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

675 replies

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

OP posts:
ImFree2doasiwant · 12/02/2021 22:17

@MoltenLasagne I did the same with sloe gin.

MrMucker · 12/02/2021 22:18

Whilst showering, scrub washed my most vital parts with Original Source Mint and Tea Tree Shower Gel.
You only really do that the once unless you have a niche interest in pain.

OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 12/02/2021 22:19

@IncludeWomenInTheSequel

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

If anyone is in doubt, yes it does, yes the ends of the staple curl over and yes it hurts like dipping your wounded thumb in Satan’s semen to remove it.

Please learn from my stupidity.

Noteventhebestdrummer · 12/02/2021 22:20

D*ublingirl66
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I just know I would do this too!

Stressedoutsomuch · 12/02/2021 22:20

Seen a plank with a rusty nail sticking out of it. As I was saying to myself - dont stand on it - I stood on it.

Went right through my boot and needed a tetanus.

Hammonds · 12/02/2021 22:21

@PopcornFiend

Jumped off a moving train. I was a teenager and it was an older train with non-electronic doors. It pulled up at the station where my dad was waiting to collect me and as I got to the door the train started pulling away. I panicked, opened the door and jumped out onto the platform. Wearing wedge sandals. My dad saw the whole thing and nearly had a heart attack!
😂😂😂😂
Hammonds · 12/02/2021 22:22

Best Friday night thread for a long time!

Threadgood · 12/02/2021 22:25

I got so engrossed in reading a leaflet about a mindfulness group that I fell over a bollard.

OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 12/02/2021 22:26

@MrMucker

Whilst showering, scrub washed my most vital parts with Original Source Mint and Tea Tree Shower Gel. You only really do that the once unless you have a niche interest in pain.
My friend (cough) agrees with you.

She can also recommend reading the bottle before applying tea tree oil to sensitive areas. A) not a great idea anyway and B) if you accidentally picked up Olbas oil instead you’re in for a very uncomfortable few hours.

And do keep your Deep Heat lotion well away from anything else.

cansu · 12/02/2021 22:26

38 weeks pregnant and went for a walk on a mega hot day for miles. I nearly collapsed. It was beyond stupid.

DeciduousPerennial · 12/02/2021 22:27

Pulled a Christmas tree over on myself trying to adjust the feet to stop it being lopsided, at the exact moment I was thinking to myself “this is going to fall over if I pull it like this”. Husband found me underneath it like the witch under the house in The Wizard of Oz.

Threadgood · 12/02/2021 22:28

Stood snogging on the station platform, saying goodbye... my dog got on the train, and the doors all shut.

hermionieweasley · 12/02/2021 22:28

Went to a cafe opposite my house and paid £8 for a plain omelette despite having eggs at home

Whyyyyyy
I kept thinking 'wtaf am I doing' whilst I was eating it too. Waste of money and stupid

Sarahlou63 · 12/02/2021 22:29
  1. Couldn't wait for frozen cheese to defrost so attacked it with a sharp knife. Got back from the hospital with 5 stitches in my thumb, starving, to find that the bastard dogs had eaten all the cheese.
  1. Went for a very important job interview. Told them how wrong they would be if they didn't hire me. Fell over my handbag on the way out.
OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 12/02/2021 22:30

@MoltenLasagne

Boiled up chicken carcass with veg to make stock. Put a colander into the sink to drain it and didn't put anything underneath it to catch the liquid. Drained the whole lot down the sink. Did it again about a month later too...
Grin tbf I’ve only done that once.

because I’ve never tried making stock again

MoltenLasagne · 12/02/2021 22:31

[quote ImFree2doasiwant]@MoltenLasagne I did the same with sloe gin.[/quote]
Oh god, that's even worse! How long had you spent making it until that point?

Sarahlou63 · 12/02/2021 22:31

Oh, thought of another one. Asked for thrush cream in another language. Ran into the loo to apply. Realised too late it was for athletes foot.

Figmentofimagination · 12/02/2021 22:31

As a child, running round a friends back garden during her birthday party. Ran straight over the plastic manhole that covered a hole they had dug to store their dogs shit. Plastic broke and my foot and leg went into the hole. Was stuck and had to be pulled out by the dad. Had dog shit up to my thigh and got hosed down.

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

Cloe78 · 12/02/2021 22:32

Moving a chest of drawers down a flight of steps with a friend. Realised we hadn't removed the drawers so decided to stick them closed with a piece of sellotape. Like wtaf?! Cue 4 drawers flying out, pushing me down the stairs and then knocking me out. Sellotape. Yeah.

BernardBlackMissesLangCleg · 12/02/2021 22:33

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

me too. what a fucking idiot

NymphInYellow · 12/02/2021 22:33

Had an upside down fridge-freezer, so tiny fridge part was on the floor, freezer above it. Trying to put a new lightbulb in, couldn't see fuck all, so I felt for the hole with my fingers. Yes, I stuck my finger into the socket and got an electric shock.

Fell off the stage during a concert in high school. Whole choir turned to see where I'd gone. I climbed back up and tried to look nonchalant.

OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 12/02/2021 22:34

@Threadgood

Stood snogging on the station platform, saying goodbye... my dog got on the train, and the doors all shut.
Don’t think your dog approved of your snogging partner 😂

How on earth did that pan out??!

Strongswans · 12/02/2021 22:35

Paper shredder got clogged up, tried the reverse setting but no, paper was reply jammed in there. Put the switch back to off (or so I thought) and then started poking the jammed bits with a sharp knife, only for the shredder to start and took the knife which also got jammed in it! Yep had put the shredder back on. DS found the whole situation hilarious.

cricketmum84 · 12/02/2021 22:35

@FightingFiles

Defrosted a freezer with a knife. Suddenly it sort of fizzed and apparently that killed it. £600 for a new freezer 👍
I did this as a trainee vet nurse. Darent tell anyone and destroyed a good few thousand pounds worth of vaccines in the process.

hangs head in shame

areyoumeop · 12/02/2021 22:36

DP may be the unofficial taxi driver, phoned me saying someone won't get out of his car, told him to take her home but he did not know where it was so had to stop at a garage and ask for directions.
Young and drunk on a Friday, was waiting for a late-night bus and some guy in a car stopped and i went in the car to his miles away for the whole weekend. Family, friends and work all worried about me and had called the police- pre-mobile.
I was demolishing a rotten old shed in our new house with a hammer and handsaw, couldn't get a bit at the back so cut part of the roof from inside it - yes it completely collapsed on top of me, luckily only 10 stitches.

Very Naked, Very Pregnant Photo sent to my boss instead of DP. She thought i "looked blooming"
Loads more- my whole life seems to be WTF