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?

Foreign languages.. they are weird how we have different ones, but they amaze me as well!

Dreams.
Religion.
The Royal family...perfectly nice but why so revered and rich?! Why are they worshipped and not nurses and doctors etc?
Football...a load of blokes kicking a ball around and everone goes nuts! Dont get it.

The legal system. A few thousand years ago we could just bash each other over the head if we disagreed. Now if you do something wrong other people are allowed to arrest you and lock you up.
I should like such a revel. I am a rule follower but I do find it odd

Phobias. I am seriously arachnophobic but have no rational objection to spiders at all. I can tolerate all sorts of bigger, uglier and more dangerous creatures but if I see a spider I have a huge physical reaction which I cannot help or control. The same thing happens if I see something that has the same outline as a spider. The top stalk of a tomato which looks like a spider gives me the same reactIon and I cannot touch them.

Ridiculous! There are no dangerous spiders at all in the UK.

My heart rate has gone up now just thinking about them.

“Celebrities” - all of them. Televised awards for celebrities. Best actor? Big deal - s/he earned millions doing their job. Emptying bins is a job. But best bin man isn’t a thing.

Religion - who started that? Is there religion in the animal kingdom?

Fax machines.

@NoParticularPattern

And why on Earth are we born so damned immature?!

We are born so immature because we don’t have enough brain development in the womb due to how big our heads would be our brains and heads grow a lot over the first year of life so that’s why we aren’t born walking a cow doesn’t have to develop language centres or any greater consciousness so can walk and moo faster but they pretty much peak at birth as far as brain development goes!

There was me sitting in traffic the other day watching this woman walk her dog and thinking that if someone was beamed in from another planet they would think it was really bizarre .. then I see this thread. I am not as strange as I thought!

The thin veneer of civilisation. That it could break down so easily, and we could be the last generation to have running water, electricity, toilet paper... Been thinking this ever since reading Cloud Atlas (last part). And how would we manage post apocalypse to recreate electricity, running water etc - would there be enough people with enough basic knowledge, or would we have to rediscover everything from scratch?

On colours, colours themselves are kind of weird aren't they, they way they are made. On the colour wheel, why is it that opposite colours will neutralise each other? When you mix paints for example, what is actually happening with the colours to change them?

I love this thread!

Religion - who started that? Is there religion in the animal kingdom?

No I don't think so, because I think religion is a product of human nature - the need for explanation and hope.

Tv programs, films, sitcoms; its all just stories.
Most adults sit there each night as other adults tell them stories.

Sorry, thought of another .. growing. How did I carry my son inside my body and now he is bigger than me? Yeah ok I know there is a scientific answer, but still ...

nomorechickens I spend far too much time thinking about that kind of thing. I live in a small town where pretty much everyone knows everyone. I have a list of people I vaguely know who I want on my side when that veneer of civilisation cracks as it all descends into shit. I’m slowly assembling a team of apocalypse survivors (I’m winning them over slowly by greeting them and occasionally giving them eggs and/ or gin) and they’re all completely unaware. There may even be someone in this thread that I’ve got on my apocalypse team and they don’t know it.

we used to get hair with the roots still attached what??

Why can't women pee without having to undress... Be much handier to have a wee willy... 🤣🤣🤣

Like it's weird that we urinate out of our sexual organs... Should be able to pee out of out a penis like navel or something sticking out of your big toe or pinkie!!! ..

That for 1000’s of years people have lived without central heating, inside toilets and electricity etc (I know some still do), but we are lucky enough to have all these things. I’m very grateful.

I sort of find it weird how we happened to be born in THIS time rather than one of the shittier times in the past, where women had no rights and everyone died at 40 and shat outdoors.

In 500 years time will we be thought of as basic and primitive?

It's actually crazy how fast things are moving along. Things we all use, like ContactLess or Uber or AirBnb, no-one had heard of like 5 years ago.

I find it weird that we can learn other languages but not the language of other species. I'd love to be able to talk to a spider and understand it. I'd tell it to f* off cos I'm terrified of them and really don't like killing them.

In 500 years time will we be thought of as basic and primitive?

I bet we are doing things now that are stupid that we don’t even know about. Like when people used to throw sewage out of windows and not understand why they were ill, weird medicines etc. Maybe things added to our food, WiFi signals or all these new things we have just started using are causing us problems. Things have changed so much in the last 100 years.

1. People drinking the “juice” from the body of a big dirty animal (ie MILK)!

1. Standing still. Face and eyes in a trance-like state. Throwing our hands and legs out at random angles when we hear a certain type of noise, but basically staying in the same spot for hours (DANCING)!

1. Lying down once a day in a dark room and lying completely still, doing nothing, for hours, and hours, and hours. (SLEEPING!)

All bloody weird!

BlythesEyes

Living in a home and having a four legged furry thing walk in and about it. You feed it, play with it, stroke it, don't speak the same language but happily enjoy its company ....it does its thing and you do yours until you both decide you want to play, walk, stroke or whatever.
THIS Definitely is weird 😂

Brushing your teeth. Replacing it in the holder, leaving it for 12 hours then sticking it back in your mouth again after just a rinse under the cold tap
Its the equivalent of using cutlery and never washing it. So grim

SpahofSlosh the fact I could be part of a dinosaur makes me inexplicably happy 🤣thank you for that thought!