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!
Don't mind me. I'm just covering up a comment of a greedy landlord and wage depressor.
Looks like the greedy landlord and wage depressor voted you down, along with one of their minions. You were on -2, given you an upvote.
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Cutting back on coffee and Netflix, will not provide a house deposit. Looking at you Kirsty Allsop (and other entitled, privileged twits).
I know some people will say that it’s better to give up creature comforts in the short term to make life better for yourself in the long term, and there is some truth to that. Don’t max out your credit cards or take vacations or buy cars you can’t afford—that’s common sense. But the idea that you have up something as simple as a Netflix subscription and a cup of coffee, and the occasional week off to feel human again, until your house is paid off and your retirement fund is overflowing is A) absurd, because Netflix is pretty damn cheap, and B) leads to a m i s e r a b l e 40 years to be capped off with a few comfortable years to spend on the porch wondering where your whole life went.
Perfectly true, however I would like to add: there is SOME value to the whole "cut the Starbucks and avocado toast" argument. While you certainly can't afford a house by cutting out these little luxuries, you CAN save enough for a vacation or some other bigger luxury. For example, say you get a $5 Starbucks drink 4 times a week: $20 a week times 52 weeks = $1040. With that money you could get on a bus or train and take a week-long budget vacation, or a luxurious 3-day-weekend. All paid for with your coffee money! Say you also spend $40 a month on take-out and $40 a month on subscription services like Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify. $80 a month times 12 months = $960. $960 + $1040 = $2000. If you book your flight and hotel early and get good rates, you can fly somewhere for a real vacation. Cutting out little luxuries won't help with big purchases like a home, but it can allow you to have larger luxuries like vacations or skydiving lessons or whatever floats your boat.
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My friend's sister has lived in the same flat for 20 years, paying the same rent and being the perfect tenant. The landlord is now kicking her out because he wants to charge triple the rent, which she can't afford as she retired recently. Her brother and best friend live on the same street but now she has to move. The landlord is a greedy a**e.
The hopelessness is real. How do you 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' when you can't even afford the boots? You're working just to survive. Home ownership isn't even a dream, just having housing is almost out of reach. Poor quality, low nutrition, mass produced food becomes the only option because it's within budget. There really is no future anymore. When you get up everyday and just try to get through the day with no hope of it getting any better - that's the reality average young Americans are facing today. This is what used to be called 'poor'. Now, it's the American norm.
There are millions of houses sitting empty. If the greedy corporations ever opened them up to a reasonable cost, the housing crunch would ease a (little) bit.
The name of this entry is insulting. My Mother is homeless and hates avocado
Security deposits are for repairs. 500% markup is greed, sorry buddy
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I work my a*s off, so does my husband. He’s a f*****g auto mechanic and well, I’m a bartender. We make s**t work BARELY but we’re not allowed to have downtime? Not allowed to occasionally order out? Also we’re Canadian, not American. Inflation is f*****g real and right now absolutely brutal. Yeah, I’ll be on my damn phone when I don’t have my shifts.
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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
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.
Note: this post originally had 64 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
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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