Another thread about cluelessness

[redrhodie]

When I was about to leave my old job, I found out one of my coworkers had dated our boss before either of us had started working there. I had no idea! It made some of the company dynamics a lot more clear!

[indigoiis]

When I first got into raising alpacas, our mentors kept talking about "spit tests" to determine pregnancy. I didn't know what the heck they were talking about - do the animals spit on a progesterone card? Do we collect spit and then run a test on it?

I found out after I conjectured, in front of a lot of other farmers, the above theory. Everyone laughed. Then we went out to witness a "real" spit test. All it is is bringing in a male alpaca to the paddock, and if a female spits at him, she's 95% of the time preggers.

Boy was my face red.

[Pax]

When I first got into raising alpacas, our mentors kept talking about "spit tests" to determine pregnancy. I didn't know what the heck they were talking about - do the animals spit on a progesterone card? Do we collect spit and then run a test on it?

I found out after I conjectured, in front of a lot of other farmers, the above theory. Everyone laughed. Then we went out to witness a "real" spit test. All it is is bringing in a male alpaca to the paddock, and if a female spits at him, she's 95% of the time preggers.

Boy was my face red.

When we moved home from Italy I was placed in a civilian school populated with farm kids, there were bovines wandering about the pasture next to the school and I asked if they were boy or girl cows and was the bull a boy or girl bull...I had no idea that cow = female and bull = male.

[mimitabby]

When we moved home from Italy I was placed in a civilian school populated with farm kids, there were bovines wandering about the pasture next to the school and I asked if they were boy or girl cows and was the bull a boy or girl bull...I had no idea that cow = female and bull = male.

oh, that's really cute! ( I love the spit test story too!)

[alpinerabbit]

oh geez that reminds me. my 2nd grade best friend made animal sounds while we were playing with toy ponies, she thought they go "pon-pon"....

[bmccasland]

Let's start this with... my dearest Mother is a prude (and probably most of her generation was). She explained about having periods. But as for where babies came from - you got married and then you had babies. So there was something in that marriage certificate that caused babies.

Well in H.S. biology class I found out how other mammals procreated, and boy was I surprised! I knew about male human anatomy, but if I knew THAT had something to do with getting me pregnant, abstinance would have been very easy. The same thing they pee with?

[OakLeaf]

But as for where babies came from -

Y'know, in certain ways my early childhood exposure to the facts of life was pretty liberal. I knew what the external parts on male animals were called (and from stories my mom loves to tell, wasn't shy about naming them, at the top of my voice, at the zoo ). I knew what had to happen between a male and a female before a baby would result. But as far as female parts, EXACTLY where babies come from? My mom pointed in the general region of her crotch. For years my sisters and I believed that a hole opened up in the crease of the groin, for babies to be born from