Many people, myself included, enjoy making fun of the dumb moments of politicians and other famous people whose lives are under the public microscope. But let's face it: We've all had such moments. I daresay that all of the great geniuses in history did. Here are few lowlights of mine. You pick which is the dumbest:

- When I was a child, I bumped my head into a shelf made of a piece of 2 by 12 wood. To take revenge on the board that offended me, I punched it, cutting one of my knuckles.

- When I was a teenager, I temporarily made part of one of my little fingers numb (due to temporary nerve damage) in demonstrating that I could lift a game table by an available sharp plastic edge using only that little finger.

- Just recently, at the age of 21 (my current age), I was practicing fighting skills in front of the mirror of my home's restroom when I banged my right big toe, which was unprotected because I was wearing only sandals and socks, into the bottom of the sink. It didn't break, but it looked rather ugly for a while and is still a bit tender.

- As a teenager, I said, "Every bottle in my muscle hurts". I meant to say, "Every muscle in my body hurts".

- Also as a teenager, I made a statement that may indicate that a career in politics is in my future: "There are a lot of things being done in this country that are not being done".

So which is the dumbest? Moreover, if you don't pride yourself on maintaining an online image of intellectual perfection, you can share some similarly intellect-deficient moments of your own. I appreciate all replies. Thank you very much.

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Trust me, being a bit of an absent minded bumbeling fool, I have way way way too many of these.


But I'll share one from my sister-in-law (she grew up in a fully Afrikaans house, and do not speak too good English). My brother takes her to work every morning, and they would listen to e few trafic reports on the radio on their way. One she asked my bro why so many delivery vans from sationary companies always breaks down. My bro asked her why and she replied: "Every morning you hear ' There is a stationary vehicle on the N12, and a stationary vehicle on the R564 etc. etc. etc.'


I found it very funny.

(oh, last weekend I was atending a AGM from a charity I work with, and asked the chairperson how often a year we have a AGM. this is one of my least embaresing moments)

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"I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. "
"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself."
"If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness. "

Nelson Mandela

Dumb Moments?

The word 'retards' always apply when two racers wearing fullface helmets gets into a fist fight.

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The United Church of the Latter Day Tangential Tarts

Once, being annoyed by a drunk idiot who seemed determined to start a fight with me, I told him to 'f*ck off, I've jumped over bigger men than you to get at a right-sized fella' - I had had a wee tipple myself, and was just at the end of my rope with this idiot's pestering.

The few drinks I had must have let my guard down as I hadnt noticed yer man's seven friends hovering around us! I was on the receiving end of a few blows from various angles before (luckily) others stepped in and pulled them off me. I was known in the place, and therefore, had support. Otherwise it would have been a hospital-job, or worse!

'Dumb' is not taking full stock of the opponent (and his friends!).

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

I was about five years old and in pre-school at the time. It was nap time. I saw a thumbtack lying under the heater next to my mat. Having an overactive imagination mixed with boredom because I could never sleep at school, I told myself that the tack would provide me with superhuman powers if I placed it into my mouth, so naturally, I did. I could feel my imaginary new powers surging through my body when I suddenly began to feel the tack slipping backwards down my tongue. In a panic, I reached in to pull it out, but instead pushed it down into my throat. I ran to the teacher and sort of choked out some incoherent words. If I remember correctly, she thought at first I was pulling some prank as I was a bit of a troublemaker at the school. Finally, she realized this was no joke, and I was rushed off to the hospital in an ambulance. They sucked the tack out of my throat with some kind of medical vacuum.

That's the dumbest thing I've ever done, I think.

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. "You have found the secret message. Do you have too much time on your hands? ...Let it go."

That is similar to the occasion on which I got a crayon lodged in one of my nostrils (when I was 6). I don't remember what I was thinking (I doubt I was "thinking", per se), but my parents managed to extract it without calling for outside help. That was pretty stupid.

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