We understand everyone needs a good laugh after a hard day, so we’ve curated a collection of the most side-splitting, rib-tickling, and funny adult memes just for you. Our selection goes beyond the ordinary, bringing you a unique blend of humor only those diagnosed with “growing up” will understand. From cheeky work memes to witty one-liners inspired by everyday life events, our stash of relatable memes is designed to tickle your funny bone and keep you on the roll for longer.
We get it—humor can be subjective; what goes for one might not go for another. So, we tried our best and collected a broad selection of hilarious memes for adults; whether you enjoy clever wordplay or slapstick comedy, we’ve got something for everyone.
So, without further ado, take a deep dive down this sea of funny adult memes and allow yourself to not worry about etiquette and manners. Have a cracking laugh, share it with your friends and family, and take the challenges ahead with a smile!
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You also have to buy your own kibble and pay your own vet bills
Diana Divecha, Ph.D., who is a Berkeley-based developmental psychologist focusing on the science of how children, teens, and families grow and develop, told Bored Panda that “developmental scientists consider adulthood to begin when the prefrontal cortex, the front-most region of the brain, finishes developing, at around 25 years of age.”
“This area is most well-known for its ‘executive function,’ or being the ‘manager’ of oneself. It supports abilities like planning ahead, regulating emotions and impulsivity, complex thought and reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making, and managing one’s attentional focus,” she explained.
Dr. Divecha pointed out that in WEIRD societies (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, Democratic), the onramp to adulthood has become very long—about 10 to 15 years. She thinks of ‘entering adulthood’ as having three phases:
“The first phase begins with puberty, when the sex hormones begin their real job, to remodel the brain to prepare for adulthood. This is when respect from the peer group takes on new importance as nature prepares young people to leave the nest and eventually form new social groups.”
“But this can be a bumpy period at first, so it’s helpful for teens to stay open and optimistic and to have a few different peer groups. It’s also easy to be impulsive in this phase, so cultivating discernment (wise decision-making and action) and taking a moment to think before acting can be helpful, and at times, even life-saving,” Dr. Divecha said.
I should be sleeping / The early bird gets the worm / Lark Sparrow tomorrow
According to the developmental psychologist, the second phase is identity exploration—when we ask ourselves questions like: ‘Who am I?’ ‘What’s important to me?’ And ‘Where do I fit in?’
“This is a period of great creativity, so to the extent possible, it’s helpful to try new things and explore possible interests,” Divecha explained. “Some will fit, others won't, but all will be helpful information about what matters to each individual. Learn how the world works: Get real-world work experience, learn how corporations and social media manipulate the public for profit, work on real-world problems, and find adult mentors—they offer crucial bridges to adulthood. And finally, learn practical skills like cooking, laundry, cleaning, and personal finance, as well as interpersonal communication and emotion-regulation skills.”
The third phase is early adulthood, usually defined by first commitments to jobs/careers and relationships. “Learning from mentors and gaining emotional and interpersonal skills are important. Flexibility and adaptability are key, too, as young adults frequently change jobs until they land one that feels like a good fit or create their own independent/entrepreneurial path,” Divecha said.
Hense the four day work week movement. A day of rest, a day of chores and a day to socialize. All things humans need to live a happy, healthy, productive life.
Some scientists who study the brain and nervous system say the age at which you become an adult (which is different for everyone) might even be your 30s. One argument they use is that people around 18 years of age are still going through changes in the brain, which can affect behavior and make them more likely to develop mental health disorders.
“What we’re saying is that to have a definition of when you move from childhood to adulthood looks increasingly absurd,” Professor Peter Jones, from Cambridge University, told BBC News. “It’s a much more nuanced transition over three decades.”
Jones thinks that structures like the education system, the health system, and the legal system simply make it convenient for themselves by having definitions. Strange, isn't it? How many countries consider their citizens mature adults when they reach the age of 18 and allow them to vote, buy alcohol, and get a mortgage, even though hitting that number doesn't automatically transform you into a reasonable human being?
However, Professor Jones believes experienced criminal judges recognize the difference between a 19-year-old defendant and a “hardened criminal” in their late 30s. “I think the system is adapting to what’s hiding in plain sight, that people don't like (the idea of) a caterpillar turning into a butterfly,” he said. “There isn't a childhood and then adulthood. People are on a pathway; they’re on a trajectory.”
Reaching adulthood doesn't mean we stop changing. “Some core aspects of personality, like sensitivity, reactivity, or easy-going-ness, tend to be pretty stable from early in life throughout the lifespan. But your ability to know yourself and learn to express and manage your personality in fulfilling ways can improve a lot over time,” Divecha said. “You can learn when and how to modulate your personality to fit a situation better, or on the other hand, change your situation to fit your personality better.”
“And yet, outside events can still come along and radically change you. For example, if you had a rough start in life, a good relationship or therapy later in adulthood can transform the rest of your life for the better. On the other hand, if your life has been going okay and you suddenly experience great adversity, that, too, can change you forever. The brain remains flexible throughout the lifespan but is more easily adaptable early in life.”
So continue scrolling through the pictures, and maybe they will entertain you and teach you something.
How Can I Share Adult Memes Without Causing Offense?
If your audience is someone you just met, a couple of icebreakers may be a better choice. This way, you’ll get to know them and eventually will be able to decide whether or not they’re the right audience. If you’re really itching to share some adult jokes, do so with friends you know best and only if you’re sure they will appreciate it.
I will ask the entire comment section. Tell me your favorite dinosaur!? I'll go first, my favorite is a triceratops because Land Before Time. Your turn comment section!
Or you wait until you do all the chores so that you can sit with a book, but it's already 11 PM and you just fall asleep half through the page
How Often Do Adults Laugh Per Day?
According to research, adults laugh only about 15 times per day. It might seem a lot at first, but considering that we, as children, are used to laughing around 400 times a day, the current number becomes much more worrying.
So, to pump those numbers up, you can always try out adult jokes that speak best to the grown-ups. Sure, easygoing puns can also crack a few laughs, but as we grow older, we become more serious and less prone to laughing outbursts, so more heavy artillery is needed.
I feel your pain, I have always had a problem with noise. Right now I have workmen drilling outside my flat for a whole 3 weeks, driving me crazy.
Tapes were simpler to do, no computer skills necessary just ninja like reflexes for the start and end of songs...
Yeah, but the bloody radio announcer would always talk over the intro and end of every song!
Load More Replies...My brother used to walk through the house so heavily that it would throw off the burn and I'd get a coaster. Good times.
Haha what about mixed tapes? What about connecting 2 vcrs so you could record a movie 😂😂
Thanks. I still have a computer with a CD burner...now I feel extremely old and very depressed. I think I'm gonna take a nap now.
I haven't burned CDs in years and literally earlier today I was thinking how did I do that again? 🤔
Easy use your fireplace. Or cook it in a microwave. Bon appetit!
Wow...this just slapped me in the face with a reality stick. I still burn cds lmao
Somebody grab a rotary phone from the attic please. Maybe an apron, in case his mind explodes. This is going to be FUUUUN.
The software is gone to allow mp3 files to go to CD with metadata. F**K
i remember losing an entire semester on a floppy disk (yes an entire semester on 1.44mb) when I put it in my pocket with my Siemens C25 and it rang, wiping the floppy and forcing me to go and spend €100 on a 8mb flash drive
There are people like me who don’t know how to burn CD’s because they didn’t have them when I was young.
I'm old enough to have heard about this, but was too poor to have a computer. Used tapes instead. 2005 my neighbour gave me her old computer that she got from a guy who bought it from his workplace. We had community wifi (stopped now as it needed upgrading and there were no funds) and I got to wander around on the internet. Learned to be careful what I typed into google when looking for cute cat pics.
Duuuude..... I can't even. Screw burning CD's and DVD's you haven't lived and experienced anger in it's purest form until you spend a whole day with a cassette tape and a stereo to hit record when your jam comes on just for the DJ to either talk during the first part or stop it early to take a caller lol. If school shootings were a thing back then, that would've been the reason every. single. time. Guaranteed.
My laptop’s disc drive can burn DVDs, I think. Anyway, I don’t remember ever burning any discs on it since I got it December 2016.
Oh please. It's just f.....g software. I believe you have it in your time too. Ugh.
It's also hardware though. You needed the special disc drive.
Load More Replies...If only I could get back the hundreds of hours I spent burning CDs.
Computers stopped coming with floppy drives over a decade ago, and now I feel old
My parents went out of their way to avert this because I was really shy as a kid and they didn’t want me to be unable to advocate for myself. They’d be like “hey, wanna do this cool fun grown-up thing?” And then whichever employee my preteen self dealt with was way nicer than the bullies at my school so the experience taught me that calling and making appointments was good. (And when I became a customer service employee myself, you wouldn’t worry so much about what employees think of you if you knew how seldom I did.)
Feeling on top of the world! ... Then you get 10 more tasks because you just finished one.
Oh screw that. I’m not conforming to the little idiots. No. Nope. Uh uh.
The best thing about childhood: the summer lasts forever. The best thing about adulthood: you have lots and lots of reading choices.
Yes. Or not even life changing news, just quick intense meetings where we realize we're still the same people and we still love each other. And we support and advice each other, or just become an ear and a shoulder, whatever is needed. I do miss my friends. But life is so busy 😭... I'm always overwhelmed by the many things life requires of me.
Some nice crunchy lettuce and broccoli do be sounding nice right now
Or you become Squidward... Hating everybody because everybody sucks.
30th birthday : my life can begin at last! All this suffering is over, now the fun starts!
You can skip the "social life" part. It is just a myth and a useless effort, social life does not exist in real life.
I agree with you Katie Lutesinger 1000%. I often hear myself say these very words lol
Reset password. "New password cannot be the same as old password" *explodes*
Because the food at home and the bills took all of your money and you can't afford anything else
Turning 30 is the best thing that can happen to someone! Except death, of course. Death is cool.
Brilliant. Loved it. Hate that it was downvoted so I’m standing up for it. ☺️
Load More Replies...Omg what if...most of these are not symptoms of adulthood, but symptoms of existing within a dystopia as nothing more than an economic slave to a broken system?
Wages today are half of what they were 50 years ago but we still have the same expectations.
Load More Replies...I have hope that it gets better. Thanks
Load More Replies...Loved this Post. Old age isn't that bad it's worse. Why downvoted - that's where we elderly are going to the GREATDOWNVOTE!
These were all pretty spot on. I'm old enough now to laugh at myself but not so old that I forget why I'm laughing...
Well I'm 15 and this is terrifying me- i wish adults would stop telling us that adulthood is basically feeling like s**t till you die and then wonder why we're unmotivated to work for our future (and also climate change and terrorism)
I am 73. With health issues. Just came back from fabulous three days of hiking in the rain. Photo ops galore. Soooo much fun. My hubby will be 84. He has health issues too. Big deal. Life is what you make it young or old. Don't give up. I love being a senior!!!!
Load More Replies...Bills I can deal with. To some degree I can at least avoid some of them if I'm savvy enough and doing it right. The worst thing about being an adult is watching your family members who were so strong and reliable from your childhood grow old and die.
It's official I'm an adult in a childs brain. LET MY HAVE A CHILDHOOD UNIVERSE!! please?
38 and still trying to figure it out how to be a responsible adult like my parents. Oh look, a new db figure :)
I mean...people seriously don't know how to burn CDs though? I can't even shake that reality! It's freaking me out.
Most of those things are just totally normal things that happen to everyone, adults or not. Others are just plain wrong.
It's meant to be humorous - because life IS like this for many of us. That's the point really.
Load More Replies...And yet your pfp is a cartoon bee. I mean come on, it's not even a real bee, grow up
Load More Replies...Brilliant. Loved it. Hate that it was downvoted so I’m standing up for it. ☺️
Load More Replies...Omg what if...most of these are not symptoms of adulthood, but symptoms of existing within a dystopia as nothing more than an economic slave to a broken system?
Wages today are half of what they were 50 years ago but we still have the same expectations.
Load More Replies...I have hope that it gets better. Thanks
Load More Replies...Loved this Post. Old age isn't that bad it's worse. Why downvoted - that's where we elderly are going to the GREATDOWNVOTE!
These were all pretty spot on. I'm old enough now to laugh at myself but not so old that I forget why I'm laughing...
Well I'm 15 and this is terrifying me- i wish adults would stop telling us that adulthood is basically feeling like s**t till you die and then wonder why we're unmotivated to work for our future (and also climate change and terrorism)
I am 73. With health issues. Just came back from fabulous three days of hiking in the rain. Photo ops galore. Soooo much fun. My hubby will be 84. He has health issues too. Big deal. Life is what you make it young or old. Don't give up. I love being a senior!!!!
Load More Replies...Bills I can deal with. To some degree I can at least avoid some of them if I'm savvy enough and doing it right. The worst thing about being an adult is watching your family members who were so strong and reliable from your childhood grow old and die.
It's official I'm an adult in a childs brain. LET MY HAVE A CHILDHOOD UNIVERSE!! please?
38 and still trying to figure it out how to be a responsible adult like my parents. Oh look, a new db figure :)
I mean...people seriously don't know how to burn CDs though? I can't even shake that reality! It's freaking me out.
Most of those things are just totally normal things that happen to everyone, adults or not. Others are just plain wrong.
It's meant to be humorous - because life IS like this for many of us. That's the point really.
Load More Replies...And yet your pfp is a cartoon bee. I mean come on, it's not even a real bee, grow up
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