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Several years ago at work accidentally included a customer in an email I had meant to just forward to some colleagues with a rather informal comment about the contents of an email they had sent me.

I'd not actually said anything that bad, it was just was not meant for them, and remember my stomach dropping when I realised a minute later what I'd done. Luckily either my frantic retraction worked or they were just cool with it, because I never heard anything about it.
 
My latest was when I took down a beam in the carport. It was made of fibreglass and I thought it cant be that heavy, but it was. I had to drop it onto some bench cushions placed under it on the drive. Staging now ordered for Tuesday.
 
Had a new orbea mtb delivered last Thursday.
Decided to flash the firmware, during it I altered how the handlebars are orientated and sheared the control cable that goes to the motor, bricked the update.
I'd forgotten that everything routes internally on it.
Had to reflash the whole thing and get a new shimano cable delivered, a lucky escape really.
 
On the hottest day this year I removed all my clothing, apart from my socks and opened the freezer door and stood in front of it, it was only when I turned around to cool my back that I realised that perhaps doing this in Iceland OhNo
 
On my hike last night I spent so long getting the sunset pics on a hike I'd never done as I was going back I didn't realise the downward section was a 32 percent downwards gradient in dark.
Think it was more than 30 percent which the map showed.

Didn't get back to car until 2030! It was so slick I'd have slid down it without hiking poles! I was basically on all 4s on that bit.

Here's the light on final bit of the walk!


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Just talked to some of my hiking friends about the descent and many have said they came down in their bum! :D

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413x said:
On my hike last night I spent so long getting the sunset pics on a hike I'd never done as I was going back I didn't realise the downward section was a 32 percent downwards gradient in dark.
Think it was more than 30 percent which the map showed.

Didn't get back to car until 2030! It was so slick I'd have slid down it without hiking poles! I was basically on all 4s on that bit.

Here's the light on final bit of the walk!
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You know that icon on your phone that looks like a torch...
 
Mr Badger said:
You know that icon on your phone that looks like a torch...
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I had 8 percent battery left! :D
The torch doesn't work at that level.
And yeah it's my map too. So range anxiety was real!

Usually I'd take my power bank and head torch. But I decided to go at 1700 and just forgot it.
 
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My Son wanted me to take him to bed on my shoulders.
I forgot to warn him about the door frame.
I then decided to do a horsey type bounce....
I heard the sound of his head hit the doorframe.....
At that point, I said OH NO.
However.... Even though he fell off onto the sofa next to the door... and was holding his head.... and i was seeing it all in slow motion readying myself for the screaming and the telling off from the wife... the 3 yr old just started laughing and called me a silly daddy.

Turns out... 3yr old boys are hard as nails.
 
Most recently "DELETE FROM dbo.Users WHERE ID = 9" only I failed to drag the selection over anything after "Users".

An old one that stands out is when I was on holiday with my family at a game park in South Africa, aged about 12. I wandered off on my own (with the classic "not too far" from my parents), found a small cliff face and though it would be a good idea to climb it. Got about 3/4 of the way up and came face to face with a troop of vervet monkeys. Oh no.
I essentially just let go of my hand holds and slid down the cliff face on my stomach with a few of the monkeys excitedly following me down. I let out a yell as I landed painfully, which made the monkeys think twice, with which I ran.

It was the kind of experience you want to tell everyone about, but not your parents in case you lose the freedom that got you into the mess in the first place.
 
Diagro said:
My Son wanted me to take him to bed on my shoulders.
I forgot to warn him about the door frame.
I then decided to do a horsey type bounce....
I heard the sound of his head hit the doorframe.....
At that point, I said OH NO.
However.... Even though he fell off onto the sofa next to the door... and was holding his head.... and i was seeing it all in slow motion readying myself for the screaming and the telling off from the wife... the 3 yr old just started laughing and called me a silly daddy.

Turns out... 3yr old boys are hard as nails.
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Gave me a flashback moment.

My daughter when she was a baby used to the love bouncy thing that you had hung on the door frame. Bungee cord from door and she would use her legs to bounce off the ground.

There's me thinking i could make it better and so wound her up like a watch and watched her spin. Lots of giggles until she started bouncing off the door frame like a pinball bumper.
 
APC Serial cables aren't standard serial cables. Plugged on into a 5 KW UPS which immediately turned it off along with the 14 servers that were connected to it. The cold feeling and rapid pressing of on buttons was the most horrible feeling.
 
mejinks said:
APC Serial cables aren't standard serial cables. Plugged on into a 5 KW UPS which immediately turned it off along with the 14 servers that were connected to it. The cold feeling and rapid pressing of on buttons was the most horrible feeling.
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That one I feel is very much on APC, if they're not going to use standard serial cables then they should give an error message not just shut off if you use a standard serial cable (or the one from last years model).
 
Werewolf said:
That one I feel is very much on APC, if they're not going to use standard serial cables then they should give an error message not just shut off if you use a standard serial cable (or the one from last years model).
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/thinks back to Sun Enterprise servers that took you unplugging a serial console as a break signal .....
 
When my eldest was just a baby (1987) he had just had a feed from his mother and I was left to entertain him while she went downstairs. Being in bed I mistakenly thought it was a good idea to throw him up in the air as he used to love that. I was lying down and he was horizontal and facing me and on the second catch he barfed right into my mouth as I was talking to him. It was horrible, all warm and bitter!! Don't go throwing your baby up in the air and catching them after a feed!!
 
SexyGreyFox said:
I haven't had a cap on for 14 years and been caught in the rain many times, don't worry about it.
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As a newish ebike user, I'm not sure how risky getting rain in the charge port is, but these days that rain is comig down with at least some electrolytes mixed in that could be dangerous for the port (both at the time of fallin in the port and causing a short when plugging in the charger).
 
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