Facepalm Moments

[Flailing Escapist]

You know those moments. When one of your buddies has had too much to drink and he insists he can do a handstand on the table. Or when you mom makes you just the most adorable sweater for christmas, and you're 18. Or when you realized you accidently switched which address should be on the corner of the envelope and the one in the middle.

Those, Jesus Christ really moments where you just have you lightly slap your self in the face.

Recently, for me, it's been whenever I hear anything about the Westboro Baptist Church of the Sony Hackers. Just one huge:

Spoiler

 

[Wuggy]

When I was in school there was a really really really dumb girl there. You know, the kind that may have a minor case of serious brain damage. Anyway, once she raised her hand and asked, with completely straight face, "Can oil run out?"

While other's laughed my natural reaction was to silently facepalm.

 

[Thyunda]

"I'm not a Catholic, I'm a Christian."

No matter how many times I remind her that Catholicism is a sect of Christianity, she still doesn't get the idea.

 

[TheMetalGuy]

My little sister forgot to do her homework even though I told her three times, and now she blames me, because I apparently wasn't making myself clear.

FACEPALM ... and a note from her school

 

[mcattack92]

At school, while there was food cookin in the microwave in the Year 12 common room, my friend came along and removed it and replaced it with his while the owner of the food in the microwave was standing was right next to it.

 

[ChupathingyX]

This is a person in year 11.

"I thought South Africa was a continent?"
"No it's a country"
"oh really? Where is it located?"

*facepalm*

Oh and here's another:

"...the church made millions and I think they built a church on the money made"
"Wait, so they built the church on top of the money?"

*moment of silence...facedesk*

And this was said by one of my teachers:

"The media always makes Islam look bad, just look at that event, when was it when the world trade centres were destroyed...oh yeah 1997, or was it '98?"

I am not joking, the entire class just fell slent and everyone was looking at eachother in amazement.

 

[artanis_neravar]

In high school I ate lunch with my best friends girlfriend and her friends (I was friends with her and she made me sit there I wasn't being a creeper or anything) anyway, her friend started trying to convince her to break up with my friend, and during the course of their conversation I'm pretty sure they forgot I was there (it was just the three of us) because neither of them said anything to me. So I obviously told my friend about it, with the specific instructions that he not say anything about it just use it to keep an eye out. So of course the next day he walks into school looks at his girlfriends friend and says "A little birdy told me that you want my girlfriend to break up with me" I literally facepalmed.

 

[Your once and future Fanboy]

I once had a discusion with my teacher in religion studies, and we talked about Christianity.
We somehow came onto the subject of Satanism, and I wanted to show some outside-the-book knowledge, so I mentioned that the name Satan and the term Satanism isn't from the Bible.
And that the Original defenition of a satanist where one who rejected Christ and the christian faith, in other words an Atheist.

This where in class, so then this dumb ***** shouted; "But you can't be a Satanist without believeing in Christianity!"

..and the worst part where that only a few in class face-palmed

 

[Zeema]

Dude: Beijing is the Capital of Japan Stupid

[facepalm]

me: No China's Capital is Beijing and Japan's is Tokyo.

Dude: Tokyo is the Capital of Bangkok

[Double Faceplate]

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

Dude: Beijing is the Capital of Japan Stupid

[facepalm]

me: No China's Capital is Beijing and Japan's is Tokyo.

Dude: Tokyo is the Capital of Bangkok

[Double Faceplate]

Oh God, you're not serious?

That's even worse than someone in my year thinking that the Berlin Wall ran through Paris, AND SHE DOES GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY FOR A-LEVEL!!!

Apart from that there was one of my friends who thought Armistice day was about 9/11, it apparently not occurring to her that there had been Poppy days before 9/11, and that it takes place two months after 9/11 anyway.

 

[Zhadramekel]

For me it's pretty much any time my male friends talk. And when I say talk, I mean make an innuendo.

 

[Merkavar]

back in the day in highschool. probably in year 9 or 10 we were discussing some poem. well the teacher asked what it was. prose or poetry or something like that. my friend said it wasnt a poem cause it didnt rhyme and the teacher basically just snapped and said pooems dont need to rhyme and asked if he was in primary school.

i facepalmed

 

[Sleepy Sol]

Teacher: "Ok, where is Asia?"
Dumb kid: -points to Africa-
Me: ...
Jesus, Americans are so terrible at geography. It's sad, really, when people in their second year of high school don't know their continents.

 

[Ambi]

A few of my own shameful moments:

"What if they made all gross income equal, but taxed the poor more than the rich?"

"It's due tomorrow?"

Or that time when I was playing Portal and I spent way too much time messing around with items in that place when you crawl through this gap and there's this big staircase with those boxes you push around, and achieved absolutely nothing.

Things people I know have said that warrant a facepalm:

"Don't give me this logic crap." "Logical fallacies? That sounds Marxist." (i.e. "Marxism is bad, this sounds Marxist, therefore you are wrong") What are you supposed to say to that, when you tell them to read the wikipedia page about the logical fallacy they are using, and they respond negatively to that page, making comments on it containing even more logical fallacies?

 

[BabyRaptor]

Back in...I want to say 2006, not too long before I left for boot camp, and friend and I drove up to Ft. Worth and spent the weekend drinking and clubbing with her cousin.

Saturday morning we woke up still kinda drunk and walked to the local Whataburger to eat. While we were waiting on our food, I noticed a Panda Express sign across the street.

I poked my friend and said "Kim, do they really serve panda? I thought pandas were...What's that really big E word that means almost deaded out?"

 

[andrew201292]

Teacher: "Ok, where is Asia?"
Dumb kid: -points to Africa-
Me: ...
Jesus, Americans are so terrible at geography. It's sad, really, when people in their second year of high school don't know their continents.

this

http://artoftrolling.memebase.com/2011/05/30/irl-troll-just-being-a-woman/

 

[vrbtny]

"...the church made millions and I think they built a church on the money made"
"Wait, so they built the church on top of the money?"

*moment of silence...facedesk*

That made me lol so hard.....

*Internet High Five*

 

[dday4you]

almost every question from " are you smarter than a fifth grader"
seriously any 5th grader could answer those questions.... oh..

 

[Popadoo]

A girl in my Physics class: What's Space made out of?
I just couldn't express my sadness with a single facepalm.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

My nephew after studying the Titanic at school for a week asks his mum if he can see the movie.
'I don't know whether you would like it hun, it has a really sad ending'
'Why Mum? What Happens?'

*facepalm*

The day before picture day at with her brother at school my blonde 2 year old neice thinks it would be an excellent idea to draw her eyebrows on with black marker pen.

Sometimes I feel really bad for my sister. I blame my brother in law's genes. She put glitter in a trail along the floor with footprints to show that santa had been and bit the cookies and drank the milk. My brother in law walks in with the kids; 'Aww for gods sake who put glitter everywhere' My sister: *facepalm*