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?

That's why I'm vegan. Along with another animal taking my baby so that they can have my milk.

Milk. Bovine booby juice. Breast milk from another species in a glass.... Why!? Wouldn't drink a glass of human milk as a grown up, no other species on earth has milk past infancy.... So why do we have cow and goat milk? Its not as hot as high in calcium as people are lead to believe and is very high in sugar (natural yes but still sugar) plus the protein is too large to digest properly.

What sometimes amazes me is that everyone is living their own individual lives. Sometimes when I’m in a traffic jam, I look around and there’s everyone else, living their own individual lives, even though we’re all on the same road at that time.

Fire - I know it’s comprised of oxygen, fuel and heat, but it’s still a weird substance.

The fact that in order to go to sleep, we lay down and pretend to be asleep.

Not so much weird but fascinating, that every single thing on the planet has been birthed or grown to fully adapt to what it is, if that makes sense.

Like fish are born with gills because they live under water, some animals are born with longer noses to do what they do, some animals are born with extra fur because they live in colder climates. Like that is biological, it's not man made. They didnt think oh we live in a cold country so let's make extra fur, no they were born like that. Its mind blowing.

Diamonds: turning a lump of black coal into a shiny rock is literally magic and then we worship these shiny things as signs of true love as decided by Tiffany.

Weird.

Also the English language: so many words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have totally different meanings. Don't get me started!

Honey - a jar of bee vomit, yum! (i do love it though)

Personality - what makes you who you are and where does it go when you die?

The universe - if it is infinite how does that work? We have no comprehension of something that never ends. But if it does end - what's on the other side? Because to have an end means that we are contained within something.

The night sky - what we see is so old some of what we are looking at hasn't existed for years.

Religion - that people can believe in an invisible omnipresent being so much they shape their lives around it. Yet won't believe covid exists.

@Lazysundayafternoons yes! I do that!
What would my kids be like if they were conceived a month earlier, or later?
My son is gay- would he have been gay if he was conceived at another time?
(Not that it bothers me that he's gay- was just wondering 😁)
Same with my daughter- would she have the mental health issues that she has if she was conceived a month earlier?
Weird, isn't it, and something we'll never know!

@Namechanger20183110

The fact that this exact second right now is the youngest you've ever been and the oldest you've ever been

Well that's not true. The youngest I have ever been is when I was just born

@PutItInYourPocket

Hair. We make such a fuss of the hair on our head but shave other hairy areas. Underarm pixie cut or minge bob anyone ?

On the subject of hair, eyebrows.

I've got random patches of hair on my face above my eyes. I wouldn't want patches of hair to grow anywhere else on my face. It sounds like it would be gross but we'd look so weird without them.

Imagine if that just hadn't happened when we were evolving and we were all just getting about eyebrow-less and it was normal.

But eyebrows aren't random as they serve a purpose..

@Lazysundayafternoons if your children had been conceived a month earlier then they would be different people. Different egg and different sperm. It's not unknowable. They are who they are because of your egg in the month they were conceived and the winning sperm that reached it first (upwards of 40 million in each ejaculation).

The notion of beauty also baffles me. Who decided that certain features are beautiful as opposed to others? And yet we're all drawn to beauty, be it in humans or nature.

That we kill each other, other animals fight but try to avoid it but we plan murders & have wars that go on for decades.

Like life is just too easy & to jazz it up a bit we'll kill each other off.

It’s such bonkers behaviour. Also people seem to genuinely think they’ll get away with it too.

I wonder if murder rates were lower when the fight for lif was so much harder?.

Sorry @lazysundayafteroons, my message was directed at @looselegs not you .

[quote Eckhart]@Bettina500

I started compiling a list of things we don't have a word for in English.

So far, I only have: Those things you blow at parties, that unfurl lengthways and whistle; the thing you put between your shopping and the next person's shopping on the conveyor belt at the supermarket till; another one I can't remember.

Can anybody think of any others?[/quote]
Check out dividers

And

Party blowout

On the subject of 'who would our children be if they'd been conceived 3 seconds later', and 'a woman already has all her eggs when she is born'... think of all the millions of children that don't get conceived. The potential of each couple is phenomenal. And quite terrifying.

I mean, for example, if Hitler had been conceived 3 seconds later, he wouldn't have been Hitler. Well, he would have been, but just that nice Adolph bloke, who's always got a kind word for everyone (or something)

@SleepOhHowIMissYou

That's not what they're called, though. If you asked someone for a party blowout, they'd say 'What?'

Or were you giving them names?

They're called party blowers (I assume "blowout" is an autocorrect) or party horns. They have various different names but those are the two main ones.

Checkout divider is pretty much universal (well, in English at least).

[quote Eckhart]@SleepOhHowIMissYou

That's not what they're called, though. If you asked someone for a party blowout, they'd say 'What?'

Or were you giving them names?[/quote]
They are called party blowers - google them.

And checkout dividers.

Cats or dogs. Sometimes I look at one of my two cats and think, well this is fucking mental, you are a living creature, what do you think, what is this whole set up to you? I get a whole "space is big" mess up in my head and have to look away and not think about it.

Sex. If you really think about it, it's the most ridiculous thing ever. I feel as though our brains must do some compartmentalising when we do the sex to stop us from hooting with laughter about it. I mean seriously, it is so strange.

Also, the notion of reality. Sometimes I just stop and think, what is real, is all of this real, am I real? And I'm having another "space is big" mess up in my head and everything is just really weird. That mostly happens when I suddenly see things as though it's a video or a film and not real looking. I'm having it now because I'm talking about it. What even are fingers?

Consciousness, and love.....and the Universe. That we have our own sun and moon that is so perfectly aligned to earth to sustain life. A fraction out either way would make life impossible. The odds of that happening by chance are incalculable, comparable to a blind man picking up a coloured grain of sand out of all the deserts in the world by chance. It's mind blowing.

The size of the universe.

@Eckhart the ones that blow out are called party blowouts and the horns with paper fringes are blowers. Google the term and you'll get lots of opportunities to buy them, or give Carol Middleton a ring, she'll tell you.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=t-FC_1zhpdk

Bottled water. How something that has been filtered through glaciers or volcanoes for thousands of years gets put in to a bottle with a best before date!