Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to [Moved to Piefed] Ask@lemm.eeEnglish · 6 个月前What was your "I can't believe I have to explain this to an adult" moment?message-squaremessage-square249linkfedilinkarrow-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 [Moved to Piefed] Ask@lemm.eeEnglish · 6 个月前message-square249linkfedilink
minus-squareGooberEar@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·6 个月前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.
minus-squarePofski@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·6 个月前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.
minus-squaremosiacmango@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·6 个月前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.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 个月前 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-up2·6 个月前I mean, the bible lists bats as a kind of bird, so sure, why not.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 个月前 …the osprey, the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat. What’s a hoopoe?
minus-squarePofski@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 个月前That actually makes sense. I didn’t think about that. Thanks.
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 个月前Did 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?