50 Times People Missed The Joke So Bad, They Made Fools Out Of Themselves Online (New Pics)
We’ve all been there—someone makes an awesome joke, but it’s either too subtle or it has a hidden twist to it that we don’t see. And the joke just goes over our heads, making a very loud ‘woooosh’ sound! However, some people don’t get these jokes to such a degree that their reactions get screenshotted and featured on the massively popular r/woooosh subreddit, an online community of over a million members.
Scroll down to find some of the most ridiculous times people missed the joke so bad, they ended up embarrassing themselves online. Don’t forget to upvote the pics and jokes that made you chuckle the most, Pandas.
If you’re in the mood for some more wonderfully weird ‘wooooshes,’ then we invite you to check out Bored Panda’s earlier articles about r/woooosh when you’re done enjoying this list. You’ll find our previous article here, here, as well as here.
We got in touch with British comedy writer and aspiring pop star Ariane Sherine to have a chat about humor and not getting jokes. Scroll down for Bored Panda's interview with her.
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Bored Panda wanted to get comedy writer Ariane's opinion on what it says about us as people if some jokes go over our heads. "Depending on the situation, it either means you’re not privy to knowledge you need to understand the joke, or it just means your brain doesn’t work in the way it needs to in order to understand that particular type of humor," she said.
However, we shouldn't worry because we all miss some jokes some of the time. Nobody's perfect, not even comedy professionals. "Stuff goes over my head occasionally too and I’m a comedian!" Ariane told us.
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The comedian isn't sure if our awareness of what's funny is just about exposure to humorous content. "Babies find a lot of things funny, so it’s partly innate," she mused that understanding comedy is a mix of nature and nurture. "But for jokes like puns, you definitely need a firm grasp of language, and for political satire, you of course need an understanding of politics."
We also touched on whose responsibility it is for the audience to get the joke, the comedian or the listeners. "It really depends on the joke and how it’s told," Ariane said.
"People can’t be expected to get badly-told jokes where the setup or punchline is mangled, but if the joke’s told well, it’s not necessarily the comic’s fault if another person doesn’t get it. Humor can be quite a niche and individual thing, but if a joke regularly falls flat most comics will drop it from their sets."
Yeah, Why Is She On Them?
Clearly, You're Not Smart As You Think You Are
Wdym, Its A Picture Taken Back Then
Palming effing auto correct, I typed palming ffs I need a drink.
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35% of Americans can sprout wings and fly. See, I can make up statistics too, it's easy.
It's well-known that 87.2% of statistics are just made up on the fly.
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Yeah explain "The Land before Time"! Such a good documentary cannot be ignored.
I actually think the illustration and comment was a joke. They're both funny.
The illustration is from the book "Dinotopia". Created by an artist who made up the story to entertain his kids & wound up getting published. There was even a movie & a miniseries on television! https://jamesgurney.com/collections/books
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The documentary "We Believe In Dinosaurs" is both hilarious and absolutely terrifying at the same time.
I remember having an evolution discussion with a grown man when I was a teen. He used the Flintstones as a source. On purpose. You can't argue with stupid.
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I have neighbors who think this and nothing I say will convince them otherwise
Actually, dinosaurs were living with humans for a long time! In fact, they're still living with us today!
Technically.. we currently exist alongside creatures that existed alongside dinosaurs..
My kids remind me all the time that I'm as old as the dinosaurs but I don't remember seeing this kind of stuff going on. Must have been quite a few miles away from my cave.
That's because 40% of Americans are stupid creationists. My girlfriend is American and even she'd agree with me.
Google Lens says the image is from Dinotopia, a TV show. Yellow Poster thinks Dinotopia was a documentary?
That looks like an illustration from one of my fave fantasy books Dinotopia.
40 percent of Americans do NOT believe this . That's just grabbing a percentage out of the air and making fun of Americans . There is plenty to make fun of without making things up . Yes we have stupid people here ... just like everywhere else . This is a little much
WAIT A MINUTE - I just noticed; those people in the picture are wearing CLOTHES and there's a RUG on the dinosaur's back. It's FAKE. People who were here with the dinosaurs didn't have WEAVING LOOMS. GEEZ
To be fair, even that level of stupidity would not surprise me anymore.
This is why universal, free education is necessary and why teachers need to be paid well.
It's in Florida, I swear. And they found a wooly mammoth with a howdah on it's back.
Perception of past with the view of present knowledge. Like someone asked how did people navigate before Google Maps.
I know someone who believes dinos were on the Ark. Oh wait, she already believes in fairy tales.
This looks glorious tho! Painting or Photoshop or whatever, I want a ride!
40% of the US do not believe this. A huge percentage believe in ghosts though, which is probably universal.
I'm gonna need a source on that poll, because that sounds like clickbait nonsense.
Birds are dinosaurs, so I also believe that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time. There was even the great Dinosaur War of 1932 that happened in Australia
Humans are fish, so I believe in the great Piscean-Saurian war of 1932
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bro lol, ¨AnD dOnT sAy PhOtO sHoP¨ THERE ARE OTHER MEDIUMS OF ART MY GUY
This person must never see a Picasso, they will lose their s**t and have no clue what is even real anymore.
Judging people for their mistakes and feeling embarrassed when we make them ourselves are part and parcel of being a human being. It’s a part of who we are. However, there’s a healthy way to react when someone (including us!) misses the joke entirely.
Psychologist and wellbeing consultant Lee Chambers explained to Bored Panda during a previous in-depth interview that people judge others both consciously and automatically. “Comically, we are often told as children not to judge others and have stories shared about how judging others can mean we upset them or lose opportunities to see what really lies behind our perception," he told us.
No It’s Blue
I Know A Fat Guy Who Likes To Grill!
Mews, Mewsment Park
There are a variety of reasons why we might judge someone. "Sometimes, we judge others to feel superior ourselves, finding faults in others, highlighting them, and feeling better about ourselves in the process. Sometimes, we use it to work out where we fit in, recognizing how we want to be, where our aspirations lie, and how we don't want to become," the psychologist revealed.
"Sometimes, it's in response to our own flaws, and we attack others for what we don't like or don't see into ourselves. And on other occasions, it's to fit into a wider group who judge something or someone, and we conform and perform with the same judgment,” Lee said.
I Can’t Believe Da Vinci Would Do Something Like That
Nothing Starts With "N" And Ends With "G"
Nope He’s From Star Trek
most children exposed to fame do end up like this. my sympathies for R2-D2
In the psychologist’s view, being judgmental "does have some benefits when used mindfully.” For instance: “It can help us to set goals, find alignment with our values, it can help us to build the self-awareness of others and it can boost our self-esteem.”
Right Over The Head Of An Anti-Vaxxer
every time I see an anti-vaxxer, I get a step closer to losing my sanity
I Mean He Was Trying To Be Helpful
Definitely The Bird Hitching A Ride
What’s more, passing judgment on others can help us make positive social choices. “it's understanding how and why we judge that gives us the ability to use it for our benefits instead of escaping our flaws or pulling others down."
Meanwhile, if we end up feeling embarrassed because we didn’t get a joke and we’ve responded in a frankly silly way online, it’s important to remember to accept those feelings. Running away from our embarrassment can, later on, morph into shame.
16 Thousand Likes Is A Lot Of Wooshes
"This Is Also A Lie"
I Guess He Won't Be Getting 500k
"We spend a lot of time and effort presenting an ideal version of ourselves to other people. When something happens that contrasts with the image we’ve been projecting—when we say or do something that shows we actually aren’t as graceful or as smart as we’d like people to believe—we feel embarrassed," Vanessa Bohns, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Cornell University, told Bored Panda.
The Government Controls Everything Stoopit
Running Was Invented
John Smith? inventing chewing? WRONG. Michael Chewing invented chewing. get that bs outta here
Nothing Gets Past This Person, Not Even Those Sneaky Party Invites
"Discovering you were wrong about something most everyone else around you has long known to be true is one of those moments. In that moment we learn, 'Wait a minute, maybe I haven’t been presenting the image of being smart or worldly that I thought I was presenting all this time,' which is embarrassing,” she said.
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LMAO imagine if John Cena had to explain why he never clicked photos with his fans.
She Didn’t Understood
Yes, Dorothy
“One thing that’s interesting about embarrassment is that, for as much as we might experience it as painful in the moment, it’s actually very socially adaptive. Being embarrassed signals to other people that you care about what they think. And that actually draws people in to you,” Vanessa said that there are benefits to showing that you’re embarrassed about a mistake.
C'mon, Pet Smart Would've Told You It Was A Ferret
Defending Schrödinger’s Cat
How To Slow
“So blushing, burying your head in your hands, laughing, acknowledging how embarrassing something was, are all totally healthy ways to react,” she told us.
“The unhealthy way to react is to pretend you’re not embarrassed, that you didn’t make a mistake, or to get angry. Those things undo the positive effect of embarrassment typically has on other people by conveying insincerity and pushing people away rather than drawing them in.”
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I'm dying to see the comments after this one on this thread. Trauma that'll last for eternity.
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Which of these pics and 'wooooshes' did you enjoy looking at and reading the most, dear Pandas? Have you ever had a 'woooosh' moment? Have you ever had a joke go over someone else's head? Share your thoughts with all of us in the comment section at the bottom of this list.
He Also Forgot About Canadian And Australian
Discord
Definitely Left
Wow, Really
Congratulations, You Didn't Get It
How Tf Does Sgel Stand For That
This Is Heartbreaking
F In The Chat For The People In The Old Days
This Is Quite Offensive
Which One?
This Man Speaks The Deutsch
You Can't See Me
Your Mind Tricks Don't Work On Me
He Really Think He Did Something
Captain America isn't real, and Santa didn't bring me the Ps5. Pfft! Some people!
It’s An Ifunnier, So Go Ahead And Hate On Him
Wtf Look At Them All !
Apologies For Being On Instagram
I’d Like A Tornado
Sorry It's On Instagram
It's Just A Picture You Dumbass
Two of my last few brain cells died trying to understand the user name
Note: this post originally had 122 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
People who haven't worked in the service industry: "I bet half of these are fake, most people aren't nearly that stupid!" People who HAVE worked in the service industry for years: "LOL YUP"
From Parks and Recreation - " I found a sandwich in the park, and I want to know why it didn't have MAYO on it!!" People who haven't worked in the service industry " There's no way that's real" People who have "....sigh".
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Just a thought, mind you, but perhaps BP isn't the best place for a post about people not getting the joke. ;-)
Some of these are hillarious and the comments are even better. Thank you BP
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same here...i'm not the best at detecting sarcasm (especially in text), and i completely miss the joke sometimes. oh well!
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Congratulations BP! After all these years, this is the first article that actually made me laugh hard enough to Sh*t myself. Probably shouldn't mention it, but it Was a landmark in my life.
I’m humor impaired (genetic inadequacy- thanks, Mom and Dad!) but I got most of these memes just fine. This makes me really anxious about our future as a species, though. Not that I wasn’t worried before but… wow.
If I remember well, some people on the spectrum can't detect sarcasm. Being online must be tough for them.
I'm autistic and I was thinking that I might not have gotten at least 25% of these upon first read. I used to be much worse about it.
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See what happens when you let the f*****g autistic imbeciles get access to internet?
It's so much better if you just read the posts and ignore the r/woooosh comments. LOL
Bored Panda, why is this labelled "New Pics" when some have been posted on Bored Panda before? Not just with this one but with other posts too.
"new pics" means *in this post*, after you last saw it
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well now, as an american i can say that: with regards to the 'suprized' part, i think it is arch bridges above and beyond the moon landing. if i was on mars i would jump real high and see what happened, {i would also get that old boot some goofy guy is talking about}. in answer to your statement i suppose that i just think that 'surprized' is too strong a word for a algebra question. thanks for listening.
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I think its mostly galling when people on the left side of the bell curve confidently act like they are firmly on the leading edge of the right. But to be honest, I don't think most of the people replying in earnest to these jokes are dumb, I think they have very literal brains, possibly some might even be autistic.
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People who haven't worked in the service industry: "I bet half of these are fake, most people aren't nearly that stupid!" People who HAVE worked in the service industry for years: "LOL YUP"
From Parks and Recreation - " I found a sandwich in the park, and I want to know why it didn't have MAYO on it!!" People who haven't worked in the service industry " There's no way that's real" People who have "....sigh".
Load More Replies... Just a thought, mind you, but perhaps BP isn't the best place for a post about people not getting the joke. ;-)
Some of these are hillarious and the comments are even better. Thank you BP
Load More Replies... same here...i'm not the best at detecting sarcasm (especially in text), and i completely miss the joke sometimes. oh well!
Load More Replies... Congratulations BP! After all these years, this is the first article that actually made me laugh hard enough to Sh*t myself. Probably shouldn't mention it, but it Was a landmark in my life.
I’m humor impaired (genetic inadequacy- thanks, Mom and Dad!) but I got most of these memes just fine. This makes me really anxious about our future as a species, though. Not that I wasn’t worried before but… wow.
If I remember well, some people on the spectrum can't detect sarcasm. Being online must be tough for them.
I'm autistic and I was thinking that I might not have gotten at least 25% of these upon first read. I used to be much worse about it.
Load More Replies... See what happens when you let the f*****g autistic imbeciles get access to internet?
It's so much better if you just read the posts and ignore the r/woooosh comments. LOL
Bored Panda, why is this labelled "New Pics" when some have been posted on Bored Panda before? Not just with this one but with other posts too.
"new pics" means *in this post*, after you last saw it
Load More Replies... well now, as an american i can say that: with regards to the 'suprized' part, i think it is arch bridges above and beyond the moon landing. if i was on mars i would jump real high and see what happened, {i would also get that old boot some goofy guy is talking about}. in answer to your statement i suppose that i just think that 'surprized' is too strong a word for a algebra question. thanks for listening.
Load More Replies... I think its mostly galling when people on the left side of the bell curve confidently act like they are firmly on the leading edge of the right. But to be honest, I don't think most of the people replying in earnest to these jokes are dumb, I think they have very literal brains, possibly some might even be autistic.
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