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

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**Hulksmash**

When the wife and I were traveling across eastern Europe our tour stopped in Warsaw. One of the excursions was to visit Auswitz (sp?). Anyway we went as we're both jewish and I'm a history nut. The group was probably 80% Australian with Americans and Canadians rounding out the rest.

Anyway we are in one of the rooms used for mass burnings of the bodies and fairly late in the tour (like maybe 15-20 minutes left) and this dillhole (at least 24 years old) climbs into one of the furnace/ovens once the guide is walking out of the room, laughs, and says

"this is totally impractical, they should have made it bigger, they can only fit one at a time in here"

I'd never been that angry in my life as an adult and it's a good thing I didn't have a lighter or weapon on me.....

**timetowaste85**

Hulksmash wrote:When the wife and I were traveling across eastern Europe our tour stopped in Warsaw. One of the excursions was to visit Auswitz (sp?). Anyway we went as we're both jewish and I'm a history nut. The group was probably 80% Australian with Americans and Canadians rounding out the rest.

Anyway we are in one of the rooms used for mass burnings of the bodies and fairly late in the tour (like maybe 15-20 minutes left) and this dillhole (at least 24 years old) climbs into one of the furnace/ovens once the guide is walking out of the room, laughs, and says

"this is totally impractical, they should have made it bigger, they can only fit one at a time in here"

I'd never been that angry in my life as an adult and it's a good thing I didn't have a lighter or weapon on me.....

I commend you for not beating the crap out of somebody who truly deserved it. People like that give my generation a bad name.

**Hulksmash**

@timetowaste

This was actually about 4 years ago and the wife and I were about the same age as this guy. But yeah, it was a close one.

**d-usa**

Was able to visit Dachau once, just being in that place gave me such a feeling of dread and sadness as soon as I stepped in through the gates.

I cannot imagine the amount of pure jerk that has to run through anybodies blood to make a joke like that.

I couldn't have joked around even if I wanted to.

**dogma**

notprop wrote:The rozzers never found the culprits thanks to an excellent alliby provided by the publican.

While I do understand this, I find it funny that it took me more effort to grasp British English than it generally takes me to grasp French or Spanish.

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d-usa wrote:Was able to visit Dachau once, just being in that place gave me such a feeling of dread and sadness as soon as I stepped in through the gates.

I read that as Dhaka, and thought "Its not that bad."

**mattyrm**

dogma wrote:
notprop wrote:The rozzers never found the culprits thanks to an excellent alliby provided by the publican.

While I do understand this, I find it funny that it took me more effort to grasp British English than it generally takes me to grasp French or Spanish.

I think there's a few hundred slang terms for the Police like.. wasn't the term rozzers initially coined in a clockwork orange or am I thinking of another one?

Its the one I use most commonly anyway, I think you can actually get nicked if you call a peeler a pig, rozzer seems to be acceptable though because my brothers mate is with the law and he introduces himself as a rozzer.

My missus said she is amazed how many words we use for "head"

As in your barnet. (crust, napper, bonce, swede etc)

Not oral sex obviously...

Although.. There are plenty for that as well!

**notprop**

It's called propa English not British English me auld china.

French and Spanish are easy, they're the same but you just have to be a bit louder.

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No idea what Matty says though, never grasped northern.

**BlapBlapBlap**

Hulksmash wrote:When the wife and I were traveling across eastern Europe our tour stopped in Warsaw. One of the excursions was to visit Auswitz (sp?). Anyway we went as we're both jewish and I'm a history nut. The group was probably 80% Australian with Americans and Canadians rounding out the rest.

Anyway we are in one of the rooms used for mass burnings of the bodies and fairly late in the tour (like maybe 15-20 minutes left) and this dillhole (at least 24 years old) climbs into one of the furnace/ovens once the guide is walking out of the room, laughs, and says

"this is totally impractical, they should have made it bigger, they can only fit one at a time in here"

I'd never been that angry in my life as an adult and it's a good thing I didn't have a lighter or weapon on me.....

Honestly, Ithink that you did incredibly well holding yourself up.

I'd probably have backhanded him until his cheeks were ruddy and he was crying. And in all honesty, I don't think anybody would stop me.

My stupid moment would probably having my friends decide that it was a great idea speeding down a hill on black ice.

After the bleeding on his face stopped, he looked as though someone had gone at him with a cheese grater.

**dogma**

mattyrm wrote:
I think there's a few hundred slang terms for the Police like.. wasn't the term rozzers initially coined in a clockwork orange or am I thinking of another one?

Google says by Sir Robert Peel.

Millicent is Clockwork.

mattyrm wrote:
My missus said she is amazed how many words we use for "head"

Dude, your rhyming slang is fething baffling to me.

Seriously, how do stairs become "apples and pears"?

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notprop wrote:
French and Spanish are easy, they're the same but you just have to be a bit louder.

And alternately be holding a baguette, or a guitar.

**Da Boss**

You pick a word that rhymes with the original word, preferably a two parter, and then only use the second (non rhyming part) in the place. Some common ones:
I haven't a scooby - I haven't a scooby doo - I haven't a clue.
I'm going for a barry - I'm going for a barry white - I'm going for a gak.

I've heard all of these before.

Ireland has a much less baffling love of giving any monument an irreverent rhyming nickname. So the Spire of Light in dublin becomes the Stiffey By the Liffey, the Erection at the Intersection. There's another statue called The Floozies in the Jaccuzi, the one of Wilde is The Queer with the Leer, the one of Joyce I think is The Prick with the Stick. It goes on. The Hags with the Bags, and the Tart with the Cart (Molly Malone) are another two good ones I know.

Erection at the Intersection is my favourite though.

**notprop**

You can get arrested for that here though Boss.

**Frazzled**

d-usa wrote: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?

So you work for me?

**Castiel**

Just remembered something stupid I did.

At Rockness, after a significant amount of alcoholic beverage intake, myself and smoe friends decided that it would be a good idea to pull me down a hill as fast as possible whilst I "surfed" the sledge. It hurt a lot, but fortunately no broken bones

**KingCracker**

dogma wrote:
notprop wrote:The rozzers never found the culprits thanks to an excellent alliby provided by the publican.

While I do understand this, I find it funny that it took me more effort to grasp British English than it generally takes me to grasp French or Spanish.

Holy gak, I read and understood something better then Dogma? I have to admit, I feel rather smart right now.......now that I think about this a bit......... I feel dumb

**chromedog**

The dumbest thing I've seen anyone do was a couple of local smackheads CLIMB the 8' barbed wire topped brick wall of the local OMC ("Outlaw Motorcycle club") chapter clubhouse (Nomads) - it's a block away behind our house.

The bikers in question were home (at least a few of them were) judging by the fact that their Harleys were parked out front.

Now, opportunistic smackies around here are not that uncommon. Ones with this little urge for self preservation are rare.
Whilst the Nomads are not the baddest-asses in the neighbourhood (as far as the OMCs go), they ARE people you really don't want to annoy.
Anyhow, the lads indoors allowed the miscreants to trip their alarm on the way over (it's got cameras and sensors all over the place - a veritable fortress in suburbia ) and when the cops eventually turned up, they received two slightly battered and probably still insensate junkies.
"They fell while climbing over the wall" was the line given to the cops. "We have it on camera." was added, just in case the cops didn't believe their "excuse".

**mattyrm**

chromedog wrote:

Now, opportunistic smackies around here are not that uncommon..

Sorry, are you from Australia or Glasgow?

**Medium of Death**

You really aren't a fan of Glasgow's rich culture are you?

I can't really think of anything excitingly stupid that I have seen, although I've probably done quite a few of them myself.

The most mundane and stupidly common question I currently get asked in my work is, 'How much will this suitcase weigh when full?'

**Dark Apostle 666**

IIRC, "Rozzers" is a term deriving from the Gipsy word for "strong man"... Not sure where I read it though...

**Squigsquasher**

At school, when we went to the Natural History Museum, one of the boys thought that the statue of Charles Darwin was Abraham Lincoln.

**BlapBlapBlap**

Squigsquasher wrote:At school, when we went to the Natural History Museum, one of the boys thought that the statue of Charles Darwin was Abraham Lincoln.

I want to cry...

Another stupid thing I've seen people do is try and repair a non-functional TV by wrenching it open and fiddling with things. They had NO engineering experience and were not aware that television aerials had been converted to digital.

**Vulcan**

chromedog wrote:The dumbest thing I've seen anyone do was a couple of local smackheads CLIMB the 8' barbed wire topped brick wall of the local OMC ("Outlaw Motorcycle club") chapter clubhouse (Nomads) - it's a block away behind our house.

The bikers in question were home (at least a few of them were) judging by the fact that their Harleys were parked out front.

Now, opportunistic smackies around here are not that uncommon. Ones with this little urge for self preservation are rare.
Whilst the Nomads are not the baddest-asses in the neighbourhood (as far as the OMCs go), they ARE people you really don't want to annoy.
Anyhow, the lads indoors allowed the miscreants to trip their alarm on the way over (it's got cameras and sensors all over the place - a veritable fortress in suburbia ) and when the cops eventually turned up, they received two slightly battered and probably still insensate junkies.
"They fell while climbing over the wall" was the line given to the cops. "We have it on camera." was added, just in case the cops didn't believe their "excuse".

Reminds me of the bunch behind my friend's house on the South Side. Much of the area is becoming blighted due to an increasing crime rate, but not the couple blocks around their place. They keep the petty criminals away, and - if they are actually doing anything illegal themselves - they are smart enough to not do it at home.

My friend takes them a case of beer periodically and hangs out a bit, and in return they help keep an eye on his place.

**Legion of Damnation**

This one time, I was building some marines with my friend when he got glue on his hand. He then proceeded to face palm. Ten minutes later, we were in hospital.

**Defeatmyarmy**

Im the idiot in this one. Ever set a can of tuna in a campfire to heat up the meat SEALED?! Ya that was me one hungover day in Yosemite. It sounds like a gunshot so scared the whole campground at 6 AM,.

**Casey's Law**

A man i had just met and i proceeded to eat the contents of a medicine cabinet at a random party.

Hilarity ensued.

All drugs are bad, kids.

**Poppabear**

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

Love it!

**KingCracker**

Defeatmyarmy wrote:Im the idiot in this one. Ever set a can of tuna in a campfire to heat up the meat SEALED?! Ya that was me one hungover day in Yosemite. It sounds like a gunshot so scared the whole campground at 6 AM,.

I had a similar WTF moment once. I stuck an unopened bottle of coke in the freezer, so it would turn to slush. Took it out, and when I opened it, the cola exploded strait out of the bottle and covered the ceiling. It was truly hilarious, and would make for a great party prank

**GalacticDefender**

Frazzled wrote:
d-usa wrote: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?

So you work for me?

What I just got out of that is that Frazzled just said he was President Obama.

**Locclo**

I think I just had a good one the other day. We were all at a buddy's house, me and another guy basically learning some mixed drinks because we just turned 21. The guy who owned the bar and all its liquor offered a drink to make us manly men, a few drops of 150 proof grain alcohol. We thought, "what the hell, just a few drops, right?"

Yeah, that was dumb.

**Blackskullandy**

I once saw someone start a thread about religion on dakka... We all know how those things end...

**Tazz Azrael**

I watched one of my buddies put half a bag of "pop-rocks" in his eye just to say he could do it.... after a few minutes we heard loud popping sounds then him hitting the deck screaming bloody murder