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?

Love this thread!

I have often had thoughts like this - especially the colours one, sleep and the vastness of the universe (which when you consider that we are essentially made of star dust makes everything pretty f*cking weird).

Anyway, rain is something I often reflect on as being weird. If an alien came to our planet and we explained that on any given day they had a high probability of water just randomly pouring down out of the sky I expect they would be taken aback!

Reading. We're all reading this thread, looking at these shapes and squiggles and they make sense! I learned to read as a young child and now I has access to a huge range of knowledge and entertainment because I can decipher the squiggles. It's amazing.

Then factor in the development of different languages and forms of writing and it enters 'mind-blown' territory.

When I go on train journeys I still find it weird to look at houses in different parts of the country and imagine the people living in this place and wondering what their lives are like.

Standards of personal hygiene. Infants don’t care about BO. In some cultures a strong armpit scent is considered a sign of virility. At what stage do we decide that it’s gross? And how do we decide on acceptable levels of personal smell?

we have these arguments regularly in our house, DH saying something is pink when I say it's purple etc...

Some languages don’t have a word for pink they just have light red and dark red, rather like we have light and dark blue.
I heard a program about how language alters our perception of colour. There was a woman who grew up bilingual. One language didn’t have a word for pink. When she was speaking and thinking in that language she couldn’t say where pink finished and red began but she could when speaking and thinking in English.

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why flower is agreed to be called flower and not ie a table, bike or food?

Communal showers at a public swimming pool. The only socially acceptable time to shower with many strangers

Being alive one moment and then being dead.

The ability of music and art to make you cry

Why do we think it's ok to drink cow milk but would think it disgusting to drink cat milk?

Have you tried milking a cat?

That all the atoms that make us must have been countless other things in the past - how much of me used to be a dinosaur or a plant or a rock? Imagine if you could track atoms through history!

Space definitely, like when people say it's infinite, doesn't have a beginning or end etc...

How?! What?! It just doesn't compute. I feel like a computer crashing from trying to process too much information 😂

I would drink milk from any animal if it was available and tasted OK?

Have you tried milking a cat?

Lol, good point. But I meant more from a mental than practical POV. Trying to think of another example now, but I think humans do drink the milk of most animals of similar size to cows that are domesticated enough for us to milk them.

Pregnancy, childbirth, child rearing etc, it's all so raw

boysey you were at a party with some teachers and one of them had fingers sewn onto their arm which they were able to move?!?!?! How bloody drunk were you?

My brother lived for quite some time in a hut in his local forest. Absolutely doable. Now lives in a field.

There are so many people that even though I've lived in this city district for 10 years, every time I go out of the door I see a person that I have never seen before. The place is just crawling with us.

Monogamy

I would drink milk from any animal if it was available and tasted OK?

Interesting! I'm not sure I would, but maybe... would you eat any animal that tasted ok? (Assuming you're not vegetarian, I am, which I guess is partly why I find it weird that people eat some animals but not others.)

Space definitely, like when people say it's infinite, doesn't have a beginning or end etc...

It's not infinite. It's just very big. 880000000000000000000000km wide.

It does not, however, have a beginning or an end.

Maths is weird, particularly complex maths patterns and rules. How does it always work? Who decided that? I know it's just humans attributing symbols to things but the fact that numbers can represent a tangible number of things, distances, and then things like angles, speeds, time and it all just fits together and always works? It's freaky!

Music - why does say, a song in minor sound haunting and creepy, but a song in major can sound jaunty and jolly? Why when someone plays or sings a flat note does it sound bad? Why do some chords sound great and others just don't go at all?

Work: where you spend more time with colleagues rather than people you really like and love.

Sorry it was boysey45 who posted that. Hopefully it will tag you in it now because you have to come back and explain that. Was it maybe someone that was facing away from you and they just had their arms crossed? Or someone was holding their arm and you couldn’t see? You can’t grow spare fingers on your arm you maniac.

Interesting! I'm not sure I would, but maybe... would you eat any animal that tasted ok?

Yes, I probably would, including dog if it tasted nice. I think if you eat animals you eat animals don't you?

How musical instruments have been invented. Some of them are bloody weird, like violins.