Like how we all face the door in an elevator or feel the need to say ‘ope’ when we almost bump into someone. What’s a silent rule of society that you find hilarious or totally unnecessary?
No one alive today agreed to Daylight Saving Time.
It has been introduced in my country during the early 80s, so I have to disagree on that one.
That’s just about 40 years ago, so pretty sure there are still people left who agreed to it.Yeah, I was over-simplifying to make my statement more dramatic and semi-funny, because so many people hate the clock-switching.
It’s complicated. DST is mostly observed in North America, Europe, and part of Australia, and mostly since pre- or during WWII, BUT yes there are a few countries that started later. There are also some original ones that stopped observing it and then started again later. Also, some of the people still alive from when it started would have been too young to be able to agree to it.
So I’ll amend my statement to “The vast majority of people alive today didn’t agree to DST”. Doesn’t have the same punch.
l agree that it’s complicated.
The DST in the early 80s actually was the 3rd time people introduced it here, one of the predecessors of our current state even being the first country to ever use it in its current form during WWI.
In BC Canada we are now on permanent Daylight Savings time woohoo!
something something spraying monkeys with cold water
Neurodivergent peeps in this thread: 👀
Thats most of lemmy lol
LMAO “most”
Order of Adjectives. You do this unconsciously and don’t even know you’re doing it.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/adjectives-order
“The big black house up on the hill.”
Never “The black big up on the hill house.”
1 - opinion - unusual, lovely, beautiful
2 - size - big, small, tall
3 - physical quality - thin, rough, untidy
4 - shape - round, square, rectangular
5 - age - young, old, youthful
6 - colour - blue, red, pink
7 - origin - Dutch, Japanese, Turkish
8 - material - metal, wood, plastic
9 - type - general-purpose, four-sided, U-shaped
10 - purpose - cleaning, hammering, cookingThat’s a language rule, tho
One could argue language rules are social rules tho
Yup, if you mix up the adjective order, people will look at you like you’re an alien.
“Your leader, to him take me!”
My favorite one of these unconscious linguistic rules is expletive infixation. We say “fan-fucking-tastic” but “fanta-fucking-stic” sounds completely wrong.
a Fanta-fucking stick is a completely different thing
‘How are you today?”
“Good, you?”
“Good, thanks.”
Aw hell no. I trauma dump on everyone who asks me “How are you?”
Okay everyone avoid Jenna.
No matter how many times I remind myself that this is performative NT dishonesty, I cannot make myself lie. If you ask a question, you should expect an honest answer. You will never convince me that it’s the “neurotypicals” who aren’t psychologically unwell.
UK version (male)- any deviation, even with your best friend/dad is a capital offence.
-Alright?
-Not bad, you?
-Yeah not bad.
Or the office version
- Alright?
- uhu
- mm
I usually give an “eh I’m doing okay” since that gives a chance if they actually wanted to know what’s up.
“great!”
feel the need to say ‘ope’ when we almost bump into someone
Found the midwesterner?
Showing respect to or emulating rich people.
Like how we all face the door in an elevator or feel the need to say ‘ope’ when we almost bump into someone. What’s a silent rule of society that you find hilarious or totally unnecessary?
I look in the mirror when there is one.
And when i bump into someone i go “SORRY IM SORRY IM SO SORRY IM SORRY AREYOUOKAY”
Like how we all face the door in an elevator
That’s only a movie thing so that the camera can see the actors. People don’t do it in real life (at least not around here).
You face the wall?
The door is a wall too.
Some elevators have doors on opposite sides (e.g. this is common in places with a car park entrance)
When they’re alone or with other people? If I’m alone, I’m facing forward.
I personally really enjoy facing the back of an elevator especially if it’s crowded. And then I start talking to everybody and asking them various sorts of questions. Often asking them to give a speech during the meeting that I impromptly called. It’s wonderful to see how nervous people get.
Don’t live for a system that’s evil.
Yes.
cool I don’t do any of that stuff on account of im retarded
Not being able to have a video call in public b**** how is it any different than having a conversation with someone
Because typically they have the volume 2-3x louder.
With worse audio quality, the shitty metallic sounds often really rub me the wrong way.
Because people on video chat (or often on the phone in general) are usually not displaying good situational awareness.
Not discussing pay rate with coworkers/colleagues. I mean, talk about complicity via fear.
Not discussing pay rate with coworkers/colleagues. I
My day job is Union. Everyone’s rates are well-published. We have less boring things to talk about.
Might be true for non-union gigs, but from my experience in union shops nobody cares because everyone can see what the pay rates are. Same with retirement plans.
I feel like anyone who isn’t heavily involved in left wing internet spaces understands why you don’t want to discuss pay with coworkers.
Someone fears their coworkers will find out they are making less, and will think they are less skilled, or maybe a pushover.
Or someone fears their coworkers will find out they are making more, and will fear their coworkers think they were manipulative in order to get it, think they are egotistical for sharing, or may become envious.
And then pay discrepencies invite unwanted feelings about “do I actually deserve to make more than him - I don’t think I’m worth it” or “I make so much less rhan her, I must suck at my job.”
Not discussing pay is a convenient way to sweep all this under the rug
That benefits bosses and deprives workers from knowing how much their labor is worth.
That’s my point. Unless you are an online leftist, you probably aren’t constantly analyzing the world in terms of bosses exploiting their workers. You are far more concerned about your social standing among your peers.
Sort of? I’m a team lead (middle management) so I have a vested interest in seeing my team is paid as high as possible. As part of goal planning we have frank discussions of certifications, training AND salary. That includes discussing where I’m at and what it took to get there. Its pushed folks who otherwise would be content with what the company gives them and gives them a roadmap to move up.
Wow you’re the exact opposite of my experience of middle management! Which is: never discuss salary, don’t encourage certification or training, do not explain how you got there, do not give employees a roadmap, just pile on the work and stoke fear.
Sounds like par for the course in the US. 🤌🏼
I remember being a kid and hearing about a family member’s workplace instituting a rule against discussing pay after some people got upset they were making less than their coworkers and started advocating for higher pay.
Neither I nor anyone in my immediate family was a leftist, but it seemed really obvious the primary reason for the rule was that management didn’t want people to have reasons to demand higher pay.
True!
Socrates would say, and I would agree, that by following the rule we have already agreed to it.
Chomsky would disagree with manufacturing consent.
Chomsky can eat a dick for the company he keeps
Chomsky thinks that the west shouldn’t send aid to Unkraine to fight Putin’s fascist Russia. Noam can go punch sand
And Socrates believed in slavery. There’s a problem with expecting a purity from your philosophers.
don’t forget that Ghandi was a Chomo.
There’s a difference between a philosopher having caused harm in the past vs them causing harm now
That’s definitely debatable, depending which philosopher you asked.
and he was on the Epstein plane.
Chomsky is the reason we have LLMs.
I mean if you follow under threat you haven’t consented to any meaningful degree.
Pretty hard to put threat of force behind an unspoken rule.
I mean just ask people who have been socially rejected/ isolated for breaking those rules. There’s definitely a threat
There is a wiiiiide stretch of sky between “do this or I’ll hurt you” and “I don’t want to be around someone who acts unsocialized”.
They didn’t say anything about force.
Hands clasped behind the back means, “just looking”. Seems pretty universal. People do this in stores all the time.
Honestly I do this because I like to fidget and I’m afraid I’ll reach out to grab something I’m not supposed to.
It helps you balance when you’re leaning forward to look at something.
I think it also conveys a signal of “I’m not going to try to touch that” which might put others at ease. It’s also a good “idle pose” that doesn’t convey disinterest like crossed arms or hands in pockets does.
This is my typical art museum pose, so I can get close without touching or falling into the paintings
I do it because it relieves pressure on my back
This was always just old man walk to me but I never thought about why old guys all seemed to do it
I did this during the entire training day of one of my first jobs, and at the end my boss asked me if I’d ever been in the ROTC. I said no, having no clue what it was, until I looked it up later at home.
The job was BOH at a pizza joint 🫠
