Things that are really weird when you think about them

[Shitshitshitshit]

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?

The fact that it seems impossible that I was even conceived and yet now I’m here.

My parents are different races, different religions, grew up on the other side of the world from each other in tiny villages, are each other’s second marriage and didn’t want kids, I’m only here cos a condom broke... it all seems so fragile.

If my Dad hadn’t seen the poster recruiting for staff in the UK, if my Mum’s first marriage had worked out, if they hadn’t both moved to the exact same city and applied to the exact same place of work, if the condom hadn’t broke etc...

It all just seems so impossible and weird that it all happened.

My friends are married to each other, very happily and were explaining last night how they came to be an item. There were so many mixed signals and crossed wires and it so easily couldn’t have happened. She nearly didn’t show up the night they met, she thought she’d overheard that he was married so when he (who had VERY little confidence) first tried to kiss her she slapped him across the face and told him he was disgusting, there were huge family issues to overcome. It all just seems so random.

And in my own case, I had a missed opportunity in love because of something that happened to him just a month previous to us meeting. If that one thing, on the other side of the world hadn’t have happened to him, we might have made new humans by now. That will now never exist. It all blows my mind.

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!

Why is goofy walking around wearing clothes but Pluto is on a lead with a collar if they are both dogs?

Also why when the hulk gets angry does only his shirt rip. They must be some really stretchy trousers hes wearing.

@willywillywillywilly - Thank you...!!

For me it’s oral sex

Wearing a bra to hold wobbly things in - men don’t and some have bigger ones than others?

And socks for our feet

Why not gloves all the time!

this thread should be in classics

For me it's the word whisky (or whiskey I suppose). Every time I say, read or hear this word it sets me thinking how weird it is. I just wonder who came up with it. Say it out loud and think about the sound - it's so weird to me.

Cameras... I mean.... how?

Hairypaws, whisky comes from the Gaelic "uisge beatha", meaning "water of life".

Following the whiskey one, sometimes if I look at a word too long it just looks completely odd. Even though it's spelt right it just looks bizarre when you look too long.

Does anyone else get this?

whisky comes from the Gaelic "uisge beatha", meaning "water of life

Interesting!!

Following the whiskey one, sometimes if I look at a word too long it just looks completely odd. Even though it's spelt right it just looks bizarre when you look too long.

Does anyone else get this?

Yes!! And also, the sound of an everyday common word, but which seems so absurdly ridiculous after you say it 5 or 6 times. Such as 'sheep'.

Just thought of another one. When people talk about picturing a person or place in their head. I can't do this at all and if you asked me to describe what my children look like I would only be able to tell you their hair and eye colour. I obviously recognise people when I see them but cant picture things at all.

Potatoes and other root type foods. Who looked at a potato covered in earth and decided: that will taste good once coocked. Or cassava. I think they are even toxic if eaten raw.

Caviar who looked at a load of fish eggs and thought "yum!".

When people talk about picturing a person or place in their head. I can't do this at all

Yes!! But then randomly I'll be able to picture Jill at the checkout in my local supermarket perfectly!!

@Shitshitshitshit I cant even do that. Even if it was something like picture an apple. I just think in words. I do have very vivid dreams though which is strange.

The butterfly effect amazes me, when one tiny little decision changes whole lives...I often wonder what I would be doing if I didn't change my mind last min and go out and meet Dh. Was sat with pjs on and takeaway menu in hand 3 hours before we met. I often wonder where I would be if I hadn't (not in a wishful way just astounded how different it would be)

Or a friend noticed lace was undone and stopped to tie it and a few seconds later a car crashed into the spot she would have been.. the difference of a few seconds changing everything.

@shutuptodd oh I've read about that before! Aphantasia isn't it?

Death/birth it's just dressed up as science but is actually magic crossed with body horror gore.
The red shift
Time
That you are you and not someone else.
That it's always now and never later or earlier, you are always in the present moment.
Why is it that you are alive having this particular experience at this particular time in the whole of human history?
Kissing.. what does it mean? That you sort of want to eat someone?
Ornaments, you spent money you worked hard for on a random shaped thing that serves no purpose but to just sit in your home.
Electricity, that is just magic.
Language, since everyones having a slightly different life experience the connotations of anything you say will be interpreted slightly differently to what you were personally thinking of meaning you have not really communicated your own experience at all you are just getting them to relive some of thier own.
Cooking... spend ages and money on sourcing and mixing ingredients in a certain way at certain times just to eat it all in a much shorter time then shit it out.
Money... it isnt even anything its bits of paper which people shoot each other over and devote the majority of their lives to trying to get given.

I find it odd that some people picture characters in.books - I have never had a picture in my head of a character unless there is a physical picture in the book.

That some colours did not used to exist. There was no name for them and people didnt mention them... did people even see them?
Does that mean when new words come into existence new concepts and even totally new objects are revealed to us?

That people on the other side of the world are upside down from your perspective right now... they are literally underneath you and upside down.

I find it odd that some people picture characters in.books - I have never had a picture in my head of a character unless there is a physical picture in the book
What if it said Tom York was a dashing sort of fellow, with soft black hair tumbling a little too long over his eyes, eyes as blue as the ocean at dusk, and a smile that was a little lopsided but quick to emerge and slow to fade.

That some colours did not used to exist. There was no name for them like?