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

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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?!

This is one of my most favourite threads. These posts are brilliant.

1. DH did an online food order. We planned to cook curry one night (just the two of us), so he ordered some fresh ginger. As you can imagine that would be pretty miniscule. He misread the weight on the order page and we had a literal carrier bag of fresh ginger delivered. We could have cooked curry for the whole street, the next street and the one after that for about 3 months.
2. My MIL is an amazing cook. When we used to visit years ago she had always made us an amazing dinner and pudding. We had dinner, lovely as usual, then we got to the pudding. She served it, said nothing, and we were eating it. She sort of glanced at us.

“yeah this umm doesn’t taste right” I say…

“ah yes. Was hoping you wouldn’t notice. I accidently put cayenne pepper in, instead of cinnamon as they were next to each other in the cupboard.”

A friend of mine once ordered steak tartare and asked for it to be well done. Oh dear.

I'm quite partial to a raw potato actually...

A male friend is quite a conservative eater...doesn't like trying new things, fussy.

Anyway, one day he was uncharacteristically adventurous and ordered chicken satay.

Did I mention he hates peanuts?

He learnt the hard way what satay actually is 😂

That was the end of the adventurous streak for a while.

A long time ago (when I was a child) we were visiting friends in Canada. My Dad said on our last day he wasn't looking forward to going home and back to work, but had to before the (work) place went to rack and ruin.

A few weeks later my Dad was talking to his friend on the phone. He had been looking up 'Rackanruin' on his map and couldn't find it, and wondered where in the world it was. He thought it was an actual place :)

Just realised this ins't food related.... 😑

Oh but I have another one. Another Dad one.

Went to a fancy coffee shop just as coffee was getting popular again, about 20 years ago. I asked if he wanted me to order for him as anything above 'instant' would have been a new experience. He insisted that no, he knew how to do it. So went up and got the coffees (flat white for me please).

He then came back and then spent 10 mins sipping very gingerly from his perfectly made espresso. Every sip came with an undeniable grimace. But, would not back down and kept saying its exactly what he wanted! It's one of my favourite memories.

Can you post a pic of the GOUJONS packaging or say what brand they were please? I’m struggling to believe he wouldn’t notice once his teeth went in.

An ex used to ask/make rare beef burgers, like you would a rare steak. He refused to believe it was a health risk and his body rejecting everything from both ends was nothing to do with his "amazing " burger.... This happened multiple times.

Same guy also followed cooking instructions to the letter. Packet says cooks in 22min? Out the oven it comes at that precise time and who cares if the oven wasn't actually warm enough, it's good to eat, the instructions said so!

Can I tell you on Sunday when the sofa my dh bought arrives and doesn't fit through the door
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Parents visiting us for first time in a town off the M25
dad doesnt drive
mum leant in her 60s

I told her after she crosses the Queen Elizabeth bridge there will be a sign and just take that to our town
She went the wrong way round the M25 and went through the tunnel not the bridge until eventually saw a sign for her home town

When she told us yhere was no bridge we said you obviously went the wrong way round
She didn’t know the M25 was circular. !!

Dad slept the whole way and mum was so angry with him she parked the car in the garage and left him there 🤣🤣🤣

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Adding spelling it 'gudgeons' to this list

Seriously, was he blind? Because its either that or he's possibly in the bottom 1% in IQ. Worryingly these people walk the earth and you're supposed to listen to their opinions and ideas on an equal footing to others (and they can vote! 😱)

The packet has been binned as this was several days ago now!
They were M&S chilled, breaded guojons that obviously (to normal people) needed cooking first but clearly not to my husband!

My DH once ate a raw egg yolk I’d saved in the fridge after using the white for something or other. He said he thought it was an apricot 😳

Mine absolutely excelled himself on Thursday. Our lovely dog has a bulging disc which sometimes causes him an issue. He thought the dog looked in pain so gave him an ibuprofen! He thought it was the same as paracetamol: On top of that, for good measure he gave him some metacam too! So a call to animal poison to confirm he’d ingested enough to cause issues £35 and an out if hours vet trip £232. I had to go straight to bed when we got back otherwise I think I’d have punched him in the teeth!!
The dogs fine.

Ouch, and I'm glad the dog is ok.

Dp's response to this was ' I know I'm a bit stupid occasionally but when the cats had colds last week, it never occurred to me to fill the water bowl with lemsip'.

Good thing too.

We were on a day trip to France, and I went to get a coffee from the machine. I wanted a large coffee, and I knew espresso was small, so I ordered a double. :(

I read a post online this week that apparently lots of men think women use tampons by placing them in between the lips, like a hot dog in a bun. And also that sanitary towels are applied sticky side up, like a plaster.

My ex saw recycled toilet paper for sale and said he didn’t want that, he wanted toilet paper that hadn’t already been used.

TBF, it was at a time when recycling was in its infancy

I caught my DP attempting to cook a frozen chicken burgers in the toaster. I suspect it wasn't the first time. He eats anything, he's a stranger to a sell by date. He says that it doesn't matter if meats out of date, and I mean massively out of date, if the packet hasn't been opened. He also doesn't believe that tinned food has used by dates. He is never, ever ill. Ever.

You’re right! It was Scotch eggs. Great thread.

Barney16 It night work if you put it in a toaster bag. (Tip for students?) I could never convince my Mum that if you froze something before it's expiry date, it was still good when you thawed it out. (She came to freezers very late in life) Still, I suppose it's better than the other way round.