What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?

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Cheese on a stick

carers have to pay to be registered in wales now, too. not as much but still money we can't afford.

world population and people going on about 'replacement rate' when we've far exceeded it already.

money

Thinking it’ll be ok to go & live on another planet…
Religions.

Well blame NHS funding issues for being discharged swiftly. Nobody is expected to go to work following birth, nobody. You’re not allowed to return until at least 6 weeks after birth even if you want to.

I've had horses. Yes they can bond with humans. I still don't think they enjoy being ridden. Horses don't like having the bit put in their mouths - they hate it; they learn to tolerate it because they have no fucking choice. They certainly don't enjoy being strapped up to a cart and forced to stand around all day, taking people for rides. Not just horses- donkeys, camels, elephants. We should stop normalising riding other species. I say this as somebody who used to ride ponies and horses. They do not enjoy it.

I see your guitar/drum solos and raise you….

Bagpipes.

No, just no. There’s no need for that sound.

Agree to the first. Why on earth does anyone think it would be great to colonise another planet when we are making such a mess of our own?

You're taking this very personally. I'm not suggesting that anybody has to go back to work. I AM saying that the lack of care available to new mothers is woeful.

Since when has a woman been expected to instantly recover from giving birth? Who is doing the expecting? Its a bit of a sweeping statement. Obviously in the context of UK as this is a UK based site, maternity rights for workers entitle a new mother to be paid to recover from birth and bond with your baby.

All I can say is that currently there are almost 70 people agreeing with my first post, so I would suggest that others also feel that care and support for new mothers is lacking.

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Yes! I always used to say in clubs, "imagine if there was no music playing and we're all just bobbing about on the dancefloor"🤣

Time travel

Exactly!

I’d add that medical trials and treatments have all been based on, and tested for, males. Women’s health is woefully inadequate

We can survive but we have evolved as well as we have due to being omnivores. Lots of people seem to forget that we are animals, just dressed up

People using the phrase 'talk me down' when faced with a challenging but normal situation that's part of life.

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Need that laugh emoji back!!

Road tax covers roads, hospitals and education are so poor I don't think we are getting value for money.

I disagree. And tax funds many other things that we all benefit from.

Whilst more than a few of us are having to severely ration meals ..

Yes the concept of eating less food than is available intentionally and doing exercise for the sake of it at the gym must be an extremely weird concept to anyone born more than a few hundred years ago if they could have seen into the future.

Clearly a great time to have a toilet break at a concert 🤣

And loads of metalwork pierced through your face and lips to make eating more difficult and sorry it doesn't look pretty ...pretty awful , yes !

Men dressing up in female clothing and pretending to be female and everyone is supposed not to notice the Adams apple and refer to them as her/she.

Totally agree, one of my memories of leaving the hospital after my child was born, when I couldn’t walk unaided, was bleeding profusely, and was in a lot of pain, was seeing a man walking into A&E holding his arm.

Perhaps he had broken it, who knows, but the double standard really struck me. I think it’s ridiculous that women are sent home before we’ve had a chance to recover (if people prefer to be home then fine, but personally I’d much rather be in a hospital when I’m still losing so much blood).

Another one…we’ve accepted as a society that children no longer have a pediatrician as their regular doctor, and that they don’t have annual health checks any more. Not sure when it happened, but as a child 40 years ago we all had pediatric checks annually where they’d check height, weight, vaccinations, and any ongoing health issues.

I’m 48, I never saw a paediatrician (uk) had some vaccinations but still got measles, German measles and mumps (I remember having mmr at 11 not sure if I had it before) I don’t recall any annual checks. I do remember the nit nurse in school though and the boys have a check that their balls had dropped!