What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?

[ForFunAquaTurtle]

Cheese on a stick

That both men and women have nipples, but women’s should be to covered prevent us driving men into a frenzy.

That men can abandon their children.

The thread isn't about history though. It's about things that are acceptable that people find weird. That's all. It was supposed to be light-hearted. No need to be judgemental or 'astonished'.

80% of males in the US are circumcised.

That's pretty normalised.

Well find it weird that so many on this thread seem to think that they shouldn't have to work at all. Why is working so weird, how else are people going to live? If people knew a little about history they wouldn't find working 37 hours (and who works 37 hours - 40 is the norm here) so weird.

And if you want to have a go at someone there are far more posters on this thread who have turned it into something far less light hearted than me. Some posters are getting very angry for a light hearted thread - and yet you ignore them

Perhaps because it's not a fact. 🙄

Alcohol has many uses other than drinking. And in any case it's a natural product - virtually impossible to ban. You might as well try to ban sugar.

Pickled onion monster munch.

There are, you're right about that. This started out as quite a nice thread.

Not having a go - just pointing out what the thread is about. I don't think the history lessons are needed, or the superior tone - just my opinion.

Haven’t Rtft but in pre industrial societies less work was the norm

We have always had to work, but the character of our work has changed dramatically since our ancestors lived as hunter-gatherers. Although the lives of hunter-gatherers were rather tenuous and short, their workloads were relatively modest, requiring only about 20 hours per week to acquire and prepare food, and to make tools, clothing, and shelter

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4098799/

Or marijuana..

I don’t think that’s true at all. You can have a broad knowledge of history and be aware of feudalism, slavery, the gradual introduction of working rights, the concept of the weekend, blah blah blah, and still think “fuck this for a laugh” about 37 hours, particularly in the modern world where lots of work is just made up stuff to keep us busy on the treadmill.

37 hours is a standard FT job, so’s 40 hours, so’s 35 hours. It’s all weird, though. Seven hours of your day spent on Teams calls instead of a life. Just because it’s better than some other point in history doesn’t make it not weird, as a species.

Crazy. I have known people take a feral pigeon attacked by a cat to a vet at great expense. They quite happily put chicken nuggets, chicken thighs etc in their shopping trolley.

Men who can walk away from their familes and nothing happens
They don't even have to pay for them and nobody bothers (my ex told the csa he wasn't paying a penny and they just closed our case)
If I'd done that,I would have had them removed and i would have been arrested

On a lighter note,when I had pfb,someone (kindly) bought her a star
Who owns the stars?
It's like flogging bits of the moon or saturn

Actually historians think pre-industrial people worked significantly fewer hours than we do. (The work was physically harder, of course.)

And much of it would have been seasonal, and on the land, meaning that at some times of the year, you’d have been working flat out for almost all daylight hours, while at others, you’d have been essentially idle other than looking after livestock. But with the caveat that you had to hope your stored food would hold out over winter.

I disagree. Working class women have always worked.

The only time they stayed home was when / if it made financial sense. In Victorian England a boy of 10 could earn more than his mother so it may have made sense to have a son working, but until then women worked.

This is why 'baby farming' was a thing.

Early years childcare- leaving your precious babies in a care of random people in a settings you supposed to trust and hope nothing bad will happen.

That where you buy a rabbit from has a massive impact on whether it is acceptable to put it in a pie. Buy it from a butchers or shoot it yourself no problem at all. Buy it from pets at home and get you prosecuted for animal abuse.

It's weird but you're absolutely right!

That 17/ 18 year olds can't even make their own beds !!

The rabbit post reminds me of someone I used to work with. He said he sometimes went shooting and would feel a bit embarrassed as one part was a reserve of some kind and the other you were allowed to shoot the birds. That was an awkward icebreaker exercise…

That in the UK every year 30,000 people get killed or seriously injured in traffic annually...

We would never accept this number of casualties in any other aspect of life!
30,000 injured using kettles every year - I'm sure they'll be banned pretty soon!
30,000 injured our killed by dogs every year - quite sure there'd be a nation wide ban on dogs!

But cars...?? We do our best to mitigate the risk...

1. Looking down on divorced women, being seen as damaged goods, a failure to keep your home together. No one sees the man as a failure. In parts of Africa, there is even a term "return soldier", used for a women who has "failed" to keep her marriage
2. Society looking down on people who have abortions. Do you want people to rather overppopulate the world with children who will not be looked after. It is not murder. Get off your high horse
3. Monogamy
4. Religion
5. Men walking away from their responsibilities and life just going on
6. Calling women suts, itches, all kinds of names, while such terms doesn't apply to men
7. Hate from a fellow woman to another for no reason
8. Misogyny
9. Patriarchy

10. Rude people....

Exams as curently are - maybe whole school system.

We not in England but Wales so it's not as bad as English system and about to be reformed - but DD2 just finished as did 25+ exams over two years and needs 5 GCSE above C (A*-C) she will get 14 Level 2 - most GCSE at end. Nearly two thirds more than she needs - for her that's fine for some that means they miss needed grades in maths and English.

But mostly A-level and Uni applications applying before results.

So my 17 year old have to work out what likely grades they are looking at match them to uni wants - but in recent years what they want and what they usually take are so differnt UCAS have tool to highlight this - then teachers guesstimates get added to it all - then uni have to decide how reliable those gradse are at insitutaional level and if they'll lower grades for certain poorer schools or indiduals and make offers.

Then everyone waits - and it's hard to gauge how accurate predicted grades are but some research put it as low as 16% getting predicted grades another attempt to quantify says 79% fail to get predicted grades most over predicted by some under.

That a huge amount of stress to students and families with the uncertainty and a lot more work for Univerities - - no one likes it but seems to hard to change.

Identifying as whatever you like.