What is a social norm in America that you feel is ridiculous?

again, I am not going to provide my opinion, but the medical terms (be it physical or mental health)

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most people who use drugs are not affected in their social life or at school/work, it is the minority who are addicted whose lives are affected negatively

 

Rudeness is a tool in your toolchest, just like civility is. Please, don't bull(*)(*)(*)(*) us with your "morality".

Says the "progressive", whose political philosophy has caused nothing but regression.

Yeah, America, go backwards. You got a f'in toolchest, go back to the time when you weren't afraid to use your tools.

Just 'cause some idiot liberal thinks a hammer is "bad" while a screwdriver is "good".

 

No, but I'd be able to get work done if they weren't.

 

You can't put your finger on it in my office, anyway. Outside of the office, you can put your finger where ever you want.

 

You have had some rough going.....

 

You did what you were told because the funeral director told you to do it. The people taking their last look and shaking hands are doing what they are told to do. It's a dog and pony show from start to finish, and you obviously saw it for what it is. From being required to purchase an overpriced casket, to being required to bury it in a state approved cemetary, to wearing black, to the flowers, to the hearse.

You know what they say about death and taxes. What better way to combine the two than to make death a very profitable business?

 

Weddings like coronations.........it can only be downhill after all that

 

It is called 'leaving something to the imagination.' Besides, with all the weirdos out their it is best to cover up so you don't draw attention to yourself. I don't want creepy men driving by a gawking.

 

I have found that rudeness can be a defense mechanism. I walk a lot, and there are crazies out there, and occasionally one will start to approach for some reason. A good, "What the **** are you looking at," or "What the **** do you want," drives them away. They usually leave with a funny look on their faces because I don't look like the in-your-face type. Aggression towards a suspected assailient (sp) is taught in self-defense classes. Meekness and kowtowing will get you no where, and nice guys finish last.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth can be a revolutionary act. George Orwell

 

You did what you were told because the funeral director told you to do it. The people taking their last look and shaking hands are doing what they are told to do. It's a dog and pony show from start to finish, and you obviously saw it for what it is. From being required to purchase an overpriced casket, to being required to bury it in a state approved cemetary, to wearing black, to the flowers, to the hearse.


I've only been to two funerals. One was the traditional walk-by-the-casket-and-look-at-the-dead-man (I refused) funeral. The second one: I wore a white denim dress because I knew that my deceased friend liked that dress. There were no flowers and no hearse (she was cremated) but we had a catered wake, and we played her favorite music. She would have approved.

 

"I didn't get in trouble every time I drank, but every time I got in trouble I was drinking." Story of my life. I turned into a ridiculous, arrogant, troublemaking slut when I was drinking. lol

 

One social norm that I hate is when 'men' grab their crotches in an apparent effort to look manly, and we are supposed to pretend that it doesn't bother us. They are just doing what they do, its just their culture. I absolutely hate it, and consider it a blatant form of sexual harassment. Its vulgar and crude. Maybe they should 'take down' their crotch-grabbing 'flags' as it is offensive to most women.

 

I told my wife to stuff and mount me in the bed room so I can be there to help when the zombie apocalypse begins.

 

My sons' 'legacy' is ironworking. Their father, uncles, great uncles, and cousins are all ironworker 'alumni', and my kids followed in the paternal family's footsteps. I see nothing wrong with this. They make good money but they work incredibly hard, and incredibly long hours. Yeah, their friends are jealous of the money they make, but their friends wouldn't last a week doing what my sons do. Takes a special breed.

 

Memorials ,okay I get it, take 9/11 it was bad but it will be 14 years since the damned thing happened stop reading the names to the damned bells. Further stop slapping memorials for every dead person. You want to honor the dead if they died due to drunk driving or something fight to stop that and get on with your lives. Every time you do this short of memorial for soldiers in war like the Vietnam wall of names or something you to me look like fools.

 

Hey, I am an old ill-tempered battle axe, but I'm not too fat. As for the disrespectful, pushy and foul mouthed, I can be those things when I want to be. But let's talk about the men: you're all a bunch of Mr.-can't-be-wrongs even though you frequently are. conceited,

 

Awesome!! Who is your favorite Dead character? Sooo tough to pick.... Rick Grimes for prez!!

 

We are wrong all the time. Fortunately, it's okay for men to be wrong. One of the benefits of being guy is male privilege.

 

According to current literature, and my mammography technician, pot-smoking men are growing boobs. Another 'social norm' that we have to pretend we don't notice.

 

That gay arsed walking dead series? My favorite character is Doctor Logan.

 

Lucifer:
That is a big one. People's personal appearances have really taken a nose dive into the 'sloppy' abyss. Dressing sloppily seems to be a MAJOR social norm these days. It didn't used to be that way.. People didn't go out in public looking frumpy, now its normal. I wore something simple but 'stylish' to the store one day, and was ridiculed for being "fancy". It ticked me off.

 

I haven't seen a Hispanic working in a while. I mostly see the females, and they don't look like they have worked a day in their lives. Overweight trying to squeeze into skinny jeans. Teen mothers carrying babies on their backs and wearing stilettos. Buses full of them on the 1st when they get their welfare. Other social norms that irk me to no end.

 

Still, not nearly as often as using tact and properly communicating what it is one means to say.

There is nothing wrong with following up whenever possible, as well.

The crude, bumper-sticker approach to expressing oneself... is exponentially less optimal than treating other human beings respectfully (being civil).

I've learned that from living life in general, not from some book or mere opinion.

 

You really don't understand, do you? See, this is the result of years upon years of liberal brainwashing.

Pal, sometimes deliberate rudeness is exactly what you mean and what you want to say.

And if you refrain from using it when it's appropriate, then you are the one who loses, not anyone else.

Say what you mean, and mean what you say.

But if you have a problem with "rudeness", that's all in your perception.

We generally expect human beings to be smart enough to see beyond the words and into the meaning.

Sometimes rudeness is the meaning.

I just don't get these dumbass liberals, why would anyone put a tool in their toolkit, and then deliberately not use it, even when it's called for?

That's what PC is - nonsensical. Bassackwards. Inappropriate, in many many circumstances.

 

Where are you again? In your area, what is roughly the percentage of Hispanics?