The Dumb Thread
 

So what dumb things have you done?

One time I put a CD in the microwave. It's really dumb but it makes the coolest blue lighting effect when it first sizzles. Always fun on a easy, Sunday morning.

Did you eat it afterward?

Now that's really dumb. You've got the feeling now!

Be sure to lay the CD on a mug or something. The blue flames are wild.
Don't nuke it too long as the blue lighting bolts are quick.

Well, I dunno, might be good for a quick snack. Beats kraft dinner. :D

Let's see, stupid things I've done... everything! I once stuck magnets on my cat.

LMAO...hahahahaha.

That's great. Got pics?

Even better, my brother videotaped it! I also sat on him, but that was only because he probably looked like a pony to my 3 year old eyes. He was huge. :nod: (uh, my cat, not my brother...)

Hmm, well when I was about 13, I decided to look to close at a boiling pot of water on the stove. It didnt spill, but my leg touched the side of he hot stove, and I still have a scar from that.

Now it would be just plain dumb not to adhere to this sign:
http://www.boners.com/content/795717.1.jpg

I was holding a bunch of grocery bags, one of which had eggs & a new light bulb in it, as I was trying to get in the front door & instead of putting down a bag to unlock the door, I held the bag whilst trying to open the door, which of course didn't work very well, so I got impatient & all wound up & in a fit of pique, threw the first bag that I thought of against the wall outside, & wouldn't you know but the eggs & light bulb broke.

What Socrates meant by living an "examined life" means many things, among them understanding & admitting that one is an asshole. To me, there is no hope for happiness unless one lives an examined life, & part of that is understanding & admitting that the asshole in one comes out all the time & renders one unfit for the honorific "human being" (which not only implies sentience but reason).

Our lives are rounded with a sleep, as Shakespeare said, but they are also weighted down with folly & vice.

I've done plenty of dumb things but the first that came to mind, which is funny, is in high school while we were playing volleyball. I had my hands up to hit the ball only they were too far apart. The ball came between them and hit me in the eye! :laugh: Why I did not close my eye is beyond me. Just one of those things I suppose. :lol:

haha, i did that, too! hootie and the blowfish, baby - they deserved it!

i've done so many stupid things it's difficult to choose one thing out of a general haze of stupidity ... uhhh, well, i play violin, and i played a solo at this church, and to get off stage, i had to walk down 4 or 5 steps to this door that led to the sound control room, and i took one step and tumbled down the rest of the stairs, crumpling against the door. luckily, my violin was in tact. sadly, my pride was not.

Here's another in the plethroa of dumb things I've done. When I was 6 and our family was getting ready to go on our boat we had at the time, we were walking down the dock and I wasnt paying attention and walked right off the end into the water. Seriously, if my stepdad wouldnt have seen me and jumped in after me, there might have been a problem.:lol:

ive done a lot of dumb things (surprise!) :wavey:

worst - getting into the car of a stranger
pissiest - locking keys in running vehicle
best - falling in/out love

that sounds exactly like something i would do ... in fact, i'm sure i've done it many times. i've broken more things in a fit of frustration with myself because of some lesser act of stupidity ... sigh!

another stupid thing i've done is try to make sense on a message board after getting only 2 hours of sleep ... :]

Hopefully nothing bad became of your encounter with the stranger?

oh MAN i forgot about that - i've done that, too! several times, in fact. the last time i not only locked my keys in my car with the battery on (which i didn't discover until i returned to my car 90 minutes later), i locked my spare set in there, too!!

That explains volumes. :lol: :laugh: :lol: :laugh:

Yeah, the years from 6 to 35 are what I'll call the "Lost years.":lol:

Nice. David, that was so eloquently put. My ghetto reply: Word.

Hahaha. That's some good ****. I was performing on stage in front a sold out crowd (years ago) and a part of a scene had me dangerously close to the edge of the stage and I'm supposed to "take a step back" on que of a line, well I took a step right off the stage! One foot remained on the stage and the rest of me was on the floor. Too funny. I just worked it in of course being the clever actor I am. Hahaha.

What's wrong with love? Awww...honey. You should know better: "well, it's better to have loved and lost (ahh..but it's better not to lose) than to always be alone (always be alone) in your heart..."

That's pretty dumb! Ouch! I used to play WallyBall (similiar to VolleyBall, but played in a raquet ball court off walls)...I have had so many face and ball encounters it's not even funny.

That's some funny ****. Speaking of Dad's helping us kids out. My brother and I were sitting next to each other on a cable car in San Francisco and up the hill we go and for some weird reason, my brother and I (were we young) peed our pants at exactly the same time and the urine run started going down the cable car bench right into my Dad. He saved some people by blocking most of it.

thats why is was labeled BEST honey :o :xoxo:

Ah right! More dumb **** from me.

I once took the 205 towards San Francisco while starting out on a road trip to Los Angeles. "Wait...this can't be right...?" I'm so smart. -__-

These are hilarious. Thanks for the Daily Ledge Laugh.

Hmm, I ride the cable car every day. I wonder if I'll be able to get this out of my mind! :laugh:

I've done a zillion dumb things in my life.

In junior high, I accidently wore my socks while taking a post-gym class shower. The a-hole coach pointed it out in front of everyone.

I was hospitalized for eating rocks when I was 4.

I didn't file my taxes a few years in a row. (all cleaned up now)

I got addicted to drugs. (all cleaned up now)

I saw Rick Springfield in concert.

I spent money I didn't have to go to the 1998 AHI fiasco.

Once I jumped into my wall. I was looking for a sock. I had a large queen size bed at the time, and I wanted to look over the other end. Obviously,the best way to do this in with a Superman-style jump over it. I jumped a little too far. I hit my head HARD on the wall. I ended up with a minor concussion, but the worst part was having to explain this half-baked story to doctors and others.

dumb shit
 

things that come to mind:

Playing cigarette chicken 4 years ago, with my friend Alan, and i have a permanent hideous scar from the burn on my forearm.

In junior high I jumped from the bleachers in the school gym to hang from the basketball rim. I caught the rim but only held on for about 2 seconds, then fell backwards and landed on my head. I was knocked unconscious for about 2 minutes. Talk about a lump!

I paid $700 for 2 front row Fleetwood Mac tickets in May 2004. ha!

I finally had "relations" with a girl where there was sexual tension all thru high school. I left Little Rock and moved back to Atlanta, about 4 years after we graduated. It was great for about 3 months, but it wasn't based on anything but sex, and it ruined the friendship.

-I tried to "climb my bedroom wall" when I was three and busted my head open.

-Smoked weed while drunk. :distress: :laugh:

-Attempted to walk through a screen door, and we (the screen door and I) landed in my friend's living room. :rolleyes:

-Went the wrong way down an exit ramp and headed straight on into traffic. (And I was totally sober.)

There's so many other things. Maybe I'll post more later.

That's not dumb. =o

I got violently ill; I felt awful for two days. :(

Well normally that's pretty fun...you mustve gotten a hold of some cheap ass, piss poor weed! No biggie...just avoid cheap beer and cheap weed next time. haha

yea krista maybe is was 'dumb' you didnt try it again :lol:
like a one-time thing...youve got to find out!! :wavey:

It was probably piss poor weed. I try not to drink cheap ass alcohol. ;)

I always heard not to mix them, but then again, I'm in the dumb thread. :laugh:

Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, duuuuummmmbbbb.......
 

You want dumb...I got dumb. :nod:

I ran into our screen door with a sucker sticking out of my mouth (had a long stick) and it went down my throat. Had to pull it out.

I guess I have an oral fixation (insert joke here :rolleyes: LOL), so I put a BB in my mouth (for a BB gun) once. Accidentally swallowed it and scratched my throat, but I swore to my mom it was stuck in there. LMAO!

Used Vanish (to clean your toilet) on my legs once. Thought it would make the hair vanish.

Cut my leg open on a car bumper. Yeah. The scar looks like a leech because I didn't go have stitches. LOL

Put a rock up my nose when I was little.

Choked on a penny (oral thing again) and my mom gave me the heimlich.

Got in trouble when my friend's mom took me home, even though my mom specifically told me to stay at the movie theater so she could come get me. She was piiiiiiiiiiisssssed when she got back home and at the time, I was like "What's the big deal?!" but now I know...she was worried sick.

While mom and I were standing at a street corner waiting for her friend to pick us up...this guy drove by and looked at us. I waved. Didn't really think about it being a HUGE no-no and I got scared when it looked like the dude was turning around to come back. He didn't though.

Good girl! Life is waaaaaay too short for cheap weed and cheap booze. Nothing but Vancouver bud and Pouilly Fuisee for me!!!:p

Naturally, I mean, any dummy could see that was the best way to the other side. :lol: Thanks for the belly laugh.

I do and say dumb **** all the time. I will give you the best of the best, as most of my friends agree. Seriously, and this was pre-Jessica Simpson.

I always thought that buffalo wings started out being made with real buffalo and that when buffalo went extinct (yes, I thought they were extinct) that they decided to start making them with chicken.

Revelations here: buffalo wings have always been chicken and buffalo are not extinct.

:cool:

That reminds me of a friend one time that was all depressed that Burger King got rid of their Whaler sandwich. The dude thought it was really whale meat!!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I've done some stupid things.. I've forgotten most of them but a few recollections include.

1) Sticking my finger in a live lamp socket and getting hit with 240 volts when I was 9. I knew what would happen but did it anyway.

2) Trying to open a container with a pair of scissors and puncturing right though the flesh between my right thumb and fingers. That stung a bit.

3) Setting fire to the gas taps in a chemistry lesson. Oh, and making a mercury thermometer explode too. :shocked:

4) Breaking a toe on a door getting up to take a p*** in the night. Ouch.

5) Driving at 135mph in heavy rain. I'll not mention where but it was a long time ago and rather stupid.

6) Breaking both my arms at once falling over.

7) Snorted coke. I mean Coca Cola not Cocaine. Ever wondered what it's like to burn you nostril hairs out?

Stupid is as stupid does...