DH asked me what do cows eat. AIBU to divorce him immediately?

[TheIckabog]

We were watching a program about a fancy hotel where they have their own cows. There was a clip of the cows being hand fed apples.

DH exclaimed in surprise ‘I didn’t know cows eat apples!’ He then paused and said, ‘What DO cows eat?’ whilst looking genuinely puzzled.

I said to him what do you think they do all day in the fields? They eat grass/hay etc, how do you not know this? DH then shrugged and said he’d never really thought about it.

He is a well educated intelligent man in his 40s. We also grew up/live in a place where dairy production accounts for a large percent of the export, so it’s not like he’s never seen a cow in a field or on a farm before.

I am aghast. AIBU to divorce him immediately? I really can’t see any other option to be honest

DP once asked me if a snake was an animal
🤷🏼‍♀️

ExDP thought cows laid eggs as eggs were a dairy product

Eggs aren’t a dairy product.

Eggs were classed as dairy in the past . I was taught at high school in 80's they were dairy. Now they are in the proteins food group . Don't know when it changed .

I feel the need to confess to one: I get the locations of Canada and Mexico mixed up. As in, which one is North of USA and which is South.
Also what lives at the North or South pole.
I try to make it stick but pooff, it's gone again.

I used to think people in Southern Ireland spoke French as their first language (until I was about 35) 😂😂

@Imworthit

Tried to explain the epic nature of this tread to my mum. Laughed so hard I started crying 😂 Couldn't speak for a good ten minutes.

Trying to imagine you trying to explain all this just set me off 😂

My southerner ex thought cobbles were not real - just made for coronation street

I learnt very recently that a plague of locusts is actually just millions of flying grasshoppers

I was blown away by the fact they are actually one and the same thing

@Scout2016 You need to learn a couple of lines of the Canadian national anthem: 'Oh Canada! The true north strong and free...'

On the eggs as dairy thing, it's because traditionally, eggs were within the domain of the farmer's wife, who processed the milk and looked after the hens. So eggs were considered to be a product of the dairy.

@Faraway20

My southerner ex thought cobbles were not real - just made for coronation street

I don’t think being a southerner is a good excuse. One of the most famous cobbled streets in the country is in Dorset.

Tbf I think the dairy industry likes to keep this information on the DL because people might be upset if they thought too much about that fact that dairy calves are removed from their mothers virtually at birth so the milk can be taken for human consumption.

I think that’s exactly the reason so many people have no clue. I’m vegan but I know loads of people who have stopped having cows milk products when they either realised this or really thought about it. A friend of mine said to me, ‘omg, you’re vegan, why didn’t you tell me.’. She just didn’t realise.

Cows eat soya mainly now I think. That’s why they keep burning down the amazon rainforest: to get land to grow soya on, which is mainly fed to livestock 😢

I was having a conversation with a friend about periods and sanitary wear.
She told me that she wouldn't wear tampons because she didn't want to keep removing it to have a pee.
I asked her what she meant and she replied ' well how can you pee with a tampon blocking the hole up?'
She seriously thought that there was only one hole from which everything came from.
We were 19 at the time! 😂

Thats true flamingo but due to the famous ad, many people think that street is in the North.

As a kid I had an uncle that always bought me natural history type. Ooks which I read from cover to cover.
One day, aged about eight, I had a disagreement with a teacher who scoffed at my suggestion a lion/tiger crossed was called a Liger. I was ridiculous, they didn't interred, how funny was I etc.

I still remember my indignation that a teacher didn't know something like that and the look on his face the following morning when I left the open book on his desk, specifically at the pager covering Ligers and Tigons.

*They didn't interbreed

My ipad is pitching a shit fit.

My southerner ex thought cobbles were not real - just made for coronation street

I'm a Southerner. Has he never been to Canterbury?

My favourite "disconnect" was one I heard while shopping in Poundland a few years ago and I still laugh about it.

I was browsing and there was a family at the top of the aisle. The sort of family that didn't seem to understand what an indoor voice is, if you get me? Older woman, Youngish guy in his 20's pushing a toddler and a young woman who was about the same age. I heard him pick up one of the cakes and go to put it in the basket and the older woman told him to put it back as she could bake better cakes than that. He obeyed and agreed that her cakes were really nice. Then-
"I wish you'd make your carrot cake more, it's lush!"
"It is but it's such a faff grating all those carrots I don't bother doing it often" was the older woman's reply.
He stops dead, just behind me and turns to her and asks
"What do you mean carrots? There's no carrots in carrot cake!"
The younger woman turns around and asks him what the fuck he thought was in a carrot cake and didn't the name give it away? before flouncing off around the corner. They passed by as he replied
"I dunno. Not carrots anyway" Then he paused, and as the family went around the corner to the next aisle he piped up with
"Next you're going to tell me there's cheese in cheesecake" I snorted with laughter and had to leave as the younger woman began calling him a stupid prick and why didn't he use his brain cell.
At which point I was too far away and trying not to laugh loudly and couldn't hear the rest of the conversation.

@lottiegarbanzo

This reminds me of some quick-fire 'trick questions'. I think you do a distraction tactic first, like count backwards from ten. Then:

Q: What do cows drink?
A: (likely) milk
No, it's water!

Q: What do you put in toaster?
A: (likely) toast
No, it's bread!

There are more.

My son aged about 8 asked me to make him some toast, but the uncooked toast. So bread then?

You think the nice farmer lets the cute cows have a lovely life standing eating grass all day. Erm...no.

They do where I live, in an area full of dairy farms.

I used to think people in Southern Ireland spoke French as their first language

The country is called Ireland... there is no Southern Ireland.

My daughter’s friend (who is adorable but very..... fluffy) thought that seahorses were fantastical creatures like mermaids or unicorns. Given that her dad owns a giant catamaran and they have frequent holidays on the Great Barrier Reed where she goes diving and snorkeling, you’d think she’d know better. 🤪

@BeyondMyWits - they don’t speak British in Brittany, do they?

When met Hubby in his 30s he thought you plugged in the iron get it hot then unpluged it to iron the item. Did this on a regular basis. For years his mom then a relative did his work shirts and he did the odd one and t-shirts etc as went along. I asked him didnt he see his mom when lived at home ironing with plug in and he said always did it when at school or work.

@justilou1 - they speak Breton, but don't get the point sorry...