This Facebook Group Is All About “Science Humor”, Here Are 50 Of Their Most Hilarious Posts (New Pics)
Remember how your high school science teacher would say that science can be fun? That meant either lab work or a group assignment, which for many kids was just as far from the definition of fun as preparing for a science class test.
Fast forward to today, and things have changed. Many young adults appreciate the things they never did, find new hobbies and passions, develop a sense of nostalgia, and realize they were always a nerd to begin with…
So in order to show you exactly how nerdy we all are deep down, we present you the “Science Humor” Facebook group devoted to posting the best science-related laughs, cartoons, puns, jokes, japes, antics, and you name it!
With a whopping 1.2M members, the group is basically a powerhouse blending education, knowledge and internet comedy. Below we wrapped up some of the funniest and most recent posts from the page to treat your inner nerd, so scroll down!
After you’re done, be sure to check out our previous feature with more jokes from Science Humor right here.
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You may wonder why some people find science jokes and memes funny while others couldn’t care less about them. Well, it all comes down to a broader question of why and how people find particular things funny. Previously, Bored Panda spoke with a British neuroscientist and Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow at University College London, Sophie Scott. Scott has been investigating the cognitive neuroscience of voices, speech and laughter, particularly speech perception, speech production, vocal emotions, and human communication. So she shed light on this amusing topic!
Turns out, the first requirement for something to be received as funny is that people need to understand that joke, pun, saying, or meme. But how do we do that? Well, Scott argues that it comes down to the intended meaning that makes a particular thing funny.
“One simple thing about not getting a joke is not realizing that it's a joke at all, assuming that someone is being serious and saying something stupid,” the professor explained.
Maybe she knows something we all are missing, somehow got it to fit, and this is her successfully UNloading it. :-)
It's actually a clown car. There are 10 more beds inside waiting to be unloaded.
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Is it bad that I enjoy sitting back and watching these delusional people try to defy physics?
There’s a one in a quadrillionth of a chance that, if you poke your hand through a brick wall, the molecules would perfectly fit, thus, your hand would travel through the wall. So, that mattress had a chance, but today wasn't that day.
I used to work in the large items pickup area at a thrift store. We got amazingly good at 3D Tetris, but mattresses and box springs were a different story. We could usually tell within the first 5 seconds that they would have to come back with a bigger vehicle - that didn't stop them from trying though!
For clarification: although it was a thrift store, we also sold new mattresses and frames, etc... We did not accept donated mattresses for obvious reasons.
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I fit a futon in my old Volvo's trunk and back seat. I bought the futon forgetting which vehicle I was driving. The box was enormous so the guy at the store and I took it out of the box to discover it was in 2 pretty large pieces. We opened the trunk, laid the back seats down and went to shoving pieces for all we were worth. Took about 20 minutes but I got it home, out, assembled, and no marks on it anywhere. Getting it out though is a whole different story!😁
Once sat on a plane watching some guy try to fit the square case of alcohol he had purchased into an overhead bin. He tried it one way only to discover that it wouldn’t fit. We watched in bemusement as he rotated it and tried again; still no. He rotated it again and tried. Nope. After about 4 attempts he just stood, staring at the box in his hands, trying to puzzle out some way he might manage it. The flight attendant who’d been standing next to us watching this unfold grinned wryly down at us, mumbling, “Hm. He’s finally learned what a cube is.”, and moved forward to offer to put it in a closet.
That's brilliant. Thank you for the chuckle. Needed it.
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Loving the middle finger 🖕 And people just standing around.. "you got this! Almost in there!"
Someone needs to shut the other door, because once she gets it in, it will try to escape through the other side.
Reminds me of the scene in the movie Idiocracy. I work at a retail pharmacy, and I think about that scene a lot.
I love how the person in the dark magenta shirt is fingering the photographer.
Moreover, it’s not as easy as it looks. Hence, so many badly received jokes that land the joker eyerolls, or cringe at most. “It often has to do with as much the person telling the joke or where the joke is coming from, as the content of a joke,” Scott explained, adding that in order for the joke to be received as such, the audience needs to be aware of the fact that it is a joke.
What makes things funny shouldn’t be rocket science but there are multiple complex theories about it. One of them is “the idea that sometimes you laugh because it makes you feel better about yourself, you feel superior to tell the joke.”
Another theory argues that “you laugh because there’s some sort of complexity set up and then it’s resolved and that’s part of getting the joke.”
Scott also argues that the reason we laugh often has to do with “some kind of taboo” which is perceived as acceptable when mentioned in the joke context. On other occasions, “we laugh because laughter is a behavior associated in humans and other mammals with play,” Scott explained.
At the same time, the most important role for saying (writing) and receiving jokes is a pretty straightforward one–“just to be playful and you’re kind of acknowledging that and what has been done for you in the name of the play.”
It’s important to note that according to Scott, jokes have less to do with our absolute personalities (so don’t jump to conclusions about a person if they find or don’t find your joke funny!) and more with who we are and our life experiences. Scott argues that the things we find funny may also be directly influenced by the relationship with the person who’s telling the joke.
How she still got a hand? Mine would have fallen off about halfway through!
12? Half the time my 4-5 person teams for group projects in school can't all do what they're supposed to on time.
If you make your point with an axe, it's hard to question your views
fun but seriously people need to address the fact that it is LEGO there is no S, look at the box (like sheep, not sheeps)
Shouldn't the answer be 10? Please help. I was an English major. Numbers make brain hurt.
"What do you have to say to all those hair cells recently laid off from the scalp?" "There will be plenty of new jobs for everyone on the back!"
Why not install wheels underneath and go? Follow me for more improvement ideas.
"You'll never make it if you keep cutting corners", "What?", "Cubes".
Before this appears in one of those "you've been using juice boxes wrong" posts, just pointing out that image A shows a length of straw visible so you can work out where the bottom is for maximum extraction, whilst image B, once the tiny straw end is inside you cannot know where it is or how it's bent, thus meaning you're less likely to extract all the contents without a lot of faff.
Without maths, I wouldn't know that it takes light about 39mS for light to travel the diameter of the Earth
To be fair, back in the day games were optimised to use every bit of free processing power efficiently, and the graphics were fairly basic. Now we get to deal with things that are 30% shiny rendering, 50% spaghetti code, 25% spyware, and 5% function.
When I was in high school we did an experiment where we made esters - basically perfumes but really concentrated - and because our chemistry teacher gave zero damns about anything half the class spent the lesson sticking their noses directly over the beakers to aggressively smell them. (In case you're wondering, at that concentration everything smells like nail polish remover. Which probably doesn't bode well for the degree of damage done to our noses.)
Actually, very few people do know Newton's second law. Because it isn't F=ma. It's F=d(mv)/dt, force equals rate change of momentum.
I dont know about that. If the nose works like a lie detector, as long as the person saying the statement doesn't know it's a false statement, it would register as true or non-conclusive.
I'll be sending my opticians bill straight to Bored Panda for the very bad screen shot and pastes on this thread ... ouch
I'd love to know why the tracks of a sliding shower door ONLY catch your little toe. Mine is a wonderful shade of black and blue. Again. And that whole thing is getting torn out today and replaced with a shower curtain today
Most I have ever laughed out loud scrolling through Panda posts! I don't care if they're repeats when they're funny and smart.
This is by far the funniest selection I have ever read on BP. Thank you!
I'll be sending my opticians bill straight to Bored Panda for the very bad screen shot and pastes on this thread ... ouch
I'd love to know why the tracks of a sliding shower door ONLY catch your little toe. Mine is a wonderful shade of black and blue. Again. And that whole thing is getting torn out today and replaced with a shower curtain today
Most I have ever laughed out loud scrolling through Panda posts! I don't care if they're repeats when they're funny and smart.
This is by far the funniest selection I have ever read on BP. Thank you!
