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Are all men this stupid or is it just my husband? (Light hearted)

98 replies

Notasbigasithink · 24/02/2026 18:14

Feel free to add stupidity across all family members including wives etc
My husband took with him to work today the UNCOOKED breaded chicken gudgeons for lunch and ate them!!!! Firstly they were for our tea tonight, but secondly, why the fuck didnt he stop eating them when in his words 'the texture did seem rather strange'... 🤦‍♀️
What acts of stupidity have you witnessed recently from what you would call, on the whole, intelligent people?!

OP posts:
Pumpkinpuffin · 25/02/2026 07:44

Not food, but my late partner once wiped his bum with a dettol wipe thinking it was an Andrex washlet then complained it stinged a bit 😬

BauhausOfEliott · 25/02/2026 10:16

My friend - not a man - did this exact thing with chicken goujons! She suffered zero ill effects, fortunately. She only realised after she'd eaten them and commented to her colleague that they weren't very crispy.

Oneearringlost · 25/02/2026 10:24

BlueEyedBogWitch · 25/02/2026 03:06

The Fat Ball DH thought he was eating artisan sausage rolls 😀

That was a very funny thread...I thought he thought they were artisan Scotch Eggs, but might have remembered wrongly....

cinquanta · 25/02/2026 10:26

My husband once made a ham sandwich with an uncooked gammon steak. When I pointed it out he said he thought it was a bit chewy.

He was fine.

murasaki · 25/02/2026 10:29

Dp bought a bag of galaxy mini eggs at the weekend. Later on in the day, I asked if I could have one. I was sat on the sofa unwrapping it, when he asked what I was doing. Turned out he'd eaten 3 with the foil on, while thinking that the shell wasn't very nice.....

eatingandeating24 · 25/02/2026 14:05

I'm eating and eating -- but I draw the line at uncooked chicken!! BTW I'm a man (and the wife always claims that she does not need a food waste bin - while I'm around). 😆

eatingandeating24 · 25/02/2026 14:07

Be GRATEFUL (with men around): Saves your gas, electricity and cooking skills. 😆

Seagoats · 25/02/2026 14:17

My late Gran brought pork chops to us to take on a family holiday to spain. If that alone wasnt grim, these chops spent 3 hours in a hot car ( summer time) to get to her friend's. Spent 2 days in her friend's fridge, then another 3 hours of hot car to get to our house.
She was very disgruntled when she found the chops didnt come to Spain with us.
2 weeks later and back in the UK, she wanted to take them home with her 😳🤮

She was one of the sturdiest people i knew. Made it to 99.

TheLovelinessOfDemons · 25/02/2026 14:52

DM has eaten raw chicken hearts at a barbecue before. She said the same thing. We were at a fair and we had tickets for a barbecue meal each. She just took them.

Dinkiedoo · 25/02/2026 15:05

When I'd just had my son i useful to make quick and easy meals . I bought some Chinese spare ribs from butcher and put them on a salad. They weren't cooked. Hubby didn't eat them and laughed his head off when he got home. Made me cry at the time

Rainydaycat · 25/02/2026 15:08

Dh “polished” the coffee table with fly spray

MagpiePi · 25/02/2026 15:13

A friend's boss ate the paper wrapped round a tortilla wrap as he thought it was edible paper.

My son accidentally put yellow split peas in the popcorn maker and wondered why they were taking so long to pop.

Skyflyinghigh · 25/02/2026 17:37

ViciousCurrentBun · 24/02/2026 18:51

Mine eats stuff really out of date, a bit like Martin in Friday Night Dinner, never ever been ill. Nine months out of date mince pies? No problem. I now buy some reduced post Christmas each year and see how long he can hold his nerve It has become an in joke. He has a jar of caviar he bought in Russia in the 1980’s, he has said he may eat it more than once.

Edited

Mine is the same. I only have to sniff something out of date and im sick but DH can eat ANYTHING no matter how out of date and be fine. I do worry he will poison me one day mind you

B1anche · 25/02/2026 17:42

My mum once shoved a finger full of insect repellant gel into my mouth instead of bonjella (when I was a child). To make it worse, she was a nurse! 😳

Ps. I wish we still had the laughing emoji reaction. Some of these are hilarious!

Emmz1510 · 25/02/2026 17:44

Ha just like the post from the other day when the OPs husband fed himself and the toddler a pack of week out of date sushi that had been sat IN THE BOOT OF THE car…….

Chestnutmarenutjob · 25/02/2026 17:44

My husband is a chef so not many food disasters here. Major lack of any type of common sense regarding everything else though.

Duechristmas · 25/02/2026 18:07

I've come home expecting enchiladas but he did bolognese then threw it into a wrap. He was waiting for the oven to warm up, but hadn't turned it on.
I was then told that I'd written the wrong time for a dental appointment on the calendar. I'd text him, my daughter (17) had the text, I'd told him several times AND it was on the calendar. Turns out neither of them can actually read a calendar...

Branwells77 · 25/02/2026 18:28

JohnTheRevelator · 24/02/2026 23:05

An ex of mine did all the following:-

Tried eating an uncooked,frozen garlic bread baguette.
Tried eating an uncooked chicken breast.
Put nasal drops in his ears.
Tipped mouthwash all over his hands, thinking it was hand cream.
Poured uncooked rice into the cat's litter tray, thinking it was cat litter.
Poured barbecue charcoal into the cat's litter tray thinking it was cat litter

After all these incidents,I did seriously begin to wonder about him.....

I wonder how he’s getting on in life now 😁

LBWW · 25/02/2026 18:28

All sorts. But if we are going along the food lines. I once asked my partner where he had put the wrapper for the chocolates he had just eaten. In his stomach it turns out. He hadn’t realised they had a tin foil wrapper on them. Just how?!!

mummybear35 · 25/02/2026 18:29

Mine once cooked sausages in oven …said he followed instructions and put it in for the right amount of time according to packet…but they “didn’t come out looking like the ones you usually make” but he ate it anyway….he didn’t pre-heat the oven 😳 so they were only partially cooked!!! Didn’t seem to affect his cast iron stomach though..

Zov · 25/02/2026 18:30

Rainydaycat · 25/02/2026 15:08

Dh “polished” the coffee table with fly spray

😂 Made me LOL!!!!

Some fab posts on here!

Hadalifeonce · 25/02/2026 18:39

A chap I worked with are raw sausages from the fridge at work. When I pointed out they were not cooked, he looked at me in a weird way and said 'so?'

murasaki · 25/02/2026 18:43

LBWW · 25/02/2026 18:28

All sorts. But if we are going along the food lines. I once asked my partner where he had put the wrapper for the chocolates he had just eaten. In his stomach it turns out. He hadn’t realised they had a tin foil wrapper on them. Just how?!!

Christ, there's more than one of them, I thought mine was uniquely stupid. He'll be pleased to know it's not just him!

CrazyCricketLady · 25/02/2026 18:43

DMIL put pork ribs in the fridge to marinade. My DFIL ate one, thought it a bit odd and chewy, so had another to make sure the first one wasn't just a bit off. He had diarrhea for 6 weeks

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