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Things that are actually pretty weird when you think about them?

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PutItInYourPocket · 28/10/2020 20:33

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?

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SlopesOff · 30/10/2020 08:12

[quote trashaccount]**@eckhart* The fact that when I had my dog spayed, I put an end to a genetic line millions of years long. I had a massive ethical dilemma about it. Who the hell do I think I am?*

Holy fuck I hadn't even thought of this! I feel bad for my cats now.[/quote]
My (older) cat was castrated shortly before I adopted him. I used to look at him and think that there would never be another one like him now.

And then I read about someone cloning pets (this was around 2010) and I thought, well maybe there could.

MadameBlobby · 30/10/2020 08:13

@Lorddenning1

Losing weight, where does the weight go, does it dissolve, do we pee it out, I can't get it right in my mind of how it works, does it happen when we sleep it during the day, can someone explain this to me.
I know this! You breathe it out apparently!
MadameBlobby · 30/10/2020 08:14

@Tattygran14

I read somewhere recently, a woman was with her husband and grown children, and suddenly thought 'everybody in this room has been in my vagina.'
🤣
Spelunking · 30/10/2020 08:18

@Micsam89

Best thread ever. I'm glad I'm not the only one to have weird thoughts and wonderings. The sleep thing has always got me, lying in a flat square bit of wood and not only my neighbours doing it, but celebrities and royalty and even terrorists etc do it too. And thinking randomly that everyone else has a whole life going on and it's totally different to mine. Like my siblings are guest stars in my life, but I'm a guest star in theirs. And do I look and sound how I think to other people? When I hear myself talk, does it sound the same to others? This whole thread is blowing my mind and giving me much to ponder!
I just imagined you walking into your siblings house like The Fonz and a live studio audience going mental. 😂
Rockbird · 30/10/2020 08:30

I read somewhere recently, a woman was with her husband and grown children, and suddenly thought 'everybody in this room has been in my vagina.'

So funny but so true. I shall be thinking that all day 😂😂😂

ThunderSkies · 30/10/2020 08:32

Of all the potential combinations of sperm and egg, mine was the one that came together and worked.

All those other possibilities - potential people and lives that never came to be.

That there is a continuous line before me going back (sort it somehow) to the beginning of life - all survivors. And that this will continue as long as my children have children etc.

None of this is a surprise, but it’s mind blowing when you really sit down and think about it.

Turgha · 30/10/2020 08:40

The fact that you come from a long line of survivors can be quite comforting, I think. At my low points, I sometimes try to imagine all the ghosts of this ‘long line’ rooting for me, cheering me on.

SlopesOff · 30/10/2020 08:41

That people believe everything was created by one 'man' and that each religion sees this person differently.

And that the Bible is a true story, to the word.

honeylulu · 30/10/2020 09:02

Kissing. Can you imagine trying to explain it to aliens from another planet : "well you and someone else press your food-holes together and rub them around ..." It just seems a bit bizarre .

Having children, essentially creating new human life. Think about stuff like cloning and cryogenics and how complicated and difficult that is. And yet for the majority, it's so easy, a man and a woman just put their bodies together. A lot of new humans are created unintentionally. It seems amazing that you don't have to pass an exam or get a licence or be vetted in some way (look at how hard it is to adopt) but people all over the world, regardless of intelligence, wealth (or lack thereof), morals etc. just do it.

This is from reading Sapiens: that so much of our life is fake, as in not really essential for existence, just created as societal constructs: money, laws, language, manners etc. And how helpless/useless most of us are with essential stuff because we rely on outsourcing stuff to individuals. Skill sets of individuals are very small. If some kind of apocalypse happened and we ended up having to live as cave dwellers again, most of us couldn't survive because we'd have no clue how to hunt/forage/construct dwellings/channel clean water etc. Bear Grylls would be sorted but there aren't many of him! I'm a solicitor and my husband is an accountant - we would be bloody useless!

Lorddenning1 · 30/10/2020 09:03

@MadameBlobby what!!! You are joking, that makes it even weirder

SlopesOff · 30/10/2020 09:26

[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 had a name when I was a child, I can't remember it just now though.

Eckhart · 30/10/2020 09:36

@Turgha

I hope that you also spend some time shooting positive vibes towards your descendents who will be around hundreds of years from now. Pay it forward, and all that... Smile

FlyNow · 30/10/2020 10:03

Everyone keeps mentioning the milk thing but I don't see that it's that weird. All mammals instinctively know that their milk is food. So it's not a leap at all to realise the milk of other mammals is also food. As for the popularity of cows milk, clearly a large, reasonably docile animal is a good choice.

Same with eggs. If you think of the egg as just another part of the chicken, it's not weird at all to eat them. Many animals steal eat eggs from birds nests and eat them.

CrispyDorothy · 30/10/2020 10:45

@OohThatCat

Also time, just the massive age of the earth and the fact that actually a T-rex is closer in time to me right now than it was to a stegosaurus
WHAAAAAAT?! I'm showing massive ignorance here but I never knew there was that much time between the periods. Mind absolutely blown.
SleepingStandingUp · 30/10/2020 11:08

Walking.

Most animals give birth and the kids can just instinctively walk yet we spend months agonising over it and "teaching" and encouraging children to walk. Also imagine if we kept th in until they were old enough to walk... (Stares at 50lbs on 10 month old baby)

Barney60 · 30/10/2020 11:19

Tap water, its recycled pee! i know its treated ect, but i just cant make myself drink it ,only bottled water. There are other reasons i wont but wont say on here.

Itswritteninthestars · 30/10/2020 11:25

Dancing - we hear music and it makes us feel good and then we start throwing shapes. Babies will jig about when they hear a beat.

Frenchdoors1 · 30/10/2020 11:33

@almondfingers22

God, who made God.
I have wondered about this myself.

He/she surely couldn't have just appeared....

sashh · 30/10/2020 11:35

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

That thing that grows in to a marrow if you leave it in the garden too long. In France it is a courgette (a small courge), in Italy it is a zucchine (a small zucca).

I wonder which two people first kissed? Was it an accident that they fell over , clashed lips and thought ooh this is nice?

I don't know if this is true but I heard it was because Roman women should not drink wine when their husband wasn't at home, so it started as a way of checking your wife's breath.

PeskyRooks · 30/10/2020 11:39

@TheFutureIs

And on a deeper level, all the atoms in our bodies have existed since the beginning of the universe
That has blown my tiny mind!
ifigoup · 30/10/2020 12:28

One of mine is nakedness and how close it is to all of us all the time. We walk around with (usually) one or two thin layers of fabric that are all that stand between us and total nudity. It takes less than a second to expose yourself, and if you did so in the wrong place it could end your whole career and reputation.

I also find it both interesting and weird how nakedness is, in most circumstances, so much further from standard dress. Like, if for some reason you lost all your clothes and all you had to wear was a Peppa Pig onesie, and you had to wear that to a law court or a wedding or in some other really formal context, it would still be a billion times better than being naked, no matter how inappropriate that outfit was.

PeskyRooks · 30/10/2020 12:31

Sometimes if I'm laying in the bath I look at my bare feet and think one day those feet might be on a mortuary slab with people bustling round doing their everyday jobs..
Or if I'm cooking food in a pan I look at it and think that's going to be in my body soon.
Also why are there thousands of different types of wasps or any species? Literally thousands of slightly different types of the same thing? If it is God how could he be arsed to make so many different ones?

sashh · 30/10/2020 12:41

Tap water, its recycled pee! i know its treated ect, but i just cant make myself drink it ,only bottled water. There are other reasons i wont but wont say on here.

You do know the bottled stuff is also recycled pee?

wibblewobblex · 30/10/2020 13:06

Time. Who decided there would be 24 hours in a day, 60 seconds in a min. etc

GrouchyKiwi · 30/10/2020 13:10

Ooh. I know this one! It was the Babylonians, wibble.