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Those 'Oh God, I'm an Idiot' moments.

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    #242
    yerayeah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 804 ✭✭✭yerayeah


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    I'm 35 years old and i have never once, before today, seen the connection between the words new and news!
    So, eh...I know exactly how you felt:)

    Glad to know I'm not the only one!!:pac: It's the simple things that always fly miles over my head!!


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    #243
    yerayeah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 804 ✭✭✭yerayeah


    jellybeans wrote: »
    I still dont get it :(

    The way that I looked at it is that that the "news" was the "new" stories or happenings of the day.

    The news!!


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    #244
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
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    Ann22 should have her own thread :D


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    #245
    northern lights
    Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭northern lights


    Standing at cash machine (hole in the wall or whatever it's called) in a world of my own with a large queue behind me, I did my business, withdrew my money, and said 'that's great, thanks very much' as I walked away :o with the sniggering of those behind me ringing in my ears


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    #246
    CorsetIsTight
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    I was on the train with a friend and went to use the toilet. (I realise that that's already a candidate for an "Oh God, I'm an idiot" moment).

    The toilet wasn't at the end of the carriage we were in, so I had to go all the way down to the end of the next carriage.

    Finished doing what I needed to do, exited the toilet, and realised I had absolutely no idea whether I needed to go left or right to get back to my seat. Decided on right, and wandered along hoping to see some signs that I was going in the right direction. At some point, something made me think I had chosen wrong, so I turned around and went back, realising that I looked like an idiot to anyone who might have noticed.

    Then I saw a girl I'd been to school with, and whom I hadn't seen for years. Went up to her and said "Barbara...!", and she just looked at me and said "No" with such a sneery face that I wanted to disappear.

    I was so thrown by that, that I turned around again, and started walking back in what I had previously decided was the wrong direction.

    At which point, I heard my friend calling my name from behind me.

    So I had to turn around AGAIN, walk past not-Barbara, with (it felt like) the entire carriage looking at me, to my seat where my friend was breaking her heart laughing at me.


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    #247
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Got up one morning,shaved,cleaned my teeth,got dressed,had some grub and jumped in my car.
    I was halfway to work before i realised it was a sunday and i wasnt working.


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    #248
    we'llallhavetea_old
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    if thanks were sex, i'd be fairly raw after this thread.


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    #249
    Degsy
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    we'llallhavetea wrote: »
    if thanks were sex, i'd be fairly raw after this thread.


    Jaysus!


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    #250
    Ann22
    Registered Users Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭Ann22


    When I was about 7yrs old, I was in my friend's back garden. I asked her if she loved her mam or dad the most...she said she loved her dad more...I found that surprising, her mam was really nice and her dad was very sour and had mad bloodshot eyes and greasy hair:confused:. Next time her mam came out to hang clothes on the line...like a gobsh*te I told her. Fcuk sake would you credit it??? I actually said to her ....'Carol says she loves her dad more than you'....I still remember the hurt expression on that woman's face.:(..


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    #251
    Canard
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    Aww that one is sad. :(


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    #252
    Woow_Aqualung
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    When I was 13 I was going out to a birthday party of one of my mams friends with my family. It was nearly time to go so my mam told me to go get changed. So I went up to my room. It was dark outside and the blinds were drawn. So I got undressed and then, out of reflex, proceeded to get into bed and fall asleep.


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    #253
    Ann22
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    Woow_Aqualung wrote: »
    When I was 13 I was going out to a birthday party of one of my mams friends with my family. It was nearly time to go so my mam told me to go get changed. So I went up to my room. It was dark outside and the blinds were drawn. So I got undressed and then, out of reflex, proceeded to get into bed and fall asleep.

    Did you actually go to sleep and miss the party???:(:(


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    #254
    Woow_Aqualung
    Closed Accounts Posts: 228 ✭✭Woow_Aqualung


    Ann22 wrote: »
    Did you actually go to sleep and miss the party???:(:(
    No my ma woke me up. She couldn't belive it.


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    #255
    Ann22
    Registered Users Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭Ann22


    Patchy~ wrote: »
    Aww that one is sad. :(

    I know, it's not even funny:(. I met that girl last year in Dunnes. I asked her if she remembered this incident and she did. Imagine! I can't believe my stupidity:confused:. Her mam worked full time and her dad minded her and her brother all day. When her poor exhausted mum got home from work, her dad went out on the p*ss every evening (I only found this out in later years). One of my earliest memories is of her and her brother stark naked flying' down the street on one those wee toy tractors (one peddling and one pushing) round the street and the dad bootin' it after them:D:D:D...


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    #256
    Ann22
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    Woow_Aqualung wrote: »
    No my ma woke me up. She couldn't belive it.

    Ah that's grand..now I can laugh at your brainlessness:D


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    #257
    Woow_Aqualung
    Closed Accounts Posts: 228 ✭✭Woow_Aqualung


    Ann22 wrote: »
    Ah that's grand..now I can laugh at your brainlessness:D

    Like the rest of my family.


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    #258
    jellybeans
    Registered Users Posts: 369 ✭✭jellybeans


    I like this thread, anyone got anymore? :)


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    #259
    Piste
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    I was practicing feeling the liver on someone for a college exam. She was already lying down and I was only able to stand on her left side due to the right of her bed being against the wall. So I decided to be nice and feel on her left hand side, for her "left" liver.




    It took me a while to realise there's no left liver.


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    #260
    Indubitable
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    Fishie wrote: »
    I've done absent-minded baking before... Like the time I decided to make my Dad a birthday cake, I looked at the ingredients and just put them all in a bowl and cooked it, I didn't even stir it like... I don't know what the hell I was thinking, believe it or not I'm usually quite good at baking, I was probably hungover or something. Anyway, the cake didn't turn out very well. I blamed my friend Clare for giving me a crap recipe :o

    I made pankcakes without flour one day. I was mesmerized thinking about this girl living next door.


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    #261
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    Piste wrote: »
    I was practicing feeling the liver on someone for a college exam. She was already lying down and I was only able to stand on her left side due to the right of her bed being against the wall. So I decided to be nice and feel on her left hand side, for her "left" liver.




    It took me a while to realise there's no left liver.

    Well, I guess it's a good job you're doing medicine, eh? :)

    *Strolls away, whistling*


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    #262
    Piste
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    You'd think after a year I'd know where a liver was. I was very tired though (which doesn't bode well for my time as a sleepless intern in the future)


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    #263
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    Piste wrote: »
    You'd think after a year I'd know where a liver was. I was very tired though (which doesn't bode well for my time as a sleepless intern in the future)

    Were you hungover as well?*






    *For the added irony.**






    **I'm not sure what "irony" means.


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    #264
    Piste
    Registered Users Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    It was a pretty ironic scenario tbh, I was a little rusty.


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    #265
    yerayeah
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    Piste wrote: »
    I was practicing feeling the liver on someone for a college exam. She was already lying down and I was only able to stand on her left side due to the right of her bed being against the wall. So I decided to be nice and feel on her left hand side, for her "left" liver.




    It took me a while to realise there's no left liver.

    I've heard rumours of a clinical years student being asked to assess the tone of a patient's lower limb, and whipping out the stethoscope!:D


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    #266
    phill106
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    Piste wrote: »
    It was a pretty ironic scenario tbh, I was a little rusty.

    Hold on, you were tired, AND MADE OF METAL?!


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    #267
    kylith
    Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    I once poured tea all over my cornflakes.

    My ex mixed up farenheit and celcius when he was cooking and turned honey-roast chicken into a charcoal briquette. My housemate dug out the chicken, soaked it in water for 2 days, then ate it. Manky backstard.


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    #268
    Max Power1
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    phill106 wrote: »
    Hold on, you were tired, AND MADE OF METAL?!
    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055922224


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    #269
    ForceOfNature
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    i woke up and looked out the window and realised that my van was gone. called the coppers and reported it stolen. then i realised the previous evening i had driven to the chemist and walked back home. my father in-law jim and his mate twiggy had a right laugh............:rolleyes:


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    #270
    Lynnsie
    Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭Lynnsie


    I couldn't find my phone the other day so I rang it from the landline, when it started ringing on the other side of the room I hung up and ran to answer it, then wondered why it stopped ringing...

    A few years ago I thought I saw my sister in a shop and was about to go over and talk to her when I realised it was a mirror :o


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    #271
    Rubberlegs
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    One morning I awoke to the sound of " Mam, Mam!". I was all groggy n shouted back " wha:mad:??". No answer. This went on several more times, till i realised it was a feckin great crow cawing outside on a wire! Nearly s**t meself laughin:D. If that wasn't bad enough the very same thing happened the next morning and I'm still screechin "WHA??" at the crow......


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