Hey, stupid! |
Post Reply | Page <1 234 |
Author | ||
A Person
Forum Senior Member Joined: November 10 2008 Location: __ Status: Offline Points: 65760 |
Posted: August 01 2014 at 21:49 | |
Are you a redditor, by chance?
|
||
Logan
Forum & Site Admin Group Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: the Beach House Status: Offline Points: 32307 |
Posted: August 02 2014 at 10:22 | |
No humour here, as this has been really depressing me. The stupidest thing that I currently regret the most happened a few weeks ago. I have been very stressed over the last few months since a series of expensive financial issues and other problems have been hitting me and my family in rapid succession. When I'm anxious I get insomnia and can't think straight. It has become very hard for me to deal with people, and I do have social anxiety. Despite feeling very strongly that I was being conned, I allowed myself to be tricked into buying an absolute lemon of a used car. I knew how to handle the situation from the outset, and got lots of warning signs saying walk away to me, but I was worried about offending or angering the person (I hate any confrontation) and my too trusting wife really wanted the car. I was panicking and couldn't think, and that person capitalized on it. I now know that to fix the car properly could cost me over eight thousand dollars (which is more than the car is worth), and already buying it maxed out my budget. It's very hard to be without an operating vehicle.
|
||
Polymorphia
Forum Senior Member Joined: November 06 2012 Location: here Status: Offline Points: 8856 |
Posted: August 02 2014 at 11:45 | |
|
||
Dayvenkirq
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
Posted: August 02 2014 at 11:48 | |
Sorry to hear about what has befallen you. Do you have a plan?
Edited by Dayvenkirq - August 02 2014 at 16:31 |
||
Finnforest
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 03 2007 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 16913 |
Posted: August 02 2014 at 17:57 | |
|
||
|
||
Tapfret
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 12 2007 Location: Bryant, Wa Status: Offline Points: 8571 |
Posted: August 03 2014 at 04:03 | |
If I eliminate all stupidity that involved my penis, I would have to say smoking for 14 years was easily the dumbest. The most acute smoking related stupidity was when I was 19. I was driving with a lit cigarette in my hand and dropped it in my lap (which I suppose involves my penis and shouldn't count by my parameters) while making a right turn. In my panic to eliminate setting my pants on fire I looked down while trying to brush the smoldering embers. When I looked up I was heading toward a tree off to the right of my now completed turn. When I went to slam on the brake my size 13 (euro 47) shoe hit the gas pedal first. Crunch.
I still smoked for 10 more years after that.
|
||
Finnforest
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 03 2007 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 16913 |
Posted: August 03 2014 at 09:54 | |
Ahhh yes....smoking related driving mishaps.....always problematic. Great story Ian.
Edited by Finnforest - August 03 2014 at 09:55 |
||
|
||
Slartibartfast
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29625 |
Posted: August 03 2014 at 13:07 | |
I think we have a weiner, uhm winner. |
||
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
|
||
Dayvenkirq
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
Posted: August 17 2014 at 22:10 | |
[dumb content erased]
Edited by Dayvenkirq - August 18 2014 at 19:41 |
||
TGM: Orb
Prog Reviewer Joined: October 21 2007 Location: n/a Status: Offline Points: 8052 |
Posted: August 18 2014 at 18:46 | |
Yep. There's also learning that if you don't remember a song you should stop and do something else rather than torturing yourself in front of a room full of people. Learning that was an extremely awkward six minutes with a ukulele and an embarrassed sympathetic audience.
|
||
Metalmarsh89
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 15 2013 Location: Oregon, USA Status: Offline Points: 2673 |
Posted: August 18 2014 at 19:50 | |
I don't know how the pain compares, but I performed an act of equal stupidity. Also making salsa, I had just finished cutting the jalapenos and onions, and before I did anything else, I proceeded to reach up and rub both of my eyes with my fingers. Within seconds I was writhing on the floor (continuing to rub, of course). Instinct told me to get cold water, so I felt my way to the kitchen sink and began flushing my eyes as best I could from the kitchen faucet. Then I went to my bedroom and lay on the floor with a cold, wet towel plastered to my eyes. That was possibly the most painful event of my life, even more than getting poison ivy in the nether regions of my butt. For better or for worse, there is a conscious (and sometimes even subconscious) part of me that does not like to be noisy or loud. So through this whole event, I managed to not make a single peep, and so my roommates wouldn't have known at all had they not noticed how incredibly red my eyes were a couple hours later. |
||
Want to play mafia? Visit here.
|
||
Padraic
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 16 2006 Location: Pennsylvania Status: Offline Points: 31165 |
Posted: August 19 2014 at 08:46 | |
Not so bad as habañeros (probably jalapenos or something), but I've done similar. You only make that mistake once. |
||
Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23098 |
Posted: August 19 2014 at 09:03 | |
Yup...this you only do once
I was considering posting in this thread about last weekend, but then again I already wrote that somewhere else on this board, and I'm not sure exactly how much I want to milk that cow. Let's just say that stupidity - assumed stupidity no less, indeed was paramount. One morning I woke up inside my friend's apartment on a lawn. I pretty much thought I was hallucinating, but then small glimpses of the night before started flickering, and I remembered something about stealing grass somewhere down by the lake, where richer folk live - and then proceeding with the main dish: making our own garden. Things get kinda blurry from there on end, but there is something about some coconuts that I can't quite place.
Edited by Guldbamsen - August 19 2014 at 09:04 |
||
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams |
||
Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23098 |
Posted: August 19 2014 at 09:06 | |
What's a redditor precious?
|
||
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams |
||
Dean
Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: August 19 2014 at 09:30 | |
Gentlemen, that reminds me... One night after a looong session down the pub a group of us were Needless to say, in our drunken stupor swapping over all the garden ornaments from one garden to the other seemed like a good jape so we set about moving these heavy pots as quietly as we could. That is: with lots of giggling, swearing and exaggerated stage-whispers interrupted by very loud "shhh-ing" followed by more inebriated giggling. More by luck than judgement we would have gotten away with it too because we managed to move everything without disturbing the occupants of either house. If we had stopped there and then and simply continued on our way our plan would have succeeded. But we were all very very drunk and plans have a habit of being over-reached in that situation... Some bright spark suggested we should swap over the cars from the drives too... Exactly how we intended to do that wasn't clear, I think someone suggested we could "bounce" them, but fortunately (considering the consequences if we had tried) we never got to find out because as soon as one of us touched the first car its alarm went off and we, in a panic, turned as one and ran.
|
||
What?
|
||
Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23098 |
Posted: August 19 2014 at 09:42 | |
Brilliant! Love the original draft. Ahhh and those "extra-plans" always end up wrong. Pushing the envelope just that eenie tiny bit more - especially when inebriated - inevitably ends in things being broken, people getting arrested/hurt/knocked out/fond of spewing chunks in all the wrong places etc etc.
|
||
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams |
||
Padraic
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 16 2006 Location: Pennsylvania Status: Offline Points: 31165 |
Posted: August 19 2014 at 09:45 | |
Ah yes. I had five roommates at university, and after a "pub session" we discovered to our drunken delight that we had the collective strength to pick up and move small cars. Never did get to see the face of the guy who came out to find his car rotated 90 degrees...
|
||
Post Reply | Page <1 234 |
Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |