# More Great Moments in Personal Dumbassery **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 3, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-moments-in-personal-dumbassery/516196 "2009-11-03T19:51:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![davey77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@davey77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davey77)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-moments-in-personal-dumbassery/516196/61 "2009-11-06T20:24:04Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > you have a serious deadly hazard that you should fix. there should be no current flowing to an object not plugged into the hot side of the outlet which is like more than 1/4 inch inside. > > in the USA that outlet should be a GFI receptacle that would prevent that. > > you should have an electrician look at it, maybe not the one that put the outlet in. That’s what I thought! Our rewiring was done for free by a friend of the former owner. (We bought the house from our former landlord 2 and a half years ago.) Since the shocking incident, half of the new outlets in our kitchen spontaneously failed and were replaced. I keep reminding myself the wiring job passed inspection. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-moments-in-personal-dumbassery/516196/62 "2009-11-06T20:34:31Z")
Bought some nice deli lunchmeat, and some prepackaged sliced cheese. Made a sammich using some meat and a couple of slices of the cheese. Chewed. Hmmm. Weird texture. Swallowed. Took another bite. Hmmmm. It _was_ a bit harder to bite off than it should have been. Peeled open sandwich (while still chewing and swallowing that second bite). Found piece of paper separating the two slices of cheese. Removed paper. Reassembled sandwich. Ate rest of sandwich, pleased at the vastly-improved texture and chewability. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-moments-in-personal-dumbassery/516196/63 "2009-11-06T21:06:36Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > you have a serious deadly hazard that you should fix. there should be no current flowing to an object not plugged into the hot side of the outlet which is like more than 1/4 inch inside. > > in the USA that outlet should be a GFI receptacle that would prevent that. > > you should have an electrician look at it, maybe not the one that put the outlet in. > [@davey77](#): > > That’s what I thought! > > Our rewiring was done for free by a friend of the former owner. (We bought the house from our former landlord 2 and a half years ago.) > > Since the shocking incident, half of the new outlets in our kitchen spontaneously failed and were replaced. > > I keep reminding myself the wiring job passed inspection. even if it passed inspection you have safety and quality issues now. get a licensed electrician in to look at it. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-moments-in-personal-dumbassery/516196/64 "2009-11-06T21:40:14Z")
At work, need to replace a failed printer. Start testing printers from supply, after fourth printer fails I’m agitated and writes a couple of nasty notes. Stops looks at paper. Thermal printers require thermal paper. :smack: :smack: moron :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-moments-in-personal-dumbassery/516196/65 "2009-11-06T22:17:17Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > I’ve tried pausing tv shows that were obviously not DVDs. My livingroom TV is set up as a second monitor on my PC. More than once, I’ve sat there on the couch, trying to drag the mouse pointer over onto the TV to start a video. “What the..? Is the battery going? Is the IR sensor moved somewhere weird? Geez, I hate _The Biggest Loser_… oh..” Then I switch the input over to the computer. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-moments-in-personal-dumbassery/516196/66 "2009-11-06T23:16:18Z")
I’ve posted this before. I had a craving once for homemade fresh pasta, and went through all the work of kneading and rolling out and cutting a lovely bunch of egg fettucine. Cooked it up and poured it all into a colander in the sink to drain it. I picked up the colander and tossed the pasta a bit to shake out the last of the water, and managed to completely flip it upside down. A lovely big batch of fresh hot pasta slithered _en masse_ down the drain and into the dirty garbage disposal. No, I didn’t fish it out of there and eat it anyway. But I sure felt like a major dumbass. We ate Ronzoni that night. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-moments-in-personal-dumbassery/516196.md?page=3)