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.

#1 High school year 10 science class: "I wonder what happens when I ignite this gas tap" not realising it had the potetnial to blow up the school (so the teacher said) and not realising it was aimed at my friends face. (just missed)
#2 High school Science again. we're doing an experiment with Bromine, the teacher says don't breathe it directly in as it causes impotence, "I Wonder what it smells like". 1 month later im back to normal and can't remember wat it smelt like.

I was just reading the titles of the most recently updated threads in the main Forum, and I read "Beast Wars" as "Breast Wars."

I'll take that as an indicator that I either need more sleep or...something else...

well stupid thoughts always end up with some sort of stupid reaction,i just had finished reading the strip where fighter had said,ham and peanut butter sandwiches only are half as good as they sound.Now first thing i thought is thats disgusting,but ten minutes later i was like,hmm i wonder how that would taste?So i tried it tasted like over salted raw rat meat with chewed gum thrown in,so yeah only half as good.:whee:

Here's one, "Could a hermaphrodite impregnate herself?"...no, seriously.

What I'm wondering is why are Yellowpages yellow!?

How come you get canker sores when you have a cold, and cold sores when you have herpes? Wouldn't "cankers" sound better when you're be-herped, and then you could have cold sores when you actually have a cold!

Just a few weeks ago I thought, "What would happen if Chuck Norris died?"

3 days ago at Appplebee's I could've sworn I saw Chuck Norris sitting at the table across from me jiggling his right leg and staring at me.

All would be right in the universe.

Well, I chose ADHD as my topic for a health paper. Why is this dumb, you ask? Because I can't resist the urge to make as many ADHD jokes as

Learning to drive standard while eating an ice cream cone.

Don`t know what the hangover we were thinking with that one, but it was interesting to shift gears balancing the cone between my knees.

Later on that same day we took the Altima through the car wash - it being such a nice day - and wondering why we didn`t close the back windows.

Awesome. Simply awesome.

"If I be dumb now, I can be smarter the rest of the time!"
 

XD Wow. As a music nerd, that amuses me tremendously.

(This was done by somebody else, just a note) No, what's funny is when it happens in Marching Band. That slide will never be the same again after it was run over by about 3 kids before he could pick it up.

XD

I've done the same, except I said "Please bitch-slap me. I need it." in a jesting tone, and he reaches back and slaps me as hard as he can. My jaw will never feel the same. :(

A dumb thought I've had is joining RaiRO. It's consuming my life and soul!

Some radio show was running a contest where they would say three words and you would have to finish them with the same word. This time the words were End, Pool, and Periodic, and the answer was Table.

I asked my dad, "what's a periodic table?" I was 19 at the time.

When I was young, I thought the Montréal Olympic Stadium was actually the Molson Center, and because of this, I thought the tower was a big glass of beer.
I also thought it was the place where the Canadiens played and that they were the ones who made the beer.

Also, my sister: "Hey Bob, jump on that puddle of ice"
Me : "Okay!"

It wasn't a puddle. Do not jump on ice, or else you might get yourself in icy water up to your neck and have to come back home almost hypothermic. I was 7 by the way.

Oh, and if your lips get stucks on a fudgesicle, don't pull your lips off like I did. Again, I was seven.

That wasn't a really good year for me...

O really? I didn't notice.

Anyway, a dumb thought I had was thinking that a certain xbox game called "BLOWOUT" would be fun. Yeah, repetitive, uninovative, smelly fun. Stupid thing I've done was posting this reply mainly to jab the sarcasm stick at FenrisWolf.

O yeah, I recently reformatted my computer because I thought that was the only way to fix my compy. 2.5 weeks later and 40$ less in my pocket, I realize I probably should have asked for help first. Stupid drivers...

Ow! My eye!

I convinced my dad to let me listen to the original recording of House of the Rising Sun, since we're performing an arrangement of it for Marching Band this year. The song is too addictive. @@

Recently, I was listening to a .wav of the Terran music from Starcraft: Broodwar that I ripped from the CD. Partway through the song, I thought to myself, "Boy, I sure wish I had this song on my computer." Which was a pretty stupid thought, considering that I was listening to exactly that. I realized that right after, and kind of mentally smacked myself.

Then I thought, "but yeah, it's a pretty good song. Too bad they don't have it on the internet, I'd definately download it." Stupid me.

Not that I do the music piracy thing, or anything. Game songs are an exception. Fo' sure.

He's such a GOOD little advertiser, isn't he?

Oh, good one for me, I went to work (Walmart) yesterday and thought "I bet today's gonna go pretty well!"

Stupidest. Thought. Ever.

My current stupid thought is ongoing and will not quit. It's also RaiRO related.

"I bet I could single-handedly take a castle, Emperium aside, in WoE."

Now, for context. During War of Emperium all castles are claimable, but filled with incredibly uber-powered monsters. I play a Wizard. Fine for soloing usually, but hit points like unto wet kleenex. Even stupider, I actually ACTED on this thought.

I think I have a stupid RaiRO related thought, pictish can back this one up too:

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Payon, level two (or was it three? the one with the jumping un-dead monk guys...)

*hmm, the enemies seem to follow me, and I seem to have firewall...*

Later...
Pictish: you really are a black mage... 'What? 20? Yeah, we can take em', but wait, let's have them gather first'
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If I could go back in time, I'd copy that and quote it.

My single worst thought I've ever had:

"I am definately not drunk enough."

When you say that, you've had enough.

Just today, I was unplugging something and not paying attention to what I was doing. Of course, I get shocked, and jump up, and try to shake off the tingly feeling in my arm. GF asks, "Ohmygod, are you OK?"
I reply, "Yeah, I just touched the wrong part of the plug. It didn't hurt or anything, I was just shocked. I mean, surprised. No, wait, I actually was shocked. Damn, I'm stupid."

I can't tell you how many times I've thought, "Wow, that car looks a lot like mine." And then figure out I'm looking at my car.

EDIT: Forgot about this one. During the summer, I was trying to get to the other side of the garage. The kind of garage that is so full of junk that it's basically an obstacle course. Well, after stepping on a gas can to get into the bed of the pickup truck, then walking across two sawhorses stacked on top of one another which are holding up a trailer, without using my hands, with the only light source being a 1x2 foot window on the other side of the room, my brain finally kicks in and tells me, "You are not the Prince of Persia. You are going to die."

Don't keep pet fish.
 

You know this may seem a little off topic, but how do you accually get a job at Wal-Mart anyway?

You see, at my local Wal-Mart there is a high turn over rate because most of the people there only work for a year. Then they quit because they are heading off to college and they just needed a little extra cash.


Also one time I was trying to start a BBQ and I decided that making a trail of lighter fluid, I was a little younger and stupider.

Well when I did this I did it on bare ground. As it turns out grass does not like lighter fluid for it's liquid food.

To this very day there is a line on my lawn leading to my BBQ.

But have you managed to ruin it three straight times, a different way each time? My ever so brilliant sister managed to do that.

Once I forgot my name.
Thinking, "What's my name again?" seems kind of dumb to me.

I just remembered my crowning stupid thought.

It was winter. It was the day that we were going to go on vacation. All I had to do was go to school for two periods, go home, and enjoy a week in California.

I couldn't even get out of the driveway without messing up.

My dad had parked the car the night before. It was an old clunker of a car...a 1975 Suburban. For some reason, it was decided I should park in the hardest to get to spot in our driveway: Off to the lefthand side next to the basketball pole.

Anyways, the reason why I bring up the fact that my dad had parked the car the night before was because he parked it at a different angle than what I was used to. After seeing my struggle to pull out without jumping the curb, my dad says "Get out, I'll pull it out of the driveway."

So, I thought, "Okay", and got it.

...He never said "Put in park and get out", he just said, "Get out."

So, I open the door, and start to get out, and I realize the car is still moving. Instead of putting my foot on the break, I put my foot on the ground, and tried to bring the suburban to a halt Flintstones style...which really didn't work.

Opened car doors and basketball poles don't mix. >_<

Hrmm... This is a comon one for me.

Recently I've begun thinking "I'm not as drunk as I should be by now" a lot at parties, but that has more to do with the effect of chronic alcohol consumption on your tolerance for the stuff than anything else.

More to the point for the thread, though:

"This is definitely not a terrible idea!"

-applicable in any one of a thousand situations over the past year.

I used to constantly make really dumb decisions while I was at uni.

"Go home and work... Or go to the bar and start drinking?"

"Go home and work... Or stay for another pint?"

"Do some work while I'm in the computer lab... Or browse the Internet?"

"Do some work while I'm at home... Or play Medieval: Total War?"

"Buy course textbooks... Or buy more Space Marines?"

"Course materials or alcohol? Course materials... alcohol. Ahh screw it, I don't need those textbooks anyway, I've got my notes..."

"Do some coursework, or paint some 40K miniatures?"

Yeah. There's a good reason why I got a 2.2...

The single worst Idea to have is to decide the situation can not get worse
*cue music* It can always get worse.

Hmm.. maybe I can save time by shaving while I run to the train station?

After the bleeding stopped and the scars were examined, I vowed to get an electric shaver.

Ok, I'll admit, I had a stupid thought.

In the Energy Crisis thread, I almost said:

"Water shortage? What are you talking about, it rains all the time, doesn't it?"

Then I thought "oh.. .yeah, duh"...

Well, today the students of century high (the school I go to) were informed of a bomb threat. I was pulled out of school after first period, and i'm not going to school tomarrow. the stupid thought is, that when I first heard "bomb", I thought:

"Damn! I didn't buy a diffusal kit!"

*Puh*, and they say I play CS:S too much...

EDIT: because noone else has posted her in awhile, and I have another stupid moment, here goes the EDITING!

I was at my friends birthday party today, and we all decided as a group (the party) to do some BMX. Now, I haven't ever done BMX, and I don't have a BMX bike, so I was just supposed to watch them from atop my mountain bike. One of the people there was told to "hit" a jump, but he merely "slapped" it. I said "I'll show you how it's done," and started making my way towards the dirt ramp. Now, keep in mind that I
A) don't have a helmet on,
B) haven't ever done a jump on a bike, and
C) I'm riding a mountain bike, not a BMX bike (which are lighter and easier to land on)

I took the jump, and basically threw myself 4.5 feet upwards, with the front wheel of the bike at about 80 degrees downward. I tumbled, and came out with a minor concussion, some scratches, and some bruises, but I'm fine and fit 4 hours from that incident. I just tell people that I fought a cougar with my bear hands.

There's something else I'd like to mention, but isn't part of being stupid. It's that a few years ago, I had a very vivid dream of going off that dirt jump, watching the ground speed under me, then tumbling forward, crumpling over to my left, then opening my eyes, with the sun shining in my eyes. That EXACT same thing happened today, except I know what happened afterwards. Not the first time Iv'e had that sort of dream too. I wish I could dream a few seconds before the actual pain part though :p

I'm not exactly sure that it's STUPID, but:

So, I was going to get some cereal for breakfast today. Well, on my way back to my desk, I almost slip on my pants leg on the tile. The first thought to come to my mind is:

"I should stop wearing pants."

My friends and I were talking about how humans are getting lazier and lazier, saying things like, "Soon we'll have sidewalks that act like escalators! And yes, I know about the ones in the airport." So, I just had to say "Heh! Soon we'll have trees that grow themselves!"

I always wondered:

If rules were made to be broken, then why is it such a big deal when someone breaks one? Shouldn't it be expected? If people are going to make rules simply for the purpose of breaking them, then why bother with them at all? Clearly, if there were no rules, then there'd be no way to break any. Why hasn't anyone picked up on this?

These are the kinds of thoughts that assure me of social isolation in my later years.

"I`ll sleep it off later!"

--no sleep makes Amy really, really, really nasty at work, at home, anywhere.

I poked myself in the eye with a pencil while walking down a hallway to an IQ test.
Then I did it again on the way out while demonstrating what I did.

*Walking through a chemistry lab, sees a beaker of white rocks with a warning label on it*

Oooo... pretty....!

*picks up highly corrosive white rock and burns hand*


It's amazing really... and I'm in med school and I work part time in a lab... scary, huh?

After waling out of the student union, whilst talking to my girlfriend on my mobile, I was checking I had remembered everything I needed incase I had left anything behind.
Wallet... right, in my pocket.
Timetable.... yup, here it is.
House keys.. umm... under my wallet.. fine...
Phone... wheres my phone?.. Oh crap I've lost my phone!
5 mins later I realised I had been talking about losing my phone on the phone I was looking for whilst my girlfriend kept quiet, listening to me making a fool of myself. :sweatdrop

I want to write a book.

Im going to use my powes in public.

Im rich a few thousand dolaars is nothing.

There is a me in teame but there is noI or Mysrlf Is this teame of one one third of its self?

If Jimy craked corn and I dont care why am I singing about it?

IF god was merciful why does he kill people?

Why do I have to poop ITs disgusting.

I wish i was a ninja so i can fight pirates in space.

I have nevver seen a save point in my life where are they?

Every time I breath I die a little bit, if I dont breath I wont die.

I always wondered what powers the vibration of atoms.

If anyone could answer this please feel free to do so.

I'm sorry, but could someone translate that into something tangible?

Spelling and grammar check'd by popular demand.

And you sing about Jimmy because he cracked corn, and you don't care. You're singing about it because otherwise, nobody would know how much of a rebel you are. And people die because if we didn't, we'd have overpopulation issues, and bad guys would have nothing to d- I mean... bad guys couldn't be defeated?