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tdifan88

11-21-2008, 05:37 PM

When I was four I shook the pop and let it explode. The dumb thing about it is I did it again when I was 10! And the cap hit my eye..Result of me wearing glasses now and having 18/20 vision? I think so.

Juu-kuchi

11-21-2008, 06:05 PM

Hard to say, there are quite a lot of things I did that I found to be very dumb. Like:

-Not focusing on one foreign language. Instead I now have four other languages apart from English.
-Turned off my Xenogears game as it was saving thus deleting the file after I was on the SECOND disc.

There's probably a lot more dumb things I'd like to say, but either don't want to or can't remember at the moment.
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The Cartoon

11-21-2008, 07:05 PM

When I was really little I pretended that I was a Dog and bit a balloon. Not my brightest idea...

Anna

11-21-2008, 07:38 PM

Join TZ :P

Racattack!Force

11-21-2008, 07:55 PM

I tried to prove a few months ago that simply touching an over-filled balloon would not pop it. I did it and...a chain reaction occurred (it affected other nearby balloons) and caused mass laughter.

Spideyzilla

11-21-2008, 09:47 PM

http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/WF/batman/btas/episodes/motp/07.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/essex/content/images/2006/01/13/toy_car_203_203x152.jpg

Pretended my brother was the Phantasm. :o I was driving.... and crashed. I was four, give me a break. Couple stitches later, he was fine. I still feel guilty, the poor guy. It was really, very stupid.

Zeonic Freak

11-21-2008, 09:58 PM

Man, what have i "not" done that was stupid.

I basicly went in full reverse on a gravel road in front of like 20 people at a church gathering, they wernt to happy, nither was my dad.

My bro and i act retarded in walmart when we do things. Today, he tied a coat hanger at the end of my truck, and i drove though town. I wanted it off, but i didnt care either.

Pulled a Sears shopping cart with my truck, hit some shopping carts before on purpose. Hit the managers Toyota 4Runner of a McDonalds when i was getting food one time, then i went thought the drive through and was like "ah, its not bad". Well, the truck was a different story. Told my dad, he was ticked, talk to the lady, she wasnt because it didnt do anything to her car. Dent is still there to this day.

Yea, i better stop before it all comes flooding back. But hey, were not all perfect...

defunctzombie

11-21-2008, 11:39 PM

Storm Eagle

11-22-2008, 02:33 AM

When I was ten, I found a kitten in the park, and kicked it like a football. That should have never happened, since I've always liked cats, but I guess it was just one of the spur of the moment things. It's one of the most major things that I regret, and I never felt good about it. I think the only saving grace is how I volunteer for a pet adoption group. I don't believe in reincarnation, but if I did, I'd like to think that if that kitten didn't make it, maybe it was reborn into one of the cats I played with and socialized on one of the adoption days.

Starbraces

11-22-2008, 03:59 AM

Oh wow, hm...

Well, sometimes at night I used to go around throwing bricks through people's windows. I guess that wasn't very nice. Including my friends' windows. But I'd particularly aim for old people's

Racattack!Force

11-22-2008, 06:26 AM

When I was ten, I found a kitten in the park, and kicked it like a football.:sweat: Wow, I don't think anyone can top that...

Harvey Two Face

11-22-2008, 08:28 AM

My friend told me to slide down this rail really fast, so I'm like yeah sure. So when everyone is leaving school for home you see this one guy sliding down a rail who then suddenly falls backwards and breaks his wrist. Probably the dumbest thing I've ever done.

chdr

11-22-2008, 08:44 AM

Once in Venice, I found this really fat pigeon and I kicked it like a football. A bunch of people started looking at me weirdly, and I felt really stupid.

tdifan88

11-22-2008, 09:00 AM

XOMiss_Samantha

11-22-2008, 11:59 AM

I've done ALOT of very stupid things, probably every day I do something new that makes me look like an idiot.
But I think one of the worst moments, and the one that I'm still bothered about, happened during Sophomore year when the guy I liked kissed me and I responded with "wow that sucked."

Ishtar

11-22-2008, 12:11 PM

When I was 8, I accidentaly crashed the car into the garage door. I don't think there's anything I've done that's up to that level...

thenewme93

11-22-2008, 01:44 PM

Oh, yeah I can me and my friends threw dog crap at this guys car on Halloween night...

Baltofan

11-22-2008, 02:08 PM

Being drunk while having a stomach flu.

Desensitized

11-22-2008, 02:27 PM

Played through the beginning of Final Fantasy VII about 6 times because my memory card was busted.

I guess I just enjoyed playing it so much, I didn't mind playing through that same sequence or watching that annoying Cloud/Tifa flashback over and over again.

Master Moron

11-22-2008, 04:43 PM

You all did petty things... When I was little, around 6th grade I guess, I was desperate for friends so I hung around with the neighbor kids. But they were bad. I got suckered into dismantling some bicycles that I was told were trash. Turns out that they weren't. :o My mother was out of town on a cruise, and I was all by myself. I was talked to by a police officer, but there were never any charges and I believe my mother still doesn't know. I didn't come from the most honorable family, so there were high expectations put on me. I have improved myself, though, and I am now a criminal justice student that works for a lawyer. I also have no friends now so no-one can get me in trouble. :p

Feels good to talk about it now, but I'm sure it will eat at me for a while.

What exactly is a criminal justice degree? I always hear it in those ads for fake colleges like Westwood, but I'm not sure what it is.

When I was ten, I found a kitten in the park, and kicked it like a football. That should have never happened, since I've always liked cats, but I guess it was just one of the spur of the moment things. It's one of the most major things that I regret, and I never felt good about it. I think the only saving grace is how I volunteer for a pet adoption group. I don't believe in reincarnation, but if I did, I'd like to think that if that kitten didn't make it, maybe it was reborn into one of the cats I played with and socialized on one of the adoption days.

That reminds me of something I did when I was a little kid. Some kids in my neighborhood were putting my neighbor's cat in a bag and throwing it in the air. And well, I was desperate for attention as a kid, so I joined in. The cat was okay and everything, but it was still a mean thing to do and I regret doing it. And of course, my neighbor eventually found out about it and was pissed.

I've done ALOT of very stupid things, probably every day I do something new that makes me look like an idiot.
But I think one of the worst moments, and the one that I'm still bothered about, happened during Sophomore year when the guy I liked kissed me and I responded with "wow that sucked."

Well, if we're going to include things we've screwed up with the opposite sex, I could go on forever. At least you're still in high school. That's where your mistakes should be made. Unfortunately, I was still completely clueless about the opposite sex while I was in college. I would say my worst example of this was when this girl who had a crush on me asked me to go back to her apartment to smoke a bowl with her. Unfortunately, I don't really smoke weed, so I got nervous and said "Uhhhh...ummmm..." and she mockingly responded "Uhhhhh...ummmm...what?" And I said "Uhhhh...I don't really smoke weed." She was almost dumbfounded by my stupidity and responded with "Uhhh...okay...bye..." From the look on her face, I think she was quite amused about how clueless I was. Obviously, I just threw any chances with her out the window.

Played through the beginning of Final Fantasy VII about 6 times because my memory card was busted.

I guess I just enjoyed playing it so much, I didn't mind playing through that same sequence or watching that annoying Cloud/Tifa flashback over and over again.

I one time knew this guy who didn't have a memory card so he simply left his Playstation turned on for weeks with Final Fantasy VII inside. I asked him what happens if he loses a battle and he said "If I die, I die."

GregX

11-22-2008, 05:15 PM

I refuse to answer this question on the grounds that it may incriminate me.

lemonhead75

11-22-2008, 05:53 PM

:sweat: Wow, I don't think anyone can top that...
*Sigh* I can.

A few years ago, it was snowing at recess. The slide(a metal one) was coated in ice and stuff, and my friends had the idea of surfing down it standing up. I was the last one to go, and after a minute or two os hesitation, I did it.

I fell backwards(my friends still swear I did a flip), and landed on my right arm. I think the vibrations of the slide channeled the energy or something, because I shattered my arm. Then I rolled onto the niiiice safe gravel(:sweat: ) and started crying/yelling/laughing.

The teachers thought I dislocated my shoulder.
So, I got out of school, my mom took me to the doctors office, and we find out its closed. Nobodys there.

So we go to the hospital, and since we're not a emergency, we had to park waaaaaay on the other side of the parking lot, and had to walk there. Then I got a nice 20 minute stay in the waiting room.

I got a x-ray and found out I broke my arm in 2 places. I had 3 pins put in my arm, and a sling. Then, I had a cast. And then, another cast. And when they pulled out the pins, it hurt like something-I'd-get-banned-for-saying-here.
To top it off, I missed my entire first track season.

Zeonic Freak

11-22-2008, 05:54 PM

I refuse to answer this question on the grounds that it may incriminate me.

Just think of it as therapy.

I one time knew this guy who didn't have a memory card so he simply left his Playstation turned on for weeks with Final Fantasy VII inside. I asked him what happens if he loses a battle and he said "If I die, I die."

Sounds like someone one of my friends knew. He left his Playstation on for a week with that game on pause, and he racked up like 130 hours of Cloud just sitting there picking his nose. And, he was too poor to get a memocard.

Before this leaves my head, in 6th grade i wrote on some kids backpack "I AM HORNY" in big letters with a white out pen. I was with some stupid kids, and the kid we did this to whos name was "Bejorne" or something, but we called him (and he called himself this) "behorny". He was pretty much a total nerd, like even the regular kids who picked on the Pokemon group i was with at the time went to him first before us. Well, some teacher saw that, talked to me, said to work it out. I came home, i think i told my mom about it which upset her, which upset me. So i found were the kid lived, and offered to buy him a new backpack (with the money my mom had, i was 13, of course i was broke), and he was like really nice about it saying "naw man thats cool." After that, i just kept my distance from him and didnt want to add to the problems he had. Bottem line, i learned my lesson, on that particular thing. Yea, middle school sucks.

Oh yea, another thing before i forget, i got a scar from this one on my lower back when i was 13 too. I was with some friends and they were going to the bottom of a spill way, and i was lazy and decided that it would be a great idea to just "ski" down a spill way slick with alge, like James Bond would have. Well, it worked for about 3 seconds, then i lost my balance, fell on my back, and i slid like 40 some feet going in like 3 circles before hitting the bottom where a dead turtle was (i didnt touch it luckly). The funny thing was, i started crying, due to the fact that i wasnt hurt, but the fact that my pager was messed up and my mother couldnt get ahold of me. Well, my friends walked me back, and my mom bandaged me up. Pretty much, every major stupid thing ive done was before i was 16- no scratch that, before i was 22 (because knowing me, im still gonna do something stupid sometime later).

Also, my brother has a friend who pretty much, lacks common since, despite how "book smart" he is. One recent thing that came to my mind (out of many others since ive known him), he left his PS2 on for a week, and when he went to play it, it died on him because it was too hot. Well, the dumba** decides to put his PS2 in the bath tub to cool it down. And i think according to what he said "Yea, it didnt seem to work any better from that moment on." I wish i was making this up...

Racattack!Force

11-22-2008, 06:02 PM

Also, my brother has a friend who pretty much, lacks common since, despite how "book smart" he is. One recent thing that came to my mind (out of many others since ive known him), he left his PS2 on for a week, and when he went to play it, it died on him because it was too hot. Well, the dumba** decides to put his PS2 in the bath tub to cool it down. And i think according to what he said "Yea, it didnt seem to work any better from that moment on." I wish i was making this up...Wow, that's actually pretty idiotic. :sweat:

Once in Venice, I found this really fat pigeon and I kicked it like a football. A bunch of people started looking at me weirdly, and I felt really stupid.That actually sounds pretty cool.

jph139

11-22-2008, 06:08 PM

...you know, I don't think I've ever (intentionally) done something stupid.

Wait, once I downloaded a ROM that ended up corrupting my computer, forcing me to completely toss away my old hard drive and lose every single file I had on it.

...does that count?

I think it counts.

All Star Blitz

11-22-2008, 06:45 PM

In no order:

1. Told about five kids in my 3rd grade class that I hated a certain segment on Animaniacs, only for them to tease me about it well into 6th grade. I still can't watch the show as a result. This show scared me away from anything associated with Warner Bros. for about 5 years.

2. Watch Invader Zim or at least 30 seconds of it. The thought of that show still turns my stomach 7 years later.

3. Made no attempt to pressure mom into getting me a learner's permit when I turned 16. Here I am, now 21, and I still don't freaking have one.

4. Made no attempt whatsoever to exercise in the past 5 years.

There're more, but eh.

defunctzombie

11-22-2008, 09:44 PM

What exactly is a criminal justice degree? I always hear it in those ads for fake colleges like Westwood, but I'm not sure what it is.
It only requires a 2.0, who knows what it's for!

I'm kidding, I know what it's for. :p It's a study of the jail/policing/court system itself, and it gets into the details of how the system works. Some of the kids in my class are aiming to join the PA State Police or the FBI. Basically if a cop needs a degree, this is the one he will get. It really is a simple degree to get, and it basically just gets you a higher salary for the same job that doesn't require a degree.

buttah

11-22-2008, 10:18 PM

I've done a lot of stupid things, a lot but I remember in 3rd grade someone said my hair was too long so I took some scissors and cut a bit of it, I realized it was stupid and stopped. Thing is I had a big patch of short uneven hair that looked really bad. When I came home my mom was really upset about it, and you'd think I'd learn my lesson right? Nope

Next year the same exact thing happened.

Comics_the_QB

11-22-2008, 10:36 PM

J. B. Warner

11-22-2008, 10:40 PM

Well, there was that one time when I was about four, and my preschool class went on a field trip to a farm, and my teacher told me not to touch the electric fence around the cow pen, and I touched it anyway. That stung a fair bit, I don't mind telling you.

There was also the time, at around the same age, when I was playing with my next-door neighbor who openly hated me (I think our moms made us hang out together or something). We were in the sandbox, and he said "Close your eyes and open your mouth, and I promise I won't put sand in it." So I did, and of course he put sand in it and ran off laughing like a lunatic while I went home crying. In retrospect, really, what did I honestly expect him to do?

Storm Eagle

11-23-2008, 12:45 AM

:sweat: Wow, I don't think anyone can top that...

You punted a kitten!?

Yeah and I bet that made your day reading that. Both of you.

tdifan88

11-23-2008, 08:50 AM

Yeah and I bet that made your day reading that. Both of you.
Yeah it did.

EDIT: And also I have another: I got a nosebleed then ended up scaring myself. When I did that the blood spewed out EVERYWHERE! And plus I was in the kitchen.

lemonhead75

11-23-2008, 11:31 AM

Ooh, another one!
I was just waking up, and there was blood on my pillow, and I started feeling blood drip down my chin. I freaked out and yelled that i was coughing up blood. I was VERY, VERY drousy to not notice it was just a bad nosebleed.

But it WAS my first nosebleed in at least 5 years. :sweat:

Novapocalypse

11-23-2008, 02:32 PM

Oh yeah? Here's one you'll get a kick out of.

Back when I was five, me and my cousin (who was 7) were both at my grandma's house on my mother's side. (she's sadly deceased now)

Back then, she was having back problems, and so for some reason got this scooter like thing to use outside. One day, when they were cleaning the house, they had both doors open, front and back, so my cousin and I attempted to go through the house on it to surprise them. However, when we made it halfway through the house, my littler brother was in the way of getting through the kitchen, we jerked the wheel and ran the scooter down the hall, turned in the back room, and ended up somehow running over this cardbord box, which was in front of the bed back there, running over the bed, and slam into the window... breaking it, and getting the scooter stuck in it..... and causing us both to nearly break our necks.

We were in a lot of trouble.... trust me...:sweat:

Antiyonder

11-23-2008, 09:23 PM

Racattack!Force

11-23-2008, 09:29 PM

Yeah and I bet that made your day reading that. Both of you.Okay it did, I have to admit that much.

WolfieKiwi

11-23-2008, 09:38 PM

This one is pretty funny:

-I tripped on a tredmill going 6 mph. And held on to the handle bars. I couldn't let go due to a machine right behind it!

I had skin pouring off my legs till after an hour! Now that I think about it, it may have hurt, but it was pretty funny. :lol:

I can top that with my stupidity.

My parents had a treadmill. I had a razor scooter. I also have a brother who was very influential to me but not to this degree anymore as the both of us are not (complete) idiots anymore.

Anyway, we decided to strap the razor scooter to the treadmill and jack the meter to low, medium and then, on high. I went first of course. >>

All I can say was the ten or twenty seconds the scooter stayed strapped to the tredmil while on high was fun while it lasted. :sweat:

Cool Blue

11-23-2008, 09:49 PM

Yeah and I bet that made your day reading that. Both of you.

I'll join the club, that gave me a reaction of complete OMG and awe, followed by a brief chuckle. This chuckle turned into out loud laughter after reading, "you punted a kitten?" gotta say, thats pretty twisted but totally won't pass judgement on your character, who doesn't do things they will regret.

anyways, onto the subject matter, i've done LOTS of stupid things, said dumb things, eaten dumb stuff, and all the works. but for now, one of the things that sticks out in my mind as the arguably the stupidest thing i've ever done was when I was about 4 years. old.

We all watched looney tunes growing up, its part of the american childhood. its insane how wile e coyote, and sylvester are sometimes often perfectly fine in the next scene after a very good unfortunate thrashing so i thought I would test by ability to take a ridiculous amount of pain and be okay in no time. I DELIBERATELY dropped myself down a flight of about 20 concrete steel steps like a ragdoll and hit the bottom with the back of my head with one of the loudest smacks i've ever heard in my entire life. some of the most intense pain ever and no, i wasn't okay in no time. how they do it is beyond me:p Im surprised im not dead, i look back and I just say, "WHAT WAS I THINKING?!"

ToOn~g@l

11-23-2008, 11:48 PM

When I was 3 or 4, I was at my grandmothers house and I started to annoy her rotteweiler Duke by playing with his eyebrows. Lets just say he was not a nice dog and I still have the scars on my right fingers to prove how much he hated me.

RockmanDash

11-24-2008, 02:58 AM

I chased a school bus last year because I was really late and I thought the bus already left, and then I find out the bus I chased was not even my bus and that my bus was late. Oh the many that were wondering what the heck I was doing when I was chasing that bus..

Storm Eagle

11-24-2008, 06:08 AM

I'll join the club, that gave me a reaction of complete OMG and awe, followed by a brief chuckle. This chuckle turned into out loud laughter after reading, "you punted a kitten?" gotta say, thats pretty twisted but totally won't pass judgment on your character, who doesn't do things they will regret.

Me, twisted? Well at least I showed remorse. You and those other two are actually glad I did what I did.

Oh well. It's people like you guys who make me glad that there are people like these (http://www.rescueink.org).

BartWinkle

11-24-2008, 02:24 PM

When I was at a special school I borrowed a copy of "Frosty The Snowman" from that school's library, signed a library card, read it-in the library-and then, stupidly returned it to the shelf, shocking the librarians there. Later in life I worked in a supermarket as a bagger, and inadvertently put a customer's groceries in ANOTHER customer's car, I didn't know it didn't belong to the original person. I was lucky I wasn't fired. That original customer left her groceries somewhere, and I thought those belonged to the person whose car I was loading.

GregX

11-25-2008, 01:43 AM

RockmanDash

11-25-2008, 02:08 AM

GregX

11-25-2008, 02:23 AM

Surely your a role model for every teen at high school. But seriously... you stole baby Jesus and threw him into the river???? o_o

We were drunk.

KurtmanJP

11-25-2008, 02:48 AM

Hanshotfirst113

11-26-2008, 05:57 PM

We were drunk.

Clearly.

GregX

11-26-2008, 06:20 PM

Clearly.

Oh, and I think I forgot the funniest/saddest part. I shouted "Happy Hannukah!" when I did it.

Hmm, I've got more...

This was from a list I wrote years ago... Things I have actually done. I'll share a few...

1. Taped a science documentary on Titanium on the same tape as hard core porn, and forgot to stop the tape after doc when I used it in a presentation in my sixth grade science class.

3. Blew up a fire extinguisher in front of the school, created this huge dust cloud that covered the front of the building.

5. Told a girl scout troop begging for money to shut up.

6. Got lost in Queens while driving Greg Weisman to the airport (which was referenced in an episode of "The Spectacular Spider-Man").

19. Got behind a reporter doing a live broadcast and yelled George Carlin's seven dirty words.

33. Smoked a blunt with some friends in the school library.

34. Took a little joy-ride with a friend in a backhoe left on a golf course when I was 12.

36. Ran away from summer camp with a friend for four hours, and when we came back, the police were searching for us.

Not everything was stupid, just these...

Rolling Cloud

11-26-2008, 07:05 PM

1. Taped a science documentary on Titanium on the same tape as hard core porn, and forgot to stop the tape after doc when I used it in a presentation in my sixth grade science class.

That's actually pretty funny. xD

Ickis

11-26-2008, 07:11 PM

When my Dad and I sold our '66 VW Bug for a '71 Honda Z600, NEVER sell an old VW for a Japanese Microcar! I learned that the hard way.

Darklordavaitor

11-26-2008, 07:49 PM

For those who don't remember, we had an thread about Adolf Hitler last year. Without thinking I made a tasteless tactless comment comparing him to Jack Thompson.

I'm not going to justify my comment, and I regret making the comment. If anyone has a response to criticise me, do so in a PM so as not to disrail the topic.

I'm most likely going to get a lot of criticism for this, but I needed to let it out.
Hey, at least you didn't compare him to Walt Disney, like I did.

Well, earlier this year, I got kicked out of my school for buying pot from one of my friends. Fortunately, since a purchase was never made, any potentially serious charges have been dropped, and I probably might not have to go through anything, a couple of essays at the most, and I have to go to an alternative learning center for the remainder of the semester. Once the semester ends(on Janurary 8th, two days after we come back, for some reason...), I can go back to my regular school, so I can leave all of this behind. Rest assured, so this stuff doesn't happen again, I'm dropping pot and anything else illegal.

There are a lot more stupid things I've done that I can share, but this is one of the most recent and siginificant things I can think of.

Oh, wait, there's also the fact that I joined Geek Central...

Antiyonder

11-26-2008, 08:06 PM

Hey, at least you didn't compare him to Walt Disney, like I did.

It was still a tactless comment with the comparison being far off.

All Star Blitz

11-26-2008, 10:56 PM

One time my window was jammed and my room was getting really hot so I broke the window glass with my open bare palm out of frustration. Luckily, I didn't bleed TOO badly, nor did I need hospital treatment.

That reminds me of two similar dumb stories:

1. I once got mad and kicked the stove out of frustration, causing the door to shatter into a million pieces. I like destroying things when I'm mad, for some reason.

2. One time when we were walking home from the ice cream shop, I got way ahead of mom and came home about 5 minutes before she did. The doors were locked and I didn't want to wait so I broke in by ramming a ski pole through one of the windows. Luckily, it was the window that opened out into the garage (this was a flaw of our old house; the garage was built on later, RIGHT OVER THE SEPTIC TANK, so one bedroom window opened into the garage) so I don't think anyone noticed.

Actually, I broke another window one time in the 5th grade when I came home early and found myself locked out. My bedroom window was open so I slashed it with a clothespin and crawled in. I didn't duck enough and bashed my head on the window. But that was just klutz more than dumbness, so eh.

Oh, and one of the other dumbest things I ever did was never ask mom to buy me blank video tapes. I honestly thought that every cartoon ever made would be around forever, because after all, I was watching Bugs Bunny shorts from the 1950s right? Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Novapocalypse

11-27-2008, 02:30 AM

When I was in High School, some friends and I got drunk on a Friday night... really, really, really drunk... stole baby Jesus from a church nativity scene and chucked him in the Hudson River.

Yeah, stupid.

I've got more.

Dude... I laughed so hard.... I can honestly picture someone running into a church at midnight, stealing a baby Jesus prop, and then running to the river and chucking him as far into it as possible. Seriously, you made my day.

Although... I wonder how Joseph felt?

WolfieKiwi

11-27-2008, 09:57 AM

Just remembered something else I did.

A loong while back I was on an old cord phone talking and walking around the house as I always do when I'm on the phone. (Which, I consider to be a bad habit.)

Anyway. Stupid me forgets there is a cord attached and said attached cord slips behind a ceramic vase on the hallway counter. By the time I notice the vase moving to the very edge of the counter it's way too late and Kuh-raaash.

Twilightpacer

11-30-2008, 06:13 AM

About three years ago i completely forgot that the floor in a room had just been varnished and walked in! I took one step and then realised my mistake.:sweat:

I leapt out of there and looked around. The woman who had vanished the room hadn't returned yet and i quickly smoothed over the footprints then pretended as if nothing had happened. Embarrassed much, me? Naaah!
:anime: