not washing their hands after using the bathroom..

One reason is that I doubt whether animals really understand this.

Cats and dogs (as well as lots of other animals often kept as pets) both tend to lick at those they feel affection toward. Grooming behaviors from animals are typically signs of trust, affection, or shows that they look after you and are trying to protect you.

I figure that most pets very much understand what getting kissed by their human means.

I too used to think that kissing a cat on it's head was weird. Then I got a cat.

• sports
• religion

I doubt whether animals really understand this.

Not in the way you're thinking of ("my human loves me!"), but they almost certainly understand it as a form of scent-marking ("we are tribe-family"), which is a pretty similar concept.

it seems to be on a level of intimacy to me that I find weird sharing with a pet.

Have you had (m)any pets?

I've always found tattoos a bit strange. Not that they bother me in any way - quite the contrary - I just could never really understand why someone would get a name, a quote, a picture, or whatever permanently inked on their skin.

So many things:

• Shoes inside, but especially on carpet
• On the other end of the spectrum, walking barefoot, but especially outside (I recognize I'm likely the weird one with separate indoor and outdoor slippers)
• Seemingly insult their closest friends and family in specific and personal ways
• Feel comfortable drinking more than a drink or two in public (and/or other intoxicating drugs like cannabis)

That's all that comes to mind at the moment, but I know I've felt that way about many other behaviors. I'll try to remember to add any others that come to mind in an edit below.

I'm not quite sure what else to say here, except regarding your question about animal kisses.

Our dog Brownie likes to try to get close and lick you in the face, but I always hold back just a few inches from his attempted licks. Yet at the same time, I'll 'air lick' him back, as an appreciation of his loving gesture.

He neither licks me, nor do I lick him, but he gets lots of love and pets!

Other than making some sort of vegan statement, what I find really weird is when people start talking to you in the grocery line.

Like, how are you happy to be there? I just want to get in, get my stuff, and get out. Socializing is super awkward at the best of times, so inviting it in that setting just feels weird to me. I have a buddy who always strikes up conversation with strangers, it's awkward shopping with him.

This monster really is going to kill everything isnt he. I dont buy the narrative of Christianity. But the people involved in writing it may have had some clairvoancy. They said that christans would admire, and follow the Anti-Christ no matter what he does. If anyone fits the antichrist character, it's The Mad King: Agent Orange.

People being noisy on public transport.

Loud talking, people playing audio on speakers, parents who don't give a fuck about their ear-piercing screaming machines, etc...

When I am on a train/tram/bus and, say, get a call, I'll decline it and send the person a text stating that I can't call right now as I am in a vehicle.

Usually I can avoid noise by using first class. People there tend to talk far less, and they don't bring kids there. That's about all 1st class has to offer around here. Avoiding people.
Oh, sometimes the 1st class can even be fairly empty. Like, 1 or 2 people in the carriage type empty. Especially nice with compartment carriages. That way I can be all alone. Which also means I can turn off lights and crank up AC in the compartment. Or open the window, which I'll regret at the first screeching of brakes. Damn loud.

People who give their cars a human name. "Jack got a flat tire" or "I need to get Petunia an oil change"

Don't get me wrong, I certainly have had unique names for my car - "The White Wonder", "The Papa Mobile", "The truck" - but something about using human names is important to the people who do this, and I just don't get it.

I agree that dogs and cats likely can't understatd what a kiss is; however, there is still affection being communicated just by the closeness. I think they see it as clumsy nuzzling.

I can't think of anything I find weird. People do things that people do.

I think it’s weird how obsessed with people in general are with germs and dirt. Dirt can’t hurt you and most germs are harmless.

People seem to believe they and the world is inherently dirty and everyone and everything needs to be washed all the time and I just don’t think that’s true.

Unless something is a harmful pathogen or visibly/obviously dirty it’s really not worth worrying about

Genuine question that will probably get a lot of hate:

Why do people apologize when someone says a person close to them died? They didn't do anything wrong, so what's the apology for?

One reason is that I doubt whether animals really understand this

You would be objectively wrong on that. It's been shown that affection to animals fires off the same parts of the brain in them as it does in humans, and delivers the same chemicals.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6826447/

Just because animals can't communicate like you or me (though I firmly believe pets have a language that you can understand if you own one long enough), it doesn't mean they don't have the same feelings of bonding and closeness. Biologically we're all very similar, so the Oxytocin that we get from being loved is identical to the oxytocin that THEY get when being loved.

Celebrity gossip and worship

I kiss my parrot because it is a cultural ritual we have built together. I make smoochy noises at him and he mimics them back to me because he wants to communicate. I kiss his little beak and he supposes this is a thing I must like doing so he starts doing it back. It makes me smile and make happy noises, which he recognizes. Now we have a fun thing we do that means we’re buddies. He trains me to offer up my nose for him to smooch if he makes a specific little whispery sound. His only reward is the opportunity to boop me on the nose with his beak but he evidently finds this incredibly amusing and will occasionally whisper at me relentlessly until I give in. He will let me smooch the back of his head at nighttime because it means he gets to stay up later. His feathers are soft and he smells nice so I like it too.

Having kids. I just don't get it.

Regarding my cat: ahem

If not for kisses, why made of soft??

If you think pets dont understand kisses you have never owned a pet.

Caring about sports. Like they devote what amounts to a part time job watching grown men compete in children's games. Watching Competitive exercise while they melt into a couch pounding junk food. Watching other people talk about how well they exercised. Discussing daily with their friends and family and coworkers... All about one group of people in a colored shirt moving a ball slightly better than people with a different colored shirt.

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.