What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?

[ForFunAquaTurtle]

Cheese on a stick

what! Love a bit of cheese and pineapple.

Cheese and pineapple on a stick is one of my favourite things on earth, so sue me

Agree, I wish it didn't exist tbh

Oh those were the days....

Circumcision.

Constantly being sold to - in your home, on your laptop and phone, outside, everywhere you go.

IIUDs - a Mirena coil would be the perfect solution to contraception through perimenopause until the age of 55. After 2 births both ways, a third degree tear, taking care of the contraception for the last 30 years, many smears, colposcopies, LLETZ treatment and biopsies and the oh so enjoyable ‘sweep’ to get my second birth going. FUCK RIGHT OFF from thinking you are going to inset and actual object into my womb that I can’t remove myself.

also Ironing. Fuck off again.

Adults sitting at desks for hours a day

That we accept the repeated payment of tax, on the same damn money !

We get wages taxed, then we pay tax on what we buy with our wages.

We pay tax on savings and investments and are taxed again on our pensions, as well as an extra tax if we take over a certain amount as a lump sum from our pensions.

We are taxed on any inheritance over a certain amount.

It goes on and on. Everything we earn, we end up paying repeated tax on, again and again.

Then, to top it all off, our pension (government) can't even be transferred to your spouse upon death ! So you pay into your govt pension, for at least 35 yrs to qualify for the full amount, but if you pop your clogs at retirement age, the govt gets to keep all you paid in !

And finally, you get taxed again paying for your damn funeral !

Having to actually buy a tiny piece of earth. Who decided it was for sale?

Brands. Like a t shirt with armani written on it can be 20 times more expensive than the same style t shirt without. Madness.

Male circumcision.

lol at you pointlessly quoting “cheese on a stick” here.

Is cheese on a stick transphobic now? 😭

You need a dictionary. Infanticide is the killing of a young child within a year of its BIRTH, not the safe medical removal of an unwanted foetus.

Laughing. You get a weird feeling in your body then a bizarre noise bursts out of your mouth!

That it is not a legal requirement to wear a helmet when cycling on our roads.

Drinking cow's milk.

That’s a good one - the foundation stone of modern economies and work patterns (also sexism). I recommend ‘Owning the Earth’ by Linklater.

Cricket.

True, but adults have some choice in that.

Also, yes to the PP on tax…including having to save up post-tax earnings simply to pay tax on things like stamp duty.

Privatisation - stripping away a country’s infrastructure.

Everything is transphobic.

Thanks for the recommendation.

Sport in general.

I like it, but it's all pretty weird when you think about it.

Human hair extensions. Strapping another human's hair to your head just seems gross.