Stupid things you've seen stupid people do

alchemist33

Is there anyone more stupid than people who smoke outside filling stations? About once a week I see someone at it, calmly puffing away oblivious to the disaster they could foist on the public. Sure, there haven't been a spate of exploding fuel depots, but that's probably due to luck more than anything else.

What stupid things have you seen?

ShoulderChip

Maybe not just stupid but also pretty ignorant, is woman who have not been trained walking down the canal with umbrellas in this bad weather.
It is a bad state of affairs that they need to be trained but they appear by default to hoist an umbrella up and then just walk straight ahead not looking where they are going.
it is unbelievable.

major bill

alchemist33 wrote: »

Is there anyone more stupid than people who smoke outside filling stations? About once a week I see someone at it, calmly puffing away oblivious to the disaster they could foist on the public. Sure, there haven't been a spate of exploding fuel depots, but that's probably due to luck more than anything else.

What stupid things have you seen?

People who push doors when it clearly says pull (Guilty)

Sir Arthur Daley

People with incorrect eating utensil etiquette at social settings.

Lingua Franca

Saw a woman push a loaded shopping trolley onto an escalator once. I will treasure that moment 'til I die.

pale blue dot cotton

A teen I knew lit liquid on the ground to see if it was petrol. It was. Even the nurses confirmed it.

alchemist33

alchemist33 wrote: »

Is there anyone more stupid than people who smoke outside filling stations? About once a week I see someone at it, calmly puffing away oblivious to the disaster they could foist on the public. Sure, there haven't been a spate of exploding fuel depots, but that's probably due to luck more than anything else.

What stupid things have you seen?

I'm pretty sure a cigarette can only light up a petrol station in certain hollywood films.

AnonoBoy

ShoulderChip wrote: »

Maybe not just stupid but also pretty ignorant, is woman who have not been trained walking down the canal with umbrellas in this bad weather.

What do you mean 'trained'?

AnonoBoy

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm pretty sure a cigarette can only light up a petrol station in certain hollywood films.

Yup. Like this doc I saw about a tragedy that struck some ridiculously handsome male models one time....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98AzJT8FlmY

Sir Arthur Daley

AnonoBoy wrote: »

What do you mean 'trained'?

One who holds an NPTC award for Umbrella Safe Use.

joe stodge

My brothers girlfriend; are prawns vegetables?

cletus van damme

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm pretty sure a cigarette can only light up a petrol station in certain hollywood films.

no bother , but why are the warnings there then?
same with no mobile phones allowed signs on the pumps?

john the one

cletus van damme wrote: »

same with no mobile phones are the pumps?

Hang on, the pumps are mobile phones or they aren't?

cletus van damme

john the one wrote: »

Hang on, the pumps are mobile phones or they aren't?

gah , bad typing...sorry i'll change it

AnonoBoy

WikiHow wrote: »

One who holds an NPTC award for Umbrella Safe Use.

Of course. Silly me.

Capt'n Midnight

cletus van damme wrote: »

no bother , but why are the warnings there then?
same with no mobile phones allowed signs on the pumps?

The mobile phones are there in case they intefere with the pumps. back in the old days the older model pumps electronics could be confused if someone in the keyed up with a CB

rwg

Kolo Toure

ArtyC

In the Ladies loo one night, one in the group burst out if her cubicle very upset , her phone haf fallen in the toilet.... So she scooped it out and rinsed it under the tap.... Saying how she didn't know if she could use it again after where it fell...... Sure enough she ****ing couldn't - dozy mare

TheShizz

I was called a "stupid, stupid boy" by a scout-master when I was in the beavers as a child.

We used to call him Curby. F*ck knows why because I've just realised it isn't a real name. But anyways, he took myself and my fellow beavers down the beach one day.

I found a syringe, picked it up and threw it at my mate - whose name and face I can't remember - for a laugh and your man Curby went f*cking spare, so did all the other beavers for some reason, as if they knew what the f*ck HIV or AIDS was when they were eight.

So, essentially, I very nearly gave a former friend of mine AIDS when I was eight.

stefan idiot jones

When I was an apprentice many moons ago we had a few painters working for us as well.
They were renovating a property next to our yard.
One of the painters called John who was in his mid thirties at the time was not the brightest.
One of his mates asked him to ask our Fitter for a left handed screwdriver as he needed to take a cupboard door off.
John dutifully walked down the yard to the Fitters workshop and asked if he could borrow a left handed screwdriver?
The Fitter knew that John was being serious because of the dead pan look on his face.
The fitter gave him a bendy screwdriver that he uses for tricky spots in engines.
John then delivers this screwdriver to his mate who then tells him that what he has got is a right handed screwdriver as it bends to the right.
John proceeds to return to the Fitter with the incorrect tool.
He tells the Fitter that it is the wrong hand so the fitter takes it off him, bends it the other way and apologies for the mistake.
John then gives his 'mate' the correct tool.

Tool is the key word here.

sovereign121

alchemist33 wrote: »

Is there anyone more stupid than people who smoke outside filling stations? About once a week I see someone at it, calmly puffing away oblivious to the disaster they could foist on the public. Sure, there haven't been a spate of exploding fuel depots, but that's probably due to luck more than anything else.

What stupid things have you seen?

It's crazy the amount of Petrol stations that blow up because of ignorant smokers

cletus van damme

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

The mobile phones are there in case they intefere with the pumps. back in the old days the older model pumps electronics could be confused if someone in the keyed up with a CB

thanks for clarifying that

I did some searching and found this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeRJkde7iHo

I am now more learned.

petrolcan

I once saw someone post on a forum about how smoking near a petrol station might blow everything up.

Billy86

petrolcan wrote: »

I once saw someone post on a forum about how smoking near a petrol station might blow everything up.

It's an apt username, if nothing else. :pac:

Arthur Beesley

pale blue dot cotton wrote: »

A teen I knew lit liquid on the ground to see if it was petrol. It was. Even the nurses confirmed it.

Better safe than sorry.

Arthur Beesley

TheShizz wrote: »

I was called a "stupid, stupid boy" by a scout-master when I was in the beavers as a child.

We used to call him Curby. F*ck knows why because I've just realised it isn't a real name. But anyways, he took myself and my fellow beavers down the beach one day.

I found a syringe, picked it up and threw it at my mate - whose name and face I can't remember - for a laugh and your man Curby went f*cking spare, so did all the other beavers for some reason, as if they knew what the f*ck HIV or AIDS was when they were eight.

So, essentially, I very nearly gave a former friend of mine AIDS when I was eight.

You got the syringe tested for AIDS I guess?

oldyouth

Saw an old dear park her car at the RHS curb of a roundabout to get out and pick daffodils that the Council had planted in the centre

Nabber

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

When I was an apprentice many moons ago we had a few painters working for us as well.
They were renovating a property next to our yard.
One of the painters called John who was in his mid thirties at the time was not the brightest.
One of his mates asked him to ask our Fitter for a left handed screwdriver as he needed to take a cupboard door off.
John dutifully walked down the yard to the Fitters workshop and asked if he could borrow a left handed screwdriver?
The Fitter knew that John was being serious because of the dead pan look on his face.
The fitter gave him a bendy screwdriver that he uses for tricky spots in engines.
John then delivers this screwdriver to his mate who then tells him that what he has got is a right handed screwdriver as it bends to the right.
John proceeds to return to the Fitter with the incorrect tool.
He tells the Fitter that it is the wrong hand so the fitter takes it off him, bends it the other way and apologies for the mistake.
John then gives his 'mate' the correct tool.

Tool is the key word here.

why bend the screwdriver? He could have just spun it 180.

Shenanigans.

Hobbes

Stupid thing recently.

Someone trying to bring a fully loaded wardrobe up a flight of stairs. 1/4 of the way up they realise how much work is involved and how dangerous it is. Being typical Irish they continue to try and get it up the flight of stairs instead of bringing it back down, and bringing it up in smaller parts.

Banjo String

More innocent than stupid.

When we were kids, we were walking down a local canal pathway one afternoon when we found what we thought was a disgarded, not blown up balloon.

My mate miley blew it up a few times, and generally messed around with it for a bit, we noticed that there was a small amount of funny looking liquid at the bottom of the balloon too, and on one occasion, miley had the balloon blown up so far, that it deflated rapidly in his mouth, resulting in the liquid scooting down his throat.

He said it had a strange gooey texture, and commented that it tasted 'salty'.

burnhardlanger

Get Married..............too young.

sawdoubters

drive off with petrol pump stuck in car

reverse into lamppost



sit on chair that some one moved about a minute before


try to eat soup with a fork

pebbles21

A friends granny died, she wanted to be waked at home and buried in a casket

She lived in one of those 3 story houses in Dorset street, and the casket wouldn't fit through the front door

So they had to take her out of the casket and stick her in the garden, while they tried to manoeuvre the casket into the halldoor in all directions

This was during the day with tons of loaded buses passing the house..

iDave

A friends sister once asked 'Was Christopher Columbus American?'.

Shes a teacher.

Teyla Emmagan

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I'm pretty sure a cigarette can only light up a petrol station in certain hollywood films.

A fella in one of the petrol stations on the stillorgan dual carriageway told me a customer of theirs had caught fire using their mobile phone at the petrol pump a few years ago. I believed him anyway. I am gullible, mind.

Teyla Emmagan

Banjo String wrote: »

More innocent than stupid.

When we were kids, we were walking down a local canal pathway one afternoon when we found what we thought was a disgarded, not blown up balloon.

My mate miley blew it up a few times, and generally messed around with it for a bit, we noticed that there was a small amount of funny looking liquid at the bottom of the balloon too, and on one occasion, miley had the balloon blown up so far, that it deflated rapidly in his mouth, resulting in the liquid scooting down his throat.

He said it had a strange gooey texture, and commented that it tasted 'salty'.

I hope that's not true

Penny Tration

My older cousin is probably the most ditzy person I've ever met.

A few years back, we were talking about my uncle, who is a scientist and was working on a treatment for cancer at the time. He had to operate on monkeys as part of it.

While we were talking about it, she said, in complete sincerity; 'Oh, that's awful, could he not operate on teddy bears instead?'

*facepalm*

Plazaman

The stupid bítch of a mother who pushed her buggy into the street in front of my car causing me to slam the brakes. Then she saunters across the road with a phone to her ear and a cigarette hanging out of her fat gob. I saw she was genuinely oblivious to what she done and sauntered out as if it was an empty park.

wadefuq

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

When I was an apprentice many moons ago we had a few painters working for us as well.
They were renovating a property next to our yard.
One of the painters called John who was in his mid thirties at the time was not the brightest.
One of his mates asked him to ask our Fitter for a left handed screwdriver as he needed to take a cupboard door off.
John dutifully walked down the yard to the Fitters workshop and asked if he could borrow a left handed screwdriver?
The Fitter knew that John was being serious because of the dead pan look on his face.
The fitter gave him a bendy screwdriver that he uses for tricky spots in engines.
John then delivers this screwdriver to his mate who then tells him that what he has got is a right handed screwdriver as it bends to the right.
John proceeds to return to the Fitter with the incorrect tool.
He tells the Fitter that it is the wrong hand so the fitter takes it off him, bends it the other way and apologies for the mistake.
John then gives his 'mate' the correct tool.

Tool is the key word here.

As a 15 yr old working as a petrol pump attendant i got caught out with one of these... i was sent over to the hardware shop across the road for some tartan paint... the man in the shop sent me back saying he only had the striped

Mr Freeze

I was painting a front a door, dressed in overalls, which a paint can in one hand and a brush in the other, quite visibly painting the door.

Fella comes along, puts his hand over my shoulder and knocks on the door where I had just brushed, paint all over his knuckles. Blames me.

stefan idiot jones

wadefuq wrote: »

As a 15 yr old working as a petrol pump attendant i got caught out with one of these... i was sent over to the hardware shop across the road for some tartan paint... the man in the shop sent me back saying he only had the striped

The difference is that this guy was in his thirties!!!!!

AnonoBoy

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

The mobile phones are there in case they intefere with the pumps. back in the old days the older model pumps electronics could be confused if someone in the keyed up with a CB

I thought it interfered with the pump's radar.

AnonoBoy

Plazaman wrote: »

The stupid bítch of a mother who pushed her buggy into the street in front of my car causing me to slam the brakes. Then she saunters across the road with a phone to her ear and a cigarette hanging out of her fat gob. I saw she was genuinely oblivious to what she done and sauntered out as if it was an empty park.

"But sure don't the cars always stop in time? I haven't been run over yet so why change my behaviour?" :rolleyes:

dozy doctor

What happens when you motivate an Idiot?

They do STUPID things FASTER

Sir Arthur Daley

Cyclist wearing sunglasses in the pouring rain.

JonEBGud

Going down stairs without tying shoelaces.

chrissb8

Guy came into where I worked with 30 euros worth in change. Ten minutes til closing with a huge queue. He could not understand why we behind the counter were so annoyed and told him to wait last. Considering he comes in all the time and does the exact same thing. Felt good when he got told what's what.

Squaredude

Guy I live with wiping crumbs off the table into his hand and then wiping the crumbs out of his hand and on to the floor.

JonEBGud

Talk when they should listen.

ArseBurger

WikiHow wrote: »

Cyclist wearing sunglasses in the pouring rain.

Why is that stupid?

UV doesn't disappear when it rains.

Ihatecuddles

ArseBurger wrote: »

Why is that stupid?

UV doesn't disappear when it rains.

Maybe because they get all wet and it distorts your vision.