Silly things people do

cahullian · #1 23-02-2007, 12:49 PM

I want to share this story with you all.

Last week I was having a few drinks with my son. I went to bed about midnight as I had to go to work the next morning. He decided to do some exercises

Well one exercise led to another so on and so forth... all of a sudden I hear this moaning coming from the lounge room. When I go to investigate I see my son with blood running out of his nose. I asked him what happened and he informed me he tried to do a front roll while jogging. All he ended up doing was kneeing himself in the face and breaking his nose.

Does anyone else have silly stories about family and friends that just cant be kept in the closet any more?

Gazz

xelasnave · #2 23-02-2007, 01:13 PM

Being tuff at gym one day having beat a few opponents in judo

..feeling pretty fit went over to the weight lifting guys..pushed my mate out of the way did a fast lift went backwards (because I was tired from the bouts)..the bar caught me under the nose broke it in two places and cut the inside of my mouth needing 6 stiches

. Lucky it did not get my teeth would have lost a few or on the forehead could have been leathal

... but thats pretty stupid I recon

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alex

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #3 23-02-2007, 01:26 PM

Not a recent event. Back in 1976 when I was a 10 year old I wanted to hammer a nail into the end of a piece of wooden dowel.

I placed the nail dead centre of the end, brought the hammer up and slammed the nail as hard as I could.

The sheer pain was undescribable and sudden.

With my right hand I wiped my watering eyes to reveal that somehow the nail skewed of track and I had hammered the nail right through my thumb!

All the way through!!!!

All was well. My Mum heard me yell, and she just simply pulled it back out again

iceman (Mike) · #4 23-02-2007, 01:27 PM

ouch poor Ron! Hope his nose recovers, though I imagine that story will live forever

wavelandscott (Scott) · #5 23-02-2007, 01:27 PM

I was goofing around one day with a toothpick and I got it stuck in my mouth forcing me to keep my mouth open. So picture the bottom point of the toothpick stuck between two teeth and the top point pushing into the roof of my mouth...the pain was unbelievable but everyone watching had a laugh at my expense.

I guess that qualifies for a "silly thing"...

ving (David) · #6 23-02-2007, 01:44 PM

thats not fair gazz... the accident wasnt yours so we cant laugh at you

one of many mountain bike accidents....

I was doing a trail near waterfall (nsw). it started heading down hill and being a fire trail it had wash bars... i was takling them in the usual way, ie doing about 50kph i was launching myself off the top of them "grabing some air". one came up and i thought i wonder what would happenif i tried to stay on the ground?.... the front wheel tracked the ground nicely but the back flung up in teh air! I travelled quite some distance on my front wheel trying to wrestle it down but failed and went flying. i tumbled and slid for quite some distance before stopping just before the edge of teh trail which went into a steep gully (which is where my bike ended up)... got a broken collar bone and a very scratched up back for it and a very briused ego

xelasnave · #7 23-02-2007, 01:45 PM

Using the garden fork, sharp as because of years of use, with one hand driving it down into the ground and out again. Drove two of the forks right thru my foot and right thru the sole of the protective thongs I had on at the time

. It took a while to comprehend what I had done until the blood stated to run

..nearly made it back to the house before I fainted

.. I know .."ya big sook" but the pain started to kick in

. I recon I could keep this thread going for a while I have been thinking of even more stupid things I have done

. But there must be others seeking to claim the most stupid title

.
alex

ving (David) · #8 23-02-2007, 01:52 PM

ditto alex... i am not telling you lot my drill and screw accident... its too silly

John Saunders · #9 23-02-2007, 01:58 PM

My CO (Commanding Officer) had his leg operated on to fix up an old injury. Being the pig-headed bloke he was he was not in the mood to slow down or stop doing what he was used to doing...even with one leg in plaster...including riding a bike...but that is also another silly story.

One morning I was in the brew room (morning tea room) and in hops the boss - yes literally hopping with one leg in plaster. In his hand is a china mug and a sachet of cuppa soup. We have a yarn as I make my 13th coffee for the morning and I realise that the CO intended to make his cuppa soup and hop back down the corridor to his office.

"Sir", I said, "let me take that for you."
"No, John, I can manage," came the abjectly ridiculous reply.

The CO then proceeded to hop around the corner to his office, cup of hot soup in hand. As he bounded through the doorway of the brew room his toe caught the lino clip on the floor and thus my illustrious leader launched himself headfirst (completing a perfect half-sommersault) across the narrow passageway and into the adjacent wall making a huge CO-shaped head impression in the plaster. Forunately he missed both of the upright timbers in the wall and placed his pig-headed noggin between the two, where fortunately there wasn't another noggin in the wall.

The end result: the CO lying spread-eagled on the floor, the hot cuppa soup still in hand (though now half full...or was that half empty), a huge hole in the plaster (which we later had framed and presented to him), muttering to some unseen entity, "This is most embarrassing".

Now - that's silly.

xelasnave · #10 24-02-2007, 07:24 AM

I thought this thread would run hot but probably many folk cant see the humour in things they do that are stupid

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This one crossed my mind... not me unfortunately or someone I know but a girl was on the radio..a show dedicated to this sort of thing...
She told how her father was about to do some welding on a car petrol tank

..a big no no

..many explosions say dont do this.. her boyfriend saved the day warning him of the dangerous fumes that would still be in the tank.. so how to get them out? this bright pair came up with the answer..use the vacuum cleaner to suck the fumes out making it safe to weld (mmm) .. Well the tank did not blow but the vacuum cleaner sure did

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She admitted that she married the boy friend and that he gets on real well her Dad..seems they enjoy the same level of thought

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alex

xelasnave · #11 24-02-2007, 07:35 AM

Same program different caller

... Hubby playing it safe tied a rope around his waist before working on the roof and tied the other end to the tow ball of the car ..did not tell the wife who later decided to go shopping and took the car

.... I am sorry but that has got me rolling on the floor remembering that

..dam I feel guilty the guy would have been real hurt

can you imagine how surprised and helpless one would feel flying over the roof down the other side ... She did not say if she got him out the drive.
alex

xelasnave · #12 24-02-2007, 07:54 AM

Or from my moto cross days

.. a mate fancied his tuning abilities and advanced his ignition (the moment the spark fires) The spark fires in the motor before the piston reaches top dead centre (I think is the term) anyways the bike was running ok as he joined the starting line, but he forgot to turn his fuel on (most common reason for bikes stopping because you turn the fuel off before you turn the motor off and forget to turn it on in the heat of getting to the line) he turned the fuel on restarted the bike. It was a clutch in start (unusual in those days as most were hand in the air or on helmet starts) anyways he did not know it but the motor fired in reverse on this occassion because of the over advanced ignition. Well only 34 bikes left the line he went over the handle bars with the bike shooting out backwards under him. Dropping the clutch on a 360cc bike at full revs is a handfull in the right direction but backwards it sure dug in

.It was the funniest thing

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alex

cahullian · #13 25-02-2007, 11:20 PM

Some funny stories there guys. Here;s another one.
One of my mates broke his leg playing soccer. It was a wet day and he was standing so long in the one spot his foot sunk into the ground a little, when he turned to chase the ball his foot stayed in the same spot and snap. He was on the groung screaming blue murder and we were standing over him laughing and kicking him in the ribs. A ground official had called the ambulance and was coming back with a blanket to try and keep the injured party warm. He asked the bloke with the broken leg would he like a cup of coffee to keep the cold out and he said yes. Off the official runs to get the coffee. on his way back he trips and spills the coffee on the bloke as he's lying on the ground and scaldes his arm and shoulder. Well the rest of us were writhing on the ground laughing our heads off.

Marcus the bloke who broke his leg made a full recovery but he is still calling us all kinds of bad names for our mirth at his misery that day.

There is more funny stories to come...

Gazz

GrahamL · #14 26-02-2007, 06:26 AM

I once stopped in the supermarket bottle shop to grab a bottle of wine
It was kinda busy when I grabbed my trolley an put the wine in it to leave
I noticed ..instead of $70 of meat theres 3 cans of whiskers and a bag of kitty litter.. I blabber something to the girl at the counter and shoot off to try and find who swiped my trolley..soon realiseing most everyone in the mall is pushing a trolley.. about to give up I notice beside the newsagent is a trolley parked with all my meat in it ..RIGHT were i left it haha

So now I have two trolleys at opposite ends of the centre
I take mine back to the bottle shop ..to which the young girls says ..arr you found it ..were they old ?..yes ..yes they were was my reply

so I grab both and head back down the other end and quietly slip
the other one back were it was left

cahullian · #15 01-03-2007, 01:51 PM

I was on a trip to the UK last year with my brother Keith and my son Geordie.
When we arrived at heathrow airport, the something to declare line was huge and the nothing to declare line was all but empty. My brother keith said he had chilli peanuts in his bag and he should declare them and I said I'll fix that and got out the nuts and popped then in my mouth. Silly me also breathed in at the same time and the chilli powder nearly choaked me to death. I was spitting out nuts like machine gun bullets. When secutrity came over and seen what was going on the laughed and said only an Irishman could be so stupid.

with a roaring throat and my eyes and nose running like taps I was more than glad to get a pint of the amber nectar down my throat I can tell ya.
gazz

astro_nutt · #16 01-03-2007, 03:05 PM

A bad habit people do is to yank the power cord out of the wall by the lead..someone in my house did it and exclaimed that the plug was stuck in the wallsocket even though the lead had come away...silly me tries to remove the plug and I copped a new hairdo in the process..next time..power off!!