What is Normal?

[oZode]

Normal is a weird thingamajig, it is something that is there, but not there. You can often define things not normal, but will usually have difficulty defining what it actually is. A very odd thing to say the very least. So odd, I find it hard to consider normal.

 

[him over there]

Normal is not stopping and making a conscious decision about what you're doing based on if it is normal or not.

 

[EHKOS]

Normal is a setting on a dishwasher. There is no normal, all people are weird, some don't show it, and some are just weirder than others.

 

[MammothBlade]

Normal is average, mediocre, ordinary, boring, at the middle of the bell curve. I despise its use as an adjective in most cases. And those whose ideal is "normality". Who expect you to conform to whatever they consider normal. How boring is that? Guess what. There's no such thing as normal. If you pride yourself on being an ordinary person, from another perspective you could be considered a freak of nature. The concept of normality is a defence mechanism against that which is feared and misuderstood.

 

[C F]

It isn't normal to have a fascination with the letter C as most people do not.

You have no idea how much that statement bummed me out, dude.
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Okay, for serious. It's basically anything the society you're in would deem acceptable. I'm in an American suburban community, so pretty much everyone here is working a job or getting some kind of scholarly education or any combination of the two. Sometimes you get the weekends off; there's church on sundays, or maybe not. Any way you slice it, you'd be considered a normal person.

I guess it's normal if what you're doing is so common, no one really cares about it. If you're attracting undue attention, perhaps you aren't normal. I recommend performing a diagnostic on your unit, and then connecting back to your main server to download a backup run-time. Attention could be... problematic for us.
Let us be normal.

 

[Zen Toombs]

Spoiler: In short

Normal is boring.

Spoiler: In long

Normal is very boring.

 

[Zen Toombs]

Normal is not bludgeoning a priest to death with a badger.

...Thank you Daystar, you continue to make my day.

Normal is what seems in the norm for you.

Tautology is tautological! Sadly, it is only slightly alliterative.

 

[DanDeFool]

Normal is what other people think you should be like.

And as Ze Frank once said, "Remeber, what other people think of you is none of your business."

That said, I think it's in your best interest to at least give the nod to "Normal" while you pass him on the street, if you understand my meaning. Put more directly, going to the grocery store dressed in a tutu with a reverse mohawk haircut and quietly sniggering to yourself while distributing dog turds to passerby isn't going to win you many friends.

We can all stand to be a little normal.

 

[Vault101]

Normal...is defined by society at the time

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

To Clarify, what exactly is a normal person and what do they do, what do they look like.

Um... cliched and average? 9 to 5 job, semi hot spouse, 2 kids (boy and girl), drives a toyota (or equal value), white (or white mixed, and the name is John?

Captcha: must use hotmail.... must use hotmail....

 

[Sonicron]

Normal is whatever the vast majority of society deems normal. There's really no other way to describe it (unless you include mathematics).

 

[Tragedy's Rebellion]

For me normal is living your life however you want it, as long as you aren't hurting anyone ;d

For society it is many different things (ironically), but most of them are bullshit.

 

[Danny91]

Makes me think of a joke in Big Bang Theory, where Leonard says something like: "Guess who won the contest?" And Sheldon says: "Muhammod Li? ....What? It's the most common first and last name in the world, I thought I would increase my odds of being correct."

Made me laugh.

 

[Nouw]

Normal is not bludgeoning a priest to death with a badger.

That is my favourite past-time, I am offended!

 

[Gottesstrafe]

Regular, ordinary, standard, natural, traditional, orthodox, typical, general, habitual, mean, average, commonplace, conventional, orderly, popular, unexceptional, run-of-the-mill, routine, prevalent, customary, acknowledged, methodical, accustomed, median, accepted, preferred, organic, plainhghgbhjnbm

F*ck, dropped my thesaurus on the keyboard.

 

[Joccaren]

About all I know about normality is that I'm not.

This.
Normal is such a vague and broad term when generally used, but all I know is that I certainly am not it.
And if I am I'm doing something wrong and need to change it pronto.

Captcha: Puppy love
No, I'm not going that far.

 

[Xenowolf]

It can mean average/most common, or alternatively be used by snobs who are all to prevelent in life that like to belittle others for not blindly following what everyone else likes or is interested in.

 

[Rawne1980]

Now here is the strange thing....

A lot of people here and around the world claim that they are not "normal".

Therefore it seems to be normal to think you are not normal.

 

[Aerosteam]

I'd say 'normal' is just a matter of opinion, so it kind of has to do with what the majority is.

Someone can shower three times a day, that might seem normal to the person but not to the majority of everyone else who doesn't do the same, so they see it as not normal.