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Okay, so I'm currently in the middle of spraypainting some props, and wasn't paying attention to what direction the nozzle was facing when I pressed the button. Needless to say, I just spent the last 20 minutes washing black primer off of the palm of my hand and arm, and I think I might have paint in my hair now, too.


Tell me Dakka: what's the dumbest thing you've ever done?

Bungee-corded two bikes together by the handle bars and rode down a gravel hill with a friend.

Hit a tree somehow.

Starting warhammer.

Toss up. Take your pick:

I tried prying a bit off of a rhino I was holding in one hand with a boxcutter in the other hand. Well, shortly afterward, the part was off and I spent about 15 minutes sitting in my bathroom cycling through numbers in my phone for someone who could take me to the hospital, blood trickling down my arm (which was now raised, dripping down my arm onto my shirt), and dog flipping out because he smelled a lot of blood. Seven stitches later, that was a long night at the ER.

Another time, I was working on an old CRT-based TV, trying to figure out what was causing a high pitched whining when it was turned on. I found the part, moved one side to change the pitch, moved the other side to change the pitch a different way, and then for whatever reason, thought it would be a good idea to move both sides at the same time. When dealing with high-voltage, completing a circuit with both arms is a no-no. Next thing I remember after that was waking up on the ground with my roommate and a friend staring over me, letting me know how stupid of a feth I am.

walking along the freeway at age 6 (I'm sure this story is on dakka somewhere...)

Played with fireworks the other day; mortars, to be specific. One fell out of its tube while lit. Iron Maiden would have been proud, how loudly I was singing "Run to the Hills"...Everyone else was screaming "Oh, gak!!!" "feth" "Run!!"

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Played with fireworks the other day; mortars, to be specific. One fell out of its tube while lit. Iron Maiden would have been proud, how loudly I was singing "Run to the Hills"...Everyone else was screaming "Oh, gak!!!" "feth" "Run!!"

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This past saturday...

...I told one of my best friends I love her... I know, tremendously stupid...

...she took it pretty well though, she cuddled closer to me and wrapped my arms around her tighter...

...although she is still 'unsure' about her feelings for me... which is odd because when she had a boyfriend she was 'conflicted' about her feelings because she had a thing for the both of us... now that she's single apparently thats not the case...

...i'll shut up now.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Played with fireworks the other day; mortars, to be specific. One fell out of its tube while lit. Iron Maiden would have been proud, how loudly I was singing "Run to the Hills"...Everyone else was screaming "Oh, gak!!!" "feth" "Run!!"

Late 90s my friends and I made a large number of cannon-type devices using improved black powder and coconuts, etc. One time we lit one and it didn't fire. Yes, I did start to look down the barrel to see what happened right before it went off (luckily I didn't make it). That was loud.

My life is full of them:

When I was about nine, there was an open manhole down my street that was over flooded with sewage water, someone had knocked the glass window from the booth the previous night and being the stupid kids we were we decided to put it over the sewage hole and do some weird game where we had to jump on the pane of glass then bounce off it before it fell through, guess what: I was the one who didn't get of it on time and fell through, I went into the ditch and fell into the sewage water in it up to my chest. The only thing that stopped me from submerging completely in what was possibly the entire streets' excrement was the fact that that I stuck my arms out in time.

There's also the time where my dad had a BBQ going and he explicitly told me NOT to touch the red hot coals with my hand while he was gone just because they looked cold. Well Guess what? I went and did it anyway. Had a water blister the size of Mt Rushmore for the rest of the week.

This one isn't really my mistake but a friend and I were playing golf on a field in front of the local shop, I was trying to show my friend how awesome I was with a driving iron to which he replied "You call that a swing? this is a swing!" So he took a pitching wedge and wacked then ball thinking he'd be showing us the greatest swing of the century, turns out it only went flying towards the shop and put the glass door through. I don't know to this day how we didn't get caught because you had a perfect view of the field from inside the shop. We ended up sprinting it all the way back home using a bunch of alleyways behind the flats nearby. Thought we were in the clear only to find out we'd left half my dads golf clubs behind in the panic rush, had to crawl across the field MGS style to retrieve them afterwards. When we got back our other friend spent the rest of the day joking with us about how we were going to do time for putting the window through with me as an accomplice on account of them being mine (and some of them my fathers golf clubs.)

I had more tales of childhood stupidity but I'm pressed for time so I might edit some more in later.

chaos0xomega wrote:
This past saturday...

...I told one of my best friends I love her... I know, tremendously stupid...

...she took it pretty well though, she cuddled closer to me and wrapped my arms around her tighter...

...although she is still 'unsure' about her feelings for me... which is odd because when she had a boyfriend she was 'conflicted' about her feelings because she had a thing for the both of us... now that she's single apparently thats not the case...

...i'll shut up now.

Just curious, how old are you two?

 Gentleman_Jellyfish wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
This past saturday...

...I told one of my best friends I love her... I know, tremendously stupid...

...she took it pretty well though, she cuddled closer to me and wrapped my arms around her tighter...

...although she is still 'unsure' about her feelings for me... which is odd because when she had a boyfriend she was 'conflicted' about her feelings because she had a thing for the both of us... now that she's single apparently thats not the case...

...i'll shut up now.

Just curious, how old are you two?

I like to think we're all fifteen. On the inside.

 LordofHats wrote:

I like to think we're all fifteen. On the inside.

That makes for quite a bit of statutory violations...

chaos0xomega - sounds like you *might* be onto a good thing there, and in any case, expressing your feelings for someone is actually the best thing to do if you ever want to make something of them. Good luck with it!

Stupidest thing I've ever done... hmm. That would PROBABLY have to be the time I was building a PC for a friend and managed to plug in the connection for the USB front panel into the firewire connector on the motherboard instead of the USB connector... now you might be thinking it's an easy mistake to make, and fair enough the slots are the same size etc., but it managed to produce a flame on bootup!!

We were so lucky. Not only did neither of us get hurt, but after immediately cutting the power and putting it in the right place, those USB ports worked just fine...

 Super Ready wrote:
but it managed to produce a flame on bootup!!

Well duh. You plugged it into the FIREwire.

 pretre wrote:

 Super Ready wrote:
but it managed to produce a flame on bootup!!

Well duh. You plugged it into the FIREwire.

*snort*

 azazel the cat wrote:
Okay, so I'm currently in the middle of spraypainting some props, and wasn't paying attention to what direction the nozzle was facing when I pressed the button. Needless to say, I just spent the last 20 minutes washing black primer off of the palm of my hand and arm, and I think I might have paint in my hair now, too.


Tell me Dakka: what's the dumbest thing you've ever done?

If that's the dumbest thing you've done you need to get out and live more



As for me you name it Ive probably done the stupid way of doing it. Got mad and punched a truck a few times and broke my hand. Jumped off a roof and landed wrong, that broke my foot, all for a picture of me in the air. Baked cookies and pulled them out bare handed. Plenty of others

I sniffed a salt & vinegar crisp once. Or maybe a few times; it's quite addictive.

Can you tell that I don't get out a lot?

You brilliant beautiful bastard

Going out with my last Ex?

I don't tend to do a lot of stupid stuff, really... Although Uni's coming up soon, so that could change

When I was around 12 I shaved my eyebrows off out of boredom. I then drew them badly back on.

When walking to my care to go get a snack yesterday I pressed the unlock button on my clicker, opened the door and sat down. When I tried to start the car it wouldn't go. It took me about five minutes to realize I wasn't in my car but a nearly identical vehicle parked right next to it XD

The best part? The owner of the car was trying the drivers side handle for mine Looked over right as he opened the door and looked in side. We had a good laugh.

Forgot to button up my jacket while i was stick welding over head.

NEVER AGAIN.

Started 40 k, now addicted to converting tau. I have had a few dreams of my wallet yelling at me.

Many years back when I was climbing some trees and I found and excellent vine with which to swing into an adjacent tree. Turns out they do not work in the same way Tarzan would have us believe and I basically jumped off the branch, fell several feet and twisted my ankle.

Also anything to do with women, why is it that I always end up winning the hearts of those I have no interest in? Perhaps my stunning good looks and sexy English accent only appeal to the scary chicks?

Finally, my disastrous attempt to place a hornet's nest in my friends tent while camping. The little fellas were not content to sit put while I took them across the field and simply engulfed me as soon as I stepped near them.

Edit for a much needed comma.

chaos0xomega wrote:
This past saturday...

...I told one of my best friends I love her... I know, tremendously stupid...

...she took it pretty well though, she cuddled closer to me and wrapped my arms around her tighter...

...although she is still 'unsure' about her feelings for me... which is odd because when she had a boyfriend she was 'conflicted' about her feelings because she had a thing for the both of us... now that she's single apparently thats not the case...

...i'll shut up now.

Sounds like me a couple of years ago but it eventually ended in me being "friend-zoned" and my desire to turn it into a physical relationship made her so uncomfortable that we decided to stop seeing each other, it probably didn't help that she had a boyfriend too. I shouldn't be mad at

being "zoned" though, there's nothing wrong with having another friend but I was too sexually attracted to her to just be happy as friends.

 Desubot wrote:
Forgot to button up my jacket while i was stick welding over head.

NEVER AGAIN.

Oh god. NEVER AGAIN!

 Gentleman_Jellyfish wrote:

 Desubot wrote:
Forgot to button up my jacket while i was stick welding over head.

NEVER AGAIN.

Oh god. NEVER AGAIN!

Glad to know someone knows of the plight.

Yeah i pretty much combusted. but it wasn't actually that bad. burns healed but it isn't as bad as jabbing my self in the chest with still white hot tungsten bit while Tig welding. have a wicked puncture scar still, right next to my heart.

I hurt my self too much welding.

stupidest thing I did was raychel

A while ago during a game, my opponent and I were drinking some cans of coke, I finished mine first and it was during his turn, so being a bored teenager I thought I would be a smartass and crush then twist open the can.

Needless to say I cut my thumb right open and blood came gushing out. To this day I will continue to wonder how I didn't spill any blood on anything...