Something you never heard of until you read the DIS

[kaytieeldr]

I don't know focusondisney. I think more specifically we've learned that the giftees and their immediate relatives think we're being petty to expect a written 'thank you' for a gift

 

[focusondisney]

I don't know focusondisney. I think more specifically we've learned that the giftees and their immediate relatives think we're being petty to expect a written 'thank you' for a gift

Yep, that's I learned!!

 

[DVCisME]

I was suprised to hear that some schools can discipline with spanking. Never even occurred to me

 

[krcit]

I never knew that I some people think you're a lunatic pedophile if you talk to their kids while waiting in line at the grocery store or that every time a starnge man talks to you he is hitting on you.

I also didn't know that there are people who will go out of there way to help a stranger out either with information or a kind word or even a coupon.

 

[My2Cinderellas]

I've learned a lot about how wedding customs vary around the country. Actually, apply this statement to just about any type of get together. What many consider tacky and appalling is often standard procedure elsewhere. But some things are tacky no matter where you are

Here's the scoop on the midwestern Dollar Dance that you all seem so worked up about. It is optional, not everyone does it, especially these days. But it's a standard question when you meet with your DJ or band. Just like whether you want to include the hokey pokey, chicken dance, or macarena. The answer to all of these is usually yes, because the kids have fun.

Usually the Best Man/Maid of Honor take the cash, people pay a dollar (close relatives will often use bigger bills) for a short dance with the bride or groom. Many people give wedding gifts that are actual items (!) and the dollar dance is a way of giving the couple a bit of extra cash for the honeymoon.

It's been a long time since I was at a cake/punch wedding reception in the church basement, but these were standard in the 70's. Most couples now offer a meal, a buffet is common and can range from sandwiches/chips to heavy appetizers to a full hot dinner, if alcohol is provided a cash bar is common - many will offer free beer/pop but anything else is on your own dime. Lavish sit-down dinners with open bar are rare, but becoming more popular here. The "cover your place" concept doesn't exist.

 

[chicagodisneyfan]

Here's the scoop on the midwestern Dollar Dance that you all seem so worked up about. It is optional, not everyone does it, especially these days. But it's a standard question when you meet with your DJ or band. Just like whether you want to include the hokey pokey, chicken dance, or macarena. The answer to all of these is usually yes, because the kids have fun.

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What? The hokey pokey and chicken dance..... at a wedding?

I have never heard of such a thing! Just seems so

 

[Bob NC]

I never knew that..

It's perfectly fine to take your kids out of school for a week to go to Disney but it's absolutely forbidden for a school to file a waiver for missed days due to weather because people pay taxes for a full year and don't get a refund for non made up school days.

This is the very definition of DIS!!!!!!

 

[cheermom1]

I never knew that people can get their panties in wad b/c someone they don;t know what to live their life they way they feel is right for them...including on how to raise their own kids.

I never knew that a lot of people don't know how to agree to disagree..but they have to make you think the same way instead..

 

[redrosesix]

The pool hopping was also new to me. I guess I just would have never thought to go to another hotel's pool.

I know what you mean. Why would anybody want to go to a pool at another hotel, where they can't go back to their room and change afterwards.

Mine, either.

Warning to others: do not google "goatse". I thought, "how bad can it be if it were mentioned on the DIS." I mean, we're not even allowed to type female anatomy words. WRONG. Honestly. Do not google it.

I googled -- I need the eye bleach now too. I just couldn't help myself.


I never knew that people would buy their souvenirs BEFORE their trip to save money, or that people would mail a case of water to Orlando.

 

[AshleyW]

What? The hokey pokey and chicken dance..... at a wedding?

I have never heard of such a thing! Just seems so

Yep! It's fun. Most of the weddings I've been to, though, aren't really very formal at all - and there's a lot of alcohol involved.

 

[DisneyFan32WI]

Yep! It's fun. Most of the weddings I've been to, though, aren't really very formal at all - and there's a lot of alcohol involved.

Why, YES! All the weddings I have ever been to play the Chicken Dance!!! SOOO much fun with lots of friends.

 

[connorlevismom]

That people would get offended and even grossed out if they were asked to take their shoes off in somebody's home.

That I trust Disers and their use of smilies so much that I will NOT be googling family cloth, Diva Cup or Goatse.

That I am considered a horrible parent because I go on vacation without my kids. The horror!

Kristine

 

[DisneyFan32WI]

OK, I just had to look up the DIVA cup. (Eww...gross...and reusable? I think NOT!)

I am holding back so hard not to look up the other one.

I am nosey by nature though!!!

 

[Green Tea]

i know this will suprise most.......dolewhips.....i went 3 times and never new about them

Folks here got me whipped into a frenzy to order one. I thought it was horrible. Blech.

The Diva cups were new. Decorating doors in a hotel. Sharing a suitcase of crap with strangers.

 

[Green Tea]

Google was NOT my friend today.

I had thankfully missed goatse whenever it was on the boards. Unfortunately I googled it today.

 

[Virtucomp]

What? The hokey pokey and chicken dance..... at a wedding?

I have never heard of such a thing! Just seems so

Just went to a wedding Saturday. All the line dances were on but the Chicken Dance was banned

We had to talk to the bride and groom to get the ok to play it for the kids and aunts. Lots of fun.



I never knew about the fireworks cruises much less that you could split one with total strangers that you met through the Dis board.

 

[Green Tea]

Ok, I'm not going to type it. DH wants to know if it's worse than the Diva Cup situation.

Much! I actually found the Diva discussion interesting. There is really nothing to say about goatse.cx except how would anyone even discover they could do that with their body. I need to bleach my computer history and remember Google is not my friend.

 

[Robinrs]

Much! I actually found the Diva discussion interesting. There is really nothing to say about goatse.cx except how would anyone even discover they could do that with their body. I need to bleach my computer history and remember Google is not my friend.

Use your imagination...

 

[Mickeypooh99]

I never knew blowing out the candles on a cake was considered unsanitary.

Now I found that out at my son's 7th birthday party when his gum came flying out of his mouth and landed on the cake.

 

[Mrs.Toad]

I looked it up, the curiosity was killing me. However, thankfully, I didn't open any of the sites that came up in my search. I just read the first line of the description that displays on the search results.

Oh, dear Lord, I saw the description but opened the link anyway, not realizing it could possibly done in such a way.

Also, people really do love those Vera Bradley bags. I'm sure they're comfortable and hold lots of stuff, but am I alone in thinking they look like diaper bags? . To each his own I guess.

No, you're not alone in that. I didn't think anyone before the grandma stage of life liked them, and was especially surprised in a recent thread that even schookids use the lunchboxes.

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).

I don't see what the big deal is, either. I learned about them right about the time I stopped needing those products, but would have probably tried one if I'd still had the need. Less in the landfills is a good thing.

This DISism annoys me beyond anything DIS related.

Before I came to the DIS, I didn't know ANYONE who didn't secure a table first and send someone up to order at a busy CS restaurant. I STILL don't personally know anyone who doesn't do so.

But apparently, this angers people here on the DIS.


I really, really, REALLY don't care though because well... it's their problem they didn't grab a table before getting their food. And off of that,

1. I don't understand why anyone wants children in line, or the entire party for that matter. Kids hardly ever actually stay in line anyway, they just run around and knock people and/or their food over. 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

2. If I'm dining in a situation where I'm unable to secure a table beforehand then I eat at a less busy time like 11 or 2.

That's funny, because I had never known people could be so bothered by children in line at counter service places before the DIS!

I think we figured out in one of these threads, it seems to be a custom that varies by location. I have only lived in California and Colorado, but in both states, most people walk in, get their food, then sit down, and I've never seen a child knock over other people or their food, no matter how crowded it is. I too, wouldn't leave my kids alone at the table when they were younger, and if dh was with us, well, he'd really need another pair of hands to carry all the food and drinks.

As for me, I was also surprised to learn of many of these things on the DIS, except the wedding customs. Maybe it's from growing up in an area where a lot of people aren't natives, but I've been to weddings with kids and without kids, daytime weddings, evening weddings, weddings with formal sit down meals, buffets, hors d'oevres and just punch and cake, weddings with open bars, cash bars and no bars, dollar dances and no dollar dances, hokey pokey and chicken dance or not. Guess I was surprised to hear that in some areas, everyone does their wedding exactly the same way.

I also didn't know before the DIS that people will ask questions, then get upset and mad at people for giving them an answer they don't like. Or that people can take a difference of opinion so personally.

Oh, and I had no idea that some people call tomato sauce "gravy". (But please don't tell me it's the Italian way. It may be the east coast Italian-American way, but many Italians say sauce.)