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.
IMHO, it's the eye and the timing that makes a good photographer - not the equipment.
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I get this for year one but what this actually says is in 15 years I have never bothered to invest in a skill that I definitely should have, even if I'm managing to slide by. It's the equivalent of my old boss who got away with continuing to claim not to get excel. I loved the new ceo when he announced that he was sending that boss onto an intensive 2 week excel deep dive because it wasn't fair that no one at the company ever just took the time to show him....
Operating the camera is only one part. You're also in the right place at the right time, with the right subject matter, you're framing a good shot, and getting the timing of the shot correct. That's like getting pissed at a stunt driver because he doesn't personally tune his engine.
Like every software developer in the world: they don't know why and how it's working, and they don't know how and why it's not working...
I mean you still have to have an eye for framing, so we can give the guy some credit.
If you have a good photographer's eye automatic mode is just fine. Someone once told me that the camera I was using was no good because they had the exact same camera and never got a good photo with it. The truth is that a good photo is 1% the equipment you use and 99% what the camera is pointed at when the shutter is clicked.
Sounds like you faked it and made it soooooo enjoy the awards. You earned them.
honestly? I managed to get a distinction in my photography in art college doing the same thing. What matters most, in my opinion, is subject. Everything else can be fixed with photo editing. And lets not be liars, we all know a good amount of these stunning photos from awards we see are edited, at least to add more light etc. But knowing how to edit is just as much a skill as shooting the photo itself.
At some point in the last 15 years, you could have taken a course, even an online one.
Digital photography has made it so anyone can get lucky and take the perfect photo. This seems like a good thing to me.
Automatic mode is the modern version of the film era motto "f/8 and be there."
This is wholesome. We should all be able to make a great living from whatever we do for living
Auto mode for press journalism is what I would do too, and I am highly trained in some form of photography, for instance Glass giftware or food photography. Setting up the lighting is far more important than knowing your F stops and depth of field. That's where the rubber hits the road. In film days I used to spend a fortune using professional labs, as regular machines developed for your average family vacation photos. I have seen excellent photos taken from older iPhones. It's the subject, timing and the framing, not the skill so much.
That sounds like you're Peter Parker making Photos of Spider-Man... :-D
Even if you set your camera in automatic mode, you obviously have the ability to find the right place and the patience to wait for the right moment. Press photography doesn't need to be artistic or beautiful, it needs to communicate something. If you have been living from photography for fifteen years there's obviously something you are doing very well..
I was looking into the sun, saw nothing and just clicked a few times. 20221101-150643.jpg 
Won't get me a national award lol, but I think it's nice.
It's not something you can't do - or you wouldn't make a living at it. Photography is about capturing something, framing a moment, the composition of the picture. Sure, sometimes it's who one knows that gets one recognition - but that's the art world, isn't it? An acquaintance has all the bells and whistles and takes the most fantastic photos of flowers and insects up close - the detail is amazing. But his photos have no soul, no spark, no magic.
You get luck by your side if you do everything with honesty in heart
I've been doing that with my Nikon for years (although just as a hobby when I remember). Lol.
No. Framing and deciding what to shoot and when are equal parts of photography. You’re doing the job.
Luck doesn't come into it. May be technically you don't know how to use a camera, but you obviously have an excellent sense, which cannot be learnt, for taking the right picture at the right time.
What you're being praised for is not your technical knowledge. It's your eye for a good shot. And that can't be taught. Carry on.
Well, you probably are a good photographer. It's actually ok to shoot in Auto or at least Program mode. Cameras are that good nowadays so you don't have to waste time and focus on stupid settings. But someone has to be at the right place in the right time, frame and press the shutter button (even if it's in continuous mode). Luck has a part in everything in life, but that itself won't cut it to make a whole career, so kudos to you!
I took a pic in highschool with a camera I had never used before as mine and just busted. It was massive difference from little pos I had. I happened to get one lucky pic and it was even put in the yearbook...with my knowledge or credit...I had it printed and gave it to my gpa prior to the yearbook coming out so everyone who knew me knew it was mine!
Have you ever heard the song 'Hoist Up the Thingy' by the Longest Johns? You lived that life, OP..
Modern cameras are amazing. I was an exchange student to Japan many years ago, and one of my wealthy host families lent me their camera once to take some pictures at one of the Kōens. When I showed those pics back home, everybody was ooing and ahhing and telling me how great a photographer I was. A girl from Japan looked at them and said "Japanese cameras are good, right? 😉"
Actually, you -do- know what you are doing. Having a good camera is not enough - you have to have a good eye to actually take meaningful pictures. What if the camera did the "boring technical stuff" all by itsself on automatic? -You- aimed the lens and activated the shutter.
Photographers see light. If you are winning awards you are a great photographer. Maybe you expected it to be harder? Why don't you give it a try and TRY? See what you get. Good luck?
You can take some great pictures in auto mode. Having a good eye and a quick response count for a lot.
At you admit it. There's a lot of people that think they know what they're doing while f*****g s**t up daily.
Remember the camera records how the photos were taken. Remove that if you're selling the photo :)
Nobody cares. A good photo is good because it shows something and/or tells a story. The "mechanic" part is irrelevant.
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ok sounds like, he might not have the technical know how, but good instincts of looks good in certain light conditions, where to be for the shots and such
If you've been doing this for 15 years and it's going well enough to get you prizes... surprise, you know what you're doing
I'm a photographer and have been paid for some of my work. I've moved from Canon to Olympus to Sony and Leica. Seriously, it's been over 20 years. I know the basics of photography. But dammit, I have 11 bodies and dozens of lenses. I shoot in Program Mode 90% of the time, and Auto 99% if it's just snapshots for myself.
I'm a portrait photographer. I take 1000 photos an hour during a shoot and use maybe 10. Being a good photographer starts with taking lots of photos.
It's so odd to me that this person wouldn't bother to learn after a decade and a half. DSLR cameras aren't exactly hard to use...
Oy, I hate that this is going to make it harder for skilled photographers to be recognized for their skills. I'm guessing the awards are largely for knowing WHAT to shoot; they are journalism awards, after all, not art awards. (I'm not a photographer; I'm a coder who often designs interfaces, and even though I'm told I'm pretty good at it when I have to do a little graphic design, I hate that there are people who are so much better at it, and I can't simply pick up a book and learn it like I learn a new coding language. I can recognize how much better they are at it, but can't do anything about it!)
"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).
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.
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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.
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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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