“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” is one of the most incorrect sayings of all time. Idiotic opinions, fallacies, and outright untruths are all, unfortunately, broadcasted over the internet for everyone to see, meaning that all of us have to see, hear, and read the very worst words and ideas humans can put together.
The “Facepalm” internet group gathers all those moments when people really did or said something so unbelievable that it caused a visceral reaction to all onlookers. And through the magic of the internet, it can reach you too. So be sure to upvote your “favorites” and comment your thoughts below.
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In Fact, It’s Happened 7 Times
I DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO SPORTS, BUT THIS DUDE IS AMAZING FOR STICKING UP FOR THEM
The Rich vs. The Poor
Burnnnnnnnnnnnn
The oldest use of the word “facepalm” (but not the actual, physical action) dates back to the early days of the internet. In 1996, where the first netizens mentioned it in a variety of posts about everyday life. This points to the fact that this phrase was in the popular lexicon earlier, as the posters do not clarify what the word means and use it nonchalantly.
However, the actual post, of holding one’s face in your palm, is relatively old, and found in statues and sculptures going back hundreds, if not thousands of years. Normally, it was associated with more serious loss, like Henri Vidal’s Caïn, depicting the biblical figure mourning the death of his own brother, who he killed.
American Dream
“Muh Guns!!!”
Both my kids went through primary school, high school and university without ever knowing what 'Active shooter drills' are all about. I never had to wonder if they would come home alive everyday.
Now Your Own Decisions Belong To A Man You Havent Met
Due to the internet and the general ubiquity of this emotion, the facepalm remains popular, to such a degree that there is even a facepalm emoji (Unicode U+1F926) and a vast library of stock images depicting this action. While commonly reaction images of humans facepalming were used, one can now even find animals doing the gesture, most likely by accident, but it’s always fun to imagine a cat actually facepalming.
What A Shit Show
It absolutely did. We are such an embarrassment. Add in that I'm Texan and I want to hide my head in the sand these days. I'm no longer proud of my country or state and that's tough to say.
This Anti Vaxxer Trying To Stop Her Son From Getting Vaccinations Himself
"I can't wait until I turn 18, I'm going out and doing shots!" "But you have to be 21 to drink in the US" "I didn't say drinks; I said shots"
Just Your Average Pro Life Hypocrite
For those that see something not worth a full facepalm, as it is a bit dramatic at times, you can use the good old disappointed head shake, that one’s grandparents will tactically deploy when they see anything that confuses them. Over text, one can quickly and easily communicate their disappointment with the good old acronym smh (shaking my head) which is actually older than good old facepalm.
In Church For Blessing Ar-15's. But Blaming Others Than Christians
Spot On
High Iq Destruction
On the other hand, should one need to deploy stronger language, there is always the trusty face desk aka the head desk. While we do not recommend you actually do this, be sure to upvote the posts that go beyond a facepalm. This is a stronger emotion, one so visceral that the victim wants to physically bash the thing they just read or heard right out of their head.
Who Wants To Pay Our Bills
Not Bad
I once saw a guy in his car crossing himself before starting to drive at a green light. This was in Athens and traffic was hell (2003).
Show Me
People using religion as an excuse for s**t like this really gets on my nerves
Religious people use their religion for a lot of bad stuff.
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These people truly believe that God was behind the creation of the U.S. I wish I was exaggerating, but I'm not. I grew up around them. They actually say that.
Yeah I've heard this. It's not a majority view but among the wack jobs we saw come out of the woodwork during the pandemic, I've heard about "the US is actually the center of the world" and like God created it to lead the nations or some BS? Like North America is a baby country, hardly settled before other countries had thousands of years of leadership and culture. SILLY. JUST THE SILLIEST
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Then didn't God also write the part of the 2nd Amendment that states it is necessary that the militia be Well Regulated?
And why do you need kangaroo arms? Those bastards are ripped as f**k.
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Shhhhh dont bring that up youll anger the conservatives they scare easily n that makes them attack🤣
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No one in the bible had guns. If you want to live a biblically accurate life then get rid of your guns and stock up on spears & arrows.
The NRA began as an organization to promote responsible and safe gun ownership. It is turned into a vehicle for vitriol.
I have a bachelor's degree in biblical and theological studies, which I earned summa cum laude, graduating in the top 5% of my class, from a regionally accredited university. Upon those creditentials I feel confident that I can say that the right to bear arms is NOWHERE in the Bible.
What God said is "Thou Shalt Not Kill." Guns are ONLY made for one purpose.
Every American person needs to read the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of the United States. And all 27 amendments. Don't rely on the media to tell you what it says. They will twist it to get you to believe what they want you to believe.
Uh...that Constitutional right didn't exist before 15 Dec 1791. What took God so long to get around to 'granting' this to just one particular country?
I forgot about the part in the Bible where Jesus slays Satan with an AR.
Are you talking where Jesus says live by the sword die by the sword since having a gun in your home makes you statically more likely to die by gun violence not less?
As a Christian, this is not in the bible. CHRISTIANS SHOULD NOT BE PROMOTING VIOLENCE!! WE SHOULD BE KIND AND LOVING!! ITS LITERALLY IN THE BIBLLEE PLS DON'T HATE ALL CHRISTIANS
The God of the old Testament maybe. Jesus on the other hand surely looks at America and wants to puke. Bet me I can't support THAT with bible quotes!?
I give up. There's just way too much stupid to fight any longer.
God created only Americans, other nations are spawn of Satan, or socialism. Which is the same for Americans.
bro looks like the dr nazi guy from raiders of the lost ark with the long leather coat and glasses
Shįt, I can't unsee that now.
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2000 years ago, God and Jesus wrote about Americans... WOW! TIL!!! LOL!
Holy s**t, stop bringing the Bible into everything! I'm a Christian and there is no such "passage" like this anywhere in the Bible. For that matter, THE US WASNT EVEN CREATED WHEN THE DAMN BOOK WAS BUILT!!
Omg, I wrote "built" instead of "written"... I'm way too tired
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It's ppl like this guy who knows nothing about the Bible bc the man was not talking literally smh. Wasn't America founded so some ppl wanting to worship God differently? Well!!!
Better yet, let me know when god shows up in person to grant these Christians the right to deliberately go against the sixth commandment...
Just shut up about your God. Just. Shut up. About your stupid God.
So a fictitious character in a fantasy novel gave you the right to bear arms! Hmmmmm!
He is the most corrupt piece of s**t. He will do anything to keep the government from passing gun laws but then was scared and hid out on a boat because he didn’t want to get shot.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the constitution written by men, not god? There's no use mentioning the Bible either, because it was also written by men. This guy is literally playing the god card to make sure every man, woman and child in America has access to guns.
Most of the religious people that I've ever met have never read the Bible.
It is. I have read it, the first half is all fun, fairy tales and familyxdrama, the second half is boring. I am an atheist, but was curious.
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I remember reading an extract from Voltaire (17/18th century) for French class where he eloquently described how both parties piously prayed to God to be on their side and help them bash the other parties heads in... he described it way better than I can. Just to say, mothing new under the sun....
Someone quite literally made that up and then relied in people's immense ignorance to get away with it.
It is indeed in the Bible, but refers only to Native Americans. Other USians have to give back immediately their arms (left and right).
He had God confused with Charton Heston. (Old Ben Hur had that problem himself.)
Hope yur patient sir:) Deez bozos ain't got nuttin' to proove ther point cept their minds which are ...................never mind
Earnest and sincere people have always turned to religion as their way to navigate and make sense of life and a complex world, but people with self-serving agendas have always done their best to mold religion for their own purposes. There is no “true” Christianity or Islam, etc., as religions from nearly day one are remade in the ideals of those who spread them. For instance, Jesus may have been a real person with a coherent, singular idea, but Paul had his own designs, and you can see each Gospel become more stranger and complex in the order they were written. Muhammad may have had a clear message, but the Sunni/Shia split dates back to his death. La Pierre is nothing new. His stink has been around for a long, long time.
Quiz: How many of the 10 commandments are codified into modern law? Answer: THREE, "Thou shall not kill", "Thou shall not steal", "Thou shall not commit adulatory". And the third one only applies to civil cases not criminal cases. At least in the west.
Mmmm, two. Adultery might be a cause at divorce, but is not in and of itself illegal either criminally or civilly.
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Luke 22:36 But now," Jesus said, "whoever has a purse or a bag must take it; and whoever does not have a sword must sell his coat and buy one. ...
The reality is that there have always been people who might cause us to facepalm. Bad decisions and horrible opinions are deeply human and probably existed before language. So it’s overall a net positive that we have methods to immediately “get it out of our system” when someone does something so deeply idiotic that it makes us feel bad by proxy. As long as we don’t facepalm too hard.
Who Needs Vaccines When You Have Miracles
It Was Media Control All Along
Why would your code name for something be a god damn anagram that's literally so stupid
Brain Damage: Cool, Vaccine: Nope, Thanks
Similarly, while the internet allows us to see more facepalm-inducing moments, on the flip side, it lets us publicly shame people with ideas this bad and it communicates to others who might have similar ideas that in reality, they are wrong and should keep it to themselves. Someone is not a bad person for being wrong but sticking by an objectively terrible opinion even when presented with contrary evidence is pretty childish. If you want to keep facepalming, Bored Panda has got you covered, check out our other article on this topic here.
Texas Be Looking Like Gilead
And too many people don't seem to realise how utterly stupid that sounds.
Lemme Ask You This
Having A Functioning Circulatory System
Don’t have a functioning circulatory system because it gives guys the ick. Got it
She Tried
Antivax Logic
Burn Victim
I can absolutely say I dont understand "human drivers of fire"what is that? Sounds scray! I need to read MCarthy et al 😄
Damn Son!
Awkward
Ummm all that stuff about the weed I’m just repeating what I have heard other people say.
Just Because Of Freedom And Law
You'll Survive
My ex manager was a chain smoker, like every hour outside for a cigarette break, when we were discussing favorite soda flavors, he said’ yuck, do you have any idea what soda does to your body’
Yep That Sound Right
Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions
Immigrant Prisoners Are Lease To Be Slaves
Perfectly legal under the 13th Amendment. Former slaves were often arrested in the South to be used as (slave) prison labor. 13A is ironically part of the root of today's mass over-incarceration in the US.
What If We Made An App That Would Endanger Lots Of Women?
Tat
When You Try To Sue A Restaurant For No Reason And Lose
Yeah, Sounds About Right
Which One Of The Many Mass Shootings Are We Talking About?
You Had One Job
But My Country Is Not Happy Any More
Their secret is oil. Lots and lots of oil, which profits the government first, instead of individual companies or CEOs. They have so much money that they build very expensive bridges to teeny tiny islands, just because they can.
We Did Everything But
☠️☠️☠️ How Is This Possible
My Brain
She's a Trump. Her brain doesn't function like the rest of us
Just Another Normal Day
Virtue Signalling
I've written longer responses about this topic, but for now I settle for saying that calling everybody out for cultural appropriation has gotten out of hand.
Queen Elizabeth Is Asking For Money On Internet
Woman On American Airlines Plane Duct-Taped To Her Seat After She Tried To Open The Door Mid-Flight
These Darn Spoiled Kids Today, With Their "Need To Eat At Regular Intervals" Or Whatever, Smh My Head
Rich kids get free meals from their parents. These people must think that rich kids eat at their leisure because their little fellows somehow earned it. I know sometimes I feel entitled to my privileges, but this is a whole other level.
Instead Of Calling The Cops, The Museum Turned Off The Heating And Lights. Protestors Were Asking For Food And A Bowl To Go To The Toilet - No One Cared
Keep It Simple Stupid
Affect is a verb and effect is a noun, but sometimes effect is a verb as in “ to effect change,” (thank you to those who commented below, I genuinely didn’t know!), English is lovely, isn’t it?
Yahoo Answers Might Be Gone, But We Still Have Quora
Time To Hate White People For (Checks Notes) Walking In The Rain?
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Can these be titled properly? Clicking on something with a general title of 'idiots' isn't the same as "hey all you xenophobic BP'ers out there, you can really get your bigot on with this thread!". Expecting to have a laugh only to see hypocritical after hypocritical post and comment is mind boggling.
My God I gave up got the stupidity was bugging me. Think I'll go pour another vodka and kill a Brain cell or two
A lot of BP just seems to be about illustrating how much Americans hate each other.
These threads make me so angry about America. You guys are living in a dystopia. You ok over there? Love and concern, Australia
I’m making a necklace from my craft book =D it says it’s a necklace that they make in Central Africa. I’m making it out of a paper plate lol. Our lives aren’t all death and despair.
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I'll probably get downvoted for this, but I remember when my left wing peeps were critical thinkers and skeptical of government motives and pharmaceutical companies. I don't understand why there's unquestioning support of every government decision and even the most innocuous questions about some vaccines are met with "MURDERER! SATAN! BURN THE WITCH!". You know, it's possible we were wrong about some things. It's possible that the same greed and corruption we criticize in pharma in other cases happened here too. The tribalism and othering will be the death of us.
She is why racism exists! Im so sick of dumb people bringing up race. Who cares what color someone is. Reverse racism
No it's just prejudice. Racism specifically arises from systems of oppression.
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When you decide to do or say something stupid you don't have to post it on social media. Just make it your little secret. I don't think anyone will mind.
Well this was... enlightening. Man there are some terrible people on here.
Well this whole article could have just been called "Let's S**t on America". I came expecting lighthearted funny idiot stories, not the darkest parts of our social politics.
I figured out how to block all the stupid posts on major social media outlets
Can these be titled properly? Clicking on something with a general title of 'idiots' isn't the same as "hey all you xenophobic BP'ers out there, you can really get your bigot on with this thread!". Expecting to have a laugh only to see hypocritical after hypocritical post and comment is mind boggling.
My God I gave up got the stupidity was bugging me. Think I'll go pour another vodka and kill a Brain cell or two
A lot of BP just seems to be about illustrating how much Americans hate each other.
These threads make me so angry about America. You guys are living in a dystopia. You ok over there? Love and concern, Australia
I’m making a necklace from my craft book =D it says it’s a necklace that they make in Central Africa. I’m making it out of a paper plate lol. Our lives aren’t all death and despair.
Load More Replies... I'll probably get downvoted for this, but I remember when my left wing peeps were critical thinkers and skeptical of government motives and pharmaceutical companies. I don't understand why there's unquestioning support of every government decision and even the most innocuous questions about some vaccines are met with "MURDERER! SATAN! BURN THE WITCH!". You know, it's possible we were wrong about some things. It's possible that the same greed and corruption we criticize in pharma in other cases happened here too. The tribalism and othering will be the death of us.
She is why racism exists! Im so sick of dumb people bringing up race. Who cares what color someone is. Reverse racism
No it's just prejudice. Racism specifically arises from systems of oppression.
Load More Replies... When you decide to do or say something stupid you don't have to post it on social media. Just make it your little secret. I don't think anyone will mind.
Well this was... enlightening. Man there are some terrible people on here.
Well this whole article could have just been called "Let's S**t on America". I came expecting lighthearted funny idiot stories, not the darkest parts of our social politics.
I figured out how to block all the stupid posts on major social media outlets
