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?

IKEA

Zoom meetings. It’s like the intro to the Muppet Show.

@TheSpottedZebra

That females are born with all the eggs they'll have. So not only did I grow inside my mother, but the egg I came from was formed in my granny!

Yes, and my mum was born in 1926, so i was inside my mum, inside my granny, in 1926. Mad.

OldEvilOwl
Totally agree re oysters and acting. And who thought it a good idea to try mushrooms and who decided which ones were poison? I suppose they had to die to decide!

Acting is bizarre - grown people pretending to be someone else and doing it for a living.

It’s probably been said but a lot of food items, all of which I eat btw!!

Mushroom....it’s fungus!
Cow’s or Goat’s milk....breast milk of another species
Any other dairy product derived from the breast milk of another species!
Honey.....bee spit

How leaves are basically solar panels.

Also when my son was about 6 months old and crawling and has only ever been breast fed I suddenly thought how strange that every thing that made up this little person (apart from his dad’s contribution) had come from me. Much weirder than just growing a newborn somehow.

The sky.
It's literally a forever changing picture. It's always different I just think it's absolutely beautiful and I'm completely fascinated by it

The one thing I just can't work out how the fuck it works, is those cassette tapes you get that you plug your phone in to to play music.

I had one when I was in college and I just can't get it.

Thanks OP - great thread. In these weird times, this is helping me appreciate more of the amazing world around me. Need that. Also having such a laugh too!

Cooking mysteries for me. A couple have been mentioned already - meringue and cakes.

I can get that butter could be invented by accident, with a barrel of cream jolting along a rutted track for a couple of hours to market they probably threw it out the first time in disgust but whipped cream?

You can't make that by accident - it has to be beaten for ages to even start to thicken, especially without an electric whisk.

Who bothered to do this the first time, and why?

Sleep ...we inhabit bodies that SWITCH OFF to recharge ! Awesome ...

Also as the poster says ...babies ..parasitise that live inside us for 9 months, burst violently and bloodily out of our bodies causing great pain, yet we immediately fall in love with them !

@BruceAndNosh it's sex for me to. Blows my mind

Milk

I look at the plants I grow and wonder how the heck there is so much of them. The only thing that gets added is water - my hedges get bigger and bigger but the ground doesn't get lower and lower. Where does all that solidness actually come from?

Drinking cow milk. Why do so many people think it’s ‘healthy’ to drink the breastmilk from some random cow that’s designed to grow a calf?
And eating eggs. I don’t even eat my friends ovulations, let alone ovulations from a chicken. Weird.

Anaesthesia/surgery. Someone gives you a cocktail of drugs that renders you temporarily unconscious and then keeps you alive whilst someone else does stuff that would under other circumstances probably kill you. Very strange. Good, but quite odd.

Space, it’s mind boggling to me how there is no end, how can it possibly be no end, and how many lost things are floating around in the ‘end’

The deep sea, to think there are depths we haven't yet plumbed or understood.

Electricity. I know it exists, but I'll never manage to understand how it works!

The solar system and the way the planets just keep moving around each other. I watch the sunset every evening and without fail the sun always sets! One day I'll be sitting there expectantly and the planets will decide nah, we ain't doing that today

The universe, where the hell is it, what is it expanding into?!

@TeaSoakedDisasterMagnet

It’s weird that one day I decided I wanted a pet so I went somewhere, looked at a cat and said yep I’ll take that one and now she just lives in my house with me. I wonder how weird it must have been for her too. She was born in one house, then I went to look at her and basically to her view stole her from her territory and took her to my territory to share it with me?

Love this!! Totally weird.

@Onxob

Milk! 🥛 I'm a city girl so never gave it much thought until I married DH who's the son of dairy farmers. We live there now and I fine the whole thing fascinating and horrendous. Even more so when I had DD1 and was breastfeeding.

We DRINK the milk of a random animal, there's a whole industry constructed around it, we make sure these animals get pregnant every year and if the bull can't do it someone's actual job is to inseminate cows (not literally but you know!) that's a job?! And then worst of all, we take the babies away from their mum's more or less straight away so we can benefit from the milk. What the actual fuck is all that about?

The cows cry for the calves for days - it's unspeakably cruel and so very random. Yet we're still so squeamish about breastfeeding?!! If you suggested harvesting breast milk for human consumption (why haven't we done that?!) people would be so disgusted - cognitive dissonance or what?

I should probably be a vegan really. It's just all so bloody weird when you think about it/see it in action every year.

Not all farms. Organic farm by me leaves the calves for a considerable time (I can’t remember exactly but it did seem impressive) and then brings in surrogates. It even keeps the boy calves for 18 months, allowing them grazing time and to keep having milk.

That it’s perfectly normal to drink milk designed for baby cows but would be weird to drink milk designed for baby humans (beyond infancy anyway)

@sorrysaywhatnow

I've always found it amazing that because women are born with all their eggs, I was there at my own mothers birth, and my daughter was present (in some form) at mine.

But your eggs were present when you were inside your mother, as were your daughter's, and her daughter's daughters....

... all nesting, like very complicated Russian dolls.