DH didn't realise black sheep were real!

[Helgathehairy]

We live in the country. (DH moved here from a village but he traveled in New Zealand at one point!!)

Out for a walk the other day and he mentioned about how some sheep have black heads but white wool. Somehow in the course of the conversation it turned out he'd never actually seen a black sheep. There were none in the fields around us so ended up walking a bit out of our way until I could find some to show him!

Is this a bit like not realising Narwhals are real!

I'm wondering how the hell he travelled in NZ and didn't realise that black sheep are an actual thing. . .

I didnt realise astin martins were real. I thought they were a made up james bond car, like batman and the batmobil. I was 34 when I found out.

I've met plenty of otherwise intelligent people that genuinely think ponies are either baby horses or young horses that haven't finished growing yet.

mbosnz He actually drove around NZ so I don't know how he missed it either (to be fair I've never been to NZ but I know it's well know for it's sheep industry!)

Strictlyafemalefemale To be fair I've never seen one in real life!

TrainspottingWelsh That's a conversation I've had a lot of times! Peoples eyes usually glaze over after a while!

My ex didn't realise triplets were real. He thought they were just made up to make storylines more interesting.

Well, to be fair, if he was driving, his eyes should have been on the road, rather than the livestock in the neighbouring fields,

I remember watching a programme with a man in his early twenties only just finding out the sea was salty. Soemthings we just expect people to know.

All sheep here are black. It's a variety called St Kilda. Totally normal.

I used to think Timbuktu was a fake place.

@TrainspottingWelsh ehhhhh so is a pony a different animal that's just very very similar to a horse? I thought ponies were small horses

I keep a darker variety of sheep and have had people say this as well. Mind you, I have also had a student of my wife’s saying that he thought sheep and lambs were different species, so nothing surprises me!

I'm I my late 30s and didn't know pirates were real until a few years ago when the somali pirates on the news had kidnapped a couple. Then that Tom Hanks film came out. I was gobsmacked

The vast majority of sheep in NZ are merino, with a thick, white/cream coat which can be dyed any colour. Cousins in Australia had a sheep farm and if any black wool got into the merino mix it was essentially thrown away as contaminated!

I find that black sheep are only held on small, private farms or as a rare breed. I'm not a farmer, but can understand having not seen a black sheep in NZ, or even in the Uk, unless he lived in a farming area with small holds, is not that unusual.

I love these threads. My favourite was the terracotta pots one.

My DH didn't realise sprouts grew sprouting out of the side of a tall stalk. He thought they were baby cabbages.

That was the moment I realised I had married a townie.

Soon after he was astonished to discover that ewes can have horns, it isn't a definite indicator that the sheep is a ram.

We live in the countryside now. He is still regularly surprised by normal things.

@ImaSababa

I used to think Timbuktu was a fake place.

So did my mother. She ripped the piss out of me for being so stupid that I thought it was real.

I had a friend who thought Tipperary was a fake place. She thought I was taking the piss when I mentioned that a mutual acquaintance came from Tipperary. It was before google maps and we were not fancy enough (students) to have an atlas.

My partners black sheep, he got stuck in brairs I got the job of freeing him.

My friend and her mother (who were both brought up in the countryside) couldn’t believe that cockerel is not needed for hens to lay eggs.

I was shocked to discover very recently that hedgehogs don’t eat apples yet ever single book from childhood pictures the little prick carrying apples 🙄
I came across one of them right in the orchard and he/she didn’t want an apple and was hissing like annoyed cat.

@ImaSababa

I used to think Timbuktu was a fake place.

This

I thought it was a made up name as a child

My SiI thought cows just 'made' milk all the time anyway, that's why we use them for it.

I was told by a farmers daughter that they get more money for the wool from black sheep. I remember one year passing a field of sheep on the way to my mother's and they had loads of black sheep. You would usually only see one or two at the most.

Laughing @FrenchBoule attempting to force feed apples to an irate hedgehog

DD (7) thinks that the black and white horses in the fields by the motorway are cows. My (adult) cousin who's lived in another country all her life refuses to believe in the existence of red grapes. She's only ever seen white ones.

[quote whitianga]@TrainspottingWelsh ehhhhh so is a pony a different animal that's just very very similar to a horse? I thought ponies were small horses [/quote]
Ponies and horses are the same species. A pony is a type of horse below a certain height. Not a baby or young horse still to grow.

DH is still slightly confused by cows as well. There’s a mix of dairy & beef farms around here and he thought only ‘proper’ cows (black & white ones) had milk. Until I asked him to think about what the calves of other cows drank!