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
Christian Scientist? My neighbor died from diabetes because she was Christian Scientist and didn't believe in medication. Broke her husband's heart (husband was atheist).
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i pray the mother has something even not that serious that requires medication, like an ingrown toenail or something, just so she can she how medicine helps
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I also take epilepsy meds and I always feel weird taking them at work because I don’t take the full bottle with me, just have some extra in a ziplock bag and I feel like I look like a pill popper. Management is all aware and obviously understand but I’m a bartender so I feel the need to hide it from the guests. This b***h just be cray cray though. I love the reply and shall use it if need be. Seizures are not fun.
I still feel weird talking mine in front of close friends who know my condition and why I'm popping pills. You are right tho seizures are awful and no fun at all. A person who's never seized will never understand what it feels like and how it is not controllable without outside help.
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This person must have read Tom Cruise's Guide to belittling sick people, especially women. Just ask Brooke Shields.
Medication is just a crutch? Next time this person gets sick I hope they use just mind over matter.
Sounds like a "YOU" problem. If my medication is so triggering for your precious Tummy, then tell him to stop watching me take my prescription drug and mind his own business. Now you might wanna leave, i've got some cocaine in my pocket and it ain't gonna snort itself.
i cant believe that who took medicine to stop you fromflailing around dangerously and scarring my child
I have cluster migraines for several periods in a year, for those I inject only 20% of the full sumatriptan injectable pen, so I have got a number of those in my handbag. Whenever, wherever I feel a migraine coming up, I inject immediately to prevent the attack from getting more extreme. The syringes I use, look like insulin syringes, so people always ask if I'm a diabetic.... As my head is near to almost explode, I just nod yes, because I can't be bothered to explain or find a more private spot to inject myself. What other people think of it is really none of my concern and I really couldn't care less 😉
I too would prefer to be conscious instead of lying on the floor, if I had epilepsy
"So, if your wife gives you the clap, you can cure it with positive thoughts and no penicillin? Yeah, don't think so. If you have a problem with people taking prescribed medication for chronic conditions...leave...the planet."
I have had several conversations with my grandchildren about the difference between recreational drugs and medication. They see me take medication every day and have also seen the result of a missed dose.
I’ll wait for the day that parent is in the hospital with cancer and he can say it back “being well is just mind over matter mate”
Those type of people shouldn't have kids but, alas, they do and people wonder why there are so many idiots on the planet.
I also have Epilepsy. Can I punch this lady? If someone has a seizure of any kind, they won't be able to take care of a kid. Actually, I don't remember my seizures, so I would probably do something bad and not even remember, so I wouldn't be able to fix it. This is the dumbest one I've seen so far
Well, near the top of the list is the multinational corporation known as the Roman Catholic Church. If they prevent abortion, and that restriction falls mostly on the uneducated, that population will increase. Uneducated people are more likely to pay in to the franchise even if they're poor. More contributors, more $ (or whatever currency). And there was a wonderful news article that some time in the 1930's, I think, the US government was thinking of revoking the religious tax exemption of the Mormons, because they excluded Blacks. The Senior Church Elder announced that some angel (Gabriel, maybe) came and told him that the church should admit Blacks as full members. It's like that across the board. You could look at the "meme" (in the original sense) of each church, in competition with all the others for market share and influence. Natural selection applies just as it does for living creatures. If you can't convert your adversaries, you eliminate them, burn them at the stake
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and this is why people die of shame and depression. When their struggles aren't considered real by others. Disgusting.
and that would be the end of that babysitting gig "You are fired as a client" if it is one, if family that'd be going into the family chat and if I EVER saw them go to the hospital I'd send the screenshot around and remind them they need to go home Right Then and let people who can't fix themselves through mind over matter be treated.
I feel bad for the person's kid..Are they really that dumb and have a kid?
To me it seems to be unfortunate to use the same word "drug" for essential medicines and illegal substances. We would think this would not confuse anyone, but I'm afraid it does confuse some people, especially the ones who aren't willing to think and be informed.
I don't think gray box person understands the meaning of the words they used.
It's just my world, you've irritated me and therefore YOU must change your ways.
Sometimes I read these things and can't wrap my head around the fact that these aren't just made up stories...
OMG Spare me the people who think everything can be controlled or FIXED without medications. Tell that to a cancer patient, a lung patient, someone with dementia! Sometimes there is currently no way that is better than what you are taking now!
This comment makes me believe that THEY are the one taking drugs...
What is wrong with people like this? Do you really think there would be sick and injured people in the world if all they had to do in order to get better was just DECIDE to be better?
I don't mind and you don't matter. See how a little word shuffling works?
"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
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.
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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. 🙄
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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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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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