This Group Exists “To Make Your Mood Better”, And Here Are 50 Of Their Posts That May Do Just That
Every now and then, we all need some lighthearted content to lift us up. In a world ruled by media overload and an abundance of bad daily news, it’s easy to feel mentally drained.
Recently, psychologists saw the emergence of terms like “doomscrolling,” “headline anxiety,” and “headline stress disorder” which refer to a growing amount of people suffering from the psychological strain of living through and absorbing dismal news.
This lighthearted Facebook group “Funny As Heck” is anything but that. Dedicated to making people’s moods better, it offers a daily stream of hilarious memes and posts that range from utterly absurd to pretty relatable. Below we wrapped up the funniest examples for us to enjoy, so upvote your favorite ones as you scroll!
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What we find funny or not really depends on the person. But it turns out that getting a joke requires quite a lot of cognitive and social skills, which we previously spoke about with Paige Davis, a senior lecturer at York St John University who specializes in developmental psychopathology and developmental psychology.
“The thing is, even babies pick up on social cues,” Davis said. “If you've ever seen a baby start to join in laughing when everyone is laughing you will know this, so even if they may not understand the meaning of a joke, they will understand that the atmosphere in the room has changed and everyone is laughing.”
Essentially, our sense of humor develops along with social understanding. This is when we learn we are social beings in a world of other social agents. According to Davis, “Non-verbal humor is usually developed first, so an example of this is when my youngest son had been walking for a bit (15m). If he ran into something, my partner would pretend to run into it as well and pretend to get hurt and he would begin to laugh. He had begun to understand a few things in this interaction. 1) Daddy was mimicking him, 2) Daddy wasn't really hurt, he was pretending. He knew this because of some cues e.g. Daddy was smiling.”
One of the main things it takes to get a joke is the ability to understand language. But that’s far from the only requirement. “For a joke to be funny, the person who is listening needs some higher-level cognitive skills, so to be able to think flexibly, understand that there are double meanings for things, and in many cases, the person needs an understanding of how their social world works,” Davis explained.
“A study just published this month looked at practical jokes and found that there was a relationship between age, false belief understanding (the ability to understand someone can hold a belief that is false while another person knows the truth), inhibitory control (so being able to control your actions or inhibit thoughts or actions that you would want to do), and language ability, which all relate to the ability to understand and engage in practical jokes (Wang & Wang, 2021).”
It’s very hard to determine whether a particular personality that develops is geared toward certain types of jokes. “What I would argue is that life experience and social interaction will intimately shape how we respond to jokes and what jokes we like later,” the professor concluded.
Awww! I want free kisses. I could stand there all day getting free kisses.
That's just a large link collar. I've seen and had to use spike collars - correctly called pinch collars. What that dog has on is not a pinch collar. And if you're asking why I used one...I started to train my Doberman to trot alongside my bike. He did great except when he would see something, he'd stop dead and I'd go flying over the handlebars. That was a huge safety issue. So I put a pinch collar on him, gave him a little pull to let him know what it was, and he never stopped again. After one time, I could take the pinch collar off and put on his regular collar again. Pinch collars are aids and are not to be used for punishment. We had a little old lady at our dog training club with a huge black lab with a neck like a tree trunk, and I think he outweighed his owner. He pulled her everywhere. So she used a pinch collar for a couple of weeks until he was trained enough to not need it any longer. If she hadn't used the collar, she would have had to get rid of her dog.
My boy cat looks just like him; acts like that too. He has zero fear of big dogs - or anything else. I love him to bits!
People, please! Stop looking at things through a biased filter! There are ears, there are no spikes, they're folds in his neck skin, and the post is about a CAT!!!
Some cats are waaaaasay scarier than dogs when it comes to guarding their territory.
The chain around it's neck needs to be removed and so does the dog.
Years ago we added a deck to our house. It was hot in the small city we lived in that summer so we got ourselves a kiddie pool just like this and would sit on our new deck after work with a drink and with our feet in the "pool". Our dog liked it too!
"Gee, why is this bottle fuzzy?" [turns on water] "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHH!"
and then when you're halfway thru the series netflix just cancels it for some reason like they did to assassination classroom season 2
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Keep your head up Sue.. Wishing you an infinitely better day tomorrow <3
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Keep your head up Sue.. Wishing you an infinitely better day tomorrow <3
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