What are some of the more silly social norms in your opinion?

[bigpauly]

[PrettyPriya]

Being tall. That is pretty normal, for most people. It is also easier to be social at a higher altitude. Just easier to look someone in the eyes when you are speaking to them. I guess combine those two points and you get social norm.

Just ask @blackcupcake @msputiton @emiliamazing or @Agape93 what is like to be a normal height. Makes life so much easier. I know it may sound silly to you, but it really isn't all that silly to the rest of us normal sized people.

You fun-sized folks should really join the rest of us up here. It will really help out with other social norms like being able to put something on the top shelf of the refrigerator or hold a glass without it looking like a bucket.

So, not so much silly social norm but just a "norm". Again, that is for the vast majority of us. You munchkins might consider this outside a social norm since you are flying at a lower altitude than the rest of us.

Hope you had a good weekend, and that it was worth taking off from here. You misused your break that I give you. Welcome back and Happy Monday!

[Agape93]

XD lol

[bigpauly]

If I had a choice to join the lot of you giants up there I would.

[Agape93]

Who knows, maybe you'll grow into it one day (hey babe, buy some doll clothes for when he does finally grow)

[bigpauly]

@Agape93 lmao I’m done growing and I’m too big for doll clothes 😒

[PrettyPriya]

@Agape93 but he is so cute fun-sized. I can just see a little girl clinging onto him like he was her favourite stuffed animal. Hahaha.

[bigpauly]

😒 F my life

[Agape93]

Awwwwww of course you are honey! Barbie clothes then

[Blackcupcake]

lmfao… yep sadly, I can’t relate to not being able to look someone in the eyes

[bigpauly]

@Agape93 😂 I’m not that small!

@blackcupcake lol why would that be sad?

[PrettyPriya]

I think we need to make the politically correct term "fun-sized" because this is hella fun.

[Agape93]

Awwww lol

[Msputiton]

I'm not a normal height. My height makes me miserable everyday, i am bullied for it.

9'10 is such a hard height to be😭

[Emiliamazing]

@bigpauly
I had a girls night out this past weekend. Some thing that really helps, even though I'm considered slightly short, is finding a restaurant that has high top tables and barstools. It makes it much easier to look over the crowd, and I feel like it's a safer environment. I can't imagine what it is like having people constantly look down on you. Thank goodness for tall tables!

[bigpauly]

@Msputiton aww there there
*pats the back of your shin

[PrettyPriya]

@emiliamazing How is he supposed to get up there?

[bigpauly]

@Emiliamazing 😂 but then I have to climb the stool like I’m preparing for Everest

[Emiliamazing]

I am having our middle child work on a slingshot idea, something that could propel him to great heights!

[PrettyPriya]

@Emiliamazing Not hard to work that out. A standard rubber band from the junk drawer should get the job done.

[Emiliamazing]

@PrettyPriya @bigpauly
I know it could be simple, but I really want him to challenge himself :-) I have contacted his mommy and aunties to get some basic size and weight information!

[Emiliamazing]

@blackcupcake
@msputiton
Any thoughts on a nice slingshot for Pauly?

[PrettyPriya]

@Emiliamazing I am thinking you should use those little baby bouncy chairs that are on wheels as a base for the idea. Just turbocharge the springs so he can rocket himself out of it to grab things from the bottom shelf at the store.

[Emiliamazing]

That is an excellent idea. We can make it portable by carrying around a long pole that is forked at the end! I think my son was really looking forward to getting some gears and a crank involved though.

[PrettyPriya]

@Emiliamazing Expanding on that gears and crank. Perhaps that could be mounted to the side so he could crank the springs tight for launch.

[Emiliamazing]

@PrettyPriya
My thoughts exactly! Although it would be fun to really make it complicated and have it be cranked from behind the slingshot, that way Pauly would have no idea who might be sending him up in the air!

[PrettyPriya]

@Emiliamazing Some sort of aiming mechanism as well should be fitted. You don't want him flying up into your shins.

[Emiliamazing]

@PrettyPriya Good thinking! Perhaps a crank on each side that would stretch the springs to different tensions, thereby aiming him?

[PrettyPriya]

@Emiliamazing we could repurpose the colander helmet from his superhero costume for testing and safety. There are bound to be some mishaps.

[Msputiton]

Sadly no ideas how to help him🤔

[Emiliamazing]

@PrettyPriya that is where the rubber band could come in to play, attaching it to the colander as a sort of chinstrap.

[PrettyPriya]

@Emiliamazing seems like @bigpauly has abandoned his post again. I hereby proclaim this @msputiton’s question.

[Emiliamazing]

@ I agree. It should go to next of kin or his caretaker.

[PrettyPriya]

@Emiliamazing or babysitter 🙂

[Msputiton]

Yay i get another one of his questions 😈

[bigpauly]

@PrettyPriya stop trying to give my posts away, you’re abusing your power!

[PrettyPriya]

@bigpauly Sorry, too late. I have already given it to her. We need better mods around here, don't we? 😕😂

[bigpauly]

@PrettyPriya well at least we can agree on that 😒😂

[Msputiton]

@bigpauly 😡😡😡excuse prettypriya and blackcupcake are amazing mods

[bigpauly]

@Msputiton @PrettyPriya abuses her power

[Msputiton]

Does not you abuse us😭

[AddylynnNightingale]

Having to wait until everyone gets their food served before you can eat. The food is getting colder...

That you are succesful or happy when you're in a relationship. The moment they hear you're single they act all shocked and surprised like you should be ashamed of being single.

Birthdays are supposed to be celebrated, big parties, restaurants, ... I don't like that. I would rather spend it on my own or with a handful of people close to me. People also feel the need to gift things. Not needed.

[bigpauly]

Great list!

[AddylynnNightingale]

Thank you.

[sirderpsalot123]

I'll put my elbows on the table, if I feel like putting my elbows on the table...

[PrettyPriya]

MHO... I have Superb Opinion wrapped up.

[sirderpsalot123]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[bigpauly]

Never understood why that was considered rude either

[PrettyPriya]

Don't be mad Pauly that your elbows can't get on the table.

[bigpauly]

@PrettyPriya 🙄

[Emiliamazing]

I find it silly, but my husband does not, that men open the doors for the ladies. He tries very hard to do that for me, even if I should be the one opening the door for him if we are carrying in groceries, or back in the day when our children were infants. Silly man!

[bigpauly]

Lol yea I just open it or hold it if someone is close by. Gender has no bearing on it

[Msputiton]

I think the having to choose your sexual orientation is silly because a lot of people are miserable because of it.

I think people would be a lot happier if they didn't have to worry about does this make me gay, straight or bi.

Just do i find this person attractive or not

[bigpauly]

Interesting. Those labels sort of make people box themselves in

[Emiliamazing]

Totally agree!

[Msputiton]

Yes.
I mean it really seems like something society put in place to kinda try to contol people.

"You must be straight, gay or bi. And if you're not straight there is something mentally wrong with you"

I mean pretty suspicious that they push that narrative for so long. And how many men especially get upset when they find out they find a transgender attractive because they are supposedly "straight"

@emiliamazing i don't use them.

[LilyByte]

agree

[Emiliamazing]

@msputiton and then it contributes to political divisiveness, which drives me insane! One side has to pick a particular party based on their orientation. I call bullshit.

[Msputiton]

@LilyByte 🥰👍🏽

[Msputiton]

@Emiliamazing agree. Most of society norms were created to control us without admitting it. And politicians are using it to their advantage

[ShellyB]

I think it is funny that if you are at a restaurant with somebody and one person's food comes first, either they have to ask or the other person has to bring up "go ahead and eat, don't wait for me!" And then some people wait anyway despite that!

[bigpauly]

Yea I guess you could each eat and talk whenever your food is there

[ShellyB]

Also exactly what we do is different depending on who I am eating with. If it is my family, my parents will wait if their food comes out first but I do not wait if my food comes out first. If it is my friends, we do not wait and we steal food from each other without asking anyway so we all start eating at the same time anyway!! If it is my fiance, he will wait for me (and I steal food from him if he has something I want) I do not wait for him. Hmm maybe I am selfish!!