What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?

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Cheese on a stick

Even though there are repeated waves of covid causing a myriad of health conditions for children, we say it doesn’t really affect kids. It’s so odd.

Even odder to have Christmas trees in churches, and to try to make it fit into Christianity by saying the traditional red represents Jesus's blood, the baubles - can't remember what they're supposed to mean but it's something 'Christian'. I was gobsmacked that they (our local church) actually seemed to believe this made-up shite!

It may be now, but norms change. Go back to Charles 2nd or the court of Louis 14th and all the men would have had long hair. In strict Jewish families today the women will shave their heads and wear wigs.
Fashion! Someone decrees that we should be wearing this, not that, because we were wearing that last year. You have to buy something new in order to fit in.

Doing one job all day, all week, all your life. Ds couldn't grasp this and the more I explained it the more I agreed with him. He asked why you couldn't qualify to do 2 things and alternate seasons, or half days or change every two years or month to month. He asked what if you are really good at 2 things? Why do you have to leave one thing behind to start the next.

I think we'd all work with more energy if we had variations in our workplace and a balance between desk based or reading based, and using hands or body. Or a balance between very structured and creative.

Ive read this a few times and cant work out what you mean?

Me too. I've done jury service and I took the responsibility seriously, but who's to say everyone does?

hamsters. or any other thing we keep in a cage to amuse us.

I agree to anyone extent as some people really dont know how to keep small furries.

We have ferrets, who are in a (huge) cage at night and if we're at work..other than that they have the run of our extension and a run outside.

I feel for the ones who have to live their life in cages

I would suspect abortion and/or assisted dying, is what the poster is getting at. She might come back to clarify though.

I’m confused by your comment. Do you think young children should be or shouldn’t be supervised when playing outdoors?

I agree with the poster though. Can’t leave a young child alone in the house but would leave them outside playing

People, often very wealthy people want us to buy their products so they can increase their wealth further. They pay people who try to manipulate us to buy these products. This industry has paid for research and uses experts in psychology to find ways to make us feel inadequate and less confident so we will spend money on this product that we don't need. We are subjected to this type of persuasion not just occasionally but all day every day, when walking down the street, using media or just seeing a bus drive past. All day long someone is trying to make us feel lesser than we are. It takes constant mental energy to resist this, some do it much better than others. Even when we are strong enough to resist buying the products, it leaves a little scar each time because we feel we should have enough money to buy the products. And on and on it goes, the attempted manipulation, the mental energy to resist. All day long. None of it is illegal or regulated in any way and is acceptable as a norm. An entire society being manipulated into feeling that they are not good enough. Meanwhile a fortune is pumped into mental health services which are wholly inadequate, and people are left suffering with MH problems which has major knock on effects on society.

That’s interesting to know.

The first funeral I attended was my grandad’s and I was 15…..so that was 15 nearly 16 years ago, and that was a few weeks in between.
And pretty much all of them since then have been the same.

“Drive-thru” (boiling hot!) coffee shops. I don’t get it!

Fair enough, to each their own. But I still think it's strange (not wrong) if you look at all mammals, and also all of human history until about twenty years ago. I do think it's bad (and really very odd indeed) that it's expected that women be away from their babies, whether they want to be or not.

We've been eating animals since the dawn of time 🤣 thats not a society thing, why else would we have canine teeth?

Well when you put it like that....it is weird!!! 🤣🤣

That schools are geared toward teaching girls and that boys are just seen as defective girls and not catered to by the mainstream education system.

Growing up all I would hear is adults slagging off parliament/politicians...so in regards to 5th November I used to think we were celebrating Guy Fawkes for giving it a good go...not celebrating his capture and execution 🤣🤣🤣

that 10% households hold approximately 43% of total wealth, while the poorest 50% hold only 9%.

Err... Where did the op say women shouldn't go to work?

Religion.

We're you BF? If not they should have given you codeine! Barbarians

One consolation, having children is a choice so there is no compulsion to go through that if you really don't want to, and some women don't.

Does it really take five years for a child to sleep through the night?

People that are growing up , and told it's okay to be a cat or a dog

smoking in public and poisoning others
that the NI contribution of thosr smoking or obese are not higher
working 5 days a week 8 hrs a day