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These folks are absolute masters of their craft of being dumb. This be the land of stupid attempts, lies and general dumbassery. We honestly wish all of these were jokes but given the state of things, we're not so sure. For more of this, here are enough moments of facepalm to give you a stupid stroke.

Every school had a few of those kids that would do absolutely anything to get people's attention. Sometimes it was making up insane lies, other times it was pulling their lunchmeat out at a birthday party or drinking during a test. Either way it often led to some kind of school scandal. What ever happened to those kids, anyway?

The only advice we can imagine giving here is to run for the hills, my dude. Sounds like things aren't going to work out. And can you blame the poor, impressively patient, bedbug bitten boyfriend? He's in the middle of quite the uncomfortable (physically and emotionally) situation. 

If you think you're having a bad day, there's still a pretty good chance you didn't lose a speed boat on the freeway. Misfortune gets the best of people all the time. Seeing it happen can put things in perspective, it can be somewhat therapeutic, or it can be simply intriguing to see all the things that can go wrong.

These would have been classic fails if not for a healthy amount of luck. It's uncommon that two wrongs can make a right, but if you manage to fail a fail the right way, you can turn that baby into a win. It's like a win but with some extra suspense. Here's to the fails that landed on their feet.

Some of these misplaced mannequins are guaranteed to spike your anxiety. They look like they're better suited for a horror movie. 

Sometimes you watch a movie and it ends, and you're just left sitting there wondering, "what in the flying f**k did I just watch?" These 39 movies messed with people's heads in all the wrong (or right?) ways. They were full of twists or seemed to lack sense and logic altogether. A true trip of a cinematic experience, if you will. 

Nobody expects you to be a great cook right off the bat. But there is a general understanding that you shouldn't be so bad that you literally explode your kitchen. Here are some embarrassing failures that probably ended in a call for fast food or the hospital.

Tour guides see tourists do some really dumb things. If there's one thing to take away from these, it's that tourists are dumb. Not just kinda dumb. But like, real simple. Like, can't find their own ass kind of dumb. After a while it gets sad realizing these are the kind of people who represent you around the world.

Drive thru workers are exposed to that strange gray area between customer and employee, when the customer feels like they're kind of "at home" in their car; but they're also interacting with customer service. It's this gray area that makes for some truly bizarre moments. We're talking old ladies ordering ice cream cones for their monkeys, a lizard chilling on the dashboard, a guy kicking it with his falcon right there. A whole lot of exotic pets actually. 

You can never be sure what you're gonna get when you get thousands of judgemental horny people and put them all on one app. But hey, that's the wild world of tinder. There are some successes, some outrageous failures, but mostly really dumb puns.

Even if you account for every little variable in your life, something will happen that you completely didn't expect. Usually it's something bad. It could be as small as spilling spaghetti on your clothes, or as large as spilling a truckload of apples all across the highway. These people found out the hard way that life is packed with moments of failure and misfortune.

This meta text exchange is an update from the guy who posted this exchange online where he got in a row with a treasurer for a charity who couldn't comprehend a payment plan. It's a good case study in miscommunication and pretty dramatic read. Anyway, looks like she discovered his post and well, he responded in pretty typical fashion, including posting the ensuing conversation.

With the power of forced perspective, things can look like they're way too big or small. People can look like they're floating magically, and a mud puddle can appear to be a vast landscape. Basically, here are a bunch of images that are worth a double-take. For more, check out these brain-twisting pics of wild perspective.

What these parents thought was a "miracle" actually turned out to be a stupid accident. Thankfully, peppers are spicy as a deterrent for mammals, so there's a decent chance the fish wasn't hurt by the potentially catostrophic mistake. For a time when spicy peppers did end up inflicting some burn, here's a time a kid's hot sauce mistake damned an entire party to a choking hell.

On any given day, we're exposed to a number of pretty common hazards, and the signs that come with them. For example, the ubiquitous "watch your step." The further away you get from daily life, the more specific the danger becomes, and the more vague and weird their warning signs. Here are signs that are either on purpose or accidentally very scary, and doing a great job at keeping people away. For more, check out these scary signs that mean business.