What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?

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Cheese on a stick

I will get roasted for this but here goes....being obese. We have been brainwashed into " fat is fine". It isn't....it is a killer and it's time that this was acknowledged. I say this as someone who was overweight aged 50 plus and is now a good, healthy weight again. The improvement in my well being has shocked me.

Dogs that are allowed into eateries.

Bizarre.

The next step ordinary dog poo-ples will try on is to enter a supermarket or hospital.

New word - 'poo-ple' = people who under duress, pick up freshly dropped dog faeces, because they think they are being watched.

@Daisyvodka YES!!
I fel out with my brother about 10 years ago…. He’s been awful to the whole family, but mainly towards me…. Everyone else seems to have forgiven and forgotten his behaviour .. I’m not willing to… I was recently told by my mother that It’s ‘disgusting’ that I refuse to have anything to do with him and his children.. but at almost 50 I’m pretty sure I’m old enough to decide who is part of my life for myself! My DD has also made her own mind up.

I’ve already seen people pick up their dog and carry them round Waitrose! People have no shame.

I’m in a similar position myself atm (formerly obese, now not, and yes I feel way healthier for it), but presumably if you’ve been obese you’ll be well aware that obese people are still treated like second-class citizens? Yes, a lot of us do have weight problems nowadays, I’m still a bit overweight myself, but I’d argue that despite being more common nowadays obesity hasn’t been normalised or even de-stigmatised. Increasing the stigma wouldn’t help anyone to tackle the root cause imo.

Selfies. Filming absolutely everything - I was shocked but not surprised by the police officers in Manchester who were attacked & people filmed it but didn't help. Giving children smart phones. Lack of respect & bad manners.

I was in a shop which sells groceries and saw a customer carrying a dog around. When I asked a member of staff about it, she said it wasn't really allowed but as long as people carried their dog, they just let them come in.

Anthropomorphism The absolute obsession about dogs and their inclusion everywhere
You are not a fur parent. A dog isn’t a baby. A dog isn’t a family member
Get some perspective dog is a pet. It’s not a child. You don’t need carer leave for the dog. If there is an emotional dependency it’s because you created it, you like the drama , it’s makes you feel wanted.

Children with smartphones.

I cannot fathom the money held in property all round the world. On a very normal road with average houses you walk past a million pounds’ worth of property every 3 houses. An average road with 20-30 houses on each side of the road is worth £20 million. Then you start multiplying that by all the streets and roads in your own town and then start imagining multiplying that by all the towns, villages and cities in this country, and then around the world. It’s trillions and trillions - unimaginable money all just held in places for people to live.

Women demanded the right to have careers like men. Many of us acknowledge families living on one income, and mother home to raise the kids and keep house. That what it mostly was in my youth, but you try telling women they should stay home..or that the man should..and they have to live on one income, they’ll shout equality, the right to be the same as the other, to earn their own money, to work for promotion, and then the ones who want 3 holidays abroad a year, a car per family member, a huge mortgage, and they’ll say they cannot afford not to work. Materialistic society put things before family. Raising children is boring, not fulfilling…which absolutely shocks me but most seem to agree. I think doing without holidays and cars and gadgets is worth it for the privilege of teaching children and watching the wonder as they learn about the world around them…but that’s just me

The fact that there is enough wealth and resources in the world but millions are still starving in 2025. Top 5 richest families in the world would probably compensate with 20% of their wealth and that is somehow never going to happen.

Grown men zipping around on scooters like little kids.

Yeah, it’s just you. You sound like you belong in the 1950s.

Shaving. I get that I don’t have to, but somehow society has deemed it unusual for a woman to have a hairy body, even though it’s considered normal for men. I shaved my legs today because I was nipping to the shops in my shorts, and worried if I didn’t people would notice my hairy legs.

It’s shocking to me that it’s become so normalised in such a relatively short space of time. My DM got Botox in the late 00s when she was in her 40s. It wasn’t as commonplace then, and the only people getting it were her age and older. Now people are getting it done from 18 as part of their regular beauty regime. 😳

People are the same about meat. Why is it viewed as okay to eat a cow but not a dog?

Someone once did a social experiment where he handed out meat samples and after the person had eaten them said they were dog meat from his free range Labrador farm. People were horrified and he said, it’s okay, they live a wonderful life before they’re killed. Then when they were still horrified, he hit them up with “but you’re okay for that to happen to cows and sheep right?”

Holding in farts and burps. We’re causing our selves pain because of a little scent that usually disappears within a minute..?

I'd much rather farts and burps to the hell that is too much eg lynx etc. Stuff that gets caught in your throat and wafts down the street miles after the wearer has gone past. I'd rather bo too.

A new hell is being advertised and it is 'intimate area lynx' the adverts for it are horrible too but not as bad as the stench that will ensue.

Belittling those you disagree with does not enhance your point, which incidentally is false.

Actually, it’s not just the pp. And you sound 14.

Japan is way behind western countries regarding smoking, but even so, in 2004 when I went to a hospital for jabs for a trip abroad, I was astonished to see a smoking room and cigarette vending machines. It turned out that Japan Tobacco actually owned the hospital.

What about people like you and I, wasting enormous amounts of world resources by using the internet for frivolous and very much non-essential purposes?

Or something like Chat GPT that is destructive to the environment far more so than any other search engine but people routinely use it to ask what to have for dinner.

Coffee. People paying £5 at Starbucks regularly for a drink when you can buy a whole meal cheaper.