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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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
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
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
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
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
Today, my dad's conspiracy theory obsession hit a new level of stupidity when he blurted, "False flag" because our toaster stopped working. FML
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
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
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
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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Top comments
lilhellian 27
Pft potatoes only go so far.. Now bananas...
FlamingTacos 7
Potatoes might be able to conduct electricity, but flaming tacos can do so much more.
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Comments (40)
emeraldisle 30
He's not the brightest bulb in the pack.
perdix 31
Because the two blades of the plug are the same material. If you had a plug with a zinc blade and a copper blade, you'd get some faint light for a little while. It's all about dissimilar metals -- Volta discovered that.
theycallmekitty 13
If he actually gets it to work that will be awesome....how cool would it be to tell people that all your lights are powered by potatoes.
perdix 31
#21, you can get a Potato Clock kit, but a clock runs on very low voltage and very little current. Theoretically, you could run you lights on potatoes, but it would cost hundreds of times as much as paying your electric bill.
Jumpingmal2 7
True it would cost quite alot, although you would be the coolest cat around town.
perdix 31
#58, that is, until the potatoes begin to rot. Of course, if you could get the potatoes to rot in just the right way, you'd make vodka, and you will attain an even higher level of coolness. You'd have green cred and drunk cred!
license2chill 5
It's more like the OP's dad is missing the hard fact that potatoes don't generate AC..
starcrossddream 14
Thank you for explaining this perdix :)
eericcartman 5
Maybe he has potatoes for brains!
pokemonchick14 12
I laughed pretty hard at this, especially since my 4 year old niece did the same a week ago.
DomDomxoxo 16
I don't think 4 year olds should be touching plugs... You can never be too careful.
bomzo 22
Lol did she really?
naya_bingi 11
Thumb me down for sounding stupid, but I know I sure as hell would've tried it too.
chris_a7x 11
I would have too...
lilhellian 27
I have done it.. I was bored and was like **** it.. took a sack off potatos and got enough wires to make a big group and tried to power my tv...
naya_bingi 11
I saw it on an episode of "Bones"- they tried to charge a cel phone using potatoes to solve a crime during a blackout. I was like, I better buy potatoes next time we have a power outage lol
88vivera 9
Lol
Chink5ever 9
Potatos can Make electricity. But in order to do that, wires and other things are involved.
rattusrattus 19
I'm just imagining the OP's face when the found the first one. "Dafuq? Potato? What???"
sesor 7
Lol why doesn't it work?
Ukeee_X 19
Patents on the Internet are weird...