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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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HeronLanyon · 31/10/2020 22:36

And this is interesting Re fish.
dtmag.com/thelibrary/reef-fish-colorful-science-behind-beauty/

Mamanyt · 31/10/2020 22:47

@Eckhart

Hair only growing from certain parts of our body, I understand why but it's still weird, and that it just keeps growing from our heads, why not just stay at a certain length like most mammals

Yes, and how it starts going wrong as you get older. Like, why don't all my eyebrow hairs know they're eyebrow hairs any more? They think they're head hairs, and just keep growing.

On the subject of hair, I marvel at the dog, who has seams, like a cuddly toy. You can see, especially on the chest, where the two sides were sewn together, and where the front was sewn onto the two sides. It's like how I can see the knot in my belly button, but on a bigger scale.

This is my hypothesis...as we age, the hair on our legs begins to migrate up our bodies, eventually (in our 60s or so) coming out on our chins and upper lips. This leaves tiny holes in our brains, little tunnels where they passed through on their long trek. SO...about the time we don't need to shave our legs so often, we get to spend the time plucking our faces, and our memories start to go.

It happens to men, too, but the hair comes out their ears and noses, what my father used to refer to as "Coot hairs." As in, you only see them on old coots.

IcedLimes · 31/10/2020 23:06

I started getting chin bristles at about 35 or so i think. Lovely

IEat · 31/10/2020 23:22

Have you ever watched when a willy is going in and out of your fanny... Imagine the scene he's on top, you look down.. Its bloody strange sight.

JocastaElastic · 31/10/2020 23:23

Ears. I think ears look really strange. To me they look like odd appendages that shouldn't really be stuck on a human being.

IEat · 31/10/2020 23:33

When I watch TV I often wonder who put the light bulb in that room.. Or what did that person last eat... Who is in that car.

Vulgarlady · 01/11/2020 00:10

Why do we have a 3 dimensional belly button but my dog and cat only have a small flat scar?

MadameBlobby · 01/11/2020 01:21

Yes sex is very strange. How did the first people on Earth know that they had to do it in order to produce more people?! I’ve only ever had sex because I knew about it. I can’t imagine I’d have worked it out if no one had told me?!

SoupDragon · 01/11/2020 09:54

@MadameBlobby

Yes sex is very strange. How did the first people on Earth know that they had to do it in order to produce more people?! I’ve only ever had sex because I knew about it. I can’t imagine I’d have worked it out if no one had told me?!
It would just have been a biological urge like it is with animals. On the whole, they don't do it for fun.
Eckhart · 01/11/2020 10:02

@alibongo5

Eating. So often. If I'm not eating, I'm clearing up, or thinking about what to eat next. Why do we need to eat so often

We don't. The human body gets hungry at the times it knows there will be food available. It's evolutionary; those early humans who said 'Oh, is there grilled mammoth this afternoon? Not for me, thanks...' died out.

You can train your body to get hungry at different times. It takes less than a week. So, for example, if you decide from now on that you're only going to eat at 6pm, and you do it, you'll only get hungry at 6pm, after a hideous few days of hunger at breakfast and lunch time. You might feel like 'Mmm, it'd be nice to eat', but you won't get the 'I'll faint if I don't' feeling. It's all to do with ghrelin.

Eckhart · 01/11/2020 10:04

@MadameBlobby

How do you think animals know how to reproduce? Do you think they've all had it explained to them?

Eckhart · 01/11/2020 10:08

@SoupDragon

On the whole, they don't do it for fun

Do we know this? I mean, biological urges have to be fun don't they? Even going to the loo, or scratching an itch are pleasurable, when you really need to. I can't imagine all the animals are doing it because they feel they have to.

realitychick67 · 01/11/2020 10:24

Wallpapering. I mean, it's glueing pieces of paper to the wall. Always seems weird to me when I think about it abstractly.
Distressed people in courtroom scenes on TV being offered a glass of water, like that's going to fix anything.
Scenes in TV programmes where a house has been burgled always showing the pictures askew on the walls, like burglars go around doing that before they make off with their swag.
Ice cream desserts that come with cream as well. What's the point?

ItsAlwaysSunnyOnMN · 01/11/2020 10:31

Why women who spend a lot of time together their periods start to sync

Is there a female in the group that will lead this (as a few times I’ve noted that flat mate/colleagues fall into my pattern) maybe just coincidence

But why does it happen what is the reason behind it. Is it so the male we are mating with won’t mate with the females we are close to (or less likely to)

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ghoulyghosttunnel · 01/11/2020 11:22

Ears are weird @JocastaElastic. The fact that we are supposed to hear from them but have all that yucky wax inside which must stop us hearing as much.
Also earlobes. The fact that every single person on earth has either a dangling earlobe or a joined to the head earlobe depending on ancestry. Blew my mind when I found out. Now on telly I look to see how many dangler or joined earlobes there are on any programme. Danglers winning so far. I'm a dangler. Smile

SleepingStandingUp · 01/11/2020 11:24

@ItsAlwaysSunnyOnMN

Why women who spend a lot of time together their periods start to sync

Is there a female in the group that will lead this (as a few times I’ve noted that flat mate/colleagues fall into my pattern) maybe just coincidence

But why does it happen what is the reason behind it. Is it so the male we are mating with won’t mate with the females we are close to (or less likely to)

Possibly, also maybe so when you go off to the corner to bleed for 5 days you all go together which confers a level of protection and bonding

In The Red Tent, set around Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat era but from the women's side, they all go off to the Red Tent for a week and take it in turns to bleed into the hay, isolated fr the men as they're dirty. I guess they're safer and he's likely to only go shag an animal not your sister

SleepingStandingUp · 01/11/2020 11:25

@ghoulyghosttunnel also tongue curling

SoupDragon · 01/11/2020 11:44

Do we know this? I mean, biological urges have to be fun don't they?

I don't think they do it just for fun like humans do (it is what I understand from assorted documentaries, I don't know of any actual research!). E.g. Male dogs search out females who are on heat, so ready to procreate. They don't just hump any passing female for fun (although bedding, cushions and human legs are fair game). Although I think they have proved there are gay animals so who knows...

SoupDragon · 01/11/2020 11:47

Why women who spend a lot of time together their periods start to sync

DD and I haven't synced over the last 3 years. Which surprised me. Mine are still in a similar cycle to what they have always been (although I must be nearing the end, surely!) and hers is a week longer. I wonder if it is because I'm old.

cushioncovers · 01/11/2020 11:53

The fact that each month a woman releases a different egg so if you fall pregnant in October for example you will have a child that is completely different from a child that was conceived in September.

cushioncovers · 01/11/2020 11:59

And how do we automatically know if a persons face is male or female? If you scrape their hair back and just see a photo of the face not the neck or body, nor the hair style etc you can still recognise most people as either male or female despite the fact that it's just eyes nose and a mouth you're looking at.

JaJaDingDong · 01/11/2020 12:03

Re the sex thing - I often wonder when mankind worked out that pregnancy is caused by a sex act. It's not immediately apparent that your pregnant after having sex. Some women don't notice for months that they are pregnant.
I know "maidens" don't get pregnant, but when did we realise what causes it?

Eckhart · 01/11/2020 12:08

They don't just hump any passing female for fun

Neither do humans, though. The pheromones have to right for us, too. It's just that humans are in season to some degree or another most of the time.

JaJaDingDong · 01/11/2020 12:13

Also the English language using the same sounding words for different things but have different spellings e.g. there and their, meet and meat, flower and flour. Trying to explain the difference between there and their and why they are spelled differently to a 6 year old is fun

I pronounce there and their and flower and flour differently Hmm