idiots

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 have a really hard time deciphering what is real news and what is obviously a joke. Who knew the unintended consequence of satirical news would be your grandma thinking the rapture happened. Whether it's a state of uncanny gullibility or just poor reading comprehension, a lot of mistaken people do not understand satire.

People say stupid junk all the time, and that's fine. What makes it even more rough is when someone says something totally wrong while trying to explain a topic or make an argument. That's the hardcore dumb. For more musings of the stupidly overconfident, here are some untrue "facts" people were told in complete seriousness.

Sometimes we're just not thinking and sometimes people are really just flat-out stupid. There are a lot of really dumb questions that get asked. People have almost too many stories about dumb things people said to have their intelligence questioned.

It can be really frustrating to realize your boss is a goddamn moron. Some bosses are just good at hiding the fact that they have no idea what they're doing, but some are not quite so good. Don't get us wrong, many bosses are competent, but these ones really let the stupid cat out of the idiot bag.

It's not a question that kids are weird and dumb. They'll take multiple bites of fake fruit, lie about objective facts, and cover themselves in house paint for no reason. Everyone knows a few moments that prove the weird dumbness of children, especially when it comes to the stupid things they remember themselves doing. 

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 are amazingly intelligent creatures, but what comes before that is the absolute wildest period of trial and error. Kids are strange and dumb, and while it's not completely their fault, it's hard to ignore. They'll mess up couches, scream for no reason, and demand to touch the stove. There's too much proof that kids are dumb as rocks.

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.

This wouldn't be the human experience if people didn't take risks. Some, if not most or all of these particular risks are needless and stupid, but hey, it's hard to stop people from doing stupid risky junk. Every day there are people risking their necks for no good reason, and we get unapproved safety failures that OSHA wouldn't like.

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.

We've all had the thought when we've had to reach an extra high ceiling or move a couch out of a hard-to-move-out-of place. "Well as long as I keep my balance we'll be fine." It's tempting to climb on top of a car and just weigh a mattress down with your body, but most of us can at least acknowledge that that's kind of a bad idea. Here are more unapproved safety failures that OSHA wouldn't like.

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.

This boss thought they could get a single employee to do both of their jobs and expect to not get paid for it, told em to quit, and then realized that they might need them. The boss even went so far as to try to pretend that they just hadn't fired them. Horrible bosses have a tendency to pile responsibility onto employees they don't expect to pay, and in some glorious cases, an ungrateful psycho boss gets instant karma.

Walk around for a few minutes on this planet and you're bound to overhear some extremely dumb things. It's fine to be wrong, but what's really disappointing about all this is the bone-jarring confidence with which people say some extremely dumb crap. People say some absurd things in complete seriousness.

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.