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I left a 700 euro DJI Phantom drone in the shop and while running back to grab it a screwdriver in my bag stabbed a can of beer promptly filling the transmitter (which i only noticed because the backs of my legs were now wet) rendering the entire thing unusable anyway. Then I remembered hearing about this magical contact cleaner stuff so I opened the TX up and went to town with alcohol and contact cleaner. I bought the type of contact cleaner that basically melts plastic and probably would have been okay if Id used alcohol only. My ex-partner and I had one of these automatic lasers for the dog but it pissed me off that the bottom lip stopped the laser hitting the floor and blocking it off. Held it out the window and started dremeling away and lo and behold, molten shard of plastic in the eye. Sent an imgur link of an obese naked man to a customer accidentally
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my dad once put an M80 in a metal pipe, lit it while holding the pipe, and expected it to rocket out of the pipe. It did not. A vegetarian ex would use a some coke dealer i know uses pearlescent spraypaint to cut and improve the look of his poo poo.
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Feb 13, 2016 12:50
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amityville anus posted:some coke dealer i know uses pearlescent spraypaint to cut and improve the look of his poo poo. How does that even work? I assume he's not actually spraying it onto a pile of coke and making poo poo go everywhere, but even if you poured it on slowly wouldn't it just be a big wet clump that dried hard? Or does he make a special batch just to show people, like when restaurants use those wax desserts
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Feb 13, 2016 16:09
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Not that long ago I was stabbing an empty milk box with a knife on my desk abesent mindedly while I watched youtube. Knife ended up about a centimeter deep in my palm. Did it again a month later.
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Feb 13, 2016 16:47
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In organic chem lab I removed a beaker of 14M ammonia from under the fume hood for a brief moment. Instant regret.
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Feb 13, 2016 17:00
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:Not that long ago I was stabbing an empty milk box with a knife on my desk abesent mindedly while I watched youtube. Knife ended up about a centimeter deep in my palm. Playing with a knife while destroying a pair of raggedly ol' sweatpants, while watching Battlestar Galactica. Ended up slicing open my shin. Didn't get stiches, so I get a fat scar. A couple years later, I'm working out by doing jumping up on these metal pylon things. Turns out they don' make them anymore because what happens is: I hosed up my timing during my set, fell, and sliced open about an inch of my other shin to about the fat. Also didn't get stiches for that one. Look ma, matching scars!
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Feb 13, 2016 17:17
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Cumslut1895 posted:at a guess, I'd say it insulated the heat generated by the setting reaction to your skin Cumslut1895 posted:at a guess, I'd say it insulated the heat generated by the setting reaction to your skin Some types of glues have a very strong exothermic reaction when they touch cotton. Most modeling "superglue" is in this family. And a lot of paper is made from recycled cotton / etc. Try not to ever spill cyanoacrylate glue on blue jeans like I did. I'm exceedingly lucky I got out without any major burns and only one pair of on-fire jeans. That's my contribution to the thread! 
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Feb 13, 2016 17:20
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"Man, this wasabi was barely spicy at all. I wonder what's wrong with it?" Takes a big whiff from jar. I don't know why the flavor was lacking but it was still burned like hell when taken nasally. The only witness eventually married me despite the fact that I'm obviously an idiot.
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Feb 13, 2016 17:26
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A lot of people in this thread need to never be around sharp things again... Me and a couple cousins decided to have a gallon of wine race, like we all were trying to drink a separate gallon of wine. I totaled a car and got a DWI about 100 yards from my house because I was loving around with the cd-player trying to find the song "Intoxicated" by Ol' Dirty Bastard. Admittedly, drunk driving is abhorrent, but that is a really great song.
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Feb 13, 2016 17:54
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When I was in my first Chemistry lesson with practical experiments, I obeyed the instructor, just not in the way they intended. I was heating a test tube, and accidentally dropped it, and burned my hand. The instructor said "Quick, run it under cold water!" So I ran the test tube under cold water.
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Feb 13, 2016 18:22
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Eggbeater Jesus posted:In organic chem lab I removed a beaker of 14M ammonia from under the fume hood for a brief moment. Instant regret. Oh boy. While working in a high school as a science technician, I found an unlabelled bottle and tried to identify it by smell. 880 Ammonia.
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Weldon Pemberton posted:For some reason, when I was in 6th grade we had to make a weird multiple choice quiz about ourselves and get another random pupil to take it. I had a question like, I've never owned an electric kettle. Why is it a bad idea to heat milk in one? Once in organic chemistry lab, I picked up a bottle of toluene by the lid. Dumbass who used it previously hadn't screwed it in tightly, of course. I screamed "Crud!" as toluene splashed all over me, and the floor. The TA, to his credit, was right there at my side almost instantly, asking what I had spilled. He gently led me out of the pool of toluene, which was melting the soles of my shoes, gave me his lab coat, and instructed me to go into the storage closet and take off my jeans and outer clothes. Fortunately I was wearing a lab coat- because I'm not a dumbass, and a sweater underneath- because it was loving cold out, so none got on my skin. Granted, ultimately it was my dumbass classmate's fault for not screwing on the lid tightly, but why in the 9 hells would I think it was a good idea to pick up a jar of dangerous chemicals by the lid?! 
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One time, a young me and my girlfriend were sitting around in a park after the 4th of July. We found a bunch of firework remnants, and I discovered part of a firework. Some kind of tiny roman candle. I stuck it in the ground at an angle away from us, and lit it. "Don't do that!" yelled my girlfriend, who then reached out to grab the firework! "Don't do THAT!" I replied, pulling her hand back just as the firework went off. It just kind of went "pop".
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Feb 14, 2016 17:34
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I can't count the number of tea kettles, pots, and pans that I've melted because I forgot the stove was on. What's worse with the tea kettles is that even if they were the whistling ones, I would take the whistler out because the sound was annoying. I bought a Japanese water heater and haven't burned kitchenware since! ... Except when I put a pizza in the oven, fell asleep, and it was pitch black when my SO came home and found the apartment and building hallway filled with smoke. In my defense the stupid oven doesn't have a timer that turns it off after a set amount of time. Ever since then when I want frozen pizza I break it up into small pieces and use my toaster oven because it DOES have a timer so there's no chance of me burning the house down. In any case I should not own stoves.
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Silver Falcon posted:I've never owned an electric kettle. Why is it a bad idea to heat milk in one? I'm assuming it's because it'll curdle due to getting too hot. Slime has a new favorite as of 18:04 on Feb 14, 2016 |
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Feb 14, 2016 18:02
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artsy fartsy posted:How does that even work? I assume he's not actually spraying it onto a pile of coke and making poo poo go everywhere, but even if you poured it on slowly wouldn't it just be a big wet clump that dried hard? You're asking a lot of questions for somebody who doesn't pearlescent spraypaint their coke
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Feb 14, 2016 18:35
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None of you go in a chemistry lab ever again. Good god.
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Feb 14, 2016 19:50
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Silver Falcon posted:I've never owned an electric kettle. Why is it a bad idea to heat milk in one? Ever bring milk to a boil in a sauce pan? With the electric kettle I imagine milk foam just spraying out the spout.
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Feb 14, 2016 20:12
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Altivia posted:I once tried to put out a stick of incense by pinching it between my fingers because, hey, it works with candles! I tried to do this once. Not a whole stick, but an ember had broken off and fallen and I figured it was small enough that a wet finger would do the trick. When I was 9 or 10 I tried making cinammon toast for myself. By putting butter and cinammon sugar on the bread before it went in the toaster. Then when it came out blackened and smoking, I decided it was just a fluke so I did it again 
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Gabriel Pope posted:When I was 9 or 10 I tried making cinammon toast for myself. By putting butter and cinammon sugar on the bread before it went in the toaster. Then when it came out blackened and smoking, I decided it was just a fluke so I did it again I was just about to ask what's wrong with doing it that way, then I remembered there's a difference between a toaster and a toaster oven. Putting the butter, cinnamon & sugar on before cooking works with a toaster oven, and that's always what we used when I was growing up.
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Feb 14, 2016 22:46
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Silver Falcon posted:I've never owned an electric kettle. Why is it a bad idea to heat milk in one? Isn't this like, rule number three? Just behind "Don't drink the chemicals" and "Wear shoes, numbnuts." Luckily, toluene is fairly benign outside of the possible cold burns from it evaporating off the skin. There's far worse in the typical chem fume hood. Some of it not splashed all over the walls. I recall there was some rather massive, yellow, bromine stains in a particular fume hood after someone left a reflux far, far too hot and it erupted like a geyser.
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Internet Kraken posted:None of you go in a chemistry lab ever again. Good god.
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Fruit fly labs usually have incubators that you can set to a nice warm temperature to make the flies breed faster. Sometimes they get infested with mites, which will destroy the flies because the mites think flies are delicious. There are a couple of ways to clean an incubator that's been infested. Most have a "decontamination" setting that cranks the heat up so high that nothing can survive, and once it cools down you set things back to normal and enjoy your clean incubator. Another way is to wipe down the interior thoroughly with 70% ethanol, but this requires you to let the incubator dry out for a day so all the vapor dissipates. A lab at my school got one such infestation. No problem, thought the PI, I'll do what I used to do in my old lab: wipe the inside down with ethanol and crank up the heat. This worked just fine in his old lab because the incubator wasn't airtight so the fumes could escape. But the incubators here... The door of the incubator got embedded in a wall of sheetrock on the other side of the room. The fire wasn't terrible but since the firefighters had to hose everything down a lot of irreplacable lab notebooks were destroyed. My boss also injected himself with ethidium bromide but just squeezed the wound for a few minutes to bleed out whatever got in. He's still alive so idk
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coronatae posted:My boss also injected himself with ethidium bromide How do you do this by mistake?
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Internet Kraken posted:None of you go in a chemistry lab ever again. Good god. But... I'm a chemist!
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Internet Kraken posted:How do you do this by mistake? We do our maxipreps with an overnight CsCl spin, so he was pulling an EtBr-saturated DNA band out of a heat-sealed tube with a needle. The needle slipped! v  v
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coronatae posted:My boss also injected himself with ethidium bromide but just squeezed the wound for a few minutes to bleed out whatever got in. He's still alive so idk Holy poo poo, that's um unsettling.
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Squirted a dollop of glue from a hot glue gun into the palm of my hand because how hot could it be? Very, as it turns out.
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Sam Faust posted:Holy poo poo, that's um unsettling. You should have seen our health and safety report this year. Other stupid poo poo from my youth: we did some mock relay races as a track practice one day. I was pulling ahead pretty far but the guy I was passing the baton to didn't realize that he needed to get a running start before I handed it off. So he stood there stock still and I did my best to keep the gap between me and the next runner while braking enough to not bowl him over. I did this by veering to one side and basically falling on myself while passing the baton. I skidded a good meter or two across the track. My left hand broke the fall but in the skidding I tore up most of it, got blood blisters and jagged tears and almost puked trying to clean the wounds. I lost all use of that hand for about a week while it healed, which sucks when you're a teenage girl who cares A Lot about your hair. That kid went to all the track meets, you think he'd notice that you get a running start when you're handing off. Was also on cross country and sometimes we were hooligans. Whole lotta trespassing. The football team had these big tractor tires they used in their workouts, and we stole one. The high school is in this kind of dip in the land, so we took the tire to the highest hill, put someone in the tire, and pushed it down. We got in some poo poo for that. The guy in the tire got pretty scratched up, too. Ah, youth
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Going along with stupid high school sports things: I was a lacrosse goalie, in outdoor lacrosse. The only required pads were the cup, the chest protector, the helmet, and the neck guard + the gloves. Everything else was exposed to flying rubber balls that regularly get hurled at 100+ mph speeds. By the end of the season, I had a bruised peripheral nerve in my lower left leg which meant that cold days were flat out unbearable. Bruised nerves suuuuuuck. Of course, end of the season, I get called up to varsity because I had improved tremendously. Coach puts me in goal towards the end of a stomping, and one of the shots hits me right in that nerve. Apparently I went down like a sack of potatoes. I came to when I got some ammonia salts straight to the face.
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A White Guy posted:Going along with stupid high school sports things: I was a lacrosse goalie, in outdoor lacrosse. The only required pads were the cup, the chest protector, the helmet, and the neck guard + the gloves. Everything else was exposed to flying rubber balls that regularly get hurled at 100+ mph speeds. By the end of the season, I had a bruised peripheral nerve in my lower left leg which meant that cold days were flat out unbearable. Bruised nerves suuuuuuck.  they actually checked on you when you collapsed? Aww. I laid on the ground for nearly ten minutes with a dislocated shoulder until I forced myself up to have a chat with coach. Never played football again. Nope thanks.
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At one point when I was in first grade and spending a time visiting my grandparents, I forgot how to spell the word 'of' I don't know how. I had to grab the Wheel of Fortune pc disc to figure out how. I was a dumb child.
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Wedemeyer posted:
There's a ref in Lacrosse who stands right by the cage and makes sure attackmen (ie, opposing team dudes with the ball) don't violate the exclusion zone (the 2 yard perimeter around the goal). Goalies rarely leave that zone unless they're moving the ball up the field, so to see a goalie go down like a sack of dildos is kind of unusual. Also helped that I fell directly on the top of the ball. The referee probably realized something was wrong when he rolled me off it. Also, since I'm posting goalie freude, the varsity goalie who I learned everything from was this fat dude who also happened to be the god of the cage. Dude once saved something like 13 shots in a row when we went down like 4 dudes after a half-time brawl (long story). We were warming up with shots on the goal, and I was in a cage on the other end of the field getting warmed up. All of the sudden I hear this thunderous CRACK! like someone had just dropped a ceramic toilet off a building. I look down the field and the coach is like "Holy poo poo, are you okay Max?". Dude took a lacrosse ball straight to the testicles. Thankfully he was wearing a cup, but the ball hit literally smashed it right down the middle. A Festivus Miracle has a new favorite as of 23:09 on Feb 17, 2016 |
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RareAcumen posted:At one point when I was in first grade and spending a time visiting my grandparents, I forgot how to spell the word 'of' Don't worry, I did that sometimes as a kid. I would mix up C and K and know that it was wrong but not why. Now it only happens when I'm exhausted.
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Inzombiac posted:Don't worry, I did that sometimes as a kid. I would mix up C and K and know that it was wrong but not why. The problem is that I'd talk a lot to my friends in school so my mom put a stop to that by making me read a lot of books and then I got into reading for a while. It's not like you're allowed to pull a gameboy out in the middle of class after all. So I felt really dumb when I found myself unable to figure out how to spell that.
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The day after I finally got my braces taken off, I decided to ride my sister's hunter, Missy. I used her saddle since mine really didn't fit Missy's back properly. We had a whole arena full of jumps we had built, because she and my best friend loved jumping. Anyway, we came to this one we made out of tires and peeler cores. Missy took off nicely, I was in position, when the left stirrup leather broke and I landed facefirst on the top log. Broke all my front teeth. After that I stuck to my Tennessee Walkers.
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Christ, the dumbest thing I ever remember doing was just making a waterslide in the basement when I was like six. Although back in college some of the people in my geology class got their rock hammers confiscated by the TSA on a class trip.
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I'm an EMT, so I have seen the aftermath of a lot of dumb poo poo. The one that comes to mind is some dumbass was drunk and went climbing up a tree in his backyard. Now, it was dark, so he couldn't SEE the river he wanted to jump into, but he knew it was there! He learned to look before he lept with the help of a rock right to the sternum. Broke it right in half.
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Khazar-khum posted:The day after I finally got my braces taken off, I decided to ride my sister's hunter, Missy. I used her saddle since mine really didn't fit Missy's back properly. We had a whole arena full of jumps we had built, because she and my best friend loved jumping. Anyway, we came to this one we made out of tires and peeler cores. Missy took off nicely, I was in position, when the left stirrup leather broke and I landed facefirst on the top log. I rode my Percheron too close to a main farm road right after I got him. He was from the Amish and totally cool with farm equipment and big stuff, but I didn't take into account the nearby tree farm and big trucks speeding by that were covered in terrifying, bouncing, loud and leafy trees. My dumb rear end wound up in a ditch but at least I didn't get hurt. The horse didn't even go far, just jumped the canal and waited for me in the field.
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I once cut a set of DNA samples out of gels with the help of a UV lamp. The camera setup was making the cutting a little awkward, so I stuck my head inside the curtain and cut them out that way. There was no heat, so I didn't think anything about it until the next day, when I woke up with the worst "sun" burn of my life, complete with untouched skin around my eyes (at least I was wearing goggles). My boss had some fun with me over the next couple of days. I'm lucky all I got was some pain out of that whole event. From then on I kept my sample sizes small and always used the camera, no matter how awkward.
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