What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?

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Cheese on a stick

Just thought of another one - attendance awards, even in primary school! Well done for only getting ill in the holidays / making your classmate and teacher sick / not having a health condition requiring time off to manage or attending appointments / not being a young carer / managing to go home ill after registration so marked present / not having a religious holiday that falls outside the school holiday / having parent that can get you to school on time etc etc.

Oh, you lost a parent? In term time? Shame on you. You needed an operation? In term time?

How many kids that genuinely bunk off would be incentivised by a bloody attendance award?

What is the point of them?

Absolutely.
I hear either of those phrases and it’s just code for “devoid of empathy”.

Sometimes it unavoidable: you simply have to tell the truth regardless of whether it’s going to hurt someone’s feelings.
But those occasions are rare, and most of us would try to at least soften the blow.
Some people are just arseholes and don’t care who they upset or who’s feelings they hurt, and do it under the guise of “I tell it like it is” 🤨🤨🤨

It’s actually quite crass and trashy. There are people on low incomes who buy designer brands thinking it will make them look impressive on social media 🙃And no shade to working class people - not all of us are like that (yes my parents are and so am I, but some of us like to dress well which doesn’t have to involve a Gucci T-shirt you can’t really afford).

The Gaza Genocide

Yes, and others just use those phrases as an excuse to be rude and off hand because they feel like it.

Agree but I also think that in years gone by most people wouldn’t have had access to a hair dresser or barber 😂

Young women wanting to look like Jessica Rabbit.....and to some extent succeeding.....😳

That religion is still a thing.

The op clearly knows the history, but quite rightly states and that if alcohol was discovered today it would be banned i.e. a class A drug.
I drink a lot of alcohol, at home and out socialising. But even I admit that if discovered today alcohol would immediately be banned. Why do some people find this fact so difficult to comprehend?

Ex-DH (DC's DF) wanted to donate his body to medical science and was registered to do so. I rang them some months before he died (he was terminally ill) and explained that he had lost a lot of weight. Because he was so underweight, they weren't able to take his body, so he had an unattended cremation instead. The following week family and friends met up to have a drink in remembrance of him (as were his wishes). It was so much better than having a funeral.

Poss eaten alive for this …. False nails
wigs false eyelashes eyebrows lip fillers plastic surgery false boobs body adaptations - what the hell ???
History will not judge this kindly.

Gender reveal parties followed by a baby shower. Getting engaged when you've already got a few children. Fireworks and banners and signs and getting down on one knee for said engagement just to post on social media. Looking like Mick Jagger or Miss Piggy with ridiculous fake eyelashes and fish lips. Excusing crap use of the English language. They can't all be dyslexic.

Yes, but it's not a baby.

When kids start suspecting santa isn't real and ask you their parents if he isn't, telling them they're wrong and he definitely is and they should trust you.

This! Why do we pander to superstition! The Greeks and Romans worshipped the Mount Olympus gods and we think if them as primitive and simply needing ways to explain natural phenomena /human origins,
yet we still pander to religions which are equally irrational /why?

Even animals like foxes let their kids play out. What a ridiculous thing to be offended by.

It is a bit of a contradiction for everyone to be bemoaning UPF and cows milk while happily shooting themselves full of fillers or steroids.
Edit: I was quoting someone upthread but it didn’t work.

Totally agree! As a teacher I stand and walk in lessons -feel so sorry for the kids. The whole education system is antiquated and not fit for purpose.

That we have bred dogs so deformed they can't breathe, run or even sit and they suffer hideously as a result.

Other animals have been grotesquely bred but none to the level of suffering and disfigurement away from their natural conformation that dogs have.

Under educated idiots from a 'certain' country spewing crap everywhere online ... 🙄
And then proved absolutely wrong on many levels, they start on you with stereotypical insults and false claims about your home country.
And it's getting worse ... 😑

What a ridiculous thing to use as comparison.
Also, the post isn't about offensive. It's about what society accepts as normal that you see as weird.

Same in Italy.

People making excuses for bad behaviour and not taking responsibility
for their actions

😂😂😂

The way that young people are expected to have experience to get a job, but nobody will give them a job to get experience.

CF employers who want people to have a long list of very specific knowledge or skills for a job that they are offering less than 30k full-time for

The fact that people can work full time and not earn enough to live on, so they have to be subsidised by other tax payers, instead of their employer

The grotesque wage discrepancy between the CEO and the lowest paid workers in many large companies.

The idea that most degrees are worth 3+ years if your life and getting into tens of thousands of pounds worth of debt