I will treat this topic as a "the aliens have landed and you have to explain things that human do, to them" challenge:
Dancing. I have a sense of rhythm, can move etc, but dancing, as a thing, is just bizarre to me. In every sense. Not only do we treat the activity of moving and shoving your body as a "thing", even as an art or job, but we also got so far into this rabbit hole that we can tell whether someone shoves and bends their body more professionally than others. People used to say Michael Jackson was a great dancer. The man was pirouetting about in strange motion prancing with his lower limbs while making weird hiccup noises and holding his crotch, we all agreed it among ourselves in society that it was some sort of grand cultural achievement, but I have a feeling that if any of us, mere mortals tried to pirouette about while prancing with limbs, making hiccup noises and holding your crotch in any other social arrangement, it wouldn't end well? In similar fashion, you're on a date, you talk, you laugh, she says "oh, it's my favourite song, we must dance!". But why? How could us standing up and then repeatedly shaking our bodies and waving with appendages possibly help our romantic attachment? It's just as applicable to situation as planking flat on top of the restaurant table or rolling on the floor back and forward, but somehow this activity gained social acceptance. Dancing is just bizarre.
High heels. At some point in human history women decided that the best way for them to present their unique attributes to mankind is by navigating urban obstacles by walking around on their toes with feet strapped to threadless devices providing minimal contact against the surface that can only be operated in the most awkward fashion, through severe muscle and tendon strain and with legs wobbling like newborn Bambi. Can't explain that. I can't even imagine how it started and who thought it was a good idea. "And here is what I would look like if my heels were impaled on chopsticks", "Jane, that is fantastic look, we must share it and make it a thing immediately, call newspapers".
Hair styling. So, you've spent few hours in salon or in front of the mirror and managed to get your hair into a shape it would never obtain naturally, or, even more weirdly - shape no coat of fur on any animal would occur naturally, with help of some high temperature, some ironing and curling devices, few layers of hardening substance, machinery that produces wind at high pressure etc. All of the above, only for it to still not occur naturally on your head the next morning. I have no explanation for that. As an extension of the subject also:
Combovers. It's like you had no shirt, so you tried to pull up your pants up to the neck so it didn't look like you had no shirt. It will never work. Just stop it.
Fashion. In media sense. "This or that is so last year, you shouldn't be wearing this". It may be last years but does it not perform the same function though? If it looked good on you last year, surely you are still looking good in it this year, no? Unless it doesn't fit. I can't find explanation for that.
Dancing. I have a sense of rhythm, can move etc, but dancing, as a thing, is just bizarre to me. In every sense. Not only do we treat the activity of moving and shoving your body as a "thing", even as an art or job, but we also got so far into this rabbit hole that we can tell whether someone shoves and bends their body more professionally than others. People used to say Michael Jackson was a great dancer. The man was pirouetting about in strange motion prancing with his lower limbs while making weird hiccup noises and holding his crotch, we all agreed it among ourselves in society that it was some sort of grand cultural achievement, but I have a feeling that if any of us, mere mortals tried to pirouette about while prancing with limbs, making hiccup noises and holding your crotch in any other social arrangement, it wouldn't end well? In similar fashion, you're on a date, you talk, you laugh, she says "oh, it's my favourite song, we must dance!". But why? How could us standing up and then repeatedly shaking our bodies and waving with appendages possibly help our romantic attachment? It's just as applicable to situation as planking flat on top of the restaurant table or rolling on the floor back and forward, but somehow this activity gained social acceptance. Dancing is just bizarre.
High heels. At some point in human history women decided that the best way for them to present their unique attributes to mankind is by navigating urban obstacles by walking around on their toes with feet strapped to threadless devices providing minimal contact against the surface that can only be operated in the most awkward fashion, through severe muscle and tendon strain and with legs wobbling like newborn Bambi. Can't explain that. I can't even imagine how it started and who thought it was a good idea. "And here is what I would look like if my heels were impaled on chopsticks", "Jane, that is fantastic look, we must share it and make it a thing immediately, call newspapers".
Hair styling. So, you've spent few hours in salon or in front of the mirror and managed to get your hair into a shape it would never obtain naturally, or, even more weirdly - shape no coat of fur on any animal would occur naturally, with help of some high temperature, some ironing and curling devices, few layers of hardening substance, machinery that produces wind at high pressure etc. All of the above, only for it to still not occur naturally on your head the next morning. I have no explanation for that. As an extension of the subject also:
Combovers. It's like you had no shirt, so you tried to pull up your pants up to the neck so it didn't look like you had no shirt. It will never work. Just stop it.
Fashion. In media sense. "This or that is so last year, you shouldn't be wearing this". It may be last years but does it not perform the same function though? If it looked good on you last year, surely you are still looking good in it this year, no? Unless it doesn't fit. I can't find explanation for that.
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