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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.

The world has its fair share of entitled folks and their frustrating demands, but sometimes it gets worse than someone just wanting a discount for no reason. Sometimes people's approach to haggling is writing out their intent to come over to your house and mess you up. It's pretty stupid. For another ridiculous person who wanted a deal, here's a choosing beggar raging after rejection and getting shut down again.

The internet, home of ridiculous people who think they're geniuses. These are people who describe themselves as "too rational" to get a joke, think they understand space travel after thinking about it for 10 minutes, and rate online IQ tests poorly for giving them bad (accurate) scores. They're here to brag about themselves and ruin comments sections because they think they're geniuses.

You'd think that in this day and age people would be aware that joke news sites exist, or at least have enough sense to look at the source of a headline. But no, your aunt will still seriously respond to an article from "The Not Real News Times" about how sea world has taught its dolphins to drown children who aren't having enough fun. Anyway here are more absurd individuals who didn't get satire.

Every responsible adult has to learn some really basic, extremely necessary information to help them through life. It can range from paying your bills to how to cook and egg to knowing that metal doesn't go in the microwave. Sure, there are plenty of factors people didn't anticipate about adulthood, but sometimes people learn basic things embarrassingly too late in life.

People are absolutely terrific at doing stupid things. Whether it's eating 17 donuts, climbing through a bunch of poison ivy, or eating the hottest chicken sandwich ever, you can bet that people will do real dumb junk just to prove it to themselves. Here are more people's dumbest high risk, low reward moments.

It's a well known fact that kids aren't smart people. They might become smart people someday, but even that isn't a sure thing. We don't even need evidence that kids are stupid and weird because we were kids and we just know how dumb we were. No matter what you tell em, they're still gonna be dumb and weird.

If you think you're stupid, don't worry, there's someone out their saying or doing something that would make you look like a great big brain lord. People are producing classic facepalm moments of incompetence at a rate that surprises everyone around them. Humanity is just boiling over with incompetent facepalm moments.