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By Darkandcold - 09/01/2013 19:23 - United Kingdom - Exeter

Today, my dad learned that it's possible to power a lightbulb with a potato. Since then, he's been going around the house removing all the plugs from the wall and plugging them into potatoes instead. He's absolutely baffled as to why it won't work. FML

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By Anonymous - 22/01/2025 03:00 - New Zealand - Lower Hutt

Today, my son admitted that he worked out how to make a fuse in my house's fusebox blow, by turning on all the appliances and lights in the house at once. He's done it three days in a row because when the lights go out, I 'scream and act like Donald Duck, but with swearing' and it's hilarious. FML

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By PhDdaughter - 04/12/2009 10:16 - Switzerland

Today, the electrician came because our kitchen light has been flickering. After examining the installation, he screws the lightbulb tighter in the socket. My parents both are PhDs. FML

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By idiot bro - 06/07/2014 18:04 - United States - Brunswick

Today, after a power outage at my house, my 14-year-old brother was genuinely confused as to why our flashlights still worked if we had no electricity. FML

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By skj - 29/05/2021 11:01

Today, I asked my mom why the lamp in the living room wasn’t working. She immediately plugged it in, it worked, and she called me a complete idiot. I haven’t slept in a week. FML

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By burnnotice - 19/09/2009 14:10 - United States

Today, I was trying to turn on my computer and couldn't. I spent twenty minutes trying to figure out what was wrong when I finally called my husband for help and made him leave work. He came in, looked at the wall, and plugged it back in. The look on his face said it all. FML

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By facepalm - 22/07/2013 20:19 - United States

Today, my dad's conspiracy theory obsession hit a new level of stupidity when he blurted, "False flag" because our toaster stopped working. FML

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By coco1234 - 09/03/2020 12:35

Today, I stood there for 10 minutes trying to fix the toaster, until I called my brother to help me. I'd forgotten that it wasn't plugged in. He now thinks I'm a complete idiot. FML

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By mister fixit? more like mister fuxit - 25/11/2024 03:00 - United States - New York

Today, I made the mistake of taking apart and fixing a malfunctioning toaster in front of my five year-old. Two hours later, he tried to take apart a lamp that was plugged in. He shocked himself, broke the lamp, and set the carpet on fire. FML

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Boom!

By Anonymous - 03/10/2019 12:00 - United Kingdom - Wigan

Today, my dad stumbled home drunk at closing time and woke the whole house with a bang by attempting to heat a tin of baked beans in the microwave, without removing the beans from the tin first. FML

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By duhasiangirl - 15/11/2012 00:48 - Canada - Cambridge

Today, my dad put an onion in my room, telling me spirits won't haunt me and that I won't get sick. He thinks a vegetable will protect me. FML

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lilhellian 26

Thursday 10 January 2013 0:12

Pft potatoes only go so far.. Now bananas...

FlamingTacos 7

Thursday 10 January 2013 0:15

Potatoes might be able to conduct electricity, but flaming tacos can do so much more.

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charvisioku 22

Thursday 10 January 2013 9:13

All I can imagine is some guy with a Cornish accent going "Ere, now oi just can't get why this won't work". It's too early for this shit.

blackmanfh 2

Thursday 10 January 2013 15:33

Yes because people from Devon speak with Cornish accents. Makes sense.

Satoaoi 13

Thursday 10 January 2013 10:55

this made my day it's simply just awesome whenn a dad plugs potatoes around the house

gutoputo 4

Thursday 10 January 2013 19:20

Well, Thomas Edison started this way. Not actually, but hey.

GillesOrElse 5

Thursday 10 January 2013 19:35

Reminds me of the time my dad built a nucleair powerplant to make the patatoes in our back yard grow..

WizardJeremy 13

Friday 11 January 2013 3:06

Was he really a big fan of portal 2 enough to make a potato battery?

bmgt 4

Friday 11 January 2013 5:58

He must have forgotten to ask google how to do it right.

Barbelo 3

Friday 11 January 2013 11:00

Sounds like a Latvian potato experiment. Two Latvian look at clouds. One see potato. Other see impossible dream.

Raptorix2012 17

Friday 23 August 2013 4:41

Portal?

CougeeSwagg 19

Sunday 20 July 2014 3:25

The potato only acts as an insulator, it has no conducting ability.

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