50 Anonymously Shared Secrets That People Wouldn’t Dare To Confess In Real Life (New Posts)
Disclosing our secrets reduces stress and helps us come to terms with our behavior. So the fact that some of the most powerful people or institutions in many cultures encourage people to admit their transgressions is no coincidence. Nor is the huge number of followers behind the Twitter account 'Fesshole.'
It enables people to anonymously confess "their sins" and countless have already turned to it for a shot at internet absolution. So let's see if we can give them exactly that, shall we?
We at Bored Panda compiled some of the wildest submissions 'Fesshole' has recently received, so put on your confessor hat (or pick up a scepter, whatever works for you), and continue scrolling to check out what some evil-doers have been up to.
For more, click on our older publications on 'Fesshole' here and here.
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... put a cat down, just because you move? Seriously, I hope this sad excuse of an attempt to be a halfway human POS never had any fun in its life again. Fück these people, whatever treats some sentient living being, who likely loved that thing, like that doesn't deserve its feelings to be taken into account anywhere, and if, then only to make sure it hasn't any chance to have fun.
In The Secret Life of Secrets, Dr. Michael Slepian, the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School, explained that we can draw a line between secrecy and privacy by considering secrecy as an intention to hold specific information back, and privacy as a reflection of how much we broadcast personal information, in general.
Generally, people who are more private require closeness before they let you in. Yet those who are less private may be happy to disclose personal information, not just to friends and family, but to coworkers, acquaintances, and even people they’ve just met as well.
You may not want to discuss your sexual experiences at work out of concern for privacy (and for what is appropriate), however, this is very different from wanting to keep some specific experience a secret. In both cases, you are taking control of your personal information, but for different reasons.
"Aside from sex, money is another example of something you may not talk about but may not be intentionally keeping secret," Slepian wrote. "You might not talk about your paycheck out of concern for privacy, rather than wanting nobody to ever know what it looks like."
"At the same time, there may be other specifics you intend to keep hidden, such as a particularly unwise financial decision. These examples help us see that privacy and secrecy can coexist, and there can be gray area in between. So, can we ever really separate them? Yes, and the person who knows best—whether something is private or secret—is you."
... and did you get yourself checked out? Because if your wife didn't even remotely recognize the smell (and yes, she knows the normal smell), there might be something wrong with you, too.
Who cares if your dog is ugly. Dogs can be amazing and also ugly at the same time. You can't become a neighbourhood menace just because someone thought your dog was ugly.
During his research, Slepian discovered that the more immoral we consider a personal experience or action, the more it feels like a secret, rather than something that is merely private.
He also found that the more we think others would find the information relevant to their own lives, the more something unsaid feels like secrecy instead of privacy.
Aw, I get why you did this. My mum died 13 years ago and my dad this year. I miss them both terribly every.single.day.
He learned this from a study involving 1,000 participants in committed relationships. "I asked the participants to think about something they had not disclosed to their romantic partner," the psychologist said.
"This was easy for them to do. We all have many such things, ranging from the consequential to the mundane. Some of the things people hadn't disclosed were acts they considered highly immoral, like cheating on their partner and misrepresenting their past. The participants said that these felt very much like secrets. But other things did not seem immoral. For example, one participant told me he quite enjoys having the apartment to himself, and doesn’t mind when his partner is away for the weekend. In fact, it makes him quite happy."
"Another participant told me that her partner doesn’t know how much she spends on yarn. These things didn’t feel like they mattered all that much, and so not mentioning them didn’t feel like keeping secrets," Slepian noted.
Well now I'll never stop wondering what franchise that was and whether I've seen ET Ballsack.
a lot of times my to do list is things I have done. instead of a never ending list of demands... I am faced with a list of satisfaction ( and I can see I have actually accomplished a lot)
Slepian said people are often wondering if they're more secretive than the average person.
"When we start talking about tendencies for secrecy, we bump right up into personality psychology," he said. "A common way of measuring personality is to ask about five broad traits: Openness (open to new experiences and to things being complicated), Conscientiousness (organized, disciplined), Extraversion (enthusiastic, social), Agreeableness (polite, eager to please), and Neuroticism (the less polite word for high negative emotion; many prefer to call this “low emotional stability” instead)."
(If you ever need to remember this information straight away just remember the acronym OCEAN.)
I lost my daughter 5 years ago - I still have her last Christmas gifts from me wrapped in my closet. I expect I always will.
I've got a jar of homemade blackberry jelly in my fridge with about an inch left in the bottom. My grandmother made it, and she died almost 7 years ago. I refuse to throw the jelly away.
I have a voicemail my brother left for me before he unexpectedly died on 7/7/2015. I still haven't been able to listen to it seven-plus years later. And it's him apologizing to me for something he thought he'd done wrong.
Oh this really hits home! My sister passed twenty years ago. She left wrapped Christmas gifts for each of us, so mom placed them under the tree. I never opened mine. Have moved several times over the years and that wrapped gift is packed and unpacked each time. Still can’t bring myself to open it…
I have had Italian fig cookies in my freezer since 2007. They were the last fig cookies my mom baked before she died of stomach cancer. They’ve made the move to four different houses since then, to include a move to Virginia and back to Louisiana. I still miss my mom so much.
Bless your heart 😭 I'm so sorry for your pain
Load More Replies...You should watch Guardians of the Galaxy. Might change your mind about opening it.
Do what you feel is right. Just remember: opened or unopened, she loved you.
The second to last word is probably a spelling mistakes, but it works quite well as it is.
This is so sad sorry for your loss 💔 (PS I probably wouldn't have the willpower not to open it so good for you)
Yes, but...it is something she wanted you to have. Maybe it's something you can use often and be reminded of how much she loved you.
This literally happened in Monk but the plot twist was the entire show wouldn’t have really happened if he had just opened the present right after his wife passed.
I read this cartoon where this woman can't believe her husband still has one unopen present still under the tree "How can you not open that present?!" "Oh, I will open it. I am just waiting for the cat puke on it to dry."
Nowhere near the same level of emotional impact, but it took me 18 months to begin to read The Shepherds Crown-it was Terry Pratchett's last book before he died. I thought that if I read it, it would hit home that there'd never be another Discworld book for me to read.
I got some holy ash from my uncle. I kept in a smallTupperware .He passed away two years back. We follow Hindu religion. We put most of the time holy ash in our forehead . Now a days I am not keeping holy ash. I am just afraid it will be over.
I completely understand. I have a box of tea from my dad that only has a packet left in it. My dad died suddenly almost 1.5 years ago. The tea is well past its expiration date but I don't have it in me to throw it away.
My partner's only Uncle must have posted his Christmas cards out and then died as we received a phone call telling that he had gone and, then the day after his card arrived. It was awful.
This hit hard. My father died suddently last year and I had to travel all day, plane and trains, to get home. When I arrived in the evening the first thing my mother ask me to do was to chose a picture for the funeral. So when my mother started to cook some pasta for dinner (we're italians) she took the tomato sauce in the fridge my father did the day before. And you know, it had the special taste, the dad's one, different than mine or my mother's or my grandma. He used to add a small dried chilli pepper. And as my mother grabed it I tried to say "don't use that" cause I wanted to like freeze it and eat...I don't know, later sometime. And she kind of shushed me and we just ate the pasta in silence. And I don't know what she was thinking, but for me it was heartbreacking.
Adrian Monk did this. He could have saved himself 7 years of torment because his wife revealed who her killer was in a tape she gave him for Christmas.
My grandma sent me a card just before she died. Every day she was in the hospital, she'd ask if I got it. I told my mom to say yes because I didn't want grandma to worry over a silly little thing. 3 years later ON MY BIRTHDAY, the card she sent arrived. She said she was proud of who I'd become, and I shouldn't worry. I miss her every day, but it's nice to think that she was thinking of me, too.
I kept the Christmas wrapping, complete with a silver bow, from the last gift my beloved grandma Eleanor gave me and framed it. She wrote on the paper so I have her signing it to me love grandma on it.
Open it when your ready. If that never happens, the 2 of you can open it in the afterlife.
I bought my Pappa a Father's Day card and gift. He passed away 2 weeks before and it's still wrapped 18 years later.
I completely understand. My mom passed away unexpectedly 5 years ago. I didn't cry once at the notary office except the very last time when they informed me that everything she owned was now in my name. I realized at that moment that her name couldn't be found on any legal or official document anymore, so for everyone else in this entire world it would seem like she never even existed to begin with.
I had a painful dream recently that made me cry about my mum dying just before Xmas, and I had her Xmas presents sitting at her grave with her unopened 🥺🥺😭😭
My grandma died 11 years ago and I still have a present from her. I know what it is because I wrapped all her presents for her. Every year it goes under the tree and it always will. I miss her so much.
...surely the present will be a reminder of her though? What if it's something you'd use every day?
I did the same thing with the last dog toy I bought my Lab before she passed. I gave it to my Dachshund for Christmas last year after it sat in a closet for five years.
I have a mini calender from 2010. It had all the days circled from August up until my grandfather went into the hospital for surgery. He didn't make it through the recovery. I still can't throw it away cause he circled those dates. I desperately miss him.
I get this. The last thing my dad gave me the night before he died was a plastic Easter egg full of my favorite jelly beans. I don't think I'll ever finish them..
My grandmother passed just before Mother’s Day in 2018. I still can’t bring myself to delete her address from my Amazon account, because as long as it’s there, some part of her is still here.
My dad used my garden as an alotment, he used to grow runner beans amoung other things. He used to keep a few seeds back each year for the next crop, I still have that little plastic bag of beans in his mug in the shed.... I also have a few lettuce growing through the lawn i cant seem to get rid of.
My mom gave me a shirt 12 years ago. I never took it out of its package because if I do there will never be another present and she will be gone.
It would be seriously satisfying if someone filmed this. I'd email it to the prick everyday for as long as I needed to feel vindicated (or until the baastard had a mental breakdown - whichever came first).
"My research finds that someone who is more secretive (whether having had many experiences from the list or just a few) tends to be less extraverted and less emotionally stable, but more conscientious," Slepian said.
Additionally, the profile of a person more likely to get involved in the kinds of situations that people keep secret is that of someone who is open, extraverted, and emotionally stable, but less agreeable and less conscientious.
This IMO has little to do with IQ. If you never learnt, you cannot do it. Good luck learning (says the woman who replaces the laces with elastics because she just can't be bothered).
Agree. I had the same reaction when my son was diagnosed with autism. But yesterday, we were driving past a new development of houses near a pond. I pointed to it and asked him if he knew why it was a bad idea to build houses so close to a pond and he responded with "Tidal waves?" We laughed for about ten minutes before I said "mosquitos."
Welcome to the world of engineering we ll spend 5 hrs for a 5min fix
Very good! I had a non-stick pan that I was very protective of. My mother knew she couldn't use it, and never did. Then she had a friend stay over who offered to cook, and used My Pan, and utterly ruined it. She didn't even offer to buy a new one because in her mind it was still good. My mom got me a new pan, but I'm still hurt.
Peng = very attractive for those like me who didn’t know what that meant lol
I think there might be something wrong with the connection between my eyes and my brain. I've been seeing things from the corner of my eyes that aren't there and reading words that don't exist. Three times I read "A child kept licking my seat...". I'm beginning to wonder if this isn't just a weird glitch that will straighten itself out.
When I was a kid I actually asked my mother what happened to the coins people threw into the fountain at the mall, and she said "the people who clean the fountain get to have it". An answer which I still quite like to this day.
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I’m all for being petty and vindictive to people who have wronged but a lot of these people are just cruel to people who haven’t done anything to them. All they are doing is sending evil out into the world.
There are better ways of getting back at people than being petty and vindictive. Kill 'em with kindness, make a request, negotiate a solution, make them your friend (strategically), put a mention in to the higher-ups (in a constructive way), etc. Being petty and vindictive just keeps the negativity going, even when one feels justified.
Load More Replies...Stood aside to let a young mother with a pram get onto the escalator ahead of me. Little did she realise that the polite young lady was actually just trying to put a nice big gap between herself and the incredibly smelly guy who had just gotten on.
Fortunately by this point Mr Me No Shower was already well ahead of both of us, so happy ending. ^_^
Load More Replies...If anyone saw some of my comments and is interested, or not, I’m doing it anyways, during the course of this post I half swallowed/then threw up my hard candy five times from laughing.
My husband is a cancer survivor (50/50) and gets high anxiety at the mention of cancer. He hyperventilates and takes hours to calm down. It takes days for him to relax after his annual checkups. He's been in remission for 10 years and has two years before he's deemed cured. I was diagnosed with cervical cancer in late 2019 and had an emergency hysterectomy to remove it all. He thinks I had it done due to irregular bleeding and nothing more. Since I don't need chemo or radiation (just the occasional blood test) I've told no one. No need to make him stress over it.
Yep, this is a British twitter feed. We're just as f--d up, but funnier about it.
Load More Replies...I invented a time machine, traveled back and created the concept of jobs. In my time line you all smiled at all times, but then Dave, yes that Dave cut in front of me in line, so you can blame All of your problems on Dave it's his fault you all suffer now.
Tell him no more sex and see how in love you he is. He can still be a father to his kids so he can stop the s****y lying to their mother or you're just a side chick for a garbage person
Load More Replies...I’m all for being petty and vindictive to people who have wronged but a lot of these people are just cruel to people who haven’t done anything to them. All they are doing is sending evil out into the world.
There are better ways of getting back at people than being petty and vindictive. Kill 'em with kindness, make a request, negotiate a solution, make them your friend (strategically), put a mention in to the higher-ups (in a constructive way), etc. Being petty and vindictive just keeps the negativity going, even when one feels justified.
Load More Replies...Stood aside to let a young mother with a pram get onto the escalator ahead of me. Little did she realise that the polite young lady was actually just trying to put a nice big gap between herself and the incredibly smelly guy who had just gotten on.
Fortunately by this point Mr Me No Shower was already well ahead of both of us, so happy ending. ^_^
Load More Replies...If anyone saw some of my comments and is interested, or not, I’m doing it anyways, during the course of this post I half swallowed/then threw up my hard candy five times from laughing.
My husband is a cancer survivor (50/50) and gets high anxiety at the mention of cancer. He hyperventilates and takes hours to calm down. It takes days for him to relax after his annual checkups. He's been in remission for 10 years and has two years before he's deemed cured. I was diagnosed with cervical cancer in late 2019 and had an emergency hysterectomy to remove it all. He thinks I had it done due to irregular bleeding and nothing more. Since I don't need chemo or radiation (just the occasional blood test) I've told no one. No need to make him stress over it.
Yep, this is a British twitter feed. We're just as f--d up, but funnier about it.
Load More Replies...I invented a time machine, traveled back and created the concept of jobs. In my time line you all smiled at all times, but then Dave, yes that Dave cut in front of me in line, so you can blame All of your problems on Dave it's his fault you all suffer now.
Tell him no more sex and see how in love you he is. He can still be a father to his kids so he can stop the s****y lying to their mother or you're just a side chick for a garbage person
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