# \_\_\_\_\_, ALWAYS a bad idea **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 27, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056 "2011-06-27T19:49:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![horsetech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056/41 "2011-06-28T04:42:47Z")
Having a chimpanzee as a pet. Saying, “Hey, watch this!” as you hand your beer to a buddy. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056/42 "2011-06-28T06:25:01Z")
> [@horsetech](#): > > Saying, “Hey, watch this!” as you hand your beer to a buddy. … while revving up the motorcycle/four-wheeler/four-wheel drive truck. Also? Telling yourself “S/He’ll change, because s/he loves me.” ---
**Author:** ![GSV\_Consolation\_of\_Dreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f1d935/32.png) [@GSV\_Consolation\_of\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GSV_Consolation_of_Dreams)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056/43 "2011-06-28T06:34:19Z")
Jeans without a belt. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056/44 "2011-06-28T07:02:57Z")
Buying anything from a guy wearing a jean-jacket. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056/45 "2011-06-28T07:35:01Z")
Jean jackets. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056/46 "2011-06-28T15:09:57Z")
Correcting spelling mistakes, in real life as well as online, never has the desired effect. . ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056/47 "2011-06-28T16:09:38Z")
Trying to flick that bit of dust out of a wet paint job on a model–always a bad idea. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056/48 "2011-06-28T16:25:59Z")
IME, it’s always a bad idea to quote corporate rah-rah slogans to your boss in crew meetings. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056/49 "2011-06-28T16:49:00Z")
To quote Spinal Tap, Oboes are never the answer [http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Oboe](http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Oboe) ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056/50 "2011-06-28T16:58:55Z")
> [@YaraMateo](#): > > I agree with the bolded. (The boldening was mine). We recently had people go apeshit when I said something similar about people with facial tattoos and piercings. So, watch people come in and bitch at you for this. Call you names. Well I am neither going to go apeshit nor call you names, but I will say there is a vast difference between a facial piercing, which can be removed with only a small scar, and a tattoo. 🙂 Tattoing the name of your current SO - ALWAYS a bad idea. Tattooing his name on your neck? Even worse. (Yes, I knew someone who did this.) The only person’s name it’s acceptable to have tattooed is MOM. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056/51 "2011-06-28T17:05:56Z")
[Clown Weddings](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=613900). ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056/52 "2011-06-28T18:57:56Z")
Cussing out the judge. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056/53 "2011-06-28T20:26:25Z")
> [@Sierra\_Indigo](#): > > … > > Googling your surgery before you have it done is ALWAYS a bad idea. Nah - I googled my gallbladder surgery - even watched a youtube video of it - and went under the knife with no trepidations. So, I’d say you should qualify this with “googling your surgery within 10 minutes of having it done is nearly always a bad idea”. :). ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056/54 "2011-06-28T20:31:03Z")
Driving yourself to a license-restoration hearing. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056/55 "2011-06-28T20:32:07Z")
Getting married as teenagers. ---
**Author:** ![sjankis630](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@sjankis630](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjankis630)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056/56 "2011-06-29T01:30:42Z")
Dear God I used to play oboe back in Jr High and 1 year of high school. My poor embouchure! ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056/57 "2011-06-29T01:37:19Z")
Having a baby to strengthen the relationship. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056/58 "2011-06-29T01:49:03Z")
> [@jamiemcgarry](#): > > Getting married as teenagers. > [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > Having a baby to strengthen the relationship. And, boy what a combo these two make! ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056/59 "2011-06-29T01:52:26Z")
Self trepanation ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_____-always-a-bad-idea/587056/60 "2011-06-29T02:29:10Z")
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