Though I've never actually done any of the things I often consider doing out of sheer stupidity, I had a friend who once stick a pair of tweezers in both parts of a power outlet during Biology class in highschool. I've heard the the spear of flame that shot out of the outlet is still legendary six years later.

Science class stupidity, don't get me started.

1. Me and 2 mates got booted out of our Year 12 Biology class for being jackasses and sent to a year 8 Physics one down the hall. So we sat at the back of the class, and the relief teacher from the maths department is demonstrating thermal rising. With a bunsen burner and a paper bag. Sure enough the bag goes flying. It also catches fire. And lands in the WOODEN RAFTERS. The class erupts in screams, as all Year 8s bolt out the door, while the petrified relief teacher, poor guy, is standing there jibbering while one of my friends calmly grabs the fire extinguisher and puts it out. The lesson, don't let Maths teachers near fire.

2. Sadly the reason me and my friends took this so calmly is not so much a good reflection on us, as this kind of thing having become blaise due to the sheer number of worse incidents I'd seen in the science labs arising from me and my peers stupidity.

The most serious of these was in Year 11 Chem, when me and two other guys were doing something which involved heating acid but NOT boiling it. So the two other guys were dealing with the acid while I was mixing the other chemicals a couple of feet away. And I hear this noise, hissing and then a crack I yell "Get back" and jump back a couple of feet and get behind a desk and for a second the two guys who had been noisily chatting away ignoring the acid, turn and look at me like I was nuts as does most of the class and then the fucking thing explodes. It was high concentration acid, burns right through their shirts leaving little holes that look like gunshots, burns on their shoes and one guys thumb got covered in the stuff. Have any of you ever seen skin BUBBLE, that is an unpleasant sight. The other guy got a couple of light burns on his face and his safety goggles were covered in the stuff s well as holes in his shirt.

So yeah one guy who was looking at me while it happened could use his right hand for 2 weeks due to the bubbling skin, holes through the back of shirt with corresponding burns on his back and small burns scattered along the back of his head down to his feet.

The other guy ended up with facial burns and burns all down the front of his body, lots of holes revealing burnt skin on his shirt and one on his shorts where you could see his boxers through his cargos and his expensive Etnies completely ruined by the acid that had run off the desk and scattered all over his shoes. Me and one of the two friends I mentioned early who had been working near me and the idiots just looked at each and in unison whispered "Shit".

So if not paying attention to heated high concentration acid isn't stupid I don't know what is.

Stupid ideas are great because it doesn't always mean your going to say something stupid but sometimes instead you wll DO something stupid.

I was working in a restraunt as a cook and I was just finished deep frying some chicken strips and I looked at them in the deep fryer basket and though that I had to get them out, so I just reached in and grabbed them with my bear hand. Not bothering to think that they were hot and every other time I had taken them out I was using tongs instead of my hand. *DDDUUUURRRRR!!!*

The other day my friend had out an old yearbook from 1980 and we were looking through it. I saw one of my teachers and said "I'd bone her". Then we looked at the next yearbook and she was fugly as hell.

The famous words of anyone who's ever been too drunk- "I'm never drinking again"

oh my god this topic just saved my life right now i just read trough and thought i havent done anything stupid in a while only to relize my oven has ben preheting for hours while i was on the internet i would have just went up stairs for the night and forgoten about it for the night if it hadent been for this thank you so much

On the topic of ovens...

I've started baking before and then decided to take a nap, forgetting I was the only one home. Twice. Luckily, I woke up both times to realize, "Oh, shit, the oven's on."

...the lasagna was a little bit burnt, but it beats having the house burn down.

I have only one thing to say about ovens, garlic bread. You toss it in the broiler and the next thing you know someone is asking why there are flames coming out of the bottom of the oven.

One time I thought that there was no difference between dish soap and dishwasher soap. So I put the former into the dishwasher and left.

Fifteen minutes later, foam was seeping out of the dishwasher and coated half of the kitchen floor. So what did we learn? The stuff you use on dishes in the sink does NOT work for dishes in the dishwasher. But it will clean the floor if you try to use it as such.

"And this time, I mean it!"

Who would be that stu-oh, right, me.

You know what's worse? Thinking that putting in less will solve the problem. And then repeating that several times over the course of your life.