“Humans Doing Human Things”: 50 Pics That Showcase The Weird And Chaotic Side Of Humanity (New Pics)
Ah, humans. Homo sapiens. Mankind. We’re the most dominant species on Earth, and our population has recently reached a whopping 8 billion. We’ve been to the Moon, we discovered electricity and invented airplanes, we’ve created vaccines and medicines to prevent or treat countless diseases, and without human innovations, we wouldn’t have the internet you’re reading this article on right now.
Humans have accomplished some truly incredible things, but at the same time, we have managed to be an extremely fascinating species. From our creative clothing choices to our obsessions with social media and our appearances, there are plenty of quirks that humans have that would raise the eyebrows of any other species. And one corner of the internet that knows this all too well is the Humans Doing Human Things Facebook page.
Below, we’ve gathered some of the most confusing and hilarious posts from this account dedicated to documenting human behavior, so all of you pandas can observe your own species as if you were in a science museum. Be sure to upvote the photos you find most perplexing, and let us know in the comments below what you consider the most fascinating facts about humankind. Then, if you’re interested in viewing even more of these strange photos, you can find Bored Panda’s last article featuring Humans Doing Human Things right here!
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Humans Doing Human Things, which was created on May 26, 2021, describes itself as a “blog of human things”, and it certainly does a great job of capturing some of the weirdest behavior we humans often exhibit. From how we choose to entertain ourselves to what we choose to wear when going grocery shopping, there is no limit to the amount of bizarre things we can come up with. In fact, following an account dedicated to documenting our own behavior can be considered a “human thing” in and of itself. And there are plenty of us who have decided to do so, as Humans Doing Human Things has over 98k followers.
We reached out to the creator on Facebook to hear what inspired them to start this catalog of silly human photos, and they provided a concise, yet extremely fitting response. “I just like Humans, I especially like when they do human things,” they told Bored Panda. We hope you do too pandas! Because you’re certainly in for some unique displays of humanity on this list.
Sure you can...Deuteronomy 21:18-21 “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear." It is all in the bible, and you can pretty much find something in there that can be used to justify whatever you want to do. This just goes to show that those who are against abortion and use the argument that God is against murder, has not read the bible thouroughly. There is plenty of things in there where the punishment is death.
You think any of these idiots have actually read let alone studied the Bible?
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Christians have twisted the narrative of the Bible. God supposedly flooded the world and drowned every baby and pregnant woman on earth. The Bible is pro abortion. There is even a concoction you can give to pregnant women you suspect of being unfaithful that will supposedly cause an abortion if the woman was unfaithful.
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I feel like American Christians are a different breed. Sorry if that offends the nice ones but all I ever see online is Christian's treating people like s**t and acting all high and mighty. The original Karen's
They are. I'm a Christian, but non denominational. My husband is as well. We were both Catholic growing up, but so much of what we were taught just feels wrong. Like the confession thing- if only God or Jesus can forgive me of my sin, why do I need a third party involved? Why can't I talk to him through prayer? A man cannot just tell me to say a few Hail Marys and all is right in my world. And living in the "Bible Belt" has taught me that the ones who spout out what is righteous and what is not are the main ones who treat people like pure garbage. I'd rather just be a Christian and leave it up to the Maker to sort it out when the time comes. We aren't supposed to pass judgement on others, that's up to the law and the Lord.
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God did not kill Jesus. Our sin separated us from God. Someone needed to bridge that gap so we may have eternal life and a relationship with God. God sent his son Jesus to be the one to die for us but Jesus didn't have to die. He could have chosen not too. In Matthew 26:39 it says "And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt." This was Jesus praying that he would not have to die on the cross but if it was what God wanted he would do it. Jesus chose to die on that cross. He died for me, you, and the whole world.
Telling children that they are born with sin is a travesty of justice. Why should they be punished for the actions of another? Why did an omniscient god create an imperfect world to begin with? Why would he be worthy of worship?
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God didn't kill His Son. His Son died for us to save us from our sin.
Did it really happen though? You have no proof that there even was a jesus or is a god but you blindly follow
I mean, even if Jesus isn't God, there's enough evidence for him as a historical figure, or at least I think so.
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Which version? Since everyone took a spin at it, it's hard to tell which book you go by.
Load More Replies... God didn’t kill His son. Man did. Period. We are responsible for His death. He took our place. Period. Later all bc I know those deceived will send me off. Fine with that. Truth is truth.
Let those who discriminate and persecute show themselves now in votes. I only care about God’s vote btw.
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This is probably after Roe v Wade was overturned this last year, taking away the rights of millions upon millions of people to have an option to have an abortion if they so choose
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Ok but God didn't kill his son though. People hung his son on the cross and killed him.
That's a slam dunk point right there. Whether you agree with her or not, that's a solid point.
yea that says it all-- about the moronic arrogance of the totally self absorbed coed
Jesus gave up his life of his own free will, God brought him back to life, you're baby would not be so lucky
Before I go I ask every one to notice… who isn’t allowed to speak on BP? Every time. Look at the comments. Who ends up banned? Banned not for hate speech. Banned not for anything but expressing Christian belief or explaining their belief. Take notice. Sad BP. Just sad.
Is god a perfect being that is eternal, all powerful, all knowing, all good all of the time with a divine plan? Then he would be responsible for everything. What was the logical point of god creating the adversary? Did he have the ability to not create the adversary? Could he have created a good angel instead of the adversary? If no, then god is not all powerful and the adversary is more powerful than god. God supposedly created many good angels that did not rebel. Why didn’t he just create more of those instead of the adversary? What was the logical point of god creating Eve? Could god not have created Eve? Could he have created someone good instead? If no, then he is not all powerful and Eve is stronger than god. What was the logical point of the flood story? Evil and sin supposedly just take back over the world again. Your god is incompetent over and over and over again. How does the story of the Bible make any logical sense?
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I seriously thought this was regarding capital punishment ... I'm not sure why since I am a Pro-Choice Advocate
2 Corinthians 5:10 (NIV): For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ
Deuteronomy 21:18-21 ESV / 32 helpful votes “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear."
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xhristians appropriated infanticide feom the pagans and made it so only one male authority figure could do it...again
That’s kinda umm sad that he wants to kill his son. I meant son it was an auto type. And whoever downvoted me why please I didn’t mean sun I meant son
Laughing so hard. We're in his image but only HE can kill. So we killed him, but really SUCKED at that. So I'm talking to GOD every time I talk to Myself? But, We probably shouldn't do that all at the same time. I know I'm tipsy but it's FUNNY.
The Bible is pro-abortion. The Bible gives you a concoction to give to pregnant women that you suspect of getting pregnant via infidelity, and if the woman was unfaithful it causes an abortion. The Bible also says that a baby is only a person once it is born and takes its first breaths of air. If you believe that the flood story really happened, then god supposedly flooded the entire world past the peaks of the highest mountains. That means that he supposedly killed every infant and toddler on earth via torturous drowning. And he also killed nearly every pregnant woman and their fetus via torturous drowning. And if you believe god is real, all powerful, all knowing, with a divine plan, and created the world, then god would be the biggest abortionist of all time. He would be responsible for every abortion by human beings, because it’s all going according to god’s plan. And most fertilized human eggs abort through purely natural causes; around %70 of fertilized human eggs do not survive.
Is god a perfect being that is eternal, all powerful, all knowing, all good all of the time with a divine plan? Then he would be responsible for everything. What was the logical point of god creating the adversary? Did he have the ability to not create the adversary? Could he have created a good angel instead of the adversary? If no, then god is not all powerful and the adversary is more powerful than god. God supposedly created many good angels that did not rebel. Why didn’t he just create more of those instead of the adversary? What was the logical point of god creating Eve? Could god not have created Eve? Could he have created someone good instead? If no, then he is not all powerful and Eve is stronger than god. What was the logical point of the flood story? Evil and sin supposedly just take back over the world again. Your god is incompetent over and over and over again. How does the story of the Bible make any logical sense?
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What saddens me is you looking deliberately past the simple satirical message of the sign. People mostly "get" why that event happened, it's told so many times even to those that don't shate the same religion. The only ignorance here is yours, that you would rather mock free will by your own pretending. Or maybe you're just that mean and dull.
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This is just so funny!!! The time it took to dig those holes... maybe 40 weeks???
Most of us don’t think much about what it means to be a human every day. We go about our lives, go to work, take care of our families and try to get as much enjoyment out of our time on Earth as possible. But have you ever wondered what an alien might think of us? Well, according to Steve Stewart-Williams, author of The Ape That Understood the Universe, there are several things that alien scientists might find strange about us. Psychologist Rob Henderson breaks down some of the ideas from Stewart-Williams’ book in an article for Psychology Today, first noting that having “proximate” and “ultimate” causes of human behavior is a unique trait.
He provides the example of reproduction. A human can argue that they’re engaging in sex because it feels good or because they’re trying to start a family. The pleasure that comes along with it is the proximate cause, and having children as a result is considered the ultimate cause. The same can be said for eating a food that we find delicious. You might eat lasagna for dinner because it’s your favorite food, and you enjoy it. But you also need to eat something to keep yourself alive, so hunger might be the ultimate cause.
Confidence. No shame in going alone. I love to do that. It's freeing. Just enjoying you do in peace.
Rob Henderson also notes that aliens might find it odd that our evolution can help explain disease risk. He provides the example of how women today are at about 100 times higher risk of developing breast cancer than pre-agricultural women. “For most of human history, women spent a large portion of their reproductive years either pregnant or breastfeeding. This meant that they didn’t menstruate as often as today. In hunter-gatherer conditions, a woman would have about 100 menstrual cycles in her lifetime,” Rob explains. “In the modern world, women reach puberty at earlier ages, have fewer pregnancies, and spend less time nursing. Today, women have as many as 400 menstrual cycles. This exposes them to higher levels of ovarian hormones and fluctuations, which increases the odds of breast cancer.”
The way that humans find love might be bizarre for an alien to observe as well. Rob explains that for the majority of human history, we lived in small communities with only about 150 people. We had extremely limited options when it came to love, yet people managed to form deep bonds with one another. Today, it seems like our dating opportunities are endless, but many of us continue to search for one person who we can share a deep and powerful bond with. “Even though we live in urban areas full of potential partners and can even open an app to meet someone new, we still care deeply about our mating partners and experience pain upon losing them,” Rob notes.
Another uniquely human thing that might be hard to explain to an alien is the beloved meme. Memes might be hard for a human grandparent to understand, let alone an alien, but Rob explains how memes are “analogous to genes”. “Just as some genes are more likely to survive and replicate, the same holds true for memes. Some ideas and practices are more useful than others, and are thus more likely to survive."
“But here’s the weird part: The determining factor for whether a meme will be passed on is whether survival benefits the meme itself, not the person using it,” he writes. “Just as a gene doesn’t ‘care’ about the survival of an organism, but rather the survival of itself, a meme doesn’t ‘care’ about the survival of the meme-holder, but simply its own survival. Memes are not conscious any more than genes are conscious. They simply act in a way to maximize their own survival.”
When it comes to what separates us humans from other species on Earth, it can be tricky to pinpoint what precisely makes us unique. Adam Rutherford wrote a piece for The Guardian exploring this topic, and he noted that, “Prudent skepticism is required when we compare ourselves with other beasts.”
“Evolution accounts for all life, but not all traits are adaptations,” Adam writes. “We use animals in science every day to try to understand complex biochemical pathways in order that we might develop drugs or understand disease. Mice, rats, monkeys, even cats, newts and armadillos, provide invaluable insights into our own biochemistry, but even so, all researchers acknowledge the limitations of those molecular analogies; we shared ancestors with those beasts millions of years ago, and our evolutionary trajectories have nudged that biochemistry to suit each species as it is today.”
SHE WAS LOOKIN KINDA DUMB WITH HER FINGER AND HER THUMB IN THE SHAPE OF AN L ON HER FOREHEAD
We might think humans are special because we use tools, but actually, many other creatures are capable of figuring out tools themselves. Around 1% of all animals, to be exact, as Adam notes that various sea urchins, insects, spiders, crabs, snails, octopuses, fish, birds and mammals have all been known to utilize tools. But one trait that actually might be unique to mankind is how we “accumulate culture and build on it”. “Many animals learn, but only we teach,” Adam writes.
“As we meandered into the most recent 100,000 years or so, our culture became ever more significant in crafting our abilities. This is apparent in the fact that our bodies have not significantly changed in that time. A woman or man from 1,000 centuries ago would fit in perfectly well in any city in the world today if we tidied them up and gave them a haircut. But the way we live our lives since then has become ever more complex.”
When they say a picture is worth a thousand words, THIS is that picture.
One thing about us humans is that we need stories. “We are desperate to find the things that tip us over the edge from being merely an animal into Hamlet’s paragon of animals,” Adam writes. “Was it our language? Was it religion, or music, or art, or any number of things that are not as unique to us as we had once thought? The truth is that it was all of these things and more, but crucially, it was in the engagement of our minds to transmit skills and ideas to others.”
“We changed our societies and maximized how culture is transmitted,” Adam explains. “We took evolution’s work, and by teaching each other, we created ourselves. The stories we tell about how we came to be who we are often neglect the complexity of biology and the oceans of time during which we evolved. To understand human evolution, we need new stories.”
Have you learned something new about your own species through these photos? Or are you simply feeling embarrassed that some of your fellow men have exhibited this bizarre behavior? Keep upvoting the photos that you think aliens would like to study in school, and let us know in the comments what you think makes our species so special. Then, if you’re interested in checking out Bored Panda’s last article featuring the Humans Doing Human Things Facebook page, you can find that right here!
The senior centers in 2050 will smell like Axe Body Spray, not Old Spice.
Uhhh nice to say sorry but contact info please? Or are they supposed to try get DNA off the pantyliner 🤔🤔🤔🤷🏼♀️
Note: this post originally had 100 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
I'm actually quite surprised and happy that there are a lot of very positive comments, especially for images showing people that don't adhere to "proper social norms". We have to become much more tolerant towards quirky people, and less tolerant of racist, judgmental, and aggressive people (list is not exhaustive). :)
This was awesome. We are a terrifying, wonderful species of monsters and weird saints.
I didn't see the point in many of these pics - am I already too weird myself to notice or was this list a bit lame in parts?
lol only the white ppl are crazy (not racist sorry tho) most of them were white
Thank you for this eye opening remark. I am sometimes irritated that so many posts are US centred but as a white European, I really don‘t have that much to complain about, do I? The US and Europe are not that much different compared to, say, Africa or even Asia. I wonder why there are so few posts / stories about those parts of the world. Are the people there just not interested in online stuff, don‘t they have the opportunity or are they just not exhibitionist enough? And now I‘m intrigued…
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I'm actually quite surprised and happy that there are a lot of very positive comments, especially for images showing people that don't adhere to "proper social norms". We have to become much more tolerant towards quirky people, and less tolerant of racist, judgmental, and aggressive people (list is not exhaustive). :)
This was awesome. We are a terrifying, wonderful species of monsters and weird saints.
I didn't see the point in many of these pics - am I already too weird myself to notice or was this list a bit lame in parts?
lol only the white ppl are crazy (not racist sorry tho) most of them were white
Thank you for this eye opening remark. I am sometimes irritated that so many posts are US centred but as a white European, I really don‘t have that much to complain about, do I? The US and Europe are not that much different compared to, say, Africa or even Asia. I wonder why there are so few posts / stories about those parts of the world. Are the people there just not interested in online stuff, don‘t they have the opportunity or are they just not exhibitionist enough? And now I‘m intrigued…
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