“Diamonds”: 35 Old Trends That Many People Don’t Realize Are Harmful

I knew an American couple when I lived in the UK, they invited me to a gender reveal party, and a baby shower, expecting gifts every time, I politely declined, and haven't spoken to either since. I think all the celebrations of odd things is just a way to get presents, does anyone want to come to my horse's confirmation? He really wants a new saddle,and a Staub cast iron casserole.

I recently attended a gender reveal party. It was only when I saw that everyone else was clothed that I wished they'd explained...

The thing I dislike the most is the glorification of a child's sex being the single most important thing about them, by far. This is so unhealthy for a society.

I don’t see what is wrong with just telling people the sex of the child (if you want to) like we all have done for many years it’s just a very silly and self centred thing to make a big thing out of it needlessly

WHY are these necessary? No one aside from the parents cares. And if someone in the family wants the new family member to have a specific gender, you have an entirely different problem.

Adopt pound puppies

Our rough collie's breeders are both vets and went for breeding healthy dogs with bombshell characteristics. When we first visited they explained why exactly they breed the American version, how and why they chose the parents, they showed us all genetic tests and would want to know and treat their puppies (for free the first year), if anything occured. We also can't just give the dog away, as they have to agree on the dog being given away to a certain person. They'd also take him back any time. They were open about anything, chose the suitable puppy for every interested potential owner and encouraged us to visit every week, until the pup was old enough to move out. Needless to say, our collie is perfectly healthy, well socialised, great with children, other dogs and other animals and he is not just bombproof but fight jet proof (I live close to an airbase and even when he just moved in, he was totally cool with low flying jets and helicopters). Thoughtful breeding can be done. It's just not cheep and you will have to wait for a puppy a while longer.

Ok, I get that the breeding and stuff is very detrimental, and people should stop doing it, but do you think I'm gonna walk past a pug in the pound and say that it'll live happier without a loving owner? No! Care for them, but stop breeding them.

Remember, when people say, "purebred" what they actually mean is, "inbred."

I really want a dapple Dachshund, but most of them aren’t healthy. Too many breeders breed them with other dapples, and that causes serious genetic issues. But doing it that way gets a lot more dapple pups than doing it properly will, so it’s horribly common.

These creep me out so bad. Let's dress up little Melanie and Tiffany like 50 year old divorcees from the 1980's and peddle them around in front of a mix of other families and a bunch of hidden pedos in the crowd 🤢

Don't think they're even legal where I live. Fortunately.

Yeah… that’s illegal in my country. It’s defined as child abuse here.

Child abuse imo.

Extremely creepy in my opinion.

This is something I struggle with on occasion. There's a few supermarkets near me, close by, the vast majority of the fruit, veg does come in plastic packaging but it's recyclable now. Either at our bins or at one of the bigger supermarkets up the road. However? My medications come in plastic packaging which cannot be recycled. I asked my pharmacy and no, I cannot recycle my tablet packaging. The boxes they come in, yes, but the plastic pills part isn't recyclable unfortunately and neither are the plastic bottles I occasionally get my tablets in.

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But bring back the plastic straws!

It’s the equivalent of tagging a wall with spray paint. Knock those stacked rocks down whenever you encounter them.

In Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park, cairns are used to designate trails and also for native Hawaiian religious purposes. There are signs stating you should not make cairns yourself.

One of my kids used to do that, when he was little. Not in rivers, but on trails. He knew nothing about zen. He did it, because he would watch Bigfoot shows with Grandpa, and thought he could trick people into thinking Bigfoot was around. On those shows, the Bigfoot hunters point out stacked stones as "evidence".

I was at the Watkins Glen park/trail in NY (it's amazing, check it out if you can!) But there was a small section on the upper gorge trail with HUNDREDS of these rock stacks, but it was like a designated side of the trail to build these. Don't recall seeing them elsewhere on the trail, so if you wanted to build one, hey here's a proper place to do it. It's not like anywhere is "spoiling nature" as the gorge trail itself has plenty of concrete steps/sidewalks and metal handrails...

There are signs posted at park that read as much, so I stopped stacking which hasn't been easy because I'm obsessive compulsive. I have my other game of searching for little lost trinkets on beaches, trails, parking lots. I soooo liked stacking though.

Reminds me that it is politics season here in the US

Some people have a correct answer machine installed in their brain. They are incapable of accepting alternative ways of doing things. They can be insufferable to live with.

This needs to be screamed from the mountain tops for All to hear!

The U.S,: A place where your free to be a Christian, not a Christian nation. These crazies trying to assert a national religion and religious laws everything this country is not about.

But that's the real reason religion exists.