What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?

[ForFunAquaTurtle]

Cheese on a stick

Spending all spare monthly income like target by "going shopping". No specific purchase needed, just that there's £200 in the bank, boredom or an idle idea that it might be fun to spend the day spending money on something random that wasn't needed in the morning.

Eating meat

Drinking alcohol. Utterly bonkers.
Ultra Processed Foods - work of the devil

An overwhelmingly high female ratio in the childcare sector

Sex and everything sexualised. I know it’s literally the most natural thing in the world and why we’re here! But it’s also the weirdest when you really think about it..

People sat staring at their phones rather than have a conversation in person with someone. Yeah I know I'm typing this on my phone. But there's nowt on TV I'm fed up of my soaps being cancelled for football.🤣🤣🤣

Milk at all! Imagine the conversation between two people of some primitive early civilisation:
"Look 'ere mate! See that big animal over there, the brown one, well see those pink things hanging just next its arse? I'm going to go over there and squeeze them and whatever comes out of them I'm going to drink it! "
"You're barmy mate!" quoth the companion.
Oh and the question about what's completely irrational, why did the proprietors of pubs and eateries in the 1970s think it was a good idea let alone attractive to passing trade to advertise chicken in a basket! It's about the most ridiculous receptacle for a piece of greasy meat imaginable. And as for the hygiene...

Oh and that children look older than their age now. They grow up a lot quicker than we did. I've seen PLouise birthday parties for 8 year olds.

I’ve just thought of another: politicians philandering, cheating, lying, lining their own pockets and generally shitting all over the people who put them in office in the first place. None of us are, ever, in the least bit surprised when it happens. It’s the status quo.

Having sports (usually football 🙄) as part of the news… we are so used to it, we forget how male-centric and arbitrary it is.

One minute it’s politics and global affairs - the economy, wars, famine, floods… next up, 11 men playing kicky ball.

If it was about any of the British teams getting near a final, that’s almost acceptable. But ‘Someobody United’ have scored so many goals over ‘Someother Rangers’… who cares? Does this affect anyone’s life? No.

Football is NOT news.

I agree with regard to the President of Mexico, but female leadership in every country....er, Meloni? Truss? Braverman? LePen? Weidel? Of course, women should have equal opportunities for leadership, but many female leaders are just as bad as many male leaders.

Women/children taking their husband's/father's surname.

Eating eggs.

I try not to think about them too much when I prepare and eat them.

Nooooooo! You know we have recipes of both food and medicines dating back to Ancient Egyptian and Sumerian times? The power of knowledge passed down and around through time and space (I’m ’self-taught’ on various crafts through writing)!?! Not to mention the entertainment on this thread?

Or do you mean the codex form as opposed to writing in general? Or the alphabet? Pictographic forms of writing may have one advantage in China, being universally accessible, but the alphabet makes writing languages around the world so easy!

Very much an unappreciated daily wonder, I’ll agree on that!

That common folk can be jailed for lying about who was driving a speeding car, but politicians such as Bliar and Johnson can tell massive whoppers to queen and country, and the only consequence is incredible wealth.

If only there was an archaic law stating that a prime minister who lies to the monarch must have their head chopped off.

Driving.

We just sit down in a very powerful machine, driving around.

That's not specific to humans (well, cooking it is. I suppose). Many animals are predators and eat other animals.

Women changing their surname upon marriage taking a man name, like his possession

Not married, and don’t plan to be, but I absolutely kick myself whenever I stop and think about my children having my partners last name and not mine.
if I could turn back time I would absolutely give them mine.

Do you ever get the egg ick?

Celebrities who are essentially famous JUST for well,.being famous; not for something they've done.

Spiderman, Super Mario, Minecraft, Paw Patrol, football...on boys clothes

Keeping some animals in the house with you and happily eating others.

Standing with a crowd of people at a crossing and no one pressing the button