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?

The wearing of ties. Whoever thought "what we need to make this outfit look smarter is to take a long piece of fabric and tie it in this particular configuration.

The word 'cardigan'.

Bread and pastry. Whoever first thought of grinding down bits of wheat and combing it with water and yeast to make bread and then kneading it and baking it. It's hard enough nowadays but imagine the trouble they had finding a warm spot to prove the dough back in the day.

The fact that the fart you just smelled were molecules up someone’s bum a few seconds ago

I get really funny about this. When people say 'just breath through your mouth' in a smelly toilet. ERM NO, I don't want bum molecules in my mouth.

That the first question that you ask a new parent is what sex the baby is. Like everyone else I thought this was normal until I was pregnant and suddenly realised that everybody wanted to know what shape my child's genitalia was. It is really odd when you think about it.

The fact that the fart you just smelled were molecules up someone’s bum a few seconds ago

I call this “poo particles”

Ears also weird me out.
How does a tiny bit of membrane vibrating turn into so much sound. You can listen to music and hear different instruments. That are in themselves just making vibrations.
And for that matter, radios and speakers too. How do radio waves translate into a radio station and not get jumbled up with other stuff and then it turns into music and speech through a tiny cone.
Boggling.

Naming things - like colours - look up Wittenstein's Language Games, Fascinating stuff. I am fascinated with language - who got to decide what things were called? Why do we all think oh yeah that's a chair, and we all know what that is.

Why are diamonds considered more valuable than other stones

This is because of a marketing campaign in the 19th century. I can't remember the exact details but it had something to do with someone finding a new diamond mind, which threatened to flood the market, bringing the prices down. De Beers bought it and limited the supply coming out,

I came on to say Oysters and mussels

Ears. When i focus on someone’s ears on tv they look really weird. If Aliens land they will think “wtf are those things on the side of their head?”
Also, who sang the first song? Were they copying birds?

Most types of technology. How I will type this and it will appear on all your screens.
It is amazing really.
Also receiving a text: it is so clever really.
All from one tiny chip in a phone over the airways.
Planes are also incredible. All
That weight in the sky!

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I can answer this about colour perception...
No.
I can tell you this because I see colours differently in each eye. It’s quite cool.

Supporting a football team.

Instead of playing football yourself, paying good money to watch other people play football, claiming tribal allegiance to a particular team then arguing with people who claim tribal allegiance to a different team.

Bizarre.

And I’m a season ticket holder at a Championship club.....

Who the hell first ate an onion? They cut it or break it in some way, it makes them fucking cry and they think oh, wonder what that tastes like?!

Prawns. How many lives are ended for a single prawn sandwich. I find it quite disturbing.

Olives. Soak in brine for agessssssss, changing the water every day. What on earth gave our ancestors the idea to "just give it another day...sure they'll be lovely soon"?

How many shells and stones and over how long were ground down to make sand?

Why is an orange called an orange but a lemon is not called a yellow?

I think noses are even weirder than ears - a pointy thing sticking out right in the middle of your face, with holes in it. If we didn’t have them and someone designed them for an alien in Star Trek or something, everyone would go “no that looks too daft”.

I always thought that kissing originated from cave man times - Mothers would mash up the food in their mouths and pass it directly to their infants’ mouths (like birds do I suppose). This was an act of great intimacy and love - and so kissing began! This may of course be an urban myth!

On topic, laughing, clapping, watching plays, dancing in clubs - all would be completely baffling to aliens landing amongst us.

Colours. Is my red... the same as DHs red... and the same as your red. Blows my little mind

It's probably not. Visual processing is controlled by the occipital lobe in the brain, right at the back. It's been shown in scans to be less developed in men, so they can't see as many shades of colours as women, they just look the same. This means there's huge possibility that any individual differences in development could mean we see colours differently but because we have no way to communicate what we are seeing, other than naming colours, we'll never know if people are seeing what we are seeing.

Yes to kissing! But not just romantically. When my babies were born, all I wanted to do was cover them is kisses. Why? Why?! Where does that come from?

I’ve alwsys thought singing was a bit weird.

I mean, the whole thing about the origins of language is baffling enough as it is but then one day, a random human decided to communicate by the means of going “la la la la de dah, dooby dooby do” or whatever. And the person listening said: “Ooh that’s good, do it again.”

I wonder things taste the same to us all. I hate Jaffa cakes but I know lots of people love them so do they taste the same or different? Kissing as far as I know comes from mothers chewing food and spitting in her children’s mouths.

I saw a tweet the other day that said babies born in the breech position briefly wear their mother as a hat...

This is basically "shower thoughts" on Reddit.

@TheDarkOverload I'm so glad it's not just me who thinks that, it's something I've occasionally pondered over since I was a teenager.

Cooking stuff - who first thought "well food is nice, but it'd be so much nicer if I stuck it in a fire first" and why?

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Yes I wonder about drinking water I may have drunk before and f it’s heem through anyone I know or have ever met and also sometimes I imagine / wish that all the steps I’ve ever taken on Earth are coloured brightly and I can see where I’ve been and not ever been...

mens feet bleugh....