Dumb things people do...

[Boerseun]

welding without a hood!

couldn't see for hours and radiation burns on the eyeballs hurts like hell!

 

Good examples can be seen on American Hotrod, The great biker buildoff, and American chopper (O.C.C.) . Sure hope they have a great health care plan!

 

Note Always wear yer welding hood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...or cutting metal sheet without a leather apron!

 

I was cutting out a sword blade from a sheet of 8mm stainless steel, and I was using a big ol' grinder with a mean-*** cutting disk - which turned out to be not as mean-assed as I thought...

 

Long story short, I had to put some 'body' behind it, and after marking my line, I moved the grinder up and down through the line. Problem with a blade is that you can't cut too fast or you'll work-harden the material through uneven heating. So the grinder goes up and down the marking line for quite a while until you're through - by which time I noticed some smoke and a very uncomfortable heat emanating from my lower belly... and no, it wasn't the chili I had the night before...

 

So I looked down, and saw my shirt on fire! The damn grinder throws a lot of sparks, and me being the ever cautious metal-cutter, donned gloves and protective eyewear, I even had ear protectors on. But no apron. Thus I caught light. I was on fire! I don't have any hair on my gut no more!

 

But a quick KY rubdown and a few beers later, I was on top of the world! I still have to finish the sword, though.

 

Sidenote - any aspiring swordsmiths out there, don't even bother trying to make a sword out of a sheet of steel. A quick trip to the local scrapyard will have you rolling in old leafsprings. They work much better, and are more flexible than you need for a sword - as long as you don't screw up in the heat-treating. But for the love of George, wear a leather apron! (apart from all the other safety wear, of course...)

[Killean]

Sidenote - any aspiring swordsmiths out there, don't even bother trying to make a sword out of a sheet of steel. A quick trip to the local scrapyard will have you rolling in old leafsprings. They work much better, and are more flexible than you need for a sword - as long as you don't screw up in the heat-treating. But for the love of George, wear a leather apron! (apart from all the other safety wear, of course...)

 

How about wasting two tanks of propane for your barbeque trying to created a sword out of a galvonized steel pipe, while wearing no protective gear besides oven mitts. And using a cement sidewalk as your anvil. :) Ah, those were the days.

[moo]

by which time I noticed some smoke and a very uncomfortable heat emanating from my lower belly...

Been there, done that. Except my fire was a few inches lower, and I was at work. :eek2:

 

Finished the day with a red shop rag covering the hole in my pants. Lol, try being nonchalant in that situation... :shrug:

 

moo

[anglepose]

well when i was 6 i made myself a large flint throwing axe threw it over the wall missing my 86 year old neighbor by a few inches

[Racoon]

I'll say it again..

 

Dumb things people do is carry along their cell phone when they kill somebody.

 

Police can triangulate your locations and match them to your alibi. I've read of a few cases where this was enough to break down a suspect.

 

:teeth:

 

Getting away with murder,

Racoon

[InfiniteNow]

Forget to tell those close to them that they love them, and notice the good things they do instead of simply focussing on the bad.

 

 

He's checking it twice... :cup:

[TheBigDog]

Two slices of bread go into toaster. They come out hot and butter is applied to one side of each slice. The slices are stacked with the buttered sides facing each other. The two slices of toast - still stacked - are served with scrambled eggs. Is everyone following so far?

 

Boy divides eggs making two open faced sandwiches using the two buttered slices of toast. In the middle of eating it is commented that boy's hand is covered with butter, why is that?

 

Boy answers: "Grandpa buttered the wrong side of one of the slices of toast." And he is not kidding.

 

Bill

[pgrmdave]

Yup - that's one that a lot of people do...butter the wrong side, that is :D

[Turtle]

So I'm sitting in a math class eons ago and the Prof says that hair grows at 1/4" per month and tells the class to calculate the rate of hair-growth in MPH. Right away a hand shoots up and the student on the other end says, "hair doesn't grow in miles per hour." :D

[Pyrotex]

..."hair doesn't grow in miles per hour." :bwa:

ROTFLMAO!! :D :hihi: :rant:

Yeah!! Right!!

 

Or the kid in Physics 201 (advanced freshman physics) who says, "how the hell can accelleration be measured in meters per second squared? There ain't no such thing as a 'square second'!"

 

Another dumb thing: mixing together highly volatile epoxy components in a plastic cup and then holding the cup in your lap between your thighs while you paint/seal a ham-radio antenna. :D It only took 10 minutes for that stuff to dissolve the plastic cup. Fortunately, my younger brother was around to hear my screams of pain. He got the water hose, turned it on full blast and gave it to me so I could shove it in my crotch.

[Pyrotex]

So I'm sitting in a math class eons ago...

Another one you reminded me of. It was a class called the History of Physics at the Univ. of Alabama, around 1968. The professor was telling us about some Greek guy in X-hundred BC, who calculated the radius of the Earth by noting that a vertical pillar in a southern Egyptian city cast NO shadow at noon while a similar pillar in a northern Egyptian city cast a shadow of several "hands" length at noon on the same day. The two cities were umpteen "leagues" apart.

 

He turned to us, noticing that several had our sliderules out (ancient mechanical calculators, boys and girls) and asked us to translate "hands" and "leagues" into meters so he could perform the math on the blackboard.

 

One student piped up, "how can we do that, sir? the meter wasn't defined until more than 2,000 years after that Greek guy lived?"

 

True story. :D :hihi:

[Pyrotex]

Pushing Killean's red icon button over and over and over, expecting something else to happen.

[Boerseun]

Pushing Killean's red icon button over and over and over, expecting something else to happen.

...mea culpa. Guilty as charged.

[Boerseun]

Walking through the house for 30 minutes, looking for the car keys all over, scratching in old drawers, on top of cupboards, under the fridge, worrying about missing that important meeting because the car keys are gone, eventually walking to the car to see if you haven't left them inside, only to find the keys IN YOUR HAND as you lift your hand to open the car door.

 

Sometimes being single is a bad thing. Sometimes you need someone around to tell you what a stupid idiot you really are.

[InfiniteNow]

Raise your hand if you've done this:

 

Try to fast-forward live tv.

 

 

Part of the Tivo generation... :eek_big: