What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?

[ForFunAquaTurtle]

Cheese on a stick

That’s my dream too. ❤️

Had a light-hearted conversation with my DH about this very thing the other day.
It came about because of how the President of Mexico has behaved in response to the floods in Texas.
Even after the current Us administration’s vile behaviour towards Mexico and its people, she still sent aid workers and firefighters to assist in Texas. She did the same thing during the California wildfires earlier in the year.
She put aside any anger and tit for tat, and just behaved like a human being during a time of serious human suffering to assist the very country that’s demonised her’s and her people.
I reckon we should have a 1 year experiment where every country exists under female leadership, just to see how the lack of man-baby tantrums changes the face of geopolitics 🫠🫠🫠

It’s not really that weird you can catch hiv and other diseases from another humans milk but not from cows milk and people have been drinking cows milk for a long long time

Israel killing 55,000 Palestinians in less than 2 years.

But humans and animals have always eaten animals ( and probably humans)

Giving children free access to the internet via smart phones.
The government/society deciding that calling a genocide, a genocide is anti-semitic.
Inaction on global warming
Cows milk
Calling a penis or a vagina/vulva an odd name - ie fairy, widge etc.

Most women's shoes bearing no resemblance to the actual shape of a healthy foot.

I love that! Especially if it’s stuck into a tin foil hedgehog!

YES!

Absolutely and water companies selling us back the free water that falls from the sky

The fact that we all live as though we had the resources of multiple planets.

Oh I 100% agree.

So perhaps the idea that we have to have 2 full time working parents to support raising and housing a family how they like instead of the alternative is what is bizarre about modern society

Illegal immigration

Under the tin foil was usually half a grapefruit. The onions were silverskin. I remember them fondly

If we’re going deep, money as currency.

working more than being at home

juggling raising children as well as working and everything else

hustle culture

social media - furthermore, influencer culture, curated videos, the whole industry of SM and how to capture attention spans.

And in some places, being charged again for collecting the water that falls from the sky in a container on your own property that you’ve already paid for 🫠🫠🫠

Prostitution

WTF? How/where does that happen?
Not doubting it BTW, just sounds outrageous!

Impregnating cows, tearing their baby away and drinking their breast milk

Shaving. I do it, but it’s weird.

Yes!! Imagine explaining this to aliens.

Trust mumsnet to turn a light hearted thread about cheese on stick into a crusade of martyrdom. 🤣

That butterflies are not called flutterbys, because that's really what they do,!

As someone who can milk livestock, I'd say that it is probably drinking milk from any other species apart from ourselves. I imagine some Biblical figure sitting on a rock, thinking, "Hmm, that calf/lamb/kid seems to enjoy that milk, so I'll try some, too!"

Despite this, we wouldn't think to drink human milk, and find it strange to think that, in other countries, they drink more goat/sheep milk than cows'.

Moving the clocks forward and backwards an hour twice a year. It massively interferes with my sleep pattern, and confuses my dog. Just move it half an hour one last time and leave it!