Recent questions tagged tradition

Description : Faith and Begorrah. Today was a much bigger deal when I was growing up. How about you?

Last Answer : It’s never been a big deal to me and still isn’t except for its being my younger son’s birthday. It is a big deal around here locally with parades, people wearing green all week and lots of drunken corned beef and cabbage. Just doesn’t do anything for me although I like Celtic folk music.

Description : What is a dying tradition you would like to see preserved?

Last Answer : Saying please and thank you. Paying ones debts.

Description : When was the last time you were surprised to learn that not all traditions are the same as the ones you're familiar with?

Last Answer : Where’s Rick’s family from? My in-laws from Nebraska do that, too, how weird?! Sometimes she’ll make a random weird dish for a holiday instead of turkey or ham, you never know.

Description : Is racism just another American tradition?

Last Answer : LOL. It’s hardly uniquely American. It is everywhere on globe, including the most liberal countries. It is universal.

Description : What traditions would you replace?

Last Answer : answer:Big fancy weddings, the Kosovo myth, taking imaged of your naked newborn baby, proms, live music bands, presidential campaigns shown on the TV 24/7 for the whole month before the elections, ... place of we all got one bubble wrap instead of being forced through dealing with all the bullcrap.

Description : Is there any tradition somewhere in a certain country/area which truly baffles you?

Last Answer : answer:Female genital mutilation. Last time I expressed my dismay over this, someone challenged me to be equally dismayed over circumcision. Maybe there’s an argument to be made there, but I just can’t see them as being in the same league.

Description : Don't trust anybody over 30....thousand lurve?

Last Answer : answer:To be honest I hardly ever notice. If I do I often forget.. But then again I am not of awarded such honors. Maybe when I have earned them they will mean more to me… But then again a number is just number… and numbers are so constraining.

Description : Is yesterday’s hazing today’s assault?

Last Answer : answer:It was all in good fun, no malice intended. Read @cruisercruiser's anguished question about his 15-year old son. (And read the answers from adult flutherers who were bullied, terrorized, ... that, particularly if perpetrated by 6 older boys. This question is rhetorical, I have to assume.

Description : Black cat crossed my path, unlucky?

Last Answer : answer:You will be attacked in six hours, by a huge, purple paisley elephant, who will torture you with hours and hours of Barry Manilow music while he eats mangos and repeatedly sits on a whoopee cusion. BEWARE!! No, it’s not unlucky, just a superstition.

Description : Is it shallow to like something just because it's tradition?

Last Answer : No,it’s exhausting.

Description : Why a tonsure?

Last Answer : Wikipedia claims the one we think of on monks came from Saint Peter. Other theories: This practice is not improbably connected with the idea that long hair is the mark of a freeman, while the ... is a ritual created by balding superiors in act of vanity and power over young non-bald subordinates.

Description : What New Years superstition do you follow?

Last Answer : I follow a personal superstition of not wanting to be awake when the clock ticks over. Even if it means dosing myself heavily with sleep medication like Valium.

Description : Why do people clink their wine glasses together when making a toast?

Last Answer : when kings had feasts with their allies, they were very cautious about who they could trust. if poison was in one persons glass, it would spill into the other persons glass as well, making the assasination very risky.