40 Times People Missed The Joke So Bad, They Embarrassed Themselves On The Internet (New Pics)
There's a fine line between laughing at a joke and becoming the joke. And while most of us cross it at one point or another, these unfortunate folks did it on the Internet, and their fails have been immortalized on the subreddit r/woooosh.
If you aren't familiar with the place, all you need to know is that it's an archive of screenshots, showing someone misinterpreting a joke. And the more ignorant a post is, the better it does within the community. I'm talking about people so clueless, they really think a guy mistakes a plane for a bus. Or that another one believes that sharks have toes. Just continue scrolling and you'll see what I'm talking about. When you're done, check out our earlier posts on the topic here and here.
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The subreddit has grown a lot since its creation on November 1, 2016. Now, it has over 890,000 members and is steadily approaching the 1 million mark. Not to mention all the similar subreddits, like r/woosh.
True, the Internet is so full of lies and "fake news", sometimes it's hard to tell if what you are looking at is sincere or not. But often, it is pretty obvious that the person who posted something was making a joke and others didn't get it. Maybe it was a bad joke – but it is still a joke nonetheless, and it is our job, as smart people who use the Internet, to recognize it. Or accept our mistake and move on if we don't.
Interestingly, humor is found in all cultures and at all ages, and in recent decades experimental psychology started viewing it as an essential, fundamental human behavior.
Historically, psychologists framed humor negatively, saying it demonstrated superiority, vulgarity, Freudian id conflict, or a defense mechanism to hide one’s true feelings.
But research on humor has evolved, viewing it as a character strength. Positive psychology, a field that is dedicated to what people do well, states that humor can be used to make others feel good, to gain intimacy, or to help buffer stress. Together with gratitude, hope, and spirituality, a sense of humor belongs to the set of strengths positive psychologists call transcendence; they help us connect to the world and provide meaning to life. Appreciation of humor correlates with other strengths, such as wisdom and love of learning.
So remember, it's perfectly normal if we don't get a joke or two. However, it's a whole other story if we don't find anything funny.
You go in the water and tell the shark to its face yourself.
Beside the point, I know but, how NEEDY is this photo? Get over yourself 'celeb' we're all worse off than you.
This sort of thing actually made the news. There was this B&B in Michigan that had been flying the Norwegian flag, and they were getting all sorts of hate mail/email from people who mistook it for the Confederate flag and they had to take it down because they didn't want to deal with the ignorance. Apparently, there are a LOT of dumb cancel-culture people out there.
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Wait now I'm confused: is it because is the first part a joke, making the second person the idiot; did the first person actually think it was the confederate flag, making them the idiot; or is this actually very simple and I am not understanding it, making me the idiot?
To be fair in this topic sometimes it's hard to tell when people tell a joke and when are they serious.
This one doesn't work, the person who put the photo up looks like the obvious idiot. The use of the word "F*****g" denotes seriousness.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/29/norwegian-flag-removed-from-inn-after-its-mistaken-for-confederate-flag/
Thanks for this link. I was on the Inn owners' side, until they specifically mentioned that they adopted two "black children". This seems like "I have black friends" for the new millennium. (To me, they adopted two children, who are black, not two "black children".) I could be way off base on this. What say you Bored Pandas?
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This one, I honestly don't know... All the ones above, one poster was very obviously missing the point. This time though... I can imagine the OP being the idiot in that exchange. There is nothing there to signal that the comment is intended to be taken other than literally, and there are plenty of people too dumb to read. Am I missing something?
There's people here that still aren't getting the joke ....f**k me!!!!!
Truth, it was some Dane complaining about a driver in Aarhus... "Those pesky Norwegians...tell'em to go home! It's bad enough that the Swedes can just drive over the border...we need a wall to be built..."
Though you have to admit that here, it is literally used in the literal sense of it! ;-)
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I feel this guys pain. I wore a scarf to work once that had British flags all over it. Next day manager talks to me and says I can't wear it again bc he got a complaint about a confederate flag... wtaf
Order your giant spider from Amazon you have been invaded by the dumb dumbs.
One is an x with stars the other is a cross with no stars. How are the alike other then color???
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I really don't know any liberals that stupid. I would have bought...Look at the Southern idiot, doesn't know how to make a confederate flag" THAT would have made sense.
Oooh, this could spark the centuries old feud amongst scandinavians, hehe, denmark called, they want their county back 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇸🇪🇮🇸🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰 ( i am joking. )
Now I want an identical piece to hang... Just to test the stupidity of... Well... Maybe best be safe.
me a russian seeing a russian flag on this guy be like (sigh) REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
You'd be surprised how many Trump voters have the mind of a 13 year old. Trump himself is 74 but the 7 is silent.
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Everyone sometimes don't get a joke, it's no big deal. But what bothers me most is how eager are some people on the internet to start insulting others.
What's rather depressing is not that people can't get a joke, it's that there are so many people who don't even realise it's a joke, that it's possible to make a funny comment that's not meant to be taken seriously. Its reached the point where satire/parody is being broadcast as news after only a few out of context shares. So the fact that it's a joke at all is lost. And insulting someone for either not getting the joke - or insulting someone by missing the point in the first place - is part of the "intelligence wars". It's all a bit distressing really. Who has some pictures of cute cats to make the world a better place?
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Re: #14, Is anyone else going to address the fact that the Christ the Redeemer statue is in Brazil, where they speak Portugese, not "Spanesh?" LOL!
without speech intonation its hard to get the joke. some of these are pretty lame.
People are so quick to jump on anyone's inaccuracies that they pay no mind to the fact it may have been intended as a joke. Everyone's just gotta be the first to comment when something isn't quite right "look at me, I'm so smart, I proved you wrong!" and in the end they look like the dumb one.
Curious how many of these instances of missing the joke are due to neuroatypical-ness. Maybe that's where a simple "woosh" would suffice, as Mnr vanderHeiden suggests.
Wow, that's kind of ableist, not gonna lie. Just because someone's not neurotypical doesn't mean they can't understand humour. And believe me, plenty of neurotypical people don't understand our jokes.
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A few of these might be from people with a more subtle sense of humor. Which kinda dampened my sense of superiority.
worse than not getting the joke is someone not getting a joke then making a joke on top of the original joke which is a less subtle and dumber. Ive heard this called "joking the joke" and it is a staple of dumbasses who think they are smart on Twitter
Hardly surprising that some many people are so dumb; Trump is In office! 🤦🏼♀️🥴😂
People who are correcting the damn joke might be so proud of themselves thinking they were genius were in truth, the joke was on them.
If "I think, therefore I am"... the how do so many of these people exist?
On tumblr someone once posted that 'I love you' in French is pronounced "permets-tu", which is a reference to the book Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Some people responded saying that it was actually je t'aime, and insulting the op. It still cracks me up to this day.
Why did the comments on this have so much bad language and comments that had to be hidden? Far worse than any of the other threads.
I missed quite a few, I'm 62 so not far behind you! But some I thought about and I didn't want to know.
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this is the effects of the virus. dont blame them for being FKN STUPID!
You know how you can be somewhere sitting still or moving around and all of a sudden, out of the blue you feel a breeze pass over you? It's not Mother Nature... It's posts on the Internet going over your head. Examine your brain.
Everyone sometimes don't get a joke, it's no big deal. But what bothers me most is how eager are some people on the internet to start insulting others.
What's rather depressing is not that people can't get a joke, it's that there are so many people who don't even realise it's a joke, that it's possible to make a funny comment that's not meant to be taken seriously. Its reached the point where satire/parody is being broadcast as news after only a few out of context shares. So the fact that it's a joke at all is lost. And insulting someone for either not getting the joke - or insulting someone by missing the point in the first place - is part of the "intelligence wars". It's all a bit distressing really. Who has some pictures of cute cats to make the world a better place?
Load More Replies... Re: #14, Is anyone else going to address the fact that the Christ the Redeemer statue is in Brazil, where they speak Portugese, not "Spanesh?" LOL!
without speech intonation its hard to get the joke. some of these are pretty lame.
People are so quick to jump on anyone's inaccuracies that they pay no mind to the fact it may have been intended as a joke. Everyone's just gotta be the first to comment when something isn't quite right "look at me, I'm so smart, I proved you wrong!" and in the end they look like the dumb one.
Curious how many of these instances of missing the joke are due to neuroatypical-ness. Maybe that's where a simple "woosh" would suffice, as Mnr vanderHeiden suggests.
Wow, that's kind of ableist, not gonna lie. Just because someone's not neurotypical doesn't mean they can't understand humour. And believe me, plenty of neurotypical people don't understand our jokes.
Load More Replies... A few of these might be from people with a more subtle sense of humor. Which kinda dampened my sense of superiority.
worse than not getting the joke is someone not getting a joke then making a joke on top of the original joke which is a less subtle and dumber. Ive heard this called "joking the joke" and it is a staple of dumbasses who think they are smart on Twitter
Hardly surprising that some many people are so dumb; Trump is In office! 🤦🏼♀️🥴😂
People who are correcting the damn joke might be so proud of themselves thinking they were genius were in truth, the joke was on them.
If "I think, therefore I am"... the how do so many of these people exist?
On tumblr someone once posted that 'I love you' in French is pronounced "permets-tu", which is a reference to the book Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Some people responded saying that it was actually je t'aime, and insulting the op. It still cracks me up to this day.
Why did the comments on this have so much bad language and comments that had to be hidden? Far worse than any of the other threads.
I missed quite a few, I'm 62 so not far behind you! But some I thought about and I didn't want to know.
Load More Replies... this is the effects of the virus. dont blame them for being FKN STUPID!
You know how you can be somewhere sitting still or moving around and all of a sudden, out of the blue you feel a breeze pass over you? It's not Mother Nature... It's posts on the Internet going over your head. Examine your brain.
