So I spent the last several hours unplugging my modem every once in a bit then plugging it back in, in hopes to revive the internet... come to find I had switched the laptop's Wireless switch to off much earlier without noticing What's your latest bout of idiocy?

Waiting until there was a day left before I started working on my mousetrap powered car for physics class.

Waiting an entire week of the Christmas season before stocking up on my eggnog supply

Started caring in that way about someone when I promised myself that I wouldn't challenge my emotions like that again.

Too 'downerish'?

After spending the past few months trying to figure out how to remove my phone's battery and SDcard, I remembered the existence of Google and had them both out within 2 minutes.

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:So I spent the last several hours unplugging my modem every once in a bit then plugging it back in, in hopes to revive the internet... come to find I had switched the laptop's Wireless switch to off much earlier without noticing

I did that last week...Who in feth's name put a "toggle wireless internet connectivity" button onto these laptops's keyboard?!

Reactivated my WoW account

Jihadin wrote:Reactivated my WoW account

So when will you be returning to Dakka Dakka?

Didn't say I was a hardcore raider or player. Wife has me on "Wife Control"

Swimming in my pool during a hurricane.

Buying product from a GW store.

Last dumb thing i did was about an hour ago. Im cutting down a branch of a tree outside my bedroom window while standing under it.........

Now i have a whomping headache and i cut my arm when i dropped the saw. Im not a particularly smart person.

Just today; went outside in 10* weather without my coat on.

I didn't realize I was going to get my cart stuck in the snow, so I didn't think I would be out there as long as I was....

Woke up on time, and while half asleep, thought I was late and called my boss and told him I would be late.

He was like "Um, you do realize you don't have to be here for another hour, right?" (he knows that it's a ten minute drive from my house).

Me: "Oh."

Him: Click.

I came to work today...
Other than that, I don't think I should post many of the stupid things I've done, no one would _ever_ take me seriously

Bought a thunderhawk.

Spent twenty minutes looking for my glasses before realizing I was wearing them.

Managed to slice my thumb with a plastic grocery bag. Bled for close to ten minutes. How? Lord knows......

Nocturn wrote:Woke up on time, and while half asleep, thought I was late and called my boss and told him I would be late.

He was like "Um, you do realize you don't have to be here for another hour, right?" (he knows that it's a ten minute drive from my house).

Me: "Oh."

Him: Click.

Done that, went to sleep and woke up and immediately started to take a shower. Next thing I know my mom was knocking on the door asking me what I was doing through the door. I told her I was taking a shower. She told me that it was 11 o'clock, I stopped the shower and then went back to bed. I didn't have to be to school for another nine hours, this was back in my high school days though.

One time I showed up to work 4 hours early, I do that a lot.

Cut myself on a cardboard box.

Pretty much the equivalent of a massive paper cut.

I read the OT forum.

Dropped my hand on my own lap a bit too hard........

Coolyo294 wrote:Waiting until there was a day left before I started working on my mousetrap powered car for physics class.

My boy has to do that project too! Kewl!


Mine - getting up this morning. This whole not winning the Lotto thing is really starting to bum me out.

Told a girl exactly what I thought about her when she asked me to. Pretty much screwed up any chance with her I imagine

Frazzled wrote:

Coolyo294 wrote:Waiting until there was a day left before I started working on my mousetrap powered car for physics class.

My boy has to do that project too! Kewl!


Mine - getting up this morning. This whole not winning the Lotto thing is really starting to bum me out.

I actually got into the science academy in Australia for my entry. Think vinyl for wheels, and a long arm on the mousetrap, slow movement is better, and of course use a couple of spare vinyls.

This was a couple years back. I actally stapled my finger

I accidently the thing.

Stayed up until 5am reading dakka then slept for 26 hours solid.

Getting into a political debate on the internet in the off-topic section of a wargames forum.

Easy E wrote:Getting into a political debate on the internet in the off-topic section of a wargames forum.

This.

Had four rum and cokes and two beers at the bar last night, then got five and a half hours of sleep before work

...man, I feel like poop haha

Loaded the washing machine, poured in the detergent, then forgot to turn in on. Walked back an hour later to put clothes in the drier and found the clothes were still dry. Doh!

2nd or 3rd time I've done that. Need to cut back on the crack.

kronk wrote:Loaded the washing machine, poured in the detergent, then forgot to turn in on. Walked back an hour later to put clothes in the drier and found the clothes were still dry. Doh!

2nd or 3rd time I've done that. Need to cut back on the crack.

My old roommate would ALWAYS forget to dry his clothes...I would always find them when I had to do my own laundry

I've lost that switch in yer head that you use to zone in and out of what the Mrs is saying, and it's continually off atm.

I keep walking into rooms to be asked "did you do X?" Only to meet this witha slightly quizical look on my face.

So continuous stupidity or old age reigns here.

notprop wrote:I've lots that switch in yer head that you use to zone in and out of what the Mrs is say its continually off atm.

I keep walking into rooms to be asked "did you do X?" Only to meet this witha slightly quizical look on my face.

So continuous stupidity or old age reigns here.

I know the feeling, I regularly walk into rooms with no recollection of why or how I got there.

Happens with me too, I can put a pen down then it may as well have disintegrated.

n0t_u wrote:Happens with me too, I can put a pen down then it may as well have disintegrated.

Pens are feast or famine. Sometimes I can't find one to save my life. Sometimes I empty my pocket at night and find 5 or 6. Weird.

I continuosly lose thing, like my wallet or phone and spend ages looking for them, only to find they're in my pocket hours later!

EDIT: also make typos on Dakka too often!

EDIT to the EDIT: Typo, dammit!

corpsesarefun wrote:

notprop wrote:I've lots that switch in yer head that you use to zone in and out of what the Mrs is say its continually off atm.

I keep walking into rooms to be asked "did you do X?" Only to meet this witha slightly quizical look on my face.

So continuous stupidity or old age reigns here.

I know the feeling, I regularly walk into rooms with no recollection of why or how I got there.

Aye, that happens all too often with me. I blame old age.

kronk wrote:

n0t_u wrote:Happens with me too, I can put a pen down then it may as well have disintegrated.

Pens are feast or famine. Sometimes I can't find one to save my life. Sometimes I empty my pocket at night and find 5 or 6. Weird.

Pens are the spawn of the devil. The sooner we can write just by thinking the words in our head and staring at paper, the better.

Hmmm one of the unspoken hassles of modern society - TOO MANY DAMN POCKETS!!!!

If only there was a solution to this crime against humanity! Perhaps a bag of some sort that a man could hold in his hands? If someone could solve that quandary they'd be rich.

What's worse is my nasty habit of "putting things away" in the wrong place then completely forgetting I put it away, I'll go fetch a screwdriver to open up my PC then seemingly moments later it's gone until I check the fridge for milk and notice it nestled between the eggs.

corpsesarefun wrote:What's worse is my nasty habit of "putting things away" in the wrong place then completely forgetting I put it away, I'll go fetch a screwdriver to open up my PC then seemingly moments later it's gone until I check the fridge for milk and notice it nestled between the eggs.

I feel your pain. It once took me three days to find my good hammer because I had apparently decided to place it under a loaf of bread.

feel your pain. It once took me three days to find my good hammer because I had apparently decided to place it under a loaf of bread.

I've done that to...whew...glad I'm not alone in that

I still don't know how the hell my keys got in the freezer that time.

corpsesarefun wrote:Stayed up until 5am reading dakka then slept for 26 hours solid.

Done that with both LoL and DakkaDakka.

My gums got infected because of my damn wisdom teeth. Seriously, they are like 90% of the way it, my jaw has room, everything is smooth sailing then suddenly (well, progressively worse over a few days) the most intense pain ive ever been in.
anyway the stupid thing was me going to school with a fever and gum pain (I went to the dentist and found out they were infected that night) trying to keep up my perfect attendance. tomorrow rolls along and

yesterday was the first day ive missed school in 3 years

it hurts to eat, it hurts to drink, it hurts to open my mouth wide, etc etc.

i just dropped all my dinner, EVERYWHERE. well that's my dinner gone...

I snorted one of those fruit punch powder things. But I earned like 3 bucks, so it was ok.

moom241 wrote:I snorted one of those fruit punch powder things. But I earned like 3 bucks, so it was ok.

I knew a guy who snorted a line of pepper for $1. I think he's got you beat.

LoneLictor wrote:

moom241 wrote:I snorted one of those fruit punch powder things. But I earned like 3 bucks, so it was ok.

I knew a guy who snorted a line of pepper for $1. I think he's got you beat.

Actually, my friend did chilli powder in a truth or dare, funniest thing I have ever seen!

Castiel wrote:

LoneLictor wrote:

moom241 wrote:I snorted one of those fruit punch powder things. But I earned like 3 bucks, so it was ok.

I knew a guy who snorted a line of pepper for $1. I think he's got you beat.

Actually, my friend did chilli powder in a truth or dare, funniest thing I have ever seen!

I ate the center of a jalepeno for the fun of it. But then it became very un-fun.

CuddlySquig wrote:

Castiel wrote:

LoneLictor wrote:

moom241 wrote:I snorted one of those fruit punch powder things. But I earned like 3 bucks, so it was ok.

I knew a guy who snorted a line of pepper for $1. I think he's got you beat.

Actually, my friend did chilli powder in a truth or dare, funniest thing I have ever seen!

I ate the center of a jalepeno for the fun of it. But then it became very un-fun.

That's what my friend found, he was rolling on the floor clutching his nose for about five minutes, the rest of us were in stitches!

corpsesarefun wrote:

notprop wrote:I've lots that switch in yer head that you use to zone in and out of what the Mrs is say its continually off atm.

I keep walking into rooms to be asked "did you do X?" Only to meet this witha slightly quizical look on my face.

So continuous stupidity or old age reigns here.

I know the feeling, I regularly walk into rooms with no recollection of why or how I got there.

Yeah, do that as well.

Two things, one of them isn't me but is still ridiculously stupid.

On my part, it has to be choosing a phsyics experiment for my coursework that, were I to do all the maths, involves chaos theory.
Which I can't do.

On my school's part, is that there is currently a boy in many of my classes who has foot and mouth disease, which is highly contagious, however as it has only presented itself as a rash, the boy in question is not allowed time off school to stop him from infecting the rest of us.

Fall ill just before starting new job. Its either man-flu or chest infection, not good when new job is working in a hospital looking after the elderly.

Goliath wrote:Two things, one of them isn't me but is still ridiculously stupid.

On my part, it has to be choosing a phsyics experiment for my coursework that, were I to do all the maths, involves chaos theory.
Which I can't do.

On my school's part, is that there is currently a boy in many of my classes who has foot and mouth disease, which is highly contagious, however as it has only presented itself as a rash, the boy in question is not allowed time off school to stop him from infecting the rest of us.

I assume you mean hand, foot and mouth disease. The last case of FMD recorded in humans in the UK was in 1966, and it is incredibly unlikely you could develop it anyway, due to the sensitivity to stomach acid that the virus has, making catching it through consumption of infected meat a veritable impossibility unless it is in the mouth. HFMD, however, is much more prevelant in humans, especially young children, but also those adults with decreased immunity.

Castiel wrote:

LoneLictor wrote:

moom241 wrote:I snorted one of those fruit punch powder things. But I earned like 3 bucks, so it was ok.

I knew a guy who snorted a line of pepper for $1. I think he's got you beat.

Actually, my friend did chilli powder in a truth or dare, funniest thing I have ever seen!

I read up on capsaicin at one point and found out it gets you high in large enough quantities. Being the genius that I am, I loaded the bowl with ground habanero. I went across the room in less than a second. I had a good little buzz for a few minutes though

Tequila shots on a Tuesday...

Doing an all nighter on my physics coursework, which is due in tomorrow, even though I've spent over 20 hours on it so far.

purplefood wrote:Tequila shots on a Tuesday...

Soy sauce shot contest...

I won but damn if the smell of soy sauce doesn't make me gag...

WARORK93 wrote:

purplefood wrote:Tequila shots on a Tuesday...

Soy sauce shot contest...

I won but damn if the smell of soy sauce doesn't make me gag...

Wait, soy sauce shots are bad for you? I drink it from the bottle, same with vinegar... (Neither very often nor in stupid quantities, but they are very nice)

Probably when I was painting the other night. No, I didn't drink my paint water.

I had dipped the bottom of my paintbrush into my paint in order to pop a big bubble (any of you who use GW paints know what I mean - when you shake it up, sometimes a big paint bubble forms on the rim). A few minutes later, I was skipping songs on my iPod using my right hand, and had as usual stuck my paint brush in my mouth while I did so. For some odd reason, I had this really nasty, bitter taste in my mouth...then I realized what I was sucking on. The gold paint I had just dipped my paintbrush into.

Locclo wrote:Probably when I was painting the other night. No, I didn't drink my paint water.

I had dipped the bottom of my paintbrush into my paint in order to pop a big bubble (any of you who use GW paints know what I mean - when you shake it up, sometimes a big paint bubble forms on the rim). A few minutes later, I was skipping songs on my iPod using my right hand, and had as usual stuck my paint brush in my mouth while I did so. For some odd reason, I had this really nasty, bitter taste in my mouth...then I realized what I was sucking on. The gold paint I had just dipped my paintbrush into.

What did your mom teach you about putting random things in your mouth? You're more civilized than that.

Let a noob make a Garage Band CD for me so I didn't have to do it. Soooooo many mistakes

7 weeks ago I was out with my friends and we started jumping trenches and I jumped the second trench and injured my ankle.....we were in the middle of nowhere and I had to walk on my injured leg it took 45 minutes then I got a lift of my friends grandad got home my dad said I had to go to hospital.......4 hours I found out I broke it in 2 places.

Wasted post 8k on OT.

Woke up after sleeping for nearly a whole day, having the wrong idea what day it is and going to the FLGS to play, only to realize it was Saturday and they have a store tourney on the first Saturday of the month. I thought it was Sunday, which is open gaming day. It was like abduction missing time, but in reverse.

This happened to me a couple of months ago.

Me and my friend were doing a project at university. Our computer class is in the top floor (4th) of our school. So, it was a history project, which we were doing on the first floor. We went to the computer class in order to get some information. We climbed up the stairs only to realise the door was locked. So, off we go to the teachers' room to get the keys. It was on the first floor.

When we got the keys and climbed to the top floor again, we realised neither of us remembered our password. So we returned to the history class. Then we remembered we had left the project work into the top floor. We went there again, and returned the keys on our way down.

Then I remembered my password, and up we go again. Now, we had no keys, so we had to go back to the teachers' room. We went upstairs once again, and realised our project was in the history class.

Anything after 2am really

Coming back from overseas, getting drunk in a bar and then determining that it was my god-given right to smoke where I wanted to, and bemoaning the British condition of bending over and taking whatever laws are put in place. Then the bouncers descending on me like a pack of dogs on a piece of meat, and me playing the wise guy with one of them who is rumoured to take cocktails of drugs and has put several patrons in hospital. Lucky to escape with my nose and teeth intact I think.

Forgot how many tightly clenched ass-holes there were in the UK, and the people are all fething miserable

Wresteling with my girlfirend dog.25 stitces afterwards I regret it, Damned dog did not have a sense of humor

Currently have a cold/chest infection/man-flu going on and decided that having the heating on would help. That was 2 days ago but flat was not heating up, so went into kitchen to have another look, while studying the boiler and checking the times and everything were set, I realised I hadn't turned the actual heating on itself...

Felt pretty stupid but its now on and I'm warm. Still ill though.

Azza007 wrote:Currently have a cold/chest infection/man-flu going on and decided that having the heating on would help. That was 2 days ago but flat was not heating up, so went into kitchen to have another look, while studying the boiler and checking the times and everything were set, I realised I hadn't turned the actual heating on itself...

Felt pretty stupid but its now on and I'm warm. Still ill though.

Also ill here, ruined what was going to be a very productive Saturday for me, which doesn't happen often (being productive, I mean).

Avatar 720 wrote:

Azza007 wrote:Currently have a cold/chest infection/man-flu going on and decided that having the heating on would help. That was 2 days ago but flat was not heating up, so went into kitchen to have another look, while studying the boiler and checking the times and everything were set, I realised I hadn't turned the actual heating on itself...

Felt pretty stupid but its now on and I'm warm. Still ill though.

Also ill here, ruined what was going to be a very productive Saturday for me, which doesn't happen often (being productive, I mean).

Biggest problem is I'm supposed to be starting new job this week in hospital as a HCA looking after the elderly, can't afford to be ill or infect the patients. Could be bad start.

I had to leave work early cuz I was ill as well. In my case, I knew I was ill yet worked myself next to passing out and vomiting thinking I could just power through. Man power! :d

I was in a church full of people and I was at the front with this woman and then I said, "I do."

Oh wait. The LAST stupid thing. I ran over a snake on my motorbike and it's guts splattered up on to my legs on the way to work. Try explaining reptile gore on your pants at 8am.

Khornholio wrote:I was in a church full of people and I was at the front with this woman and then I said, "I do."

Oh wait. The LAST stupid thing. I ran over a snake on my motorbike and it's guts splattered up on to my legs on the way to work. Try explaining reptile gore on your pants at 8am.

If you'd had your requisite spiky plating this would not have been an issue. Bring that vehicle up to standard and I'll refrain from telling our Lord.

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

Khornholio wrote:I was in a church full of people and I was at the front with this woman and then I said, "I do."

Oh wait. The LAST stupid thing. I ran over a snake on my motorbike and it's guts splattered up on to my legs on the way to work. Try explaining reptile gore on your pants at 8am.

If you'd had your requisite spiky plating this would not have been an issue.

^^ This advice works for both. lol

Azza007 wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:

Azza007 wrote:Currently have a cold/chest infection/man-flu going on and decided that having the heating on would help. That was 2 days ago but flat was not heating up, so went into kitchen to have another look, while studying the boiler and checking the times and everything were set, I realised I hadn't turned the actual heating on itself...

Felt pretty stupid but its now on and I'm warm. Still ill though.

Also ill here, ruined what was going to be a very productive Saturday for me, which doesn't happen often (being productive, I mean).

Biggest problem is I'm supposed to be starting new job this week in hospital as a HCA looking after the elderly, can't afford to be ill or infect the patients. Could be bad start.

Wait till you have some experience for that, the doctor my mom works for showed up to a hospital to check on some charts after deer hunting with blood still on his pants. He gets away with it because he's been doing this for over 20 years.

Checked how sharp my X-acto knife was with my thumb.

Waiting to do a hefty 80-mark chemistry AS level homework untill half past seven tonight, and it's in tomorrow. No sleep for me tonight. :(

Let myself get promoted on monday.

Also trying to figure how Astravans were actually the "fastest things on the road" well there is less weight with no back seats...

Was quite sarcastic to the boss via email this morning.

Flashman's Boss "Why hasn't this been done yet?! I realise there are issues, but it shouldn't be that hard to accomplish."

Flashman "I'm glad you think it shouldn't be that hard. I will now spend the rest of day thinking of the solution that has so far eluded me."

Flashman wrote:Was quite sarcastic to the boss via email this morning.

Flashman's Boss "Why hasn't this been done yet?! I realise there are issues, but it shouldn't be that hard to accomplish."

Flashman "I'm glad you think it shouldn't be that hard. I will now spend the rest of day thinking of the solution that has so far eluded me."

I'll have to remember that one
Actually he may respect the brass you're showing and call you in to talk about 5 year plans and business buzzwords. Keep us posted.

Thousand Nuns wrote:

Flashman wrote:Was quite sarcastic to the boss via email this morning.

Flashman's Boss "Why hasn't this been done yet?! I realise there are issues, but it shouldn't be that hard to accomplish."

Flashman "I'm glad you think it shouldn't be that hard. I will now spend the rest of day thinking of the solution that has so far eluded me."

I'll have to remember that one
Actually he may respect the brass you're showing and call you in to talk about 5 year plans and business buzzwords. Keep us posted.

Lol, unfortunately, I work in the public sector and promotions don't quite work like that in Local Authorities. You basically have to wait until the guy above you either retires or dies before you can apply for their job. At least that's how it used to work. In today's era of cuts, they now delete the post and pass all the work down to you with no pay rise.

Flashman wrote:

Thousand Nuns wrote:

Flashman wrote:Was quite sarcastic to the boss via email this morning.

Flashman's Boss "Why hasn't this been done yet?! I realise there are issues, but it shouldn't be that hard to accomplish."

Flashman "I'm glad you think it shouldn't be that hard. I will now spend the rest of day thinking of the solution that has so far eluded me."

I'll have to remember that one
Actually he may respect the brass you're showing and call you in to talk about 5 year plans and business buzzwords. Keep us posted.

Lol, unfortunately, I work in the public sector and promotions don't quite work like that in Local Authorities. You basically have to wait until the guy above you either retires or dies before you can apply for their job. At least that's how it used to work. In today's era of cuts, they now delete the post and pass all the work down to you with no pay rise.

Ah in that case run and hide under some coats until its safe to come out, bosses have thick...skins (nearly said something else there) I'm sure they'll forgive you in time.

Waiting six months to finish a commission

Also, making three sandwiches for lunch because I thought I'd be hungry, and forgetting them all at home.

Samus_aran115 wrote:Waiting six months to finish a commission

Also, making three sandwiches for lunch because I thought I'd be hungry, and forgetting them all at home.

Its okay don't fret its easily done a guy at work came in one lunchtime and cursed the world because he'd forgotten the spoon to eat his yoghurt with. He came in the next day and cursed the world because he'd remembered the spoon but forgotten the yoghurt, we didn't laugh too much.

I posted sarcastic things on my social network page. Freinds have a hard time discerning sarcasm over the web and i enraged everyone. Had to post a retraction. Social fail.

I told my boss exactly what I thought of her son.

She has been trying to fire me for 5 months now. Winning!

Last week I was playing paintball with my friends in a relatively new and uncut field...

We learned the hard way to scout out areas before we play on them because I ran straight into a pothole disguised with tall grass as a small bush and my knee overextended as I put my weight on that leg...

Hurt like a !@#$ and I think I pulled a hamstring but lesson learned...

well, i keep going to this place called work.......

but really, it would probably be the other day when i wasn't paying proper attention and shut a drawer rather hard on my finger

Dreadwinter wrote:I told my boss exactly what I thought of her son.

She has been trying to fire me for 5 months now. Winning!

You sound awesome. What exactly did you say to her? Something along the lines of, "Your son is a ****'s ******** assuming the *** ain't too ****ing ****."

sennacherib wrote:I posted sarcastic things on my social network page. Freinds have a hard time discerning sarcasm over the web and i enraged everyone. Had to post a retraction. Social fail.

Really?

I post sarcasm on my social network page all the time.
People who know me understand it was me who posted it.

If it EVER gets a status update that isn't sarcastic, then they know someone has hacked it.

LoneLictor wrote:

moom241 wrote:I snorted one of those fruit punch powder things. But I earned like 3 bucks, so it was ok.

I knew a guy who snorted a line of pepper for $1. I think he's got you beat.

I knew someone who poured a bottle of lemon juice in his eye and didn't flinch. How is that possible?

I know someone who rode a table down a flight of stairs...........it's a hard finish as the only thing to stop him was a wall..................

a guy i knew saw me at the gas station. He kept waving to me and say Yo Yo dude!

but of course i didn't recongnize him so i went about my buisness filling my car up.

Then he came over and then i did recongize him. LOL god i felt like an idiot the entire day and an arse

Last stupid thing? Re downloading EVE online and seriously considering playing again.

Looking at my Dark angels for five minutes.

Latest stupid thing; I stopped drinking long enough to get sober.

Before that, I bought three bottles of 100 proof vodka.

I think they're related.