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Nobody is exempt from having a brain fart. People are far from perfect. And the subreddit 'Woooosh' is an excellent example of this.

This online community with 1.1 million members shares pictures of folks missing the joke so badly that they sort of became one with the bit, adding to the hilarity of the moment.

Sometimes our gears turn slower than others fire their wit. But in the end, it's all part of the fun.

Normally, we recognize that we've messed up only after it's a bit too late. But according to studies, brain farts are detectable by head scans up to 30 seconds before the occurrence of the mistake.

So why do our brains betray us in such awkward, embarrassing ways? Seth Slater, M.F.A., who's a former dolphin trainer for the U.S. Navy, thinks it is because our routines are easy to disrupt.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good thing she wrote it in all caps so we know how seriously she considers this matter lmao

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"Context shifts – really just simple changes in circumstances – can throw the best of us for a loop," Slater wrote.

"We are often especially prone to the disruptive influence of a context shift when we are attempting to perform a chained behavior – one in which completion of each individual behavioral link becomes the cue to perform the next behavior in the series."

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When our behaviors are well established, they often fall into well-worn neural grooves.

Familiarity signals to the brain it can downshift as an energy-saving measure, which makes us susceptible to glitches born of inattentiveness.

However, Slater reassured us that we humans are not alone in fouling things up when a brain fart lets fly.

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Cats Are So Dense

Cats Are So Dense

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cat Gravity. They absorb sunlight and convert it to a localized gravity field. That's why the spend so much time in the sunlight and it's so hard to move them when they are lying on your lap.

Adrian
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When they walk on your delicate areas in the middle of the night it's like hundreds of pounds per square inch...

Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My!
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We are gods. We can break anything. It's funny to see the faces our soft can-opener makes.

Joshua
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jumped from an airplane while skydiving. Cut away the shoot and then landed on all 4's like the badass superheroes they are. Obviously, all this was very tiring, so they proceeded to take a nap.

Beeps
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8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I actually honestly believe that cats can turn gravity up and down to suit them. I mean have you ever picked up a cat who doesn’t want to be picked up? They can make themselves really heavy if they want to.

Michael Parker
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In my experience, cats are the single most heavy object in the universe.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nine lives are heavy. I'm suffering under the weight of just one

me McG
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"It's been pre-disastered. We're going to be safe here."_Garp

somnomania
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

cats are all asgardians, is the only conclusion i can make from these photos

Stephen Hutchison
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The one with the awning was used as a meme for "this is a polymorphed dragon pretending to be a cat."

elfin
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cats are as heavy as they want to be. They can also be liquids if they so choose.

Puppy Dancing!
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cats are actually a projection of hyper intelligent beings into this dimension (not white mice).

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My vote is for dragons shapeshifting as cats to avoid detection.

Luke
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s the kid from ‘kid vs cat’ nd the rest of the world

Nonna_SoF
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's a well demonstrated fact the cats cab control gravity.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My crushed foot begs to differ. My oldest becomes a BRICK when she wants

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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"In teaching tasks to animals in my former career as a dolphin trainer, I regularly witnessed the behavioral backstepping that is a normal and predictable part of any learning process. No one learns overnight, dolphins included," he said.

"But even fully trained dolphins who had become experts at performing all sorts of tasks occasionally experienced mental glitches. Interestingly, dolphins react to such moments with as much surprise as we humans do to ours."

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8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If it is only 2% milk, what does the other 98% consist of?

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Slater explained that when making a misstep during a series of routine behaviors, dolphins often pause mid-task, clearly aware they’ve done something odd.

Some of them even whistle or squeak in acknowledgment of the awkward moment! Others might slap a pectoral fin against the surface of the water in mild frustration. And a great many of them slip beneath the waterline to expel a cloud of air from their blowhole in what looks, truly, like a world-class brain fart of epic proportions.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is everyone commenting about "mother" OK here? I see a post about a book that makes you cry.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good lord, the Onion has been around for how long?? And people still get their panties in a wad over it??!?

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Hopefully, this knowledge and the pictures you've been scrolling through will help you recover from your own brain farts quicker. They happen even to the best of us.

For more whooshes, fire up our earlier articles on this subreddit here and here.

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Andrew Keir
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But I suspect that the dogs will interpret what they see, according to the rules they know? It's called 'theory of mind'

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Sonja
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I see Vsauce, I like. They should have watched the video before commenting, but they might have learned something. Couldn't risk that of course

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ironically, most aboriginal people living in the Outback are gathered around Alice Springs, which is about where the bottom of Italy is

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But his dad works for the Avengers! He told me that they're gonna make a movie about Door Man, the superhero who walks through open doors.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't get chess references but I do get when someone is making a joke so at least I have that.

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