What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?

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Cheese on a stick

That we spend sometimes years trying to get our children to sleep in a bed alone, only a few years later to be like "Okay, now you have to try and find someone you want to share a bed with!"

Would this alien not have a good understanding of the English language? 🤣

I do, but I don't eat them.

There’s a family in Africa who have a hippo. It comes into their house and sleeps on the sofa. I think her name is Jessica 😊

Thanks for the tip, @WaryCrow - that book is going on my reading list!

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Oh shhh 🙄

That society allows one type of human (men) to stick bits of themselves into women, proceeding to huff and puff for some time, before ejecting bodily fluids into said woman, supposedly for fun. Ugh!

I love this thread and particularly because posters like WaryCrow exist.

TBF it would be whoever was the best fighter (and their fighting skills would be regularly tested!)

Under 16s with smart phones

Yes.

I refuse to eat it (not that I go to posh restaurants anymore). I left it uneaten on a plate once and the waiter gave me quite a dismissive look when I said I don’t eat it (I didn’t even ask for it).

I guess that’s ‘god’s’ fault. 🤷‍♀️

I will admit to thinking during sex, what a ridiculous activity it was. I asked a bf once if he thought it was quite absurd when you think about it, he didn’t agree and seemed most put out 😁

The royal family, and house of lords. The fact it takes so long to pass a new law. The way people behave in government Money and time wasted in ineffective justice process.

-Using a stick to hit little hard balls into a hole and paying for the privilege
-Kicking balls filled with air into nets and paying the men that do it, ridiculously obscene amounts of money.
-Materialism.

I was coming to say this! And owners picking up dog poo. Don't get me wrong, I'm very glad they do but I do get a "WTF" moment every time I see someone walking their dog and merrily carrying a little bag of shit.

Descending down a staircase on a moving bus.

The people who make the rules don’t engage in active combat, they leave that to their servants.

Another question I have is, who decided gold was worthy?

Was it the late great Douglas Adams who described it as "a bunch of apes bashing their upper limbs together"?

Also, not just individual ownership of land, but the vastly unequal amounts of land the countries have, proportionally to their population.

Yes, I know that often, a lot of the land isn't ideal for habitation (although human ingenuity seems to know no bounds); but who originally decided that - just for one - Russia should have 11% of the world's land for less than 2% of the population? Yes, I know, the answer is most probably 'a lot of war, starting a long time ago'...

Weird metal boxes that when stationary cost the owners a fortune and suck the joy and beauty from our streets, and when moving give us lung disease and kill us, when lots of better options for getting from a to b exist.

It's like we've all been brainwashed. Oh... Wait...

Books! 26 little squiggles and a collection of markings, infinitely rearranged into patterns and printed onto some mushed wood sieved flat and dried, then we interpret the whole thing with our brains to make ourselves laugh or cry. So weird!

@BunnyLake I often overthink sex and end up concluding that it is utterly ridiculous (and then obviously I lose all interest 😂)

High heels. I mean really.
Manual gears on cars when automatics are available.
Social pressure to drink alcohol.