{"id":29604,"date":"2017-05-06T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/cracked-rules-make-no-sense\/"},"modified":"2017-05-06T14:31:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T19:31:06","slug":"cracked-rules-make-no-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/cracked-rules-make-no-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"[Cracked] Rules That Make No Sense, But Everyone Follows Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <i>Cracked: All Posts<\/i> &#8211;<a title=\"\"&#39;Rules&#39; That Make No Sense, But Everyone Follows Anyway\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/CrackedRSS\/~3\/5fRzKex3fjQ\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"offsite\"><strong>&#39;Rules&#39; That Make No Sense, But Everyone Follows Anyway<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: left;\"><p><em style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: #666;\"><span style=\"font-size: 3.5em; font-weight: bold;\">&#0147;<\/span><br \/>\n<a title=\"&#39;Rules&#39; That Make No Sense, But Everyone Follows Anyway\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/CrackedRSS\/~3\/5fRzKex3fjQ\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"offsite\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/images\/tutorials\/articles\/cracked_rules.jpg\" alt=\"\"&#39;Rules&#39; That Make No Sense, But Everyone Follows Anyway\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy CRACKED Readers, Published: April 30th, 2017 &#8211; We are a society of rules. Or, more accurately, we&#8217;re a society of often dumb rules. If you need evidence of that, look no further than the bizarre societal conventions we all adhere to lest we risk being shunned by our fellow humans.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 3.5em; font-weight: bold;\">&#0148;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"READ MORE: &#39;Rules&#39; That Make No Sense, But Everyone Follows Anyway\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/CrackedRSS\/~3\/5fRzKex3fjQ\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"offsite\"><strong><big>READ MORE &raquo;<\/big><\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a society of rules. 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