“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 S**t 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
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
Or, provide free medical care to pregnant women, and children. And food. And domestic violence counseling. And PTSD counseling. And free caskets and free burial for the mothers who die due to pregnancy complications. And if those embryos are so important to you, why not a free casket and a burial for all the miscarriages, too?
They don't just not provide free healthcare for mothers at risk losing their babies during pregnancy, they're trying to prosecute them if they lose their babies after not being able to afford health care!
Load More Replies... As long as they're in the womb, they'll protect them, after that you're on your own
I don't want them to foster. I have friends who foster a whole brood of kids and they are wonderful foster figures BECAUSE they are so amazingly generous and kind and non-judgemental. They don't make the kids feel like they need to be different, regardless of who they are they meet them where they're at. Whereas the kind of people who s**t on women and our reproductive choices... they couldn't be that for foster kids. Those kids deserve better than being shoved in a home with some jumped up judgemental fundamentalist couple, especially one who were partially just using the kids as a p**n in their BS pro-life campaign.
Seriously, BP? P**n is censored? P**n, as in the chess piece? It's not even spelled the same!
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"...being pro life has nothing to do with after birth care"- well it should be
This has been the complaint of every single person who supports abortion.
Load More Replies... The foster care number is hard to drop as the goal is to reunite, not adopt. Have friends that has been trying to adopt their foster kids for years, but as long as the parents dont sign off, it isnt gonna happen. And could you send some adoption kids to Sweden? They would be so welcome! Here we dont have virtually any kids to adopt nationally at all, only abroad adoptions. And they are so few we only have one adoption agency left (for good reasons, many of the adopted kids from Chile, China Korea etc was kidnapped and now the real adoptees usually gets homes within families. So about 3x more in line waiting for adopt then adoptions made each year, and that is with a lot of people giving up on the costly process with low hopes for a kid. Now most do embryo adoption or surrogacy instead of waiting for years and maybe if they are lucky have a older kids with medical needs
That's the freaking point! Parenthood is the tough part. No one should shove someone else into it.
So let me see if i understand this right: fetus=life life=not life did i get thid right? 🤣
It's not about protecting babies, it's about punishment. Duh!
So the foetus gets all the “protection” in the world, but as soon as it’s born, it’s “not my problem”, until it’s 18, when they can … put it to death for committing crimes it was forced to commit because it was poor, uneducated, unwell, or had medical needs that couldn’t be met (because it was badly educated, so was poor because it couldn’t get a job, so couldn’t pay for medical care - that even people with jobs can’t afford). So the child turned to drugs. Which landed it in jail. Where someone threatened it with a shiv, so they retaliated and killed their aggressor- and their 10-year term for drugs becomes a death sentence for murder. At which point, the Republicans claim they’ve “protected the community” from another evil-doing degenerate poor person. Pathetic, short-sighted, interfering fools.
I do just want to add that adoption is very expensive and adoption through foster care is difficult. It takes a lot of patience and love to adopt a kid who has been through the foster care system because of their trauma. That being said, I think anyone who is in the position to adopt should.
Pro lifers should be forced to adopt in states where abortion is illegal, but are not allowed to teach religion until 18
And THAT is precisely the problem. They are not pro life! They are PRO BIRTH. Once that life is BORN it's the problem of the mother.
P**n is censored I legit wrote "p@wn" like the chess peice
If we can empty out animal shelters of animals needing good homes with adoption drives, we can certainly do something to empty out the foster care and adoption services of children needing good homes, ffs. If we don’t right the wrong of republicans trying to abolish Roe v Wade anytime soon, we will HAVE to. Unless we start doing free spay and neuter clinics for humans who don’t want to have children.
There are people who would do this and I (F57) would have, if I had been able to when younger. BUT, parents, doctors, friends, strangers, co-workers, relatives, will tell them that you will change youlr mind when you get older. You will wish you had someone to take care of you, visit you, spend time with you, etc. I never saw myself as a parent when I was growing up. Never saw myself as a married person growing up. I got pregnant in and we gave her up for adoption. We got married after giving her up for adoption. Two emotionally hurting people should not get married. Marriage lasted almost 7 and a half years. I made sure I never got pregnant again and have been happily single since then. Not everyone is meant to be a parent or should be. It is the hardest and most important job in the world. It is so easy to keep from getting pregnant: abstinence, make sure you take your birth control and he wears a condom every time, IUDs, not getting drunk, etc. Women say they want control over their bodies and that includes being able to kill their children while they are still growing inside them. The fact that you choose to have an abortion shows you are not mature enough. If you were mentally and emotionally mature enough, you would have not gotten pregnant in the first place. People with common sense will understand I am not speaking about rape here. That is a whole different topic.
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I'm pro-life(because of Religion) and want to adopt as soon as I turn eighteen. Better?
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
