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?

@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?

Oh my God! The calendar ones blew my mind. 13 months of 28 days.... of course we should have that!

For me it's the one about all the atoms in your body being replaced so none of the original you is left....can't remember how often this happens though!

Hmm, have just googled and its 98% of atoms every year, but some in bones and tooth enamel hang around permanently. Your liver is totally replaced every 6 weeks....

@MagentaRocks @PizzzaExpressWoking

Thanks. They have loads of names, all descriptions, rather than one specific name that everybody would recognise. Like saying 'Wheeled Passenger Box' because of not having the word 'car'.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_horn

I didn't know they were called 'checkout dividers' and neither has anyone I've asked. One frined invented the term 'shopper-stopper' which I quite like.

Sex. Might be my peri menopausal-ness but I've come to the conclusion that that's pretty weird.

[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]
If I were to name them they'd be called Keith and Nigel (Keith being the blowout, obviously).

While walking to work once I was desperate for a wee and I looked all along the residential street thinking how weird it was that I was surrounded by hundreds of toilets in peoples homes but I couldn’t use them. It made me wonder, what’s least socially acceptable? Knocking on a stranger’s door to ask to use their toilet, or peeing in a bush outside their front garden? (Luckily I made it to work in the nick of time!!)

@SleepOhHowIMissYou

Love the video. I consider myself re-educated. The multi-party-blower is fab!

Life. What are we all doing here? What is the point of it all?

@Spelunking You're very welcome I find looking at those maps and the ones with the countries shown properly to scale (Africa is WAY bigger than you probably thought) so disconcerting! I'm so used to the norther and European centric ones!

The pregnancy/alien thing, my ex was SO inexperienced and uneducated on "women's things" it was quite shocking! The first time the baby visibly moved in my belly that he saw he freaked the fuck out and needed persuading it was totally normal! He phoned his mum to ask her! 😂😂

When he got accidentally squirted in the face with breast milk the first time he threw up!

@StrictlyAFemaleFemale I'm not a fan of school uniform myself. It's not the leveller or unifier it's claimed to be

@ShizeItsWeegie interesting as I'm frequently criticised for not drinking enough. I rarely feel thirsty but can reach the point I have a headache that I know means I need a drink! I have to remind myself

Re to pp about adult children.
I am the mother of a grandfather. Yes that baby lying inside me all those years ago has now produced children of his own, and now his children are producing children. Also one of them looks very much like his great grandfather, my late husband, and is a carbon copy in personality of his grandfather, my son.

Eye contact. Freaks me out.

@nildesparandum

Your post blew my mind. That must be absolutely amazing, to see similarities to your husband, generations down the line.

Congratulations on your dynasty!

The moon is an actual place, not just a light in the sky.

And all of the people who had to have had sex in order to produce me!

@dudsville I always think the same about dancing. I usually dance if I’ve had a few drinks but if I’m sober I think WTAF it’s just so weird just moving body parts round.

Also as a few people have said, the making babies thing. I always say obviously I know how they are made but it still blows my mind that you can actually make a new human being. Amazing.

That apparently there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on the earth.

The numbers are so incomprehensible I just had to nod mutely when DH confirmed it was actually true.

@Eckhart

Thankyou.

Babies definitely. My eldest is as tall as me now and it blows my mind that he was once inside me. Also meeting someone and the HUGENESS of deciding to stay with them for the rest of your life. Such a scary leap into the unknown

Sunbathing
Lying on beaches half naked.
I always think aliens would be really confused by that

@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?

The months and the not being the 8th month etc.

Fucking.

Hell.

🤯

At the age of 7 I started wondering in school assembly why I was me, and not someone else, and whether I was the same person every day, or whether we flirt between bodies in our sleep and wake with the memories of that person and think we’ve always been there. Had a panic attack and had to run into the playground to breathe. Still can’t understand why I’m me and not someone else. How do we get here? It’s mad.

Putting a living tree inside our house in December till it dies. Weird

Just opened fridge at thought oh theres dead chicken inside.

The brain named itself.

"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?"

They used to be but we added a couple, cant remember which though

Sleeping. That your body needs a certain amount to keep going abs it's like your computer going into sleep mode.