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# Facepalm

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Serie A chief apologises for controversial anti-racism campaign
Serie A has apologised after an anti-racism campaign it had fronted was focused around artwork involving primates.
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Dec 17th 2019, 11:18 PM
It's only dawning on some people that Childish Gambino and Donald Glover are the same person
These people should be approached with caution.
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May 28th 2018, 3:17 PM
Fans aren't happy with Mrs Brown's Boys' 'new Rory' after he messed up his lines in the New Year special
Not a great start.
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Jan 2nd 2018, 1:30 PM
Renato Sanches passed straight to an advertising board last night
Swansea Paul Clement’s reaction to the on-loan Bayern Munich midfielder said it all.
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Nov 30th 2017, 11:40 AM
Estonian side that lost to Cork City score after 14 seconds... without even touching the ball
Shambolic stuff.
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Aug 10th 2017, 10:27 PM
Ian McKellen was holding the greatest placard at the Women's March in London
Meme-tacular.
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Jan 22nd 2017, 4:02 PM
'That's the worst question I've had' - Rodgers asked about the Loch Ness Monster
The Celtic boss admitted he isn’t well-up on the Scottish mythical creature.
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Nov 22nd 2016, 7:03 PM
People are sharing their exes' stupidest moments, and it's an absolute gift
Foolishness, everywhere.
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Oct 14th 2016, 6:00 PM
10 of the most facepalm moments in Irish history
Oh, Ireland.
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Aug 9th 2016, 1:33 PM
US papers taking all kinds of flak for headlining Hillary's nomination with a picture of Bill
One newspaper has gone so far as to admit it got things wrong in prioritising Bill over the first woman to ever receive a presidential nomination from a major US party.
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Jul 28th 2016, 11:57 AM
You will have 72 new emojis to play around with soon
Anyone ask for a facepalm emoji?
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Jun 3rd 2016, 12:26 PM
You can't make it up! Fifa reduces Blatter and Platini bans because of their 'services to football'
The disgraced duo had initially been handed eight-year suspensions.
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Feb 24th 2016, 11:10 PM
This man sold his stake in a €220 million company for a bike
He described it as “the biggest mistake I ever made”.
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Feb 6th 2016, 11:15 AM
This Irish plumber had the ULTIMATE facepalm moment when fitting his first toilet
Noooooooooooooo, God noooo.
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Jan 20th 2016, 10:00 PM
15 moments of mind boggling stupidity that will make you weep for humanity
Stop the world and let us off.
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Dec 16th 2015, 9:30 PM
This gameshow model's gas stage gaffe is going viral
The internet, eh? No embarrassing moment goes unnoticed.
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Oct 25th 2015, 9:07 AM
Fine Gael got an awful lot of grief for this tweet before the match yesterday
Economy ≠ rugby
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Oct 19th 2015, 3:09 PM
This tactless fan asked Ronaldinho for a selfie moments after he crashed his car
Do we need to explain why you shouldn’t do that?
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Oct 3rd 2015, 12:07 PM
Sky Sports made a very unfortunate slip in their GAA Footballer of the Year report
Oh no.
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Oct 1st 2015, 12:00 PM
Man arrested after texting head of local drug unit ... looking for drugs
When texting goes wrong.
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Sep 14th 2015, 10:06 PM
Sarah Palin wants immigrants to the US to 'speak American'
The former US vice-presidential candidate said English is a “unifying aspect” of America.
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Sep 7th 2015, 3:02 PM
Ex-Fifa VP uses fake 'The Onion' article to defend himself against corruption claims
Does someone want to tell him?
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Jun 1st 2015, 10:46 AM
FIFA 16 will include women players for the first time, and some people are less than happy about it
At least this one isn’t Sepp Blatter’s fault…
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May 28th 2015, 7:41 PM
There is a REALLY unfortunate typo in the Washington Post
Morto for everyone.
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May 19th 2015, 5:51 PM
The Truth hurts: Paul Pierce called 'series' (seconds before losing Game 5) last night
When taunting goes wrong.
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May 14th 2015, 9:00 PM
This untaxed van parked in a loading bay is 'not a Fianna Fáil campaign vehicle'
The van was snapped in Carlow town yesterday evening.
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Apr 21st 2015, 10:03 AM
AP confused murder suspect Robert Durst with Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst
It could happen to anyone *snigger*
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Mar 18th 2015, 4:47 PM
New TV station goes on air for the first time, immediately drops a C-bomb
Congratulations to all involved.
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Mar 16th 2015, 5:00 PM
Some racists tried to vandalise a temple but failed spectacularly
So much fail, so little time.
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Feb 19th 2015, 4:31 PM
BBC claim Hozier is British, Twitter puts them in their place
This madness has to stop.
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Feb 9th 2015, 8:39 PM
Grab a cuppa and watch the best of this year's hilarious news bloopers
Slip of the tongue, a bit too often.
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Dec 28th 2014, 9:08 AM
Festival fined for 'distressing' texts pretending to be people's mums
All of the facepalms.
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Dec 5th 2014, 3:29 PM
Dud paper called Get Me Off Your F**king Mailing List accepted by academic journal
Some new inspiration for your thesis.
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Nov 25th 2014, 7:58 PM
Man accidentally texts his probation officer looking for some weed
Yep, he’s going back to jail.
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Oct 23rd 2014, 10:02 PM
The Liverpool defending for Real Madrid's third was beyond appalling
It wasn’t Liverpool’s night…
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Oct 22nd 2014, 8:38 PM
CNN typo accidentally makes ISIS sound very unmenacing
ISIS are advancing on what now?
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Oct 13th 2014, 9:01 AM
LAPD are actually warning iPhone users not to microwave their phone
Yes, really.
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Sep 25th 2014, 6:01 PM
Ricky Gervais demonstrates exactly how you shouldn't respond to J-Law's leaked nudes
Actor’s since-deleted tweet has landed him in hot water.
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Sep 1st 2014, 5:20 PM
VIDEO: This goalkeeper own goal howler helped PSG win last night as Zlatan scored hat-trick
Stéphane Ruffier won’t want to see replays of this goal again.
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Sep 1st 2014, 10:10 AM
People on Twitter are confusing David Attenborough with Richard Attenborough
Know your Attenboroughs.
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Aug 25th 2014, 3:15 PM
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