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30 Times Folks Fell For Lies And Were Shocked Or Disappointed To Discover The Truth, As Shared Online
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It's no shocker that we live in a world where lying has become a fairly common occurrence; with time, we eventually learn to adapt and not fall for it, but sometimes, just sometimes, our naivety gets the best of us.
"What was the biggest lie you believed?" – a Redditor that goes by u/Fearless-surfur-ee recently took online to invite people to recount the biggest lies they have ever bought. The thread garnered nearly 21K upvotes, as well as 11.3K comments containing some witty, odd, and plain staggering answers.
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#1
That some day everyone meets their person and live and love together the rest of their lives. Never happens for some of us.
MedusaWasBeautiful 1 year ago
Loving the stock image. But to those who kept telling me that I would find my soulmate: f*** you for giving false hope.
Bored Panda also managed to get in touch with the author and posed him a couple of questions!
Rishabh Yadav has been using Reddit for a little over a year, and when we asked him what the inspiration behind his post was, he replied: "I remember I was in my room wondering about my childhood; we used to believe many things that weren't true at all, so I thought why shouldn't I ask others."
"Personally, the biggest lie I used to believe was that when people die, they become invisible," Rishabh said when we invited him to answer his own question. Last but not least, we wondered whether the man had anything further to say: "I would say people should spend time with family – you might feel so much better than before!"
BP hopes that you've enjoyed this collection of not-so-white lies people believed. Let us know which lie raised your eyebrows the furthest! Also, don't hesitate to answer the question and leave your stories down in the comment section.
#2
That justice will always win.
BewilderedBanana 1 year ago (edited)
From what i see around me, it's money. Whoever has the money wins in the end. Even "justice" can be bought
#3
That America was family oriented, cared about its citizens and was everything I saw in movies growing up in the UK. Then I moved here. No healthcare. No guaranteed time off. Bankruptcy for cancer. Hatred for minority groups. I’ve never experienced such a culture shock. I asked for 5 weeks paid vacation when I arrived, which I got in England. I was literally laughed out of the interview. 22 years later things have not improved.
Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago
I wish I lived in England. Seems like they care about people there. I feel bad for people who come here thinking America is as it's advertised
#5
On April Fools while I was getting ready for school on a cold winter day, my mom told me "School is cancelled! It's a snow day!"
I ran around for a good 2 minutes celebrating before she told me "April Fools!"
I've never felt so betrayed in my life.
#7
That it's not what the outside. It's what's on the inside the counts.
No matter how you cut it pretty people get better chances in life. It doesn't matter what you do if you look like Quasimodo you can put in the most effort on a given task they would rather swing the credit to anyone else.
#8
When I was like 16 I found out that one of my sisters wasn’t actually my sister. She was actually just best friends with my oldest sister growing up, and she lived with my family from when she was like 12 or 13 through 18 (she and my oldest sister are 15 years older than me). Unfortunately her parents wouldn’t sign her over for adoption and didn’t contribute anything for my mom raising her for 6 years.
Weirdest part is that my family is predominantly fair skinned, blonde with blue eyes, but the girl I thought was my sister was traditional mexican with darker skin, dark hair, and brown eyes. My mom was always very tan and had darker hair throughout my childhood so I thought that my other 2 sisters and myself were the odd ones out.
Phoenix the Frog 1 year ago
That is super cute. I thought one of my Tia was my mom's actual sister. I was very confused when her mom visited us and she was not my Oma. Found out she was just my moms best friend
#9
If you simply put your head down, do what you're told, and work hard, things will work out
Junebugjump! 1 year ago
This is do true. Hard work guarantees nothing. (Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, is the same lie.)
#10
I had dumped some gasoline in an Arizona tea bottle to get a fire started. My sister seen me pour it on fire and she freaked thinking Arizona ice tea was flammable. I went along with it saying "ya you didn't know that? That's why Its called Arizona because how hot it gets there."
She was 20 yrs old. Around 5 years later we are camping and she says who's got some Arizona I can use to start this campfire. I looked at ther and didn't understand. She explained I told her it's flammable. I had no recollection. She says she has been telling everyone for the last 5 years how bad it is for you and how flammable it is.
#12
"My church isn't a cult."
It was a cult.
#13
That a full career and retirement from the US Navy would guarantee me free medical.
Roman Spruce 1 year ago
And as of anyone who joined the military after 2017 in the us, even putting in a full 20 years will no longer get you a pension. Anybody who enlisted before that time if they work 20 years will get a pension, now they're only doing 401K matching and Roth IRA accounts. So now you don't even get a pension for working there longer
#14
I’ll fill up my car with gas before work tomorrow morning.
#15
Parents love their children equally and unconditionally.
Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago
I was the scapegoat. The first thing my family did when I went to college was go out and have family portraits done without me in them and then they gifted them to me for Christmas. These are the only family photos that we ever had
#16
Bullies get bored if you ignore them 🐂💩
Thegoodboi 1 year ago
Lol noooo. Gives them fuel to try harder, or point out that you're trying to ignore them so they'll go away
#17
"When I grow up, I'll always be able to do what I want, when I want" - oh my sweet summer child
Laura Lett 1 year ago
After, utilities, mortgage or rent, cell phone plan, food, basic necessities, I'm barely able to pay attention.
#18
I had a fraternity brother from NY come to university in Oklahoma. This was before the internet. We told him to be careful of rattlesnakes. We explained what they were. He did NOT believe. So, we took him to the library, pulled the encyclopedia, and showed him. He then asked… what else can kill you in this state.
Without missing a beat, one of our brothers said, “they probably won’t kill you, but you have to watch out for drop cats.” He then went on to tell him how this kind of cat (40 pounders on average) evolved to use the cat trait of landing on their feet to kill their prey. They would climb trees, hanging upside down, then drop, feet down onto their prey. Only defense? An open umbrella. This guy walked to and from every class, on sunny days, not a cloud in the sky, opening his umbrella as he walked under every tree on the campus. Lasted about three weeks.
Laura Lett 1 year ago
I'm in Oklahoma!! We love this kinda prank on people that are from Northern states. It's absolutely funny to watch their faces. Then the realization that it's a prank. One of the few joys I have in my life.
#19
My mom told me when I was 5 and my favourite dog died that it doesn't matter that dogs die, because in 7 years they respawn.
So I was like "oh, fine, see you then bud, I will be older and we will play again".
C.O. Shea 1 year ago
Our culture has failed at death education. It's a massive disservice. A friend's grandfather just died on Monday... right up to the end he was in such massive denial that he refused to allow the defib device in his chest to be "turned off." Result... hospice death at home... his family watched his body defib FIVE times before a nurse could get to the house to deactivate his device. Don't be that guy!
#20
That my dad moved out and rented a room in the house of a female friend for tax reasons.
#21
If you go to college you'll get a good job and have a nice house.
Lying 90s third grade teacher.
#22
That you need a license for children’s parties. That was the reason why I never had a party when I was little growing up. You need to get a license from the post office, but there’s only a certain amount of licenses available for that area.
Laura Lett 1 year ago
My oldest brother is six years older than I am . We have the same birth month,one week apart. So all the birthday parties, were joint parties .Nothing elaborate,just family and one friend apiece. We made it work.
#23
My dad got sick of having to listen to the kids shows I watched as a child, so he told me that the Power Rangers and Barney The Dinosaur died in the car crash with Princess Diana; so I couldn't watch them anymore. I didn't actually question it until I was quite old, embarrassingly.
#24
When I was very young we had a pet hamster. He got out of his cage, so my dad put the cage in the basement thinking he might get hungry and get back in.
One morning I woke up and there was the hamster in his cage in the usual place. I asked my mom how they found him and she told me she opened the door to the cellar and there he was dragging his cage back upstairs.
It wasn't until I was a teenager and remembered the exchange that it occurred to me she obviously made that up.
#25
The American dream.
Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago
I feel millennials got screwed the worst. We had idyllic innocent childhoods for the most part and grew up to hell on earth. I truly believed my life would be like a full house episode but with my family fully intact. How wrong wrong wrong I was
#26
"The Tinder account was just a shared account for joking around with my friends. I never even logged in on my own".
It was in fact his account which he had been using during the last three months of our relationship. And yes, I knew how unbelievable that sounds but I refused to believe that the man I trusted so much would ever do this to me.
ArodTheHorrible 1 year ago
There are def better ways to "joke around with your friends". What an twat-basket
#27
That carrots improved nightvision. Damn brits and trying to hide radar use.
#28
Our family were poor and lived in a house where the ceiling plaster had bowed so much that it bowed down, bulging out.
My dad told me that there was a World War II bomb buried in the ceiling. Believed it for years, absolutely terrified the entire time.
#30
That I won't have a calculator wherever I go. 😂😂😂 When I was in school, I used to believe that I needed to memorize all the math formulas and multiplication tables because I wouldn't have access to a calculator wherever I go. However, with the advancement of technology, I now carry a calculator with me all the time, in the form of a smartphone or a smartwatch. So, that belief turned out to be a big lie.
What do you think ?
Kevin J. Henning 1 year ago
Janice Ian wrote a song called "At Seventeen" years ago which seems on point with this kind of stuff.
Best Behave 1 year ago (edited)
I love that song. Lyrical poetry with a narrative of bitter regret and unfulfilled youth. The delivery is beautiful. I’ve love it since I can remember, they played it often on radio 2
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Janice Ian wrote a song called "At Seventeen" years ago which seems on point with this kind of stuff.
Best Behave 1 year ago (edited)
I love that song. Lyrical poetry with a narrative of bitter regret and unfulfilled youth. The delivery is beautiful. I’ve love it since I can remember, they played it often on radio 2
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