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?

@ChanklyBore

Good to know trees are checked. But what about in the woods and forests or.....the ones in my garden....I have five pretty big trees!

About the living in other periods of history. It’s when you visit historically important, but quite small, houses. Like the bronte parsonage or Queen elizabeth 1st hunting lodge orsomewhere, and you think, fucking HELL, I just walked up the same stairs that X person once walked up. The same ones. I have a shared experience with the Bronte sisters, and with Queen Elizabeth 1st. And to QE1, the Bronte sisters would have been incredibly futuristic....

I felt the same when I visited Auschwitz. I kept thinking that I was walking all over a crime scene and that so many people had been murdered where I stood, that we were sharing the same space, I had walked the same walk as so many people whose stories have been passed down

Sex. It's all a bit weird isn't it.

I do the whole "I'm probably the only person doing this in the world right now" thing too! Like if I put my leg in the air right now and scratched my left armpit, I'm surely the only person in the world doing this action right at this moment. At the turn of the millennium, I was 16, and when the clock struck 12 I drank a glass of Dr Pepper as I told myself how special it would be that I would be the only person in the world drinking Dr Pepper at the exact second they entered the millennium!

Like if I put my leg in the air right now and scratched my left armpit, I'm surely the only person in the world doing this action right at this moment

I think we all have to do this as a collective now, just so we can say we did

When my grandmum was pregnant with my mum.... I was an egg (follicle) in my mums ovaries ... so I was once in my grandmum 😅

How weird is that ?

Another thing I find odd is when you've been crying loads your eyes swell up and kind of glaze over, but when you have a stinking cold or a dodgy contact lens with equally streaming eyes they weirdly don't? You can always tell when someones been crying compared to just watery eyes and its always baffled me!

@PutItInYourPocket
I just did it

That's my contribution to the world sorted!

I'm pregnant Why does boiled kettle water taste so good. Put it in the fridge or freezer 👅👅👅👅😭😭😭😭 YUM

@Teddy1970 Some cool stuff on tears - they're (supposedly) different dependent on mood which explains the different effect on your eye and face! Absolutely crazy.

Having a fish tank at home.... what are they doing in our lounges? So random????

Good grief trashaccount you learn something new everyday! Well now I know, thanks for that,

** potentially not dependent on mood, might have read that wrong but at the very least there is a difference between emotional and irritative tears!

@Teddy1970 What can I say, threads like these are the only times when my very niche and random pieces of knowledge are put to good use

Who discovered alcohol? It's basically just rotting fruit or vegetables. Who decided that it would be so much fun to drink?

Also, when someone dies, where do they go?

Brilliant thread!

@FastFood

I was listening to Verdi's Requiem the other day, the very dramatic Dies Irae and thought: it's basically air being moved around metal, wood and human flesh.

Also:
how do you get into ski jump? How do you even start?

How do you make a living as a philosopher?

Why having 12 months of 30,31 or 28 days rather than 13 months of 28 days?
Will we ever update the calendar system?

Why no one cares that September, October, November and December are respectively the 9th,10th, 11th and 12th months when their names clearly indicate that they should be 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th?

Watch this - it is a brilliant interpretation of how the calendar should be reformed

The idea that you have this intricate existence and then you just disappear just seems so sad weird and impossible to me. But I'm not religious so that just leaves me with alcohol as a way of getting over it

Attraction. Why do we get attracted to one person but not someone else. Why is such a person so attractive to me yet someone else could look at him and not see it at all.

I respect everyone's way of life

But I just dont understand how people dont believe in God. Look how amazing the world is, the moon, the stars, the rivers ,the mountains. Who created it all........

That people can be seen and heard after their death in films and audio recordings, yet when it first happened people weren't freaked out by it (maybe they were, but I've not heard about any freaking out). I often wonder if the loved ones of the deceased happen to see or hear them like this unawares, and how they react to it. Ideally, they would be warned in advance, though obviously this is not possible.

How a woman giving birth is not the first person who sees, or even touches her baby.

Why is a steak cooked under the grill described as 'grilled' but a slice of bread done the same way is 'toasted'?

Who on earth decided to stick their hand in a beehive, probably getting stung to fuck in the process, just to see what the bees 'secretions' tasted like?

It's weird to think that insects see us as giants

So weird that so many of the things I think are weird are already here! I’ve often thought that having a special room, furniture and clothing dedicated to sleeping is just so odd. Good to see I’m not the only one. And toilets! We all do it and no one says anything when you leave the dinner table to pop to the loo, but it’s just so strange and ugh that everyone knows exactly what you’re up to.
And then there’s hymns or mass singing. Sometimes I watch people singing their hearts out with music and rhyming words and think geez, this is pretty random...

Hands.

That vision and smell is different for different animals. We can only see our own spectrum of colours but animals can see more colours and can detect smells that we cannot.

If I'm on an aeroplane for example ; I'm not a confident flyer, but I tell myself that it's mind over matter and that the chances of a crash happening are very low. But then I think about those poor souls who have crashed in the planes in the past, and did they think and tell themselves the exact same thing, and it actually happened to them. And if they did tell themselves, did they get a chance to process the fact that they thought about it happening only an hour before and that it's actually happened to them?

Whenever I look at old black and white photographs from the early 1900s and 1800s, I look at their faces and think wow they look just like us. Like they could have lived today and not looked out of place if they wore current fashion. And I wonder why they were destined to be born then and why we were destined for now