Well I read croowe's suggestion in my stupidity record thread and I thought it could get funny results. so here it goes: What is the stupidest thing you ever did? And for those who are afraid to tell their most stupid mistake: What is your biggest lie?

heh heh hehe........dating my ex-girlfriend was pretty stupid.... but you don't want to hear about that. that's more of a lesson learned.... but actually, the stupidest thing for me would be taking a leek on an electric fense when I was 10.... yep, i really did that. It's not fun................. and yes, it still works ;D brholte

I'll start with my own most stupid action: Driving my bike down a hill at full speed while the trafic lights at the bottom where red and braking very late while knowing my brakes where only working half the time and the cables where both almost broken. result: Both braking cables broke and I went through the red light at full speed with absolutely no brakes other then my feet. I had to avoid getting hit by cars, wich was really difficult. I missed the first one, scratched past the second one (no unjuries) and went straight for a full colllision with the third one. Luckily the third car saw what had happened and could stop just in time. Biggest lie: Reading only 4 books instead of 5 for my literature exam. I used a clever strategy to get away with it: I knew the teacher sometimes mixed the names of me and another student. So when the teacher asked me what my 5th book was going to be I told her I didn't know yet, but that I was thinking of reading the book the other guy (who she mixed up with me occasionally) was going to read. After that I didn't inform the teacher any further about wich book I was going to read. I mentioned another book wich none of the other students had read in my report of the first 4 books. The fifth book was going to be used only during the oral examinations (correct english?). So when the examinations finally came the teacher asked a question about the book the other guy had read. So I told her I didn't read that book and mentioned the one I had previously mentioned in my report. The teacher had no questions ready about that book, so I couldn't give any wrong answers and fail because ther simply wheren't any questions.

crosspost. now min isn't the first any more

"What is the stupidest thing you ever did?" ---------------------------------------------- Let the love of my life get away because I got lazy and didn't care much of her and our love. It is years ago, but there's still no day for me on which I don't think and remember her... and damn myself. J.

Lol @ posst 2. Electric fences aren't that bad. (at least not around these regions).

Stupidest thing: at age 17, driving my mother's car (& showing off), lost control and went over a couple of curbs & sidewalks--ended up bending the frame; cost lots to have fixed, and wow, was I in trouble. Biggest lie: telling my mother I swerved to miss a dog & just had a flat tire before finding out what damage I actually caused....then trying to recover.... Thanks Rayraz--several years of therapy down the drain...:)

HA!!!! I beat you rayraz!! hehehe.... boy, we're all lucky your still around to grace us with your presence!! (seriously) that could have been a much worse day than it was! brholte

Derjimi, I know all about broken hearts. Maybe you'll find someone else some time.

I don't know that this was the stupidest thing I ever did, but it was pretty stupid. When I was a teenager, a friend and I were horsing around, and she got into her car and started to drive off. So I jumped on the hood. She began going a little faster. I wasn't sure if she would stop speeding up, and I decided this was getting a little too dangerous. So I rolled/slid off. Fortunately, whatever powers watch over stupid people made sure I didn't hurt myself. Just knocked the wind out of my lungs and a few scratches on my hands. Lin

Last week I went for a job interview. We had a test that was so difficult I thought I might as well leave before the interview. In the end I didn't, but not believing for a second I'd get the job, I told certain untruthes in my interview about my current income. No direct lies, but I overplayed my current monetary successes, er, quite a bit. Yesterday they ring up - I've got the job. As long as I provide proof of earnings. Ooops. And this is, like, a 35K position with 7 weeks paid holiday a year. Well, that was clever, wasn't it? So can anyone beat a 35K/year action of stupidity? (They haven't turned around and said no yet, but I think my chances are not too good)

Tafkat; I probably can't beat that, but why is your current income so important for getting a new job? Isstrout; I once fell on a cars hood. It was late in the evening, very dark and this black car came out or nothing with no lights on. I crashed right into it. Luckily I wan't hurt and my bike wasn't damaged. The car had a dent, but the driver decided to just drive away without checking if I was okay. Probably because it was his(or her) fault the crash happened in the first place. brholte; Can you beleive I actually wasn't scared for one moment? I just knew I was going to be alright. I've always known I won't die at a young age.

Rayraz wrote: "Derjimi, I know all about broken hearts. Maybe you'll find someone else some time." ----------------------------- Yeah, going on with the business, I know... Meanwhile I've build my own walls so high that I think no one can breach it. My own fault, I know. I'm not desperate - it's only that I can't find a letout of my life. Several ugly relationships after that did the rest. My life and heart ist a thing of the past for me. J.

Brholte, did you do that on a dare or just didn't know any better? Gotta love those electric fences. Rayraz, electric fences aren't that bad around here either thats why his *%$ still works, LOL. But thats a pretty sensitive area to get zapped! My dad taught us when were kids how to grab one and then let go when it was between pulses. I hated doing that. Once my brother did it and he wasn't properly grounded and smoke started coming up from the bottom of his sneaker. My stupidest mistakes involve getting animals killed. Took our dog out without a leash and she chased another dog across the street and didn't make it. Left my guinea pig outside too long, was in the shade at first but then the sun came around and it overheated him. Gave a baby bird a bath and it died. Ah the list goes on but I'll stop here. My best NON-lie happened after a night out in my mom's camaro. Me and some friends had been smoking and drinking, a cop pulled us over. One of the kids said he'd thrown the cover to the liquor out so it got spilled in the back seat when the other kids hid it between them. Well, the next night my mom comes in with a cap in her hand and says "Why is there a whiskey cap in my car?" I looked right at her and said "Actually thats a Brandy cap". She left the room for a while before she could figure out what to say. She was expecting some big lie or something and I floored her with the truth. I got grounded and a lecture on drinking and driving, but got off pretty good I think. Even got to use the car that night to go out. I hate lying and I suck at it so if I don't have to I don't do it.

My dumbest moment really doesn't speak for my personality, but hey this happened when I was 9 when I was a bit different person back then and thought I was having fun (thank goodness I'm as laid back and well-behaved as ever now!) My buddy lived next to some fairly active railroad tracks and we used to have a tree fort next to them and watched the engines go by. Well one day we thought it would be funny to see if we could shoot b-b's into the train engine window. So the next train that came by, wham-bam-thank you ma'am...nailed a couple right through the open window. So a day or so later, we thought we could stake out a better hiding spot. We dug a big hole next to the tracks and put a huge board over the top for a roof. As I was fixing up the inside, my buddy comes over and asks for the b-b gun. I said hell no. He goes just give me the gun for a second. I said why, it's just as safe in this damn hole! Finally, the third time he asked, as I was saying 'F*ck no!!' I poked my head out and saw the county sheriff standing there. Now, one of my biggest lies ever fits right in with one of my stupidest stories...I asked the cop what time it was, he said 6:08pm...I said uh oh, I'm late for supper I have to go...took off running so fast I could've qualified for the Olympics in that run. Ah, back in my stupid days. MD

Derjimi, I know what it is too to hold onto the past. But I've just spent 20 yrs with a man who left me for another woman. And I can't even say that I'm sorry he's gone. The fire died out a long time ago and I was just going thru the motions. I truly don't believe I will find a man suited for me either. I always remember this one guy that I loved very much but he didn't love me and I moved on in my life. I will always wonder what could have been if I'd waited longer for him to mature. when I say he didn't love me, I mean that he was too young to love anyone. We dated, we enjoyed each others company from time to time, but I was 3 yrs older than him and in the teen years thats a big difference. Along came my husband and convinced me to get married before I finished college and the rest is history.

Honestly answering a question like this where anyone in the world could read it would have to be the worst stupidity, but how about a medium stupidity? When I was eight I had a crush on my sister's friend Ruth. She reached down and pretended to grab an electric fence and said, "see its off, touch it" The Damn thing grabbed me and because my hand was around it my fingers closed. It cycled three times before I could step back and pull myself off of it. There went my boyish ego and my crush on Ruthie. I vowed from then on not to do anything stupid just to try and impress a girl I saw her about ten years ago at church. She was on her third divorce. I towered about a foot over her 5'4" slim frame. The girl that had developed first had been passed up by everyone else. I had to fight back a smirk when I told her I was happily married nine years (its 19 now). And if my wife asks me to grab a bare wire I still say "NO".

Hmmm... Hafta think on that, I've done a lot of stupid things :)

Well, I've done a million stupid things, but my most recent was not listening to my gut instinct. I felt sorry for this girl (just a friend) who was getting evicted from her apt. She had no job and an addiction to a certain type of pain killer. So I let her move in with me, against my better judgement, because I was thinking with my "heart" instead of my brain. The next 2 years were pretty much hell. She was a total psycho. She got back on her pain killers for awhile, slept with a different guy every night (literally), and one night physically threatened me. Not to mention that she couldn't hold a job more than a few weeks, thus not paying rent. Anyway, the moral of the story is ALWAYS trust your gut instinct :-) Doug

Well this isn't the stupidest thing, but it fits in with the forum. I was in the DTE experimenting with a terrain texture, I would make a change and go back and render to see how it looked. However, everytime I made a change, I couldn't see a difference. After 15 minutes of countless tweaks and tries with no results I remembered I had duplicated the terrain and set it to invisible for safe keeping. I thought I was working on the visible terrain, NOT the invisible one. lol Someone hand me an orange cone to wear.

the stupidest thing I ever did happened a few weeks ago at thr camp i attended. There is a strong boy/girl rivalry where we like to play pranks on each other. So one of the guys had just gotten a pack of 500 water balloons. We were so excited that we'd now be able to pelt the girls everywhere they went. So I was sitting outside near the girl's cabin with the pack of balloons and i had one of them filled up...waiting for my first victim. Finally one of the girls game out and I threw it at her! There was no splash and no water at all. I had thrown the pack of balloons at her by mistake and now the girls had all our water balloons! What is worse is that when I looked around for the balloon i was supposed to have thrown, it rolled of the chair and splashed my feet with wet mud. Another stupid thing: When i was six I was in my garage and I founf quite a few little strips of metal my dad was using for an airplane modeling project. I wanted to see if they would fit in the electrical outlet so i tried the first one. It was too big. The second one was too wide. The third one...zaaaappppp! 120V through my body for a good 6 seconds. I've never forgotten that feeling. yet another: When I was 8 we were on vaction in florida and we were driving along the freeway to our hotel. I like to play with the hotel safe so I had the key with me. I opened the window and I was letting the key dangle there. the chain was around my finger so the key was just flying around outside. Then all of a sudden a sudden gust of wind ripped the chain from my fingers and the key flew out the window. We looked for it but never found it. They did not have any extras at the hotel and we had lost 500 dollars cash and a camera in the safe.

worst lie: my entire first year of high school I told my parents I had finished my homework when really I would get up at 1:00 to do it every night when they were asleep.

I'm going to have to think about this one or I could get into trouble...........hehehe 8)

Stupidest thing: New Year 1990, Drinking and then driving. Ended up with a totally crashed car 200 meters out in a field. Luckily i was alone. Learned a lesson there. Biggest lie: The story i gave the cops the day after... Derjimi & Ang25, Dont worry guys, youll meet someone when you least expect it. After having bad luck several times, i couldnt care less about relationships, until i accidently came across my GF. I was just going out to have a beer... Bottom line, dont hunt, thats the best way to meet someone. :)

I guess I'm with some of the others in the relationship field. Really stupidest thing is I had a relationship with someone who didn't love me, wasn't available in a whole host of ways and hung on to a dead relationship way too long. Biggest lie(s) - telling him it was ok when it wasn't. I'm with derjimi. It's been nearly 3 years and I don't have a day that goes by that I don't think about him (and it's not all good; it's not all bad either tho'). Funniest stupidest thing was breaking my arm when I was 18 and on my first (and only) date with an absolutely cute guy who was 21. I was visiting my brother in Colorado Springs, went rollerskating with Tom. I hadn't skated in 5 years and stupidly decided I would be cute and do moves I'd never been able to do when I did skate. I promptly fell, broke my arm and could only lay there stupidly saying "I think I broke my arm." Poor guy---I think he was whiter than I was. He didn't have my brother's phone number and all I had with me was my military ID (Dad was a retiree). I told him to take me to "the base" thinking he knew which one my brother was stationed at but he took me to the wrong one (there's three in that area). He finally got hold of my brother, waited with them until 2:30a.m. and was absolutely sweet to me. I think I was more composed about it than he was.

I ran into the side of a big ole SUV on my bike. Yeah. That hurt. Biggest lie...meh, who's counting?

Stupidest thing... 165 mph in a souped up mustang with nitrous, no big trouble from it but still, having seen how things crunch at even slower speeds...

I did the electric cattle fence thing too. I was 14 and out with the church youth group camping at a members ranch. I got up to pee, ohh sometime after midnight, and walked over toward the fence.. thinking that I'd do my business there so no one would step in it. Well, my aim was true. There was a crackle, zap and a very loud scream. After I recovered I heard snickering comming from several tents as people peered out to see what the comotion was. Didn't know it had the wire around the bottom of it. another time, being 15 ... yanno those bicycle lights with the generator that leaned against your tire ? Well a friend and I disconnected the wire at the light, turned the bike on its seat/handle bars so we could turn the pedals. I held the bare wires while my friend cranked the pedals as fast as he could and me seeing how long I could hold the wires.. I ended up having thin burn marks on my fingers and getting quiet the shock. when it came his turn he chickened out. my biggest lie.... again 15 (about 3 months after the bike shock). I went out and played tackle football (mom and dad didn't like it) .. oh some background.. I was 5'9" and 110 lbs of bullheaded stubbornness playing with guys that weighed 50-100 lbs more than me. I ended up with 3 cracked ribs, 1 black eye and more bruises than I could count, but I did make some good plays. I couldn't ride my bike so I had to push it home.. about 1 1/2 mile. I told mom and dad I had a bike accident. They took me to the ER and got me fixed up. The next day dad said "your bike looks much better than you do, in fact it doesn't have a scratch on it. Amazing huh? ... being in a bike accident and all" He just stood there staring at me. Crap ... no way outta this one ...I fessed up as to what happened. they didn't ground me, they felt my injuries were punishment enough, because I wasn't able to play golf for a long while.. which is something I loved doing. bob

Unclebob- that is exactly the sound I remember!!!! ahhhh,, the good ol' days huh???

Gives new meaning to the term "lightning rod", eh guys?

I was 8, my coffee in a glass bowl was cold. I placed the bowl on the flame to reheat the coffee... and the bowl exploded ! Luckily, I was not hurted... :)

OK, I can't believe I didn't think of thise right off the bat:

This was maybe 2 years ago, when I used to bike to school. It was on a Friday, and I had a friend coming over to my house. Because he walked to school and didn't have his bike with him, I walked my bike to my house with him. On the way, we stopped by a convenience store, I propped my bike on a nearby tree, and we both went in and bought some stuff(he bought a lighter - don't ask!). It wasn't until Monday that I realised I never picked up my bike. Oops.

My family seems to have a lot of bad luck when it comes to injuries. My dad's dropped a boat motor on his foot, and had some woodworking accidents, so he's missing a toe, half a ring finger, and had to have the bone on his thumb filed down. My brother(who's only 19) has both badly burned and sliced up one of his fingers(on separate occasions). And, my uncle has broken almost every bone in his body, at least once, due to several skiing accidents.
Luckily, I've avoided any serious harm so far, but I'll keep you posted :P

ROTFLMAO @ Madmax's balloon story. As for homework. Instead of making it at 1:00 I didn't make it at all. Once my history teacher wanted to see if everyone was making his/her homework. My grades where good so he thought I had been making my homework. When he checked out what I'd done he saw this at the last page with writing on it: "Chapter 2 Paragraph 2.1 1)" So he thought I was 3 chapters behind with my homework and he was shocked about it. I didn't tell him that was actually chapter 2 from the book we had the year before. I was 1.5 years behind with my homework :)

Oh yeah, done that. For socials last year, I didn't do any homework whatsoever until the last 3 weeks of school, in which I calulated how much homework I needed to do, and did it. It raised me the neccesary 23% and I passed with 51% for the year.

The stupidest thing I've ever done? God there are so many tied for first place it would be like choosing your favorite pic for the monthly challenge! How 'bout the dumbest thing I've done in the forum?

It was just after AS had posted Adamite's great "x-ray" materials and my weird sense-of-humour got the better of me. I pretended to be a clueless poser user who couldn't get the material to work on a see-through dress for his "posette". I posted a picture of the posette and you could see through her and see the skeleton I posed inside her, but her dress was opaque. I even asked Drac for help which I thought would be even funnier considering his dim view of most "Poser people. Before I knew it Drac and AS were giving helpful suggestions to help me overcome my cluelessness. I could see that my joke went over like a earthworm pole-vaulting and confessed that it had all been a joke. Luckily AS and Drac let me live!! Sorry again, Mihnea, I didn't mean to "rub your rubarb".

I lost a bike too once. My own bike was being fixed and my fathers bike was not in working order, so I had to take the only bike left (my mothers bike) to school. I forgot to lock the bike one time and it got stolen. I've forgot to lock my own bike hundreds of times and it never got stolen. Even stranger is that my mothers bike wasn't worth anything and was all rusty and the gears where damaged. My bike on the other hand was only one year old and was worth much more. You'd think my bike was a much better target.

i never lie.

except now, Drac :) My stupidest thing was to get hooked on Jack Daniel's without realizing it. Soon I was drunk almost every night, and ruined a very important relationship in the process (plus two cars, my writing skills - momentarily, whew - and other things as well). Now it's over 1 year that I drink normally again (moderate wine and beer when I go out with friends, no more drinking alone in my apartment), I write again... but the relationship is still ruined. Sigh. As for lies... I'll take the 5th. :) S.

Ah, yeah. That's another: going 210 kmh with my old Fiat Croma on the interstate (limit was 130) without the permission to drive it (documents retired the week before). Got my license suspended for 9 months and paid a fine that still gives me shivers, LOL. I still have the electronic photo they took to frame me... framed on my kitchen wall :) S.

ah, I wasn't drunk in that occasion. Clean as a snowfield on the Dolomites.

Stupidest thing I ever did, went scuba diving (one of my first dives), - didn't check my air the whole time I was down, one of the others signed he needed to ascend as his was low. Had that heart stopping moment of have I got any air left? I did so no probs, but that was really really dumb :-(

"i never lie." That can only be a good thing.

i can remember really moronic moments, but they're all nice and private :D So yeah, as for lies, gaze above. When was the last time I've ever sugar coughcoatedcough the truth to you guys? ;) Drac

biggest lie.. well for me, i personally think it would be my freshman year at highschool.. the school itself was practicly in my backyard (4 minute walk from my backdoor) Well everyday at 8 in the morning i'd be up and off to school.. and as soon as it was 8:30 my mother left for work and i came home.. I don't know how I manage to last the whole year doing that, but i was only in my freshman class for maybe 2days total for the year.

Stupidest thing.. hmm.. (as i was told by my mother) when I was 1 year old my father and his friends were drinking beers for a while, then they all got up to go look at something my dad was going to show them. and I, wanting to be like my dad, gathered all those beer cans and proceeded to finish off each and every one.. needless to say i was drunker then hell. from what i was told, i stood on the dinning room table and took a flying leap off of it, yelling something about being superman. and bam, hit my eye on the high back of a chair (which was one of those types of chairs with the ball on each side of the back).. after being told this (when i was much older) i always wondered what it was like for my mother to try to explain why her 1 year old had a huge blackeye which was swollen and bleeding, and was drunk.

Though i have to say one stupid thing my wife has done not to long ago, is give my home adress to a "friend" of hers she met online whom for some reason has gotten way to attached and thinks he loves her and now is threatening her.

"I was only in my freshman class for maybe 2days total for the year." I bow to your 'master of doing very little at school' :) "give my home adress to a "friend" of hers she met online whom for some reason has gotten way to attached and thinks he loves her and now is threatening her." Don't you hate stalkers. A big piece of wood with a few big nails sticking out of it at one end can do wonders if he's being annoying.

What is it with this Forum and electric fences? Well, here's mine: When I was about 10 I was in the habit of wearing rubber boots when feeding the chickens (for obvious reasons). I had learned that if I grabbed and squeezed the electric fence with the boots on, I was insulated so well that I couldn't even feel it tickle. So I would do this to cross the fence instead of unhooking it to step through, I would just leg-over it. Until the day my older brother was walking along with me with his hand on my shoulder and no shoes on his feet. When I grabbed the fence, he had us both well-grounded and it knocked the sh*t out of both of us. When he got his voice back, all he could say was, "Why did you do that?"

hmmm..bought a house pre-9/11..ok, and the explanation..moved into a starter home community, paid top dollar for a house, of which only a few were made..after we bought it, they switched almost exclusively to that model..my house has lost $15k in value, wife lost her job, my life has basicly turned into a country and western song..;) just say that money's real tite around pakledland..if I'd waited just 6 months or so, I could have bought the same house for $15,000 less..and not been consarned broke all the time..;)
On the bright side, it's never too late for love, left a psycho girlfriend for my present wife at 42..don't give up, that 'special someone' is out there somewhere...probably in Brazil..;)

drools at brazil what? awesome renders with that... ;)

Me and my mate were walking my old dog over the local sports field one day. As it was summer, the goalposts for the football (soccer) pitch were lying by the side of the grass. I picked up one of the poles and started waving it around. There was dog shit on the end so I dropped it and carried on walking. A bit further along, my mate and I were talking, when he suddenly said "whats that above your lip". "Where" I asked and instinctively licked my top lip. Yes thats right, it was a tiny piece of dog turd that must have come from the end of the pole. Another dog turd incident took place when I was a lot younger, after stepping in some without realising, I promptley went indoors and up to my bedroom, before bouncing up and down on my bed! So beware of the turd!

Stupidest thing I've ever done hmmmmmm, so many to choose from. I remember this one time....at band camp ! I was driving along the city street one day when I had noticed on the sidewalk there were two young punks attempting to steel an old lady's purse. This old lady was quite resilient however and she was not giving up easy. I had decided at that time it was my civic duty to help, I immediately stopped the car and grabbed a tire iron I had on the floor in the back seat and raced to the scene and between the three of us we got that damn purse from her !

That previous entry was my biggest lie.