Thankfully, my internet life started after I began customer service at
Amazon, and then I started planning my wedding with the help of theknot.com and weddingchannel.com's message boards, so...nothing surprises me anymore.
So many different regions of the country have different traditions! And many traditions came from other countries. So my friend from college, whose family is from the midwest AND whose husband's family is from Mexico, had a happy joyous Money Dance, where people came prepared with bills and safety pins, and she danced for AGES with everyone, including me, and she was just covered in bills. It was traditional on both sides, even though she and her husband met in WA, and everyone was happy to do it.
But for people outside those regions who can't wrap their minds around such things, it seems awful. Everyone was happy to do it for them.
There are also regions that have the ceremony, the dance, and the dinner. One can be invited to 1, 2, or all 3 of them, and it's not a slap in the face to only be invited to one or two! Everyone understands, in those areas, that there are distinctions. It's quite interesting!
Already been mentioned, but "and Oregon".
I watched a Monk episode to make me think about that...bleah.
And I would still LOVE to find out the name of it (the OP refused to give it), because NO ONE on the
disneyland forums has mentioned it in the time I've been on the disneyland forums!
But it's NOT comfortable to everyone. So I'm sitting there, my shrimpy self with my seatback all upright, and I've got someone's icky head under my chin. Supa-fun getting up to use the bathroom!
I think it's to create jobs.
On a serious note, Peeps drive ME crazy b/c I miss them. But marshmallows aren't vegetarian (that always gets a question, so I'll answer...gelatin isn't vegetarian at all, in fact it's one of the least vegetarian things you can eat, LOL), AND marshmallows are made with corn syrup which is avoided like the plague in our household, plus then there are the colors...Peeps are a painful memory...
Fixed that for ya.
I mean,
I am a very lazy at home parent, but most AHPs aren't, so I wanted to help out that sentence a bit.
Or if you do, just read the words in the links. Don't just click.
It interests me when people are so grossed out by the Diva cup. Do I use it? No. But is it ANY different to me, really, than other things used for the same purpose, perhaps made by the Tampax company? no. It's just that you reuse it and it is less waste in the landfills, less blechy stuff leaking into groundwater (that isn't then sanitized like toilet water is). Plus, there's a mainstream product just like it (though disposable), the Instead cup. Out in stores as long ago as the early 90s! Was recalled for awhile (or am I thinking of The Sponge?), but it's been back out for a few years now. Yay pinkdaisy/swaddlebees company for making what I use now instead of disposable things!
And while family cloth skeeves me somewhat emotionally, we used cloth wipes for DS's bottom while using cloth diapers! (and obviously, from my last paragraph's last sentence, I do wash cloth used for other things) Same thing as the cloth wipes, just...with adults included too. I understand the concept...just maybe don't want to deal with adult, er, stuff. Totally hypocritical and silly of me!
What does amaze or interest me is...how many people don't think about things fully to see where mainstream thought breaks down...how many things that are as natural to me as breathing weird out other people because they don't want to think about it all...
how many people listen to American MDs and ignore the whole rest of the world, other ways of taking care of our true, full, health, ignore ways of living for millenia that have worked to get us to about 100 years ago when American MDs mysteriously started being the be-all-end-all...who don't think about things they are putting in their bodies...who believe hype.... That's the sort of thing that amazes me and that hits me most days when I'm on the dis or any parenting board other than mothering.com...
isn't that the point of having an expert...... and yes going to school for at least 7 years, and having a respected practice does make someone an expert in my eyes
I said, "Really?". (Not believing he said it.) He said, "Yes, it happens in 3rd world countries all the time, with no problems.". It was "as if" we should model our health care in such a way. My jaw dropped. I said, well it does cause scar tissue doesn't it? And he conceded. I continued that it was conceivable that the scar tissue could effect hearing and I'd rather catch it for that reason among others. I was livid. 
It's happened to me before and surprisingly enough (and this is 100% sarcastic) the parents claim no financial responsibility for their kids making someone dropping their food on the ground. Luckily, at Disney the CMs have seen this happen to me both times and automatically had the kitchen remake the order 
