A lot of people kiss their pets or non-human animals in general. I find that very weird. I understand that it is a sign of affection but it seems so off. One reason is that I doubt whether animals really understand this. Also it seems to be on a level of intimacy to me that I find weird sharing with a pet. Not necessarily romantically or sexually (that would be even more weird and wrong and probably illegal). But it is still “more”. I am not sure whether I can really explain why exactly I find that weird.
Anyway, what is something that is weird to you but not to most other people?
Gossiping, and the inevitable culture of “what will people say?” that comes along with it. I don’t really talk about other people when they’re not there. And it’s really weird when someone introduces you to a new person and they’re like “I’ve head so much about you”. It almost sounds threatening.
Religion has n general.
Not being an edgelord or hating, I really just don’t get it, it makes no sense to me at all and never has. When I was a kid I thought it was just like a thing people did for whatever reason, I was a kid and I didn’t know fucking anything and my family didn’t do religion, once I realized people take it super seriously and think it’s all real it really weirded me out, I thought it was just some kind of fandom thing like how I was into Power Rangers.
Starbucks, Tim Hortons, Dunkin, etc.
Like, why? Life is too short.
See also: Anheuser-Busch products
Sometimes a bad coffee is still coffee enough.
Cause I can’t make myself a cup of coffee when I’m away from home. Sometimes I just need to stop somewhere and buy a cup. Although there are better choices than those places.
This monster really is going to kill everything isnt he. I dont buy the narrative of Christianity. But the people involved in writing it may have had some clairvoancy. They said that christans would admire, and follow the Anti-Christ no matter what he does. If anyone fits the antichrist character, it’s The Mad King: Agent Orange.
It also says the anti-christ would spread a message of love and peace as part of the deception. When has Trump ever done that? When he was demanding a peace prize?
He talks about love and peace a lot though. How he is the most peaceful president, how the capitol riot was a day of love etc.
No clairvoyancy needed - Revelation is just a hyperbolic list of stuff that the Emperor Nero had already done, dressed up with a bunch of supernatural gubbins and set in the future.
Narcissists gonna narcissist…
When you say something simple and someone else attacks you over some imaginary meaning or intent. Neurotypical people are unwell.
When you say something simple and someone else attacks you over some imaginary meaning or intent.
Totally agree.
Neurotypical people are unwell.
Wayyy too broad of a statement to agree with. I’ve seen this behavior from both neurotypical and neurodivergent people.
Happens a lot on Lemmy
Typical to everyone = unwell to me
Pretty strong evidence you aren’t well and should be discounted.
Have you been tested? Because you sure took that comment way too literally and seriously.
Ok let me say totally not seriously that autistic people are weird and neuro typicals are cool… so… what is the value of this statement vs yours…
I know. I just avoid talking when not asked, because people always find a reason to be offended.
A co-worker got mad over that too. Not talking is also very offensive to these people.
No need to yell 😖
Not really a neurotypical problem, nice insult though very cool
Celebrity gossip and worship
Here’s something that will probably mark me as weird: I find it strange, even creepy, when people talk, sing, hum, or make any noises to themselves. Some people tell me it helps their concentration, but I can’t even envision making any kind of sound when I concentrate.
Talking to yourself is one of life’s great joys. Isn’t that right, me?
Well I for one definitely know right? correct me
I don’t usually talk, sing, or hum alone, but I’m always either tapping my foot, tapping my desk, or clicking a pen.
It’s not really deliberate, it just sort of happens.Though to be fair I do deliberately buy retractable pens so I can click them…
LOL. I do all of those things.
Me, too, and I find it offputting when someone else does it. 😄
sing
As in sing in the shower? Or just when multi-tasking in general?
not washing their hands after using the bathroom…
I apply the George Carlin process to hand washing. After all when in public I know where my dick has been but that janky faucet and restroom door knob has been touched by every wet handed dipshit who put their hands through the germ infested air dryer in the place.
Or people who flush with the toilet lid open. Gross
This is something I especially notice at airports. Depending on which state I’m in the ratio of men washing their hands changes drastically
Well, come on. What states are grosser than others?
Come on, you know it’s the South…
“But I didn’t touch anything dirty.”
Hanta virus splashes have entered the chat.
EEewww. You win dammit.
I’m in a building with multiple offices for multiple companies and one of them has a massage place.
Each floor has one set of shared bathrooms for men and women
The masseuse guy goes to the bathroom and I’ve noticed him there multiple times taking a dump, then walking out without washing his hands
And he then massages people all over…
Caring about sports. Like they devote what amounts to a part time job watching grown men compete in children’s games. Watching Competitive exercise while they melt into a couch pounding junk food. Watching other people talk about how well they exercised. Discussing daily with their friends and family and coworkers… All about one group of people in a colored shirt moving a ball slightly better than people with a different colored shirt.
When I realized that guys typically need an activity to bond together, sports start to make a lot more sense. Sports are just a catalyst to male friendship. Yeah guys take the sports way too far, but it makes it more fun if there’s an emotional high or low when they watch it.
People who give their cars a human name. “Jack got a flat tire” or “I need to get Petunia an oil change”
Don’t get me wrong, I certainly have had unique names for my car - “The White Wonder”, “The Papa Mobile”, “The truck” - but something about using human names is important to the people who do this, and I just don’t get it.
Exactly. Cars do not need names. They know who they are, and they know I appreciate them.
People being noisy on public transport.
Loud talking, people playing audio on speakers, parents who don’t give a fuck about their ear-piercing screaming machines, etc…
When I am on a train/tram/bus and, say, get a call, I’ll decline it and send the person a text stating that I can’t call right now as I am in a vehicle.
Usually I can avoid noise by using first class. People there tend to talk far less, and they don’t bring kids there. That’s about all 1st class has to offer around here. Avoiding people.
Oh, sometimes the 1st class can even be fairly empty. Like, 1 or 2 people in the carriage type empty. Especially nice with compartment carriages. That way I can be all alone. Which also means I can turn off lights and crank up AC in the compartment. Or open the window, which I’ll regret at the first screeching of brakes. Damn loud.The other day I found out that Deutsche Bahn allows small children in first class.
It was not a good day.
You’ve obviously never kissed a naked mole rat
Found Ron Stoppable!
I doubt whether animals really understand this.
Not in the way you’re thinking of (“my human loves me!”), but they almost certainly understand it as a form of scent-marking (“we are tribe-family”), which is a pretty similar concept.
it seems to be on a level of intimacy to me that I find weird sharing with a pet.
Have you had (m)any pets?
Idk about all pets but dogs absolutely understand it’s a form of affection, they kiss each other too, they’ve been with humans tens of thousands of years… they get it
Cat’s are super social and very smart. They get it too. Hell, even budgies understand it.
Partying
Never understood the appeal
Have you tried drugs
Have you ever looked at the back of a dollar bill
There’s some spooky shit going on back there. And it’s green, too!
I think that’s the ticket for a lot of things like a rave, a party, or even a concert. I’ve been to 5 or 10 concerts in my life, and every single one. I’m bored silly after 30 minutes. I don’t drink or do drugs and I figure that’s the missing ingredient.
Oh yeah me neither. That must be it then, but I will not drink or do drugs just because of social pressure.
I never did it for the social pressure. I was always curious and then I found out they’re really fun
If you don’t like partying, either you just don’t like people and music (which is fine, no shaming intended), or you have only ever been to bad parties.
A good party has:
- people who like each other and are all there to enjoy each others company (and they don’t need an excuse like watching sports to do that)
- good music
- a space where you can dance if you feel like it
- a space where the music is silent enough to have interesting conversations
- maybe a motto and costumes, some made with minimal effort, some self-made as an outlet for creative energy, maybe even some superficial roleplaying to go along with it
- maybe some other activity you can do together like table football or table tennis or twister or …
Seems like I’m the issue, I’ll go point by point:
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Since I don’t party, I don’t know anyone and if I happen to know someone we have nothing in common, as with most people my age, since they only care about looks, the gym, gossip and partying + I live in an uncivilised country where drinking = getting wasted and people often start around the mark of 11-12yo.
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I don’t like most modern music and have tinnitus. Also I’m not that big of a music fan in general, I’m more of a visual arts type of person.
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I don’t see the fun in dancing, can’t dance (no one has ever taught me) and feel very self conscious
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Wait, you are supposed to hear anything apart from the music?
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Costumes? Never heard of parties with costumes (apart from Halloween)
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There are places where you can do other activities outside of dancing with the people there?
Thank you for sharing your perspective. Let me first reiterate that none of what I wrote was intended as shaming or attacking people who do not like partying.
I strongly disagree with “Seems like I’m the issue”. Seems to me more like you have very good reasons to dislike all parties you could realistically attend currently, and to generalize from that to not liking parties in general is only natural.
I did not want to convince anyone they are wrong; just to share my perspective that not all parties are the same, and they can be fun even for people who think they don’t like them in general if done right.
Let me first reiterate that none of what I wrote was intended as shaming or attacking people who do not like partying.
I understood it and I’m very happy that you avoided calling me simply “no fun”, and instead you wrote a pretty sizeable and detailed comment
It’s nice seeing great people ;)
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I think it’s weird how obsessed with people in general are with germs and dirt. Dirt can’t hurt you and most germs are harmless.
People seem to believe they and the world is inherently dirty and everyone and everything needs to be washed all the time and I just don’t think that’s true.
Unless something is a harmful pathogen or visibly/obviously dirty it’s really not worth worrying about
I bathed in mud (which is a lake most of the time) as a child and got bird fleas from it.
But i also know that playing in dirt as a child is important for the developement of the immune system.
The medic I sat next to the other day literally told me dirt can absolutely hurt you. You can get hanta virus from the dirt you kick up during a walk.
I agree with the spirit but also…
Dirt can’t hurt you and most germs are harmless.
Anthrax strains keeps popping up from dirt getting disturbed. It’s very unlikely, but the point is the dirt isn’t perfectly safe.
