What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?

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Cheese on a stick

Separating mothers from babies and small children.

Just Eat & Deliveroo driving around on electric bikes and scooters clogging up the roads, while delivering fattening food which we are remonstrated for eating.
Also the trust or blocking of thought about how hygienic the kitchens actually are.

@TheIceBear You can catch enzootic diseases from milk (e.g. brucellosis) and Johne's disease (a muscle-wasting disease that affects cows) is apparently linked to Crohn's disease.

@Stayingundermyblanket Cows also hate it when the clocks change. They like their routine, so getting up an hour later is a travesty, and trying to get them up earlier is even worse! Thus, we have to introduce it to them in half-hour stints, otherwise they can be extremely grumpy during milking!

*zoonotic. Sorry! My brain is too tired for this business!

So here in the US, collecting rainwater is technically legal at a federal level. But at state level, the regulation of it is different depending on state.
In my state, it’s perfectly legal to collect rainwater for use in your garden etc but if it’s being collected for the purpose of being used as drinking water, you need a permit - which doesn’t cost anything, it’s just a pain in the arse to do all the paperwork and wait for approval etc.
But in other states, you have to pay for rainwater collection permits - some depending on the intended use of the collected water, some depending on the volume of water you plan of collecting etc

It’s mental to think that some places regulated the the use of a resource that literally already falls onto your property - but if you want to catch it in an oversized bucket?! You need permission and may be expected to may for the privilege 🫠🫠🫠😂

The royal family

So many weird words for things that don’t make sense 🫠😂

We have fingertips but not toe tips?

Cow when it’s food becomes beef.
Pig when it’s food becomes pork.
But chicken is just chicken? 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️😂

We park on a driveway but some roads we drive on are called parkways?

We can be overwhelmed or underwhelmed but no one is ever simply whelmed? 🤷🏻‍♀️🫠

The English language is a strange beast.

I don't think we ever signed up to carry the whole fucking load though did we? We hoped that men might see the advantages that come with having an equal partnership, but instead of stepping up, they've remained as stupid, selfish and useless as they ever were, as frequently evidenced by the many posts on these pages documenting their various shortcomings. Sadly, true equality is still another 2,000 years away - at least!

Circumcision

Religion

Leaving your infants to cry (sometimes until they vomit) so they learn not to try and ‘control’ you with crying….when they have no other form of communication and it’s based on theory which has been largely debunked. I mean proper CIO method (not pick up/put down or a slight grizzle etc)

wild. How are we convincing parents to go against their basic primal instinct to go to a distressed infant?

Generally you aren’t expected to work while giving birth. The rest is manageable for the vast majority of people, especially as most mothers of young kids either take time out or work PT for a while.

You seriously think periods make women in general less able to work?

I cant tell you how helpful and profound this is for me right now!!! thank you.

All true, but that’s a different point to the potty PP, who is up there with a friend of my mum’s who didn’t think that women should be pilots because PMS made them mental.

I don't know but I salute them. Fruit with savoury things is the absolute best. Watermelon with feta, honey on halloumi, apple sauce on pork, figs with blue cheese and parma ham. Lemon Chicken from the chinese takeaway. Heaven.

There is no significant ‘before-times’ where women didn’t work, there was a brief period in the 20th century where lots of women where at home doing only domestic work, and also to an extent the 19th century for middle class women.

During a lot of this time housework was hard labour and people often had many more children than they did now.

For centuries and millennia before that, women did work, mostly agriculturally or in their family trade.

There is obviously a huge issue with fathers not contributing enough, but make that point, don’t make up fake history.

Google, Amazon, Apple, eBay, Netflix, Nike, X, Facebook… the level of reliance on American digital platforms and brands is staggering.

Yeah and also where did we get 40 hours from? Was that plucked out of thin air too? Id be interested to know historically how that has changed.

And? Are you recommending some kind of confinement or over pathologising what most women experience

Hmmm. Men can abandon families and go on to have baby after baby, without a thought of the children he left behind and doesn’t provide for.

If they don’t provide for their children they should be imprisoned for child neglect.

Your obviously too young to have been to some awful parties in the 70s 😱

Oooh this is a good one.

SO many things:

• religion
• wealth inequality
• housing inequality
• racism
• women being treated as second-class citizens (see also: low rates of conviction for rape, domestic violence, sexual assault)
• over-reliance on fossil fuels
• shit and ludicrously-expensive public transport
• political process never actually achieving anything really groundbreaking

It used to be six days a week and that changed in the US, I think it was when Ford motors moved to 5 days. There are currently lots of pilots for 4 day a week working but I don’t see them getting much traction I think due to the world of tech meaning we have to be online all the time.

That schools insist on branded uniform and encourage named school bags and post kids on their social media (so everyone knows John Smith goes to AnySchool and is in Mr Xs class in Year 4). And then they offer online safety courses.