June 10, 2011

How Come? Social Norms That Baffle Me

How comeif you read the newspaper before you go to work in the morning, you will be considered enlightened, well-read, up-to-date and well-informed, but if you spend half an hour reading the internet in the morning you will be considered weird?

How come if you walk down the street whistling, you
'll be considered a happy-go-lucky type with not a care in the world, but if you walk down the street humming, or even worse, singing, everyone would think you've just escaped from somewhere?

I
'm sure I have some more of these. But my ageing memory has put a stop to them being reproduced here. More soon

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