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?

Feeling a lot less insane after reading that others have these random thoughts too.

Water does come from space in the form of comets that crash into the earth (or other planets/ moons).

JaneJeffer Thu 11-Apr-19 21:43:18
we used to get hair with the roots still attached what??

Yes, it wasn't pleasant. It was also not particularly clean and it was always black or had faded to brown on the ends so I would guess it was Asian or from somewhere where straight black hair was the norm. Hair was sold to make money to live, it didn't matter that it was pulled out rather than cut, although most of it was chopped off, or hacked.

It went into pots of liquid, not sure if it was to add or remove colour. I am hoping the wigmaking industry has changed although if extensions are made in China it very likely is the same. It is not permitted now but teeth used to be sold too, however that was not something my company dealt with, only hair.

What if rocks are actually soft but tense up when touched by something else?

Reading about diamonds upthread has made me think about the existence of a far-off planet that is entirely made out of diamond. That blew my mind when I thought about it.

Blowing out candles on cakes. Disgusting when you think about it. Spreading of germs and usuallynit's children who blow too much and spit is over it too. Then it gets cut and passed around. Makes it all too easy to say 'no, thank you', though. Seriously, who came up with this? We don't do it at mine. Just cut a cake and share it. Candles are unnecessary.

Eh, Yemen, we (except those who are colour blind) are probably all agreed what to point to when we say red green blue or yellow. What we don't know is what it looks like subjectively to other people who point to the same thing we do. Of course we can't know. We just know that we agree on the identification of this colour or that, and of course we agree on where things are on the colour spectrum, because physics. Subjectively, not the same thing at all.

JaneJeffer
There are different shades of black dye and one of those is only for priests' socks.

Oh, and that thing about dogs and cars - no, I don't think they're confused when they arrive at a different place. Travelling in a car is like a drug for them, it's all Now! Now! Now! Ooh and another Now! Haven't you ever seen them hanging out of the window catching smells?

What's really weird for me is time. I hate that it seems to go only one way though we spend so much time looking back. I like Wheeler's (was it Wheeler?) assertion that time is what stops everything happening at once.

That billions of us look different & have unique personalities & perspectives. though we share much in common, from royal family to commoners we all have to eat & poo

Yes, it's weird to think of Kate Middleton going for a massive dump actually isn't it?!

Cinema. It's basically better looking people than you acting out more exciting versions of your life.

Also dancing. I used to love dancing in clubs weekly when I was younger, to the extent that I'd spend more time on the dance floor than talking to friends/BF. Years later I read the quote "Dancing is just a vertical expression of a horizontal desire" and it made me think all that time I was probably just looking like I wanted to have sex!

Loving this thread & these comments!
That we're all basically walking about blind & feeling our way in the dark to whatever may happen in the present/future, we can plan & organise but technically anything can happen

@wonderingsoul Choosing one person and being like you're my partner - you can't fuck anyone else.

I so agree with the weirdness of this. I've been in a (mainly) lovely monogamous relationship since 1995, but I've had a fair few major reciprocated crushes that I never dreamed of taking further.

Michael Foucault wrote that we're still bound by the Victorian model of marriage and monogamy and I do wonder if, quite soon, generations to come will revert to being much freer with their affections.

That's horrible Shitley. I've never understood why someone would attach someone else's hair to their head but now it's even worse!

The ‘80s – the fashion, the hair, the styles, the music. There was no other time even remotely like it.

Games like curling and shot put.

JaneJeffer Some hair was used for cancer patient wigs and they were made with less hair, something to do with the NHS. I don't know if wigs are even provided now, and expect they are man made fibres if they are.

The black hair was, as far as I know, dyed and used for various pieces, including lace fronts and TV stuff, and quite a lot of male hairpieces.

Acrylic wigs were starting to be produced at that time. Now it is extensions everywhere.

Gunpowdergelatine my friend at work is Portuguese and at a work Christmas party we have there is a round of pass the parcel that we do before we move on to the drinking, eating and dancing. The First year we did it my Portuguese friend didn’t know what pass the parcel was, we had to explain it, and she also asked us “but why?” The second year we did it she won so she was very impressed 🤣

Why has it taken so many thousands of years to reach this point of advanced technology?....most of which has happened in the last 100years or less.

For instance how come the Greeks and the Egyptians didn't come up with steam engine or any other type of machinery.
Why has this only happened so very recently in relation to how long we have been sentient human beings on this planet? This has always done my head in when I think about it.

Time. I can go out to the kitchen and come back to the living room, but I can’t pop back to yesterday or wander into tomorrow. It would be useful if I could move around time as easily as I move around space.

Our bodies are made of approximately 70% water, yet if we drink too much water it can kill us.

Sorry to labour the point BlueBonic, but I just disagree.

I don't think colour is subjective.

Again, going back to being faced with a myriad colour swatches. Are people even familiar with these?

There are blue tones of red, versus yellow tones of red. Blue greens, versus yellow greens. We all know what yellow looks like (unless colour blind), and so can recognise yellow-toned reds, blue-toned greys, green-toned greys, pink-toned whites, etc, etc.

We can recognise 'bright' colours, versus 'muted' colours - we can pick them out on a colour chart, and they will be the same as the next person who picks them out. Primary colours, secondary colours, tertiary colours. This is not a subjective thing.

A further example - paint companies grade colours by calling them 'xxxx colour', 'half xxxx', 'quarter xxxx', 'eighth xxxx'. We can all see the particular shade getting incrementally lighter. It's not subjective, unless you're colour blind.

Yemen You're talking about saturation, not tint or tone. No argument about saturation.

And unless colour blind is rather begging the question.

Most people aren't colour blind, though. The overwhelming majority of people will point to the same colour when asked which colour is X? Hardly coincidence.

@catsinthecupboard We don't 'have' to take the babies away!

We don't need milk! Why would we be reliant on secretions from another species? Where do cows get calcium from?- plants- We can do the same. We don't need any animal products to live healthily, it's all done for either A) tastebuds or B) profit.