• @superduperpirate
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    14 hours ago

    I once drove drunk. This was long enough ago the statute of limitations has expired. I shouldn’t have done it, I was really lucky that I didn’t hurt someone or get arrested. For the next 15ish years that I still drank, my limit was 1 drink if I was driving.

    This was before Uber & Lyft were a thing, but I still could’ve made arrangements with the bar manager “look dude your bartenders kept serving me when I was visibly drunk, so let me leave my car here overnight without towing it so I can take a cab home, and I won’t say shit to anyone.”

  • @[email protected]
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    9 hours ago

    “My hair’s getting a bit long, and my fringe keeps getting in my eyes. It can’t be that hard to give it a little trim, right?” 5 minutes later “…I’m going out for dinner in just over an hour. How quickly can I get to a hairdressers?”

  • @CarbonatedPastaSauce
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    2513 hours ago

    Joined the Army thinking I was going to do some good in the world for my country.

      • @CarbonatedPastaSauce
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        712 hours ago

        Certainly not in the forms it’s been in since the 60’s. They have stepped up their education benefits quite a bit in the last 20 years but the price is still too high if you’re in combat arms and ever have to go do your job for real.

  • Tar_Alcaran
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    2214 hours ago

    When I was a dumb kid, me and other dumb kids found some paving tiles and decided to break them by throwing them in the air. Unfortunately, I was really bad at aiming, caught it on my head and caused permanent spinal damage.

    The doctor recommended strength training, because my muscles would overtaxed by compensating for my wonky spine, which I promptly ignored because, again, I was a dumb kid and girls don’t lift weights. So from age 10 to 19 ish I basically had debilitating neck pains every few months which had me stuck in bed on painkillers and muscle relaxants.

    After 9 years of being an idiot, I started listening to the doctors, lifted weights, and basically never had a sore neck again. The main downside is that clothes shopping is hard now.

  • bizarroland
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    I had two friends, Kat and Tim, who were vibing on each other super hard.

    Both of them were afraid to make the first move.

    One day I got drunk and I saw them kind of flirting and it got the best of me and I just said hey guys, you two are obviously a great match for each other, why don’t y’all go out on a date and see where it goes?

    That in itself wasn’t that bad but in my mildly drunk stupor I didn’t think about the fact that we were all standing in front of all of our friends and they were both shy and because of me saying that they immediately distance themselves from one another and never got together.

    If I had kept my mouth shut and just let things progress normally they might have ended up together.

    Tim’s life really sucks right now and his life would probably be a hell of a lot better if I had just kept my fucking mouth shut.

  • @SmokumJoe
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    1314 hours ago

    Got a discount dog from the pound. It had been adopted and the returned.

    I was thinking sweet a $31 dog

    Nope. 16 years later I still have this nightmare of an animal

    • @JusticeForPorygon
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      1412 hours ago

      Good on you for giving him a home instead of turning him away tho

  • @[email protected]
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    1515 hours ago

    Mid threesome i had an idea for a position to try. Well, that idea got me a penile fracture. 0/10 would not recommend

  • ⚛️ Color 🎨
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    1315 hours ago

    When I was little, I enjoyed “inventing” things, or drawing designs for things, mostly consisting of aircraft or space ships. One of them was a sub that was constructed out of transparent inflatable plastic, similar to a Zorb ball, so you’d have an unobstructed view of the ocean. It was tear drop shaped and the appeal of the Zorb ball construction was that it’d be comfortable to lie in as you roamed the depths of the ocean. As I got older I learned more about physics and realised what a terrible idea that would actually be.

    • @SLVRDRGN
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      1414 hours ago

      10/10 better than Titan Sub.

  • @Cock_Inspecting_Asexual
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    2116 hours ago

    I once tried to be a discord kitten at 16 for a day as a joke and also out of curiosity of the outcome.

    Dont.

    • @[email protected]
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      2416 hours ago

      I’ll take your advice even further: I won’t even try to look up what a “discord kitten” even is.

    • @[email protected]
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      316 hours ago

      I’m terribly sorry for your loss of mental health. Getting the vile shit of the internet directed art you as an adult is awful, can’t imagine how tough it is for a 16y/o.

      • @Cock_Inspecting_Asexual
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        Yea… it was pretty rough first discovering discord. When I did the Kitten thing, I pretended to be 14. My dms were FLOODED in mere seconds, and I wish I was exaggerating. In 3 minutes I got 90 different dms from people. All male. All of em wanted to fuck me. I never even listed anything remotely NSFW or romantic in my server intro. I just said “Hey! 14yo here, I like to play roblox n stuff sometimes and cosplay! I’m just here hoping to make some more friends ;w;”

  • Punkie
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    2016 hours ago

    I was out of sugar, so I tried to sweeten Kool-Aid with honey. Nope. Just god-awful.

    • Lemminary
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      29 hours ago

      That reminds me of when I tried mixing milk with orange juice because I saw it online. Then, I went into denial trying to keep it down because people wouldn’t just go on the internet and lie, right?

  • mods are fascists
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    1916 hours ago

    Trying drugs, because my friends looked happier doing drugs than I was by not doing drugs.

  • @[email protected]
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    1616 hours ago

    I was trying to clean something in a bucket of bleach, but didn’t have quite enough to cover it. I grabbed a bottle of toilet cleaner, assuming it was just expensive thick bleach, and poured a bunch in. After I started coughing I looked at the back of the bottle, it’s active ingredient was hydrochloric acid.

    • partial_accumen
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      1516 hours ago

      Many bathroom cleaners are ammonia based. Mixing chlorine bleach with ammonia creates chlorine gas, the same stuff used as chemical weapons in WWI.