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.)
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).
What do you mean "if you never learnt, you cannot do it"? Isn't that the opposite premise of learning a new skill?
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People who quote their IQs don't realize that a) nobody cares and b) it is a flawed evaluative tool that has been debunked many times.
This is true. There are new tests every so often and it's a very flawed testing.
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I learned to properly tie my shoes at age 45. My step-dad taught me to tie my shoes when I was five, but I spent the next 40 years trying to figure out why they constantly came untied. I even asked several people over the decades if they tied their shoes differently, but we couldn’t see any differences in our techniques. It turns out that if a right-handed person teaches a left-handed child, and the left-handed child ends up doing the first part left-handed and the second part right-handed, that difference will be hard to spot, but it will make a terrible knot. Thank you, YouTube. Six years later and I’m still excited that my shoes stay tied all day long!
Thank you, now I don't feel so bad that my left-handed, 12 year old grandson is having a hard time learning how to tie his shoes. We'll try another method that works for left-handed folks.
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I don't buy into IQ testing, but arguably the most intelligent kid at my high school (well booksmart) was the only person that wore velcro shoes (he wasn't physically challenged in any way). He also could never understand how to open the combination lock on his locker, so I'd always have to help him multiple times a day. We only became friends because we were the only two who chose Latin for our language credits, and since it was only two of us we got pretty close, even finishing Latin IV by mid-junior year (not because I'm particularly intelligent myself, but because we got exclusive attention), so started on Classical Greek for the remainder of HS... I was a fairly big dude (6'4" before graduating) so I like to think he avoided any potential bullying because I had his back. I know he went on to graduate Harvard Law (and definitely wasn't above lower-middle class financially, and not a legacy) - pray he's doing well! Great guy, just socially very awkward.
I only made it to Latin 3. I did a year of Ancient Homeric Greek, also. I don't know if that's Classical Greek or not.
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My husband is getting old now, and bending over to tie his shoes makes him dizzy. I would tie them for him whenever I could, but he wakes up and leaves for work hours before I’m awake. So he bought work boots that lace BUT also have a zipper on the side so he can put his foot up on a chair, slip into them (he pre-tied them), then zip them up instead of tie them. Fricking clever of him, I have to say.
IQ is a useless measure anyway. Many smart people have trouble with tasks that require dexterity, ‘lived’ knowledge ( not found in books) and/or practice. Mostly either because they believe they don’t need that practice or their carers ‘forget’ to teach them how to do those tasks.
Yeah, I'm right up there with you. See, kinesthetic movement is very independent from technical intelligence. I was a "bright" kid but I was 7 before I could tie my own shoes. It took me a solid week to get it down. I learned to ride a bike faster. Sometimes that's just how it goes. Be more lenient with yourself.
"Anyone who matters doesn't mind, and anyone who minds doesn't matter."
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There’s a lovely guy Rob Kenney on YouTube who makes videos “Dad, how do I?” as his father left when he was 12
I don't believe the 150s IQ. Sorry, but if STEVEN HAWKING had an IQ of 160, this guy is certainly and definitely not in the 150s. Cool lie bro. How embarrassing...
Not necessarily. The IQ points in n different countries are tallied or measured in different ways. My IQ is 154 and I'm in the too 95 percentile in my country. I don't consider myself bright at all, in fact, I struggle to learn about anything which doesn't interest me.
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I'm curious - did your folks emphasize academics to the loss of practical skills, or did they just wear slip on shoes?
I dont see an issue with that, if you got your first ones then it can make sense, unless you are gifted with knots then id be confused
I score great on that kind of test and didn't learn how to tie my shoes until sixth grade. I realized everyone had been teaching it wrong. The bunny goes around the tree but it does NOT go thru the hole. Im still mad.
We need to make you the head of some department or a head project manager or something in that realm. No real life experience? Like you don't know at all about how things work. Yeah, a promotion is waiting for you. This is America. The 45 year old guy who knows and does way more then you doesn't deserve the promotion. No no. This is capitalism at its finest!!!
One of the shortest TED talks is Terry Moore showing the correct way to tie round shoelaces so they stay tied. It will change your life! https://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes?language=en [I've shown scores of people all over the world how it's done and feel like I've made a small mark on the human progress.]
"On an average shoe with six pairs of eyelets, there are almost 2 Trillion ways to feed a shoelace through those twelve eyelets". And several ways to tie the knot.
High IQ doesn't always equate to mastery of mundane tasks...keep at it, mate!
Sounds like autism to me. (Or some kind of neurodivergence) Don't get down on yourself for such trivial things. You are literally wired differently, and clearly excel at plenty of other things
This is why you don't brag about your IQ or, worse yet, that you're a Mensa member.
My x would buy the kids Velcro closing shoes so they struggled with actually tying their shoes as well. The fact that you're learning on your own shows a lot about the type of person you are 😁
Nothing to do with IQ I guess, if you're not used to it. I'm sure you'll learn it in no time...
Get velcro and make it easy on yourself! Life it too precious to be lacing shoes . . .
it's intelligence quotient. a quote of projected potential of intellect. it does not infer at any point that the said potential will be fulfilled. it just means they have said potential.
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some super intelligent people may have problems with basic daily activities like the one in the post and they don't have to have asd
I watched YouTube videos to finally learn it and be able to teach it to my daughter. LOL
There's a TED Talk on how to tie your shoes! Madlad deadass got up in a conference room full of top tier geniuses and executives and told them they're trying their shoes wrong!!
As a kindergarten teacher, my wife taught a one-armed student to tie his shoes.
Americans should probably look into the history of the IQ test. It isn't looking for what people think it's looking for. And the original creator of the test would be blown away knowing what the American educational system thinks it is. It was specifically designed as a way of determining which children needed additional resources to keep from falling behind. It was not intended to be a measure of intelligence. You can be bloody brilliant and have a low IQ. And you can have a very high IQ and be a total bung head. There's a professor at the University of Pennsylvania (an Ivy League school), who has an interesting story about how he was denied access to a lot of resources growing up because he tested with an IQ score of 78. But he's a brilliant tenured professor, published a ton of books, and has been the recipient of the MacArther Genius Grant. The irony of course, is that his low IQ score should have been the reason to get him additional resources, not just assume he can't learn.
My genius son watched YouTube videos to find different, more creating ways to ties his shoes. They always look cool.
I once worked with a genius (in a college part time job) who could work out how to stack tins.
Not uncommon xD I've also started to wear laced shoes only after high school.
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.
Not enough people do trade jobs so they don’t understand how stable and lucrative they can be.
You can still enjoy domestic holiday. I don't really see the point of going nearly broke for a week of vacation. Mind you, even domestic holiday could be expensive, bit you can break it down to 2-3, maybe 4 days instead for whole week or even longer.
What a flaghole (the racist neighbor, not the master of chaos messing with his nuts).
My niece is obsessed with the kid's YouTube channel called "A for Adley". I admit it's a pretty wholesome family channel, but it doesn't change the fact that it gets pretty annoying very quickly. My SIL told me, whenever I'm babysitting her and she starts binging that channel, I can just go into her bedroom and read. It's much more peaceful than hearing "THE FLOOR IS LAVA!!!" every 5 GD minutes. Don't worry, guys, I put a stop to the screen time after a while and we do something more interactive. But when it's on, the goddamn floor is goddamn lava again.
I completely get this. Although they failed to use an Oxford comma themselves, which is disappointing.
He will get a $50 camera soon and people will lose jobs. Hm. Not that likely story TBF; once or twice I can believe more nope.
I did the same thing... Although my bad experiences are in the double digits (dentist did not ever give me Novocain when I was a kid... and hit a nerve everytime ( and laughed about it). Was told i had 5 cavities... waited 10 yrs was talked into going to a dentist... and it was a miracle... I was healed NO cavities! Now I physically get sick when I HAVE to go because of pain. ( just lost a cap and will wait for pain to go... fck I HATE dentists.)
proper question, did anyone who he was presenting it to realize that it was such?
That's the way I do it too, saw someone doing it that way when I was a kid and copied them.
Blue Peter for any none Brits is a very long running children show where you can get a Blue Peter badge for certain things and they are very highly sort after. I wanted one so badly as a child!
At least this person has a conscience - there's a lot of shocking stuff on this thread!
If I was a mutual friend and saw you had liked them, even if I thought the art was awful, I would just see a good friend supporting their friends hobby! I wouldn't judge
I'm sorry but that was NOT a proposal. Make it obvious, don't assume the other person would automatically know what you mean
That is someone who is very comfortable in their own sexuality, and is honoured that the gays fancy him. Well done sir!
I do exactly the same, it works a treat. Quite happy to put £1 in the donation tin, however those days are gone, every single charity wants a monthly direct debit. They can just get lost with that madness. Also works with any other subscription based nuisance like breakdown cover or a TV service.
Hmm - similar T shirt - once stayed an extra year in a bad relationship because he was so good at housework.
You can buy a teabag holder dish for less than $10 and put it next to the sink. Cheaper than a divorce.
Okay....let's not make the wife look like the bad guy here. Her husband is cheating on her and he's getting annoyed at her for being paranoid. Screw that guy. His wife deserves better.
That's the thing about politics. It's not a team sport, you don't have to subscribe to a party line, and most people are independant whether they know it or not. This whole left v right thing is just a manufactured culture war to distract from real problems and real solutions in favor of clicks and rage votes.
Someone else has this number and you are making their life miserable.
You share blame, you should have brought up the price when you agreed
This is actually more likely to go poorly for you then it is for him.
If this is the UK it wouldn’t work. It’s illegal to tamper with a voting form and erasing something would render the form null and void.
And you don't think that could still happen just with two women? Does the housewife dynamic only exist for heterosexual relationships? I doubt it, you can still be a homebody and still be a stay at home mother in a gay relationship so how is marriage to a woman going to make any difference? If that's your nature or your choice, how is who you are married to going to affect that? Do you imagine that all lesbian marriages look like two gals living their best life going out the whole time and bein child free? Some do and some straight marriages do but some marriages both gay and straight look more traditional..
Just... work something out between you. An open and honest relationship will make your marriage SO much healthier. If there's something you want to buy but don't have enough pocket money to, talk to your wife and figure out how you can settle this. But don't HIDE that from her; that's just going to make things worse. (This is my opinion, you don't have to agree with it)
Why? That's not the way to treat a friend. If you don't like the dog, just stop watching it or better yet, go buy yourself a can of tuna.
I'm sorry but if you're in a relationship with a person whom you adoringly love this shouldn't be a problem. Sure it might effect you for a week or so, but go on a date, get dressed up, flirt. If something like this ruins your relationship then you will never have a close long term partner.
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.
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Fortunately by this point Mr Me No Shower was already well ahead of both of us, so happy ending. ^_^
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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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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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