What are the five dumbest things you've ever done?
 

You know, no matter how smart any of us think we are, we've all done some really stupid shit in our lifetimes. I'm actually pretty fond of saying "That's one of the five stupidest things I've ever done." So I decided to make a definitive list of those five things. And they are:

5. Selling my original copy of Chrono Trigger for the SNES to FuncoLand.
4. Buying Final Fantasy VIII with the money I got.
3. One time, during a "We have Wiis" day, a lady used a completely underhanded tactic of lying to me about what she was doing in line to get two Wiis when the policy clearly stated one, and I actually let her have two to avoid a confrontation.
2. Earlier tonight, I was making tomato soup. I made the mistake of leaving the room while it was cooking, and returned to it boiling over, creating a wonderful burnt smell as some of the soup landed directly on the burner. The soup in the pot was fine, though.
1. Grease Fire Incident.

What is YOUR definitive list of the 5 stupidest things you've ever done?

In the grand scheme of things, if those are really the five dumbest things you've done then you're really doing quite allright I'd say.

LIST OR GTFO :mad:

5: Decided to save time by putting an egg in the microwave. With the shell intact.

4: Responded to my employer's inquiry of "Are you a nervous person?" with incoherent stammering. That job lasted about two days.

3: Stood on top of a 20" water slide. Fell. Landed on my shoulder. Spent the summer in a sling.

2: Spent the vast majority of high school hiding under the bleachers with my nose in a book.

1: It is a mystery.

Honestly Mo0, if thats the dumbest things you've done, you're either pretty fucking smart or simply just good at avoiding things.

5.) Fell head over heels for a girl in a summer romance cliche. It was all going well until she decided to go to college way far away. Out of spite, I fucked her just-turned 18 year old sister. (Still friends with both but its never the same)

4.) My opinion on education is "fuck school". I wish I was a better student, but I hate rote, I hate most people my age and Jesus Christ classes are BORING.

3.) The internet. Anyone who says otherwise is a fucking idiot.

2.) Countless situations on the West Coast that never came to fruition. Invites to recording sessions, invites to go work at music labels, etc

1.) I was very briefly in email contact with Shirley Walker. Sure, I'd had the chance to talk to other composers more famous but this was the woman who headed off all the music for Batman: TAS - the show that got me listening to film music. She was really professional with me - the first email was a "I'm a little busy, please contact me again in X months". The second email, while warmer, was "I'm sorry to ask for more time, but my husband of 20+ years has recently died of cancer".

The third time I emailed her she was just sitting down to do music for Black Christmas and that she wanted to get back to me soon, and thanked me for giving her the wide birdth I had.

She suffered a stroke a few weeks later, slipped into a coma and died. I never got a chance to tell her in full detail how she had changed my life.

You shut the fuck up right now, Aard. The boy couldn't have done anything worse than this.

Well, the two years I spent in middle school being, rather than the fat, jovial person I am now, a fat psychotic mess with anger issues and a violent temper, kind of encompass so many stupid things that... heck, that probably should've been number 1.

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See, that's the reaction I was expecting.

Uh, Saka said that, not Aard.

I'll tell you right now that one of the dumbest things you will have done in your life is confuse Aardark with Saka.

5. Playing Runescape

4. Bothering with a gf in highschool.

3. Not taking a fourth year of math going into being a cs major in college.

2. Not buying a full stocked NES with 2 cont. gun and 5 games for $40 at a used games store.

1. ACTUALLY trying to get MEW before I knew the only one and true way to do it. Yes I DID buy the magikarp just like everyone else.

Holy shit Ninjaguydan

You're the Guy Everyone Is Scared They Might Become One Day

"I wish I had done more math! And talked to girls less!"

Seriously, and my list was supposedly boring.

OK VIRGINS. Listen up! "Wastin tiem with gf in hs" is not going to cut it for this list by any stretch of the mind; it's just an attempt (a failed one, at that) at socializing. Stop fucking using this as the de-facto reason you never got so much as a handjob in your life. There is, after all, a good reason I haven't used my last five exes as a filler.

Just recently lurker confused Qwarky with me.

What is going on. :(

It's called "wishful thinking", buddy. :(

When people say something I disagree with, I automatically assume it's either Mush or Aard. :(

That is interesting, please tell us more!

5. One day, I came home from work and saw this enormous, disgusting robe sitting on my bed. Wanting to know more, I went to the living room where my mom and nana were and inquired, "what is that disgusting shit robe on my bed?" She and my nana gave me a look of such immense disappointment. When I laughed and asked why she gave me that face, she said "that was your uncle John's."

My Uncle John who had passed away a few months prior. Apparently my nana wanted to give that to me as a gift to remember him by or something. I dunno, I don't wear robes, and I'm not gonna wear what my uncle probably DIED in. That's just... weird. Either way, it was a valid question, though I probably should have re-worked my wording.

4. This real cute girl liked me a great deal in 8th grade. And I liked her. So to show her my affection, when SHE asked me out, I asked her if she could wait while I see if this other girl who liked me was going to ask me out instead. Didn't hear from her again for some reason, nor have I ever had an opportunity for a girlfriend quite literally thrust at me so easily.

3. I dated the biggest slut in southern NH after one night of talking to her on the phone. She went on to cheat on me 3 times within 2 weeks, and I never got beyond making out with her. This was my first girlfriend, by the way.

2. In 9th grade, I gave my friend a copy of the anarchist's cookbook, only to have him turn around and sell it on floppy disks to other students. When he was caught he pointed the finger at me for giving him the original copy. He got suspended for 2 weeks. I wasn't in any trouble since I gave it to him outside of school, but this happened shortly after Columbine, and the school cop was none too pleased. My dad took away my computer usage for a month.

1. In middle school, my friend and I used to take those bread tab things, break off one of the pieces, put it on our finger, and then flick them at people. One of the asshole tech ed teachers caught us, and he told me to empty my pockets. So I did. All 8 of them. FILLED with these tabs. He was livid, so he told me to have my dad write a note saying that he allows me to use them, since I had told him that my dad has no problem with me using them.

At home, my dad wasn't in the mood for this childish punishment, so he wrote a completely "fuck you" note to the guy, saying "stop touching my child in weird places" and stuff like that. I thought that was the funniest shit ever, so I held on to that after he wrote me the real note. Well, I brought both to school. I gave the tech ed teacher the real note, but somehow he had gotten wind of the fake one, and gave both me and my dad a stern talking to. It was humiliating. I still think it's hilarious.

Funny post script: My dad and this teacher both play basketball at my HS's over 40 league, and my dad schools him every now and then.

5. I essentially left my bag unattended at the Barcelona Airport. I was seriously jetlaged, and just about ready to fall over. When i saw my check baggage come through the baggage claim, i ran over to pick it up, leaving my backpack on the ground. Later that night when i was looking for my CD booklet it was nowhere to be found. I was just glad my wallet (complete with passport) didn't go instead.

4. I've always been inspired by rock and metal singers who are classically trained like James LaBrie, Michael Kiske, and Hansi Kursch. In my first year at CMU i basically had a free pass into the voice department through recommendation from the choir directors. This meant no auditions, no theory tests. That year i had joined a band (re-joined my old band in some ways) as the singer. I figured it would be the right move to take these voice lessons to improve my voice. I've had experiences with classical training before though, and despite my nagging memories of not having any musical freedom (story of my life until basically this year) i shelled out the $700 for the lessons and the university credit. Yeah, they were a complete waste of time and money. I couldn't get behind any of the music i was learning, i hated practicing it, i hated going to the lessons. The next time i go into music lessons i'm not taking that "classical music is the base for all other musics, so you have to learn that first" bullshit. No, i've been studying it my whole fucking life, i'm sick of it, i'm gonna study what i want.

3. Last summer there was a girl at camp that i really fell for, and word on the underground was that she had fallen hard for me too. She wass considerably younger than me, our families knew each other as acquaintances, and i had an old (and now very awkward) friendship with her older brother. I told myself i didn't want to create drama by pursuing this as a relationship. I promised myself i wouldn't do anything unless she made the first move. She didn't, and we basically spent the summer with a glass wall between us. She is now dating a close friend of mine, which is sort of the kick in the teeth i deserve for basically being a dick that summer.

2. This summer i took a job at a factory in my city. It honestly is one of the stupidest things i've ever done. It's left me an emotional, spiritual, mental, social and physical wreck. I literally haven't seen any of my friends in months, and the only person i've had to talk to all summer is my mom. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it's kind of depressing knowing that my friends are doing stuff without me. I'm currently looking for a job elsewhere for the school year right now. When i tell everyone i can only work 2-3 days a week they all give me the same look, and i realize now i should've been looking for a job i could hold on to this summer.

1. In my first year of university i was really irresponsible with money. I would buy CDs, Movies, and Video Games like they were nothing. I probably spent just about all the money I made at my first job on stuff like this. I wasn't thinking about my future education at all, and if i had had some forethought i probably could've avoided number 2.

I remember one day where I came home all excited, since I had had a ton of tests and kicked ass on all of them, but everyone looked really depressed at home. I said, "What happened, it looks like someone died here!" trying to be funny. My aunt, one of only two relatives my dad ever really talked to on his side of the family, had had a heart attack and died earlier that day. :(