A brain fart is a brain fart is a brain fart. Nobody is immune to them. But having said that, these temporary blips can be really funny. When they're someone else's suffering, of course.
If you don't believe me, just take a look at the Twitter account -1000 IQ. It's sharing follower-submitted moments when people's brains stopped computing and pushed the poor folks into making a fool of themselves.
From sanding your car's tires for a smooth ride to claiming New York isn't part of the US, here are some of the funniest ones.
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When you are so stupid and confident (almost synonyms) you can't even see that you are being made fun of. Surprisingly, that's pathetic and hilarious at the same time.
Stupid is quite often confident, ref: Dunning Kruger effect. Confident is not necessarily stupid, however.
Load More Replies...At least I laughed at the very first one. Excellent way to deal with a Wednesday.
This reminds me of in second grade when someone stole my stuff on moviestarplanet 😭
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
Load More Replies...I used to think it was sad that I knew people that would ask this sort of question. Now I just think it's hilarious. I've lowered my expectations of people.
when privledged people expect even science and gravity to bend to thier will
She should follow the Biggest Loser's example and stare at it. Twice.
A solar eclipse - What better way to have a true nature real science lesson?!
There are plenty of concepts our brains struggle with, like four-dimensional hypercubes, quantum mechanics or an infinite universe. And understandably so. But as you can see from this list, every once in a while even the most mundane everyday tasks can leave us baffled. However, there are some things that (unexpectedly) mess up our cognitive abilities but manage to do so while slipping under the radar.
Doors. Remember the feeling you get when you walk into a room with some purpose in mind only to completely forget what that was? Well, psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway triggers what's known as an "event boundary" in the mind, separating one set of thoughts and memories from the next, similarly to how exiting through a doorway signals the end of a scene in a movie. Your brain files away the thoughts you had in the previous room, and prepares a blank page for the new location. Mental event boundaries usually help us organize our thoughts and memories as we move through the world, but sometimes they can throw us off, too.
Here's a question for the universe at large: Why are most raincoats made of porous material, and lacking a hood?
Why are so many shoes and boots not waterproof?
Load More Replies...Yes we are. At keast I'm quite waterproof but some of my clothes aren't. Maybe adults are supposed to only go out in goretex?
Load More Replies...This must be one of those strange people who think it is sexy to look like a drowned rat.
Not everyone is just trying to be hot all the time. I don’t use umbrellas. I like water. It’s okay if my hair comes undone. I won’t melt, and sure, I’ll still look fuçking cute either way. An umbrella is just too much to deal with.
Load More Replies...I hate umbrellas. They always get caught in the wind. I just make sure my coats have big hoods.
I don't hate them. Big hoods are also good. The wind is a problem. Some people call them paraguas. If it is not too windy, i go outside with my paragua and it is like a little bubble that protects me from getting too wet. Umbrellas are not perfect.
Load More Replies...She had me convinced of her low IQ at: People really be grown.
That’s just slang and you’re more stupid than she is for not realizing such an obvious detail.
Load More Replies...the only issue would be if they endanger/kill other drivers in the process
Load More Replies...That’s a smooth ride towards the afterlife, I guess. Hopefully you don’t take anyone else with you! 😯🤷♀️
Beeps. From digital alarm clocks to smoke detectors, these sounds have practically become the soundtrack of the modern world. But we didn't evolve hearing beeps, so we struggle to make peace with them. Natural sounds are created from a transfer of energy, often from one object striking another. Think of a stick hitting a drum. In that case, energy is transferred into the drum and then gradually dissipates, causing the sound to decay over time. Our perceptual system has evolved to use that decay to grasp the event. To figure out what made the sound, and where it came from.
Beep sounds, however, are like cars driving at 60 mph which suddenly hit a wall, as opposed to gradually slowing to a stop. The sound doesn't change over time, and it doesn't fade away, so our brains are baffled about what they are and where they're coming from and can go into overdrive.
That was her last ever post, so I guess we'll never know.
Load More Replies...Yeah... It was because of the beeping... Totally... There can't be another reason...
I took the batteries out of my smoke alarm. Seems every time the alarm goes off, it starts a fire somewhere
To Quote that famous genius Forrest Gump "Stupid is as stuipid Does".
That's a great bunch of grape puns! I'm so jelly.
Load More Replies...It's just sour grapes... a bunch of you wining about the grape puns are just jealous.
I wouldn’t say this one is stupid. Probably just a typo with a bit of “help” from autocorrect.
Why is that the first thing that came to my mind too-
Load More Replies...They are raisin a bunch of questions I heard it through the vine, it is very juicy.
I usually stick to smoking gouda and provolone, but maybe on the weekend I might get into the hard stuff and smoke some marinara with you.
Well, if I met someone who smoked marinara sauce, I wouldn't want to be their friend either.
Wide open spaces. When people are traversing the desert or a thick forest — terrains without landmarks — people usually end up walking in circles. Experiments on blindfolded individuals revealed that when we lack external reference points, we curve around in loops as tight as 66 feet (20 meters) in diameter, all the while believing we are traveling in a straight line. Turns out, it isn't because one leg is longer or stronger than the other — wide open spaces simply throw the brain for a loop.
According to researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybergenetics in Germany, loopy paths follow from a walker's changing sense of "straight ahead." With every step, a small deviation arises in the brain's vestibular (balance-maintaining) system or the proprioceptive (body awareness) system, and is added to the person's cognitive sense of what's straight. These deviations accumulate over time and send that individual veering around in ever tighter circles as time goes on. Interestingly, these little brain farts don't add up when we can regularly recalibrate our sense of direction using a nearby building or mountain.
To see some of these examples in action, check out these 31 times people had brain farts that resulted in funny communication fails.
At least the realized their mistake. That doesn’t happen very often.
Them realizing the mistake made everything even more hilarious
Load More Replies...Congrats to the original tweeter though, cancer sucks, always fantastic to hear when someone is free from it. :)
just realized i wrote the exact same thing as someone else. how do you delete your comment?
Load More Replies...That's ok, since you realized what you just said. We have our moments, sometimes. Yay to the cancer-free person!
Wow, $150 for an HIV test... in a normal country you can get it free at hospital... just sayin'.
I got mine for free, and got exactly what I paid for : Sweet F all.
Seems she thought so too and only had one in the end.
Load More Replies...Well, in the spur of the moment she might of had a very high stress level and her brain stopped working xD
For the benefit of the doubt, let's giver that. 🥴
Load More Replies...It's pretty normal to take more than one, just in case you get a dud test, but I agree 4 does seem excessive.
Load More Replies...Well, reproduction should be allowed only after testing common sense and IQ.
Isn't it amazing that the people who really should not be able to reproduce do at an alarming rate and the people struggling really could help the world?
Not only is that a hilarious joke, but the fact that it has two stars instead of one is brilliant. Like it was somewhat useful, but they just really didn’t like it.
How stupid can you be to think a man created calendar is related to Earth"s Age?
Snuck into grave yards and dug up corpses on the sly to figure it out
red shirt represents management, yellow shirt represents workers; and the guy sitting up front is the CEO.
Yep. That's the new manager. He's showing everybody else that he's just one of the guys.
Load More Replies...Carry on, bring me another drink please - It's a popcorn show!!
That devil face must be a vampire, because i can't see it's reflection in the mirror!!!!
Even without the idiotic mirror BS, why try to cut his face out of the pic lol
I was so amazed at her doubling down on her idiocy that I missed that :)
Load More Replies...I guess she might actually be good at geology, since she's literally got a brain made of rocks.
It's not Big Apple anymore, it's the big rock just outside America. Basic geology.
Regarding "America", so is Canada, Mexico, etc... the Americas have both a Northern & Southern continent. The US is only part of them, regardless of our habit of referring to ourselves as Americans.
While that is true, it still doesn't change the fact that New York is still in America.
Load More Replies...... so many Americans not educated in even their own country's geography...
Altogether now: "Don't know much about... history/ Don't know much about... geology/ ..." ---Sam Cooke, "Wonderful world" (no not the Louis Armstrong song of same title).
Living in NYC 3/4's of my life, I am not sure it is part of this world. Sorry New Yorkers
Don't know, I don't speak spanish - but maybe some other Panda on here can translate? 😉
Load More Replies...This reminded me that one time my mum asked me "what idk means" and I said "I don't know" She then replied with an "I don't know either" hahaha She has also told me I typed the smiley emoji wrong. I typed (: instead of :)
This one is definitely a joke. The screen grab shows a reply like with the avatar of the original poster. I can only hope that the majority of the rest of these are trolls.
i love how ppl think titanic was fake yet at the end the movie states in memory of those who died lol
Don't have to believe all your read. Like the movie Fargo, the series also start each episode claiming it all is true; really really grated on me after a season.
Load More Replies...Reminds me of the time, I was talking to someone about 'Animal Farm' (during a discussion about despotic regimes) and he mentioned that he hadn't played that yet.....
Look on a map! Because they're above the USA, feeling superior for no reason... OK maybe for a handful of reasons. OK maybe for many reasons.
Load More Replies...Guess what. The Titanic was an actual and real event, they based a Movie on that event, They called the Movie, TITANIC. How Dumb can YOU be. THAT should have been the response to that statement.
I was watching an old movie that starred an actress who committed suicide. My mom's friend said, oh she must have made this movie before she committed suicide.
What I don't understand in this particular case... if she's adamant they are NOT gloves, then why not just wear the hand socks?
This guy must have socks for brains. Why don't you put socks on your hands and walk on them
OK, the idea that a penny will shrink in the microwave is stupid. But in reality you CAN put a coin in it without blowing up the microwave. Metal is OK as long as it is round(ish) or has protected/ insulated ends. I've been using metal bowls and lids in the micro without problem.
It's Schrödinger's diet. They take No with a side of Yes.
Load More Replies...Also, terrible maths aside, what's wrong with saying 'a quarter to nine'? It's nice and pictoral.
Apparently not for the people who have never seen a picture of a clock. :-P
Load More Replies...Actually, i'd love a metric clock! (i know they exist!)
the clock does a triple anti-clockwiser clocker crocket rocket to infinity because we're so illiterate as other kid individual and the brein will never come right.. sadennining but fectuwal..
I love it when I hear someone say that "spelling and grammar don't really matter". And witness these same people constantly having problems in their lives because of miscommunication.
I wrote a proposal to someone and put “complimentary” instead of “complementary” and it caused so much confusion I almost lost the deal lol. Spelling and grammar can make or break thousands of dollars!
Load More Replies...At first I couldn't figure this one out. Then I could and I wish I hadn't.
It only connected in my edumacated neck ornament when I typed out "four meal your" myself.
Load More Replies...Mom was nurse. Raised to believe if I'm conscious, not gushing, and no bones show, I'm fine. So as I'm lying there in the ambulance a few years ago, with my arm looking like two letters S in a row... I apologized for being "dramatic". The EMT immediately said, "Nurse?" and I said, "My mom was," and he said, "Yep. Me, too."
I'd call this lesson learned, unless he really locked himself in the car and couldn't get out. In which case RIP prize plonker.
Its only equivalent if you have equivalent body mass --- 1h hot car for 10kg dog/kid isn't the same as 1h for an adult male. So... should keep stewing a bit more.
Load More Replies...YES! Did you see the Pawcademy awards this year? What an upset!
Load More Replies...It is!! He's a donkey. Hard to believe he is Tom Hank's son. I would disown that fool.
Load More Replies...Naw. This is cool. Put him in a 150 and take him to 10000 ft. Then tell him he doesn't get a parachute as the plane is brought to an engine out stall.
Nah, just California's. Southern California's, apparently. *sigh*
Load More Replies...To be fair there is a University of California as well as a University of San Francisco, so they may be leaving one to go to the other. Just forgot to put the full titles in the post.
Was posted recently in another thread. This appears to be the conclusion.
Load More Replies...As a student in the us it’s not the education system it’s just stupidity
Imma brit, so question, i’m going to guess that san francisco is in california?
As a fellow Brit, why the hell are you having to guess? We learnt this at school!
Load More Replies...Yeah if you didn't die that horrible year you will definitely live forever
Load More Replies...I have to admit, I read this and I was like: yeah, what’s weird about that? But then I read the comments and I was hit with realization
Well... Funnily enough... There was a famous case of a woman being a chimera - she literally had non-matching DNA. They ended up proving the case by having the official in the delivery room, at the business end, took the DNA sample which didn't match (and that wouldn't even be the case for a surrogate pregnancy) and finally did additional testing to prove she was a chimera. Weird case. So, yeah, that one in some ludicrous number likely to be in the billions, DNA came back negative for mum.
There was a case in the newspaper last week. Invitro was mistaken and she birthed the daughter of another family, which they could find later, and like after 2-3 months they traded babies... Traumatising.
Load More Replies...Sure it's common for women to find out they had a baby years ago and the father didn't even tell them.
There's a case currently before the California court of a woman who gave birth to another woman's child after the IVF clinic got the embryos mixed up. Both women carried, birthed and bonded with the other's child - and then had to swap after 3 months after DNA tests were done
Not what they meant, but babies have been swapped at birth by mistake, causing all sorts of trauma to all involved.
Funny you should ask.... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ivf-mix-up-babies-swap/
Load More Replies...Well, it's noted that the more birthdays you celebrate, the longer you live so keep partying friends!
Not everyone does have a birthday every year. February 29 doesn't happen every year and you must also live long enough into the year.
That brings up an interesting question: what term DO you use to refer to a nonbinary relative who's related to you by being a sibling to one of your parents? We don't really have a non-gendered term for that in English...
Load More Replies...are they going to change thier gender to try to be the better one or what?
Best turtle, sorry to go off topic - but is there a second best turtle?
Load More Replies...This joke wasn't very funny back in 1971. 50 years later, still not very funny.
They might have gotten it from a Friends episode where Joey said that.
Load More Replies...You tell me who's buried in Grant's tomb and I'll tell you the name of the Titanic. Deal?
I dunno...the way some of us act, it's an understandable mistake.
Load More Replies...Yeah, you gotta watch out for those caucasians, they can f**k you up. Don't fall asleep. 🙄
Ex-queeze me, DON'T GIVE AWAY OUR SECRETS!! I'VE BEEN STANDING IN THIS FOOL'S CLOSET FOR AN HOUR NOW!
Load More Replies...You definitely want your birthdays to be easily sortable in a database.
Load More Replies...I asked that as a kid, and it took me until I turned 10 to figure it out
When you learn to pass the state standard-of-learning test, but not actual ... information...
Yes, officer, this comment right here. They murdered someone. (damn lmao)
Load More Replies...You can rearrange the numbers but first you need to rearrange your brain
I thought electrocuted and pictured a cartoon person with hair standing up on end.
Maybe not native English (e.g. does not know irregular verbs) and writes based on how it sounds.
I mistakenly read it as "cute-ed" her hair and for a second tried to figure out how she'd do that. I think it's my bedtime.
XX/XX/XXXX XXXX I don't know about Twitter, but BoredPanda does!
Load More Replies...You can get around that by just posting a picture of it, smart dude!
Scam such a scam at least post a fake one this person just like this behind the screen 😈😈😈 🤫
Here's a straw. Get to it and let me know how it turns out for you.
Life hack: Duct tape them to the roof of your car and go through the car wash. Two birds!
No, no that is not logic. Logic would be "moving dryer + fragile plates = shattered pieces"
Load More Replies...if there was one machine that would wash both your laundry and your dishes, would you use it?
To be fair, some of these could be voice-to-text, but the Four Meal Your one definitely isn't
They're- they're the same thing. People this stupid make me want to cry
The musée Carnavallet gave up roman numerals for kings and centuries because of this kind of stupid people. Now they say that Louis 16 lived in the 18th century, that's... weird.
Maths is this: a man sells 5 wheels of cheese for every 10 people he barters with. Calculate the area of the cheese wheels
Load More Replies...Hey, some American girls are excellent with math. Let's not lump them together. Even if somehow most of your country is terrible doesn't mean you have to be.
Yeah. I feel like at least some of us Americans are smart but it’s rare in the public school system and they’re not as vocal as the dumb ones.
Load More Replies...if you ever meet Union City or Corry girls they are this dumb; it's rare to be a smart girl in those regions in PA
Load More Replies...That's weird, account is still valid. Just bought myself a bigger boat.
Shiiiit, I wish my bank would let me overdraw a million dollars...
In the UK you need the registered postcode for a lot of transactions
Yes, but to be honest, I am from Europe and I would have problably quite a big problem to place USA states where they belong...
There is a difference between American states and countries. Nobody expects you to know all the German Länder, French Régions, Spanish provinces etc... But these are countries!
Load More Replies...“Walt Disney World” Sigh…I know it’s a joke but Florida to most people is just Disney and Miami…they don’t even know the biggest city in Florida is Jacksonville…
Load More Replies...US schools don’t ever teach geography, it’s not on the tests so no one ever bothers to teach it. It’s not that these people failed the class, it’s that they never had the opportunity to learn it in the first place. They might not have even known it was a subject you could learn, scary as that sounds.
Yes! I know! I’m so glad I’m homeschooled and could name at least 3/4 of these countries…
Load More Replies...Hawaii, China, Australia and even Brazil in EU.now - I've seen it all :)
To be fair, the phrase "Ice Cube" has gone into usage much the same way "Dialing" has for phones. I use round 'cubes' in my alcohol drinks and seasonal 'cubes' for holidays (bones and fangs for Halloween, etc...). I don't actually hold this one against anyone
I agree. It seems weird to say something like "ice units."
Load More Replies...Butterfly ice cubes or frozen butterfly ice shapes? Only one way to find out...FIGHT!!!!!
I don't really care what you call them...I just want butterfly-shaped ice in my drinks from now on!
That's what you call them, though. Some squares are not square-shaped but they are still squares.
Would be a better argument except you mean "rectangles"
Load More Replies...The real -1000 IQ moments are when people start commenting, "I can't believe people are this stupid"
Agreed. Are people really not getting that most of these are jokes/trolls?
Load More Replies...The sad thing is, these are the people who are running America or are going to
Honestly, at this point I'm really starting to get mad about people who post things like this. It's really an overused joke that was never funny in the first place. It's not quite as bad as joking about our guns or healthcare or college, but its still really infuriating.
Load More Replies...The real -1000 IQ moments are when people start commenting, "I can't believe people are this stupid"
Agreed. Are people really not getting that most of these are jokes/trolls?
Load More Replies...The sad thing is, these are the people who are running America or are going to
Honestly, at this point I'm really starting to get mad about people who post things like this. It's really an overused joke that was never funny in the first place. It's not quite as bad as joking about our guns or healthcare or college, but its still really infuriating.
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