The Stupidest Thing You've Ever Done, Seen, or Heard

[CrazyGirl17]

Okay, I know this sort of topic has been done before, but just hear me out: I want to see either any stupid thing (you admit) to doing, any stupid thing you saw (on TV, in real life, ect.), or have heard (and yes, hearing it on the internet counts.)

Let me go first:

The stupidest thing I ever did...
...Was staple my own finger. Look, I was trying to close it and thought I could close it from the bottom... yeah, bad idea...

The Stupidest Thing I Ever Saw...
...Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. Hands down. I just don't understand what people see in this show, especially if they watch it for "ironic" reasons. Just because something's "So Bad It's Good" doesn't always mean it needs attention. If I wanted to watch a weird Southern-based family, I'll stick with Duck Dynasty, thankyouverymuch.

Here's a taste:

The Stupidest Thing I Ever Heard...
...Apparently, some DC editor told writer Paul Pope that (and I'm dead serious here) "We don?t publish comics for kids. We publish comics for 45-year-olds."


Where do I begin!? First off, as a twenty something female comic book fan, I find this incredibly offensive! Second, are they fucking serious?!?! Comics should appeal to everybody, not pander to the lowest common denominator! (Now that I think about it, stupid people seem to have WAY too much influence in the media these days...)

Here's a link just to prove I'm not making it up (why would I want to?):
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2013/08/quote-of-the-day-we-publish-comics-for-45-year-olds/

And that's it, feel free to comment and discuss.

 

[Mocmocman]

The stupidest thing I ever did...
...Was staple my own finger. Look, I was trying to close it and thought I could close it from the bottom... yeah, bad idea...

I've done that, but purposefully. My friend was telling me about how he stapled himself, and said that it hurt. "Huh", I thought, and got out my mini stapler. He was right.

 

[SonicWaffle]

The Stupidest Thing I Ever Heard...
...Apparently, some DC editor told writer Paul Pope that (and I'm dead serious here) "We don?t publish comics for kids. We publish comics for 45-year-olds."


Where do I begin!? First off, as a twenty something female comic book fan, I find this incredibly offensive! Second, are they fucking serious?!?! Comics should appeal to everybody, not pander to the lowest common denominator! (Now that I think about it, stupid people seem to have WAY too much influence in the media these days...)

It makes sense, though. What's their biggest market? I rarely visit a comic book store, or the graphic novels section of a normal bookstore or even my local library, and see anyone younger than myself (mid-20's). They've kinda driven themselves to it with the ludicrously high prices and the need for ever more "mature" storytelling, such as the New 52 (salt over the shoulder, turn around three times and spit, lest the demon behind that clusterfuck possess you too!) and the angsty movies.

At least Marvel still pretends to be open to younger readers. DC are trying to portray themselves as Not For Kids.

I miss the old Young Justice comics from when I was a kid. They were fun :-(

 

[twistedmic]

The stupidest thing I have ever heard was when I was a cart pusher at a supermarket.

Someone was walking past a car and told their friend 'That's from Call of Duty'. (this was soon after COD4 came out).

I passed the same car a few minutes later and saw that they what they were talking about was a sticker of the United States Marine Corps emblem.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Stupidest thing I ever-

Done- Believe I can get passed these bunch of ropes hanging from a tree branch (a group excersie in High School) by leaping over the huge gape from the ropes. Needless to say I realise my plan didn't work when my stomach got wraped by the rope as it send backward. My stomach was bruising for a few days.

Seen- A stupid kid attempt to open the soda drink van during break time in High School which fail miserable (alrm set off as soon he try to lift the screen thing up). We had a vending machine one with sweet and the other with cans so a delivery van come up to the school often to top up those vending machine. I guess it didn't occur to that kid that the driver would totally leave the van unprotected especially when entering a school during break time.

Heard- Some elderly couples complain that the ramp going down at the rear of the shop was too steep and that we shouldn't had it in the first place. Why yes let be ignorant about the people with pram or the disable people (wheelchair) who want to go to the back part of the store!

 

[MarsProbe]

Well, this may not be the stupidest thing I ever did, but it's the most recent stupid thing I ever did, plus the only other time I've seen it happen was in a film, so there you go. I somehow managed to fall into the "waving back at someone who waves at you only for you to find out that they were waving at someone behind you".

I am currently on hols from work which is nice, but it also means you get to field all the sales calls/door to door people you'd normally miss form being out during the day. My door went early afternoon and I answered it to some charity girl trying to drum up donations. As it turned out, I had done some volunteering for the charity in question so got to talking about that. Anyway, I said I was too busy to sign up at the time but I'd look them up (really, I was) so that was that.

When walking to the shops later I saw the same girl crossing the road ahead of me and she looked over and waved so naturally I waved back. It was only after passing her that I realised she was waving at the other charity rep that was walking down the road behind me. I felt kind of embarrassed there.

I was in the branch of John Lewis in town one day and was walking past the section where they had all their "Keep Calm and Carry On", which of course as we all know was a piece of WW2 morale boosting material that wasn't actually used if I recall correctly. So, as I was passing, a woman and her mother walked up and the younger one said "oh look, it's that Stereophonics thing". I deemed this to be unforgivable, as especially here in the UK, you would have had to have lived in a cave to have thought that the origin of the phrase was some bands album and not a WW2 motivational poster. I'd like to say the offending party was erased from existence, but I don't have that ability. Yet.

 

[alfawx]

My brain's running a bit dry on the first two at this point (I may be too stupid to remember being stupid) but I do have a good deal of experience with hearing stupid things. I live in the suburb-iest suburb ever brought into creation, and the biggest crime committed in the past century was probably some rambunctious kid in the 50s stealing a cooling pie out of somebody's window. Unfortunately, because of that people are super sensitive to anything illegal going on and call the cops whenever they get a chance, meaning the Police Log in the newspaper ends up being pretty ridiculous. If I recall correctly, one log entry stated that "Mr. NameICan'tRemember believes his 10-foot ladder has been stolen, and the police are currently searching for it. If you have any knowledge of its location, please contact us." A week later, somebody updates the log, saying that, in fact, "Mr. NameICan'tRemember has now reported to the police that he lent his ladder to a friend and then forgot about it. The investigation has ceased." That was one of the most exciting cases in the Police Log that year.

 

[FPLOON]

The stupidest thing I have ever done was let go of that one ladder-based playground equipment when I was tagged... I fell a whole story and all I got was a headache...

The stupidest thing I have ever seen was seeing all of the my High School soon-to-be-alumnus run as fast as they could to be the first ones to pick up their cap and gowns after school... It now reminds me of that one screen from World War Z... only without the dogpile...[footnote]There's probably other situations that are more stupider by comparison, but this situation made less sense the more I thought about it and, unlike other situations, got less funny as time went on...[/footnote]

The stupidest thing I have ever heard was... and I quote...

Niggas can't be wizards!

I still don't know how a conversation that was happening two tables away from me lead to some dude shouting that quote in public, but it's a quote that still sticks to me to this day...

 

[Glongpre]

The dumbest thing I have done recently was at my concrete job. We were pouring some steps in, and the owner was taking some stakes out that were holding the step forms from being pushed out as much. I asked him if I should take the stakes off the side forms.
If you don't understand, we had just poured so if I took off the side forms it would have pushed out. Facepalm.

 

[Ratties]

I needed to pick up my now ex-girlfriend from her friends house. After screwing up the simple address she gave me, I showed up an hour late. Many times in my life where I screw up simple instructions. I just don't care enough about it most of the time, so my brain wants to go do something else. At the time, I wanted to break up with her.

 

[Kenbo Slice]

"All music with screaming is screamo and all it is is either fat guys or skinny teenagers yelling into the microphone and banging on instruments with no rhythm or melody."- My friends girlfriend, self-proclaimed music expert.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Dumbest thing I've done - Was working out, bench pressing, and noticed that my grip was a little off. Instead of being sensible, putting the weight back down and adjusting my grip, I decided to try and adjust my grip in mid-air. Funny thing is, turns out that when you aren't holding onto the bar on one side, the bar tends to fall. Thankfully I caught it before I killed myself, but it was embarrassing as hell.

Dumbest thing I've seen - I once watched a woman try to parallel park in a space half the size of her car. She did this for approximately 8 minutes before deciding she wasn't going to fit. This took place on a pretty busy street, and she held up TONS of traffic doing it.

Dumbest thing I've heard - Yet another gym story. I was working out once and I saw a one guy start a fight with another guy over how much weight he was lifting. The guy who started the fight was at the gym with his girlfriend, he was doing curls, and the other guy walked up to the weight rack, grabbed a barbell about twice the size of the one the other guy had, and proceeded to do curls next to him. So the first guy turns to him and starts yelling "Why you showing off to my girl asshole? What, you wanna fuck her or something?!" I think everyone at the gym was dumbfounded for a couple of reasons. First reason is that we don't live on the Jersey shore, so we usually don't see people who are that petty and insecure. Second reason was, you usually don't see a guy pick a fight with someone who is clearly MUCH BIGGER and about TWICE AS STRONG.

 

[TehCookie]

Stupidest thing I've ever heard is "Hold my beer and watch this!" The stupidest thing I ever seen usually follows. Like jumping off the roof into the pool, with a trash bag as a parachute. The stupidest part was my friend missed the second time and sprained her ankle.

Either that or when she complained about raw toast. Sometimes I wonder about her...

 

[Tilted_Logic]

Either that or when she complained about raw toast. Sometimes I wonder about her...

Raw toast! Hahahaha, you made my night!

As for the topic, I'm super tired so I'll go with this one for something I've encountered:

I'd call it silly rather than stupid, but a while ago I came across a map of generic names for soft drinks (pop, soda, cola, etc) by county in America. I myself am Canadian, and was curious as to what Americans called their drinks; I show the map to my boyfriend, thinking he'd find it interesting, and tell him it's a map by county of soft drink names. He looks it over, but thought I said map by country instead of county. It was a map of America. He told me he was having trouble finding Canada.
I love him, but it was not his brightest moment

 

[ShipofFools]

The stupidest thing I ever saw
A fellow wargamer cheating, manipulating the dice right in front of my eyes.
What did you expect buddy? That I can't see what happens a few feet away from me?

The stupidest thing I ever heard
A guy saying that just because his father paid for everything in his life and he never had a real job doesn't mean he isn't experienced.
Well that is exactly what it means!

The stupidest thing I ever did "Eat that extra portion of mushrooms, you can handle it. You know what to expect"
Stupid brain, well joke's on him, my brain is still recovering, hahaha!

(Now that I think about it, stupid people seem to have WAY too much influence in the media these days...)

I agree man, it seems like stupidity is a virtue in some social circles nowadays. Claiming ignorance of important topics is cool all of the sudden.
Well not for me, man. You don't know your history? I laugh in your face, and then I steal your bling bling because that shit is really easy to pawn.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

The stupidest thing I currently remember doing was playing a drinking game with shots of absinthe (60%) it didn't end well.

The stupidest thing I've seen has to be Sucker Punch. Just the movie. By God it was stupid.

The stupidest thing I've heard... well, not exactly heard, but I've seen people on IMDB forums claiming some movies to be ahead of their time, and base that argument on "Well people walked out of screenings of 2001: A Space Odyssey". Actually the IMDB forums in general tend to make me depressed whenever even a semi-serious discussion tries to go on there. Don't even et me started on those user reviews, bleargh.

 

[Dirge Eterna]

Stupidest thing I ever did: Get married at 19 and gloss over the things I didn't like about my wife thinking she would change for the better. Tied with when I was 4 I tied a rope around my left wrist in a loop and the other end to a hook in the ceiling for a plant to hang from. I wanted to swing around like Batman so I jumped off the couch to swing, rope slips from around my wrist to the middle and ring finger and catches there. Fingers proceed to dislocate out of their sockets and joints until my fingers were almost twice as long as they should be. Que screaming and running around in pain. My dad had to literally tackle me and hold me down till I was calm enough to get in the car and go to the hospital. That was fun times!

I saw: I watched a couple of my friends build a bike ramp on the street with a sheet of wood over some concrete blocks. They then proceeded to attempt to jump their bikes, not taking into account that when you are 5 or 6 feet in the air landing on asphalt is going to hurt. Both of them ended up eating it and one broke his arm and lost teeth. Also I watched a kid of about 8 run straight into a clothesline on his bike after I had warned him hey there's a clothes line in this yard. I thought he had eliminated himself from the gene pool but he just bruised the hell out of his throat.

Heard: When I was in the Air Force more than one person asked if I was a pilot, when I replied no they responded but isnt everyone in the Air Force a pilot? Yes we have 330,000 pilots and no one to prepare them or do any of the other tasks a airplane requires for flight. In reality there are only about 14k pilots.

 

[Ravesy]

The stupidest thing I have ever done, and to be honest i don't think I'm ever going to top:

When I was about 18 and still living with my parents, after getting back at stupid o'clock after a nights heavy drinking I got into the habit of making myself some noodles before passing out in bed. This worked fine until my parents got a new kettle, that happened to whistle when it had boiled. Now me in my infinite drunken wisdom suddenly panicked the first time this happened one early morning, as i didn't want to wake them up. And god help me the only idea my brain had was "If you put your hand over the nose of the kettle (which is obviously shooting out boiling hot steam at the time) then it wont be as loud!" Needless to say, burnt most of the palm of my hand, and passed out sometime later in agonizing pain with a bag of frozen peas in my hand.

The shame....

 

[CleverCover]

Stupidest Thing:

Done: I was the main star in a fight club in sixth grade during recess. Actually Middle School in general was filled with moments like this.

Seen: Resident evil 5. WORST MOVIE EVER. Even beats out Twilight and I didn't think it was possible.

Heard: The latest Feed Dump and the judge who ruled out Messiah as a name. On a scale of stupid to brain-damaged, that was "WTF is wrong with you?"