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?

Anal sex.

Calves do not die if left with their mother.
They just breastfeed like any other mammal, including humans. The mother cow produces what her calf needs. But dairy farmers take the calves away and hook the mothers up to pumping machines instead. Male cows are shot in the head a few hours after birth and are disposed of.

There's no such thing as a 'milk cow', it's just a cow. I'm not a 'milk human' just because I provide milk for my young.

Bullocks aren’t shot a few hours after birth . There will be some used for veal (not so much in this country though) which are killed at a few weeks old. The rest will be killed at around 18 months old. Where did you think beef came from?

Anal sex

Yep!!

The Christian idea of eternity. Scares me to death !

Regarding Baby Showers: UGH!!

They aren't ALL bad, selfish or entitled.

They were for women/babies who NEEDED help. While reality television has made them crass, they are helpful and, in some instances, are very needed.

We didn't have any help for our babies. I watched in astonishment, outside a restaurant, when our dc were toddlers, as a shower ended and the males of a family laughingly loaded all of the things, that we had bought for our dc, into TWO cars.

But aside from that.

I come from a lower middleclass family and we had showers to help our family members. It didnt damage your pride if you got necessities at a party given by your sister/cousin/aunt.
The items ranged from diapers to handmade booties to some big present that a few people pitched in to buy.

But it wasn't just the presents, it was the games, the fun, catching up with people you hadn't seen in a while, the excitement of a new baby. Our new family member.

It was also a wonderful time to get the stories/advice handed down generation to generation. "T walked at 10 mos., K fell down the stairs. I carried high with boys and she carried her girls lower." Croup, gas, teething; all discussed and opinions given.

Often the games prompted more anecdotes or advice...practical or silly.

I was sad not to be able to have such a celebration. I was late having dc and had moved away and we could afford things. But I still wish i had sat by my Gran and listened to her stories about my mother and her siblings.

There's crass and there is cherished. That is up to the family. To me, for mine, i see twinkling eyes, soft wrinkled faces and i hear my gran and her sisters laughing, heads together as they share memories happy and sad.

Or I hear my father and his brothers sneaking in for some cake and fighting over who is the best baby rocker.

Baby Showers are not ALL as portrayed in the media; for some, they are celebrations of family.

I am the next generation now. The ones who will be passing away next. The older I get, the less i judge and the more i realize that love, family (good, bad. Blood or chosen) is really the only legacy most of us leave. Baby showers, in theory, are a way of handing down the good part of us.

Ignore me if it's already been posted, but I've always loved this:

"A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam"

People are happy with the concept of nothing before birth (consciousness) but not after death. Surely death is the opposite of birth. We 'go' wherever we were a hundred years ago, ie nowhere.

This is what I always tell myself when I start thinking about dying and how I will be nothing. I was nothing before and it was ok! If I watch TV footage or something from before I was born it sort of makes me feel better because I 'wasn't there' and that makes me feel better about the fact that at some point I won't be there again.

The kissing part got me ! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Seeing something cute and getting the urge to squeeze it really tightly - babies, kittens etc

Jessie94
Holsteins, jerseys, gurnseys are milk cow or bred for dairy. They are usually a boney looking cow.

Hereford. Angus, Scottish higland are stout and beefy. For meat.

"Whereas a beef-suckler cow would naturally produce around 4 litres of milk per day, a dairy cow will produce an average of 28 litres per day over a period of 10 months. During peak lactation, a high-yielding cow may produce as much as 60 litres per day and up to 12,000 litres over her whole lactation."
Standard intenstive milk production | Compassion in Food Business
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I have seen cows in pain bc milking was late. I've cared for calves with scours nc they drank too much. It's not pretty.

As a small, family farm. We treated every animal with kindness and compassion. We never killed calves and we boycotted veal.

I don't like Big Business farming. I hate it But i am not stupid either. I know the difference btwn a milk cow and a beef cow, a laying hen and a fryer chicken.

Worse than cows. PIGS

No longer are pigs casterated quickly and fairly painlessly at 2/3 days old. Instead, they are hormonally casterated.

I completely boycott pork now. Male pigs have a terrible musky taste, they used to be castrated quickly and after, they walked funny for a minute then were as happy as their sisters.

Now. Pigs are given hormones to stop the musky taste (i can still taste it, which is why i looked into current hog raising practices).

I can't believe that eating hormonally treated pork is healthy. No matter the propaganda.

I can't imagine anyone but me and DH (and the other people I have had sex with I guess, but it's been a long time!) having sex at all, it makes me feel ick, even though I know nearly everyone does it.

Like, sometimes I might be chatting with a couple and then the image of them having sex will pop into my head and I'm like 'Urgh that's so weird' even though I know this must happen regularly. Or I might be talking to a friend and then I suddenly think about the fact that she has had her husbands willy in her mouth at some point, or that his tongue has touched her fanny! Oh god I can't believe I'm writing this! The worst people to think about having se are obviously your parents - I'm still convinced they only ever had sex three times!

Actually when I got pregnant for the first time, i was almost embarrassed in a way that everyone would know for absolute sure that DH and I had had sex, that he had put his willy in me, especially my parents!

Or, I wonder what a friend's husband or someone is like in bed - not in a way that I fancy them and want to do it with them to find out but just like I wonder what his moves are, what his sex face is like, what noises he makes etc 😂

I think it's just strange that nearly everyone has sex, and has been doing it since the beginning of time, and it's totally normal, and yet the thought of that is really weird!

I totally get the whole 'what if I just decided to ram my car onto the opposite side of the road' thing as well.

Or, I'm a teacher and I wonder what might happen if I just stood up one day in assembly and screamed 'fuuuuucckkk oooooffffff' or something!

Apparently this kind of thing is totally normal and is called 'The Imp of the Peverse'

@Catsinthecupboard thank you - you saved me a post on the difference with cattle!
I've worked in the pork industry and you're right-boar taint is a real issue.
Have also audited buffalo farms in Italy and our animal welfare in the dairy industry is light years ahead of theirs.

Adult female brain. What other creature spends loads of time and a valued possession (money) to make ourselves look "better" then in an instance our brain tells us we need something else to achieve the desired result. Bur it goes on and on and we never achieve it for more than a few seconds each time. And not as in other animals all the preening is not for attracting a mate!

I find the thought of other people having sex pretty horrifying too...like my parents, bosses, teachers, friends, old people...and the fact that (nearly) everyone on this planet came about from their dad having an orgasm inside their mum!

Camping at festivals. If the tents were not there it would just be a carpet of people lying close to each other in a field.

Camping at festivals. If the tents were not there it would just be a carpet of people lying close to each other in a field.

Oh my gosh I've no idea why that posted twice!

Actually when I got pregnant for the first time, i was almost embarrassed in a way that everyone would know for absolute sure that DH and I had had sex, that he had put his willy in me, especially my parents!

Yep I said this as well earlier in the thread. My Dad knowing for certain that I'd had sex was one of my first thoughts when pregnant 🤣 Despite the fact I live with my DH and quite obviously share a bed with him.

Bread really confuses me. Who thought to grind wheat down and then bake it? I'm so confused by this, it makes sucking on a cow's udder seem logical.

Colours - I know what I see as green and you know what you see as green, but you might be seeing my purple etc. We can never know!

Milk

What I mean by 'milk'. Is, it's perfectly acceptable to drink another species food for its baby (cows) but most people would think it a bit eww if they had breastmilk in their tea.

What I mean by 'milk'. Is, it's perfectly acceptable to drink another species food for its baby (cows) but most people would think it a bit eww if they had breastmilk in their tea.

Yes, but I am OK with eating an actual cow, I wouldn't be ok with eating a human. I guess it's similar to that? For me anyway.

Colours - I know what I see as green and you know what you see as green, but you might be seeing my purple etc. We can never know!

Except we do know that's not the case, as discussed upthread.

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