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.
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
Forgot password -> enter new password -> *enters new password* -> password can not be the same as old password.......
it just doesnt want to collaborate like, THIS IS WHAT YOURE SUPPOSED TO DO
roses are red, violets are blue, i’m going to bed, how about you?
it makes me feel like my alarm already went off and i just didnt hear it
My dog does not appreciate it. She seems embarrassed by it. Kind of like "Really?" as she tries to walk away.
Asleep is my favorite 4-6 hours a day. No depression when you're unconscious!
Yeah that's why I always turn it off mid episode. Everything is written to make it "binge-worthy" these days, so that's my only hope for getting any sleep, lol. Cliff hangers kill me.
did anyone else do the blanket cape thing and had to constantly retie the knots? childhood memories
thats true dude me and my bestie boo have been besties for 15 years
Honestly, I'd prefer that. The sliding ones can be a pain in the a*s and sometimes you can clamp your hand
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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