Post your daily screwup.

[Locut0s]

We all catch ourselves doing stupid things now and then, sometimes almost daily. I'm not talking about Darwin-award drinking gasoline stupid just your daily or weekly fuckup or time waster. Like oh say... forgetting about the search and replace function and spending 3 hours editing a document by hand when you could have spent 3min. Or getting really exited about something and "fake" punch the wall, only you accidentally put a hole in the wall. I remember a guy telling me on usenet once that he spent something like 3 hours taking the lid off a trunk and screwing it on in reverse so it could be used the other way around. Then later he realized he could have just rotated the trunk. lol

Mine to start things off. I pulled the towel rack out of the wall in the bathroom. I have this really stupid weight scale that sits on 4 unstable legs. Unless you get on it just right it tips over and you fell like you are about to go for a fall. So when I use it I usually carefully balance myself against the towel rack to make sure I'm placing my weight evenly on the scale. This time I placed too much force on the rack oops.

So let's hear your latest daily fuckup. Nothings too small or stupid.

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Sr Moderator allisolm

 

[guyver01]

i tried to get online this morning... so i attempted to invent the internet... took me about 5 hours before i realzied i had a PC hooked up to the "internet"


d'oh!

 

[IEC]

Screwed up my sleep schedule. Paying for it now.

 

[Scouzer]

Left my sunroof open. It rained.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: guyver01
i tried to get online this morning... so i attempted to invent the internet... took me about 5 hours before i realzied i had a PC hooked up to the "internet"


d'oh!

Sorry wat? Like Spartan my sleep schedule is messed up too. I hope that's the reason the above read like Russian?

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: Spartan Niner
Screwed up my sleep schedule. Paying for it now.

Me too Though I'm not paying for it

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: Scouzer
Left my sunroof open. It rained.

What type of fabric?

 

[TallBill]

Not my fault.. helped someone out, and now I'll either get 5 hours of sleep or miss my math class (which I do not want).

 

[Scouzer]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: Scouzer
Left my sunroof open. It rained.

What type of fabric?

cloth. already posted over in garage too

 

[Newbian]

I opened this thread.

 

[CZroe]

I looked for a replacement battery lid/door for my sister's camera... it broke years ago when the camera was brand new and the tape she had been using to hold it closed simply didn't work. It was unbelievably annoying when you take the picture and it shuts off before it has saved and then the opportunity is gone before you get it booted up again (or it happens AGAIN while booting).

I looked online and Kodak said that parts were no longer available for it, though I could order battery doors for their other cameras. I looked for similar models that may have the same door and didn't find any which still had parts available.

I spent, like, over 3 hours fixing it using a push-pin to make a hole in the cap, then driving a meticulously shaped staple through it so that it would replace the missing bit of plastic. I super-glued the excess staple on the outside, which made it harder to put in the charging dock but ensured that the important part would not move or come loose. It took me hours because of how hard it was to shape that staple in such a small way using needle-nosed pliers from a jeweler's kit... kinda made a rounded "U" in the tip then bent the rest 90-degrees to go through the cap and then bent it again to sit flat on the outside.

It worked great! BETTER than it did before... It even had a satisfying "click" when locked/unlocked. Then I looked on eBay and found a battery door for about $2. !@$!$#@

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: CZroe
I looked for a replacement battery lid/door for my sister's camera... it broke years ago when the camera was brand new and the tape she had been using to hold it closed simply didn't work. It was unbelievably annoying when you take the picture and it shuts off before it has saved and then the opportunity is gone before you get it booted up again (or it happens AGAIN while booting).

I looked online and Kodak said that parts were no longer available for it, though I could order battery doors for their other cameras. I looked for similar models that may have the same door and didn't find any which still had parts available.

I spent, like, over 3 hours fixing it using a push-pin to make a hole in the cap, then driving a meticulously shaped staple through it so that it would replace the missing bit of plastic. I super-glued the excess staple on the outside, which made it harder to put in the charging dock but ensured that the important part would not move or come loose. It took me hours because of how hard it was to shape that staple in such a small way using needle-nosed pliers from a jeweler's kit... kinda made a rounded "U" in the tip then bent the rest 90-degrees to go through the cap and then bent it again to sit flat on the outside.

It worked great! BETTER than it did before... It even had a satisfying "click" when locked/unlocked. Then I looked on eBay and found a battery door for about $2. !@$!$#@

Wow I wouldn't even think of looking to buy a battery door in the first place but now that you mention it it's the perfect money maker for those who like to collect spare parts like this. Battery doors have got to be some of the worst designed parts of everyday electronics those fuckers are the first thing to break, and afterwards your 500 buck sweet toy looks ghetto-tastic lol.

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: CZroe
I spent, like, over 3 hours fixing it using a push-pin to make a hole in the cap, then driving a meticulously shaped staple through it so that it would replace the missing bit of plastic. I super-glued the excess staple on the outside, which made it harder to put in the charging dock but ensured that the important part would not move or come loose. It took me hours because of how hard it was to shape that staple in such a small way using needle-nosed pliers from a jeweler's kit... kinda made a rounded "U" in the tip then bent the rest 90-degrees to go through the cap and then bent it again to sit flat on the outside.

It worked great! BETTER than it did before... It even had a satisfying "click" when locked/unlocked. Then I looked on eBay and found a battery door for about $2. !@$!$#@

Duct Tape.

That shit fixes anything

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: guyver01

Originally posted by: CZroe
I spent, like, over 3 hours fixing it using a push-pin to make a hole in the cap, then driving a meticulously shaped staple through it so that it would replace the missing bit of plastic. I super-glued the excess staple on the outside, which made it harder to put in the charging dock but ensured that the important part would not move or come loose. It took me hours because of how hard it was to shape that staple in such a small way using needle-nosed pliers from a jeweler's kit... kinda made a rounded "U" in the tip then bent the rest 90-degrees to go through the cap and then bent it again to sit flat on the outside.

It worked great! BETTER than it did before... It even had a satisfying "click" when locked/unlocked. Then I looked on eBay and found a battery door for about $2. !@$!$#@

Duct Tape.

That shit fixes anything

Invariably, replacing batteries "in the field" would cause the tape to lose tackiness plus it was kinda hard to get it taped down with enough pressure to begin with. The rechargeable pack was toast after so long, likely hastened by the freed battery door pushing it off the dock with the spring-loaded battery pack pushing on it (it wouldn't fit with the tape applied).

I was only checking eBay out of curiosity... I wanted to see how much the camera I fixed was still worth in an attempt to justify spending so much time fixing it.

 

[Koing]

I nearly choked myself out.

I wanted to see if the electric windows in someones car would stop if I put my head out the window clickt he button up. Suffice to say it did not stop and I was F0CKING quick to put it back down so it wouldn't actually choke me out! But me being smart and all had to try it again and yes I DID NOT try a 3rd time! lol

When I was younger I tried to ride my bike with my eyes closed. I proptly twatted myself in to a wooden lamp post! Doh!

Koing

 

[Baked]

Here is mine. No wait, that's not me, I would never do that.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

jacked off right before this girl ended up calling me for sex

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
jacked off right before this girl ended up calling me for sex

i dont see this as a bad thing..


i usually rub one out if i know beforehand that me & the girl will go at it... gives me more staying power to get that first shot out.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: guyver01

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
jacked off right before this girl ended up calling me for sex

i dont see this as a bad thing..


i usually rub one out if i know beforehand that me & the girl will go at it... gives me more staying power to get that first shot out.

Exactly.

So far today, I haven't had any of these moments.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: guyver01

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
jacked off right before this girl ended up calling me for sex

i dont see this as a bad thing..

i usually rub one out if i know beforehand that me & the girl will go at it... gives me more staying power to get that first shot out.

I like to save my man sauce so as to give her a good first shot out.

 

[SearchMaster]

I was sweat soldering a new valve onto a copper pipe in my bathroom over the weekend. I've never had a problem with soldering, but I was having trouble getting this one right. Somehow I splattered a bit of molten solder on my bare leg. I knocked it off immediately and had a big white spot on my leg where several layers of skin used to be. Surprisingly it didn't hurt that much and still hasn't bothered me much at all.

 

[Engineer]

A few months ago, a co-worker and I were looking at Ford stock on Yahoo finance and I told him that we should buy it. It was $1.03 per share.

Today....facepalm ($7.04 and rising).

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: Koing
I nearly choked myself out.

I wanted to see if the electric windows in someones car would stop if I put my head out the window clickt he button up. Suffice to say it did not stop and I was F0CKING quick to put it back down so it wouldn't actually choke me out! But me being smart and all had to try it again and yes I DID NOT try a 3rd time! lol

When I was younger I tried to ride my bike with my eyes closed. I proptly twatted myself in to a wooden lamp post! Doh!

Koing

:shocked:

 

[lokiju]

Yesterday I had a servers AD object selected on my left monitor but thought I was clicked on a notepad file I had open on my right that had a entry highlighted that I wanted to delete, so I hit deleted and deleted the servers AD object

Was easy enough to fix, but I said outloud "oh fuck!" :laugh:

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: guyver01

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
jacked off right before this girl ended up calling me for sex

i dont see this as a bad thing..


i usually rub one out if i know beforehand that me & the girl will go at it... gives me more staying power to get that first shot out.

I'd never be able to finish.