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30 Times People Got Busted For Their Crystal-Clear Lies And Others Shared Them In This Group
Nobody is innocent when it comes to exaggerating things we’ve seen, heard, or participated in. Like, that smashing b-day party of yours in an abandoned castle that got everyone talking. Except that it was your uncle’s porch and the only guests were your twin cousins from Wyoming.
We’ve all been there, done that, but sometimes things go from exaggerated to plain made-up in an instant. And there’s a subreddit called r/thatHappened dedicated entirely, as its description says, to “true stories that are 100% true and actually happened.” You get the sarcasm.
As for evidence, the 1.3 million members of the community are sharing screenshots of people lying their hearts out with a straight face. Trust me, the result is totally hilarious.
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Classmate Calls Out Dipsh**
It’s True, I Was The Box Of Tampons
Ultimate Survival Mode
All humans possess the ability to lie: it’s something we’re born with and we die with. One study published in the Journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology found that 60 percent of people can’t go 10 minutes without telling a lie. At the same time, another study published by the American Psychological Association suggested that lying less was linked to better average health, both mental and physical.
So, why on earth do we lie, then? To find out, Bored Panda reached out to Traci Brown, a fraud-busting body language expert. It turns out, "we learn the benefits of lying when we’re little, like protecting ourselves from punishment or to get what we want. Situations have more gravity as we get older and lying can protect our relationships or even millions in fraud theft,” Traci explained.
Ya Cause Being Asleep In Your Car Means You’re In College!
Baby Boomers, Gosh
Forgot To Mention, We Both Have Amnesia
Sometimes, we lie just to make other people around us feel good about themselves, so not all lies are inherently bad. But it turns out that “people who tend to lie frequently do for a couple of reasons: survival or they can't tell the difference between truth and a lie.”
Traci said that mental illness can also be the reason for an urge to lie. “It runs the scale from narcissism to psychopaths. And these folks make up about 15% of the population.”
And The Trainer Was Fired
Invited To Teach Sex Ed Because Of Immense Experience
What Magazine Has A Full Map And A Picture Of Jesus?
Lying big always starts from simple steps, aka lying small. First, as kids, we learn to tell pro-social lies, like telling your grandma you like that new hand-knit sweater she gave you on Christmas when, in fact, you can’t even look at it.
According to this study from the journal Nature Neuroscience, “when people tell small lies, the brain becomes desensitized to the pang of guilt that dishonesty usually causes.”
The more little pro-lies we give, the less guilt we feel, and the more it snowballs into bigger lies that suddenly become way easier. In some cases, people get so used to falsifying or fabricating things that they start believing their lies. At some point, it turns into habit and it becomes incredibly hard to quit for good.
And Then, The Vaccines Gave Everyone Autism
NASA Employee Giving Out Top Secret Info
Laced Her Feet And Didn’t Notice
She Was On Superhearing Cruiselines
Sorry, What The Hell Did I Just Read?
Ah yes, because chickens that aren't slaughtered in your backyard, but come prepackaged to the store from somewhere else, are all grown on trees and plucked from the branches when ripe...
In The Jungle, The Mighty Jungle The Lion Claps Tonight
This Is Probably The Worst One I Have Ever Seen In The Wild
Medical Expert Here
Yeah, Okay Buddy
Delusional Tall Man Thinks Women Openly Drool Over His Phenomenal Height
The scary part is some dudes are really so deranged, they'll mistake any kind of old look (even disgust) for lust. I had a dude follow me home from the subway one day asking for a date. I'd been staring at him on the subway because he was fat, ugly and looked like he hadn't showered in a week and he apparently mistook that for interest on my part!!
Sure Buddy
When They Have Tests In Kindergarten
And Then The Sales Went Up $500%
And Then Everyone Clapped
Thousands of doctors, medical officials, scientists, reputable organisations, and other experts, asking you to wear a mask is considered “fake news,” yet the claim of one "nurse" is suddenly considered a universal opinion? And speaking of which, we are here to deal with facts, not opinions.
Didnt Miss A Word
Sucking Out The Venom
Yeah, it sucks. Wow, I am ashamed at what I have just wrote. Help? Anyone, HELP?
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I could help if you got me infinite power and a few months to update the universe to include aliens. Then you'd be happy as can be. Until the dragon people end civilization in a blaze of tripods as payback for the entirety of Camelot.
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Rue is toxic and has been used in the past to induce abortions because it causes violent abdominal spasms.
I grow rue. I make an infusion with it, and spray the infusion in my gardens where I want to keep stray cats from doing their business. It works great, like reverse catnip. Webmd says "It is UNSAFE for anyone to use rue in medicinal amounts." This girl should make up some rue infusion and spray the fiance. He's just shitting in her garden.
They forgot to add the part about how the spider was radioactive and how they now have spider powers.
SpOoDerMaN, sPooDErmAn, dOeS wHaTeVeR a SpOOdEr cAn
Load More Replies... ...then he added some oregano and turned me into a pasta dish! It was so authentic, Leonardo Davinci came back from the dead just to taste me, and I taught him how to paint better! We’ve been married for two years now.
You didn’t learn to avoid the spider after the first time you got bit? Really?
"Sucking out" poison this way is a convenient lie Hollywood invented decades ago. In real life if you didn't die from the venom you'd die from blood poisoning from the attempted sucking. Herbs would do nothing, too, because venom works by coagulating blood. Venom isn't a poison in the conventional sense. You'd urgently need an anti-coagulant.
Black Widow spider venom is Latrotoxic. It causes a release of the neurotransmitters which, in turn, cause cramping, sweating, a quicker pulse and pain. You would NOT die from blood poisoning from attempted sucking. The venom DOES NOT coagulate blood !! Rarely does anyone die from a Black Widow spider bite and most treatment only involved giving Tylenol or Motrin for pain. In addition, some Black Widows bite without releasing ANY venom at all - known as a "Dry Bite". Perhaps you're talking about some kind of snake venom??
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A rue is a mix of flour and water used to thicken sauces. you are going to die dude!
Holy cow, this is about the dumbest story of all! I have no words. And btw, I WAS bitten by a black widow twice. The first time I had to have the wound lanced and was put on anti-biotics, the second time I ended up in the ER, going into anaphylactic shock, because I was allergic to the medication they gave me.
Yeah that's true, it moves to fast to take out of the body
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Rue-Ruta Graveolens; while meadow rue does have a lot of medicinal applications and qualities (abortifacient for one) I've never heard of it having a topical application against venom of any sort.
So fake that it's not even funny. BTW, it was probably a false widow. They look very alike to idiots.
Lol! I’m imagining this dude sucking out venom from someone’s finger
Rue is a nondescript bush w yellow flowers, native to Italy. It probably spread to where this person lives, but it can’t cure poisonous spider bites. Also if this person’s fiancé sucked out the poison, they’d be dead from it. Correct me if I’m wrong, I’m no plant expert, or poison expert.
You would need to cut the area with a knife and suck and even then, it's never effective because the venom spreads too fast to be sucked out. But regardless, a Black Widow bite isn't that big of deal. Most times people recover without any medical help at all. Look it up.
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@lexie you are not having a great comment life are you
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MAYBE rue will HELP.... but there’s no way your spouse is just gonna ‘suck up all the venom’! I mean like, seriously? Wow.
Schools Sure Are Conscious Of Students' Music Tastes Nowadays
3-Year-Old Is Wiser Than Us All
Her Bio Says She's 21
Hmmm
Then Everyone Ripped Off Their Masks And Bras
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It's honestly sad to see adults or even teenagers making up tall tales like that for attention. This behaviour is only normal for preschoolers and part of a child's development, but definitely not healthy and normal for anyone over the age of 10.
I agree! It's crazy to believe anyone would just straight-out lie like this, especially when they promote dangerous or untrue behavior and ideas. Like anti-vaxxers and flat-earthers.
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Some of these have been taken seriously and have been featured multiple times on Bored Panda before...
I feel like some of these could possibly be true, but most are just ridiculous
Mankind is also doomed if they don't have children.
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Some of these were actually kinda funny, even if they were fake. :/
The age old saying from the early days of the internet..."Pics or it didn't happen." Thank you that is all.
When the lines between humour and deceit are blurred in the eye of the beholder.
I just feel sorry for these kids. Their parenst must have done a s**t job raising them with so little self-esteem.
It's honestly sad to see adults or even teenagers making up tall tales like that for attention. This behaviour is only normal for preschoolers and part of a child's development, but definitely not healthy and normal for anyone over the age of 10.
I agree! It's crazy to believe anyone would just straight-out lie like this, especially when they promote dangerous or untrue behavior and ideas. Like anti-vaxxers and flat-earthers.
Load More Replies... Some of these have been taken seriously and have been featured multiple times on Bored Panda before...
I feel like some of these could possibly be true, but most are just ridiculous
Mankind is also doomed if they don't have children.
Load More Replies... Some of these were actually kinda funny, even if they were fake. :/
The age old saying from the early days of the internet..."Pics or it didn't happen." Thank you that is all.
When the lines between humour and deceit are blurred in the eye of the beholder.
I just feel sorry for these kids. Their parenst must have done a s**t job raising them with so little self-esteem.
