily fancy your partner's family members!

I must admit I wonder about identical twins. If you fancy the arse off one of them, you probably wouldn't say no to the other one either.

Must be weird to be twin in laws.

Twin laws.