“What’s A Common Rule That You Break Regularly Because You Fundamentally Disagree With It?” (45 Answers)

I agree. I'm not a big breakfast food person. I usually eat leftovers from the fridge 😋

I believe you show respect to everyone until they show me they don't deserve it. Sometimes it happens within minutes of meeting people. You get what you give. And that includes how you treat others, not just me.

My daughter is 16, when we go for dinner I buy her a beer, or wine. Which she openly drinks because that's legal in UK. She loves Baileys also. She tends not to have a second because she doesn't like the way she feels.

My mom said that. If I ever wanted to start smoking or drinking I should come to her so she could be safe in the knowledge that I smoke/drink clean stuff and not get sh*t from who-knows-where with who-knows-what added to it.

In my country people can't buy alcohol before 18 but parents can allow them to try a glass at home under their supervision.

My parents let my sister and I try wine when we were teenagers. Just a sip to get a taste. Drinking alcohol has never been this huge taboo or milestsone thing, which means there was little incentive to go over the limit. And it is the same for most of the people around me.

I had my first wine at 12. This is south africa. We are mystified why americans are ok with giving guns to kids but think booze is scary.

My parents were like this. We were allowed alcohol on holidays/special occasions. By the time my siblings and I could legally drink, the novelty had already worn off.

As long as it is confined to your own children inside your own home and no one and no where else.

My mum gave me and two of my friends some alcohol for my 16th. I was one of the youngest in my year, so we already had kids turning 18, and she said "I know you're gonna be at parties with alcohol soon. I'd rather you drink now, where I can supervise you, than at a random party where you're too scared to call your parents." The three of us are the only ones who didn't immediately get wasted when we turned 18

My family would usually give my cousins or I a sip of their drink if we asked, and I mean when we were children. I didn't care for it to be honest, but I would always ask my uncle for the ice cold green olive in his martini. Those were deeeelicious. He'd always put extra olives in cause he knew I was gonna ask. And when I was a teenager and mowing our large lawn, I would ask my dad for a slug of his ice cold beer and he'd let me. I don't like beer at all but that always tasted great after 2 hours of mowing.

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Havn't looked in a while to see if it changed but in Virginia it's legal to provide your children alcohol in the privacy of your own home. Personally, I was allowed beer, daiquiris, Beam & coke, wine etc as far back as 6 years old. Am I drinker now because of it? Absolutely not. When I do drink, it's 1. And it's not often. Your average person drinks more in one sitting than I drink in a year or more. There's nothing wrong with responsible drinking.

I don't know. I don't necessarily agree or disagree with this one. I agree that you should educate your children on alcohol consumption and how it affects their bodies and it's great that their first drink will come from a parent in the safety of their own home but not if the child is underage. There are reasons why there is an age limit to drinking. 90% of addiction begins in the teen years and alcohol is actually quite addictive. It's a tricky balance of making sure they know enough to make the right decisions as adults and not making something so taboo or prohibiting it so much they want to try it. That being said, almost all teens experiment with d***s/alcohol so making sure they trust you is also key.

My grandparents were immigrants so every dinner with them had wine for anyone that could hold a wine glass.

In my state it's legal, as long as it's your child or grandchild. Like op said, it's better for them to try it out/learn their limits supervised. Alcohol poisoning, car accidents, other bad accidents, these things are a lot more likely to happen when inexperienced kids are sneaking around with other inexperienced kids to drink.

Actually in north America and Europe the legal drinking age is 13-16(depends where eg uk is 14 canada is 16) however the legal purchase age is generally 19-21(again depends where canada is 19 us is 21) how that 13-16 year old gets alcohol is where questions arise gifts from relatives and bought by parents are all good. I remeber when i was 16 my mom and her attorney boyfriend took me out to dinner his treat moms bill. He convinced her to order me a Guinness beer. The look on the managers face was priceless when the attorney finished explaining everything.

I feel like there wasn’t that teen rebelliousness about sneaking alcohol for parties, simply because my parents didn’t make alcohol a big taboo thing. They definitely gave me wine & beer before I was of legal age, usually in the context of “hey, try this, Family Friend made it”. I learned really quick that I don’t like it. And apparently, it doesn’t like me either because just the smallest amount & I feel so sick. The only rules we had were about drinking & driving; if we had the car, call the parents, & they’d come get us (& the car). If a friend was doing the driving, & had a drink, call a taxi & my parents would pay for it (so they didn't have to get out of bed 😆). The kids whose parents forbade them to ever drink, had a least one huge binge drinking session, as soon as their parents weren’t around & they could get alcohol for themselves, simply because they could & didn’t know limits. ETA: I agree with this poster. Trying alcohol in controlled situation first, is the way to go.

My mother gave my brother and me our first drink when we were 13 and even if we can party hard, we've never hangovered. When my 15yo half-sister asked me to taste the champagne 2 Christmas ago, I gave her a sip. She didn't like it and that was over. But our big sister took me appart to tall me she didn't like what I did, I just told her I'd rather be here to give the kid what they want to try and not make it a big deal than let them go without knowing anything. Last year, Big sis gave little sis a sip of red wine, she hated it and we were cool with it.

In america we have laws that you must be 21 to drink alcohol. In Europe, children are given wine with dinner, it is just normal there.

I was allowed to drink beer at home as a teenager, but I never did. And for that reason I never drank in high school because it wasn't taboo to me.

"Alcohol consumption in adolescence increases the risk of alcohol dependence in early adulthood. A US longitudinal study showed that 40% of those who started drinking alcohol before age 15 were diagnosed with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) some time in their lives, compared with just 10% who delayed drinking until 21."

Watching out for your child's developing brain. If you're not gonna do it, the government will. Yes it's still developing until 25 but decision making parts are more functional at 21 than say 16. Although the idiots out there drunk driving cause us to question that.

Not this again. US and Europe have very different tipping cultures and we will only get into a fight over this.

What family would not do that? I am not going to buy my son the exact same game I have, just so he can play! What?

Ads are my personal red line. I block them wherever I can, esp on YT

Ah, so I’m not the only one!

Different rules and expectations in different countries. Germans in particular are very keen on everyone waiting for the man to turn green before crossing, even if they ca see hundreds of metres in each direction that there's no road traffic. I don't follow suit and get some funny looks whenever I'm there.

Rules about pirating content, period.

If I see who dropped it I will return it to them, or if it's a whole wallet with id cards I'll hand it in. But just loose cash on the ground, nah.

100% AGREE! People need to be able to talk

It's better to not immediately make your bed so your mattress and blankets can air out.

Maybe pay them a living wage??

No need to do that with 99% of modern fabrics, but take care with new garments, particularly deep reds, as some may still not be colour-fast at least for the first few washes. Dark blue jeans as well.

I work in the video games industry and we're open about salaries, but people freak out if you start talking about unionization. Legally we're allowed to say anything except directly tell people they should sign up for a card. But people act like it's taboo cause they're afraid of consequences from leadership

I just refuse to use Starbucks...

Where I live, you can still buy blueray and not pay a monthly fee for c**p shows.

That seems really weird. If you survived any cancer and are healthy, why would you need a special parking space? This seems more like PR and lip service to breast cancer awareness than it does practical or meaningful

"I met a girl in a bar. She said, you know you're wearing two different colored socks. I said, yeah, but to me they're the same because I go by THICKNESS." --Steven Wright

Like the two ladies beach volleyball teams that were fined for refusing to wear the ladies gear and instead wore what the men wear.

Grammar rules enables others to avoud misunderstandings AND learn a foreign language. You would not understand my English if I applied the grammar rules of my mothet tongue. That having said, it is very confusing that "they" is not solely plural anymore. I give up on quit ea lot of texts, because it is impossible to figure out how many people there are. You do you with your language, but for me "they" is more than 1.

Agreed. Luckily, I have flexible hours, so I can basically start whenever I want to as long as I do 8 hours a day (which is also stupid because I don't need 8 hours nor am I able to focus for 8 hours, but as per contract)

My grandson is not quite 3 & weighs close to 40 pounds. Granddaughter is 19 months and weighs 33 pounds. Neither are overweight, both in the 95th percentile. By age, granddaughter should be seated facing backwards, but she's too big. They're both very tall and big for their ages, and pediatrician says very healthy. You have to go by weight and height.

I have CIPN (chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy). I wear socks and slippers 24/7. Anything touching my feet causes pain. The socks protect my feet.

I don't put months either, especially if it was several years ago. It's old news.

Complete;y fallacious explanation, that's not the reason for the 'rule' at all. It comes more from the concept that if you do so you're hogging the table space and blocking yourself off from your table neighbours.

Let the judging begin! Likely, this refers to some 5 km/h over or so ... likely, the comments will assume it's like doing 200 in a 30 during a snowstorm in front of a school at half past one, drunk and rolling a cigarette on the wheel, with a disabled Grandma tied to the roof.

I have never heard that rule in my life. If I plus you, then I will plus you, and HARD.

*gasp Blasphemy!!!

If I got particularly good service, I will definitely do that.

This is common sense, which is why people don't obey this rule of the road.

I don't tip by percentage, I tip by level of service. If service was poor, I tip less. If service was great, I tip more. I always take into account if the server is really busy, if they are new, etc.... I have never not tipped but it is MY choice how much to leave, not some random whoever that decided we should all tip this. I rarely eat out anymore because I am so disgusted that this is the 21st century and restaurants can still get by with paying their help less than $3.00 an hour.

I don't think the norm of not dating at work is about this. It's to prevent super awkward post break up situations and ij some instances to stop nepotism and inappropriate collusion between departments in a business