What do you find weird in everyday life?

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To clarify, what is something that is somewhat weird but common enough to spot moderately throughout the day? For me, it's people who wear their pants sagging down. I can't seem to put my finger on why they do that, or what makes it so cool. I guess some people like showing their boxers/undies/etc. in public...
 
People putting 100K+ deposit's on properties they dont have finance backing for then complaining to anyone who will listen when they lose it all and have to live with there in laws, Eh eh eh eh
 
No sag, no swag. :sly:

Sorry, this is coming from the mouth of a soon to graduate highschool student. Truth be told, I sag as well. But it's mostly for the... uuhhh... well... style. Mostly because it's kind of "awkward" to wear your pants all the way up to your waist line, as some might consider.
 
^Not really as long as your shirt is long enough.

I find fortune cookies weird. Cause they can be right, as shown by one of my friends.
 
Weird to me is that people usually waste a lot of breath to be negative, but are generally very sparing in their words on being genuinely positive.

illuminationx
Sorry, this is coming from the mouth of a soon to graduate highschool student. Truth be told, I sag as well. But it's mostly for the... uuhhh... well... style.
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Don't panic, because those of us above the age of 25 just think you're fashion victims, but since trendy people are actually very good for the economy, due to their wayward and ceaseless habits towards conspicuous consumption, I applaud you for keeping America as potentially awesome as it is, economically.
 
I find it weird how often people believe old wives' tales.

"Mountain Dew makes your balls shrink"
"Caffeine stunts your growth"
"Hair genes come from your mom's side of the family"

So many statements that are completely false, but believed because somebody "saw it on the news", or "my science teacher said it".
 
Noob616
So many statements that are completely false, but believed because somebody "saw it on the news", or "my science teacher said it".
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Don't forget "I read it on Wikipedia."

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I find it weird that we're getting a lot of bleed-over from from the What Grinds your Gears? thread.
 
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^Not really as long as your shirt is long enough.

I find fortune cookies weird. Cause they can be right, as shown by one of my friends.
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My cousin opened a fortune cookie and it said "I hate my job" LOL and some kid I know punched himself in the nose in the middle of a Spanish test in my Spanish class to get a bloody nose and get out of the test. He succeeded. :D he did it today
 
What I find wierd is how people assume that because you're on public transport, you don't have to show respect for anyone else on board.
 
Tesla
What I find wierd is how people assume that because you're on public transport, you don't have to show respect for anyone else on board.
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This is so true, I was on the train today going towards Uni, and this lady forced her way past me, at the same stop I was getting off... 👎 So Ladylike.
 
When I was studying, I found it useful to carry a guitar on the train. Just to keep people from breathing down your neck in line.

Most pants nowadays are too ridiculously tight in the crotch. I have no idea why people consider low sperm counts and chafed genitalia (both sexes) sexy. I like my pants baggy.

What I find weird is that we have a 12 tone melodic scale, labelled alphabetically for ease of use, yet the two most common musical instruments, the guitar and the piano, start on "E" and "C" respectively.
 
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How spiders make webs, in particular large ones that extend between large objects in mid-air. Are their webs really stiff enough to support the spider while they're making this leap of faith? Also how the sunlight is a different colour from morning to afternoon, I can only guess it has something to do with heating the atmosphere causing the light to refract in a different way but could be way off.
 
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How spiders make webs, in particular large ones that extend between large objects in mid-air. Are their webs really stiff enough to support the spider while they're making this leap of faith? Also how the sunlight is a different colour from morning to afternoon, I can only guess it has something to do with heating the atmosphere causing the light to refract in a different way but could be way off.
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Close, it has to do at the angle in which you are seeing the light pass through the atmosphere. The heating affects the ammount of water and other gases in lower layers of the atmosphere. At higher altitudes they look similar.
 
Spider silk is tough stuff. Incredibly tough. The miniscule weight of the spider is no problem for the typical thread.

We have local spiders (big ones) that are something of a pest. They make webs out of really thick, yellow spider silk, and the webs are sometimes so dense that they can hold up small branches.

One particularly enterprising (or stupid) spider spun a web between a tree and a telephone pole some twenty or thirty meters apart, about three stories off the ground. Obviously, this is so high that when the spider drops down at midpoint to find a third anchor point, it will be too far away. So the spider kept going back and forth and back and forth between the two, spinning more and more web until it had a strand as thick as a thread of yarn. A couple of maintenance people tried to cut it down with a machete tied to a long pole, but the silk was so strong that the machete simply bounced off of it. Took about half an hour of trying before they were finally able to cut it.

Sunlight is reddish or orange at sunrise and sunset because it has more atmosphere to travel through. The atmosphere scatters the blue light, leaving nothing but the reddish light to hit the ground.
 
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I gotta ask, how did the spider make the journey 20 to 30 metres apart? Did it fly or something between the two?
 
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What I find weird in everyday life? I don't know where to start. Cats. They have no clue of what they want to do, what they can't do, or what they should do. That's just one thing I find weird in life.
 
VANDENAL
What I find weird in everyday life? I don't know where to start. Cats. They have no clue of what they want to do, what they can't do, or what they should do. That's just one thing I find weird in life.
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Yes but at least cats get on with it themselves. Unlike the vast majority of dogs, which are totally pointless, messy and irritating. What I find wierd is why anybody would keep a dog as a pet at all.
 
You obviously haven't met my cat MatskiMonk. My cat is 100 percent certified lazy. What is also weird is how people treat animals better than they treat other people.
 
There is so much weird stuff goin on in Berlin. Can't really point one out.

But the moments where you stand in an elevator with, maybe one or two people and there is nothing but silence, thats weird. No eye contact and if so, they emmediatly focus on the wall/floor/roof.
Or they do something on there phone. Fake of course. Just to look busy....

I hate those weird situations in there. Sometimes I start some stupid small talk, just to interupt this awkward situation in there....:D
 
VANDENAL
What is also weird is how people treat animals better than they treat other people.
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A cat has never bottled me, stabbed me or tried to beat me to pulp. People have. I did get scratched by a few of my cats but I think I provoked them.
 
What I find weird is that people don't get that other's have different tastes.
I have a 3 large dogs and a cat, and guess what, I love all of them.
Stop arguing like a bunch of stupid children and get over it.
And yes, the guy with the 2 cartoon ponies in his avatar just told you to stop acting like children.


Anyway, the reason I came to this thread was actually to say that I find it weird that people seem to be afraid to go even the slightest bit over the white line at an intersection.
I know it's illegal, but 99% of the time if it's within reason cops will let you go for it. Especially if it's because you wanted to make a right at a red and you had to pull forward to see past the car to your left.
 
MintBerryCrunch
What I find weird is that people don't get that other's have different tastes.
I have a 3 large dogs and a cat, and guess what, I love all of them.
Stop arguing like a bunch of stupid children and get over it.
And yes, the guy with the 2 cartoon ponies in his avatar just told you to stop acting like children.


Anyway, the reason I came to this thread was actually to say that I find it weird that people seem to be afraid to go even the slightest bit over the white line at an intersection.
I know it's illegal, but 99% of the time if it's within reason cops will let you go for it. Especially if it's because you wanted to make a right at a red and you had to pull forward to see past the car to your left.
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Can't say I've ever heard of someone being ticketed for being over the line, so long as you're not blocking traffic it really doesn't matter.

I find people who can stand to use public transit weird, honestly I would need a latex suit and a snorkel with a hole in the roof of the bus, and I would still feel really, really uncomfortable. When someone asks me why I drive into the city every day and don't take a bus I honestly convulse and my skin crawls like there's 1,000,000 inchworms under my skin, I even nearly threw up once.

It's not germs really though.. I live in the country and I roll around in filth with my puppies, horses, cows, anything, it's fine. Maybe I'm just the weird one.
 
MintBerryCrunch
What I find weird is that people don't get that other's have different tastes.
I have a 3 large dogs and a cat, and guess what, I love all of them.
Stop arguing like a bunch of stupid children and get over it.
And yes, the guy with the 2 cartoon ponies in his avatar just told you to stop acting like children.


Anyway, the reason I came to this thread was actually to say that I find it weird that people seem to be afraid to go even the slightest bit over the white line at an intersection.

I know it's illegal, but 99% of the time if it's within reason cops will let you go for it. Especially if it's because you wanted to make a right at a red and you had to pull forward to see past the car to your left.
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I wasn't arguing with anybody, I was just clearly stating my opinion. I find it weird that people seem to never really be able to interpret the meaning of ones words. I wasn't saying "YOU KNOW CATS ARE TERRIBLE." I was just stating why I thought they were weird.

And the white line at the intersection point you made, that is weird. Kind of like if a police officer is going 20 km/h under the speed limit no one passes him, cause of some fear or something. It's legal to pass when there is a single dotted line people, and the speed limit is 80 km/h, just because policeman eating his donut is going 60 km/h doesn't mean you need to hold people up. That's weird as well.
 
^I wasn't necessarily talking to you. What you said I actually agree with, cat's really have no clue what in the hell they want to do. Especially not mine, he stands at the door waiting to get in, but the moment it opens he takes off across the yard, and then comes back when you close it. So that I agree with.

What I said was more directed at MatskiMonk and other's like him.
 
I find the entire human psyche weird. Everything from the most basic to most complex. People are weird.



Or maybe in some bruce willis sixth sense style twist, maybe Im the one thats weird.
 

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