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Things that are actually pretty weird when you think about them?

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 20:33

I've just been thinking about this as I've been lay in the bath.

I'm currently pregnant and baby goes mad when I'm in the bath and I was watching him kicking and squirming inside me and just thought... This is actually pretty odd when you think about it. I have a living thing that's moving around inside me!

A friend had to have a blood transfusion not so long ago and she can't think about that for long without feeling squeamish that someone else's blood was inside her!

What other things do you find strange when you really think about them?

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trashaccount · 28/10/2020 22:58

@eckhart The fact that when I had my dog spayed, I put an end to a genetic line millions of years long. I had a massive ethical dilemma about it. Who the hell do I think I am?

Holy fuck I hadn't even thought of this! I feel bad for my cats now.

WinWinnieTheWay · 28/10/2020 22:58

Anything to do with modern life

Electricity
The telephone
Computers
Cameras
Email
The internet
Video
big metal heavy planes and ships
The radio
Why people still eat at TGI Fridays.

I expect the answer is that I'm too thick, with the exception of the TGI Friday one.

MelodramPatheticism · 28/10/2020 22:58

Having children is weird. They're sort of like human pets 😆

Clarissa111 · 28/10/2020 22:58

Other lives. Like when I'm in a car or train. And see all the houses, I think every single person in each house has their own life. Worries, love, etc. Blows my mind honestly.

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 22:59

@PivotPivotPivottt

My contraceptive implant makes me feel weird. 99% of the time I forget it's there but now and again I will accidentally feel it and it makes me feel sick that this piece of plastic is just sitting below my skin. Sometimes it really freaks me out and I just want to rip it out.
This reminds me, I have a very small ganglion cyst that sticks out of my wrist, its hard and looks like bone and I can't help but touch it every time if flares up even though it knocks me sick to do so.

Also I don't like the thought of tendons 🤢

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Blurp · 28/10/2020 22:59

Things that boggle my mind:

  1. TV/Radio signals. I can put a tv or radio anywhere in my house and I'll be able to pick up a programme once I tune it in. So every single part of my house has all the tv and radio programmes present in it all the time.
  1. Dinosaurs might have lived on my street. It's entirely possible that, many years ago, a dinosaur walked in the ground that would eventually become the street I live on now.
  1. Sometimes I imagine what it would be like if we froze time, and removed all the man-made objects, but just left people as they were. There would be people way up in the air in weird poses (lying down, stretching up for something, sitting etc) or on roads you'd have rows of people in driving position all lined up.
  1. Every now and then I think of someone who I don't know but who definitely existed, like the oldest third-cousin of the last person who spoke to my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother. That that was an actual person, who would become the only non-royal person alive at that time who would be thought of in a few hundred years in the future. And they lived and died and didn't know that they'd be thought of so long after everyone else.
Whatisapension · 28/10/2020 22:59

I find mirrors weird. Not just that you can see your reflection, but if you lean in or over slightly, you can see most of the room, even though it’s not directly in front of the mirror.

RockPaperScissorLizardSpock · 28/10/2020 22:59

The fact that we can be asleep for the same time we are awake in a day (or similar amount). The hours between 9am and 9pm seem long, and I can do a lot in that time, but I find it weird to think I will be asleep for the same number of hours at night (give or take a couple of hours, but you get the idea!). Mind blown!

MadinMarch · 28/10/2020 22:59

My SIL

trashaccount · 28/10/2020 22:59

My contraceptive implant makes me feel weird. 99% of the time I forget it's there but now and again I will accidentally feel it and it makes me feel sick that this piece of plastic is just sitting below my skin. Sometimes it really freaks me out and I just want to rip it out.

@PivotPivotPivottt I had mine taken out because of this! It felt so odd knowing that this foreign object was hiding in the fleshy part of my arm, I got this strong feeling to cut it out when I thought about it too much Blush

ShirleyPhallus · 28/10/2020 23:01

Fab thread

Mine is how odd and unlikely it is that we even exist. The likelihood of us even having made it this far is teeny tiny.

If you think of all the sperm from your father and all the eggs from your mother and think that you’re the result of one tiny sperm, from the one time they did it and you’re the result. A different month and different eggs, had a different sperm stuck, even if they’d been with different people you wouldn’t exist.

Such an odd concept and we’ve all already overcome so much just to exist. Baffling.

threesenoughthanks · 28/10/2020 23:02

Yes to so many of these. Mine is the sky. I often look at it and think WTF. I mean you couldn't make it up. This giant umbrella of blue that surrounds us with enormous white fluffy things that drop water on us. Rainbows! Lightning! Shock

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 23:02

Intrusive thoughts are pretty weird too. I assume most of us get them, where you're standing on a bridge and think 'i could just chuck my car keys over there'. But like why? 😂

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Pjsandbaileys · 28/10/2020 23:02

Walking years ago I had a brain injury and had to pretty much learm to walk properly again. It's really weird now as I have to think about all the movements in my legs and feet before the grey matter went wonky I just did it.

Eckhart · 28/10/2020 23:03

@Blurp

2. Dinosaurs might have lived on my street. It's entirely possible that, many years ago, a dinosaur walked in the ground that would eventually become the street I live on now

Really made me laugh. I know it's not what you meant, but I couldn't help thinking of the T-Rexes at number 6 gossiping about the pterodactyls over the road at number 3...

MaraScottie · 28/10/2020 23:03

Earrings. The fact we decorate our head-protrusions with bits of metal that dangle.

trashaccount · 28/10/2020 23:03

@PutItInYourPocket Yes! Or I get the feeling if I'm walking on a wobbly bridge to keep jumping until it snaps. No real reason why, I guess just to prove I could Grin

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 23:03

On the subject of the earth, how everything is so finely balanced, like literally on a pinhead. If one certain gas or element changed slightly everything could just fall apart. Our existence really is so fragile.

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Blurp · 28/10/2020 23:04

@Vulgarlady

Illustrations in books

How does a baby know that a small circle on top of a big circle with 2 pointy triangles on top represents a cat? A lot of children’s images are very abstract to say the least. Peppa pig hardly looks like a real Life farm animal.

On similar lines, how does a toddler tell the difference between a cat and a small dog? Or even a dog and a horse? What is it that makes a horse look so utterly different from all the breeds of dog out there? Surely a whippet looks more like a small horse than it looks like a pug? So how does my toddler know that the whippet and the pug are dogs, and the horse is a horse?!
TableFlowerss · 28/10/2020 23:04

Probably going to get flamed here, but I didn’t start the OP for this purpose, but it’s the one thing that blows my mind when I truly think of it. In relation to this thread....

That so many people in this day and age, (given what we know through science/evolution etc...) still believe there is a ‘god’ that created us and will judge us upon our death and we’ll go to heaven....

Fair enough people can believe in what they want and they’re doing no harm but it still blows my mind.

Eckhart · 28/10/2020 23:05

@PutItInYourPocket

This thread is peak mumsnet. You have won.

sweetkitty · 28/10/2020 23:05

Sex - when you think about it it’s just weird.

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 23:07

@TableFlowerss

Probably going to get flamed here, but I didn’t start the OP for this purpose, but it’s the one thing that blows my mind when I truly think of it. In relation to this thread....

That so many people in this day and age, (given what we know through science/evolution etc...) still believe there is a ‘god’ that created us and will judge us upon our death and we’ll go to heaven....

Fair enough people can believe in what they want and they’re doing no harm but it still blows my mind.

No I totally understand what you mean. I have absolutely nothing against people believing in whatever they want to believe in, I have a lot of family who are very devout Christians. But when you think of the basic premise of it, it is a weird concept.
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trashaccount · 28/10/2020 23:07

@TableFlowerss Religion does baffle me a bit too - though I'd be desperately keen to assign myself to one if I could believe in one that aligned with my moral views. It seems a happier or possibly more focused life.

butterycooler · 28/10/2020 23:07

Humans have 2 eyes, a nose, a mouth, 2 cheeks, a chin and a forehead. And yet we all look different from each other (apart from twins) it blows my mind that there are so many different combinations that 7 billion people look different from each other.

Also, all the people that existed in the past, because records and documents weren't really kept, the majority of their thoughts and lives and everything they did are gone forever.

Along the cooking theme. Who looked at wheat and thought "well I'm going to wait until it goes brown and looks like it's dying, then I'm going to take the top bit and squash it between some big stones. Then the powder produced I can mix with sugar and water and this mould type stuff, mix it together and leave it for a bit, then roll it around before baking it. I'll call it bread"