What with the age and proportion threads, I thought it'd be funny to have a thread where you can relate to us some of the stupidest things you've ever said or done! This can apply to stupid things you've said or done around friends or family or even on the forums here.
Here is mine:
Okay, well I was at this themepark about a year or so ago. Well, I was on water ride where you get into this boat thing (not an intertube) and plastic doors the close in on the sides. The ride had finished and was floating into the station dock. It stopped and everybody opened their doors, except me. I couldn't figure it out! I had gone on it before but couldn't get it open, which makes me think it was stuck.
Anyway, I was at the very front and lots of people were waiting to get on the ride. Meanwhile a couple ride attendants were crankily "instructing" me about how to get it open. One of them spoke through a loud speaker in the station used to make announcments and stuff. Well, I decided the best thing to do was just to jump out over it and either undo it from the other side or let the next rider deal with it.
Well, I hopped out over the door and the two ride attendants got all ticked off and yelled at me for it and scolded me like a puppy dog saying "no!" And this happened infront of a bunch of riders waiting to get on. I look back on it now and it isn't as bad as it could've been, but it's always good for a stupid laugh. I just turned around and walked away.
I was showing a friend of mine the Retarded Animal Babies 8 episode. It was funny as hell and I laughed at it.
... My friend wasn't laughing at all, just faked a smile. I told him he had no sence of humour
In the episode the hampster reminds the puppy that his mother died and that it's the puppys fault.
I remembered after the episode was over that his mother had committed suicide 2 years ago... I was so ashamed, and I still feel awful.
I have never said, nor done, anything stupid in my entire life.
Two days ago, while I was working in a bar...
A young couple with a baby comes in. They sit down and mommy and daddy order something to drink.
After a while it's my time to check up on the guests if they want anything else to drink. As the guest area is candlelit, I sometimes have to stare a bit to see if the glasses are still full.
So I'm staring at this woman's glass, and then my eyes re-focus and I see that behind the glass, directly in my line of sight, she has one breast out and is feeding the baby. It must have looked like I was staring at her boob.
To make things complete, I open my mouth and without thinking, out comes the standard sentence I always say when I see the guests don't need any drinks at the moment...
"Good, everyone seems to have something to drink here."
The look she gave me was priceless, and only then I'd realized that I'd made an awkward situation even worse. I let my co-worker deal with that table for the rest of the evening.
Every few months or so I look back and realize how fucking stupid my thoughts used to be. Well, it has been happening less and less recently, but the difference between, say, 15 and 15 and 6 months is immense.
Everything I do is stupid, but I'll tell you one thing, that happened last week.
I went bowling with a couple of friends, and in the final turn, I had to throw a strike, to win the game. So I figured, if I take a not-so-heavy ball and throw it as fast as I can, it should work!
The holes of this ball were alittle smaller and when I threw the ball, my fingers were stucked and I actually threw myself across the bowling-lane.
Lol, everyone was watching and laughed at me... I felt so embaressed and yet, also in a weird way, funny :)
also, not even 10minutes after that I broke an empty glass of coca cola ::)
I can't count the number of stupid things I've done.. there are so many. I have a fairly high IQ, but it doesn't make up for my total lack of common sense from time to time.
My roomate's father died of cancer, and I'm always slipping up and mentioning things that I know must make him think about it, like, "Don't microwave that plastic, it releases carcinogens. We all know cancer is bad, don't we?" because I'm such an idiot.
Most recently, on Sunday I slammed on my brakes going 75mph (legally) without pressing the clutch and I ripped up my fifth gear. I can still drive my car in 1st-4th gears, but preferably not faster than 65mph. Transmission work in cars is the most expensive and time intensive kind of repair you can make, so unless my father can help me fix it, there is no hope.
So I guess the answer to the question is, really stupid.
Quote from: Minimi on Thu 15/04/2004 17:32:09
Everything I do is stupid, but I'll tell you one thing, that happened last week.
I went bowling with a couple of friends, and in the final turn, I had to throw a strike, to win the game. So I figured, if I take a not-so-heavy ball and throw it as fast as I can, it should work!
The holes of this ball were alittle smaller and when I threw the ball, my fingers were stucked and I actually threw myself across the bowling-lane.
lol!
I've only been bowling once and I did something stupid then. But it was on purpose and only for fun. It was my turn and I nocked down most if the pins, if not all of them and I started dancing around up there like Chris Tucker in Rush Hour after he blew up that car.
We are bowling about twice a week. It's really stupid I guess, and costs lots of money... but who cares! We also go dancing when we make a strike, and also, some friend of mine, tried to throw with face backwards, and he threw the ball on the other lane! LOL! When thinking about that, I can still see the face of the manager in front of me! :)
Actually... do you know what's really stupid? That you see someone you know from behind, and you greet him/her, and when he/she turns around it seems to be someone else! I really hate that, and I have it all the time! :-X
I was told my friend when he asked for a ride clear across town, that I had no gas whatsoever. He said, no problem dude I'll take care of it and put some money in your tank. He gave me 1 buck. ^^ I make em give me the cash up front from now on.
Quote from: AGA on Thu 15/04/2004 16:00:01
I have never said, nor done, anything stupid in my entire life.
Re-heally? And that time at mittens, when you fell asleep on the bus and started talking in your sleep so loudly that some people next to you picked up a video-camera and sent the tape to "Sweden's funniest home-videos"?
What about that?
(hm...maybe I wasn't supposed to say that?)
Oh no! I can never return to Sweden now!
I think I've become so desensitised to doing stupid things that I don't even notice I'm doing them any more.
Quote from: Raggit on Thu 15/04/2004 15:02:36
What with the age and proportion threads, I thought it'd be funny to have a thread where you can relate to us some of the stupidest things you've ever said or done! This can apply to stupid things you've said or done around friends or family or even on the forums here.
Here is mine:
Okay, well I was at this themepark about a year or so ago. Well, I was on water ride where you get into this boat thing (not an intertube) and plastic doors the close in on the sides. The ride had finished and was floating into the station dock. It stopped and everybody opened their doors, except me. I couldn't figure it out! I had gone on it before but couldn't get it open, which makes me think it was stuck.
Anyway, I was at the very front and lots of people were waiting to get on the ride. Meanwhile a couple ride attendants were crankily "instructing" me about how to get it open. One of them spoke through a loud speaker in the station used to make announcments and stuff. Well, I decided the best thing to do was just to jump out over it and either undo it from the other side or let the next rider deal with it.
Well, I hopped out over the door and the two ride attendants got all ticked off and yelled at me for it and scolded me like a puppy dog saying "no!" And this happened infront of a bunch of riders waiting to get on. I look back on it now and it isn't as bad as it could've been, but it's always good for a stupid laugh. I just turned around and walked away.
I would've told the attendants to 'read between the lines'. ;D
I once accidentally pressed a big red-button on a control panel. It was in a flight-tower at the airport. I was on a field trip in 8th grade. Apparently, the button turned off all flight guidance systems or something.. and because of that, I eventually downed 8 planes. I think something like 2,500 people died.. I dunno.
Quote from: Pumaman on Thu 15/04/2004 21:33:15
I think I've become so desensitised to doing stupid things that I don't even notice I'm doing them any more.
You mean like Windows Roomedit?
idiot
Quote from: LilGryphMaster on Thu 15/04/2004 21:43:53
I once accidentally pressed a big red-button on a control panel. It was in a flight-tower at the airport. I was on a field trip in 8th grade. Apparently, the button turned off all flight guidance systems or something.. and because of that, I eventually downed 8 planes. I think something like 2,500 people died.. I dunno.
I did something like that once, except it wasn't at the airport, it was in a nuclear power plant and the whole thing blew up. It made the surrounding towns really mad. Boy, a little radiation gets loose and people just freak.
I honestly can't remember doing anything terribly stupid... I do some strange stuff in front of my family, but they all know I'm a crazed dumbass anyway, so they just laugh.
But I am constantly embarrassed when I'm with my brother and HE does something stupid... He has no tact whatsoever...
My Grandfather died just under a year ago, so my grandmother was trying to give a lot of the stuff away, but she didn't want to throw anything out because it was too painful; it was like throwing out a piece of her relationship...
She had some left-handed golf-clubs that no one wanted, and my brother's like "Why don't you throw it out? They're just golf clubs..." I nudged him and mouthed the words 'sentimental value', and he says "why would you be sentimental about golf clubs? I mean - he's DEAD, isn't he?"
Everyone just looked at him and I thought I would die, too.
He also thought anchovies were a type of herb...
(And he's 22....)
I have done many a stupid things in my time, but this one seems to really stand out:
My cousin, My brother, and I were catching cans of spray paint on fire, so to see them discharge a constant, 9 foot, flame for about a minute (kids, don't try this at home, but if you have...damn, nothing is cooler). Obviously I had no matches, so I put a pair of my brothers underpants on a stick and lit them with the stove, I ran out of the house, not knowing that fragments of flaming undergarments fell between the patio floor boards, and started the 5th can on fire and kicked it around about for quite a while. I went back to get a sock or perhaps an old shirt to find that my porch was on fire! The dry old leaves under the porch had gave it some fuel, but not enough to make a huge flame. But apparently, my youngest brother had been stashing trash under the porch when it was too dark to go to the dumpster.
I have since then, found better things to do with my own time, and I believe, very earnestly, that I am slightly less stupid due to this.
Speaking of playing with fire, I once burned down an elementary school full of kids.. It was funny.
I put on a bike helmet and asked a friend to throw a brick at my head. I aslo li my hair on fire coz someone said burnt hair smells funny.
I practicly do something stupid everyday even thuogh my iq is 156(which is genius for an 11 year old by the way)
a week ago in school the teacher was talking non stop so my friend dared me to turn on the air con so we couldnt hear the teacher.
i turned on the button on the wall but i accidentaly hit the fan buttun and 8 paper planes that were stuck on top of the fan all fell down and hit the teacherand my friend emeedietly pointed to me.
Once upon a time, during my High School time, a girl told to me that I was not so brave to nail a staple in my hand...
I knew she wanted me to be intrigated by her and finally nailing the staple to me... but I just couldn't resist.
Now I just can't stop boasting about my nice scarf in my left hand... :)
Quote from: AGA on Thu 15/04/2004 16:00:01
I have never said, nor done, anything stupid in my entire life.
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Eeeer...
Quote from: Farlander on Sat 17/04/2004 15:09:37
Once upon a time, during my High School time, a girl told to me that I was not so brave to nail a staple in my hand...
I knew she wanted me to be intrigated by her and finally nailing the staple to me... but I just couldn't resist.
Now I just can't stop boasting about my nice scarf in my left hand... :)
It was nice of her to give you a scarf though.
Quote from: spoofer4ever on Sat 17/04/2004 12:32:21
I practicly do something stupid everyday even thuogh my iq is 156(which is genius for an 11 year old by the way)
a week ago in school the teacher was talking non stop so my friend dared me to turn on the air con so we couldnt hear the teacher.
i turned on the button on the wall but i accidentaly hit the fan buttun and 8 paper planes that were stuck on top of the fan all fell down and hit the teacherand my friend emeedietly pointed to me.
For a genius, you have horrible spelling, grammar and punctuation.
Bt
My parents keep extra loaves of bread in a chest freezer. One day, when I was quite short, I had leaned into the freezer to get out one of said loaves of bread. Because of my diminutive hight, I was sort of draped over the edge of the freezer, my feet not touching the ground. I grabbed a loaf of bread. Not thinking about it, I licked my lips.
My toungue, however, went out a bit too far. It touched a lump of frost and firmly stuck to the inside of the freezer.
So there I was, half in, half out of the freezer, unable to move for fear of giving myself a tongue-ectomy. I started screaming bloody murder, and my sister came to see what the problem was.
"Mah un ih uh oo eh heeuh!" I yelled. Roughly translated, this means "My tongue is stuck to the freezer!"
"I can't understand you. Take your head out of the freezer!"
"Ah CANH!"
Oh, she got some hot water to melt the ice. Once she stopped laughing. And took a picture. Jerk.
QuoteIt was nice of her to give you a scarf though.
I smell an entry for the "Farlander's typos" Sprite Jam...
Quote from: Blackthorne519 on Sat 17/04/2004 15:49:01
Quote from: spoofer4ever on Sat 17/04/2004 12:32:21
I practicly do something stupid everyday even thuogh my iq is 156(which is genius for an 11 year old by the way)
a week ago in school the teacher was talking non stop so my friend dared me to turn on the air con so we couldnt hear the teacher.
i turned on the button on the wall but i accidentaly hit the fan buttun and 8 paper planes that were stuck on top of the fan all fell down and hit the teacherand my friend emeedietly pointed to me.
For a genius, you have horrible spelling, grammar and punctuation.
Bt
For an
11 year old. The test differs in difficulty depending on age, and measures how far you are above the average. In the first grade, I tested over 150, and in senior year I tested at 135. My school actually made me dumber.
The test basically tests your memory skills by asking you to repeat multiple series of numbers backwards, they'll say 39285 and you must say 58293 in the allocated amount of time. Other parts of the test ask you things which are considered general knowledge for people of your age.
Quote from: MrColossal on Thu 15/04/2004 21:44:06
You mean like Windows Roomedit?
idiot
You'll never forgive me for that, will you? I can only apologise so many times, it was a moment of madness :'(
A very stupid thing I did recently well at the time I thought it was a really good idea. It turned out to be a bad idea a VERY BAD idea. I thought to myself one day "hmmm... I have a good idea, i'll take my playstation apart" So I did then i thought "what would happen if I try running the playstation without the case!" So I plug in the semi nude playstation and press the power button nothing happens. So I examine everything twiddle with the power and then BOOM! I giant explosion and electric shock to the thumb. My thumb in pain feels like its burning. Infact it was burnt and I got blisters and I was in pain for a very long time. As for the explosion it didn't short circuit anything else which was quite a miricle. So remember kids:
DON'T TAKE APART YOUR PLAYSTATION, PUT IT BACK TOGETHER MINUS CASE AND EXPECT IT TO RUN FINE. EXPECT PAIN AND LOTS OF IT!
I never did get the playstation running again...
Capacitors (the round battery-like things) hold voltage even after being unplugged for years. When I was building my tube amplifier I emptyed out 400+ volts DC between my fingers multiple times.