ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Ever amazed by your own stupidity?
- Thread starter swee'pea99
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I was an accountant for a whisky company before I became a teacher. Just curious - one of our distilleries had a copper worm tub to turn the vapor back to liquid, adding a unique flavor to the spirit. Just curious as I hadn’t heard the term for a long time.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
Littlemill Distillery, Bowling. Sadly overtaken by property developers and while a listed building "accidentally " caught fire at 02.30 one morning after it had been shut down for a while. This was some years after I left.
It was claimed to be the oldest legal distillery in Scotland. The owners house [at that time the manager's house] I lived in had the date 1772 carved into the lintel above the front door. It was certainly very old and had some interesting bits including a ghost. We also had some very innovative machinery and control systems of our own design and manufacture.
It closed because the principle shareholder and managing director in the company died and the result was a mix of speculators and a series of changes of ownership.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
Was that Bladnoch?
Craigellachie.
I was slicing up plastc water bottles to make more room in the recycling bin. The stanley knife I was using was a bit worn. At some point the blade slipped but instead of travelling straight into a safe direction it got deflected into my wrist and pieced the skin right by my vein. The tip was too blunt to slice through but it gave me a heck of a shock.
I awarded myself a silver Darwin medal.
I awarded myself a silver Darwin medal.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Dunno about in your place but in ours the recycling centre uses a camera connected to a computer to filter the recycling
If it doesn;t look like a bottle to the camera it gets diverted and sent to landfill
so cutting it up would result in it being rejected
bonzobanana
Guru
If you do get one my advice would be get a Japanese designed model they are more intuitive rather than a generic Chinese designed model which don't seem to care how user friendly the control panel is.
cycling_eejit
Über Member
Was fixing a clogged sink once, removed the waste trap, got the blockage out and then decided it was a good idea to flush it out with some water from the tap.
Craig the cyclist
Über Member
I was cooking dinner one evening for us and some friends. I was inside, so in bare feet as usual.
I poured the gravy in to what I thought was a Pyrex jug, but it wasn't Pyrex. The bottom fell out of the shattered jug, the boiling gravy splashed on the floor and I stepped on the bottom of the jug. 9 stitches across the bottom of my foot and two courses of antibiotics and no gravy for dinner.
It was like a Quintan Tarrantion film in the kitchen!
I poured the gravy in to what I thought was a Pyrex jug, but it wasn't Pyrex. The bottom fell out of the shattered jug, the boiling gravy splashed on the floor and I stepped on the bottom of the jug. 9 stitches across the bottom of my foot and two courses of antibiotics and no gravy for dinner.
It was like a Quintan Tarrantion film in the kitchen!
I, sadly, have got 3 versions of that t-shirt.
Seevio
Guru
- Location
- South Glos
I wondered how you chop anything with a mandolin (Maybe a ukelele would be better?) but after looking it up, I have discovered that mandolins and mandolines are very different things.I once used a mandolin to slice an onion without the little device to hold what one's slicing. My wife was a little sympathetic.............
the time I used the mandolin to slice a cabbage without the little device she asked "Are you feckin' stupid or what."
I'm no longer amazed by my own stupidity........
Some years ago….maybe 20….
Wife had gone out for an hour or som me home with the toddlers, aged about 5 & 3….
I had to cut open a package. Using small lock-knife (really just to get a tight zip-tie type thing cut)
Got distracted by the smaller one…managed to stab the fleshy bit between thumb and forefinger.
It bled furiously
Older one was a bit distressed by the blood….younger one toddled off next door for help!
They were out, but a pal round the corner took me to A&E (3 stitches needed
) whilst his wife looked after the toddlers.
Wife returned, somewhat confused by how I managed that in such a short space of time
I tell her it’s a special skill
Wife had gone out for an hour or som me home with the toddlers, aged about 5 & 3….
I had to cut open a package. Using small lock-knife (really just to get a tight zip-tie type thing cut)
Got distracted by the smaller one…managed to stab the fleshy bit between thumb and forefinger.
It bled furiously
Older one was a bit distressed by the blood….younger one toddled off next door for help!
They were out, but a pal round the corner took me to A&E (3 stitches needed
) whilst his wife looked after the toddlers.Wife returned, somewhat confused by how I managed that in such a short space of time
I tell her it’s a special skill
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
I've done that many times. Having taken off the trap, I reach up to the basin and empty the trap contents. The contents end up on my face a second later.
Genius!
coco2
Veteran
- Location
- Glenlivet, Speyside
Just down the from the place I work in, Glenlivet Distillery.
