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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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Pemba · 12/04/2019 18:06

Re: Neanderthals they actually had bigger brains than us so probably were more intelligent than us or could have become so. Maybe we should have been the ones that went extinct! Totally fascinated by other human species, like also the 'hobbits' that were discovered a few years ago. There's a theory that there used to be a lot more of them around and that they are the origin of the ancient myths about fairies, elves etc.

LarryGreysonsDoor · 12/04/2019 18:26

honestly though, if there was a way to go back and just have 1995 again i would sell my dark, shrivelled soul for it

That reminds me of a thing I read:

Your today is the good old days that someone will long to go back to.

LettuceLeave · 12/04/2019 18:40

Being itchy... And becoming itchy when you think about being itchy.
People liking the idea of living for eternity like in heaven for instance. Makes my head spin to try imagine it.

Graceambrose · 12/04/2019 19:08

Think only of thine eyes. And sunshine will fill you day, and
the blues will fade away, and
heavenly trumpets will play.
Alternativly listen to radio 3.

TixieLix · 12/04/2019 19:18

I've never been able to get my head around the fact that I exist. I am I, I am me, I am controlling this bag of bones and organs and having these thoughts. What decided my soul would be born into a Caucasian female body in the 1960s? Why now and not the 1500s or the 24th century? What if my mum and dad had never met and I had never ever existed? Then I get to thinking, every time I ever had a period I denied the existence of another being. Too crazy to contemplate!

yearinyearout · 12/04/2019 19:33

Sleeping in hotels...knowing zillions of other people have slept in that same bed with their head on that pillow. It doesn't stop me though.

Graceambrose · 12/04/2019 19:45

I am you are not. For every second that passes , like water flowing under a bridge, you are a different person. So worry not about I and wonder at your continual renewal every second of your existence. How wonderful is one's life.

Gwenhwyfar · 12/04/2019 20:02

"Kissing (who invented it!?, animals don’t do it)"

Some animals seem to do something similar. Birds kind of press beaks.

cushioncovers · 12/04/2019 20:08

Cutlery in restaurants. Knowing that they have been in other people's mouths thousands of times before you use them.

AnnaDine · 12/04/2019 20:40

Silk! Weirder than tea & coffee imo!

Regarding food I recommend ‘Catching Fire’ - really good read on how cooking made us human (though given how vile we seem to have become maybe not such a good idea!)

angelikacpickles · 12/04/2019 21:23

Yes, I find eating out really weird if I stop and look at it objectively. Also the idea of menus –you go to a restaurant in the full knowledge that you can choose from only THIS selection of foods and dishes. But this is priced higher than buying your own choice food from a shop and therefore considered more valuable/enjoyable.

@DarlingNikita Surely it's considered more enjoyable because you don't have to cook it yourself! That's definitely why I find it more enjoyable!

onemorecupofcoffeefortheroad · 12/04/2019 22:12

It is estimated that back in 1066 the population of England was less than 2 million. Maybe even as low as 1.25 million. So the whole country had only the population of Kent now. Sparce

That's nuts, everybody must have known everybody else. And there must have been so much space.

Sweetcornandmash · 12/04/2019 23:44

Guide dogs - how do they know where to take their owners?
When they go out and say let's go to tesco how do the dogs know where to guide them? Baffles me.

BertrandRussell · 12/04/2019 23:54

Presumably, they're cool now, but I don't for one moment think that today's youngsters would be willing to tolerate an actual cassette.“
My 18 year old loves casettes-he cuts them up and loops them and does all sorts of stuff with them. It makes me want to beat my head repeatedly against a wall while I delight in Spotify.

LarryGreysonsDoor · 13/04/2019 05:57

Guide dogs - how do they know where to take their owners?
When they go out and say let's go to tesco how do the dogs know where to guide them? Baffles me.

The blind person knows where to go. The dog is there to make sure they cross the road safely etc.

StealthPolarBear · 13/04/2019 07:54

ButtonMooooon ahhh congratulations

JuniorAsparagus · 13/04/2019 09:43

If my mother had married the love of her life instead of my DF who would I be?

MorrisZapp · 13/04/2019 10:19

Yes my mum bangs on about her ex. I'm glad she chose my dad, and shagged him at eight minutes past 11 or whenever.

Tighnabruaich · 13/04/2019 10:44

Because my granny was in her 50s when she had my mum, and my mum was 40 when she had me, I, who was born in the 1950s had a grandmother who was born in 1871, and an uncle who went to see a Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show!

exWifebeginsat40 · 13/04/2019 10:45

so, then, how does a guide dog know which bus they should get on at a bus stop?

Tighnabruaich · 13/04/2019 10:48

Mickey Mouse wears shorts but no shirt. Donald Duck waddles about bare-arsed wearing a sailor jacket. Why is Mickey decently attired but Donald not? Tom and Jerry don’t wear clothes - of course not, they’re animals, but when they go to the beach they put on swimsuits!

DarlingNikita · 13/04/2019 12:28

angelikacpickles, 'Surely it's considered more enjoyable because you don't have to cook it yourself! That's definitely why I find it more enjoyable!' I don't disagree with the 'not cooking it yourself' principle. It's just something about the limits of picking food from a menu. I can't really articulate it and I don't think about it a lot or anything Grin –it's just occasionally it strikes me as weird.

Lovesabadboy · 13/04/2019 13:23

I haven't RTFT quite yet, so I don't know if anyone has said these...

Faces. How can we all be so different and unique? If you think, there are only a few elements that make up our heads/faces - hair, eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, ears, skin colour....how can these be rearranged into billions of different combinations so that we all look different (twins etc excepted)?

Along a similar vein ...music.
Again, there are only a finite number of notes in existence and only so many musical instruments, but there are billions of songs and pieces of music that are all different and unique.
Always amazes me!

I always have the thought, that a pp mentioned, about when you leave a place eg. having been on holiday...that the place/people still exist and carry on when you are not there. We were in Thailand last year and I often think of the places we stayed and that they are still working in the hotel, taking people on the same trips, washing the same elephants as we did. Not sure I am explaining that well, but it often crosses my mind.

Sweetcornandmash · 13/04/2019 14:49

How does the blind person know where to go? If they're completely blind, just how? It's amazing.

Chocolatekitty · 13/04/2019 15:04

so, then, how does a guide dog know which bus they should get on at a bus stop?

They don't, the person would ask someone else nearby, or the driver.

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