What are things that confuse you?

[VibrantFox]

humans...

[sorible]

life‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏

[DasIstWunderblyat]

Is that screeching noise coming from a furry goblin or from a crotch goblin?
(I read somewhere that cats mimic infants noise. I often surprised how a cat can sound like a baby, or noises I thought are cats are from a baby).

[SpavVy]

The Kardashians and most of Australia's wildlife.

[Sailor]

Schrödinger's cat

I pretty sure- No. ONE. Can!

[Oto_Kouda]

How some red lights last two seconds while others last two years

[hockeywebcomics]

Loving relationships.

[chestnutriceeee]

So, I once read about this experiment about some NLP or something. They told random people that they will touch their hands with with a hot iron rod while they are blindfolded. The people were blind folded, the experimenters played some heating sound or something and made the area hot. And then, they touched the people with a cold rod instead.

Guess what? Most of those guys got burn marks! Like what? Why? Wtf happened there?!

[hockeywebcomics]

Probably it's a traffic thing according to how busy some streets and crossroads are.
But it pisses me off too.

[Stargazer31]

Pick Up Artists
Why do they think that harassing women will make them more attractive?

[fleurravenbooks]

heyy im not medical professional, but it doesn't really know, painkiller is being sent to pretty much every part of your body, but works only on inflamated one, so nerves will pick it up and numb pain.
There is probably "smarter" answer but oh well

[fleurravenbooks]

The whole "not like other girls" , like pretty much everyone was one at some point ( congrats if you weren't) but we were like 12 or 13. I see young adult women (17 and up) doing that.... like no one cares if you don't do make up, no one cares how many people you were with ( they usually shame both sides of the spectrum), etc.

[thecrystalrook]

things that definitely didn't happen lol

[ricardoaltuna]

English. Like, I know how to speak it but when you sit to think about it there's so many things about this language that doesn't make sense... But I guess is the same in spanish (my native language) and any other language.

[DesiredUsernameTaken]

GRASS.

Why in the everliving world does anyone have grass in their yards? Cows and horses and goats aren't using it to graze. It requires a bunch of water. Everyone also cuts their grass super short, so it's not even nice, long flowing grass you can frolic in since the reality is that attracts ticks--but that means it's just stub grass. And to keep it stub grass you have to maintain it with noisy devices. You can't even roll around in the grass like a kid without the stubs poking and stabbing you everywhere and making you itchy. Why do people have it? Why? I don't get it.

Cover the yard in chips and plant a bunch of green bushes that bees will like or something. Grass has uses in the world but it does not belong in people's yards.

[Scarlet_Cryptid]

I know this one!

Lawns used to be a status symbol! Beginning as far back as the 16th century in France and England, the very wealthy would show off how wealthy they were by maintaining huge areas of their land covered by useless grass that wasn't being used for grazing, nor were the patches covered with lawn being used for food production or other such 'normal person' concerns. And it cost a lot of time, money, and manpower to maintain those useless stretches of grass, so that was another way to flaunt wealth.

And of course everyone started trying to emulate the rich folks...

[Sailor]

I think the whole "I'm not like other girls" thing is to help the individual find something that is unique about themselves. They're trying to get attention because no one really bothered to care about them before. I went through this phase when I about 8-10. And honestly just wanted people to treat me like I'm special- Not some random girl you can find anywhere. They want to be considered "cool and popular"- so why not just let them find out on their own that it's not going to work.

But it can be different for everyone.

[Tailzkip]

I am confusion!....Why is this one Kansas, but this one is not Arkansas?! America, explain!!

[thecrystalrook]

[DesiredUsernameTaken]

And of course everyone started trying to emulate the rich folks...

Some of the worst norms start out this way, don't they >_________>.

Thank you though! I guess the question is, why has it stuck for so long, especially when most wouldn't know of the history behind grass...

@thecrystalrook

I think the whole "I'm not like other girls" thing is to help the individual find something that is unique about themselves. They're trying to get attention because no one really bothered to care about them before.

Yes. I never went through this phase when I was a kid, but I only think that's owed to my odd circumstances. Had I been exposed to society earlier, I likely would have been a "Not like other girls" kid, too. I still had a version of it, which was more broad. "I'm not like other people".

From what I've observed, the behavior is one that's guaranteed to happen because of how much 1) society hates teenagers, and especially girls. Literally everything girls do is "annoying" or "girl drama" or "childish", but when a boy does it, it can be charming or funny (This is not to say boys "have it easier". Both genders have it insanely hard in very different ways), and then 2) how much society values "being unique". They want special stand-out people. They want everyone to be creative enough to still be within their confining box but at the border between acceptable and way-too-out-there. So society tells everyone, "Be unique, because being normal is boring!", then mocks girls for trying.