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 we drink milk from other mammals

I get the eating the flesh as we have killed it for that reason

But the milk is for their babies

Doesn’t stop me drinking milk I love it (cows milk) but it is odd

@PutItInYourPocket
I remember a male workmate saying when I was pregnant ''Isn't it like having a parasite, like a tapeworm?''

I replied ''Not at all''.... Silly man.

Space as in, Solar system used to make me feel strange as a kid...

All that infinity, ending nowhere...The vastness of it made me feel quite strange : ''But it HAS to end somewhere?''... Evidently not.

Lots of shit really, but the thing currently blowing my mind are fungi. The fact that there isn’t just one fungi, there will be a massive web of them all interconnected through a forest or field. And that they cause rain

I've always been quite bothered by cheese. The idea that someone in the past was so hungry mouldy cows milk looked appealing.

Dinosaurs also make my head hurt. The idea that massive monsters lived on this planet and that this planet is at least 250 million years old.

@Mizydoscape i have thought this for so long but not been able to put it in to words but you nailed it!

@MrsMaryBOOface i have never even had this thought before but now i am lay in bed imagining my neighbours in bed like sims

Space!!!!!! Weirds me out just thinking about it

Clapping.

We all bash our hands together when we like something

Once you've got that in your head you can't clap normally again

Also, that whole idea about things being the last time you did something and you didn't even realise it at the time.

Like, I've seen numerous posts about 'One time, your parents put you down and never picked you up again.' or 'One time, you and your friends went out to play for the last time and didn't even realise it.'

Along the same lines, (sorry this is slightly grim), I remember reading a quote (I think from Tess of the d'Urbervilles) where it says about the important days of the year, birthdays etc. It points out that the day you're going to die is in the year somewhere. and every year you pass over that date without realising/ thinking about it. Which is true, if quite creepy and weird when you think about it! That quote always creeped me out and stayed with me.

But also 'technology' im typing this on a 'phone screen' and immediate, all of you, all around the world can read it.

Yes, I always think it's so bloody weird that these blobs of grey jelly can formulate a thought (and, like, what even is a thought??), convert it into sounds and transmit that thought into other grey jellies, who then also have that thought, that new information. And we've collectively agreed on these sounds and their meanings, and come up with markings to represent them as well.

I mean, even the notion that every person who ever lived was an "I" with thoughts, fears, hopes, secrets, and that when we die those thoughts disappear forever, just... argh

@Gingernaut

Nerdy, but the concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere.

It's about 21%. Just high enough for combustion.

Not so high that the air could cause explosions and not so low that a spark can't become a flame.

We can survive on lower and higher oxygen levels, but fire can't.

Without that 'just so' amount of oxygen in the air, early man wouldn't have had fire, gathered round for warmth and companionship and cooked food.

Mind blown by this one 🤯

Similar to the sleeping thing when everyone lies down in the dark at the same time, I always think that on Christmas Day how strange it is that most people are doing exactly the same thing and eating the exact same food up and down the country!

Life in general, it fascinates me.. people just going about everyday lives, the ups and downs, on this tiny planet in this huge empty expanse.. its so weird

Commerce and industry- all us humans , who are just a bunch of cells , sitting in concrete boxes , fiddling about with paper and files and systems, getting all het up if a mistake is made , it’s just so weird . Why can’t we just concentrate on surviving? I’d like to go back and live as a cave woman and worry about the basics.

I often wonder if I've ever drank the same water molecule twice...

And the thought that solid objects are actually made up of empty space (ie the spaces between the atoms that make up the materials)

And that we're all stuck to this blob of rock flying around the solar system at 67,000mph, and that blob of rock itself is then spinning at 1,000mph.

Things like this are the reason I don't sleep well!

OOH!

Also, time zones.

Logically I get it, but when I speak to my colleague in my morning time, her afternoon (she's 7 hours ahead of me) I always want to ask her what that day's been like so I know what to prepare for

@FudgeBrownie2019

Cats and dogs.

We keep them as pets, love them, treat them like heavenly beings, pet them, assign them voices, personalities and characteristics. Tiny little beings that control our lives. We don't keep beavers and rhinos in our homes - why cats and dogs?

My d's (teen) was recently talking about how weird it is that we keep animals in the how-to twp should chat

@Mizydoscape Yes! I read something similar before and it blew my mind 🤯

@GeorgeMichaelsEspadrille

Talking - we make these noises and communicate millions of pieces of information and emotions. Weird!

Yes, I’ve often wondered how we started talking to each other and how did they know that someone else would understand it! Also, reading and writing is baffling if you think about it too much.

I often wonder if I've ever drank the same water molecule twice

Yes, and the fact that we've all probably drunk the same water as a dinosaur and also possibly Mozart, Genghis Khan, or Angelina Jolie.

Sex. Someone puts a bit of their body inside somone else's body. For enjoyment.

@autumnleaves1220 he shouldn't laugh. That's why I became a vegetarian (trying to go vegan)

How do regional accents evolve? In the UK why don't we all speak the same way, why does someone in North pronounce words differently to a person in the South just because of where they live?

What if we all forgot how to read? I mean literally forgot the alphabet and it's all just a jumble of symbols that's all totally made up anyway?

@Crystalknobs

Commerce and industry- all us humans , who are just a bunch of cells , sitting in concrete boxes , fiddling about with paper and files and systems, getting all het up if a mistake is made , it’s just so weird . Why can’t we just concentrate on surviving? I’d like to go back and live as a cave woman and worry about the basics.

This. I get so stressed at work sometimes and then come away from it wondering why we allow ourselves to get so wound up when at one point in time that would never have happened.

Milk! 🥛 I'm a city girl so never gave it much thought until I married DH who's the son of dairy farmers. We live there now and I fine the whole thing fascinating and horrendous. Even more so when I had DD1 and was breastfeeding.

We DRINK the milk of a random animal, there's a whole industry constructed around it, we make sure these animals get pregnant every year and if the bull can't do it someone's actual job is to inseminate cows (not literally but you know!) that's a job?! And then worst of all, we take the babies away from their mum's more or less straight away so we can benefit from the milk. What the actual fuck is all that about?

The cows cry for the calves for days - it's unspeakably cruel and so very random. Yet we're still so squeamish about breastfeeding?!! If you suggested harvesting breast milk for human consumption (why haven't we done that?!) people would be so disgusted - cognitive dissonance or what?

I should probably be a vegan really. It's just all so bloody weird when you think about it/see it in action every year.

The universe and evolution. Like the fact we're here now on this planet, typing on keyboards and doing mundane things like drinking tea, all randomly formed and sitting in this massive universe!

Electricity! I just can’t get my head around it. It’s magic! I’m watching tv and playing on my phone because of electric and it’s forming pictures and sounds, that comes from something like a windfarm that’s just moving from a breeze!