facepalm

The problem with communicating over the internet is that there's a whole lot of room for misinterpretation. Plus, there's a whole lot of access to dumb people. Those two factors mean that there's a whole lot of people who miss jokes by light-years. Does it feel good to get a joke someone else didn't get? Yeah. Is it also disappointing to see someone aggressively not get the joke? Also yeah.

We live in a world where humans are free to make their own choices, and that means people can be as facepalmingly dumb as they want. It makes you rethink whether or not this whole civilized society thing is even a good idea to begin with. Just hearing the stupid things people say in full confidence is enough to want to live in a cave, but here we are. There's more and more classic facepalm moments of dumbness every day.

We're not exactly as literate a society as we'd like to be, so we end up birthing a whole lot of regrettable and dumb spelling fails. On one hand, spelling is hard. On the other hand, people are out here misspelling words that have almost no right to be as misspelled as they are. People get creative with their spelling fails.

Contrary to popular belief, a lot of folks are pretty clever. But sadly, there are just as many people who aggressively won't get the joke. As a general principle, when someone says something incomprehensibly dumb but it also has a whole bunch of likes or people responding with any form of "haha" then it's reasonable to assume that that thing they said is some kind of joke. You don't want to be the kind of person responding to a joke as if it's an assertion, or you just might become one of the many ranks of mockable people who desperately didn't get the joke.

Sure the internet has the potential to connect us with savvy, like-minded individuals, but it also gives us more deaf ears for jokes to fall on. Maybe it's poor reading comprehension or maybe it's not wanting to get the joke in the first place. It's amusing, but also kind of sad to see so many people aggressively not getting the joke.

Most of us have a decent idea of how jokes work, or we are at least somewhat adept of seeing the signs of when something is a joke. It would be rough walking around this world just thinking everyone is stupid and wrong all the time. To further confuse the literal minded, here are some technically accurate moments that aren't wrong. And for some straight up dumbness, here are some facepalm moments from humanity's beacons of stupid.

As human beings, we're all very familiar with dumb moments of failure and stupidity. People do and say stupid things as if it's their job. Whether it's arguing with Buzz Aldrin about the moon landing or getting keys stuck in an armored car, the bar lowers every day for facepalm moments from humanity's best and brightest.

When we feel like we're dumb, nothing hits the spot like seeing other people make dumber, worse mistakes than we do. It doesn't make us feel smarter, but it does make us feel less stupid. Luckily there are facepalm moments from humanity's best and brightest to help provide the world with some of that needed self-esteem.

People are constantly caught up in an attempt to do something. Some people are trying to be complimentary or look smart. Some people are trying to re-frame news or look younger. Every attempt might hit the ground with the sound of failure. Whatever people try to do, their attempt might stumble into a pile of fail.

We're all people, and we make mistakes. Some of us learn after one or two. Others just keep making them forever and ever, and that's where the real magic happens. People have facepalm moments of mystifying dumbness at all hours of the day, and we're here for it. Classic facepalm moments are what make us human, and also what make us feel better that we're not the particular human making that stupid error.

We're human, and we're never far from mistakes, failures, errors and blunders. Does that mean we learn from our mistakes? Honestly it's hard to tell. There's enough of us out here messing up that it doesn't look like idiocy is going away soon. All we can really do is sit back and enjoy the facepalm moments of mystifying dumbness.

Human beings can do some absolutely incredible things when it comes to observation, innovation and expressing nuance. At the same time, there will always be those of us who aren't exactly running on all cylinders.  And then sometimes we're just having an off day. These are the producers of facepalm moments of mystifying dumbness.

Every day of our lives we makes mistakes, but luckily most of us know better than to hit ourselves with facepalm moments from the dimmest bulbs. If there were ever an opportunity to feel smart about your own life decisions, it would be while reviewing the monumentally dumb facepalm moments some other people manage to find themselves in.

Just when you think people are basically good at things, you get hit with some facepalm moments from the dimmest bulbs. Sure, it's a little disappointing to see someone call a sunrise a "morning sunset" but at the same time it at least makes you feel a little better about yourself. These incompetent moments of classic facepalm can act as medicine for the soul.

No human is immune to error, but there are definitely some of us that are prone to making more. Just when you think people as a whole might be getting smarter, you're hit directly with facepalm moments from the dimmest bulbs. If human error were trees, facepalm moments are your very own log cabin.

We all fall prey to brain farts, and sometimes those brain farts end up manifesting in unbelievably clueless statuses for the rest of the online world to tear into with ferocious passion. Outside of the brain farts, the internet also invites a whole lot of blind ignorance. If we're lucky, we get to see those folks called out by some remarkable retorts.