Friday OT #2 - But Why?

[carvers4math]

One of my nieces had a destination bachelorette party that cost more than our wedding, even accounting for inflation.

 

[Clonefan32]

One of my nieces had a destination bachelorette party that cost more than our wedding, even accounting for inflation.

The bachelor/bachlorette party experience has gotten out of control. I have a co-worker who had a son in one month wind up in Napa, New Orleans and Scottsdale.

 

[VeloClone]

The destination wedding part got me thinking about another one.

My wife recently go invited to a wedding shower for someone who was getting married for a second time. My wife thought I was crazy but I'm firmly of the belief you get one wedding shower per lifetime. Just because your first marriage failed doesn't mean you deserve a new KitchenAid mixer.

I tend to agree with this across all of the wedding stuff, however my second was my wife's first. So we did all of the wedding stuff.

 

[CloneFan65]

Percentages. We still use them today because the Romans didn't have a way to represent decimals or fractions, and some guy in a toga decided we should represent everything out of 100.

 

[pourcyne]

Free the nipple!

Not free. Sixty bucks.

 

[pourcyne]

Dark beverages.

If water that comes from the tap the color of cola or coffee, we are (quite naturally) repulsed.

 

[VeloClone]

Dark beverages.

If water that comes from the tap the color of cola or coffee, we are (quite naturally) repulsed.

Don't be afraid of the dark...

 

[dosry5]

Tipping

 

[cycloneG]

Drinking milk. Why are grown adults consuming food meant for baby cows?

 

[Rabbuk]

Not publicly shaming people who need to be publicly shamed.

 

[MeanDean]

Plastic siding that MUST look like wooden lap siding.

Even I think it looks better than anything else, but it still just seems weird that we never came up with something else that society thought looked good on a house.

Expanding on that - In general, anything that is fake and made to look like something else. Plastic woodgrain on your station wagon for example; nobody beyond the age of 5 thinks it's a 1940's woody.

 

[Prone2Clone]

Birthdays. If you're past some meaningful milestone birthday that actually impacts your life like getting a driver's license or lower insurance rates, who gives a flip?

 

[carvers4math]

The bachelor/bachlorette party experience has gotten out of control. I have a co-worker who had a son in one month wind up in Napa, New Orleans and Scottsdale.

They have multiple ones with different friend groups. Kind of crazy

 

[carvers4math]

Drinking milk. Why are grown adults consuming food meant for baby cows?

Hoping not to get osteoporosis with multiple pregnancies and being post menopausal

 

[KnappShack]

Hoping not to get osteoporosis with multiple pregnancies and being post menopausal

Milk is a bit of a rabbit hole.

But when I am weight training I crave milk.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Christmas trees are weird when you think about it.

Also, vegan food proclaiming to taste like the food that they are trying to save.

 

[CascadeClone]

Lots of better calcium sources available! Plus, milk is gross.

Milk is delish. I dont drink it often, but like it. DIL drinks a couple gallons a week, which is crazy because shes a tiny little thing.

 

[cycloneG]

Milk is delish. I dont drink it often, but like it. DIL drinks a couple gallons a week, which is crazy because shes a tiny little thing.

 

[Donqluione]

English measurements instead of metric.

Base 10 everything is way simpler than 32 and 212 degrees for water freezing boiling, 16 oz is a quart, 5280 feet is a mile (allegedly, almost no real life mile is) etc etc etc

 

[NWICY]

One of my nieces had a destination bachelorette party that cost more than our wedding, even accounting for inflation.

Was it fun?