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

[PutItInYourPocket]

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?

Definitely how can people STILL support Trump.

How does wifi work?

Gravity isn't what you were always taught.

If God exists why can't he be arsed to prove it.

@Crystalknobs

Space is weird, how do we know that it goes on forever? I often wonder if we and the planet we live on are being kept as little pets by a giant . I imagine the giant keeps us in a goldfish bowl and watches us .

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks like this! I sometimes wonder if we’re so tiny that we can’t see the true - much bigger than we imagine - bigger picture. Just like the tiniest creatures that we know would have no idea of the scale of our world, what we know of could be just a small part of something much bigger (yes, like a goldfish bowl kept by a giant!).

@butterycooler On mention if this, the entire premise of "twins" is weird. Like I (vaguely) understand it from a scientific perspective, but I wonder how well it fits into the ideology of "if you saw yourself on the street you wouldn't recognise yourself"?

I dated a twin once, I'm kicking myself for not asking!

The fact that if you stare at a person's ears for long enough, you see that humans are in fact monkeys. Try it.

@MudSmudge

Rain - that's fucking mental. Like, the idea that a liquid just turns into a gas for no visible reason and then turns back into a liquid for no visible reason. Mental - it's basically flying water and I think aliens would be baffled.

Also that water had been around forever - so the water you drink could have been part of cloud, a lake, the sea. It might have been swum in by dinosaurs or flown through by birds before. It could have been through the bodies of many other beings - perhaps as a drink for a tiger or been cried as tears of someone who lived thousands of years ago.

That's weird! But amazing IMO.

I think what I struggle with most with the concept is that there are so many interpretations/ideas/variations.

Even if there was the possibility that there was actually a god- there can’t be hundreds so there’s going to be some upset people as which god is it? Who’s right who’s wrong?

There's too many. I should be asleep but now I can't. Now I'm lay awake in bed thinking of all my neighbours lay in their beds along the row of houses 😂

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

Most of our society will vanish altogether because more and more things are virtual, and even buildings aren't meant to last very long these days. In a few hundred years, they'll think all we did was carry toothbrushes round in plastic bags.

[quote trashaccount]@butterycooler On mention if this, the entire premise of "twins" is weird. Like I (vaguely) understand it from a scientific perspective, but I wonder how well it fits into the ideology of "if you saw yourself on the street you wouldn't recognise yourself"?

I dated a twin once, I'm kicking myself for not asking![/quote]
If you think twins are weird, try looking up Chimerism. One person (or animal) made from the DNA of two people (or animals).

Most of these! Definitely the universe and the Internet.

Also (only read half the thread so far, so someone may have mentioned it), how everything on this planet is made from the earth/elements. All our clothes, cars, computers, medicines, buildings... A bit like the pp saying everything is made in factories, but before that, all the materials have come from the earth!

Why do women have to bleed to reproduce? Think about it, animals don't so why were humans designed to?

Why is time measured be seconds and theb minutes and hours and why 60 minutes is one hour and then 24hrs in a day, why not have 4hours in a day where each hour is 180 minutes long who came up with this?

Also, water blows my mind. Nothing can live without it but it offers no nutritional benefit and too much will kill you.
It's one of the few chemicals where it's solid form is lighter than its liquid form. If that wasn't the case then the Artic ocean would be a solid block and there wouldn't be ocean currents, life as we know it wouldn't exist.
And it all just goes round and round the planet on an infinite loop.

Another thing about the whole 'people of the past'... Whenever I see a skeleton/skull/bone in a museum it just blows my mind that that was an actual person. They might have just been a proper bog standard person, like me, and now they are in a glass case being gawked at hundreds of years later.

I saw a mummified hand once in a museum. What if my hand gets dug up in 300 years and stuck in a museum?

Also only recently realised babies are born with their adult teeth, so what's the point of having baby teeth

@needanewidea Ahhhhh! The concept of giving birth to your "sibling" 's baby!!

Like previous posters were saying it is strange and a bit sad to think of all the lives gone before but now forgotten forever. What will happen in the distant future to all the millions of social media accounts belonging to dead people? Will they be deleted after being inactive for a certain amount of time or will our great great grandchildren be able to find them?

@cyclingmad

Animals do have periods. I remember being very startled to discover that you can buy 'period pants' for dogs, so they don't get blood everywhere!

@ThunderSkies thank you for the warning 😂😂 I hate when I read something I wasn't prepared for ewww that's so disgusting to think about

@Pommersy Bit weird that your grandkids may also see everything you've posted on your social media too - I only have some pictures and memories of my grandparents.

@Eckhart

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

Most of our society will vanish altogether because more and more things are virtual, and even buildings aren't meant to last very long these days. In a few hundred years, they'll think all we did was carry toothbrushes round in plastic bags.

This would be funny if it wasn't so tragic

The space inside atoms. Why am I sitting on this settee and not falling through it?

Surgery/medical procedures. I had a wisdom tooth put a couple of years ago and for a couple of weeks afterwards every now and again I would have a sudden moment of thinking "that man pulled my tooth out! And I let him!". My daughter has had lots of surgeries and I mildly freak out when I think that someone has literally touched her heart, or seen inside her brain.

[quote Eckhart]@cyclingmad

Animals do have periods. I remember being very startled to discover that you can buy 'period pants' for dogs, so they don't get blood everywhere![/quote]
I can confirm. I remember my dad buying nappies for our female dog 😂

It's weird how revolting we are on the inside. You know, like how utterly gorgeous a 6 pack looks, and yet millimetres beneath is a writhing mass of hot, stinking intestines and a stomach full of what, in other circumstances, is just vomit.

Christmas trees. Just the general idea of putting up a tree inside your house. I say this every time we put ours up.

@eckhart The fact that when you die you often shit yourself, only to slowly decompose in the ground yet a few days earlier your partner may have fancied the pants off you