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Clever people who do stupid things.

Posted by CelebrityIcePop • 10/19/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: clever, stupid

Please nominate yourself and your act or some other poor sap.

I have done many stupid things (far too many to list right now, but I will later) but I wanted to tell the story of a Doctor I used to work for who nearly blew up a Health Centre by being stoooooopid!

He called me (Health Centre Manager) to his room as smoke was coming from his light switch.

"look, when I flick it on and off, sparks fly out" he said as he flicked the light switch on and off, on and off, on and off.

I smacked his hand away, told him off, evacuated the building and called the fire brigade.........who told us we were 5 mins. from internal fire spreading around entire building via the electrics.

Your turn!

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10/19/09

ophase

I was working for a software company and building something called UID using the database. UID building software was the first product of the company which was created by my boss.

One day, when i was building a UID, i filled a blank field which was never filled before. And a chain of script started to run on the server. It duplicated all data and then again and again. It never stopped. And finally server was down!! Everyone had to stop working and turn off their computers. Boss called me to his room and gave me a lecture. Then he congradulated me for finding a bug in his software !!
I was lucky :))

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10/19/09

sorcerer

at one time...!!!

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10/20/09

fakeupgrader

I heard this somewhere..
There was a team in a software company that did both the development and testing. In order to get better quality, the manager announced a cash incentive for the testing team (a dollar for every defect identified) and another cash incentive for the development team (a dollar for every defect fixed). Needless to say, both the teams reached a quick understanding and left the manager short by thousands before he stopped the scheme.

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1. 10/23/09
  
  calais50
  
  That's hilarious
10/21/09

CelebrityIcePop

I promised some declarations of my own stoooopidity

I have trouble recalling where I park my car so have numerous time wasting incidents relating to trying to find my car but the stoooopidest thing I ever did was this:

I was in a multi-story carpark, parked and got out of my car to buy a parking ticket from a machine directly opposite car.

Got back in car with my ticket and couldn't find my little ticket holder.
Not only that but there was a strange briefcase near my door which wasn't mine.

I looked ahead of me to the ticket machine and saw a man buying a ticket.
I looked around me some more and then the penny dropped......

I was sitting in someone elses car.

It was not the same make as my car.
It was not the same colour as my car.

I really had no reasonable explanation as to what I was doing sitting in someone elses car.

I got out just before the guy turned round and saw me sat there.

I really don't know how I'd have talked myself out of that one. Except to go all girly and blame it on my hormones

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1. 10/22/09
  
  fakeupgrader
  
  Lol! Things happen.. sometimes we shift down gears to "zombie" when doing routine things. We follow the predefined sequence and execute it. The dangerous part is when you shift..
  While Driving - No
  Shaving (any part) - No
  Listening to your boss - Yes
10/22/09

Norski

I've done a few daft things in my day, but here's something second hand, passed on to me by a department head at a Minnesota college.

The department head had administrative control of a building that included one of the college's few auditoriums. A professor was going to use the auditorium to show his class a film. So far, no problem.

Then, the professor noticed that there were no curtains in the auditorium - one wall of which faced the outside. He spent quite a lot of time, and a great deal of energy, insisting that there had to be some way of drawing curtains across the windows, so that sunlight wouldn't interfere with his film.

You'd have to see the place to really appreciate this, but I'll try: The outside wall of the auditorium was brick, with several arches in it. The arches were filled with (brushed-steel, I think) frames that in turn held steel plates covered with gray enamel.

They looked sort of like windows - the gray enamel was shiny, anyway - and there were windows elsewhere in the building that were the same shape.

But letting sunshine in?

Those 'windows' were two layers of enameled steel, each a bit over an eighth of an inch thick. I don't know what sort of radiation they'd let through - but significant amounts of sunlight wasn't on the list.

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10/22/09

Norski

Then there was the time I made a left turn off an arterial street - in winter - after snow and rain had been polished to a high gloss.

After taking me about half-way through the turn, the Gremlin I drove kept turning on its vertical axis, but was sliding right for one of those outsized trucks.

I watched the hub of one of the wheels come toward me (those were big wheels) - as the Gremlin bounced off the wheel, eventually fetching up on the opposite curb, about fifty feet on.

I haven't pulled a daft stunt like that since - ignoring road conditions.

I've done other daft things - but not that particular one.

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10/23/09

SoftwareGal

I think it is bush. Your x-president lol. Everybody knows, instead of helping the economy, he has just thrown away so much money leading to an empty and embarrassing war. Seriously, he deserve the shoes.

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10/23/09

samureyed

I took a left turn and was broadsided by an enormous bright orange truck with a wood-chipping trailer attached.

Granted he was speeding and come over the crest of a hill right after I looked away. I'm lucky to be alive let alone completely uninjured (he hit right behind my door and spun my van a complete 180 instead of flipping it)

This goes back to what fakeupgrader said above about zombie mode while driving... now I ALWAYS look both ways, twice.

Did I mention it was huge and bright orange?

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10/23/09

websatart1

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