Everyone makes mistakes, to err is human, after all, but, as with everything, some folks out there manage to surpass the rest of us. So we’ve gathered some breathtakingly dumb examples of stupidity that netizens have shared, from social media posts that really should have stayed in one’s drafts, to painfully expensive errors.
Get comfortable as you scroll through, prepare something to protect yourself from intermittent facepalming, upvote your favorites and be sure to recant your own fails in the comments section down below.
#1 Just Turn It Off
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#2 Eat Local
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#3 Idiot Of The Week Award Goes To This Lady
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#4 I May Not Be A Smart Man, But I Know What Stupid Is
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#5 There Was An Attempt To Buy A Ticket To The Ariana Grande Concert
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#6 There Was An Attempt To Correctly Calculate A 10% Pay Increase
It could be worse. They could be in accounting instead of HR.
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#7 My Wife Bought This To Get Some Hydrogen Into Our Water
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#8 Native Americans Aren’t American Apparently
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#9 Maybe Not The Dad You Want To Hug
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#10 Didn’t Think To Put Something On The Carpet When Ironing Large Banner
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#11 Wanted Some Hash Browns For Breakfast But One Of My Idiot Housemates Scrubbed Off The Oven Markings
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#12 I Honestly Have No Idea Why My Mother Has Done This
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#13 So That's How You Make A Convertible Car
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#14 Love Her Confidence
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#15 Apparently Frogs Are Mammals Now
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#16 Drying Undies On A Plane
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#17 In Argentina's Congress, A Deputy Claimed The Covid Vaccine Gave This Guy Magnetism
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#18 I Don't Think They Can Read
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#19 A Little White Stuff And We All Forget How To Drive
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#20 Putting Your Infant At Risk And Making A Hazard For Others If There Was An Emergency
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#21 Clueless Idiots Who Walk Down The Middle Of The Road To Their Car. This Has Gone On For Over A Minute
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#22 Passenger Left Her Baby In My Suv To Make Sure I Didn’t Leave At Her Stop
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#23 The Refrigerator In My Office Most Mornings
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#24 Found This On A Community Page
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#25 An Incredibly Stupid And Verified Facepalm
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#26 It Always Amazes Me When People Are So Confident In Their Stupidity
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#27 Gas Doesn't Weigh Anything
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#28 First Class Be First Classin
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#29 Dude Deep Frying A Turkey In Bare Feet
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#30 Don't Worry, The World Will Soon Be Bug-Free
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#31 I Love When This Happens
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#32 Biologically?
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#33 That’s Not A Turn Lane Bud
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#34 How Stupid Do You Have To Park There?
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#35 My Parents Refuse To Take Down This Dehumidifier Setup No Matter How Dangerous And Stupid I Say It Is
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#36 What Kind Of Stupid Parks Like This
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#37 Climbing Egyptian Antiques
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#38 So Stupid
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#39 Internet Technician Figured This Was A Good Place For My New Router, On The Ground In My Dining Room
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#40 Shoutout To The Disgusting Neanderthal That Made This Mess, And Props To Every Janitor Who Have/Had To Clean Up After Similar Incidents
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#41 Stupid!
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