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).
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.
Well, if the father wanted to do something about his "lost" son, he should have done it himself while he was alive.
Yeah, I get that. Personally I wouldn't want to reunite with any lost siblings, not even if they came looking for me.
Had one get in touch when Dad died. Called me "Little Sister". It felt more demeaning than affectionate as we all knew about eachother but never spoke of or reached out while he was alive. She then proceeds to ask for money from the sale of dad's house. Even went so far as to call the listing realtor. I asked her, several times, if thats really the way she wanted to proceed. She said yes to which I replied by telling her that if she wanted to act like a creditor then I was going to treat her like creditor & proceeded to tell her to f**k off.
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I mean... is it bad? My mother didn't know her sister until she was in her 50s, and she's still finding relatives across the country that have spread out. She made the move to find all the children my grandfather had with different people, but it doesn't feel like any of them have done the same in return. If people only want to be in on the family because they know there's money to be had, then I don't really consider that family.
True story. Something like this happened in my town. At the wedding day nonetheless. The mother of the groom left his dad for another man and had the bride. Never saw her old family after she left them. Until the wedding day.
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Fair enough. My mother was contacted by a long-lost sibling when she was in her early 40s. Thing is, the person is a complete stranger with whom you don't share any memories. They don't really connect, and for years my mother felt guilty for not really liking her sister, and the sister felt the same, but felt obliged to keep contact since she was the one who had 'discovered' her sibling.
Having been subjected to more than my fair share of Father shenanigans I don't blame you.
Imagine the lost sibling turning out to be an ahole, bent on screwing you over, because you are a stranger to him and there is all this money to gain.
Barely know any family I have left. I could not be arsed with another one!
My parents divorced and left my brother and me to be raised by paternal grandparents. There was veiled talk about other siblings, but no evidence (this was decades before internet). I found 2 siblings at my mother's funeral. Fast forward to DNA testing for all, and now I have five sisters and two brothers. Not a single relative in my family history ever said a word. It took me 40 years total to finally locate them all because nobody wanted to "talk about it." Yeah, pretty bitter about it. So are my siblings, so many years lost.
It's absolutely understandable to not want to rock the boat, too, even without an inheritance in question. Most people who go looking for long lost family have some kind of hope or expectation what they will find. If you're happy with not knowing, that's okay, they're not YOUR responsibility, but that of the family member who knows the whole story. They can't just shift the responsibility and guilt to you.
Thx for reminding me the world we live in is all about money now. All that matters now is how much your worth.
I didn't know my dad after age 3. Found out in his obit I had a half sister I didn't know. I contacted her just to make sure she was ok. I also did a genetics test thing for fun, and found a cousin no one knew about. Kind of a mixed bag for her. My uncle was open to it, his wife flipped her wig and shut it down hard. I wish I knew more about my dad.
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.
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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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