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What's the most stupid thing you've ever done? Me? Well I'll just say this, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TOUCH A TERRANO FAN WHEN ITS SPINNING. Even if you're curious:D It hurts!!:augie:doh
 
Climbing an unsupported ladder with its feet on a wet kitchen floor.

It put me in a french hospital for two weeks. :eek:
 
Shagged the landlady and got shot at by the landlord :eek: I don't drink so much these days ;)
 
What's the most stupid thing you've ever done? Me? Well I'll just say this, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TOUCH A TERRANO FAN WHEN ITS SPINNING. Even if you're curious:D It hurts!!:augie:doh
Puts me in mind of a comment (by Badger I think)... If you are curious about the performance of your viscous fan...use a carrot, not your finger.

Or any other suitable vegetable.
 
What's the most stupid thing you've ever done? Me? Well I'll just say this, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TOUCH A TERRANO FAN WHEN ITS SPINNING. Even if you're curious:D It hurts!!:augie:doh

I can testify to that, reminds me when at Dover Raceway couple of years back, put electric fan on my banger (we always have trouble keeping them cool) but I could not see it very well and was not sure it was running, so put my hand between engine and fan preparing for a force of air into the engine bay but I had wired it wrong (all to do with the multitude of things to do when racing) and my hand was sucked into the fan instead, two nicely cut fingers, but it was not all bad, I got to visit the nurses station and got pampered, Swifty will not allow me near fans now, Rick
 
thought the blade had stopped:doh:doh
Picture taken after it was fixed at the local plastics at Chelmsford
 

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OOPH, was that a chop saw related "I thought it had stopped " ? :lol
My old Elu didn't stop very quickly and nearly caught me a few times :eek:
My Metabo beasty has some serious electro trickery braking :thumbs
I had a router bit explode on me once after it found an old screw in a worktop core. Bits went through my trousers and just missed the crown jewels :sly:augie
 
Yeah, I cut my hand in to places. It didn't make to much of a mess of my engine bay:lol
 
Circular saw, fluo lighting, strobe effect, blade looked as if it had stopped, extractor fan masked sound of blade spinning, OUCH:doh picture is xray of top of thumb, ripped off more than cut off, anyway that how it looked, plastic bag, for bit, frozen peas to keep it cold, hospital 5 mins walk away, jump the queue, saw a doctor within 1 minute, blues & twos to plastics
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The guys at the plastics hospital spent 6 hours trying to join up the plumbing:clap pipes too small, they could not re-establish blood supply.

Hospital was Broomfield in Chelmsford, all staff bar one were foreign, surgeons looked/sounded like Arabs, saw all the work on huge flat screen monitor, service was 5 star plus.

Had my own en-suite room, nothing was too much for them. 3 days.

I do not understand people knocking NHS, a few months before I was in Southend hospital with gastritis, brought on by gall stones, also 5 star plus, perhaps I am lucky living in Essex, either way my experience with NHS is nothing but excellent.:clap:clap
 
Circular saw, fluo lighting, strobe effect, blade looked as if it had stopped, extractor fan masked sound of blade spinning, OUCH:doh picture is xray of top of thumb, ripped off more than cut off, anyway that how it looked, plastic bag, for bit, frozen peas to keep it cold, hospital 5 mins walk away, jump the queue, saw a doctor within 1 minute, blues & twos to plastics
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The guys at the plastics hospital spent 6 hours trying to join up the plumbing:clap pipes too small, they could not re-establish blood supply.

Hospital was Broomfield in Chelmsford, all staff bar one were foreign, surgeons looked/sounded like Arabs, saw all the work on huge flat screen monitor, service was 5 star plus.

Had my own en-suite room, nothing was too much for them. 3 days.

I do not understand people knocking NHS, a few months before I was in Southend hospital with gastritis, brought on by gall stones, also 5 star plus, perhaps I am lucky living in Essex, either way my experience with NHS is nothing but excellent.:clap:clap

I agree my experience with the NHS has also been fantastic........Not been in a hospital for years :lol
 
today whilst wrestling to break the bead on my young uns quad bike tyre to put another inner tube in i got a nice long sliver of reinforcing in the palm of my hand:doh dig about with our lasses tweezers got it out:augie
then when inflating the said tyre i dropped the air hose and the quick release coupling let go and the air hose smacked me on the forehead:doh
Tomorrow i will be making a bead breaker out of some inch bar i have:clap
oh and son dont bring me any more nails and screws home in your tyres we have plenty in the shed:lol
cheers Andy
 
Some many years ago I removed the fan from my Volvo so I could squeeze a few extra horses from the modified motor.No problem there.
However.Next time I was in the pub I was accosted by a vague acquaintance with a bandaged face."This is all your fault" he shouted through the bandages.
Apparently he had been in the garage when I removed the fan but thought that total removal was a bit extreme.So he took a hacksaw to two of the blades on his motor,closed the bonnet and told his mate to rev the engine.Bang ! The fan disintegrated and came through the bonnet taking off the tip of his nose.:lol:
So I suppose I indirectly caused him to be stupid !!
 
Some many years ago I removed the fan from my Volvo so I could squeeze a few extra horses from the modified motor.No problem there.
However.Next time I was in the pub I was accosted by a vague acquaintance with a bandaged face."This is all your fault" he shouted through the bandages.
Apparently he had been in the garage when I removed the fan but thought that total removal was a bit extreme.So he took a hacksaw to two of the blades on his motor,closed the bonnet and told his mate to rev the engine.Bang ! The fan disintegrated and came through the bonnet taking off the tip of his nose.:lol:
So I suppose I indirectly caused him to be stupid !!

:lol:lol i like that
 
Does marriage count?:lol:lol:lol

Only kidding.

Oh yeah, trying to do a very fast 90 degree take off on a Yamaha 180 on really wet roads with two slicks for tyres while well topped up with cider, thought I had pulled it off as when the bike slid out I managed to right it but over cooked it and ended up on my butt. Pride hurt and that was all, thankfully. Moral of the story, if you're going to do something stupid like that, at least have decent rubber on.:doh
 
Does marriage count?:lol:lol:lol

Only kidding.

Oh yeah, trying to do a very fast 90 degree take off on a Yamaha 180 on really wet roads with two slicks for tyres while well topped up with cider, thought I had pulled it off as when the bike slid out I managed to right it but over cooked it and ended up on my butt. Pride hurt and that was all, thankfully. Moral of the story, if you're going to do something stupid like that, at least have decent rubber on.:doh


I'm not sure the pope would agree.....:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol
 
I'm not sure the pope would agree.....:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol

Yeah, well it's been a few years since he paid us a visit so I don't expect a tap on the shoulder any time soon. Besides , I thought he was busy try to convert all you heathens over there, think he now sees us as a lost cause:(

To be honest, each and every institution we were taught to look up to and respect when we were kids have all, without exception, turned out to have feet of clay. Think I wasted a lot of time on role models who should never have had the respect they got. Thank God I still have Ryan Giggs, Cheryl Cole, Ashley Cole , David Beckham, Tiger Woods, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and a good few others to look up to and admire.:clap:clap
 

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