Hypothetically, what would you do if your dog started speaking English? For example, you came home one day, and you heard your dog talking on the phone? Asking for a friend…
If you’re in the mood to read about some oddly detailed scenarios that might make you raise your eyebrows, you’ve come to the right place, pandas. Below, we’ve gathered some of our favorite posts from the Suspiciously Specific subreddit that might have you wondering what inspired people to post them. Enjoy reading about these hilarious, bizarre situations, and be sure to upvote the pics that make you wonder what these people have been through!
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Would Be Interesting
I Love It
Free Coffee
I did not see it going there.. I was thinking swap places so they all return the right car to right place, but they all insist they are the same person who left with it.
We all know there’s no limits to what you can find online. Whether you want hard hitting news, adorable pictures of cats, shocking videos on TikTok or photos of your friends’ vacations, you can find it all! But one interesting niche of content is “suspiciously specific” posts. This genre contains all of the questionable tweets, Facebook posts and more that describe bizarre, sometimes “hypothetical,” scenarios that might have you wondering who in the world is actually experiencing these things.
And while this kind of content can be found in all of the different corners of the internet, one place that compiles plenty of this content is the Suspiciously Specific subreddit. This group was created in 2018 but has already amassed an impressive 1.3 million members. The community has more recently transitioned to focusing on Among Us fanart and memes, but lucky for us, members had already shared a variety of hilarious, oddly specific posts.
Gracelynn, Where Art Thou?
New Fear Unlocked
2020 Was So Easy Back Then
Tf? We suddenly started playing Fallout when I wasn’t looking? Where’s my adorable canine companion and my power armour dammit!
I think we’ve all been in a scenario where we asked a question “for a friend,” that was a bit too specific to ask if we didn’t actually have experience with the topic… “My friend is having relationship troubles,” or, “My cousin has a medical question that she’s too embarrassed to ask.” Well, many of these posts are the virtual equivalents of those, often used for comedic effect of course. And according to Candace Osmond at Grammarist, this is an easy way for us to save face when we’re worried about being judged.
While there’s no way of pinpointing exactly where the classic “asking for a friend” phrase came from, it doesn’t seem to be anything new. Anonymous advice columns have been popular in newspapers and websites for decades, so it’s no surprise that we’ve implemented a similar style of posting on social media as well. Even if something is shared “hypothetically,” if it’s too specific, it’s going to raise some eyebrows.
Nicknames
Suspicious And Wholesome!
Free The Frog!
Although many of the posts on this list were shared online for comedic purposes, regardless of whether they’re referring to real situations or not, this content got me wondering about whether we’re oversharing online. As much fun as posting on social media can be, we have to remember to have boundaries too. According to Van-Hau Trieu, Senior Lecturer in Information Systems at Deakin University, and Vanessa Cooper, Professor of Information Systems at RMIT University, there are personal and professional risks associated with oversharing. Research has shown that over half of us have anxiety surrounding our family, friends and coworkers sharing photos or videos that we don’t want public.
3..2..1.. Go!
Til
If you're really desperate, and the "one last drink before you go?" didn't work, leave the room and change into nightwear and return to the room and say "oh well, we're off to bed now."
That's Something
Oversharing often has innocent intentions, though, as it’s linked to how we’re feeling. “When we feel strong emotions, we often use social media to communicate with and get support from friends, family and colleagues,” Trieu and Cooper write. “We might share good news when we feel happy or excited, or anger and frustration might drive us to vent about our employers. When emotional, it is easy for us to cross the boundary between work and social life, underestimating the consequences of social media posts that can quickly go viral.”
You Can't Put Them Anywhere
Forget astrological signs, tell me your childhood compulsive behaviour foreshadowing lifelong hangups. Mine was never being able to use video game powerups because I might regret not having them later.
Ratatat 2 E
21st Century Surnames
To ensure that we aren’t oversharing too much online, Trieu and Cooper recommend that we all set defined boundaries between our personal and professional lives. Inform your friends, family and colleagues about these boundaries, and rethink your relationships with anyone who doesn’t respect them. It can also be wise to create separate social media accounts for personal and professional use, or to keep your pages private to ensure you know exactly who’s able to view your content.
Roosters Are The Best
Neighbour keeps hens and a rooster. Henhouse is next to a street light. Light makes the rooster crow, day and night. Roosters only last a year or so before they die of exhaustion.....We are currently in the no rooster phase - yay.
Apologise To Mr Hoskins
Well Then
And maybe Ed Sheeran hears about the incident and writes a song dedicated to you!
It’s also important to make sure that you respect the boundaries of others. If you plan on posting photos or videos of friends, it’s courteous to ask for their permission before sharing them publicly. And if anyone asks not to be featured on your account, make sure that you don’t overstep. Trieu and Cooper also add to share consciously online, to avoid making mistakes. They recommend staying offline when you’re feeling emotional, especially when you’re upset, and to always consider who will see your content before publishing it. If there’s anything you don’t want family or colleagues to see, perhaps it shouldn’t be out there.
Ok Josh
Relatable
Ok
My cat brought in a baby bird once, and I rescued it from the feline terrorist and nursed it back to health. I put it into a pizza box and named it Pizza.Two days later I released it back into the wild, and watched from the patio as a crow came and carried it away. But I knew the crows in the trees had babies. I was heartbroken but... that's nature. I am still unsure how I feel about that. Moral dilemma.
It’s always wise to do periodic clean ups on your social media accounts as well. If you find something from 5 years ago that doesn’t align with your beliefs anymore, just delete it. Yes, it’s possible that plenty of people have already viewed it, but you have the chance to minimize who else can or even eliminate anyone else from seeing it in the future. Especially for the average person who doesn’t have a huge following online, it can make a big difference to simply hit delete on questionable posts.
What Did The Frog Do?
Mood
Reminds me of the time I asked my supervisor to give me all my remaining holiday time just to get away from a toxic workplace as soon and for as long as possible. My first day back supervisor gives me a hearty "So you're relaxed and refreshed now that you're back after your break." no doubt expecting an enthusiastic eager beaver response. I just look him straight in eye and said deadpan "I'm back."
Dementia Is A Game For 2 Or More Players
If you’re worried about oversharing, Trieu and Cooper recommend treating social media like your own personal brand. “If you wouldn’t say it to your colleagues and managers, don’t post it online,” they write. “Social media can enrich our professional and personal lives, but ill-considered posts and oversharing can be damaging to yourself and others. Being smart on social media is something we need to get better at in our professional lives, just as much as our personal lives.”
There’s No One In Their Basement
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Actually that is a fair point. Why do mobile games want access to photo galleries and camera on your phone?
114 Is A Lot Of Cats, For Sure
Why would you want to fight them off? Why not just accept what we all know to be true and bow down to our feline overlords? Pet some of the cats while you're down there.
We hope you’re enjoying all of these suspiciously specific posts from social media, pandas. Keep upvoting the ones you find particularly intriguing, and feel free to share about your own oddly specific “hypothetical” situations in the comments below. Then, if you’re looking for even more bizarre and oddly specific posts, feel free to check out this Bored Panda article next!
Could You Imagine
Just Some Guy
Does This Go Here
My Lil Bro Takes Video Games Very Seriously
Guilty As Charged...
They Complete Each Other
Fyi
Shakespeare Of Our Time
With Your Hair Softly Blowing In The Wind
No. I feel like a disappointed English teacher. And like a NORMAL person, I make that duck face and look disappointed, like a student just tried to tell me the real narrative of an over-annotated classic. Duh.
It’s A Family Secret
I've told this story before, so forgive me if you've heard it already: had a friend give me her mom's recipe for Coca-Cola cake, then got ticked off when I gave the "secret family recipe" to friends. 1) she never told me it was a secret prior to me giving it out; 2) I bought a cookbook of bake sale recipes a couple decades later, and guess what was in it, almost verbatim?
Jack Black
Typical Shrimp Watch
Sky Bird!
Does Your Town Have A Horseback Jesus?
In my city, right on my block, we have Old Nessa. She is a lovely old lady who quietly drinks in the same spot every afternoon for about three hours. She knows everyone and every piece of gossip. If you want any gossip, give her a cigarette and she'll tell you everything. She is very kind. [Edit: Old Nessa is not homeless. She goes out for a few hours every day to get away from her boyfriend, who she constantly complains about. She's 76yrs old and has a toyboy 20yrs younger. Go Nessa!]
Ipod
Lovelighting And Gasbombing
I Want A Tree From This Guy
Mrs. Evans would put the weed in her purse, buy a tree and have the best time ever putting those ornaments on.
Is There Something You Need To Tell Us?
Reading about Ben Franklin makes me think he would be disappointed you aren't sharing
Only A 7.5
Who Hasn't ?
Ska
The Future People
Anyone Know The Meme?
Gotta Remember This One
Saw This Gem While Browsing Twitter
They Really Do Though
Real Deal Breaker
You Have To Accept This
That Product Would Sell Well
This sounds like something Stan Pines would do (Gravity Falls). He was at one point a traveling salesman and failed miserably. And then the Mystery Shack is kind of a amalgamation of confused interest. "The Man Baby. 'Am I a man? Am I a baby? These are legitimate questions.'"
What Is Denny’s Even On
Seems Like He's Been Through A Lot
Sounds Like Someone Didn’t Have Fun
Disney seems like a nightmare. My desire to go is in the negative range. If I got free tickets, I still wouldn't go.
Hmmmm
Who Says It Isn’t
Depression On A Stick
The First Rule Of Waffle House Is
Highly Recommend 10/10
Can't Say I Have
I Needed To Hear That. Thank You
Man, I Love Me Some Tiny Pot Soup
Methany
That's Interesting
I can write cursive and am the family IT guy. Because I'm not a selfish wad I taught all my family the dos and don'ts of obvious scams, and thus they get no viruses and no nigerian princes or people escaping the middle east to be found.
Being family IT guy sucks. You can't visit anyone without having to spend a lot of time helping them with computer while everyone else is having fun.
Load More Replies...They don't know anybody who hasn't started fossilizing, so they don't know anybody who not only qualifies as alive, but also is able to write cursive (or whatever other older skills you are to be said to lack without even asking). ITS FACT111
Load More Replies...I'm a boomer who doesn't know how to make horseshoes on an anvil, or churn butter. It's all about what you've been exposed to, and it doesn't make someone "dumb" if they never learned to do something. As for writing in cursive, I can, but it looks terrible. It's easier to read my half-cursive, half-printed writing. I had to memorize the times tables (calculators weren't around then), but I'll grab a calculator in a heartbeat to avoid having to try to remember what 8 X 9 is. Edit: I learned to drive a stick shift because that's all we had. I drive an automatic now, though.
Yea. I was in a job intake training, and while we were on break, this guy in there said "millennials and the new generations don't even learn cursive anymore. I hope my kids can still do their signature." This training has a sign-in sheet, where you had to write your name, and sign the sheet. His signature was maybe a single letter with additional flourishes, but not actually writing in cursive. I'm a millennial who actually uses cursive in my signature, and teachers stopped accepting things written in cursive before I even got out of elementary, so the teachers were definitely not millennials, and therefore, millennials weren't the reason I stopped using cursive. I would've called the guy out of he wasn't starting as the new medical director of his department.
Oh my ... how I hated it. Handwriting itself is ok, but the forced WAY that, down to every line and turn and serif and whatnot, determines how and where it is to be placed, what size, regardless of flow of motion and readability of the less-restricted writing, made it a lot worse in their and in my book. To finally just say "let the boy write how he writes, we'll be able to read that!", they needed some Doctor write me a note about a disorder or so I wasn't even tested for, that disabled me from writing in that way. It's not even that I wouldn't have been able to adapt a writing to some standards, it's that it didn't even start without them. Every, no matter how clear identifiable, how doubtproof, letter that looked different - not needing to resemble a wrong one in any way - got me another mistake, AND orthography was graded seperately as well, so I got a double hit here for one mistake that isn't even one. Events around this ruined my relation to authority, lastingly so.
I like it that our younger grandkids don't understand cursive (the oldest was taught it). Their Gramps and I are excited to have a secret code!
It's something like being able to tell time on a non-digital clock, that you HAD to know and a sign of things that led to where we are today
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But You Know, Just Hypothetically
Gotta Love The Early 2000’s
Again?
Perfect Reason To Study Computer Science
I thought it was going to be 1) finding work in you field of study and 2) quickly paying off your student loans but that would not have been nearly as entertaining
Discussing A 30-Year Lease
I felt this a lot harder than I thought I would... Role for Initiative!
Russian Back Flip Tomahawk Throw!
Wamen
Im Sorry I Didn't Quite Catch That
I have licked a Himalayan salt lamp...not on Tinder date though...anyway they are really, really salty. Do not recommend.
An Ego Booster
Ali is the big Kurdish dude who makes bomb-a*s falafel in town and he calls everybody "My friend!" in such a way that you honestly believe him.
Sounds Like A Dream Job
Not A Bad Idea
Kevin From Applebee's
Just Imagine
Capitalism
Sounds Like A Cry For Help
Pass The Mic
Huh?
I Drive A Manual Because I Need To Be Forced To Focus On What I'm Doing
I drive both manual (stick shift) and automatic. What's the difficulty here?
Ok Elon
That's exactly what someone who's trying to cover up the secret creation of a zombie apocalyps to generate demand for flamethrowers would say
I don't understand. HOW were these so funny. I was laughing all the way through
I'm close to my Millennial staff. It was one such young lady that cooked me dinner. She's taught me a lot.
Hi Lori, I only noticed I suicide joke; the rest was mostly crazy thoughts we have and are glad others are weird like us too. Sorry if anything upset you hun. Hope all is well with you. ♥️
Load More Replies...I don't understand. HOW were these so funny. I was laughing all the way through
I'm close to my Millennial staff. It was one such young lady that cooked me dinner. She's taught me a lot.
Hi Lori, I only noticed I suicide joke; the rest was mostly crazy thoughts we have and are glad others are weird like us too. Sorry if anything upset you hun. Hope all is well with you. ♥️
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