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by throwaway0a5e 2057 days ago
I really dislike these "I did dumb things, please give me likes/up votes/virtue points" themed articles. We all know that you're not supposed to get drunk and punch your wife or crash your boss's fork lift doing donuts. When people do those sorts of things about it. Paying the stupid tax because you didn't follow common sense practices and hosed a production database, caused downtime, cost your employer money, fell for a check fraud scheme, got your bike stolen, etc, etc, is not some badge of honor. Why do people tell stories about it as if it is?
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> There comes a moment in every person's life when they decide to punch themselves in the face. Really, it's a rite of passage.

> I’m writing this short post to chronicle the events that lead to this dreadful accident along with a few important lessons to learn from this fiasco.

> Before we begin, a quick overview of my fist. I was wearing a knuckle dusters at the time, but this could happen to anyone that has a hand. I decided to start placing my fist into my own face multiple times, with the most force I could.

Jesus Christ I suck at grammar. I meant for that middle sentence to say "When people do those sorts of things they don't brag on the internet about it. "