What's the most profound thing you did on accident? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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By that, I mean what's thing have you done that's the most likely for someone to react with "how the heck could you have done that on accident?"

My example: I successfully cooked a prime rib on accident. I was in charge of the house while everyone else was gone, and there was a prime rib slow-cooking in the oven. The problem was that a mist was coming out of the vents, and I didn't know it was normal. So I'd see the mist, turn off the oven, call my parents and grandfather, they would assure me it's normal, I'd turn the oven back on, and the cycle would continue because I don't risk that stuff. When they finally came home, we had the prime ribs for dinner, and the way I caused it to cook actually improved it. They bit out of it and immediately said "this is the best prime rib I've ever had". Thus I accidentally cooked a good prime rib. That's a positive experience anyways.

What some might say is my most profound negative example: There was a Minecraft level that was a replica of the whole nation of Denmark, and while the features that would allow it to otherwise be destroyed were disabled, I accidentally found the glitch that led to its demise and eventual conquest by America.

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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 39 points 2 years ago

When I was in university I took the department lead of CS and Math folks offline. For some absolutely idiotic reason my university didn't use DHCP but instead statically distributed IP addresses. In our hacking lab we were setting up a recovered desktop PC and to get it on the network I randomly chose an IP addy (this was IPv4) and it happened to be the address of the department head's computer.

Since I set this machine up at night when he wasn't on campus the network recognized my machine at that address and refused the department head's machine when he came in in the morning.

[-] themusicman@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

That's what they get for not fixing the mac address. Massive security issue lol

[-] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

*by accident. On accident grates like nails on a blackboard. It's like saying by purpose.

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 9 points 2 years ago

Nails *by a blackboard

I did that for purpose

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

On accident definitely still works. I've heard it plenty times.

Turns out English grammar has always been an ever changing thing and different regions that speak it, speak it differently. All that matters is that the recipient understood you. You knowing the "correct" grammar means that they succeeded in that, so it's fine.

Do you read shakespeare and critique him on his grammar? Do you critique a Geordie on their grammar for speaking like everyone else they grew up around? English is a great language where there is no ONE way to speak or write it, so don't perpetuate that myth of proper grammar. That's just formal grammar, a product of the posh cunts that wanted to differentiate from the working class.

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 13 points 2 years ago

All that matters is that the recipient understood you.

Ah, the siren song of the ill-educated

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

If you ever took an English language class you'd learn that this is essentially 90% of the course with it focusing on various different dialects of English with MLE and pidgin usually being the main focuses to drive this point.

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

English [Simplified], perchance?

😂

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

British English

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 6 points 2 years ago

The Lord's work.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

As someone who grew up in the commonwealth, I can't remember ever hearing it as "by accident". I'll keep that in mind.

[-] th3dogcow@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

As someone who also grew up in the commonwealth, I can’t remember ever hearing anyone say “on accident”. And it seems that “on accident” is grammatically wrong (not that we all have to speak with perfect grammar, but just pointing it out). I’m sure I’ll get downvoted for this but whatever. “On accident” also grated at me lol.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I upvoted you on/by accident. There.

[-] th3dogcow@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I just upvoted you by purpose. There. Sounds weird, right?

[-] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

👏👏👏

[-] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 25 points 2 years ago

Decades ago, in my early teens I was for some reason running towards a hammock, I think I was gonna try to jump over it. As I got close, my cousin who was standing by the tree that held the hammock pulled on it, causing the hammock itself to get higher. Somehow I ended up spinning around the hammock and standing still on the other side of it. To this day I still can't think how that was phisically possible.

[-] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

I did something similar on a bicycle about to crash into a car in a near head on collision. Right before impact, without thinking, I jumped off of the bike, ran across the hood of the car, did a full front flip and landed on my feet on the other side... While wearing flip-flops.

A guy on the curb asked me if I was alright and all I could think to say was, "did you see what I just did?!"

[-] rhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.com 22 points 2 years ago

When I was a teenager, I worked in a garden department of a store. We had plants to water. The pipes for the water had shutoffs in the ceiling in addition to the faucets themselves. I was working over the weekend and needed to water the plants, but no water would come out. The ceiling shutoffs were open, but I had heard there was a master shutoff just inside the store.

So I went in and was looking around on the walls, following pipes, and found this very large pipe with a shutoff on it. It had a tag hanging on it that said "emergency test" but my teen brain thought this meant it had been tested and passed inspection.

I turned it on and went outside, only to find an enormous amount of water coming out a different pipe, some kind of drain. Not what I wanted! When I reentered the store, the fire alarm was going off, but I thought nothing of it, shut the valve, and went about my business. By the time I got back outside, the fire department was there.

About 15 minutes later, fire folks in full gear were in my area poking around with the boss. I asked what happened, and they said for some reason there was a pressure drop in the sprinkler system and it triggered an automatic response 😬 I told them what I did, and they said they were too old for this, and then left. Not a great decision for me that day...

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