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”
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 🫠
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.
Having to sell our labor for a fraction of the profit and being outcast if you want to opt out.
Coupling healthcare to employment.
Forcing the majority of retirement savings to be tied up in the stock market and killing company sponsored pensions.
Those aren’t social rules and 2 of the 3 are about as regional as OP’s “ope”.
Coupling healthcare to employment.
Outside of America, this is seen as absurd.
How is an economic system not a social rule? Where does one end and the other begin?
One is economic, the other is social? Idk, those are two different things in my mind.
I miss the days of stopping at a yellow light to let the person turning left go.
I haven’t driven in 4 years, and this has given me road rage on my couch.
“Ope! Lemme just scooootch on by ya!”
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 wonder if there is natural instinct to not have your back to the only opening in any space… which then leads to the question of how can you discern a ‘silent social contract’ from instinct? is there even a difference?
Yeah, because people are fine to face sideways in an elevator, toward the center, I’d say much more likely the more people enter, especially if you’re occupying a front corner.
Plus, if you’re last in, it’s not uncommon to face backward if it’s tight. It’s more polite than jostling to turn around, so maybe it’s best to face the center?
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.
Not sure I agree with your appreciation of the elevator. I don’t know where you are (I’ve never heard “ope” either) but at least in Australia not everyone faces the door in an elevator. I’ll copy my own comment left below to someone else:
…you are in an elevator for a very short time, unlike with public transport for example. You might as well be facing the direction you need to go to, so that when the doors open, you go, instead of having to turn and then go.
Second… I regularly take crowded elevators and while it’s true that almost nobody stands facing back to the door, it’s also true that easily half the people choose to stand sideways, facing the side walls. (Which btw makes someone with a pram or wheelchair easier to get into the elevator). It’s a mix of being ready to go and being able to rest your back against the walls of the elevator more than an unspoken social convention.
in Australia not everyone faces the door in an elevator.
In NYC it’s illegal not to. It’s a fun law.
Don’t live for a system that’s evil.
