What is the Most stupid thing you've seen someone do?

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**timetowaste85**

In high school, one of my friends bet me I couldn't drink an 8oz cup of vinegar. No money involved, just bet I couldn't do it. I did. Boy, did I regret it all afternoon-didn't throw up, just felt awful. Lol. I did some dumb stuff in HS...

**Asherian Command**

timetowaste85 wrote:In high school, one of my friends bet me I couldn't drink an 8oz cup of vinegar. No money involved, just bet I couldn't do it. I did. Boy, did I regret it all afternoon-didn't throw up, just felt awful. Lol. I did some dumb stuff in HS...

Everyone did something stupid HS that they regret doing.
Reminds me should make a thread about that.

**Relapse**

AustonT wrote:
Relapse wrote:I was driving up to Montana for a Christmas visit with some friends a few years back, and pulled into a gas station in Idaho at about 11pm.
Driving up to the pumps, I noticed a guy that didn't look in much danger of appearing on the honor roll anywhere with three equally witless looking women standing around him by the pumps.
As I got closer I noticed he had a lighter with which he proceeded to light some fringes hanging from his coat, covering his arm in flames which he then put out by snapping his arm down. The four of them were obviously quite amused at this display of intelligence so they went for a repeat performance.
I decided I didn't want to appear in the next morning's paper and hauled ass out of that place, noticing that this genius kept setting his coat sleeve on fire and putting it out, all the while standing by the gas pumps.

Anyone here have similar stories of Darwin Award candidates?

Idaho espiecally within 100 miles of Monida is an Idiot preserve, thats why (repeat offender)Juvie is in Dillion. They are hoping that those morons will esacape and head west.\

Oddly some other donkey-caves more than mild idiocy almost killed me.
In da army they have these funny signs on all the fuel trucks and airplane tiedowns that announce "no smoking within 50ft." We had just finished pumping about 55 gallons of 100 octane low lead av gas into a bird and started the preflight. So I took a fuel sample. A suitable technological process that involves a flathead screwdriver and a mason jar that leaves the unfortunate victim covered in fuel that doesn't make it into the jar. So here I am right arm covered in rapidly evaporating gas CARRYING the blue koolaid evidence of my flamability to the storage point when one of our new privates lights a cig right next to me (well 5-7ft ish). He set me the feth on fire. Instead of remembering the "stop drop and roll" rule I dropped the sample (which broke and luckily didnt set on fire or get on me) and proceeded to begin to beat the life out of the offending moron, whilst still on fire and well within the 50ft of both airplane and fuel point. I have no idea how long I wailed on him before another dude tackled me and put out the fire, long enough to cause plenty of damage and earn me a quiet reprimand from our CO and an equally quiet congratulations from Top.

Did that idiot at least get NJP? That must have been a sight, a man in flames beating the crap out of someone too stupid to live.

**AustonT**

Everybody knows tha capital of Austrailia is London: idiots.

I had a hooters waitress ID me (what with the receding hairline and gray side it's not a common thing anymore) I gave her my .mil she gleefully flips it over, pretty sure failed to find my DOB and exlaims,"you're from Geneva?!"
For several seconds I and everyone else stared at her expecting it to be a punchline: she wanted me to answer.

I'm rarely shocked by people. That one got me.

**dogma**

AustonT wrote:
I had a hooters waitress ID me (what with the receding hairline and gray side it's not a common thing anymore) I gave her my .mil she gleefully flips it over, pretty sure failed to find my DOB and exlaims,"you're from Geneva?!"
For several seconds I and everyone else stared at her expecting it to be a punchline: she wanted me to answer.

I'm rarely shocked by people. That one got me.

Where did she come up with Geneva? I've not seen a mil in some time, so I might be missing something.

**Jihadnik**

You should have told her you were a Diplomat then...could have got some buffalo wings for free there...opportunity missed!

**AustonT**

dogma wrote:
AustonT wrote:
I had a hooters waitress ID me (what with the receding hairline and gray side it's not a common thing anymore) I gave her my .mil she gleefully flips it over, pretty sure failed to find my DOB and exlaims,"you're from Geneva?!"
For several seconds I and everyone else stared at her expecting it to be a punchline: she wanted me to answer.

I'm rarely shocked by people. That one got me.

Where did she come up with Geneva? I've not seen a mil in some time, so I might be missing something.

The old Green IDs in bold print across the long edge say "GENEVA CONVENTION IDENTIFICATION CARD" the newer cards are seanad more subtle. This was of the green variety. In somewhat larger print across the top it also says in all caps, "armed forces of the united states"

**dogma**

Did she at least have a nice rack?

**Great White**

My friend once decided to dip his finger in hot wax, and when it burned his finger he put his finger in his moth to ease the pain. Only problem was his finger was still covered in wax.

**AustonT**

dogma wrote:Did she at least have a nice rack?

Somewhere between A and training bra.

**dogma**

AustonT wrote:
Somewhere between A and training bra.

Oh Hooter's, why must you betray your namesake.

**AustonT**

dogma wrote:
AustonT wrote:
Somewhere between A and training bra.

Oh Hooter's, why must you betray your namesake.

fething equal opportunity for employment should not apply to certain workplaces.

**dogma**

That actually reminds me of stupid thing someone did:

A guy I knew in high school, emphasis on guy, took a job as a waiter at Hooter's. He had to wear a tight wife beater and old school orange running shorts.

**Skycrawler**

To this day my 16 year old sister believes the American Civil War was fought by Austria and Japan...and my 14 year old sister thinks that Russia and Turkey fought in the Revolutionary War.

**AustonT**

Skycrawler wrote:To this day my 16 year old sister believes the American Civil War was fought by Austria and Japan

bull gak. Or your sister should be culled from the gene pool lest her inability to see the basic fault in that logic be passed on to a new generation. but mostly bull gak.

**Skycrawler**

AustonT wrote:
Skycrawler wrote:To this day my 16 year old sister believes the American Civil War was fought by Austria and Japan

bull gak. Or your sister should be culled from the gene pool lest her inability to see the basic fault in that logic be passed on to a new generation. but mostly bull gak.

I wish I were lying, heck I wish that she had a Final Destination moment when we went to Six Flags last summer.

**Jihadnik**

Skycrawler wrote:To this day my 16 year old sister believes the American Civil War was fought by Austria and Japan...and my 14 year old sister thinks that Russia and Turkey fought in the Revolutionary War.

Oh, we totally kicked Japan's a...oh, Austria, sorry, different war...

**Ledabot**

Asherian Command wrote:Someone told me New Zealand (Kiwis) and Aussies have no differences. Nothing in the accents and no differences in culture. They all look white. And they are all named Shirley and Rick. For those who don't know those two are slang words used in Australia. He failed to recognize I lived in Sydney, Australia. (They themselves never meeting a Kiwi or an Aussie, except for me.)

Someone tried to explain to me that all cultures no matter where have killed their native populations. Including New Zealand. I asked them if they knew what the Captial of Australia was. They Answered Sydney. I laughed.

Reminds me of the lead for clash of the titans that just came out. Aussie lead for a greek charactor? Would you be offended?

I swear that if he was going to pick two names, he would have been better off with Steave as one of them.

**Castiel**

Having worked 48 hours in one week at a restaurant due to covering for a couple of collegues with another four still to work I remarked to another waiter that I was knackered. At this point the chef, who had been off for 2 days, piped up with "You need a break? I need a break, I work full time. F***ing part timers!"

**Asherian Command**

Ledabot wrote:
Asherian Command wrote:Someone told me New Zealand (Kiwis) and Aussies have no differences. Nothing in the accents and no differences in culture. They all look white. And they are all named Shirley and Rick. For those who don't know those two are slang words used in Australia. He failed to recognize I lived in Sydney, Australia. (They themselves never meeting a Kiwi or an Aussie, except for me.)

Someone tried to explain to me that all cultures no matter where have killed their native populations. Including New Zealand. I asked them if they knew what the Captial of Australia was. They Answered Sydney. I laughed.

Reminds me of the lead for clash of the titans that just came out. Aussie lead for a greek charactor? Would you be offended?

I swear that if he was going to pick two names, he would have been better off with Steave as one of them.

Kinda agree. But he is a limey.

And not an especially good limey. Not a very good example of his homeland I must say.

**Skylifter**

I think all the people who think not knowing something is the most stupid thing they ever witnessed must hate themselves a lot. The amount of things you do not know is so much bigger than the amount of things you know, aren't you stupid? And who are you to judge what things people must know and what they do not have to know in order to not be stupid? I am sure you do know a lot of things I have no idea of and vice versa.

Sure, it is a funny thing that Australia's most well-known city is not its capital city, resulting in many people believing Sydney to be the capital. But that is far from stupid, that is merely a common misunderstanding. If you think that is stupid, ask yourself of how many countries in the world you know the capital. And then ask yourself why you think it were important to know them. Do you use that knowledge, ever, except to deride people who do not know that?

tl;dr: If you consider others stupid when they do not know a few facts, then you are probably more stupid than them.

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**KingCracker**

AustonT wrote:
Relapse wrote:I was driving up to Montana for a Christmas visit with some friends a few years back, and pulled into a gas station in Idaho at about 11pm.
Driving up to the pumps, I noticed a guy that didn't look in much danger of appearing on the honor roll anywhere with three equally witless looking women standing around him by the pumps.
As I got closer I noticed he had a lighter with which he proceeded to light some fringes hanging from his coat, covering his arm in flames which he then put out by snapping his arm down. The four of them were obviously quite amused at this display of intelligence so they went for a repeat performance.
I decided I didn't want to appear in the next morning's paper and hauled ass out of that place, noticing that this genius kept setting his coat sleeve on fire and putting it out, all the while standing by the gas pumps.

Anyone here have similar stories of Darwin Award candidates?

Idaho espiecally within 100 miles of Monida is an Idiot preserve, thats why (repeat offender)Juvie is in Dillion. They are hoping that those morons will esacape and head west.\

Oddly some other donkey-caves more than mild idiocy almost killed me.
In da army they have these funny signs on all the fuel trucks and airplane tiedowns that announce "no smoking within 50ft." We had just finished pumping about 55 gallons of 100 octane low lead av gas into a bird and started the preflight. So I took a fuel sample. A suitable technological process that involves a flathead screwdriver and a mason jar that leaves the unfortunate victim covered in fuel that doesn't make it into the jar. So here I am right arm covered in rapidly evaporating gas CARRYING the blue koolaid evidence of my flamability to the storage point when one of our new privates lights a cig right next to me (well 5-7ft ish). He set me the feth on fire. Instead of remembering the "stop drop and roll" rule I dropped the sample (which broke and luckily didnt set on fire or get on me) and proceeded to begin to beat the life out of the offending moron, whilst still on fire and well within the 50ft of both airplane and fuel point. I have no idea how long I wailed on him before another dude tackled me and put out the fire, long enough to cause plenty of damage and earn me a quiet reprimand from our CO and an equally quiet congratulations from Top.

Speaking of stupidity and fuel. A friend of our family was divorced a few years ago, and like any middle aged man, after the divorce was final, he went on a spree of crazy sex dates and such. ANYWAYS, this one lady he dated was easily, the dumbest person in the world. He told us that while going out to eat, he stopped at the gas station to fill up, and asked her, while Im inside, would you fill the car up? She said sure. So he goes in, waits awhile, nothing happens, so he looks out, and shes just staring at the gas pump. So he goes out "Whats wrong?" and her reply was "How do they put all that gas in such a small pump?"

**Polvilhovoador**

The guy in this gif

**mattyrm**

I saw two blokes point and fire their weapons at me outside Baghdad International Airport, I was travelling at speed on Route Irish and had an underslung grenade launcher.

They must have been fething mental.

**purplefood**

mattyrm wrote: I saw two blokes point and fire their weapons at me outside Baghdad International Airport, I was travelling at speed on Route Irish and had an underslung grenade launcher.

They must have been fething mental.

I'm assuming you got them both?

**notprop**

One of my mates jumped on anothers back walking back from the pub. This was not welcome so he got thrown back of........onto the plate glass windon of a rather nice Bistro.

It all went a bit slowmo at that point and i watched in curiosity as my mate bounced off as the glass slowly went convex over the course of what seemed like several seconds then exploded inwards much to the suprise of the unhurt and unsuspecting dinners.

In the spirit of an innocent accident we ran and hid in a lock-in pub down the road. The rozzers never found the culprits thanks to an excellent alliby provided by the publican.

On another occassion at the rugby club I saw someone try to pass wind on his team mates head as he bent down. Sadly thanks to the previous nights curry he folowed through.............

**mattyrm**

purplefood wrote:
mattyrm wrote: I saw two blokes point and fire their weapons at me outside Baghdad International Airport, I was travelling at speed on Route Irish and had an underslung grenade launcher.

They must have been fething mental.

I'm assuming you got them both?

Span round, fired a quick snap shot, landed about 4 feet from one of them, two KIA with one shot cos the dumb feths were stood almost on top of each other, confirmed by the Americans, went for tea and stickies in the PX, slept like a fething baby.

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notprop wrote:One of my mates jumped on anothers back walking back from the pub. This was not welcome so he got thrown back of........onto the plate glass windon of a rather nice Bistro.

It all went a bit slowmo at that point and i watched in curiosity as my mate bounced off as the glass slowly went convex over the course of what seemed like several seconds then exploded inwards much to the suprise of the unhurt and unsuspecting dinners.

In the spirit of an innocent accident we ran and hid in a lock-in pub down the road. The rozzers never found the culprits thanks to an excellent alliby provided by the publican.

That's a fething quality story. Good effort by the landlord as well!

It would have been better if he landed on a table with people eating, and then a diner punched him, and then you all waded in and had a bar room brawl.

Oh and you were dressed as cowboys.

Still, you get 8/10 anyway.

**RossDas**

Generally it's cyclists disregarding red lights at crossroads, amazingly stupid and I see it a lot.

In terms of sheer dumbness it would have to be a simple friend of mine who decided to test the strength of my superglue by applying it to the tips of his index fingers and sticking them together - unbelievable, I was speechless!

**timetowaste85**

RossDas wrote:Generally it's cyclists disregarding red lights at crossroads, amazingly stupid and I see it a lot.

In terms of sheer dumbness it would have to be a simple friend of mine who decided to test the strength of my superglue by applying it to the tips of his index fingers and sticking them together - unbelievable, I was speechless!

It doesn't count unless you take the 'American Pie Challenge'.

**d-usa**

I work for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

One of my coworkers who is absolutely clueless when it comes to anything related to politics also serves in the national guard.

Here is a recap of the conversation we had last year while she was telling me that everything related to the President is evil:

Me: "You realize we are working for the President right?"
Her: "No we are not, we are working for the Department of Defense."
Me: "We are not working for the Department of Defense, and even if we were, that would still be under the President..."
Her: "No, we are under the DoD and don't report to the President!"
Me: "We are working for the Department of Veterans Affairs, we are a cabinet level department, Eric Shinseki reports directly to Obama as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. We are part of the Executive Branch of the United States Government..."
Her (yelling at this point): "No we are not! We are part of the administrative branch of government, we don't report to Obama!"
Me (with my mouth just wide open at this point): "Wow, that was the dumbest thing I have heard in a long time..." as I walked away.

How the feth do you not know who the heck you work for?