your stupidest moment ever on videohelp :D

[glockjs]

i think mine was when i thought my 8x burner could burn at 14x...stupid windows...

so who's up next...












Brought to you buy mothers against vinyl porno, saving one helpless sheep at a time.

[Grimey]

Joining. I don't think i'll ever be able to leave :P

[Capmaster]

I was sleep deprived (August rainy season here always gives me insomnia) and there was a question about hard disk magnets being affected by speakers close-by. When I don't have enough sleep, like most people, intelligent thought takes a lot of effort.

Well .....I posted this grand post about how older HDs had servo motors for head positioning ...and they have permanent magnets, but not to worry - newer ones used voice coil actuators which have no permanent magnets.

A complete brain fart. Of course they have PMs - the coil wouldn't move without them. Well, I got about half a dozen replies after mine basically saying I was full of shit. And they were right. My statement was completely wrong

[redwudz]

When I first came here, I posted an answer and when I next checked the thread it had the familar blue warning from the moderators.

I thought it was something I had done wrong. Stayed away for three days afraid I had been banned.

The stupid thing was that the warning was for the original poster, but I didn't realize it at the time.

[Faustus]

Hard to say, but I wonder how many hits you'd find searching for my name and the phrase "your right" or "stupid me" ect ect

[glockjs]

When I first came here, I posted an answer and when I next checked the thread it had the familar blue warning from the moderators.

I thought it was something I had done wrong. Stayed away for three days afraid I had been banned.

The stupid thing was that the warning was for the original poster, but I didn't realize it at the time.

the all feared dark blue

[ViRaL1]

I always thought Cap's was this one...

My wife knows about my duties and adventures here. She knows where the site is, and what it's all about.

I was downstairs a while ago and she informed me that she had already joined and activated, and that some time she'll have to participate in the OT discussions

I know her user name. Would it be unethical to ban her right now and claim she broke one of the rules?

I vaguely remember mine but I'm still trying to find it. Probably somewhere in the computer forum.

[Capmaster]

I always thought Cap's was this one...

My wife knows about my duties and adventures here. She knows where the site is, and what it's all about.

I was downstairs a while ago and she informed me that she had already joined and activated, and that some time she'll have to participate in the OT discussions

I know her user name. Would it be unethical to ban her right now and claim she broke one of the rules?

I vaguely remember mine but I'm still trying to find it. Probably somewhere in the computer forum.

Without a doubt my stupidest moment of videohelp-related issues was blurting out "Videohelp dot com" in the house within her earshot. But since that didn't occur here, I didn't include it

Second stupidest was misreading Dolly's suggested inflation pressure of 2.35 p.s.i as 235 p.s.i.

[Forum Troll]

Second stupidest was misreading Dolly's suggested inflation pressure of 2.35 p.s.i as 235 p.s.i

hot4ewe.com?

[pacmania_2001]

Its hard to pick between the two:

Asking for love advice on here.

Photoshopping the picture of Cap's DVD shelf that started the whole midget clown porn thing that led onto the whole inflatable doll thing.

[Capmaster]

Photoshopping the picture of Cap's DVD shelf that started the whole midget clown porn thing that led onto the whole inflatable doll thing.

A classic:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=858143#858143

[Will Hay]

...admiting I'd just bought an R200 disk printer, scanned a rental dvd to test the print quality and yes, you guessed it, sent the printed, blank dvd-r to the rental company and left the original under my scanner.
Will Hay, fuckwit.

[Capmaster]

...admiting I'd just bought an R200 disk printer, scanned a rental dvd to test the print quality and yes, you guessed it, sent the printed, blank dvd-r to the rental company and left the original under my scanner.
Will Hay, fuckwit.

I remember that. You took a fair amount of abuse for that one.

[tgpo]

Too many to name

[bazooka]

Joining. I don't think i'll ever be able to leave :P

That was my mistake as well.

[pyrate83]

Mine was when late one night I posted some advertising not realizing what I had done until the following morning due to alcoholic beverages. I got banned briefly, then reinstated with a warning.

[jimmalenko]

...admiting I'd just bought an R200 disk printer, scanned a rental dvd to test the print quality and yes, you guessed it, sent the printed, blank dvd-r to the rental company and left the original under my scanner.
Will Hay, fuckwit.

Did they ever find out ?

If not - Will Hay, genius

[Faustus]

...admiting I'd just bought an R200 disk printer, scanned a rental dvd to test the print quality and yes, you guessed it, sent the printed, blank dvd-r to the rental company and left the original under my scanner.
Will Hay, fuckwit.

Heh when those CD printers first came out my cousin had a disk he rented that wouldn't play. I asked him to bring it over and it was a blank CD-R with the cover printed on it.

The place he rented it from was convinced it was him. I told him he should have said that if he had done it a) he wouldn't have mentioned it and b) it would have been alot harder to tell the difference.

[DVD_Ripper]

Hmmmm.... I think I got chastized for discussing the qty of serials I had in my Serials V7.02 db (78,000 -- all mine of course ) . Or maybe it was the sharpie post.

[yoda313]

Hello,

Posting in this thread!!!!

Kevin

-just kidding! -

[indolikaa]

RAID 0.

[VCDHunter]

...admiting I'd just bought an R200 disk printer, scanned a rental dvd to test the print quality and yes, you guessed it, sent the printed, blank dvd-r to the rental company and left the original under my scanner.
Will Hay, fuckwit.

I remember that - it was sheer quality !

Will Hay = Piss Poor Pirate

[Dr. DOS]

Joining

[smearbrick1]

Ripping on TGPO a few times only to have him laugh off my bashing like it was nothing...

Bastard!!!

[tgpo]

Ripping on TGPO a few times only to have him laugh off my bashing like it was nothing...

Bastard!!!

[glockjs]

this is the feel good thread by the way...making everybody feel a little less stupid one at a time


we should have a top 10 stupidest post ever

[indolikaa]

this is the feel good thread by the way...making everybody feel a little less stupid one at a time


we should have a top 10 stupidest post ever

Try Jimmalenko's link "How Not to Post" for a good start on that poll...

[jimmalenko]

this is the feel good thread by the way...making everybody feel a little less stupid one at a time


we should have a top 10 stupidest post ever

Try Jimmalenko's link "How Not to Post" for a good start on that poll...

That was one of Capmaster's first collars as a mod .... Good to see he got into the true spirit of the occasion ...

[indolikaa]

Yes, it was :cough: one of his finer moments here at videohelp.com.

neeze:

[fritzi93]

A couple brilliant posts I submitted after having a few too many beers. Hard to pick which one was THE most embarrassing. I have a personal statute of limitations, and after a thread dies refuse to revisit it.