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?

The fact that in not much more than 50 years’ time, my entire life will have disappeared and nobody will even think about or talk about me, except a rare passing mention by my great (great?) grandchildren.

Pets again. The fact that our relationship with pets is on our terms and ultimately for our benefit. Sure, people love their pets but if they really cared about animals, they would want them to live like animals (not humans), surely? This x1000 for pets that need to be kept in cages

The fact one day I will be gone forever. I go hot and panic when I think about it.

@LedaandtheSwan

Two things:

Skiing. Who decided that strapping bits of metal on your feet and pushing yourself down a mountain at high speed was a good idea? Then, when you get to the bottom a lift thingy takes you back to the top to repeat the process. And you do this for at least a week? And pay through the nose for the privilege?

Religion (again). Tbh this thought led me to atheism. The God I was brought up with, the Christian one, is similar to the Jewish one, but the Jewish one only follows the OT and there is no heaven. The bible has the OT and NT and it's a book, so it cannot be disputed, but the interpretation has led to different types of Christianity. Then, there is the Quran which is also a book but again there is more than one interpretation. And then there is Hinduism with not just one god but hundreds, and Sikhism, and Buddhism....so who is right? Or are all religions false? No-one can know, really, can they? But representatives of all religionslike a good war, don't they? And whilst religion was a way of explaining the world why did some of them restrict normal human behaviour like sex and homosexuality? Where is religion's place now we have rational explanation for many phenomena? Why do so many highly educated scientists still follow a religion? It blows my mind.

But we don’t have rational explanation for anything really, and it’s that that have made so many “rational” scientists, many who were committed atheists come to accept that there must be a higher power. It’s that brick wall they keep coming up against.

Even Albert Einstein accepted that there must be a God, but that he was nebulous, universal and not comprehensible to the human mind.

@BunAndOven

Eggs. We literally eat the unfertilsed menstrual cycle of birds.

How come it’s birds that get a very neat period. I would be overjoyed if my period involved laying a nice clean egg.

@ShizeItsWeegie

I also think it's weird how so many diets and so much advice tells us to drink eight glasses of water ever day etc. when this cannot possibly be good advice

Yes! Also, the way we're told to eat healthily these days can't possibly be healthy in an evolutionary sense, because the balance of nutrients is based on availabilities facilitated by (relatively) new technologies.

And 3 meals a day/getting your 5 a day are meaningless too, in terms of our biological needs, and yet so many accept them as 'fact'!

I find the alphabet mind blowing. 26 shapes that can convey masses of information, stories, news and all the other billions of things that are written down/typed.

Time is completely weird. There is no past, present or future - everything is happening at the same time. But our bodies create this narrative of moving through time. It's just this made up thing but at the same time it is completely real. Blows my mind.

Disgusting alert**
I think not cleaning your teeth properly is weird
A dentist I used to know would get a Jacob's cream cracker, scrape plaque from a patient's mouth then spread it on the cracker.
Then he would dare the patient to eat the cracker. They always refused- 🤮
His point being that was in your mouth already.

Eckhart I agree. We are designed to live in lean times and sometimes very lean times. That is why we store fat but we are designed to use that fat when there's nothing to eat so fasting is normal for our bodies. We wouldn't eat grains or seeds and both of these have compounds designed to stop them being eaten. 90% of what we eat is probably harming us. We would eat shoots, nuts, leaves and bugs with the odd root and meat if we can get it and likely go days between meals sometimes. The whole three squares a day is bollocks.

Size of the universe. The solar system with our bog standard sun at the centre is already way too vast for a human being to imagine but if we made the Milky Way the size of the United States, the solar system would just be the size of a pea. And the Milky Way is just one galaxy among a trillion. You are very, very small on the universal scale.

Swearing, who decided whether a word was slang or a swear word, who decided the ‘C word’ was the worst?

queenofknives i remember hearing that about time in the sixth form over 30 years ago and I've never really understood it

@phantomish

Disgusting alert** I think not cleaning your teeth properly is weird A dentist I used to know would get a Jacob's cream cracker, scrape plaque from a patient's mouth then spread it on the cracker. Then he would dare the patient to eat the cracker. They always refused- 🤮 His point being that was in your mouth already.

That’s gross and unprofessional, why on earth would he do that

@ApricotOLeary

queenofknives i remember hearing that about time in the sixth form over 30 years ago and I've never really understood it

I think it's like when quantum physicists say that if you think you understand quantum physics then you definitely don't! Hahaha (hysterical laughter at the incomprehensible universe)

Time does not exist unless you measure it with a clock? Do other animals experience time?

@MadameBlobby

remember when my friends daughter was young she could not get her head round the fact that her gran was her mums mum

I was the same. I remember having a stand off with my mum about something when I was about 4 and saying “I’ll tell my Gran on you” and her saying she would tell her mum and not believing her mum was my Gran

Ha. This reminds me of when I was young, my mum's sister is called June (not real name) and I'd call her Auntie June. I couldn't believe that not everyone's auntie was called auntie June. I thought it was just what aunties were called, like mum's are called Mum and Dad's, Dad etc.... My mum likes to remind me of when I came out and asked what auntie Junes real name was and was gobsmacked when she said 'well June, obviously'

Names are weird when you think about it. Just a collection of letters and sounds but they mean so much.

Why did my parents chose my collection of letters and sounds so weird.

Why is it that my torso is so much smaller than a man’s yet I can fit an actual baby in there.

To be fair, the majority of the full term baby is sticking out the front :o

December not being the 10th month

There was a Roman (Romulus) calendar with only 10 months of 30 or 31 days each. There seems to be doubt as to what happened with the "missing" months due to the actual length of an earth year though.

I find it hard to grasp that Space goes in all directions, not just "up" or "out"

My daughter thinks everyone has the same middle names. So if you're a girl you have her middle name and boys have the same middle name as daddy.

She asked me once why she has a middle name... And then when I thought about it, middle names are weird as they don't have a purpose

When I look at old photos, or even watch a drama set in the past, I think about how weird life was, and how hard it was to do things, like cooking or even going to the loo, and the clothes and everything. Then I remember that they thought they were really modern and advanced. One day people will look at our life and wonder how we didn't all think it was weird.

That you really 'die' twice.
Once when your body and consciousness stop working.
Once when everyone who ever knew or loved you also dies.
(less true for famous people I guess, about whom facts survive, but even then they are not absolute - Napoleon may have been moody, or not, depending on the source, but who knows whether, say, Tutankhamen was frivolous with money, or liked green or blue best?

phantomish

Disgusting alert*
I think not cleaning your teeth properly is weird. A dentist I used to know would get a Jacob's cream cracker, scrape plaque from a patient's mouth then spread it on the cracker. Then he would dare the patient to eat the cracker. They always refused. His point being that was in your mouth already

Yes, but that goes for drinking a shot of your own slobber, too.

Milk is cow lactation

Eggs are unfertilised chickens ovum

That you really 'die' twice.
Once when your body and consciousness stop working.
Once when everyone who ever knew or loved you also dies.

This is pretty much how it's explained in the film Coco!

It unnerves me that I spend all my life with this face, and yet I can never actually see myself in the truest sense. I am the one person in the world who can never know what I look like as seen first hand, and not in a mirror or through a camera lens.

Also, animal instincts regarding mating and birth. They don't have ante natal classes so how do solo pet animals (who have never seen another of their pack go through this) know exactly what to do when their babies are born? Do they even know they are pregnant or do they just think 'Wtf is happening to me?!' when tiny things start coming out of them?