Examples of stupidity.

[Magicpole]

Can I just chip in by saying that using a vacuum cleaner to get the remaining petrol out of a carburettor I was servicing, was probably not the brightest idea I ever had. Electric motor, sparks, airflow, petrol and safety not being words that sit well in a sentence together.

When I was at primary school, we found an old abandoned car. One of my pals decided to drop a lit match into the petrol tank.

The next day the teacher led the prayer for Brians hair and eyebrows to grow back soon. He was lucky as fuck.

Another time at a bonfire in my back garden, we put a sheet of 8 x4 of plywood on the roaring fire. It immediately stopped the flames and instead of shooting up the licked the edges. I noticed my pal getting agitated that the fire was not as it was. I saw him.m8ve about the fire and saud to myself, he's not going to lift it up surely?

He d8d and was engulfed in flames, he jumped back in time to avoid serious injury but the smell of burnt hair was thick. He was a trooper though and never made a fuss, hoping no one had seen it. I shouted over, you alright Raymond

Aye, fine. I think.i will just go up the road though. And off he went in shock and devoid of his fringe and eyebrows. It was a fucking pisscase.

 

[metalblue]

Can I just chip in by saying that using a vacuum cleaner to get the remaining petrol out of a carburettor I was servicing, was probably not the brightest idea I ever had. Electric motor, sparks, airflow, petrol and safety not being words that sit well in a sentence together.

If it’s confession time....I have learnt you can’t fix a water leak with a hammer, it just makes it worse

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

No it was both. Who hasn't heard of Lake Atitlan? Basic primary school geography that round our way. I bet you didnt know where to look. :)

I let him get off the plane before me and stayed well back at passport control.
I failed my GCE 0 Level in geography but went on to spend <>40 years as a travel agent!

 

[Magicpole]

I let him get off the plane before me and stayed well back at passport control.
I failed my GCE 0 Level in geography but went on to spend <>40 years as a travel agent!

Good man.

 

[JULES]

I heard this about 15 years ago listening to ken bruce radio 2. some woman at a pub quiz witnessed this; there was a tie at the end of the quiz between 3 teams, so each team had one person come to the front, there was to be 1 question and whoever shouted the answer first won.
the guy asking the question said ok ready;

what is Britains biggest carnivore?

a woman shouts out........Notting hill Notting Hill

 

[OnlyOneUweRosler]

"The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits" - Mark Twain.

 

[che_don_john]

I knew a girl at university who was studying law, who thought that unicorns and mermaids had once existed. Now unicorns I can kind of forgive - it's just a horse with a horn on its head, after all - but mermaids?

Another lass I knew, who was studying medicine, got into a discussion about the ancient belief in a flat earth. I made the point that the idea of everyone in the past thinking the earth was flat was a myth: the ancient Greeks, the Egyptians, the Chinese, The Babylonians: they all worked out that it was a sphere a long time ago. She was having none of it. Her reply: "Then how come all their maps were flat?"

To think that these two are representing people in a court of law and treating others for serious illnesses makes me wince.

 

[Blue Mist]

To be fair, I let the Mrs watch it last weekend for Valentine’s Day, it’s not a romantic, it’s a bleeding horror film!

Anyway, it really does look like it’s going to miss in the film, shame really.

How do we know that it sank, it could all have been a hoax.

 

[Ban-jani]

How do we know that it sank, it could all have been a hoax.

Just like Covid

 

[Packrat]

On the morning of the last eclipse, my missus started to watch a bit of the news on how to view it safely using a colander. She didn't manage to watch all the advice. So when the eclipse was happening she went to the kitchen, grabbed the colander and stood in the back garden with the big green colander stuck to her face looking at the eclipse. The neighbours must have thought she'd gone mad, pity I wasn't there to witness it. She didn't realise you were supposed to focus it onto some card below the colander.