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A brain fart is a brain fart is a brain fart. Nobody is immune to them. But having said that, these temporary blips can be really funny. When they're someone else's suffering, of course.
If you don't believe me, just take a look at the Twitter account -1000 IQ. It's sharing follower-submitted moments when people's brains stopped computing and pushed the poor folks into making a fool of themselves.
From sanding your car's tires for a smooth ride to claiming New York isn't part of the US, here are some of the funniest ones.
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Ryan Deschanel 3 years ago
When you are so stupid and confident (almost synonyms) you can't even see that you are being made fun of. Surprisingly, that's pathetic and hilarious at the same time.
There are plenty of concepts our brains struggle with, like four-dimensional hypercubes, quantum mechanics or an infinite universe. And understandably so. But as you can see from this list, every once in a while even the most mundane everyday tasks can leave us baffled. However, there are some things that (unexpectedly) mess up our cognitive abilities but manage to do so while slipping under the radar.
Doors. Remember the feeling you get when you walk into a room with some purpose in mind only to completely forget what that was? Well, psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway triggers what's known as an "event boundary" in the mind, separating one set of thoughts and memories from the next, similarly to how exiting through a doorway signals the end of a scene in a movie. Your brain files away the thoughts you had in the previous room, and prepares a blank page for the new location. Mental event boundaries usually help us organize our thoughts and memories as we move through the world, but sometimes they can throw us off, too.
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Beeps. From digital alarm clocks to smoke detectors, these sounds have practically become the soundtrack of the modern world. But we didn't evolve hearing beeps, so we struggle to make peace with them. Natural sounds are created from a transfer of energy, often from one object striking another. Think of a stick hitting a drum. In that case, energy is transferred into the drum and then gradually dissipates, causing the sound to decay over time. Our perceptual system has evolved to use that decay to grasp the event. To figure out what made the sound, and where it came from.
Beep sounds, however, are like cars driving at 60 mph which suddenly hit a wall, as opposed to gradually slowing to a stop. The sound doesn't change over time, and it doesn't fade away, so our brains are baffled about what they are and where they're coming from and can go into overdrive.
Wide open spaces. When people are traversing the desert or a thick forest — terrains without landmarks — people usually end up walking in circles. Experiments on blindfolded individuals revealed that when we lack external reference points, we curve around in loops as tight as 66 feet (20 meters) in diameter, all the while believing we are traveling in a straight line. Turns out, it isn't because one leg is longer or stronger than the other — wide open spaces simply throw the brain for a loop.
According to researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybergenetics in Germany, loopy paths follow from a walker's changing sense of "straight ahead." With every step, a small deviation arises in the brain's vestibular (balance-maintaining) system or the proprioceptive (body awareness) system, and is added to the person's cognitive sense of what's straight. These deviations accumulate over time and send that individual veering around in ever tighter circles as time goes on. Interestingly, these little brain farts don't add up when we can regularly recalibrate our sense of direction using a nearby building or mountain.
To see some of these examples in action, check out these 31 times people had brain farts that resulted in funny communication fails.
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Benjamin Kowal 3 years ago
At least the realized their mistake. That doesn’t happen very often.
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Lunar Bicycle 3 years ago
Not only is that a hilarious joke, but the fact that it has two stars instead of one is brilliant. Like it was somewhat useful, but they just really didn’t like it.
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Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago (edited)
red shirt represents management, yellow shirt represents workers; and the guy sitting up front is the CEO.
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StormWolf 3 years ago
I was so amazed at her doubling down on her idiocy that I missed that :)
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RoseTheMad 3 years ago
I guess she might actually be good at geology, since she's literally got a brain made of rocks.
Big Blue Cat 3 years ago
It's not Big Apple anymore, it's the big rock just outside America. Basic geology.
Valisbourne Spiritforge 3 years ago
Regarding "America", so is Canada, Mexico, etc... the Americas have both a Northern & Southern continent. The US is only part of them, regardless of our habit of referring to ourselves as Americans.
Monday 3 years ago
While that is true, it still doesn't change the fact that New York is still in America.
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Chris Sprucefield 3 years ago
... so many Americans not educated in even their own country's geography...
Marcellus II 3 years ago
Altogether now: "Don't know much about... history/ Don't know much about... geology/ ..." ---Sam Cooke, "Wonderful world" (no not the Louis Armstrong song of same title).
Temma Tainow 3 years ago
Living in NYC 3/4's of my life, I am not sure it is part of this world. Sorry New Yorkers
Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago
I bet that’s her best outfit and she thinks she’s killing it. Not at all.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
When I was three or four, I remember asking my mother if we could visit Florida. She said "we're IN Florida" so I asked "then what is Orlando?" because I didn't have the concept of states and cities and towns quite yet... but again, I was three or four, and my family kids me about it still.
John Hastings 3 years ago
that's why The French planted trees along the Champs Elysees....so the German's could march in the shade....
Anita Pickle 3 years ago (edited)
I knew a person who was born and raised in CA, they were in their mid forties and seriously thought that San Francisco was as far north as you could get and that Sacramento was in another state. I also met someone that thought you could take a bridge from San Jose to Hawaii.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
If New York isn't in America, then where the f*ck is it? And can we give Idaho and Texas this same status?
Tracy Lynn 3 years ago
We need 🥔 so Idaho can stay but I vote yes to Texas, it's basically Mexico geologically speaking
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Oikawa's Milk Bread 3 years ago
Soooo it's not geology, it's GEOGRAPHY! And yes, New York is in the U.S.
ravina nimje 3 years ago
Geology.. umm geography class might be too much for her, Siri is quick solution.
Terri Owens 3 years ago
Geology? You meant geography, right? Holy S**t.... America is f*****g doomed!
Michael Sanders 3 years ago
Yeah this post is really what is gonna do us in.
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John Otruba 3 years ago
Manhattan Island for sale to any country that wants it. Just the welfare costs near bankrupt NYS (and the Island is actually bigger than when first "purchased" from native population
Jyri Hakola 3 years ago
But if you say good by Murica, hello New York, then there might be bit of truth included ?
Andrei Marentette 3 years ago
nEW YORK IS IN aMERICA And Geology is rocks study, Geography is map study
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NsG 3 years ago
Well... Funnily enough... There was a famous case of a woman being a chimera - she literally had non-matching DNA. They ended up proving the case by having the official in the delivery room, at the business end, took the DNA sample which didn't match (and that wouldn't even be the case for a surrogate pregnancy) and finally did additional testing to prove she was a chimera. Weird case. So, yeah, that one in some ludicrous number likely to be in the billions, DNA came back negative for mum.
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Squish y 3 years ago
The real -1000 IQ moments are when people start commenting, "I can't believe people are this stupid"
John Baker 3 years ago
Agreed. Are people really not getting that most of these are jokes/trolls?
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Ebony 3 years ago
The sad thing is, these are the people who are running America or are going to
Harmony (Taylors Version) 3 years ago
Honestly, at this point I'm really starting to get mad about people who post things like this. It's really an overused joke that was never funny in the first place. It's not quite as bad as joking about our guns or healthcare or college, but its still really infuriating.
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Rob Kneepkens 3 years ago
Goddamn bored panda is recycling many jokes lately. Half those funny pages are just things we already saw multiple times.
Squish y 3 years ago
The real -1000 IQ moments are when people start commenting, "I can't believe people are this stupid"
John Baker 3 years ago
Agreed. Are people really not getting that most of these are jokes/trolls?
Load More Replies... Ebony 3 years ago
The sad thing is, these are the people who are running America or are going to
Harmony (Taylors Version) 3 years ago
Honestly, at this point I'm really starting to get mad about people who post things like this. It's really an overused joke that was never funny in the first place. It's not quite as bad as joking about our guns or healthcare or college, but its still really infuriating.
Load More Replies... Rob Kneepkens 3 years ago
Goddamn bored panda is recycling many jokes lately. Half those funny pages are just things we already saw multiple times.
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