Stupid things you've seen stupid people do

alchemist33 · 13-02-2014 10:47PM #1

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 · 13-02-2014 10:48PM

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 · 13-02-2014 10:49PM

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 · 13-02-2014 10:52PM

People with incorrect eating utensil etiquette at social settings.

Lingua Franca · 13-02-2014 10:52PM

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

pale blue dot cotton · 13-02-2014 10:53PM

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

13-02-2014 10:53PM

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 · 13-02-2014 11:05PM

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 · 13-02-2014 11:07PM

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 · 13-02-2014 11:07PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

What do you mean 'trained'?

One who holds an NPTC award for Umbrella Safe Use.

joe stodge · 13-02-2014 11:16PM

My brothers girlfriend; are prawns vegetables?

cletus van damme · 13-02-2014 11:20PM

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 · 13-02-2014 11:22PM

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 · 13-02-2014 11:23PM

john the one wrote: »

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

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

AnonoBoy · 14-02-2014 12:19AM

WikiHow wrote: »

One who holds an NPTC award for Umbrella Safe Use.

Of course. Silly me.

Capt'n Midnight · 14-02-2014 01:34AM

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 · 14-02-2014 01:36AM

Kolo Toure

ArtyC · 14-02-2014 02:07AM

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 · 14-02-2014 02:24AM

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 · 14-02-2014 05:50AM

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 · 14-02-2014 06:06AM

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 · 14-02-2014 08:27AM

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 · 14-02-2014 08:32AM

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

Billy86 · 14-02-2014 09:05AM

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 · 14-02-2014 09:37AM

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 · 14-02-2014 09:40AM

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 · 14-02-2014 09:43AM

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 · 14-02-2014 09:56AM

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 · 14-02-2014 10:01AM

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 · 14-02-2014 10:09AM

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 · 14-02-2014 10:13AM

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

Stupid things you've seen stupid people do

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