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50 Seemingly Innocent Posts That Might Suddenly Make You Say, “Hold Up, I Did Not See That Coming” (New Pics)
Life is unpredictable, and things are not always what they seem. Sometimes, you’re reading a seemingly innocent post on social media, and suddenly you encounter a shocking twist that has you saying, “Hold up… What?” If you live for those surprising moments, we’ve got the perfect list for you, pandas.
Below, we’ve gathered some of our favorite posts from the “Hol’Up, wait a min” subreddit that might make you do a double take. Prepare to be saying, “I did not see that coming”, and be sure to upvote all of your favorite posts. Otherwise, Bored Panda might spontaneously combust... Hold up!
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You Had Me In The First Half
Something's Wrong Here
When I was in university, I had an acting teacher who drilled into us the importance of “Dukes of Hazzard Turns”. I know all of you pandas out there might not get the reference (don’t worry, I didn’t either at first), so I’ll explain what he meant by that. In the 80s sitcom The Dukes of Hazzard, there were many reckless driving scenes where the characters would take abrupt, sharp turns, so anyone watching could have never anticipated where the driver was heading. What my acting teacher wanted to see from us with “Dukes of Hazzard Turns” was sharp contrasts in our characters.
It’s exciting to watch people quickly change their tactics in pursuing their objectives; audiences eat it right up. So I can’t help but think of that acting professor when viewing the photos from the “Hol’up” subreddit. All of these posts definitely have “Dukes of Hazzard Turns” within them. Some of them are surprisingly wholesome, while others get dark very fast. But as readers, we love these sudden plot twists, and we can’t get enough of them.
Florida
Real Questions
True Story
It’s no secret that audiences love plot twists. We see them in films like Get Out, Gone Girl, Parasite, Scream and countless other classics. But what is it about these sudden turns that we can’t get enough of? According to Vera Tobin, a researcher at Case Western Reserve University, movies “exploit our natural tendency to anticipate what’s coming next.” So it can be extremely exciting when our expectations are proven wrong by a shocking plot twist and extremely disappointing when we somehow stumble upon a spoiler.
Tobin explains that we all want to have some idea of what we’re getting ourselves into when we read a book or watch a film, so we’re interested in knowing the genre. But the “curse of knowledge” comes into play when we’re worried about something being spoiled. “You only have one opportunity to learn something for the first time,” Tobin writes. “Once you’ve learned it, that knowledge affects what you notice, what you anticipate – and even the limits of your imagination.”
What Predates On Tigers?!
I googled it, elephants and bears can sometimes be a threat to tigers
Hol' Up
Koalas And Humans Has Almost Similar Fingerprints
Drug busts at unsanctioned raves. When a koala gets Chlamydia, they can't just go to the family vet because the wife will see the copay on the credit card bill and ask what's wrong.
Nah. They couldn't possibly do that. They would be too dumb to realize that the eucalyptus is in fact eucalyptus.
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Don't be fooled by their cute faces. They are no less than mobsters.
So you are telling me that the po po could have arrested some random man but the deadly assassin on the news was a KOALA???
Australia must be off the f*ckin hook. You know CSI:Australia would be just insane!
Oh s**t. Imagine spending 20 yrs in the penitentiary cause a koala framed your a*s.
Next time I rob a bank I’m taking a Koala with me to leave their finger prints , stroke of genius I think #lightbulb moment
"It's working, boss! They're still blaming it on humans!" The Koala swiveled around on his dark red leather chair. "Excellent" he mused, tenting his fingers. "Excellent"
I would totally have a koala as a partner in crime. Nobody EVER suspects the koala...
I’m sure in the interrogation room, koala didn’t snitch, only got off purely on cuteness
Australian crime scene. Victim: "Was it a harden criminal that stole my earrings, detective?" Detective" Nope . . . it was a . . . (long pause) . . .a Koala Bear."
About 20 years ago in San Francisco zoo. Couple guys went in and kidnapped a koala. I am not kidding. He wanted to give it to his girlfriend because she like koalas. does that count? Quality missing a couple days but your 30s track down the thieves save the koala before it starved
Any crime scene where koalas and killers may meet. The koalas don't know that some fool is gonna come along and off somebody at their tree now do they?
A recent episode of the awesome podcast "Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week" debunked this myth. It is true that koala fingerprints are very similar to human fingerprints, and someone did write an article theorizing that they could confuse an inexperienced CSI, but there is no evidence of koala fingerprints ever actually fooling CSIs in the field.
Clearly, someone has never had a koala enter their home through the doggy door.
Koalas are f*****g horrible animals. They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal, additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons. If you present a koala with leaves plucked from a branch, laid on a flat surface, the koala will not recognize it as food. They are too thick to adapt their feeding behaviour to cope with change. In a room full of potential food, they can literally starve to death. This is not the token of an animal that is winning at life. Speaking of stupidity and food, one of the likely reasons for their primitive brains is the fact that additionally to being poisonous, eucalyptus leaves (the only thing they eat) have almost no nutritional value. They can't afford the extra energy to think, they sleep more than 80% of their f*****g lives. When they are awake all they do is eat, s**t and occasionally scream like f*****g satan.
Why all the hate for Koalas? Were you framed for a crime by koala fingerprints?
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Tobin goes on to explain that plot twists can also do a great job of pulling everything together in a story. “A major part of the pleasure of plot twists, too, comes not from the shock of surprise, but from looking back at the early bits of the narrative in light of the twist,” she notes. “The most satisfying surprises get their power from giving us a fresh, better way of making sense of the material that came before. This is another opportunity for stories to turn the curse of knowledge to their advantage. Once we know the answer to a puzzle, its clues can seem more transparent than they really were. When we revisit early parts of the story in light of that knowledge, well-constructed clues take on new, satisfying significance.”
Bruh
The Coffee Is Free
I like my men like I like my coffee—sliding off the roof of my car as I drive away🙂
Easy Ways To Kill A Husband?
But the joy of being surprised doesn’t only come from plot twists in films and books. As this list makes very clear, we can have “Hol’up” moments in our daily lives at any moment, and our brains still love them, even when they’re not scripted. “It’s a strong neuro alert that tells us that something is important about this moment and we have to pay attention,” Tania Luna, the co-author of Surprise: Embrace the Unpredictable and Engineer the Unexpected, told The Takeaway, explaining the “surprise sequence”. “Our cognitive resources are basically hijacked and pulled into the moment. That’s one of the things that’s really uncomfortable for some people, but also exciting for some people because your attention is completely in the moment.”
This Guy Is In Daniel
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Modern Problems Require Mordern Solution
And if you’re a person who considers a surprise party to be your worst nightmare, Luna says that it’s possible to become more open to the idea over time. “I think about surprise in two perspectives: Embracing it and engineering it,” she told The Takeaway. “You have to train your brain to be more comfortable accepting surprise, and by that I also mean surprise readiness—being comfortable with uncertainty, ambiguity and change. Especially these days, that’s an incredibly important skill.”
Taliban
Even though she’s an expert on surprise now, Luna admits that she wasn’t always a fan. “I hated being surprised—I loved surprising others, but I hated being surprised myself,” she told The Takeaway. “[I hated] the feeling of loss of control and the feeling of vulnerability. As a kid, I had experienced a lot of change and my coping mechanism was to say, ‘I’m in charge. I control everything. Nobody controls me and I can control the world around me.’ I was protecting myself from negative surprises. But what I’ve learned is that I was also keeping out joy, wonder, and emotional intensity.”
Uno Reverse Card
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I remember asking a question about this to the priest when I was in catechism. It didn't go well. I was put into an empty room to "pray and ask for forgiveness". I came out of that room an atheist. I was 11.
The element of surprise is a very important ingredient in comedy, and many of the people who were part of these conversations shared on Reddit had excellent comedic timing. From coming up with perfect comebacks to wording things in just the right way, these surprising posts went from mundane to hilarious in the blink of an eye. As comedian Dean Lewis explains in his article ‘The Anatomy of a Joke’, “A comedic surprise is a twist without serious repercussions.”
Well. I Guess This Was Rigged From The Start
Poor Guy
Hol’ Up
We all love a great “didn’t see that coming” moment, whether it happens in real life, is accidentally caught on camera or is found in a screenshot from social media. Surprise is the spice of life, right? (Or something like that.) So if you’re interested in adding a little bit more excitement to your daily life, be sure to mix up your routine or do something (harmless) to surprise someone else. Whether you believe we’re all plugged into the Matrix or not, your brain might appreciate being caught off guard every now and then. Plus, if you manage to get a picture of it, you can always share it on the “Hol’up” subreddit.
Wait..what
I Mean... He's Not Wrong Tho?
Hold up—How are you feeling about this list, pandas? Are you having whiplash from all of the shocking twists and turns that these posts take? We hope you’re having some fun being surprised and caught off guard. Remember to keep upvoting the posts that went in a completely different direction than what you expected, and let us know in the comments if you’ve had any “Hol’up” moments recently. Then, if you can handle being shocked by even more of these types of posts, you can find Bored Panda’s previous article featuring the “Hol’up” subreddit right here!
Sick Beat
Everyone probably already knows this, but the reason drummers were included in battalions was for morale, coordination on the battlefield, and signaling to soldiers when to reload and fire, which you might think sounds ridiculous, but back then armies worked in line formations, and muskets were slow-firing weapons, so to maximize firing, one line would open fire while the back line reloads, then the front line would kneel to reload giving the back line chance to fire, and repeat.
*sed Noises
I Love Duolingo
Mans Been Legit This Whole Time?!
Hol Up
Indeed
I Don’t Like Where This Is Going
The Moment She Knew She
It Will Be Like That Though
F*ck Cartoons
One Person Who Is 7x More Likely To Kill You Than Everyone Else
I Dont Need Sleep I Need Answers!
Oops
Strange Trilogy
Feels Bad Man
Oops
I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up!
Oh 😳
Don’t Expose Him Like That
There was a scene in Degrassi (next class I think) where the innocent new girl is introduced to the trans kid. He says he is trans and se thinks it means transient aka homeless. She ends up dating him though.
Neil Was Very Opinionated
Tyson Is So Sexy
Downvote me if you will, but Mike Tyson is a woman beating rapist and I find nothing funny about him. However, the comeback on this post is epic!
Domesticated
Sorry Bruh
In case anyone's wondering, Donnerstag = Thursday; Mittwoch = Wednesday; Sonntag = Sunday; Dienstag = Tuesday. Correct answer is C.
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bruh, can we stop talking about humans??? i get it, we suck! i dont need to be reminded every day
bruh, can we stop talking about humans??? i get it, we suck! i dont need to be reminded every day
