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;

Parents
  • I really enjoyed this list, it amused me. If you managed to have sex in a DIY shop that is quite extraordinary lol! The Donald Trump one made me chuckle too. 

    As for living without a TV, I would add living without a smartphone. I used to do that and I am trying to do it again. Nothing wierds people out in the modern world more than saying you dont have a smartphone. People will say "oh ill add you to the whats app group" and when you say you dont have one they look at you like you say you dont have an inside lavatory. I used to love telling the teenagers I taught that I didnt have a phone. One of them just stared at me and went "what do you do all day?" I just said, I read, I go out in nature, I watch TV. All the things people enjoyed before the i phone was invented.

    Other taboo things include.....

    Not pretending to like Christmas ( I think everyone else is just pretending to be honest, I love the original meaning but dont see the point of any of what it is now)

    Not using social media

    Liking so called "girly" movies if your a guy. I love Mean Girls for instance and Im not afraid to say so

    Supporting other countries instead of England at sports

    Liking politically incorrect humour and comedies

    Wanting to be with your family rather than "going out for the night"

    Not liking the summer and loving the winter

    Being a communist 

  • I would love to get rid of my phone, but in the end rely too much on it for my job

    You are my hero

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