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What's The Dumbest Thing You've Ever Done?

Mumbles said:
Gigantic wrote 'Now, I'm 6'8" (203cm to you euros) and at the time, weighed about 260 pounds'

And I'll bet your nickname is or was 'Tiny'.
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nope. I was tall, but slight growing up. Nickname in high school was "Lunch" perhaps because I was always begging food in the lunchroom from Wednesday through Friday. (my name is Lance, the nickname was a spoonerism from a friend that stuck.) When the Pixie's Come On Pilgrim came out in the late 80's, the song "Gigantic" became my nickname.
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hmm... dumb things?

Jumping off the end of a 25' high wharf during a storm with my surfboard, because the waves were to big to paddle through from the beach.

It's all relative. My buddy thought this was really dumb. I thought it was pretty smart.

btw... that pier got destroyed during a big storm earlier this year.
 
A couple from me:
1) Used to work as a doorman at a ritzy 5-star hotel when I was younger. 1993 one of the local lady's (in her 80's) who would occasionally come for lunch asked if I was interested in buying her car, as she was getting too old to drive. It was a mint 72' Dodge Charger, white w/ 65K on the clock. She wanted $1100, I told her I was into VW's and would pass. What a dipshit I was.
2) Took my dad's jazz record collection to school for show-n-tell when I was 8 yrs/old (didn't ask). Took them out for recess and 6 of the 12 fell out of the sleeves and shattered. Pretty sure I still have belt marks to this day.
 
Most recent dumb thing. At an after game lacrosse tailgate party yesterday. The boys come off the field, change into decent clothes, and come to the tailgate. Standing with my wife commenting on my son's shoes looking weird.....she starts jabbing me in my ribs with her elbow. Turns out my son's girlfriend standing on the other side of me is the one that bought him those shoes...... Whoops.


About 37 years ago at this point..... Was in the market for a Corvette. Two that came up for grabs were 1) A 65 327/300 4-speed convertible that ran fine but was a little rough around the edges. 2) A 73 T-top car with L82 350/350 engine and 4-speed that was in nicer shape, at almost half the price of the 65. I bought the 73. Within a few months I regretted the decision as a true convertible is a much better open air experience than any T-top car. Oh well.
 
PhotonJohn said:
Navy, messenger of the watch. Shifted and cleaned lube oil strainers on the SSTGs (ships service turbo generators)and left the vent open. The electrician on watch reported the leak. I ran to the chief and reported (yelled) MAJOR LUBE OIL LEAK #1 SSTG. The Chief knew what it was without even looking. What a mess, lucky no damage. If there had been I would’ve ended up in the brig. Boneheaded move for sure.
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Now why don't I remember having to do that? 4 yrs as a MM on the Enterprise in #2 propulsion plant on the engine room side, I should. While our structure was probably different I was the upper level watch during several workups including O.R.S.E (Naval Reactors) and though the first half of our 82/83 wespac. Hundreds if not thousands of hours taking logs and I do not remember. :dunno:

Later certified Chief Machinery Operator, the SSTG #5 I believe, was just to the right of the CMO desk. You could not set there and not see the SSTG. Then as LPO I occupied the desk on the other side of the generator. I definatly remember the duplex strainers and Delaval oil purifier for the mains
 
16 years old, doubles water skiing with a sweet young thing. Attempted to ski up to the dock, then turn around and sit down on it. (I'd seen it done by someone else.) Came in at the wrong angle and thought I'd just grab the ladder, forgetting about the barrel directly behind the steel ladder, holding the dock up, and the 3' of ski sticking out in front of me. Not to mention coming in a little too fast. Don't think I impressed her. :dunno: :rflmao:
 
Ohighway said:
Most recent dumb thing. At an after game lacrosse tailgate party yesterday. The boys come off the field, change into decent clothes, and come to the tailgate. Standing with my wife commenting on my son's shoes looking weird.....she starts jabbing me in my ribs with her elbow. Turns out my son's girlfriend standing on the other side of me is the one that bought him those shoes...... Whoops.


About 37 years ago at this point..... Was in the market for a Corvette. Two that came up for grabs were 1) A 65 327/300 4-speed convertible that ran fine but was a little rough around the edges. 2) A 73 T-top car with L82 350/350 engine and 4-speed that was in nicer shape, at almost half the price of the 65. I bought the 73. Within a few months I regretted the decision as a true convertible is a much better open air experience than any T-top car. Oh well.
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I feel ya! If you only knew some of the bad automotive decisions I made that still stick in my craw.
 
About 30 years ago when my wife and I had an apartment I couldn't get the couch out of the front door so I launched the couch off of the 3rd floor balcony not looking before and there was a car at the bottom , it went right on top of the hood and through the windshield, audio related, I threw away a mint pair of k e f calinda speakers because of a blown tweeter
 
Long ago, before I really got into audio, my brother gave me a bunch of audio equipment that had been left behind in one of his rentals. The lot included an an Akai GX636 R2R, a Teac 4010 R2R,and a Marantz amplifier / receiver pair. All I remember about Marantz items is that they were huge, and weighed a lot. When I plugged the them units in they didn't work. Not knowing much about electronics at the time, I took them down to the local Radioshack repair tech for advice. He told me they were junk, he could sell me a much better unit for a couple hundred dollars, and I should toss them in in the junk bin. I did. And have regretted it ever since.
 
Mumbles said:
Be honest now. No sugar coating any bonehead actions done in the past!

Myself, being mechanically minded, since a young age I used to take anything and everything apart to see how it worked. Whether or not these items ever worked again is another story. What does come to mind is a Harman Kardon 330A which I bought brand new and still own. It was the centerpiece for the parties we used to have in the 70's and was always on when we were home.

One day the cover came off to see what made it tick. I didn't have a clue what a cap or a diode was but did understand transistors a bit from what I had read. What I did discover was the speakers would develop more bass by turning these twisty things (VR's) inside it while the unit was up and running. Yup, that was my introduction to adjusting idling current and DC balance. Dohh! It was also around this time the unit made several trips to the shop for repairs as it would constantly blow output and driver transistors but that was probably due more to the high volumes demanded of it on party nights.

Something else I think about is an old open tube radio amp I used to have when I was a kid. It was probably from the 30's or 40's as the speaker had several wires going to it and we used to call it a power speaker. I took the speaker out of my six transistor pocket radio and it worked as a microphone when hooked up to the amp. Kind of a homemade PA system.

What I do remember well though is the light tingling electric shock I would get when handling the open chassis while sitting on a tiled concrete floor down in the basement. Now I realize it was probably a hot chassis I was playing with and was a 'short' step away from meeting my maker if I had touched one of the exposed plumbing pipes down there at the same time! Yup, I feel lucky today!
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There are so many stupid things... TOO many to count (or recall). The file, borrowing a line from Meatloaf, would be a "mile long"!! :rflmao:
 
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