A lot of people kiss their pets or non-human animals in general. I find that very weird. I understand that it is a sign of affection but it seems so off. One reason is that I doubt whether animals really understand this. Also it seems to be on a level of intimacy to me that I find weird sharing with a pet. Not necessarily romantically or sexually (that would be even more weird and wrong and probably illegal). But it is still “more”. I am not sure whether I can really explain why exactly I find that weird.

Anyway, what is something that is weird to you but not to most other people?

  • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.org
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    6 days ago

    I genuinely don’t understand the double-speak when people say they love animals… and then they kill and eat them for taste pleasure. That is weird.

      • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        6 days ago

        Was leaving a supermarket, when a chugger/chunt asked for donations for an animal charity. Given my hands were full of heavy shopping, I just wanted to get back to the car, so I declined.

        In what he must’ve thought was a witty moment, he said, “Don’t you like animals?”

        To which I repiled, “Only with tomato sauce!”

        (My wife and I had at the time two cats who lived to 15 and 16 years respectively, and who we thought of as family. We have a rescue cat now (only a few years old, we think), and we think of her as family, too. She’s a handful, as we’re a little older, but we love her, too. No tomato sauce!)