Similar to drunk posting, posting when high on caffeine and chocolate should be prohibited. On November 3, I enthusiastically and completely unwittingly posted incorrect information in the ER thread and the Grey’s Anatomy thread. :smack: What was I thinking? Even with my heartfelt apology, can I ever restore anyone’s faith in me? Or could it me that my inane ramblings aren’t as earth-shattering as I think? :eek:
What’s your most embarrassing SDMB moment, that one post you wish you could obliterate from the collective works of the community?
Thank godness the archives don’t get kept forever.
Mine was a pit thread about the speed racing morons who struck a cab and killed its driver. It was shortly after I’d joined up, and it was about the unabashed shock I’d felt that they made bail.
Except for some unfathomable reason – excessive sunspotting, poisonous jet contrails or El Chupacabra, I dunno – I equated “made bail” with “were acquitted.” Thus, I went on an erudite tirade with some rather nicely crafted insults thrown in based on a completely erroneous premise.
I haven’t been here long enough to really embarrass myself, I guess.
The worst I did was my little paean to caffeine that I posted the morning I OD’ed on coffee after not having any for a year. Even that was more silly than truly embarrassing.
Oh, man, I very recently went totally off the deep end and castigated a harmless Doper (not to be confused with a Doper named harmless) for some stupid teenaged antics he had gotten into years ago. Total overreaction on my part, and a major buzzkill to the thread.
OTOH, I got my first Pitting over with for something I totally and completely deserved, and I survived it!
Not really related to this thread, but I’m too lazy to find (or start) a thread it belongs in.
Yesterday, I took communion for the first time at the United Methodist Church I’ve been going to off and on for 2 months. The liturgy was more or less what I’d have expected, the flow of traffic fairly normal, and then I walked up front and noticed a small pedestal between the two ministers. On the pedestal was a small bowl of “Guilt-Free Bread”. I did a double take. Didn’t we just confess that we’d sinned against God in thought, word, and deed and were told that “While you were yet sinners, Christ died for you” and so we were forgiven?
Then I read the sign again. “Gluten-Free Bread”
Oh. Bet there’s someone who’s gluten-intolerant. That’s a reasonable way to handle it, gives newcomers who can’t have gluten a chance to take communion without making a big fuss . . .
Not horribly embarrassing, but a little bit. Especially since I’ve now told people who wouldn’t have known about it anyway.
I posted a thoroughly foolish and insipid line in a thread about flags in parades and on shoulder patches. Like a complete moron (I’m usually only a somewhat partial moron - but I make up for it as a double moron on Tuesdays) I made some comparison to the way you see a flag on a computer screen with the way you see it in a parade that didn’t take into account that one was a three-dimensional object which could be observed from the other side.
That wouldn’t have been so bad, except that I posted again to defend my foolish misunderstanding when it was, quite rightly, objected to.
