Stupid Things You Shouldn't Do, But You Do Anyway [Archive]

Greenday

02-14-2007, 06:56 PM

We all do stupid stuff. It just happens. But it's especially bad when it's something you've always known was bad and you just do it anyway.

Today, I went out with a friend to our student center and I grabbed a chicken sandwich. We had to make a trip to our school's little Wawa store to grab other stuff and by the time I got back, my sandwich was a lil cold. So I decided, why not use the microwave? So, I stick the sandwich inside it's little bag inside the microwave. Set it to 15 seconds and hit start. That's when I immediately realize, the inside of the bag is tinfoil. Two seconds into cook electricity goes all over the place inside the microwave and I hit stop. Took the bag out, put the chicken sandwich by itself in the microwave and let it cook. Bag was fine for the most part, except for one really smart part that is burnt. Overall, the electricity show was pretty sweet and my sandwich was ok. Microwave still works.

Anyone else do something equally stupid?

digilight

02-14-2007, 08:11 PM

Ahh Stupid stuff. this might have to be an abreviated list : )

1. I used to have a coffee cup from disneyworld. It was ceramic with some type of a coating to give it a silver/pueter look. Well I put it in the microwave one time to heat up some coffee or something and the damn thing exploded....I guess the coating that looked metalic, really was metalic...who'da thunk it.

2. And the winner (reminded to me by ree's story of her broken wrist). about 15 or so years ago, I went to a winter camp thru my then at the time church. It snowed pretty much the whole time. Well I thought it would be cool to make a little snowman (I'm from southern california, beach area, and never see snow) on the porch (made of concrete) to the cabin. Well being a normal 15 year old kid after the snowman was made I thought hell, lets kick off the bastards head.

Ok lets review the following for a second for those who might of missed it

1. I'm from the beaches, it never snows here, I'm not used to snow or Ice unless it comes in a cup.
2. I made the snowman on the cabins concrete porch.
3. It had been snowing from a few days now.
4. I decide to kick the head off the snowman
5. The law of motion - An object in motion will stay in motion....blah blah blah...and resistance.... (oh yeah, Ice doesn't give you resistance like normal non icy concrete would).

So Back goes the leg...a little running kick...Mr. Snowman becomes a headless ball of mush...my legs go one way...my body goes the other way...and my left hand caught the entire fall...My fingers can touch the backside of my arm if I try hard enough I guess. 1 week later, one set of xrays, a cast, and my dignity hasn't been the same since.

So I guess the only thing left to say is that my favorite color should be clear... :)

MystyGlyttyr

02-14-2007, 08:57 PM

Every Easter, when the Dove Chocolate Truffle Eggs come out, I always eat so many of them that I make myself sick on them. You'd think by now I would learn to stop at one or two of the suckers, but I just keep inhaling them till I have a massive stomachache.

Procrastinating would be another. Most def.

Speaking of which, I'm supposed to be typing obits right now. *veers off*

BookstoreEscapee

02-14-2007, 08:57 PM

My dad put an aluminum take-out dish in the microwave once. It got a little flame on the edge and we watched it for a few seconds before he stopped the oven and took it out. No light show or anything, though.

My grandmother had these 2 little ceramic teapots, which my parents put on the back burners of the stove which we rarely use (we have one of those flat stovetops). Then one day my dad put a pot on the front burner and turned on the heat. Wrong knob. When he realized it he grabbed a potholder and picked up the teapot. Do you know what happens when ceramic gets very hot and is suddenly removed from the heat source? That's right, it explodes. One piece melted a 3-inch hole in the linoleum floor. Luckily no one got hurt. The other teapot no longer resides on the stove.

I have a box of Life cereal in the cabinet in my cubicle. I had it open on my desk yesterday, in front of my scanner, and a book slipped off the scanner and knocked the box over. I watched it fall in slow motion onto the floor, then spent the next 15 minutes picking up little shards of cereal out of the carpet. It does not appear they have vacuumed in here yet.

Lace Neil Singer

02-14-2007, 09:13 PM

Becks

02-15-2007, 02:57 AM

You mean besides smoke and swear in public?

For the longest time, I'd eat Pringles even though they made me sick. I finally stopped doing that. Yaaaaaaaaay me. :D

myswtghst

02-15-2007, 03:20 AM

Irish Car Bombs. Never a good idea, but with a few beers/shots in me, they start to sound fantastic. They never end well.

I did a number of stupid things when I was a kid, usually on rollerblades or climbing things I shouldn't have been climbing on. I knocked the wind out of myself on more than one occasion, jammed lots of fingers and toes, and once even got stung by a bee while falling out of a tree, but I managed to never break any bones. *knocks on wood*

Does getting back together with an ex I knew was an idiot count? ;)

Caveat Emptor

02-15-2007, 04:06 AM

I once mixed velveeta and salsa to make dip, and used a salad dish. Made too much, covered leftover in saran wrap for next day. No problem. Still too much. Saved rest for a third go. By this point, there is a black ring around the inside of the bowl where the cheese had been burnt and stuck on. I nuke the remaining amount, step away from the microwave....

CRACK!!!

The bowl had fractured into a top and bottom!

MOM: What are you doing!!!?!?
Me: I was heating salsa dip!! The bowl fractured!!!
Mom: What dish did you use!?!?
Me: A salad dish!
Mom: You can't use those in the microwave for repeated reheating!!

A few days ago I almost added vegetable oil to a pork dish I was cooking in the oven. I was out of margarine. I came to my senses when I recalled that oil can...burn...quite well.

DesignFox

02-15-2007, 04:31 AM

Hah. I have a dumb Sambuca story, too.

I went out with friends after class to our favorite bar and grill. Had some tomato soup, and a few drinks. One friend then decided we all should have Sambuca shots...
Never, never, never mix Sambuca and tomato soup... I haven't had Sambuca (or tomato soup) since... :puke: Don't know what I was thinking there. I was sick as a dog the next day, too.

I know I've done lots of stupid things, but I can't pull them out of my memory right now. :lol:

Greenday

02-15-2007, 05:03 AM

ArenaBoy

02-15-2007, 06:10 AM

Let's see.

When I was 8, we took a trip to see some family, the family we visited had a bag of Chips Ahoy, at the time I loved that stuff and I ate an entire bag of it. The next day was not so plesant for me.

In cross-country when I was in high school, we were at a teammate's house. He lived on a lake and some of us decided to go take a swim. Need I say that at the time, it was late October, unusually cold with a temp of 55 degrees where the water would be colder? We swam across and decided not to swim back, so here we are barefoot, shirtless, soaking wet, and cold. So we decided to run back to his house, getting there meant going on a VERY busy road and then running on a dirt road then a paved road. That was fun.

Also in cross-country: My school was next to a state park, so we had the privelage of running in the woods. One day, we decided to climb trees for the hell of it. We found a tree but one guy backed off, saying it was dead. We didn't care and proceeded to climb it, we hear a slight breaking and the next thing we know the branch we were on snaps off, and we landed on the ground hard.

One more: This involved a teammate. During our warm-up, our teammate saw his buddy in his car, as a joke he jumped on top of his car. The car is moving quite slowly, and said buddy hits the gas slightly, teammate did a complete flip and landed on his back on the pavement HARD. We heard the smack. He got up, and kept running like nothing happened.

NightAngel

02-15-2007, 06:43 AM

I leaned on the side of an aquarium while I was cleaning it when I was 12 or 13. I still have a scar on my right arm from the glass breaking and my arm going through the side tank.

On the alcohol sidebar:
I DESPISE Tequila. To me it tastes like vomit. Now, after drinking a lot I realize vomit may be inevitable but it should taste good in at least one direction!

Lace Neil Singer

02-15-2007, 02:03 PM

I once drank, with a friend, an entire pint glass of a drink that tasted like vomit. Vomit with sugar crystals. Why, you ask? Well, this guy had offered me and my friend a free round of drinks if we drank the vomit drink. Dunno what was in it, but it was bright orangy yellow. Ick.

Melxb

02-15-2007, 05:14 PM

Stupid Alcoholic Thing I Did:
In college one night I was running up the steps of my dorm and my foot just fell sideways. I was drunk and wearing 4-inch platform heels. I didn't even realize I had broken my foot until I woke up the next morning and saw a HUGE bruise covering the top of my foot. Not.Good. I went to class, incredibly enough, and then went to the Student Health center where I was x-rayed and plaster-casted. It turns out that the bone I broke, the very outside of your foot, is the most common bone broken because of the shoes we (I think women actually) wear. It's really easy to twist your foot walking without having had anything to drink.

Non Alcoholic Stupid Thing I Did:
I forgot to put a parking break on my car and it backed into my mom's car, causing significant damage. I felt really bad about that. She just called it in to her insurance company and paid a really low deductible and she got it fixed in 72 hours. Mostly fender damage to her Cherokee. I feel really stupid about it because I just felt it was really careless to forget to put the parking break on. Just really stupid of me.

BookstoreEscapee

02-15-2007, 06:25 PM

I hate sambuca. I mean, really really really hate it, with a passion most people reserve for cyclists on the road and bubblegum pop. So, what do I do when this guy I know buys me a shot? I drink it, cuz it was free. And spent the next 10 minutes swallowing down saliva and feeling ill.

MMM Black Sambuca! I'll take your share :cheers:

I DESPISE Tequila.

But I'm with you there...!

My mom was making chicken soup the other day and went to add chicken broth. She grabbed the wrong can and didn't realize until she had poured almost all of it in the pot. It was beef. So she added her chicken and veggies like normal....I call it her Beefken soup.

ShortTemperHatesStupidity

02-15-2007, 08:13 PM

I'm constantly re-heating food in containers that have no business being in the microwave. That leads to all kinds of melted plastic containers, sparking chinese take-out handles and the likes... Fun!

My boyfriend plays this drinking race with all his buddies-Shotgun, I believe is what it's called. Basically he takes a beer can, pokes a hole in the bottom with a sharp instrument (carefully as not to explode the can), puts his mouth to the hole, and pops the top. The result is that essentially it's about as fast to drink as if you beer-bonged it. Gets ya good-n-drunk real quick too.

The problem with it is, and he's said this to me several times, that he "can't do it more than once" unless he'd like to see his dinner again. Yet, for some reason, he does it several times... Now I ask you, why would you do this repeatedly if you know it makes you sick? But I guess I can't really talk...

sportsmom

02-15-2007, 09:02 PM

Bacardi 151. I think nearly every night I've had it, I ended up praying to the porcelain gods. My advice to all is to not drink it. Especially don't drink about a quarter of the bottle on an empty stomach. You know what? Just don't drink.

Ha! Lightweight! That's what my mom, aunt and I make daquaris with. :lol:

Here's one I do almost every week. My girls love to have a big breakfast on Saturday or Sunday mornings, so I do it for them. Scrambled eggs, bacon or sausage, toast or pancakes, whatever I can think of.

Eggs make me sick if I eat too many of them, so what do I eat every weekend? That's right, scrambled eggs. I can't help it, they taste so good with cheese and if you put bacon grease in the pan instead of butter. Yummy!

Bella_Vixen

02-15-2007, 10:19 PM

Irish Car Bombs. Never a good idea, but with a few beers/shots in me, they start to sound fantastic. They never end well.

Well, I'm shocked. I can have an Irish Car Bomb, a couple shots of Jamesons, a shot or two of Rumpleminz and be fine....but I also drink a LOT of water between drinks.

Silvercat

02-15-2007, 10:52 PM

Is it okay if its non-alcohol related?

I was doing some toy customizing and I had some Sculpy to cure. You can't stick it in the oven because the toy will melt and I didn't want to boil it because it gets too brittle. I decided to do it over flame.

I couldn't find the lighter. Or matches. I looked everywhere. Finally I decide, shit, I'll use the electric stove to light the candle wick. Tried that, and I was just getting wax everywhere. So as I'm mopping up the wax with a paper towel I think, hell, I can use the paper towel as a lighter.

Yes. I did.

It won't light. Finally I'm getting red sparks along the edge so I put to the candle wick and blow gently. It ignites. Did you know that paper burns really fast? So I've got 3 to 4 in flames within an inch of my fingers, but finally the wick catches.

I didn't burn myself or the house, so...

Oh, and the lighter was in my sister's desk in the one drawer I didn't look in (cuz 'that drawer's empty')

DesignFox

02-16-2007, 03:46 AM

That's what my mom, aunt and I make daquaris with.

Me too, SportsMom. :D

I also like pineapple juice with 151...but, another dumb alcohol night was the night I drank a few too many of them...WOOO boy! I walked up to my dorm and the girls outside smoking said to me, "Hey Fox, you go out and get trashed tonight?" I just said, "yup!" and walked in the building... that was a fun night...'til I got sick...then passed out :lol: I somehow made it all the way to my room, went to take a shower/change and got back in my room before having that happen, though. Still can't figure out how I did it all....

Oh, and some friends of mine devised a shot that is 1 part 151 to 1 part SoCo, with a splash of grenadine "for color." Had some fun nights putting those back... :angel:

Rubyred

02-16-2007, 04:56 PM

Disney World + Alchohol + Tower of Terror + Swimming Pool = Never a good idea.

And my bf was nice enough to take pictures. Bastard/:lol:

NightAngel

02-16-2007, 07:37 PM

She grabbed the wrong can and didn't realize until she had poured almost all of it in the pot. It was beef.

I have all my spices neatly lined up on top of my stove. Sometimes I like a little sprinkle of Cinnamon in my coffee. So, I reached over and grabbed the Cinnamon from it's place, sprinkled, drank- GAGGED!

Someone had put the Chili Powder where the Cinnamon used to be. Bleh.

Greenday

02-17-2007, 04:45 AM

Ok, I'm just going to throw this one out there. I'm being called out, then you people say you are just having mixed drinks? Mixed drinks, straight shots. Gee, I wonder which one will get you faster. Come on, no comparison.

And Silvercat, there's really no guidelines on this stuff. Just alcohol produces a lot of stupidity stories so that's why there is so many.

ArenaBoy

02-17-2007, 05:03 AM

More cross-country idiocies:

In our first race of the year when I was all but 15, we were running through some trails after the race and throwing rocks along the way. Little did we realize that on the path we were on was a bee's nest, one of our rocks hit the nest and you can guess where this is going, we ran like hell. Moral: Do not throw rocks in trail paths, you'll piss off a bee's nest.

During the winter, some of us decided to wear shorts, it just snowed recently and it was good packing snow. We decided to have a snowball fight out in the woods, those who wore shorts always got pelted in the legs, always. We resorted back to long pants after that.

Cross was pretty much the only thing I loved in high school, so many stupid things.

Becks

02-18-2007, 05:11 PM

I stay away from Tequila. Far away.

Other stupid things I shouldn't do, but do anyway--go in to work on my day off...stay late...go in early. :sigh:

blas

02-18-2007, 05:53 PM

I don't want to even start with the alcohol...we all know about blas' little problem with the bottle.

But some funny things I have done drunk (as in better times) I broke a pizza pan (a wooden one) on a guy's ass spanking him with it, lol. I hung a pair of panties from a hook on the ceiling, I mooned a bunch of people.......I started a debate of legalities at a party.......I admitted I have fantasies about the Altell guy.....

Oh...stupid things I shouldn't do.........rrr..........force things in and out of electrical outlets? Get impatient with machinery at work and nearly take my hands off?

sportsmom

02-19-2007, 06:34 PM

Ok, I'm just going to throw this one out there. I'm being called out, then you people say you are just having mixed drinks? Mixed drinks, straight shots. Gee, I wonder which one will get you faster. Come on, no comparison.

Why the hell are you doing shots of rum? If you're going to do shots, tequila is the way to go. That or just drink Bushmill's straight. hehe

That's the stuff right there I need to stay away from. Bushmill's makes it too easy to drink too much and end up sloppy.

BTW, a mixed drink is the same amount of alcohol as a shot.

Tanasi

02-19-2007, 08:51 PM

You light-weights let's get down to some good ol' country corn squeezins right out of a mason jar. You can drink it and drive your car on it, you wake up the next morning with a poundin headache afraid that you're going to die, a few hours later you're afraid you won't. This stuff will put hair on your chest, remove paint, and desolve diamonds.

Greenday

02-20-2007, 12:53 AM

BTW, a mixed drink is the same amount of alcohol as a shot.

True in general, but 151 happens to be 75.5% alcohol. And considering a shot is consumed much faster than a mixed drink, doing shots get you faster.

This brings about the important lesson: do not drink alcohol. BAD.

DesignFox

02-22-2007, 03:21 PM

you've just got to realize your limit and stay within it. most of my stupid stories come from pushing that limit- or being dumb enough to eat/drink things together that shouldn't be mixed up in your tummy. :puke:

to add to our outdoors stories... never sit in the woods for hours on end without any bug spray or other preparation...actually, never sit in the middle of a clearing of trees in the woods for hours on end. period. you will end up with ticks. lots of ticks. all over you. and you might find one or two a day or two later... :(

Spiffy McMoron

02-23-2007, 01:07 AM

General:

Get two giant tattoos going from hip to knee-but at least they will look bitching! :D :devil: *Note to self-take off the bandage*

Drinking:

The first time you ever plan on getting drunk, you probably shouldn't go with your far more experienced brother, his far more experienced friend, and his far more experienced girlfriend. Badness will occur.

Outdoors:

Go mountian biking in the mountains with serious mountain bikers-ones who dream about a $20,000 front suspension, or have bikes with frames made out of carbon fiber. Don't call your buddies no-name $180 Canadian Tire special a bike in front of them--this will only make you the subject of ridicule. After biking with this group of individuals, talk to the one who invited you, and welcome him to the family. Make sure he treats your sister well.