Social & Cultural Taboos

So the one area of NT life I have most issue with, outside of sensitivities & social issues which we often discuss, are Taboos.

So, there exists many things in society that aren't consider 'acceptable'. They are said to be widely accepted as being unacceptable, but no one talks about them, and I suspect nearly everyone takes part in them at some point?

I was wondering what Taboos you have witnessed, that you think need to be said out loud, or that people don't admit but you know goes on?

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Here is a funny list someone made:

Not saying sorry when someone steps on your foot;

Queue jumping, unless it’s at the local casualty department and you’ve been shot or something similarly serious;

Talking to strangers on the tube;

Looking at nude people online even though it isn't meant to be there, except it is, and everyone looks at it;

Wearing colour-co-ordinated clothes (unless they’re all beige) when you’re over seventy;

Laughing at the Queen’s speech on Christmas Day;

Letting your dog pee on your next-door neighbour’s garden;

Peeing on your next-door neighbour’s garden;

Going to church and asking “Where is everyone?”;

Not talking about the weather;

Having a couple of pints in your office lunchbreak - unless you’re with a client;

Asking the librarian which shelf the pornography is on;

Liking Donald Trump;

Supporting Germany at a football tournament that England didn’t qualify for;

Not caring whether we leave the EU or not;

Asking someone the way to the beach in a dodgy foreign accent;

Not appreciating Morecambe and Wise and the Two Ronnies;

Living without a TV;

Selling cups of instant coffee;

Telling anyone from Yorkshire it’s better down south;

Bleeding from the nose in public;

Having sex in a DIY shop (DIY is serious business);

Buying a round of drinks but getting a bag of crisps for yourself;

Farting in the queue at McDonalds;

Telling everyone the Tate Modern is crap;

Eating cake without a cup of tea;

Not caring what happens to the British players at Wimbledon;

Painting ceilings a darker colour than walls;

Admitting you bought a Watchtower from the Jehovah’s Witnesses;

Reading the Big Issue in public;

Driving on the right;

Drinking alcohol before lunchtime;

Offering cigarettes to infants;

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  • In Ireland, you're talked down to - like a Wain - and expected just to respond 'That's Right!'

    Supporting Northern Ireland, in a GAA area, is a major Taboo; even though I once saw a man from Strabane wear a Northern Ireland Shell Suit in Carrickmore; the Republican Capital of Tyrone.

    Not knowing a man someone else knows is also a major Taboo.

    Criticising the Irish News and the Sunday World is also a major no-no in a Culchie area.

    Not listening to Country Music is also Taboo.

    A Catholic - like me - associating with Born-Again Christians - like I do - is also Room 101 stuff.

  • A very geo specific list, but I like it. Many of those are akin to coloquial mutterings that appear down here in the South of England.

    Silence in the presence of other men, so follows a question from the depths of small talk hell; 'so which team do you support?'

    ..I've learned to just say a team, say any team!

    Perish the thought that you MIGHT NOT WATCH OR LIKE FOOTBALL?? Scream

    ...kill me now... Sorry, death is probably a taboo

  • I like Football; but don't watch it. Keep tabs with the scores, online. Stuck out tongue

  • Think you have found a type of sub-cultural taboo there

  • I can't go to a pub when they are watching football there because watching it makes me sleepy, despite the fact that I like to play it, but I'm rubbish in it, I'm not a chaser LOL

    Imagine what would happen to me if I had fallen asleep in a middle of a crowd of drunken fans watching their favourite team? I reckon I would get lynched right there asleep Smiley

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  • I can't go to a pub when they are watching football there because watching it makes me sleepy, despite the fact that I like to play it, but I'm rubbish in it, I'm not a chaser LOL

    Imagine what would happen to me if I had fallen asleep in a middle of a crowd of drunken fans watching their favourite team? I reckon I would get lynched right there asleep Smiley

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