The Monument to Stupidity is a place to share your mistakes and revel in their humanity. Sometimes we mess up and that's OK. Share your stories with us completely anonymously and join us in celebrating our ongoing stupidity.
2025-03-27
I deleted the monument. Thank the lord I had a local copy I was using for development. Almost every post is back up now, though it says they were all uploaded today :| You can't take this place down that easy, me! Edit 2024-03-28: I got the dates back!
2025-03-27
Hi, I'm stupid. I was wearing some concert trousers before the concert and tripped a couple of times (but in a lowkey way) and didn't think much of it. Fast forward to after the concert and I trip up the stairs, bashing my cello, knee and ego in the process. That same evening, just an hour later, my housemate fell down the stairs at a bar in Cardiff (she was wearing stilettos and was drunk though. I have no excuse).
2025-02-09
Forgot it was Sunday and the shops close early. Going to have head out to get bread before breakfast tomorrow morning :(
2025-01-08
Leant on a knob on the hob of my new digs while cooking pasta and the gas cut out immediately. Couldn't figure out how to turn it back on so let my pasta sit in the hot water till it was cooked through. Never do that – it was the most stodgy glue I've ever had the misfortune of putting into my mouth.
2025-01-08
Created this website without any spam protection. Scammers have posted twice now (pretty lame tbh) so will probably have to add an moderation process at some point. Watch this space for when I say I put that off too long ;)
2024-10-16
Pushed a last minute refactor. Did not test. MR approved and merged. 2 minutes later I opened a hotfix MR for a logic error in that refactor. Everyone's gone home. That's tomorrow's problem.
2024-05-13
woke up at 5:30 a.m. to go fishing. Put everything in truck. Drove to lake. Fished for four hours. Came back to truck. Opened covered truck bed. Discovered cat stowed away. He had jumped in before we left without us noticing. Lucky we found him!
2024-05-03
You might've thought after five months that I would've learned my uni timetable. Today would prove you wrong: my phone died and couldn't send a lecture reminder, so I forgot to go.
2024-04-13
I bought milk at the supermarket and left it at the self checkout, and didn’t realise until I went to put it in my fridge and it wasn’t in my bag. I had to do a walk of shame back to the supermarket and collect it again.
2024-04-09
Spent ages trying to solve a problem that is explained right at the start of the docs.