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.
U can't always be 🤣🤣🤣 here on bp.. some times bp makes you 🥺🥺🥺
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Same here. Had a woman in the apartment complex with two Pomeranians (Monster and Cinnabon.) They are cute as heck and funny to boot (Monster always has a chew toy on walks. He walks a few steps, gives the toy a good shake, walks a few steps, repeats shake. I think it's his way of saying "Don't come near me or I'll mess you up like this!") I didn't see the three of them for a month...was worried. Finally saw them and she told me she had a business trip and "the kids" stayed with her parents.
Yes! There's an old couple that walks in my neighborhood and whenever I see the wife walking without her husband I think "oh no wheres ____?!"
I worked in a restaurant that the majority of the customers are elderly.... my bosses have been known to go knock on doors or call family members when regulars doesn't come in. So much so they most of them tell the bosses when they are going away or having surgery, Mal even had his son come in after he slipped and broke his leg.... Mal Jr.: Dad said I had to come in and let you know he won't be in while he's healing, HD said I had to come ASAP or you'd be banging on his door? Lady Boss: lol yes yes we would have thank you
My last job was in fast food drive-thru and esp during quarantine we got to know a lot of the elderly who come through. The ones that come as couples then only one comes through are the saddest but when one who comes through every day for a coffee and a conversation stops coming through we all would talk about it and keep an eye out. I only wish I'd known last names to check up on a few. Even if we don't "know" you, someone notices and misses you.
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There's a man who sits in the park with dreads that my husband and I always see in the same spot without fail. No matter how early or late we drive by, he's sitting there on his bucket. One day we didn't see him and he had just moved to another part of the park. In our minds, this guy is chock full of wisdom and life experiences and he is our friend lol
I think it's most impressive that he's been in his late fifties for over ten years! My wife said it's because he's always running. Health and/or special relativity, I assume.
Bless you for caring about your neighbors well being, it's so wonderful to hear of your empathy and compassion for someone who is, essentially, a "stranger". I miss having neighbors like you. Happy holidays.
It cannot be real that anyone thinks late 50s is old. So, since the runner was in his 30s this person has been watching him run by. The runner is now an adult that doesn't even qualify as a senior and is at least 10 years from retirement doesn't pass by and this person is concerned?. He's probably on a date or on a walk of shame. What are you on about?? If you said 80s I would understand but this is ridiculous.George Clooney is 62. Are you worried about his loneliness and impending doom. Ugh.
Ahahah! his late 50s. hahaha! If you said 80s I would think this was cute, but late 50s is offensive.
We have a an older guy like that in our neighborhood, too. He likes to wear a Santa hat during the holidays, lol.
We have someone similar! We call him "Walking Man" and see him striding around town every couple of days.
There's an old man who walks the neighborhood picking up trash (there isn't ever much). I, too, always worry when I don't see him for a few days.
When I was a kid, an older gentleman in a velour track suit used to speed walk past our house almost every day. He always had his index fingers pointed out so we called him "Guns".. Then one day stopped seeing him..We never knew what happened to "Guns". 😦
Awwww. During the pandemic I've noticed my neighbours and I have all become pretty keenly aware of one another's comings and goings. The neighbour kittycorner to me asked me, "How many times a day do you run?" That is how she worded it, and now I'm self-conscious that my neighbours think I'm a freak. 🫣
There was an old couple that used to run past our house. My mm loved them and then one day they stopped. I haven't seen them since but I'm worried.
I do the same with my costumers over 80y old - for past 2y we lost many - unfortunately
On the days you don't see him running, his girlfriend's husband may be working late.
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.
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.
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. ^_^
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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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