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?

Meringue. How did somebody decide to do that with egg whites and sugar?!

I don't know where to start?!

Clapping - how bizarre that we hit our hands together when we're happy

Laughing - as above. Why?!

Language- the words we use, who made them up

Loving this thread! My mind is boggled daily

@dayswithaY

Meals. Who decided that you have three a day

Apparently, the white man, when he realised that slaves eating whenever they wanted was decreasing the amount of work getting done.

I can freak myself out if I look at my hand for too long. All these long bendy things on the end of my arm like little tentacles, made for grabbing things.

Imagine if electricity stopped happening. How fast our societies would crumble.

And why is it ok to have a big blob of mayonnaise on a chip, but it's revolting to have it on a spoon on its own?!

Great thread, OP.

The internet, like where is it??? Someone said all the data on the internet weighed about as much as an egg. WTF

And how everything in the universe is made up of 118 Elements. I googled because I actually thought it was 92.

I used to think, well what about wood? That seems complex...

Gravity and the Southern Hemisphere. People are living upside down.

Honey lasts ages here because when I remember what I'm eating I can't. Similar for milk. I keep thinking about moving to plant based milk....

That I have to pay rent and buy things - like who decided you owned this space? Why can't we just be free.

@ChanklyBore fear not, trees in public places should be safety checked regularly!

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?

Yes to 'firsts' of anything.

Like who was the first person to try eating a, I don't know, apple. And how many others have died trying poisonous things first so we all now know not to eat them? 😂

I'm with you on meringue, snugglesnerd. And cake. Who the hell first randomly put the exact concoction of ingredients in the oven for just the right amount of time?

Blue cheese. When any other food goes blue we throw it out, even other types of cheese but we pay extra and see it as a treat to eat the only blue food. Even blueberries aren't actually blue, can't think of any other blue food.

Impregnating a cow and taking away its child so we can use it’s milk for our tea. Madness!!!!!

Oral sex. Think about it in the cold light of day - licking areas where you have wee come out off.

In the moment- yes please!

Weird

Agh. Of. Not off

@Whatelsecouldibecalled

Oral sex. Think about it in the cold light of day - licking areas where you have wee come out off.

In the moment- yes please!

Weird

Oh god, this 🤢

Human body. It’s baffling how amazing it is. All of the detail on how it works...why do we have to be so complicated? Why Can’t we just eat what we want and not store excess as fat. It’s just baffling to thing we evolved from single cell organism to what we are now. Crazy.

Sometimes when I'm stuck in traffic, I look around and start smiling to myself , just thinking about how we all just drive around in these little metal things with wheels on.

I've always found it amazing that because women are born with all their eggs, I was there at my own mothers birth, and my daughter was present (in some form) at mine.

Singing. Making special musical sounds with our mouths. And "songs", a special kind of singing that lasts roughly 3 minutes. And that you listen to again and again.

I remember looking at DD when she was a newborn and thinking now there was someone who knew what it was like to be me.

Gravity and the Southern Hemisphere. People are living upside down

That's where the word 'antipodean' comes from. Anti (against) pod (feet) because we civilised idiots in the northern hemisphere assumed they must walk on their heads in the southern!

Blowing out candles on a birthday cake.

I've always thought it was pretty rank. I'm wondering if it's now a thing of the past!

One thing I do wonder sometimes... What if any time we have a sort of near miss experience, like if I'm driving and someone cuts me up and I just miss hitting them, what if I actually did hit them, died and then an alternate reality spiralled off where I carried on living and that's just life going on and on and we never knew.

[quote Nostrings457]@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[/quote]
and the other OPs reply saying about blocks of flats and wanting to have x ray vision to see them all inside- I get that too!