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ArtiscaIIy Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#1: Sep 21st 2016 at 7:53:47 PM

Basically this is the place where you describe Idiot Ball moments from you! Here are the basic rules: 1. Try not to go overboard with your moment. (i.e. nothing too Not Safe for Work.) 2. The moment can be either online or offline.

Okay, here's mine: When I was on TV Tropes the other day, I ended up submitting an already trope under a different name by accident. (basically, I submitted Improbable Use of a Weapon as Artistic License - Weapon Usage)

edited 21st Sep '16 7:54:12 PM by ArtiscaIIy

BaconZorp see you, space cowboy. from general dysphoria Since: Jun, 2016 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
see you, space cowboy.
#2: Sep 21st 2016 at 8:02:22 PM

I don't mean to make another idiot ball moment, but shouldn't this be under Yack Fest?

Long live the New Bev.
ArtiscaIIy Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#3: Sep 22nd 2016 at 3:11:14 PM

I hollered to the mods about it, it should be there soon.

Berrenta MOD Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#4: Sep 22nd 2016 at 4:33:24 PM

It has now been moved to the appropriate forum.

Sedmikrasky straight up just a bear from the woods Since: Apr, 2016
straight up just a bear
#5: Sep 22nd 2016 at 5:09:34 PM

My older sister has a few good ones. One time, the family went down to Baltimore for a day. We were at the Holocaust Memorial, and she just blurts out "Was this where the Holocaust happened?" We haven't let her live that one down yet.

Another time, she said she was going to Old Navy and I decided to come with her. We ended up going to the Gap instead. I didn't question this, figuring she changed her mind. So we do our shopping and get home and she puts down the Gap bag on the kitchen table. My mom asks "I thought you were going to Old Navy?" and my sister says "We did!", having apparently not noticed at all during our hour long trip that she was in Gap and not Old Navy. We haven't let her live that one down either.

kablammin45 art lizer from Cleese's Battle Circuit (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
art lizer
#6: Sep 22nd 2016 at 5:42:26 PM

I have so so many I can't even remember all of them, but my worst moment is one that I've dubbed "The Cheesecake Incident", if only for how badly I paid for it at the end. After spending a whole week preparing for and being in a play, I was so exhausted at the afterparty at a nearby Cheesecake Factory. My sister and I ordered one piece of cheesecake to split, and when we got it, I was so exhausted and not thinking straight that I split it width-wise instead of length-wise and gave my sister the small end without thinking about what I was doing. When I realized my mistake, I started to fix it, but my sister insisted that it was fine and ate the piece anyway despite me insisting that I give her half of the big piece. (I think she didn't want to ask me for more pie in front of her friends.) She then proceeded to throw me under the bus by telling our mom about it when we got home, which lead to every member of my family yelling at me about it. I felt so bad that I attempted to learn how to make cheesecake myself just so I could give it to my sister to make up for it.

It felt like a freaking Grounded video.

"Hey, least I didn't lose all my artistic talent when I crash landed in the arena here."
Tranquilis The Tranquil Knight from *Clap Clap Clap* Deep in the Heart of Texas Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
The Tranquil Knight
#7: Sep 23rd 2016 at 6:54:26 AM

So I have a friend on Skype I play League Of Legends with fairly often, and have been for about two years now. For the first year I played with him, I assumed he was a girl. The two main factors that made me believe this: His voice is very feminine, and during that FULL YEAR where I was playing with him, I always referred to him as a she, and he never once corrected me. Cut to a year later and we enlist a couple buddies to play with regularly. While playing I started telling a story about my friend and refer to him as she a couple of times, not catching when one of my buddies would quietly go "He," whenever I did. Eventually, one of my friends straight up stopped me and told me that 'She' was a he, and I legit thought he was bullshitting me,

Eventually we had to call our friend back on, and the friend who corrected me told him "Hey, turn on your webcam and lift up your shirt."

I, still being a dumb ass, looked away from the screen and reasoned that 'she' was just flat chested. Followed by "Hey X, go get your driver's licence."

My friends still won't let me live it down, and after doing it for so long I still subconsciously refer to my friend as a woman and have to be corrected constantly.

Dead for the foreseeable future. Towergirls will return when I do.
ClownToy Since: Aug, 2015
#8: Oct 18th 2016 at 9:16:51 PM

I guess pinching someone with my keys from behind because I was bored. That counts because I forgot that guy gets easily angered and yet I went all along with my brilliant plan. That wasn't the last time, I pinched a girl with a pencil, and she wasn't very happy either. I guess I should have learned from my previous experience rather than try to do the same again, but I was bored and I didn't knew what to do.

SilvieSkydancer Since: Jun, 2016
#9: Oct 20th 2016 at 6:21:23 AM

I'm extremely forgetful and distractable, with a bad tendency to casually skim things instead of deeply reading them, so I get the idiot ball quite a lot.

Recently in my history class, I was told to research an empire's religion- but that empire actually had two religons; my sources said there was only one, though, so that's what I thought was true. So when I was asked "what was [the other religon]?" while doing my presentation, I felt like a complete idiot for a relatively big chunk of info flying completely under my radar.

Bananaquit Since: Jan, 2001
#10: Oct 21st 2016 at 6:13:09 PM

I was walking around the quaint little town where I go to do my laundry. I was walking around waiting for my clothes to tumble dry. I passed the town hall, where there is a koi pond. I took a picture of a sign I found funny: an image of a goldfish with the legend, “Don’t feed us!” I thought it would be a good idea to take a picture of the fish in the pond themselves. Bad idea...

[plunk!]

Had to reach out and retrieve my phone by plunging my entire arm into the pond. I thought it was OK, because it still worked, still took pictures, still sent messages.

Fast forward to a half-hour later. I was at the café and poked at my phone. It was a brick.

The upside to this? I wound up getting the next model better phone as a replacement. I’m much happier with it!

BrightLight from the Southern Water Tribe. Since: May, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#11: Mar 28th 2019 at 6:43:06 AM

Any time I procrastinate on homework.

Mroh Since: Dec, 2018
#12: Mar 28th 2019 at 1:53:21 PM

Any time I attempt to be funny/clever and it falls flat.

unfortunatezorua from the old, in the new yesterday (Five Long Years) Relationship Status: Wishing you were here
#13: Mar 28th 2019 at 7:43:58 PM

Any time I attempt to be funny/clever and the entire userbase starts hounding on me like a pack of rabid dogs because the humour mode pothole doesn't exist on other sites.

Well, that’d be jus’ a waste. Why would ya want to deprive the world of such anomaly as yourself?
Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#14: Mar 28th 2019 at 7:50:04 PM

I know that feeling. Which is why I don't miss that old joke thread that used to be on AOL.

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
Segal991 A loyal animal lover from Somewhere Beyond the Sea Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Yes, we're lovers, and that is that
A loyal animal lover
#15: Jun 28th 2023 at 12:39:44 AM

If we're allowed to mention other people's goofy moments, my grandfather had a funny Failed a Spot Check moment once; he didn't even notice there was a bee on his back until after it had flown away!

I occasionally have Failed a Spot Check moments too whenever I fail to notice that something is nearby until it's pointed out to me.

Edited by Segal991 on Jun 28th 2023 at 12:40:52 PM

Oh, I believe in yesterday
ReikoKazama Kersplat! from Tasmania, Australia Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to the music
Kersplat!
#16: Jun 28th 2023 at 2:09:55 AM

Grasped the Idiot Ball firmly in regards to the Battle Tower. My team? Heracross, Quagsire, Ninetales. I still don't know how I made it to Palmer but he quickly showed me the error of my ways...

FC: SW-1445-0294-1719/PSN: TekkenGirl4Lyfe/Currently playing: Croc: Legend of the Gobbos HD
Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Logic Girl
#17: Jun 28th 2023 at 4:10:35 PM

Once when I was twelve, I was reading Hetty Feather, and I couldn't grasp the idea of Hetty and Jem getting married in the future because I said, "He's ten and she's five! When she's fifty, he'll be a hundred!".

For every low there is a high.
punkcrow The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him) from Northwest Indiana Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him)
#18: Jun 28th 2023 at 4:12:30 PM

All the time.

I remember recently I was trying to help my dad move into his new apartment and he kept asking me if I could find certain things - about half the time I was struggling to find something, it turns out it was right in front of me and I didn't realize.

Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.
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