What is the silliest thing you've done?

The forum is quiet lately, going to try & get the ball rolling with a few light hearted threads.
This is the first, Ok as the title says 'What is the silliest thing you've done?'

(Not necessarily fishkeeping related)

This is on my mind due to a recent incident of my own….

Sorry if it’s a bit gross - you have been warned.

I was changing water & there's a big 4' tall spikey cactus beside the tank. Had my arm in the tank & got bitten, jumped back & hit my hand off the cactus leaving my palm studded with big black spikes.

So off I went to the bathroom & pulled the spikes out. One broke off as I was trying to get it out, I could still see a tiny black dot of it in my hand so being a bit freaky about these things I decided I needed to get it out.

So I got a nail clippers & used it to take a pinch of skin out of my palm & tried getting it out. Nope. Couldn't get at it.
Further mutilating myself, I got a pin & started trying to poke it out while holding my hand under the tap.

Not being able to see what I was doing properly & poking around in a bleeding hole in my hand at this stage
I thought I had it. I could see something small sticking up so I stuck the pin under it & pulled.

The pain that followed was unbelievable… It was like an electric shock from my hand to the top of my head that made my hair stand on end.
I was worried at this stage, thinking wow, this is really embedded I need to get it out..
So I had another go, bending the pin in the process & again a crazy electric shock sensation took the wind out of me .

Needing a rest I cleaned my hand off & surveyed the damage.. Noticed that the little black dot was gone but there was still something small deep in the cut - this is what I had been trying to pull out.

It was a nerve.. I was trying to pull a nerve out of my hand with a pin. Almost worthy of a Darwin award..

Putting some silicone in a leaking tank with fish inside it - well you know what happened next:laugh:

puts me in mind of a lad i know who after having a tooth out at the dentists, felt what he thought was a tooth fragment in his gum and decided to pull it out with a pliers. after an hours yanking and in excruciating pain he rang the dentist who told him he was trying to pull out his jawbone.

Im still laughing at the idea of pulling a nerve out of your hand...........ouch!!!

on the fish theme

put my first ever fish in an uncycled tank,
and then rinsed filters in tap water

introduced rampant algae to my second tank with infected moss

bought red and blue gravel for first tank
then tried to cover it with black, duh


rgds

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Some nice one lads, keep them coming.
I reckon trying to pull your jawbone out with a pliers beats mine.

Sorry Stretnik - I told you it was gross.... I still cringe when I think about it... No pics tho, not even a scar (apart from the mental ones)

i saw tony keogh (an old deceased fishkeeper friend) repair a leaking full tank with mastic. he firstly put some methylene blue into the tank to trace the leak.the blue dye headed for the leak. he then applied aquarium mastic to the leak under water using his finger.it worked.
phil.

Goin for the gross here Lads

years ago I crashed on a bike,smashed up my little finger...Lost half a fingernail which started to grow back funny so I decided one night to sort it out with the help of a bottle of tequila and a a Swiss army knife....It didn't hurt much at the time but the next day.......
put me off Tequila as well for some reason......

oh lads,i've got so many its not funny,pierced my ear years ago with a fork,another mad drunken night:laugh: those were the days

My god I feel a little I'll after Reading them posts I have grimice on my face that I can not take off thinking of what ye did ! Not nearly as disgusting but a bit stupid I checked were there staples in a stapler by putting my finger into the stapler and pressing. I was very suprised to find out there were staples In it ! It Hirt going in but it was a lot more painful taking it out !

ok hows about this , 6 years ago out in leeds with some mates having a couple of beers, dancing with some cute girl and then i decide i need more beer, walk across the dance floor step on a beer bottle and snap my achilles tendon clean off the bone, to quote my mate watching me try to get across the floor after that was like watching michael jackson have an epileptic fit, and to make matters worse i walked 2 miles home on it, and had to wait while my mates got chips from the chippy and me just thinking it was just a sprain till i tried to get out of bed in the morning and by god did that hurt, so up to the hospital and told your staying and will be operated on the next day, whats the first thing i did...... rang my mate to f him out of it for making me walk home... all in all not a bad night though, three months in plaster paris, six months on crutches, and 1 year of physio later now i can see the funny side

sheag35 wrote:

ok hows about this , 6 years ago out in leeds with some mates having a couple of beers, dancing with some cute girl and then i decide i need more beer, walk across the dance floor step on a beer bottle and snap my achilles tendon clean off the bone, to quote my mate watching me try to get across the floor after that was like watching michael jackson have an epileptic fit, and to make matters worse i walked 2 miles home on it, and had to wait while my mates got chips from the chippy and me just thinking it was just a sprain till i tried to get out of bed in the morning and by god did that hurt, so up to the hospital and told your staying and will be operated on the next day, whats the first thing i did...... rang my mate to f him out of it for making me walk home... all in all not a bad night though, three months in plaster paris, six months on crutches, and 1 year of physio later now i can see the funny side

Making me cringe even thinking about it.....

Once I tried to remove a cyst form myself with a sharp blade and a tweezers.Disinfected everything and proceeded to cut myself open which proved to be painful, but might aswell continue as i got this far. Eventually got a hold of cyst but it would just not come out.....starting to bleed quite a lot and was getting worried. Eventually stopped the bleeding and patched myself up...a coupole of weeks later got it removed under anesthetic....Doctors thought I was insane (actually to think of it, i was!!) Lucky I did not get a bad infection!

curefan wrote:

Once I tried to remove a cyst form myself with a sharp blade and a tweezers.Disinfected everything and proceeded to cut myself open which proved to be painful, but might aswell continue as i got this far. Eventually got a hold of cyst but it would just not come out.....starting to bleed quite a lot and was getting worried. Eventually stopped the bleeding and patched myself up...a coupole of weeks later got it removed under anesthetic....Doctors thought I was insane (actually to think of it, i was!!) Lucky I did not get a bad infection!

Christ, I thought I was bad trying to remove a splinter