50 Pictures And Posts That Made It To The Online “Gallery Of Inexplicable Stupidity” (New Pics)
Those who say nothing is infinite clearly haven't considered human ignorance. Luckily, the subreddit r/facepalm has plenty of examples to convince them.
This online community (which also calls itself the 'Gallery of Inexplicable Stupidity') unites over 6.4 million members, and they're constantly sharing the dumbest statements and actions they've witnessed both online and in real life.
So continue scrolling to dive into delusion, and if you want to explore it more when you're done, check out our previous publication on the same subreddit.
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They're Everywhere
“Muh Guns!!!”
So often miserable people want others to be miserable like them. The gun toting gun lobbyists of the US will never see that if the public don’t have guns they can’t shoot each other, themselves or family members, even by accident.
If, however, these pictures get to you now and make you want to click away, I'll argue to go even further, turn off your browser, put away your phone, and disconnect. After all, it's the weekend.
Sure, taking a walk outside without scrolling might seem dull. But you might be surprised where you can end up if you allow your mind to roam free. "Boredom is a symptom, not a condition. In other words, no one is born bored. It arises due to certain conditions," Manhattan-based psychotherapist, speaker, and author Sean Grover told Bored Panda.
"Underneath boredom is always frustration. When frustration is met with passivity, boredom is a natural outcome," Grover, who has 25 years of experience working with patients in group therapy in clinics, schools, and health centers, said.
Let's Go Spend 10k On Jewelry
A home, enough food and access to a decent education and free healthcare. This is possible for everyone but the rich ones really want to keep the plebs in their place.
Kids Solve All Problems
Do You Consider This A Human Being?
The psychotherapist said that boredom is often close friends with feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. And the best way to cure it is a counterintuitive one—surrender.
"Boredom can trigger enormous creativity when we tune in to the underlying frustration and come up with creative solutions," Grover highlighted. "Many inventions came out of tackling boredom and resolving it."
I Know Right
That's The Point Of The Book
They Are Turning The Fricking Lions Gay
"Homosexual" behaviour is far more widespread than people (largely detached from and ignorant of the natural world) know. Which makes claims of such activity as "unnatural" rather pitiful if not hilarious.
Immigrant Prisoners Are Lease To Be Slaves
Unfortunately true. Remember the chain gangs? One can only hope that this modern version at least involves some degree of choice by the convict and some recompense, but it's a very slippery slope.
To illustrate this point, the psychotherapist provided a real-life example. "I work in therapy with a young man who was working from home during the pandemic. He became incredibly bored with his daily life. Through exploring his feelings in therapy, he decided to start playing the piano again."
"He began practicing, and later joined a jazz quartet."
"Now it is one of the most rewarding things in his life. He plays in clubs throughout Manhattan and invites his friends."
Which One Of The Many Mass Shootings Are We Talking About?
I'm sorry I have to admit when my friends were discussing a school shooting, I asked which one. Now when I hear shooting I just ask was it USA. If yes then it's another day, outside I'm interested a little more. It's a bad thing to say, but you have shootings literally every week in schools and I cannot keep up. My country had one shooting, one bullet was shot from hunting rifle. In the last 32years. How? And we also have teenage prisoners, and vandals, and murders but nothing compared to USA. Most of our killings are drinking gone wild and one dies. It's not perfect but guns are not allowed and police cannot shoot the criminal in the back of the body, cannot do fatal shootings. Why do you allow this? Also how come you allow insurance companies decide who gets to live, if you expect doctors to act under oath they gave. You literally make the doctors profession invalid when giving treatment decision to nonmedical persons in stuffy office looking to hit commission
People Are Total Morons
Yeah, Imagine That
Shocking - a politician exposed a s a hypocrite! Australians have a joke: Q How do you know a politician is lying? A His lips are moving.
Blindly Playing Yourself
Yet anouther person who can't tell the difference between Communism and Socialism... >sigh<
As Grover pointed out, that whole thrilling journey started from unpacking boredom and coming up with a creative solution. Something that has become increasingly rare in our loud world.
With stimulation right at our fingertips, our tolerance for being bored has greatly diminished.
In fact, two-thirds of American adults routinely look at their phones even when they're not making a sound.
You Had One Job
Our Economy Is Devastated
The phrase "the Nazis are back" makes me think of a horde of zombie Nazis
Exhibit A
You had a minute and a half of commercial to book it. You had to stand as close to your destination as possible while still being able to see the tv, and then sprint. The absolute joy of getting back in time is a feeling I will never be able to replicate.
This Is Getting Really Sad Now
As a secondary school teacher for 25 years, if you worked out the hourly rate for teachers mathematically, we would be on less than 16 dollars per hour.
In one study, published in the Academy of Management Discoveries, researchers lulled a group into boredom by instructing them to sort beans by color while they gave another group a far more interesting craft to do. Afterward, each group was directed to come up with good excuses for tardiness. The bored group bested their counterparts on both the number and creativity of ideas, as evaluated by objective outside judges.
The It Crowed
Been there, done that. 2 hrs to switch on a power outlet for an IBM 3274 control unit (1980s), which i had been assured 'yes, OF COURSE we checked that!.'
What’s The Problem?
We Did Everything But
How Is This Possible
Another study concluded that boredom motivates people to seek out novelty. Our minds simply wander when we're bored, and we think of new things to try.
The goal, according to Grover, is to dig into the boredom and ask ourselves what is the message it's sending us. "Are you creatively stagnant? Are you lonely? Does your body need exercise? Are you engaged in enough stimulating activities? Are you trying new things?" the psychotherapist said there can be many.
Give The Restaurant An Award
All This Time I Thought It Was Avocados, Not Greed, Causing Unaffordable Housing!
System Failure
But He Needed That Medication
"I encourage people to explore boredom in therapy and consider it a message from their own subconscious," Grover said. "The message is often that they want to lead a more satisfying life."
"Then, pursue new passions with gusto!"
That's The UK Parliament...
That’s the House of Lords. They get £300 just for turning up and subsidised lunch. The government however still did not want to help the huge number of poor children with free school lunches.
Priorities People!!!
Trader Joe
The News Is Always Accurate
Someone isn't doing their due diligence. Or so little happens around there that the paper is desperate for content.
Yes, I Am Saying That
Fool Me Once, Shame On You
Foreign Scripts
I Never Thought Of That
Would That Be Standing Up Or Lying Down? That's The Important Question
Does This Count As A Facepalm?
I Desperately Want The Backstory Behind This
I Prefer To Get My Diet Coke At Home
A, "Virtual Track Train"
Who?
Ah Yes $4k Rent
These Darn Spoiled Kids Today, With Their "Need To Eat At Regular Intervals" Or Whatever, Smh
Swear It's Not A Pyramid Scheme
Simpsons Did It
When You Take The Job Before Reading The Job Description
Seems Legit?
Gluing Themselves To Table Is So Brave, Wow
May Be They Are Lazy
We Ordered A Grill. Got 300 Ipads
That Didn’t Take Long
That's Right, Poor People Always Spend At Least $8,185 On Their Outfits! This Was Spotted On One Of Those Dumb Entrepreneur Instagram Accounts
I think that whoever made that comparison misunderstood the point. Rich people don't wear brands with visible logo, that's true. Wearing a full-matching Adidas suit makes you look cheap, that's true. But the clothes rich people wear are extremely expensive, for they are tailored, fitting, and made with the best material.
You are right, I have never seen a rich person wearing Gucci or Louis Vuitton 🙄
Load More Replies...The entire outfit I'm wearing right now, including shoes, cost me $12.
I would pay 400$ for a pair of boots that last me 20y or something, compared to 70$ ones that last one season.
As in Captain Vimes' view of economics. Read Discworld books.
Load More Replies...Right. Like poor people can afford expensive clothes like this. This is messed up.
Poor: clothing from Walmart, Target, second hand store or donation. Rich: quality clothing from head to toe, and it costs money. I have several rich clients, and many of them use a popular local hand soap among the well-to-do that cost $60 fncking dollars a bottle. They shop at stores like Free People and Prana, where shirts can cost $300. They not only live in 3000 sq ft homes, but their homes are furnished with luxury furniture picked out by an interior decorator, painted professionally inside and out, and they drove luxury cars…and they still have money in the bank! Out of the dozen or so clients of mine that I would comfortably call “rich”, exactly one of them came from humble beginnings. The person who made this drawing is a fncking liar. Quit cherry picking the fact there are people who are bad with money and extrapolating that out to every working mom with threadbare clothes who skipped dinner so her kids could eat tonight. I’m so angry right now!!!!
I just went to my local Thrift store and got 2 pairs of pants/trousers for 5 dollars. They look brand new
rich people don't dress up like normal people do, especially when going to a nice place because its usually not a special occasion.
I used to get clothes for Street Kids (up to the age 24 ) from a consignment store,if they were not sold by a certain date.All labels. Some of the best dressed Street kids in South Western Ontario, So when judging.... think first. lol
I work in a mall in Uruguay. Here people take out loans and credit cards and buy junk electronics and expensive clothes to show off, and then spend literally YEARS in poverty, working to pay it. Also banks tend to encourage this type of behavior for the profit they produce. That is the cost of not teaching basic economics in schools.
i don't think that's what poor is.......... i shop at the dollar rack in goodwill
Lol, the son of a friend had adapted the idea that wearing all the expensive brands works would give him prestige... But then, when it rained, the fur collar had to come off the hood, his jacket had to dry for days and his shoes needed to be cleaned to prevent stains 😂 and still, all that money didn't change the fact that he was still just a prick...
They meant that real rich don't blunt out like that, fake poser rich "poor" is what it was menat
I don't know any poor people who spend anything close to that on stuff. I'm poor and I certainly don't. I have to buy a new used phone off of Ebay for $200 because I need an updated, unlocked phone in order to use my wireless service and I have to save a few months in order to get it.
In Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, LA, these things don't cost anything. Just go in and clear the rack and walk out.
This is ridiculous! My entire wardrobe including shoes doesn't cost that much! Rich people, truly rich, may wear clothing that isn't gaudy brand names but it won't be that cheap.
Jeez, cheapest thing this guy’s wearing is his watch? That’s the most expensive thing I wear. Or is it my wedding ring?
Dang the poor, spending thousands and thousands of Dollars for Outfits! I myself am super rich. My jeans only cost about 35 EUR.
Poor person here. All my clothes are old and given to me so most don't even fit. But they are clothes so I wear them. I can't afford clothes. A person who can afford those kind of clothes has some money obviously but I don't think they are poor. If they were that money would be spent on food, rent and other bills
While the cheapest people are ever met are rich, this is not a good example of it.
The title on the left should have said "impoverished." There are people who are POOR, who have very little money and are working hard to earn what they do have. And there are people who are experiencing POVERTY who spend more than they make. The latter does not have to be a person who makes a small salary, if you make a million dollars a year but spend a million and one, you're in poverty.
Those cheap looking plain white t-shirts Simon Cowell wears go for about $500 at Neimann Marcus
$35 is way too much to spend on a shirt when there are thrift shops. And no one is spending more on pants than they do on their smartphone. Whoever made this just picked numbers randomly.
The one on the left is mislabeled. It should say "white trash sucking off the system". Because right now I'm poor AF, and I have to wait for the tank tops at WalMart to get marked down to $4 before I can buy them. And even then I have to decide between the $4 tank top and toothpaste.
Not to be weird, buuut the African American community does exactly that. Poor, but... I need all the clothes so I can pretend to be a successful person.... Just use that money, the money you spent on clothes while "hustling" and get an education, invest, help black owned businesses. Quit buying Nikes and 51 50s, all that was white people.
You’re not being weird, Damyon. You’re being a dìck.
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i prefer the funny posts i come onto here because there is not much politics i do not want to be brought down by the nutjobs that run my country
The teaser was good, but seeing political bs in the first two spots was dispointing.
Yep. The question about whether easy access to guns is good or bad for the country, or makes us safer or less safe, is purely political. 🙄
Load More Replies...Let the idiots keep their gun - remove bullets. Replace with rubber bullets - rubber bullets still cause damage, still hurt like f**k, still act as a weapon and way to protect yourself from the boogie man.
They can still kill. There were deaths in Northern Ireland from rubber bullets.
Load More Replies...i prefer the funny posts i come onto here because there is not much politics i do not want to be brought down by the nutjobs that run my country
The teaser was good, but seeing political bs in the first two spots was dispointing.
Yep. The question about whether easy access to guns is good or bad for the country, or makes us safer or less safe, is purely political. 🙄
Load More Replies...Let the idiots keep their gun - remove bullets. Replace with rubber bullets - rubber bullets still cause damage, still hurt like f**k, still act as a weapon and way to protect yourself from the boogie man.
They can still kill. There were deaths in Northern Ireland from rubber bullets.
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