What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?

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Cheese on a stick

Royalty, Religion, Celebs, Tattoos, Dungeons,
The Gloucester Cheese Rolling Race and Black Puddings.

That's one of the reasons why I have paid for an unattended cremation. Another is that I don't want my DC to have to attend my funeral. I went to so many funerals when I was younger and found them all very distressing. I don't want that for my DC.

I felt the same when I got a cassette recorder for Christmas when I was 13.

You don't really "own" land. When you "buy" land, you're not really buying the physical earth in the sense of owning it like a piece of furniture. You're acquiring a bundle of legal rights associated with that land, usually defined by the laws of the country or jurisdiction you're in. Ownership of land is the right to exclusive possession, use, and enjoyment of land to the exclusion of all others, subject to the rights of the state.

Paying 7 million for a Birkin handbag when kids in Sheffield don’t have beds to sleep on.

And the six week summer holiday dating back to when the children were expected to work in fields doing the harvesting, picking berries etc.

@TryonemoretimeFirst off, save your patronising apologies. No one's dead I terminated a tiny cluster of cells, so stop trying to make it sound like some emotional tragedy. My mind wasn’t all over the place, I made a calm, considered decision that would have had a massive impact on my future.

You’re all for adoption, but a study from the American Academy of Pediatrics found that 1 in 4 adopted children might need mental health services. So, how do you justify pushing for more children to be adopted when so many of them will face trauma as a result of being abandoned in the first place? It’s not just some theoretical risk – it’s a reality that can have a lasting impact. Yet you’re ignoring all that in favour of a narrative that doesn’t take into account the harm that can come from forcing unwanted children into the system.

You quote a handful of adults who weren't traumatised by being abandoned as babies? How convenient. But let’s be real – that’s a tiny sample size compared to the many more who are. Adoption statistics in the UK show that 5-10% of adoptions fail each year, meaning even more children end up with trauma. And that’s not even counting the ripple effect it’ll have on future generations if that trauma isn’t treated.

So, let’s do some simple maths: if the 330,000 abortions weren’t carried out and women were forced to give birth – just like you’d prefer – that would barely make a dent in the bigger picture. We’re talking about 320,000 unwanted children, forced into life. Who’s going to look after them? Who’s going to provide the therapy for kids who end up in care because their biological mothers were forced to carry a pregnancy they didn’t want?
Don’t kid yourself into thinking you’re pro-life – you’re pro-forced birth.

I won’t be responding to you again as you are making my extremely angry

It’s always been like this. This is nothing new, unfortunately. At least we don’t have to give birth in fields and carry on with harvest.

Billionaires

Zoos - that we capture animals many of which are as intelligent as we are - just so we can stare at them.
( I know that some would be extinct if we did not have zoos but that is the minority).

Actually many women don’t want to work full time outside the home especially those who have struggles with hormones, painful periods, birthing and post partum

But new wave feminism pressures women to feel they are less than men unless they have a career

very different values from original feminism which was simply about civil rights, suffrage, etc. new wave feminism is a cultural shift to dilute labor pool, and created a huge daycare industry that, turns out, is harmful to children’s health and contributing to mental health crisis in adults who experienced chronic toxic stress being separated from mom all day while she worked.

A baby IS a job! Just because it isn’t a corporation writing you a check doesn’t make it less valuable

I’m in the US now and can’t believe I ever used to whinge about 6 week breaks in the U.K. 🫣🫣🫠🫠🫠
Kids in my state get TWELVE WEEKS 😳😳😳😳

Not sure what idiot came up with that bullshit considering we live in an actual desert, so they basically spend 12 weeks inside so they don’t die from heatstroke.

You are talking about cow aren't you?

I’ve told DH the same.
If I die before him, don’t go spending $$$ on a funeral.
Let doctors take whatever they can take that still might help someone else, stick whatever is left in the cheapest container you can find and burn it.
None of that embalming shit either 🥴 The whole concept of open casket funerals with people you barely know gawping at your corpse is just bizarre.

Or the ones that pop up and say "Happy birthday Nan, you'd have been 118 today"!!! How long are you going to keep doing that for then?! That's truly bizarre and I see it all the time on FB! 🤣

That kids with mental health problems are expected to go to school and their parents can be prosecuted if they don’t get them there.
An adult would be signed off sick and given treatment without a second thought.

Do you not understand that fermentation of fruit or grains is a very basic process that has been around for millennia.
Chimpanzees in the wild will eat fermenting fruit and get drunk on it!
In the middle ages beers and brandies were brewed in monasteries; alcohol is a good preservative.
The US tried prohibition in the 1920s & 30s and it didn't work.

Sugar

"Telling it like it is." It's code for fucking rude.

My mother had a hysterectomy and took to her bed for 3 months, not allowed to do so much as push the Hoover. I had a cesarean and an hour later given a baby to look after and had to get on with it. WTF.

I thought that was just back in the 1970s/80s

Yup. It’s (pardon the pub) batshit crazy

Yes. Same for those people who say, ‘I like to speak my mind’.

Celebrities and all the fakeness (physical and behaviour-wife) that comes with it are ridiculous.

Israel committing genocide in Gaza.