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?

I often say to dh is daft we have to share a bed, it is like we can't afford one each. He just looks at me like I'm mad.

@DisgraceToTheYChromosome

The logistic industry. How do they work out who needs what where? I say this as an HGV driver of three decades. Quite frequently I'll get a job that makes me think people are burning diesel for something that could go in a van.

@DisgraceToTheYChromosome , I've just read your one to DH who works in logistics and he laughed!

Not caught up on thread but for those interested in alternative maps etc I'm just watching west wing and for any unfamiliar there's an episode - season 2 episode 16 around 25 mins in where exactly this is discussed

2 main characters basically go in expecting a boring pr exercise, they simply need to get over with, and their jaws dropping upon being told that not only are major areas not correctly portrayed on standardly used Mercator maps in terms of size but also in terms of actual location

The characters are basically 'wtf?! So we haven't been living where we THOUGHT we were living the maps are all wrong?' And the quirky lobby group person goes "er...yep! Basically'

Lobby group person is one of my favourite actors, he's not famous as such but he's one of those he's in loads of things and most will know his face AND his distinctive voice/speech pattern - John Billingsley

Trekkies will definitely know him.

Just a really funny scene

@DryRoastPeanut your post made me think of the ending of the old guard on Netflix

Hopefully not a spoiler for anyone but it's a good film with an interesting and thought provoking ending

Demonic Cuntings...and how anyone has had sex with him 🙁

I agree about the baby thing. I’m 34 weeks pregnant and sometimes when I think about how many teeth and organs are inside me it really weirds me out.

Also - a weird shower thought I had the other day! Women are born carrying all the eggs they will ever have inside them. That means that when I was a baby in my mother’s womb, she had inside her the egg of mine that was fertilised to become the baby I’m now carrying. And if my baby is a girl, I have inside me the eggs that will turn into my future grandchildren, if she has children of her own. That really blew my mind!

@SpeccyLime

I agree about the baby thing. I’m 34 weeks pregnant and sometimes when I think about how many teeth and organs are inside me it really weirds me out.

Also - a weird shower thought I had the other day! Women are born carrying all the eggs they will ever have inside them. That means that when I was a baby in my mother’s womb, she had inside her the egg of mine that was fertilised to become the baby I’m now carrying. And if my baby is a girl, I have inside me the eggs that will turn into my future grandchildren, if she has children of her own. That really blew my mind!

This is why I'm a bit sad I have boys 😂😂

It's also why thinks like the Potato Famine had such long effects. If not only affected pregnant women and their babies but for the girls, their children too because of the epigenetic changes when the babies eggs were being made

Not sure if its mentioned, sorry.

But reading.
There's some weird shapes carved into wood or written on paper, that when we look at them make words that we can actually sound out, and then you can read lots of them together and it makes shapes, images and movements inside your own head, all from random shapes.
It just boggles my mind whenever I think about it, its just amazing really.
Not to mention how many different languages there are, so someone in another country has to see different shapes, or shapes formed in different orders to see the same images in their heads.

@PrincessPain

Not sure if its mentioned, sorry.

But reading.
There's some weird shapes carved into wood or written on paper, that when we look at them make words that we can actually sound out, and then you can read lots of them together and it makes shapes, images and movements inside your own head, all from random shapes.
It just boggles my mind whenever I think about it, its just amazing really.
Not to mention how many different languages there are, so someone in another country has to see different shapes, or shapes formed in different orders to see the same images in their heads.

Aslo the fcat tihs is lgelbie to msot popele

The fact that we use toothbrushes more than once. Really grim

Morning, everyone. We've had lots of nominations for this thread to move into classics so we'll shift it over now.

@Historydweeb

The fact that we use toothbrushes more than once. Really grim

Or that it’s often only a few feet away from a toilet. I’ve pondered this a fair amount. Nowt I can do about it though with one tiny bathroom!!

I love sharing a bed with DH. It's a lovely way to start and finish the day. So cosy! The DC also share this view so it gets a bit squished by morning.

How many people have actually been made ill through poo particles contaminating their toothbrush?

How precious existence is. ...we were the sperm out of millions to make it...

Or for eg, my ex who died in 2017 and my mate who died in 2012 where once all out having dinner together and now they no longer exist. .

@AlaskaThunderfuckHiiiiiiiii

Oh and another one. That there are machines that have been sucked into the earth, there is peat place near me that apparently has a perfectly preserved train in that came off the track during the war. Also that there are big machines just left in quarries to flood and in underground caves. Infact that all makes me feel incredible weird and horrible so more likely to be some kind of weird phobia!

Ohh these make me feel really weird too and not in a good way. The train has given me chills!!!

That we don’t really know that anything that happened before the living memory of people who were very elderly told the current very elderly is true- we only have books etc.

It could all be made up- say everything before 1830/40.

@TeamLucille

Ha ha - I was clearly rambling incoherently! It arose from a conversation I was having with my son about why he needed to take off his fuzzy warm snuggly pyjamas and put on outdoor clothes and then I realised that we are constantly swapping our comfiest clothes for less comfy ones in order to be seen in the world! Go to work in a pair of tracksuit bottoms or a onesie and everyone will call you unprofessional, even if you are much better able to focus on your work because you are comfy and not thinking about your waist band digging in/awkward bra situation/tights falling down etc. You can only really wear your comfiest clothes at home because even in the supermarket people will start a thread about you if you're there in PJs.

And the more important the thing you are doing, the more vital it is (to society) have uncomfortable clothes - getting married, going to a funeral, job interviews etc - turn up to any of those in stretchy leggings and a baggy t-shirt and you'd be an abomination!!

Who decided that eating sour milk (cottage cheese) was a good idea?

Why do you buy a house in the hope that you can leave money to your children when you die?

Why are some people lucky and earn vast amounts of money due to inventing things like cabbage patch dolls, rocks, LOL dolls when they really have little purpose?

The fact that everyone wees and pooh yet we rarely talk about it.

That despite years of evolution, men are essentially still after a shag and women want to be protected and still neither gender gets each other!

How you can be in one country and it's snowing, yet 10 hours later be in another country and it's so sunny.

That you can instantly dislike someone based on their looks.

Who decided that eating sour milk (cottage cheese) was a good idea?

That’s how I feel about cheese cake. Let’s take a beautiful sweet treat like cake and make it taste like someone mixed rancid bitter dairy into it. Oh yum.

@BubblyBarbara

Who decided that eating sour milk (cottage cheese) was a good idea?

That’s how I feel about cheese cake. Let’s take a beautiful sweet treat like cake and make it taste like someone mixed rancid bitter dairy into it. Oh yum.

Is cottage cheese that??!

On that.. There's one man in my office, and 6 women. For 2 weeks before my period he's kind, caring, asking me how I am... The day my period ends and for about a week afterwards he doesn't ask me about myself. Worked with him for a few years and this is how he always is... Its weird

How on earth does he know you're on your period?!

Transparent things. I've spent too long sometime reading about it, but it blows my mind that glass can be so solid and hard but light can get through every bit of it.

Cars. It’s probably your most expensive purchase after your home, they are easy to spirit away as they are literally designed to move and yet we park ‘em up in the street and leave them unattended, sometimes for days at a time. (I first had this thought in the 90s when vehicle thefts were at a historic high. I am far less worried about it now because newer cars have better security and I can afford better insurance.)

@dayswithaY

Meals. Who decided that you have three a day. Why do breakfast, lunch and dinner always vaguely stick to the same theme ie, cereal, sandwich, meat and two veg. Why is it not ok to have a chicken salad when you get up in the morning? I know anyone can eat whatever they like but really most people don't do they? Why don't people have apple crumble for lunch and cornflakes for dinner. Who made these rules? I want to know whose idea it all was!

This is cultural. If you watch Chinese or Korean shows, they don’t differentiate as much between meals. Rice, soups and even meat dishes are normal for breakfast. I have watched agog at some shows where they sit down to what looks like an evening banquet with lots of different dishes for breakfast.