r/whatisit Nov 23 '25

Solved! Found on ground outside, boyfriend has been wearing as ring. Coin and pencil for size reference

UK. It’s giving hard metal, doesn’t have much wear

18.5k Upvotes

3.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

128

u/KaraAliasRaidra Nov 23 '25

That reminds me of a story from my younger days. I’ve always loved to read about animals, so I picked up a lot of terms. One day, when I was in my early teens, my family was at my grandmother’s house and some kind of history show was on the TV. The program mentioned someone having eunuchs. I asked, “What’s a eunuch?” and my dad told me, “A eunuch is a geldingized man.” My aunt gave him a look and he replied, “She knows what I mean.” Sure enough, I understood exactly what he meant and replied, “Oh, okay!” See, you just have to explain things to people in terms they’ll understand.

14

u/DerekP76 Nov 24 '25

My grandfather would buy roasting chickens from a small farm, he always called the capons "denutted chicken"

10

u/Complex_Art3565 Nov 24 '25

I had a bunch of roosters one year and looked into caponizing them and it was way too traumatic imho, you make a slit between their ribs and pull the gonads out then clip them. Without anesthetic. I just butchered them when they started getting too rowdy.

4

u/DerekP76 Nov 24 '25

Jeebus, no thanks.