funny headlines

Anyone who's human has experienced a brain glitch or momentary lapse of judgement that causes dumb things to be said. Well thanks to the internet, people can now post all the idiotic things that come to mind, immortalizing them for all eternity. You think it's painful repressing that memory of saying something stupid ten years ago? Try erasing that facepalm-worthytweet that's been screenshot a million times. We've collected a handful of examples of embarrassing blunders, moments of stupidity, and tone-deaf headlines for anyone who needs a good scoff. 

These ridiculous news headlines might actually give Florida Man a run for his money! Well, maybe we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves here, but they are indeed pretty WTF-worthy. Take a look!

It's not very nice to laugh at the failures of others and that's certainly not what we're trying to do here. We're laughing at the hilarious and unexpected results of failed attempts to fix something mundane, tell a blatant lie, get a point across, or simply do a thing. We've got to give an 'A for effort' to the ones who at least tried. On the other hand, some of these people failed so hard that it makes us question whether they even wanted their attempts to be successful. We've got a bunch of funny examples of when people got it totally wrong. 

It's easy to feel smug when looking at the past mistakes and blunders of others from the comfort of hindsight, but we've all said or done foolish things that come to bite us in the ass later. Making bold statements on the internet is pretty risky these days—one should always assume that for every public post, there's always some screenshot-happy lurker ready to immortalize all the bad takes and opinions that won't age well. We can't really complain about these internet archivists—without them, we wouldn't have gems like r/AgedLikeMilk. Keep scrolling for some poorly-aged posts that made us go 'oof.'

We've asked this before and we're gonna ask it again: what the actual f*ck is in Florida's water supply? Like, is it some sort of radioactive sh*t? Florida Man might as well be the name of a superhero at this point - a superhero that does absolutely nothing useful but entertain us.

We don't want to come at people too harshly for getting wooshed by ambiguous jokes or falling for a fake headline that sounds like it could be totally real, but everyone should know what The Onion is by now. Most satirical news publications these days have the words satire, or fake, or not real news written somewhere to make the joke totally fool-proof. Well, never underestimate a fool.

We've got a bunch of great examples of times people fell for satire and 'ate the onion,' so to speak. 

Lately it feels like reality has become so unhinged and unbelievable that it's sometimes difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. On the other hand, some people are so eager to be outraged that they've lost the ability to recognize satire all together. Come on, everyone should know what The Onion is by now, right? Millennials: maybe it's time to educate that grandparent who uses facebook without supervision. Though, to be fair to all the grannies out there, even People Magazine and the President of the United States fell for some pretty obvious satire.

Although these painful woosh moments are mad entertaining, you gotta feel bad for some of these people—they go through life thinking the world is even more psychotic than it already is.

Residents of Florida really make it easy to make fun of the sunny southern state. We mean no disrespect, but these Florida Man headlines and dragging memes are endlessly entertaining. Florida is kind of like that little brother that you love but can't help but poke fun at. If you like these memes and headlines, there's more where that came from.

We feel sort of bad for these poor, gullible individuals who devoured satirical headlines from The Onion, but at the same time, they're providing us with a lot of entertainment, so we'll take it.

Have you ever come across a ridiculous headline that makes you do a double take and examine closer to make sure it's not The Onion? Well 2020 has been one long explosion of absurd news stories that read like satire and headlines sometimes too outrageous to believe. Twitter account @theon1on has done a pretty good job keeping track of all the real-life weirdness that might have slipped through the cracks. While you were reading the latest pandemic news, you might have missed the guy who sold his kidney for an iPhone, or the giant monolith that mysteriously appeared in Utah. We've selected some of the weirdest headlines documented by @theon1on, but be sure to check out the account for more crazy headlines. 

Blaming Millennials for killing industries is one of the most cherished pastimes of Gen Xers and Boomers. We saw a flurry of accusatory think-pieces and headlines several years ago when Millennials first started entering the workforce, but even in 2020 the finger-pointing hasn't really let up. Hey, here's a thought: maybe it's the economy that killed Millennials and not the other way around. Maybe industries are dying because Millennials are too goddamn poor to buy anything. But ok boomer, keep on believing we spontaneously decided as an entire generation to kill industries because we're evil. That sounds much more logical.

r/DeathByMillennial is a goldmine of out of touch headlines and commentary that lazily condemn a single cohort of people who didn't even ask to be born, rather than an economic system that has failed millions of workers. We've collected some of the cringiest posts for our fellow Millennials to scoff at.

As everyone knows, Millennials are verifiably the worst generation in the history of humanity, and these memes prove it.

These extremely amusing headlines are a far cry from investigative journalism, but we are definitely completely engaged. It's amazing to see the kind of crap that slid by the attention of "editors" during the heyday of print. These headlines will make you laugh, face-palm, and maybe even smile at their sheer stupidity. Happy reading!

These headlines aren't quite at Florida Man levels of insane, but they certainly are up there. We just want to know who allowed these things to be put into print. Either these publications have incredibly negligent editors, or the writers were just having a little fun trolling the masses - or perhaps both.