25 Strange Habits, Customs, And Behaviors That Society Accepts As Normal

In Japan and South Korea, it is normal for businessmen to pass out drunk all over the city. People just walk around them.

In the United States, bathrooms stalls have an enormous gap between the wall and the door

There’s going to be a lot of angry teenagers in a few years. Mom, seriously? You put photos of my potty training online?

Why does it need to know that?

It leads to some of the most obvious scams and questionable business practices most of us are ever exposed to, but when your friend gets sucked in all you can think is “there goes another one”

They’re just normal people with problems like the rest of us.

We suck the blood out of the cadaver and seal up the body cavities so that people can stare at the corpse.

These days even the cashier will ask you for your phone number and email address.

Yea, this doesn’t really need to be explained.

Primarily in the United States, it’s ok to put older people in a retirement home and never visit them. Yes, we know, not everyone does this. The point of this list is that if you do happen to do it, it is considered acceptable.

Yes, we know the good intentions and possible benefits. But sometimes it just gets out of control.

Imagine if that was your picture on some of those memes. It might (not) be as funny.

In the same vain as memes, we are really comfortable just posting pictures of strangers (“Saw this old guy eating alone”)

While most people probably don’t explicitly support this, we do tend to implicitly accept it.

Genuine human connection is great, but the fake smiles, fake compliments, and psychopathic character that is so prevalent at networking events is a bit…interesting.

In many parts of the world this is a disappearing but still common thing. For most of your life the adults around you will tell you to completely steer clear of the opposite sex, and then one day they want you to spend the rest of your life with some random guy who’s photo your aunt liked.

It’s legal stalking

We keep them as living decorations

It’s ok to spend hours everyday watching or listening to presentations that have been scientifically designed to manipulate you. We even like it.

We put kids in jail for a decade because they had a little marijuana but bankers and politicians crash the entire world economy and get a little smack on the wrist.

We slam our hands together repeatedly to show approval.

Little kids dress up and go from house to house asking for candy. And they threaten the owner if no candy is provided (“trick or treat!”)

So…he pardons one turkey and then we eat the other 5 million.

You sit on a strange old man’s lap and tell him your deepest secret while your parents take pictures.

It actually makes us less social.