This Online Community Shares “Totally True Stories That Definitely 100% Happened” And Here’re 30 Of The Most Hilarious Ones
I'm fine. What are you talking about, you do not look fat in those jeans. I'll give you a call.
We lie all the time. And we get away with it quite often, too. But some folks push their made-up narrative so far, it's hard to imagine anyone actually believing them.
So they end up on the subreddit r/thatHappened. Its members share evidence of "people telling outrageous tall tales that would make Walter Mitty proud" and they have compiled quite the archive since the creation of this online community in 2012.
Here are some of its best gems.
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Jesus Christ. What An Idiot
Sometimes people lie just to inflate their image—some think this motivation is the reason behind President Donald Trump's demonstrably false statement that his Inauguration crowd was bigger than President Barack Obama's first one. But people also lie to cover up bad behavior, as American swimmer Ryan Lochte did during the 2016 Summer Olympics by claiming to have been robbed at gunpoint at a gas station when, in fact, he and his teammates, drunk after a party, had been confronted by armed security guards after damaging property.
We can find similar examples even in fields that are dedicated to the search for eternal truth. And one doesn't have to look far, either. Take the physicist Jan Hendrik Schön, for example, whose purported breakthroughs in molecular semiconductor research proved to be fraudulent.
Imagine Getting Called Out Like That, By Harry Styles Himself
He swore to God. Imagine 'god' profile also replying: Stop using me for your lies, Mike.
Not Really Sure What Is There To Brag About Anyways
Running A 5k In 10 Minutes
Lying is something many of us are very good at. We do it while interacting with strangers, co-workers, friends, and loved ones. Turns out, our capacity for dishonesty is as fundamental to us as our need to trust others, which ironically makes us terrible at detecting lies. Being deceitful is woven into us, so much so that it would be truthful to say that to lie is human.
The ubiquity of lying was first documented systematically two decades ago by Bella DePaulo, a social psychologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. DePaulo and her colleagues asked 147 adults to jot down for a week every instance they tried to mislead someone. The researchers discovered that the subjects lied on average one or two times a day. Most of these untruths were innocuous, intended to hide one's inadequacies or to protect the feelings of others. Some lies were excuses (one subject blamed the failure to take out the garbage on not knowing where it needed to go). Yet other lies, such as a claim of being a diplomat's son, were aimed at presenting a false image. While these were minor transgressions, a later study by DePaulo and other colleagues involving a similar sample indicated that most people have, at some point, told one or more "serious lies", like hiding an affair from a spouse, or making false claims on a college application.
How Does She Expect Anyone To Believe Her? My Mother Sent Me This From Our Neighborhood Facebook Group
What I read here is "I fantasized about committing assault on strangers to to promote my snake oil"
The Entire Sub Is Like This
And Then The Coronavirus Clapped
Researchers suggest that lying as a behavior arose pretty soon after the emergence of language. The ability to manipulate others without using physical force likely conferred an advantage in the competition for resources and mates, akin to the evolution of deceptive strategies in the animal kingdom, such as camouflage.
"Lying is so easy compared to other ways of gaining power," Sissela Bok, an ethicist at Harvard University who's one of the most prominent thinkers on the subject, told Nat Geo. "It's much easier to lie in order to get somebody's money or wealth than to hit them over the head or rob a bank.
"Experts are learning that we're prone to believe some lies even when they're easily contradicted by clear evidence. These insights suggest that our proclivity for deceiving others, and our vulnerability to being deceived, are especially consequential in the age of social media.
So in the case of r/ThatHappened, it's nice to see that we can still retain our ability to distinguish truth from fiction.
Antivax Jesus Made Me Want To Die
Lady Who Lives In Massive Fantasy Land Goes To Disneyland
Woman Finds Microchip In Her Son’s Mask!?
Of All The Things That Didn't Happen, This Didn't Happen The Most
Mhmm, Yeah Sure It Was
This one really annoys me! These self entitled, self absorbed mental midgets really think they have it that bad. It’s disrespectful and disgusting
This 2-Year-Old Must Have A Degree Already
Everyone’s Worst Nightmare
Oh Yeah. For Sure
but on the other hand she is probably still paying the hospital bills for the delivery of het son.
Brags To All Their Friends For Saving Their Life With Essential Oils
Discord Users Are A Different Breed
Because we all know when the universe began, the big bang and all that, monkeys were already well established 🤦♀️ not even apes, he said monkeys. Zero effort
And All Vampires Clapped
Sure He Did Aubrey
While These Children Weren’t Oxygen Starved, The Poster Was At Birth
Found This On A “People Who Think Liking Harry Potter Is A Personality Trait” Fb Page
And Then Ben Franklin’s Image Clapped
No he offered her 100 then got a closer look and asked for a refund
Well, That Saved Me A Goog!
I Won't Remember Posting This
Her Jaw Dropped
When the one part is trump the correct answer is always the other!! Trump or monkeys? MONKEYS! Trump or pigeons? PIGEONS!! Trump or giraffes? GIRAFFES!!!
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Funny thing how they conflate socialism with communism. Fascism sells itself as the only alternative to communism.
I better start seeing people runing around with no jaws soon or I might start to think they lying.
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how terrible socialism would be having universal healthcare not having to worry about how am i going to pay for this when going to the hospital oh what a terrifying notion
but that would mean that their tax dollars go to helping someone else? f-that. EVERYONE must pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I mean look at bezos! and... er... ... gates! and.... er.... um. Musk! yeah! all 350 million of us can be just like them.
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You're right! It is that simple! I choose socialism. (Tbf, if it were "cockroaches or Trump", I'd be campaigning for Cockroaches 2024.)
Cockroaches would install better recycling programmes and reduce food waste.
Load More Replies... American politics is fascinating. Here in Germany, Biden would be considered conservative... and seriously, we know how to right-wing. Even Bernie Sanders would not be considered extremely left here.
That makes me think German politics is fascinating - in a good way.
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tough choice. Free healthcare, support for the homeless, prioritisation of education over war, versus, $ 100 000 hospital bills, benches with spikes on them to stop the homeless having anything at all, and additional military activities that earn further hatred from the rest of the planet except that small sycophantic island... with an orange baboon as a leader. Hmm. Which to choose, which to choose?
We, as a nation, need to stop everything and take an in depth class on Types of Government. You must past an exam to be let back into society.
Fascism. Not Trump. Use the correct term. Fascism. See: Eco's UrFascism 1995
I can't get my head round how these people think they are Christians when they do the opposite of Christ's teaching.
I love how these people can be given evidence until the cows come home, and remain steadfast in their beliefs. Instead, their friends change their minds in an instant. It's almost is if it was bullshit to begin with.
They think anyone who cares about other people as well as themselves is a commie.
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It's amazing how many ppl are ignorant on what Socialism actually means. Regardless, I'd vote for an 80 yr old stripper covered in s**t before I ever, in the very slightest, would consider voting for Trump.
Yeah it’s a super hard vote. Like one part of me wants to have another 4 years of racism, sexism, classism and more from the political leader and the other half wants equality and healthcare. I just can’t decide!
I don't know whether to up vote this because I find it funny, or down vote it because the person was so serious. 🤷
Don't "regular Joes" realize THEY will benefit from "socialism"? Health care, school lunches, childcare, guaranteed wages and benefits... all they have to do is let the rich pay their share.
Her jaw dropped. She edged away from me, saying she never looked at it that way. Hasn't spoken to me since. Stunned by my brilliance, no doubt. Can't wait to enlighten the rest of the neighborhood - they're all liberals and had NO idea they had a political genius like me living among them.
Just because you’re a slack jawed yokel doesn’t mean everyone else is
By it- she meant your tiny flaccid penis which had escaped from your button down MAGA pjs ( which you should not have been wearing at 2 pm in the communal hallway of your apartment block after two solid hours of knocking on your neighbour's door screaming RELENT YOU LIBTARD!
Socialism and social security, insured banks and many other advances in this country. I, for one, am glad I didn't have to support my parents while trying to raise a family. Go SS.
Socialism every time. I like paved roads, especially those without pot holes. I have a sense of safety with the fire department just down the road. The police? well, sometimes they're good, sometimes not, but they're really part of the capitalist crowd. The public school that I attended thanks to the socialism of my community. If it weren't for my social security check I would be probably be living on the street. I may get there yet if socialism doesn't kick in and provide good health care for all. Trumpsters are all about giving the very richest, who don't need it but to feed their greed, even more.
So socialism won. Weird in Europe Biden is considered pretty right wing
What's sad is that socialism had been the "boogeyman" in this country for decades. I remember arguing with someone 35 years ago (I didn't know any better) about socialism and they immediately confused it with communism. When i asked if they understood the difference they replied with some random non-sequitur and changed the subject.
Whats wrong with socialism? Wasn’t it Communism once? Is socialism placed in as the world threath to you in absence of the almost non existent Communism? And what threath will the next be in case of socialism dissapears: Christianity?
People say they don't want socialism don't have a damn clue what it would mean. They just spew rhetoric without an ounce of knowledge
So trump's policy of central planning, protectionism, state subsidies, state control of business and state control of media isn't socialism.
That's like telling someone treading water "Brick or life jacket" and expecting them to choose the brick .
"Socialism" used whenever someone wants to engage in McCarthyist fear-mongering
Stay in school folks lest you end up like this fella here that did not know the infrastructure and utilities they are using right now is part of socialism.
Sadly we only have 2 powerful political parties in this country but people can still vote Green or Libertarian in Chicago. Sadly, Green party only got 2 votes in my precinct, me being one of them, but Trump didn't stand a chance in Chicago and never will.
Yet another one post that hurrays socialism. *sigh*. Well, I mean, yes... I would love to live in what you believe a socialist country is, and not what they truly are, I suppose...
Still waiting for socialism now that the Biggest Loser is out but I'm not holding my breath.
Well first of all, obviously this person is a dumbass and it never happened. But any actual liberal would have NO trouble deciding on who to vote for!
They are incorrect on 2 levels... 1st, Biden does not equal Socialism as they think of it, so 2nd the choice was really Biden or Fascism.
You USAmericans are sooo weird! I like my good old „socialist“ healthcare, my good old „socialist“ free schools and universities and being good old „socialist“ Trump-free.
Yeah you're not gonna get a liberal to vote for tRump with that. They're smarter than that
Everyone, stop using he word "liberal". Use "progressive" or "left-wing" instead. A true liberal is Adam Smith, John Locke, or the US Founding Fathers.
Don’t you people have to be out of the shelter by 8 am? I doubt your ‘liberal neighbor was even listening to you and your dream.
It’s simple folks. Biden or socialism. Because what Trump supporters don’t realize is that Trump himself is a socialist.
Really? Is that why he has said "Biden is a Trojan horse for socialism"? So, is Trump lying about being a socialist, or lying about Biden being one?
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So uh, autocracy or socialism? Neither one of which will happen in either candidates lifetime, let alone term.
muricans talking about socialism is like inuits talking about penguins
True story: Some of my clients voted for Biden. One says to me the other day (Saturday Nov 7th) because what I was doing that day wasn't part of my usual service, I should take the money under the table and not pay taxes on it. I reminded him that he voted for Uncle Biden, and now a portion of his money will be going to Uncle Biden. He then asked me "what if I pay cash?" This went on like this for a few min, but the bottom line is this Matt 22:21 Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's
Hate When People Underestimate The Condoms I Use In A Night Smh
This Has To Be A Joke, Right?
Anti Vaxxers Are A Gold Mine
I'm positive this is the same person who would be convinced dihydrogen monoxide is super toxic too.
Then The Toys Clapped
And then he cited Marx and refuted his argument with Hegel's counterargument!
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The leprechaun tells me to BURN things. That is more realistic than this garbage. The leprechaun did say not to read it, I should have listened
I stopped after a few, I didn't want to spoil my good mood.
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There are way too many pathological liars and sad attention seekers on the internet. I know this because I invented the internet and everybody clapped.
And their jaws dropped open at your awesomeness...
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Where are all these groups of people clapping? I'd like to find them please.
In order to have everyone clap and cheer you, your jaw must first drop.
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That comment needs more upvotes. I've abused the language a lot but I do believe "didn'tiest" beats the lot of them!
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This is real. My mask jumped off of my face and started singing "Achy Breaky Heart" knowing full well I hate that song.
It's amazing how many people's jaws dropped and how many started clapping.
Well, my jaw dropped, in the "Wow, who let the third-graders' fantasy writing assignment get on the internet!"
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You know when there's a BP post and you could honestly comment on every single one of the entries, then realise that a single comment at the top will suffice? Surely, it cannot be beyond the wit of humankind to make devices explode the moment these idiots submit such shite to social media? You know, a small, controlled detonation that just takes them and their single brain cell out of the gene pool, so the rest of us can get on and enjoy our lives?
Yes, a single comment would suffice. We should make a keyboard that goes bzzzzzzzt and gives you one hellova shock when you post that kind of sh!t.
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Monday morning I ‘fixed’ an interactive display by plugging in the power cord and everybody clapped! TWICE! (It was a class full of first grade students)
It goes along with the using of (real name) apparently...
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Wow... It is so cringe when people try too hard to look cool and edgy and interesting.
As the saying goes: "May your life someday be as awesome as you pretend it is on Social Media"
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There's an awful lot of jaw dropping going on in these posts. In fact, there's a jaw dropping amount of jaw dropping.
And to think, I thought my kids were special for knowing a few words at the age of one to three years old. These kids can cook, remember, talk politics, etc. Amazing
This is not really funny. Imagine all the crap these guys and gals believe themselves... Gullible is an understatement. These are the votes that make it possible to dismantle education even more. It's a vicious cycle, and we passed the zenith some time ago, it's only getting worse. And it's spreading to the rest of the world.. We have flat-earthers and creationists in Central Europe now, where accessible education-for-all is taken seriously and doesn't bankrupt you. American stupidity is a virus spread through social media. If only 10% of all the money these idiots donate to their con-men politicians was used to give these people psychological help, we could "save the world"...
Yes... psychological help, because they're crazy, isn't that clear? The whole world sees it. Only in America people believe the gop's position is worth debating, they are being exploited and abused by their own party, but they argue for it! And they believe every senseless crap they are fed. If that isn't crazy...
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so i rode into a burger macdonalds king on the back of a velociraptor where john hammond was eating with Dr ellie and dr grant, so smitten with my prowess ellie jumped on the back and we had wild sex on a raptor in the middle of the grassy knoll while JFK rode by in his pope mobile. grant hammond was so impressed he took a semen sample from me and created a theme park of just me. i was given the keys to the kingdom of jade mountain. I ended up fathering humanity just by f*****g my way through school. I stopped the moon blowing up just by flicking a booger at it. i was davinci muse during the dark ages and funded the NASA space program with just sheer force of will. All the while the terracotta warriors of Antarctica all clapped
These people still think they tell convincing stories when they end with everyone clapping? I wonder which one of his 100 kills #25 doesn’t remember. #26 I can see actually happening. At least one side of that conversation, anyway. #30 seems to understand both capitalism and socialism as well as his children.
Well, that's about five minutes of my life I'll never get back. What a load of utter drivel.
OMG these are more inane than the stories my first graders wrote about aliens. I would say they're supposed to be jokes but there have been people waiting in Dallas for JFK Jr to come back to life. There is a lot of stupid and crazy out there.
I think these people need to go see an ENT specialist if their jaws are always dropping.
The depths of true human stupidity come to light on the internet....
I can't get further than four posts in. It irritates me too much to go on.
I had to stop reading these half way through. The stupidity of some people was making my eyes bleed.
The lives of the people who made these posts must be trully sad. Anything to get more likes, to get that small high from seeing that people are noticing what you say ( no matter how fake or cringy). Unfortunately most of these people are actually real, and are set in their beliefs. Disgusting.
I read all of these in the voices of the pink and blue unicorns from Charlie the unicorn. "It's a magical liopleurodon, Charlie!"
I wish people had to take classes, and pass psychiatric tests, before being allowed to breed.
I've a kid of 4 and 7 years old and it seems.these people have more fantasy than the 4 year old
The leprechaun tells me to BURN things. That is more realistic than this garbage. The leprechaun did say not to read it, I should have listened
I stopped after a few, I didn't want to spoil my good mood.
Load More Replies... There are way too many pathological liars and sad attention seekers on the internet. I know this because I invented the internet and everybody clapped.
And their jaws dropped open at your awesomeness...
Load More Replies... Where are all these groups of people clapping? I'd like to find them please.
In order to have everyone clap and cheer you, your jaw must first drop.
Load More Replies... That comment needs more upvotes. I've abused the language a lot but I do believe "didn'tiest" beats the lot of them!
Load More Replies... This is real. My mask jumped off of my face and started singing "Achy Breaky Heart" knowing full well I hate that song.
It's amazing how many people's jaws dropped and how many started clapping.
Well, my jaw dropped, in the "Wow, who let the third-graders' fantasy writing assignment get on the internet!"
Load More Replies... You know when there's a BP post and you could honestly comment on every single one of the entries, then realise that a single comment at the top will suffice? Surely, it cannot be beyond the wit of humankind to make devices explode the moment these idiots submit such shite to social media? You know, a small, controlled detonation that just takes them and their single brain cell out of the gene pool, so the rest of us can get on and enjoy our lives?
Yes, a single comment would suffice. We should make a keyboard that goes bzzzzzzzt and gives you one hellova shock when you post that kind of sh!t.
Load More Replies... Monday morning I ‘fixed’ an interactive display by plugging in the power cord and everybody clapped! TWICE! (It was a class full of first grade students)
It goes along with the using of (real name) apparently...
Load More Replies... Wow... It is so cringe when people try too hard to look cool and edgy and interesting.
As the saying goes: "May your life someday be as awesome as you pretend it is on Social Media"
Load More Replies... There's an awful lot of jaw dropping going on in these posts. In fact, there's a jaw dropping amount of jaw dropping.
And to think, I thought my kids were special for knowing a few words at the age of one to three years old. These kids can cook, remember, talk politics, etc. Amazing
This is not really funny. Imagine all the crap these guys and gals believe themselves... Gullible is an understatement. These are the votes that make it possible to dismantle education even more. It's a vicious cycle, and we passed the zenith some time ago, it's only getting worse. And it's spreading to the rest of the world.. We have flat-earthers and creationists in Central Europe now, where accessible education-for-all is taken seriously and doesn't bankrupt you. American stupidity is a virus spread through social media. If only 10% of all the money these idiots donate to their con-men politicians was used to give these people psychological help, we could "save the world"...
Yes... psychological help, because they're crazy, isn't that clear? The whole world sees it. Only in America people believe the gop's position is worth debating, they are being exploited and abused by their own party, but they argue for it! And they believe every senseless crap they are fed. If that isn't crazy...
Load More Replies... so i rode into a burger macdonalds king on the back of a velociraptor where john hammond was eating with Dr ellie and dr grant, so smitten with my prowess ellie jumped on the back and we had wild sex on a raptor in the middle of the grassy knoll while JFK rode by in his pope mobile. grant hammond was so impressed he took a semen sample from me and created a theme park of just me. i was given the keys to the kingdom of jade mountain. I ended up fathering humanity just by f*****g my way through school. I stopped the moon blowing up just by flicking a booger at it. i was davinci muse during the dark ages and funded the NASA space program with just sheer force of will. All the while the terracotta warriors of Antarctica all clapped
These people still think they tell convincing stories when they end with everyone clapping? I wonder which one of his 100 kills #25 doesn’t remember. #26 I can see actually happening. At least one side of that conversation, anyway. #30 seems to understand both capitalism and socialism as well as his children.
Well, that's about five minutes of my life I'll never get back. What a load of utter drivel.
OMG these are more inane than the stories my first graders wrote about aliens. I would say they're supposed to be jokes but there have been people waiting in Dallas for JFK Jr to come back to life. There is a lot of stupid and crazy out there.
I think these people need to go see an ENT specialist if their jaws are always dropping.
The depths of true human stupidity come to light on the internet....
I can't get further than four posts in. It irritates me too much to go on.
I had to stop reading these half way through. The stupidity of some people was making my eyes bleed.
The lives of the people who made these posts must be trully sad. Anything to get more likes, to get that small high from seeing that people are noticing what you say ( no matter how fake or cringy). Unfortunately most of these people are actually real, and are set in their beliefs. Disgusting.
I read all of these in the voices of the pink and blue unicorns from Charlie the unicorn. "It's a magical liopleurodon, Charlie!"
I wish people had to take classes, and pass psychiatric tests, before being allowed to breed.
I've a kid of 4 and 7 years old and it seems.these people have more fantasy than the 4 year old
