Baitrunner Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 And we are worried about wet hands on 12v systems!! There are a lot of people on this forum who will not be getting the Darwin Award for stupidity (I think you have to die or at least be seriously maimed by stupidity to win this). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowjo Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Aw! come on we are men and all have a built in stupid gene, it's how we discover things and probably how most things have been discovered, who tested all the plants Mushrooms to see what one's killed us, how many of us have seen that big wet paint sign then just had to touch it to see if it was wet, if something says don't! it's built into us that we have to try it to find out why it says don't! I do things like that all the time, but I never look on it as stupid, No men! it's learning and we just can't help ourselves,, Frank,,, 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 I cant be the only one who has reached out and stuck my fingers into the wrong end of a 110V plug that was live from the other end - surely (and for some reason it was live at 240V ) fortunately I was lying under the caravan on a metal sheet at the time (did I say I worked for an electricity company)- actually perhaps that cable should go in the bodged jobs thread - the previous occupant had provided 240V to the caravan - by wiring a 110V socket into the floor, and wiring a cable with 110V plug on one end and a 240V plug on the other, I had crawled under the caravan to see what was needed to plug it in, reached out for the plug and stuck a finger straight down the inside to the pins. ouch. Grendel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baitrunner Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Will your tongue stick to a piece of frozen metal? YES! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 I bet any elf n safety ossifer will be cringing if reading ANY of this thread Iain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MauriceMynah Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 BaitRunner, I'll answer that one as soon as I can get my face out of the deep freeze 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowjo Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Iain! think of it this way! without idiots like us they would all be out of work, we not only give the A&E some good laughs we also create employment, Frank,,, PS. Usual response while attending A&E "You did WHAT?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Frank, I gave up, when elf n safety came calling and asked me how did I put a first aid plaster on a injured finger!!! Iain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowjo Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Iain sounds like site work to me! working in completed rooms and having to wear boots, hi-viz, gloves, glasses and hard hat, telling him you can't wear the gloves because you working with 1/8 grub screws and told to just cut the fingers off, then being reported for not wearing the hardhat because your in a confined space and it's blocking your vision, being reported for working on the second rung of a ladder with no-one footing the ladder, looking behind you to see another trade twenty foot up a ladder one foot on the ladder one foot on the wall caulking the corner joints, teiiling the H&S man thats just reported me only to be told, nothing to do with me thats not my section, Ooooh yes! been there done all that, it all happened on a Skanska site when I was working on the new hospital in Coventry, H&S my A**e,, Frank,,, 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 I couldny have put it better myself Frank Iain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 you just ought to see the paperwork involved when someone at work cut their finger on the serrated edge of the sellotape dispenser, they were nearly banned until we solved the problem by putting a warning label on them..... Grendel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranworthbreeze Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Hi Iain, I thought you were a proud Scot, plaster indeed I thought you would be like us trician's south of the border and just use some insulation tape till you got home 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowjo Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 What a lot of Wooses! use super glue like I do, 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 You've awe got it wrong!!! I had to DEMONSTRATE the correct first aid plaster to apply!!!! Gets worse, it was a very young lady who asked all the questions. Straight out of university. Mutter, mutter mutter grrrrrrrr! Alan you got it in one!! Always used insulating tape and maybe a dod of Daily Record for gauze Iain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddfellow Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Darwen Awards anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbo Posted October 24, 2014 Author Share Posted October 24, 2014 Named in honour of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baitrunner Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Timbo, I hadn't looked at any of these recently, but maybe there is a similar story to the "Anchorman" from the Broads - "mud weight man" maybe? Maybe a new thread of Broads based stories of those "nearly achieving Darwin award status"? Although by the sounds of it most of us on this post will be vying for first place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairTmiddlin Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 I was always told when doing my apprenticeship that Volts Jolt But Mils Kill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 30mA is the amperage above which a shock can be fatal. Grendel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 30mA is the amperage above which a shock can be fatal. Grendel Less possibly with a dodgey ticker! Iain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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