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Zevrix: To Social Norm or not to Norm!

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This week we will be submitting user missions, Zevrix writes:

Submit useless, contradictory, or simply dumb social norms.

Example: Why are pajamas considered not suitable to wear outside of the home? As long as your skin is covered.. why is it unacceptable? (Coverage of skin is a gold mine for contradictory norms!) This isn't the best example. I'm saving better ones for submitting later!
 
I say bless you as a gesture of kindness, but I know a lot of people find it silly and redundant. BUT....

 
The custom of saying "God bless you" after a sneeze was begun literally as a blessing. Pope Gregory the Great (540-604 AD) ascended to the Papacy just in time for the start of the plague (his successor succumbed to it). Gregory (who also invented the ever-popular Gregorian chant) called for litanies, processions and unceasing prayer for God's help and intercession. Columns marched through the streets chanting, "Kyrie Eleison" (Greek for "Lord have mercy"). When someone sneezed, they were immediately blessed ("God bless you!") in the hope that they would not subsequently develop the plague. All that prayer apparently worked, judging by how quickly the plague of 590 AD diminished.
 
I thought people said bless you to sneezing 'cause it was believed that when you sneezed, your heart stopped (for a fraction of a second). Well, that makes more sense. Yay for learning. :3
 
Many cultures, even some in Europe, believe that sneezing expels the soul--the "breath of life"--from the body. That doesn't seem too far-fetched when you realize that sneezing can send tiny particles speeding out of your nose at up to 100 miles per hour!
 
Oh, so that's now Necromancers reap soul essence from people. Make 'em sick and sneeze. Fitting, seeing how they're so heavy on conditions. Lawl. But that would make them, like, Boogermancers. Which is just gross.
 
Heh, I thought that'd be a fun discussion topic. I always say it due to habit. Plus elderly people LOVED that they got attention when I worked in the supermarket, so... Yeah. I like making the elderly feel good.
 
Why do people ask random strangers "How are you?" when they really don't care or want to hear any kind of explanation about how that person is actually doing. In fact, if the person does not respond with a vague "Fine" and instead begins to share how they are doing on a deep, personal level it is considered socially awkward and they become the butt of tweets like "OMG, I asked a guy how he was doing and he went and he told me that his kid was in the hospital with cancer! What a douche!"

This is why, when I'm asked how I"m doing, I just say "I'm happy." And in that moment, I am because they feel socially awkward.
 
Keleynal said:
Why do people ask random strangers "How are you?" when they really don't care or want to hear any kind of explanation about how that person is actually doing. In fact, if the person does not respond with a vague "Fine" and instead begins to share how they are doing on a deep, personal level it is considered socially awkward and they become the butt of tweets like "OMG, I asked a guy how he was doing and he went and he told me that his kid was in the hospital with cancer! What a douche!"

This is why, when I'm asked how I"m doing, I just say "I'm happy." And in that moment, I am because they feel socially awkward.
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Hah! I wonder that too. And everyone always replies the same, either good or fine or all right, always positiveish. So sometimes I like to reply saying "I'm horrible how are you?! :D" just to throw 'em off. >.>
 
Tulzscha said:
Hah! I wonder that too. And everyone always replies the same, either good or fine or all right, always positiveish. So sometimes I like to reply saying "I'm horrible how are you?! :D" just to throw 'em off. >.>
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Nice! Also try "Fantastic! My doctor says my homicidal tendencies are becoming much more controlled!"
 
Heheheahahahaha. Then when they look at you funny, "Why are you staring at me like that? I don't like it when people stare at me like that." *creepyface*

Don't want to get the cops called on me though. D:
 
Nah, people just don't know how to deal with the surreal. Me, I tend to double down.

Them: "I ate a baby for lunch"
Me: "Got any leftovers?"
 
I've always felt very strange about women and their attitudes when wearing bathing suits (more appropriately, bikinis) and underwear. We've all heard this before, but why are most women comfortable walking/swimming/shopping/eating/playing sports in bathing suits yet completely uncomfortable wearing equally-as-modest underwear?

Even controlling for things like coverage size, material, etc. It still seems as if women are fine to walk around on a beach in a bathing suit, but cover themselves up if someone we're to walk in on them in underwear.
 
The signs in stores and restaurants that say "No shirt, no shoes, no service." They don't specify that you have to wear pants.
 
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