Missing a joke happens to the best of us at times. It's embarrassing in the moment for sure but usually it happens unrecorded and only with your close friends, who then can make fun of you for the rest of your life. Unfortunately for the people here, their embarrassing moments of missing the joke are recorded and shared for the entirety of the online community to laugh at over on Reddit's /r/woooosh.

It's called "woooosh" because that is the imaginary sound the joke makes when it flies over someone's head — woooosh. Whether these people are actually totally oblivious to the joke in the post or just trying to get some attention for the sake of it, it is somewhat infuriating yet very entertaining for those of us who can see it and shake our heads or facepalm in secondhand embarrassment. Here are 25 moments where the joke totally soared over people's heads.