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What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?

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ForFunAquaTurtle · 09/07/2025 15:42

Cheese on a stick

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Needlenardlenoo · 14/07/2025 07:07

I've also wondered about the paediatrician point. My friend's kids, growing up in another country, have these annual checks.

Whereas DH and I have paid thousands to have DD assessed and treated for various things - the GP was perfectly willing to refer, but there was no-one to refer TO.

EvieBB · 14/07/2025 07:56

minnienono · 09/07/2025 16:43

Using procedures to look younger, from hair dye to Botox. Grow old gracefully and take holidays on the money you saved!

Oh I love abit of hair dye :)
I wouldn't enjoy my holiday with all the greys
Some of us are vain lol

HiEarthlings · 14/07/2025 12:12

Lioncub2020 · 09/07/2025 17:29

Also that there are 12 months of all different lengths when it would work almost perfectly to have 13 months of 4 months.

What?

NewPersonHere · 14/07/2025 12:27

HiEarthlings · 14/07/2025 12:12

What?

52 weeks in a year divides into 13 x 4. As an accountant, it would be easier to split the year into 13 equal months rather than having Feb be 28/29 days vs others of up to 31, and no consistency in when weekends fall. It really messes with budgeting 😂 Some countries to have a 13th month, paying 4 weeks worth of pay for 12 months and in the 12th month you get the Christmas bonus payment of the extra 4 weeks of pay. It’s not really a bonus but it happens in Germany for example.

LookAtThatMartin · 14/07/2025 12:32

Taking dogs In restaurants.
Yesterday two dogs attacked each other in the restaurant We were in. Elderly lady was unable to contain her snappy little thing and it pulled away and went for another dog sitting close by.
All very heated and nasty.

Grammarnut · 14/07/2025 12:52

Livpool · 13/07/2025 17:07

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

What people also forget when they advocate humans become either vegetarian or vegan is what happens to domestic animals. Cows cannot roam wild, nor sheep (who need shearing thanks to selective breeding), nor pigs mostly. The sight of a cow slowly dying in the road, and of cow sanctuaries in India will are not readily forgotten, but if such animals are not of any use then they (and lots of birds and insects which eat crops) become redundant from humans' point of view, and will not be cared for but actively exterminated.
I doubt many cows are voting for extermination - or cow sanctuaries either.

Glowingup · 14/07/2025 13:30

Grammarnut · 14/07/2025 12:52

What people also forget when they advocate humans become either vegetarian or vegan is what happens to domestic animals. Cows cannot roam wild, nor sheep (who need shearing thanks to selective breeding), nor pigs mostly. The sight of a cow slowly dying in the road, and of cow sanctuaries in India will are not readily forgotten, but if such animals are not of any use then they (and lots of birds and insects which eat crops) become redundant from humans' point of view, and will not be cared for but actively exterminated.
I doubt many cows are voting for extermination - or cow sanctuaries either.

Well you don’t exterminate them overnight obviously but stop breeding them to the extent that is done now.

DoubleShotEspresso · 14/07/2025 13:34

Substandard or nil education options for SEN children. All delivered (or not) by teachers who (I admire hugely but still) largely have no SEND training. It’s weird to me that as a supposedly Christian country-so many families are failed, parent careers lost and then demonised in the press.

Happymover · 14/07/2025 13:42

Manitou · 09/07/2025 15:44

Ha yes! With pineapple or a tiny pickled onion!

Cheese and pineapple - who on earth made that up!

I had my adult children, their spouses and 4 teenage grandchildren to visit last weekend. I didn’t argue when they said don’t cook we’ll bring buffet food .

I made some coleslaw and potato salad and after a flash back to the 80’s I made a tray full of cocktail sticks with various combos of cheese/pickled onions/pineapple chunks/slices of hot dog sausages. I did it for a laugh to see their reaction. I knew the four 40 somethings would remember them from their childhood.

They all loved them. The tray was emptied before the hot food was out of the oven. The grandkids said they were amazing and asked me to make some more 😂

henlake7 · 14/07/2025 13:46

Dairy, esp milk.

Even baby cows stop breast feeding when they grow up and yet here are human beings....essentially breast feeding from a different species as fully grown adults.
Makes me think of that Little Britain sketch, 'bitty!'😂

LillyPJ · 14/07/2025 13:49

DoubleShotEspresso · 14/07/2025 13:34

Substandard or nil education options for SEN children. All delivered (or not) by teachers who (I admire hugely but still) largely have no SEND training. It’s weird to me that as a supposedly Christian country-so many families are failed, parent careers lost and then demonised in the press.

What's Christianity got to do with it? All sorts of religious and non-religious people and societies want good standards of education and social care. It's nothing to do with the supposed religion.

scalt · 14/07/2025 16:24

LouiseK93 · 10/07/2025 17:56

Growing up all I would hear is adults slagging off parliament/politicians...so in regards to 5th November I used to think we were celebrating Guy Fawkes for giving it a good go...not celebrating his capture and execution 🤣🤣🤣

And there was I thinking that the fireworks were to celebrate what he tried to do.

llizzie · 14/07/2025 16:44

White noise machines.

It is proven that when you are studying for exams, or need to remember stuff, if you play a recording of the information while you sleep, the brain absorbs it without you being aware.

Does that mean that for the thousands of infants whose parents tuck them in for the night with their dreamegg or other white noise machines, the noise stays in their brain cells?

EvieBB · 14/07/2025 21:06

😂

HappyNewTaxYear · 14/07/2025 22:49

llizzie · 14/07/2025 16:44

White noise machines.

It is proven that when you are studying for exams, or need to remember stuff, if you play a recording of the information while you sleep, the brain absorbs it without you being aware.

Does that mean that for the thousands of infants whose parents tuck them in for the night with their dreamegg or other white noise machines, the noise stays in their brain cells?

It’s not proven at all! What are you on about?

llizzie · 14/07/2025 23:15

HappyNewTaxYear · 14/07/2025 22:49

It’s not proven at all! What are you on about?

I am on about subjecting a baby to listen to white noise in the hope it will make baby sleep better and give parents a quiet life.

I do not agree with it. I believe that the noise has an effect on a baby if it is subjected to it from birth.

I have my opinion, you either disagree or agree. Not everyone thinks the same.

LillyPJ · 14/07/2025 23:43

llizzie · 14/07/2025 23:15

I am on about subjecting a baby to listen to white noise in the hope it will make baby sleep better and give parents a quiet life.

I do not agree with it. I believe that the noise has an effect on a baby if it is subjected to it from birth.

I have my opinion, you either disagree or agree. Not everyone thinks the same.

You said it was proven that if you listen to information while you're asleep, your brain absorbs it. Where's the evidence for that 'fact'? What's your source?

Grammarnut · 14/07/2025 23:45

Glowingup · 14/07/2025 13:30

Well you don’t exterminate them overnight obviously but stop breeding them to the extent that is done now.

And how are you going to feed the ones that are alive now? And it's not stop breeding them to extent we do now, it is stop breeding them. No cows. No sheep. No goats. No pigs. No chickens or domestic ducks. We would be massively reducing biodiversity and variety. But if we are all going to be vegetarian/vegan we have no use for these animals. We will also lose domestic cats (obligate carnivores) and most dogs (who do not thrive on a totally veggie diet).
Also, our landscape will change drastically. Especially the land not useable for growing crops - where currently we keep sheep, for example.
It's not viable to have the entire world vegetarian/vegan. Nor desirable.
A much poorer world.

CoubousAndTourmalet · 14/07/2025 23:50

I agree @Grammarnut and I am a vegetarian. A vegan world would not be desirable.

Outtaxed · 15/07/2025 00:19

We state stare at screens (of one kind or another) for a huge portion of the day, and don’t really question how it’s impacting us.

Women spend a chunk of their lifetime putting make up/doing our hair/curating our wardrobe (making ourselves “presentable”). When for men (most) it’s a five minute shower, shave, quick comb, same style of clothes and out the door!

llizzie · 15/07/2025 09:11

LillyPJ · 14/07/2025 23:43

You said it was proven that if you listen to information while you're asleep, your brain absorbs it. Where's the evidence for that 'fact'? What's your source?

Search for yourself.

I consider white noise machines are the weirdest thing. That is the thread.

That is my opinion.
Do your own research. I am not open to argument.

LillyPJ · 15/07/2025 10:02

llizzie · 15/07/2025 09:11

Search for yourself.

I consider white noise machines are the weirdest thing. That is the thread.

That is my opinion.
Do your own research. I am not open to argument.

You sound very close-minded and I don't believe you have any evidence to back up your claim. You read something, believed it for no reason and refuse to do any further research. That's not rational or scientific so we can dismiss your claim quite easily.

MrsGuyOfGisbo · 15/07/2025 11:18

7million people on ‘universal credit’

ruethewhirl · 15/07/2025 13:12

MrsGuyOfGisbo · 15/07/2025 11:18

7million people on ‘universal credit’

Jobs that don't pay people enough to live on.

the80sweregreat · 15/07/2025 13:22

Companies (such as my one )who were quick to cut everyone’s hours and pay because of the NI rises and the ‘ difficult economic environment’ when they are tight as an ant’s behind and made a nice profit last tax year. Making people have to claim extra benefits or look elsewhere for extra hours and get away with it all. If you don’t like it go elsewhere is the general consensus. I’m sure it’s like it everywhere mostly though :(

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