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

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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:
CrazyCricketLady · 25/02/2026 18:48

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

MarthaBeach · 25/02/2026 18:52

The pork stories are gross - you can get parasites from raw pork!

Furlane · 25/02/2026 18:53

Someone was handing out little paper bags at nursery for a birthday. I didn’t read the message and gave my toddler little balls of dirt and seeds, which I thought were bougie cacao treats. They ate about three before I worked it out, saying they were nice, but a bit gritty.

Lovechilli75 · 25/02/2026 18:58

Friend got very frustrated when his couscous didn’t absorb the water and fluff up. Kept adding hot water. Finally checked packet….. They were sesame seeds.
Still makes us smile

AuntieLemonade · 25/02/2026 19:04

#TheDarwinAwards
Every year there is a competition to decide the stupidest way someone has died, internationally. The gender divide is quite telling… 🤣

darwinawards.com/

Notasbigasithink · 25/02/2026 19:36

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.....

My god, there are no words!!!

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Newname71 · 25/02/2026 19:47

We went for a meal at Miller and Carter… DH was moaning about the “disgusting cheese”. He was eating cubed butter! 😂
Another time he fell down the stairs, he was trying to hop down them. When I asked him why he said to see if he could!
A few christmases ago we were talking about what to buy my dad who was big on anything techie. DH suggested we go to PVC world to get something.
One night after we’d had an argument he wouldn’t come upstairs because there was a spider on one of the steps. He asked me to kill it, I said no. He said what am I going to do so I threw him a pillow and said sleep downstairs. About 10 minutes later I heard a steady thud, thud noise. Looked over the bannister and he had an arm full of oranges trying to orange the spider to death!
He’s a tit and a constant source of amusement

EscapeTheCastle · 25/02/2026 19:47

Rainydaycat · 25/02/2026 15:08

Dh “polished” the coffee table with fly spray

Same thing happened in this house. DH used a can of Raid to polish the dining table. I entered the room and said "whats that smell?" and picked up the can to see his stupid error. He didnt even apologise. Luckily it's a 2nd hand G Plan and had already seen better days, but still.

Tigerbalmshark · 25/02/2026 19:48

DysmalRadius · 24/02/2026 18:34

Somebody please link to the bloke who ate the fat balls the poster had made for the birds!!

Oh god yes, thought they were truffles or something 😬

Confessionsofa40yrold · 25/02/2026 19:56

Oh I wish! My partner is so funny. He won’t even cut the mould off cheese incase he accidentally eats a bit. He think as he’s allergic to penicillin, a bit of mould might kill him.

JWhipple · 25/02/2026 19:57

My ex (wearing cargo trousers with many pockets) was happy for me to carry the big bag full of rubbish (empty cider cans and food packaging) after we'd been to a festival in a park.
I put said bag in a bin first change I got. After an hour or two to get home (cancelled last train and so on) he was furious with me because obviously I should've taken his car keys out of the bag of rubbish before throwing it away.
Because I should've known that was the only place he would have put them. After arriving by bus. Oh and the fact he would've had them anyway.
There were many other instances of him being a complete twat (complete with toddler grade sulks and crying and blaming me for everything) but that was probably the final nail.

DurinsBane · 25/02/2026 21:36

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?!

At least the chicken in them will be cooked, and not actual raw chicken 🤣

Sara107 · 25/02/2026 22:10

I started to cook some pasta but had to take child to a dancing lesson and ran out of time. I strained the pasta after it had boiled for a couple of minutes and left it in the colander to finish later. DH came home, stirred some pesto in and ate the semi raw pasta. It hadn’t cooked enough to swell up, so the normal looking helping on his plate was almost the total amount for 3 of us. He thought it was perhaps a bit different to normal but couldn’t think why.

BubbleFree · 25/02/2026 22:37

Our labradors recall went to shit during adolescence and I’d read that liver cake was an excellent high value treat. Off I go to the butcher and buy some liver, I got chatting to him and told him what I needed all the liver for, the lovely man also gave me scraps of various other offcuts of meat from a huge bucket he had in the back of the shop. I made a batch of cakes intending to freeze a lot of it but left them cooling on the kitchen worktop, then I left to do the school run. DH called me while I was trying to park the car to ask what the cakes were, not thinking I said “oh it’s those meat cakes, I’ll sort them when I get back”. I had TOLD him that morning I was going to make the bloody stuff for the dog! I got back and noticed there was a bit missing, thinking DH had probably taken some to try with the dog. I found DH in the living room eating a piece with salad. 🤢 << that was the colour his face went when I reminded him that I’d said that morning I was making training treats for the dog. I’ve never told him that “cake” contained sloppy bits of meat that had probably been on the floor…

Annaport · 25/02/2026 22:37

I once ate pickled ginger thinking it was ham, and I also ate caviar thinking it was blackberry but still not too bad compared to some of the others here.

Komododragonchocolatecoin · 25/02/2026 22:47

Someone I know reheated their Chinese takeaway by putting the whole carrier bag in the microwave
Have had to stop young colleagues at work putting foil containers in the microwave (maybe I should've just left them to it)

YourNeedyTaupeCat · 25/02/2026 22:48

Went to shop to get wipes and came back with nappy bags...do men get baby brain?
Also had to get dishwasher tabs...got tabs for cleaning washing machines instead.

Not dh but also men..
Asked them to get salt at the supermarket, the kind you grind. They came back and said they had none...they were looking in the appliances aisle. I went later and they had at least 3 different kinds.

littlegreydevil · 25/02/2026 23:24

I had bought one of those “finish in the oven” focaccias. Husband tried it and complained that it was very wet and oily. Of course he hadn’t baked it despite it being clearly stated on the packaging that it was part-cooked. He did get a rather upset stomach…

Fireflybaby · 26/02/2026 07:36

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 can only imagine what the cat thinks of him... 😅

Tallestone · 26/02/2026 07:52

My ex once chewed off the wrapper of one of those blue loo things. He had a blue mouth.

insomniacalways · 26/02/2026 10:09

My ex thought you stuck the sanitary towels on your skin somehow, rather than in your pants. He was in his 30s . I am still not sure how he thought you did it. I found out when he asked if it hurt when you pulled it off!

WannaSweetie · 26/02/2026 10:42

These are funny 😆 my dad once mistook a denture tablet for an extra strong mint, thought it tasted a bit funny & didn’t like the way it made him froth at the mouth 😆 he also mistook deep heat cream for his pile cream

LakieLady · 26/02/2026 10:48

My DNiece thought she could defrost some chicken breasts more quickly by spraying them with windscreen de-icer.

DSIL arrived home just as DNiece was getting the de-icer out of her car, thankfully.

PloddingAlong21 · 26/02/2026 14:00

Newname71 · 25/02/2026 19:47

We went for a meal at Miller and Carter… DH was moaning about the “disgusting cheese”. He was eating cubed butter! 😂
Another time he fell down the stairs, he was trying to hop down them. When I asked him why he said to see if he could!
A few christmases ago we were talking about what to buy my dad who was big on anything techie. DH suggested we go to PVC world to get something.
One night after we’d had an argument he wouldn’t come upstairs because there was a spider on one of the steps. He asked me to kill it, I said no. He said what am I going to do so I threw him a pillow and said sleep downstairs. About 10 minutes later I heard a steady thud, thud noise. Looked over the bannister and he had an arm full of oranges trying to orange the spider to death!
He’s a tit and a constant source of amusement

This actually had my crying with laughter. PVC world. Dead 😂😂😂

ChamonixMountainBum · 26/02/2026 14:03

Wife gets really twitchy about medium rare steaks but will happily eat steak tartare.

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