What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?

[ForFunAquaTurtle]

Cheese on a stick

I get very resentful about this,

omg this yes! And then I get freaked out that animals exist

Haha I know, if only we were born a few thousand or whatever years ago when people just made themselves Kings 😄

drinking an animals milk that the mum has produced for her own baby/babies

I find it weirder than eating meat

and I love milk (cows) I try not to think about it but it is weird

I guess it’s just an evolution of our ancestors keeping animals for a purpose other than to love them.

Historically, dogs were always working animals the same as horses etc
Then somewhere along the line, someone thought “actually, it’s quite cute and I think it might love me…..let’s let it live in the house”

I don’t think keeping pets is weird at all! Humans have pretty much always had animal companions around!
I particularly love the Egyptian worship of cats 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

High heels.

Headlice
we all kill them when we, the kids get them so what’s the point of them
Who keeps a nit farm in their bedroom?

Clapping 👏

It certainly isn’t natural, no matter what the powers that be would have us believe.

And, if you have a sleep disorder and a snoring husband like me, the convention of couples sleeping in the same bed at all. Sh*gging yes, sleeping hell no, with few exceptions. (DH tends to agree, as my sleep disorder makes me just as annoying a bedmate as he is. 😄)

infanticide is killing babies not pointless cells ... it being legalised is definitely something to celebrate as the alternative is women taking the matter into their own hands and possibly dying or horrifically damaging their bodies.

The men have no physical repercussions of unwanted fertilised cells and if they did it would be legal to full term.

That money is printed (or often they don't even bother to do that now everything is digital) into existence because somebody has borrowed it.

That you can go to a bank and ask them super nicely, and comply with a whole load of their stern criteria, and then feel very grateful that your request has created money out of nowhere, ownership of which is then magically assigned to the bank (not to you!) and you have to pay the bank potentially hundreds of thousands of pounds over decades to borrow money that you didn't have, but neither did they!

I like a ‘cheesy pineapple’

I can only refer you, and anyone else interested in the beginnings of modern economics eg @SprayWhiteDung back to the same book. There are others on the subject of course but ‘Owning the Earth’ is a good starting point.

As I said it’s the foundation stone of modern work patterns, following Enclosure, and sets the scene, attitude and cultures for the later issues I referred to as the ‘rentier economy’, too. Fundamentally it arose in England due to the conflicts arising from conquering the people here in 1066 with a bunch of rapacious takers (literally).

Fascinating subject.

Came to the thread to say pets!

Also – sorry to bring dog poo into a good thread – that we’ve all accepted as normal that dogs can poo everywhere as long as it gets picked up. But it leaves smears! The plastic bags dangling from trees! Stick and flick! I swear aliens will land one day and be like “…oh no baby, what is you doing”. See also cats’ right to roam and shit in flowerbeds.

^^^^ this 💯

Yes and the belief that women’s legs look so much better in them.

Do vegetarians and vegans kill headlice?

I know what you mean, I actually think in a way it feels very "human" like dogs and us were always meant to be 😍

Its not as well known but the Ancient Egyptians did have dogs too and whilst maybe not as worshipped as cats, they were also buried with their masters and were given cute names such as ’wise one’ and ‘brave one’

It really is. I’m looking forward to reading that book.

edit, might be ‘out there’ but I believe everything that happened happened purposely.

The nuclear family.

Though cheese on a stick is a close second.

😂😂😂

I would love an alien to come down as say "oh no babe what is you doing?" I think it’d be the best encounter I can imagine 😄

So sad and depressing

Who thought foie gras was worth it. Just bloody vile.