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What's a stupid thing you've done that you still think WTF did I do that for?

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whatsnewpussycat777 · 12/02/2021 19:12

Me Blush

I wanted to kill the weeds between the slabs up to the front door.

No fucker one told me that they were going to crumble and dissolve if I used neat bleach.

What an idiot. 😢

Have you anything stupid to make me laugh on this cold evening 😃?!

Ps. Don't use bleach on certain slabs. certainly not neat

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Backtobacktheyfacedeachother · 17/02/2021 06:49

@MsAdoraBelleDearheartVonLipwig I came across that channel hopping years ago, only watched several minutes thinking WTH?, it has stayed with me forever. Awful.

whoami24601 · 17/02/2021 07:58

@MsAdora I watched that when it first came out. My friend and I were planning a trip around eastern Europe and it freaked us out so much that we daren't go to Slovakia at all. Got a train straight from Poland to Hungary. Even stopping at the border felt scary!

TheSecondMrsAshwell · 17/02/2021 13:23

@JimmyTheBrave

I'm another that's pierced the gas tube in a freezer, seems there are a lot of us Grin
My DDad did that - the top shelf of their freezer wasn't a drawer but a drop down door. The door wouldn't stay closed. So he decided to put a hook and eye in it. The hook in the door went well. The eye in the top of the freezer not so well. Apparently there was a long pffffffffft noise and the freezer stopped working. Luckily, I had just moved into a new flat and had their old freezer, which I hadn't filled yet. Cue a rather relieved DDad arriving at mine with the contents of the freezer so he had a bad news/good news story to tell my DM when she got home.
truthisalie · 17/02/2021 13:58

When we were kids we found a huge plastic barrel in a field. It was enormous and us four 9-10 year old kids all fitted into it easily. So we did what any self respecting kid of that age would do and dragged it to the top of a huge hill climbed inside and rolled down. It went a hell of a lot faster than we expected and only stopped when it smacked into wall. My sister broke her nose, and we thought my friend was dead as she was knocked unconscious. Oh, and did I mention the vomiting on the way down, and spinning round covered in it like we were in a giant washing machine.

F*ing hell! Every parent's nightmare.

Ddot · 17/02/2021 14:49

Similar thing, huge pipe left in field all the kids that could fit went inside who was left rolled it about. Unfortunately it rolled back ever so slightly onto little girls foot and splattered it. I was inside

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whatsnewpussycat777 · 17/02/2021 18:10

Ouch Shock

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DeloresWw · 17/02/2021 18:18

@Motnight

Drunk. Got in a car outside the train station. Told the driver to take me home, about 7 miles away. Driver insisted that he wasn't a taxi driver. I insisted that he was. He drove me home. It was many years ago and he had to rely on an A - Z. He had literally just dropped his parents off at the station when I got in the car.
Omg laughing out loud for real at this one!!
pickledcrumpet · 17/02/2021 21:08

Years ago all glammed up heels, hair etc at a close friends wedding and also well into to the evening so had had a few by that time. I was standing two steps up on a grand staircase having a conversation with the groom who was stood on floor. End of conversation I attempted to to walk away however had forgotten I wasn't also stood on the floor (I'm quite short so was face height). Dramatically splat on the floor in front of many guests. Bruised ego only damage done thank goodness.

First day at a new job decided to join colleagues for lunch on the balcony. While wearing a fitted suit style skirt I tried to navigate stepping over to sit on the bench seat. Promptly split my skirt up to my arse. Kind new colleague retrieved a scarf and had to wear that wrapped around me until I managed to duck out to the shops and buy a new skirt Blush

GrandTheftWalrus · 17/02/2021 21:50

These are brilliant!

HeyDemonsItsYaGirl · 17/02/2021 21:51

@MisiSam

This isn't something I've done but it's something I've thought it's very embarrassing.

For a while I thought brexit was a man.

I thought Sinn Fein was a man until my 20s.
Henio · 17/02/2021 22:00

Not quite as wtf as some of these lol...
I once had some vitamin samples randomly sent to me in the post from an unknown source, packet just said multi-vit not other real details or anything.. anyway I opened them up and took one straight away without even thinking, I remember my ex husband just staring at me in complete horror that I'd just taken some random pills

DK123 · 18/02/2021 18:36

A really dumb one from yesterday. I was cooking refried bean quesadillas. A piece went flying off the spatula as I was putting it on the plate, so I reached out and grabbed it. Molten cheesy beans all over my hands. It was burning my hand so badly I had to get it off straight away - I don't know why I thought it was a good idea, but in my panic, I licked the burning beans off, then realised how stupid I'd been. I stuck my hand in the freezer and tried to lick a bag of frozen peas. My hand is fine, but today I've got a big blister on the tip of my tongue which keeps catching on the wire on the back of my bottom teeth. Ffs, how stupid can you get?

Sweetpea1532 · 19/02/2021 14:22

In my earlier years I was into DIY projects. I decided my 5 metre tall wall needed a fresh coat of paint. Since I didn't have proper scaffolding...I used a 4 metre tall extension ladder to reach the top bits...Of course having ADHD I quickly tired of going up and down the ladder every time I needed more paint so I got the brill idea to take the pot of paint up with me and prop it on the top rung of the ladder. Everything was going great until the dog needed to go out. I descended the ladder, let the dog out...when I got back to my painting project I decided to move the ladder over to the next section...completely forgetting that I'd left an almost full pot of paint on top of the ladder. Of course the pot came crashing down and paint flew across the room covering the antique table and the side of the piano I'd inherited from my nan. There was just enough left to make large white polka dots on the side of our brand new v.expensive leather burgundy sofa and ottoman. I was horrified .. how was I going to explain to my DH how I'd done such an idiotic thing?...I started running around, grabbing kitchen roll and scraping paint off before it could dry.... I did an excellent clean up except I'd missed one spot on the ottoman and by the time I found it, the paint had started to dry. I was able to clean most of it off though...DH was none the wiser!
12 years on he still doesn't know about it, but I am constantly reminded of the painting disaster of 2009 every time I spy that faint spot on the side of the ottoman. This is just one of my many wtf was I thinking moments...most of which I've sussessfully blocked out unless I start to concentrate too hard 😳
I'm a walking disaster!

Ddot · 19/02/2021 17:09

I decided to paint hallway and up the stairs which had a very high ceiling, all going fine till I got to the top of the stairs I stretched a little too far on the step ladder. I started to fall, in slow motion. I realized i had a death fall imminent and tried to save myself. Imagine short arse woman, slipping forward, frantically grabbing at wet painted wall. Literally shit myself 🤣

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whatsnewpussycat777 · 21/02/2021 21:45

You’re a funny lot 😂😂😂

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OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 22/02/2021 00:32

@BernardBlackMissesLangCleg

Stapled my finger to see if it would go through a nail

me too. what a fucking idiot

Yep. Am glad I’m not the only one though sorry

DH has really thick fingernails. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to try it on him... Blush

OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 22/02/2021 00:41

Oh - crawled through a standard poodle (bloody big dogs) sized dog flap. To prove I could. I couldn’t.

Even the dog was pissing himself laughing.

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dysongirl · 23/02/2021 02:27

Put my husband in hospital for 4 days by giving him e.coli from chicken Blush

littlepandawantstoplay · 23/02/2021 02:46

I reversed into a post in DH's new car despite having cameras and sensors on it. It was beeping like mad as well and still
don't know why I ignored it. Poor Dh actually cried when I told him about it and showed him the dent. My defence was, I didn't see it and he just looked at me like I had cheated on him Blush

Ddot · 23/02/2021 06:21

Not me.
Doing a bit of DIY, he wanted to turn off electric so needed a stool, decided he would use a paint pot to stand on, just because it was there.
Paint pot was a big plastic tub full of emulsion.
I had to ladle the paint off the carpet, then scrap the rest up, scrub the carpet for over an hour.
Oh and fork out for a new pot of paint. NUMPTY NUMB NUTS

littlemisschoclover · 23/02/2021 07:24

My brain seems to just not work sometimes so I have quite a few lol
Put squash in my tea and milk in the glass of water
Closed the oven door while grilling burgers and came back to open it, was welcomed by an oven full of flames
Baking some Camembert in the oven, it had started to split on the baking tray so I moved it to a bowl for the rest of the cooking time. Got it out of the oven with oven gloves and put it on the top, then forgot it had been in the oven, picked it up to take it to the table without the oven gloves! Ended up in a&e with severe burns and had to wear a plastic bag type thing on my hand for a few days at work.
But the weirdest one has got to be...
We were out for a family meal at an Indian restaurant and I was sat chatting away to my sister, whilst chatting I could feel something in my hand on the table, couldn't work out what it was so just kept feeling it while talking (literally have no idea why I didn't just look) turn round to my brother looking at me absolutely disgusted. Turned out my hand was in his curry and I was just squashing away at it with my hand while chatting. Luckily it wasn't hot so I wasn't burnt but my brother was not happy at his dinner being ruined Grin

sashh · 23/02/2021 07:50

Why would you store your dog shit in a hole in the ground????!!!!

Who stores dog shit? That's the weird bit, not the hole.

I'd been almost blocked in but thought I could get my car out of a tight spot.

I told my passenger, "I'm going to hit that car", and I did.

Smidge001 · 23/02/2021 08:14

I had a friend who had the buried bin in the ground for their dog poo. I don't think it was for storing purposes Confused. As I understood it the bin had small holes at the bottom and they'd put in chemicals which effectively broke down the poo into compost,which would eek its way into the surrounding soil.

BluePeterVag · 25/02/2021 02:04

I made some chicken soup. I didn’t read the recipe bit about skimming off the fat. It smelt so good as it was cooking, I put a spoon in and slurped it up. 🤢 absolutely vile. I could taste chicken fat in my mouth for about a week afterwards. I was convinced that I had slurped so much liquid fat that if I swallowed some string I could probably shit a candle Grin

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