Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to Ask@lemm.eeEnglish · 11 days agoWhat was your "I can't believe I have to explain this to an adult" moment?message-squaremessage-square261fedilinkarrow-up1181arrow-down11
arrow-up1180arrow-down1message-squareWhat was your "I can't believe I have to explain this to an adult" moment?Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to Ask@lemm.eeEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square261fedilink
minus-squareGooberEar@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·11 days agoI didn’t have to explain it, but I found myself in a situation where I was informing a grown woman that fish are indeed animals.
minus-squarePofski@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·11 days agoOh, that reminds me of when I had to explain to my mother that my then girlfriend was vegetarian and that, no, chicken do count as meat.
minus-squaremosiacmango@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·11 days agoThat sounds like a vestige from the Catholic habit of not eating meat at times, so the definition of “what’s meat” got really specific and excluded things like fish and chicken.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 days ago the Catholic habit of not eating meat at times, so the definition of “what’s meat” got really specific “Beavers are fish, right? And fish aren’t meat, so…”
minus-squareWhats_your_reasoning@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 days agoI mean, the bible lists bats as a kind of bird, so sure, why not.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days ago …the osprey, the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat. What’s a hoopoe?
minus-squarePofski@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 days agoThat actually makes sense. I didn’t think about that. Thanks.
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days agoDid she respond saying your explanation sounded fishy?
I didn’t have to explain it, but I found myself in a situation where I was informing a grown woman that fish are indeed animals.
Oh, that reminds me of when I had to explain to my mother that my then girlfriend was vegetarian and that, no, chicken do count as meat.
That sounds like a vestige from the Catholic habit of not eating meat at times, so the definition of “what’s meat” got really specific and excluded things like fish and chicken.
“Beavers are fish, right? And fish aren’t meat, so…”
I mean, the bible lists bats as a kind of bird, so sure, why not.
What’s a hoopoe?
That actually makes sense. I didn’t think about that. Thanks.
Did she respond saying your explanation sounded fishy?