[not_your_vase]

So, what's the question?

I found that owning your stupidity takes off its edge. When I do or say inadvertently something dumb, and I see that beside me others have realized too how dumb it is, I just something along the lines of "Ufff... now I must look like a damn fool" - which usually gets some agreements and some laughs, and 10 minutes later everyone forgets about it.

Of course this works only if the stupidity hasn't caused any damage (yet). Once there is real damage, well... consider not doing such things.