Thank you, Captain Obvious!
There are plenty of obvious things that people love to discuss, like how the weather currently is and how soon the holidays are. It’s totally fine to bring up topics like this in a self-aware way: “I know this is obvious, but I just really need to make small talk.” But sometimes, people think they’re being philosophical when they’re really just stating the obvious.
Below, we’ve gathered some of our favorite posts from the That’s How Things Work subreddit, which is dedicated to highlighting people who tried to be deep but failed miserably. From explaining concepts that already have a name to sharing “shower thoughts” that they probably should have kept to themselves, this list is full of funny, facepalm-worthy moments that might make you lose a bit of faith in humanity.
Be sure to upvote the posts that you get a kick out of, and then let us know in the comments: what’s the most obvious thing you’ve ever had explained to you before? Then, if you’re interested in checking out another Bored Panda article featuring obvious things people learned embarrassingly late in life, you can find that right here!
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My Cake!
Thanks I Hate Names
Are You Twins In Real Life?
Help Me I’m Drowning
He Blames Pot
Ah Yes. Evolution Has Nothing To Do With Genetics
This is the same kind of person who hated Obamacare but loved the ACA.
Headlines
They need to arrest death as soon as possible! They can't keep getting away with it!
Low Battery? Charge Your Phone
Opinions Must Be Objective
How Stock Photos Work
Yeah Man you can take a pic of us chilling with the hooman, it all good
What A Question
Yes, That’s How Genetics Work
Not only the obvious of being related in the fictional story but also the Disney "gene pool" is limited due to making their characters fit other formulaic criteria. Like oversized eyes and small noses and such to make them "cute and lovable" or whatever. If you are going to look like Ursula in the Little Mermaid you are going to be a bad person. If you are the 'good' star you have large eyes / small nose like Ariel. Occasional exceptions but for the most part they are all going to look like they might be related.
Amazon Review For A Backpack
That’s Just What It Is
Yes, Doing Things Have Consequences
Yes That’s How It Usually Works
Cecil’s Brother, Jericho, Is Also A Lion, Don’t You Know That!?
Humans are so cruel. The wording is kinda funny, but I feel sorry for the lion.
Smh
Kinda The Goal, Right?
Parents: We want your life to be easier for you! Parents when my life is easier: WELL BACK IN MY DA-
That's Why It's Called A Virus
But-
This Is A Fact
He might even be the richest person in the solar system, but this fact can not be derived from the previous statements.
That’s Why Biographies Are Written
If You Know How Old It Is Then You Know How Old It Is
R/Showerthoughts At It Again
Yep, The Wind Can Blow Across State Borders
Impossible! We have to complain on Twitter about it so air pollution will go away!
Are You High
That's Pretty Much It Yeah
Funny How Things Work
Roses Are Red, I Serve My Master-
I translate : A nuclear explosion so far away from us would be a disaster even for us
That's How Currency Works
Yeah, No Sh*t Sherlock
I Am Enlightened By Such Powerful Knowledge
I Mean, Yeah
Thanks I Didn't Know That
That is a cursed hotdog version of Buzz that I have never seen before. Eye bleach Pwease?
Its A Christmas Miracle!
Then imagine the 31st of December 1999. The 1st of January 2000 was both the next day, the next month, the next year, the next century and the next millennium. I was there! It was actually not crazy. No IT crash, the TV worked, no aliens, just some mediocre fireworks and then we were sent to bed.
Thats How Humans Work
A Woman Who Looks Like Her Parents
Frenemies
Glad They Clarified These
"You Won't Look At These Things The Same"
How Dare They Ask
Thats How Vaccines Work
Covid vaccines don't contain whole covid virus. They contain some mRNA from the virus, which is a molecule, not a germ. Edit: mRNA or DNA or spike protein...
To explain it roughly: There's no need to bring in a live culprit to introduce to your immune system. The mRNA vaccine hands out leaflets with a photo and teaches your body how a virus would look like if it actually entered your organism.
Load More Replies...an old guy was wearing an "Indict Fauci" tee the other day so I asked for what(I know I should not poke the animals) and he said it's b/c he lied about everything and he's in with Biden. I said, but he worked under 5 presidents of both parties and Biden wasn't president when covid started. He said he'd never heard that he worked under other presidents. I guess he thought he just came on the scene at 80. argh
It seems to me that 100% of people who are like this have total blanks of who actually is or was in charge of whatever they are protesting.... sigh
Load More Replies...When General Washington Mandated his soldiers get vaccinated for small pox at valley forge they cut the skin of uninfected, took puss from the pox of an infected person and smeared it into the cut...and imagine this....it worked!! Can you believe it, science is real!
This is variolation, not vacation, and much more dangerous. Vaccination was invented later.
Load More Replies...Think of it like a Monty Python sketch. The guards are at the castle discussing swallows when the runner from the next castle over brings them a picture. "This bad guy here just waltzed right in and killed a bunch of our people! He's super dangerous, be on the lookout!" So they make photocopies of the picture and post it everywhere. "This is the ENEMY" the posters say. They even practice fighting him. They've heard from survivors of other attacks, and they know how he fights. Sure, the practice scares some of the people in the castle; all this rushing around and yelling, but no one actually dies, they're just frightened. When the baddie rides in, clopping his coconut shells together menacingly, the guards know just what to do because they practiced. They dispatch him quickly, and everyone can go back to talking about swallows. The guards are your immune system. The baddie is the virus. The wanted posters are the vaccine. The castle is you.
WOW. I have never (don’t hit me, please 🫠) been able to get into Monty Python. However, yours is the BEST analogy I’ve read so far, and I doubt I’ll come across one better. I’m curious if your gadgets include pipettes, petrie dishes, agars, and microscopes. Maybe a centrifuge or two. An autoclave, perhaps? (No need to answer. Just seems you have a background in science… Or medicine.) It’s a shame that so many people have already formed their (*misinformed*) opinions and won’t learn a thing from your amazing comment. Still, though… BRAVA!
Load More Replies...being a mobile hotspot sounds really useful, and if it didn't have side effects you could sign me up
Load More Replies...i gaged looking at this because the needle in the arm surprised me
My neighbour reckons we are safe in Australia 'cos we don't get vaccinated. Instead we get immunised.
Can we just agree to stop trying to explain things to people that clearly don’t want to live anymore? 😂
Story time!!! This is not a joke. My husbands boss has a daughter, and I'm sorry I can't remember if Navy or Army, but she is very high ranking. Anywho one day she asked her dad if he had gotten the vaccine. He said no and she said....... Good, don't. They haven't flipped the switch yet but they will. I'm sorry WHAT?!?!?! 😳😳😳
Don't forget there's also chips in there to track you. You got to love conspiracy theorists.
Some of these folks need a brain vaccine... because then they'll get at least a little brain.
Misnamed on PURPOSE!! It's just a F...King Flu Shot, totally untested and full or bad side effects. VACCINES are those like Small Pox, Polio, that mean you NEVER get the disease. These VAX's for Covid do not keep you from getting it, sometimes several times, or passing it on. DO NOT TAKE THEM!!!!!
I highly recommend that anti-vaxxers not get vaccinated, in order to expedite their removal from the gene pool.
Unfortunately, they are dragging healthcare with it, as well as the economy. So get vaxxed and help yourself and humanity.
Load More Replies...Aw c**p. Not this kind of comment again. Some uneducated people really think like this. Downvote, downvote, downvote.
Load More Replies...It's the opposite. People who aren't vaccinated and get covid are much more likely to have clots ( heart, brain, lung) and be very sick and or die.
Load More Replies...That's What Nostalgia Is
Here's an interesting tip-in. One kid is nine years old, but a bunch of them are called nine year olds.
M I N D B L O W I N G
Person Wouldn’t Be Famous If They Did Not Do What Made Them Famous
Company Wants People To Buy Their Product
Thanks For The Advice
TRUE STORY (I'll try to keep it brief). McDonalds drive through. Friend in car has sensitive teeth so drinks warm water because cold water hurts. I order food and a cup of warm water. I s...t you not.. "I'm sorry sir we don't have warm water. We only have cold water and hot water.". Me:... Me: "Well, could you put some hot water and some cold water in the same cup to make it warm water?" Drive through lady: (pause). "I guess we could do that". Me: "Okay, do that please". We were laughing so hard we were crying but we were trying to keep it together at the drive through window because we didn't want to be mean. Maybe she was having a bad day and just had a moment. Or maybe she was dumb AF. Years ago. We still laugh about it if she wants some warm water.
According to an ancient G(r)eek proverb: to understand recursion, first you have to understand recursion.
Lol, this joke was in my old C book. In the glossary under recursion, it just said "recursion: see recursion"
Load More Replies...As far as I'm concerned, Google has completely stopped being useful. I was trying to look up something specific about low blood oxygen yesterday, and got three full pages of ads for oxygen concentrators. I ended up having to look up the answer in an old textbook.
Load More Replies...I forgot what the title was a third of the way through. That was absofreakinglutely, blindingly, and obviously, written by aliens trying to teach their children about earthlings. If not though, I'm going to start praying for mankind.
When you boot Windows 10 for the first time, it tells you: "You can get new apps from the app store" DUH
All of these could have a response like those nick che memes remember those goooood times...yeah
This helped me remember all those moments I have embarrassed myself only for breathing -talking-
According to an ancient G(r)eek proverb: to understand recursion, first you have to understand recursion.
Lol, this joke was in my old C book. In the glossary under recursion, it just said "recursion: see recursion"
Load More Replies...As far as I'm concerned, Google has completely stopped being useful. I was trying to look up something specific about low blood oxygen yesterday, and got three full pages of ads for oxygen concentrators. I ended up having to look up the answer in an old textbook.
Load More Replies...I forgot what the title was a third of the way through. That was absofreakinglutely, blindingly, and obviously, written by aliens trying to teach their children about earthlings. If not though, I'm going to start praying for mankind.
When you boot Windows 10 for the first time, it tells you: "You can get new apps from the app store" DUH
All of these could have a response like those nick che memes remember those goooood times...yeah
This helped me remember all those moments I have embarrassed myself only for breathing -talking-
