So I got a replacement battery for my ipod mini off of ebay, and in the process of putting it all back together, I punctured the ribbon connecting my click wheel to the motherboard. I was extremely careful in getting the thing apart, taking extreme cautions not to screw something up. However, after getting it apart, my confidence rose and I got hasty in my putting it back together, and viola!

On one hand, I'm so frustrated right now, I feel like screaming.

On the other hand, I understand it is just an ipod and life goes on.

Anywho, in order to not make me feel like the only stupid person out there, please post your moments of sheer stupidity

PS - if anyone happens to have a working click wheel they'd like to part with, PM me.

Broke the entrance door's window by punching it when I was a kid. Blamed it on the soccer ball. We didn't have a soccer ball.

That reminds me of when I took my PS2 apart to fix it. I took it apart and put it back together fine, everything worked, but a few weeks back I had to open it again and discovered that the last time I reassembled it, I put a screw through the connecter ribboon between the boards and the power button. Still works though. Heh.

When I was like 10 years old I fried my gameboy by trying to make my own AC adapter for it.

I took some scissors, cut the power cord off my lamp, plugged it into the wall, then shoved the frayed end into the port in the gameboy. It got fried. :p I lost a lamp and a gameboy that day. I don't really consider it stupid though. I learned a lot that day, such as the answer to the question, "Why the hell did my gameboy just explode?"

Yeah, I had to put a screen in a friend's iPod after she cracked hers. Those things are not fun to work on.

I shot myself in the face with a pellet gun and blamed it on icicle falling off of the garage.

Broke my damn glasses too.

Stupidest thing I ever did was climb into a swing built for babies. Since it is designed to keep the baby from falling out, and I was much larger than the baby, I ended up stuck in the swing.
I spent about four or five hours in this thing, and my 'friends' would pass by from time to time and mock me.

I don't remember, had some odd ones on the glorious MSPaint Stupid things thread.

I cut myself pretty badly with a knife twice. Both times I was doing really dumb things.

hahahahahahah

oh man. i think i just urinated.

I....um.....slamed my finger in a drawer.


I think Axis wins!


ok um...I melted a fisher price fireman when I was about 4...the light bulb was a big fire which took him a long time to put out. he had some mad third degree burns on his face from that one.

I thankfuly didn't get hurt

Just now I was pouring the water out of a bowl of potstickers and tilted it too much and too fast and into a pile of dirty dishes they went. Ewwww. I wanted those.

[QUOTE=Numenor King]I....um.....slamed my finger in a drawer.


I think Axis wins!


ok um...I melted a fisher price fireman when I was about 4...the light bulb was a big fire which took him a long time to put out. he had some mad third degree burns on his face from that one.

I thankfuly didn't get hurt[/QUOTE]

I did the same thing, but with a plastic army man. I 'stationed' him on the lamp, and promptly forgot about him. Brave soul, didn't leave his post for anything . I didn't have the heart to throw him out.

I also used to have a rather stupid method of getting out of my baby crib. I'd climb to the top, fall to the floor on my head, and crawl off. I took quite a few bumps on the noggin when I was a lad.

when i was 9 at my aunts house in washington state. well i would walk into her glass sliding door like 5 times a day because she kept it so clean........and ran into a tree there too

Hmmm...stupid stories. Ah yes, when I was little, my brother was jumping off this playset, and I wanted to be cool too. So I jumped off my playset, barefoot, not realizing that I must've curled my feet in mid-air....Yeah, broke my toes. But I WAS COOL DAMNIT!

As for computer stupidity, I shut down my computer when upgrading the BIOS. Let's just say I bought a new motherboard.

When I was a kid I was up before my parents watching Saturday morning cartoons when I thought I'd make myself breakfast. So I decided to cut myself a bagel and toast it.... except my finger was in the bagel hole when I cut it.

I still have a scar that goes clear across my left index finger.

Oh THAT Explains it
NAILFACED

hey, it could have been worse. They could have taken turns kicking you in the nuts while you were helplessly stuck there.

Let me see.... stupid things... When I was a kid, I melted some plastic with fire and accidentally dripped some on my left hand while it was completely liquified and still burning. RESULT: AGONY. (melted plastic is excruxiatingly hot and it sticks to you as it burns and you can't get it off. I still have a scar from the blister it gave me)

When I was in elementary school, there was this huge red ball that was used for physical therapy/etc. I was playing with it for awhile, then got the bright idea to try hitting it with a metal bat. I swung down as hard as I could at the ball, which of course, bounced the bat right back towards me and directly into my forhead. When I eventually regained conciouness, I had a cartoon-esque bump on both the front of my head from the bat, and the back of my head from falling straight backwards onto the gym floor.

Good times.

SiliconC, that made me laugh so hard just visualizing that... thank you

OUCH! Yeah, I agree with you on this one. The baby swing thing sucks (funny as heck though), but yeah, it could've been worse.

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A few days ago I didn't kiss the girl I REALLY like when she apparently wanted it, but I didn't get the hints. Only when I got home I understood that I have failed. Again. But I'll be back! Muahaha.

I once tried to put a RAM stick in the wrong way around.
Let me demonstrate that:



I broke some unimportant looking part off and they it still worked. Not only that, but it also registered as faster RAM (though it never ran faster). But I think my system was never so stable after that...

That diagram is dirty.

We put the car in neutral in a parknig lot and pushed it bobsled-style. When we all jumped in the car (once it was moving) my finger got slammed in the door.

at the age of about 10 I ran into a clear glass door, you know the type that slide across to let you outside...knocked myself out for a good few minutes I think, couldn't honestly tell as everyone else was outside and (lucky for me) never saw it.

And by run I mean run, still can't remember to this day why I was running but then that whole incident is kinda hazy...

when i was probably 11 or 12 i went food shopping with my mom, and as we were walking with a shopping cart full of stuff i attempted to ride it down a small decline to the car by balancing myself on the push bar, needless to say the carrage flipped and my fingers got caught under the bar and dragged my index and middle fingers on both hands down the hill with all of the weight of the food on top of them. I needed 2 surgeries to regain full motor function with those fingers. I still havn't fully regained feeling in those fingers either, i had passed out after seeing my fingers hanging on by the threads of my skin, and the doctor said i had done some pretty intensive nerve damage. Im lucky i guess to still have my fingers!

Hmm... When I was younger, I took a pack of matches from my house and jumped the fence to my friends house (he lived behind me) and we then proceeded to light a fire in his small tin shed full of hay. Well, the fire got out of control and we put it 'out' with his dogs water bowl and ran off to my backyard. While we were ****ting our pants my neighbour asked what was burning. My friend said that they always have bonfires and it was nothing. Well we went back over to his house to see his mom with a garden hose spraying into the shed. So we both hid behind some trees in his yard but that lasted a whole 3.5 seconds when his mom told him to come here and for me to go home. I lied about the matches his mom found claiming I 'found' them in their backyard. We got sent to our rooms for the day.