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50 Anonymously Shared Secrets That People Wouldn’t Dare To Confess In Real Life (New Posts)
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Keeping secrets is easier for some than it is for others; so is revealing them. Be that as it may, sharing something you’ve kept to yourself for a while might come as a relief. That’s why people tend to turn to a friend willing to lend an ear, for example, or confess their sins to a member of their church. A number of people nowadays choose to open up to no other than their trusty device and the almighty internet as well.
Received via a Google form, their confessions are then shared on the renowned ‘Fesshole’ Twitter account, which has become an internet sensation over the past five years. Created in June, 2018, the account has already amassed over 988k followers, as well as an abundance of submissions from people in need to lift the load weighing on their chest. If you’re interested to learn what it is they’ve managed to keep a secret until now, scroll down to find some of ‘Fesshole’s’ latest posts on the list below.
In order to learn more about ‘Fesshole’ and how sharing secrets affects a person, Bored Panda turned to the founder of the Twitter account, Rob Manuel, and Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School, Michael Slepian, who were kind enough to answer some of our questions. You will find both of their thoughts in the text below.
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OmBoyGanesh 1 year ago
I, a 50yo queer who has to work at it to pass, texted a new employee to confirm she was good to start the following Friday. From my work mobile, which was on several documents she was given and which was pointed out to her. “Hey Kehlani. It’s Marco from ********. Are you good to go this Friday?” She replied with, “F**k off, I got a boyfriend.” When she called the Monday after to find out when she was to begin, she was told she was a no show and we’ve rescinded the offer. Mostly because I’m not obligated to explain myself once someone speaks to me that way. Period.
Recognized by internet users all over the world, the Twitter page was founded by Rob Manuel, a marketing specialist who’s also spent the last couple of decades building interactive web projects, such as the b3ta.com message board. The Mirror revealed that Rob started it all with an open invitation from his personal account, encouraging people to anonymously confess their sins via an online form. Upon receiving the first hundred of them, Manuel laid them out on the newly-created ‘Fesshole’ account.
In a recent interview with Bored Panda, Rob remembered the very beginning of the project: “I was bored one afternoon and I thought it would be fun to open a google form and ask people to confess stuff anonymously. I figured at best maybe 500 people would care. Now there's nearly a million followers,” he said, jokingly adding “Please make them go away.”
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LinManuelMiranda 1 year ago
YOU DISGRACE OF A HUMAN BEING YOU LET YOUR DOG TAKE THE BLAME. I HOPE BOTH SIDES OF YOUR PILLOW ARE WARM TONIGHT
Indeed, Rob’s account has already reached nearly 990k followers, who have revealed secrets ranging from shocking to odd, and everything in between. He told Bored Panda what was one of the most bizarre confessions he’s ever received. The anonymous person wrote: “About a year ago, the company I worked for switched to a four-day week. Never told my wife. Each Friday, I hire out a small office where I play Football Manager. I like to pretend it's my Manager's office. I have 'conversations' with players about disciplinary matters and contracts.”
“I quite fancy living my life like this, although I actually hate football,” the founder of ‘Fesshole’ recounted the anonymous story.
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XenoMurph 1 year ago
I know some very intelligent people who have no interest in correct spelling or grammar, their minds do not work linguistically. If the job involves communication, you are perhaps right to reject them. If not you may have rejected many very intelligent, capable people. We have a strange fixation on spelling and grammar as an indicator of intelligence.
In an interview with the Mirror last year, Manuel revealed what early confession became a hit, receiving 36,000 likes on the page: "My husband's dying wish was to make people think he led a double life,” an anonymous person submitted via an online form. “We had three blacked-out Landrovers follow the corsage and had actors in suits and trench coats as the funeral conductors. He was a bank manager for TSB. To this day, we haven't told anyone the truth."
Rob Manuel pointed out that observational comedy is the core of it all. “Observational comedy with the added richness of going, 'is this is real?' And we're sort of recognizing we are to some degree, imperfect," he told the Mirror.
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Aisling Raye 1 year ago
I'm a survivor of abuse with severe PTSD - I have made a point of getting unique tattoos on my arms, legs, and torso. I love tattoos so no one questions my motivation but the the truth is that if I am ever dismembered, and only one piece of me is found, the police will have an easier time identifying my body.
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Doodles1983 1 year ago
Maybe prep them for that so they don’t make your GF uncomfortable or offended by accident?
Over the years, Rob’s observational comedy transcended Twitter and was presented to the general public in a book, titled The Very Best of Fesshole: Britain Confesses Anonymously, comprising “Fesshole’s” greatest confessions to date. The founder of the Twitter account and the author of the book was also able to go on tours, presenting some of the submissions in front of a live audience.
“I enjoy doing the live shows the most—seeing different parts of the UK and meeting people,” he told Bored Panda. Rob added that doing audience confessions tends to get pretty funny. “We've had police people talking about letting people off crimes,” he said, providing an example. “There was also a guy who was running a WhatsApp group with 200 members for exchanging fart recordings, who turned up and told us all.”
Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School and author of 'The Secret Life of Secrets', Michael Slepian, explained to Bored Panda how getting things off of your chest can benefit a person: “When we keep a secret entirely to ourselves, we leave only one venue to work through a problem: our own mind. But when we choose to be alone with something, we often don't develop the healthiest ways of thinking about it. Other people's reactions often temper overly negative thinking, and help us out of unhelpful thinking loops.”
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Matt Harrell 1 year ago
Don't keep this secret. Your family needs to know you're on antidepressants and should be part of your support network.
“When someone reveals a secret to a person they are keeping it from, I call this confession,” Prof. Slepian pointed out. “When we reveal a secret to a third party, I call this confiding. Confession is sometimes the right thing to do, but not always. But confiding is the best of both worlds: you get to reveal a secret to someone while still keeping it secret from others.
“What is helpful about confiding is that the person often responds in a useful way, offering emotional support or practical advice. Confiding in someone anonymously can be helpful too, but only to the extent the person offers a helpful response,” he added.
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Nick Smith 1 year ago
Did that too for my wife, she had little ism's she would randomly come up with and I'd put it in my notes.
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 1 year ago
My husband talks in his sleep and he told me yesterday that you can only pay in Chinese 😆
ADHD McChick 1 year ago (edited)
Mine sometimes wakes up from dreams and speaks nonsense for a few moments, before he realizes. He walked into the bathroom last night, while I was in the bath, and said something about bringing me "the green thing". I said "What? What green thing?" He said, "The...uh..." Pause. "Never mind. I was dreaming." We both had a good laugh. 😂
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Nadine Debard 1 year ago
I used to do that at work, before COVID (sigh...). Each lunch, one of us would do crazy talk, and some sentences needed to be recalled. Then before Christmas holidays we shared a lunch (pot luck style) and read the sentences together. I miss those times.
UpQuarkDownQuark 1 year ago
My wife had a friend that did constantly. Up a creek without a ladder. Like a rat out of hell. Good stuff.
Julie Davis 1 year ago
I had a co-worker that said A LOT of incorrect phrases. We made a buzzword bingo sheet entitled “Coryisms”, as his name was Cory, brought the sheet to meetings, and he had no idea why we were giggling and laughing through the whole meeting…much less when a team member yelled “BINGO!” in the middle of the meeting! I love that guy!
ADHD McChick 1 year ago (edited)
I hope he found it as funny as you did. I know that came out snarky, but I meant it sincerely. I've been there, myself.
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After my Mum died I wrote down all the funny little things she used to say. e.g. When she wanted to go to bed, it was a struggle to get up the stairs (no stairlift). So when she was upstairs she'd call out "Mup" (I'm up) and a little while later "Min" (I'm in bed).
Robert Craig 1 year ago
Plot twist hubby knows about the catalog and how it cheers you up and "mishears" on porpoise.
Himory TheDreamer 1 year ago
My dad does something similar but more in a mocking way (to be fair, me too, guess I got it from him). But my boyfriend tends to believe his stories, and they're not believable at all, last one I can remember dad said my dog came from "Bitches' Village". Somehow my partner believed that's a place that exists xD
ADHD McChick 1 year ago
I don't want to be a negative Nellie, but I do hope that, after she writes them down, OP gently corrects her husband. It's one thing to say something incorrectly at home, and then laugh about it. It's quite another to say it in front of others, especially "important" people (bosses, in-laws maybe, etc), and have them look at you askance.
MakeupMama68 1 year ago
Aww my friend’s dad’s are Michelob Tires, Mucho Milk (Mocha Mix) and George Burns is called Bob Burns 😂
Mary Peace 1 year ago
Except that Mrs Malaprop was using big words, (but the wrong words) to try to sound clever and impress people. A lot of the folk mentioned here don't know what they're saying, or they're saying it on purpose to their families/loved ones for fun.
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Where’s The Shovel? 1 year ago
A works colleague was describing how they don't like 'defecated coconut'
Mary Peace 1 year ago
Never been keen on coconut, whether defecated or not.
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Ola Polowczyk 1 year ago
My fiance once had a brain fart and mixed up the words "barracuda" with a "capybara". It was 4 years ago, and still brings both of us joy.
michael Chock 1 year ago
I bet it cheers you up on fight days too. "WHY DON'T WE GO THROUGH YOUR IDIOT BOOK! I OVERLOOK SO MUCH FOR YOU!" 🤣
Navindu Wijewardena 1 year ago
My grade 9 citizenship education teacher said that japanese 'sake' was a tea ceremony. (For those who dont know its actually a kind of rice wine)
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Charlie the Cat 1 year ago (edited)
For those that don't know, Kew Gardens is a botanical gardens in Richmond, south of London. They have trees & plants there from all over the world.
Even though this isn’t as relevant when it comes to social media accounts, such as ‘Fesshole’, sharing a secret can create a stronger bond between people, which is especially prominent among kids. “Both children and adults use secrecy as a way out of getting in trouble, but if you ask a child what a secret is, they'll say a secret is something that you only tell your best friend,” Michael Slepian suggested.
“Young children think about secrets as something to be shared, and too often adults lose sight of this. Sharing a secret with someone, something you wouldn't tell just anyone, is one of the most powerful social forces we have control over. Our confidants recognize revealing a secret as an act of intimacy.”
If reading people’s darkest—well, in some cases, not so much—secrets is something you enjoy, you’re in luck, as we have quite a collection of ‘Fesshole’s’ posts here at Bored Panda. You can find our previous editions on the Twitter page here, here, here, here, and here.
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Shark Lady 1 year ago
It makes you feel fancy as well since it was seen as a treat when I was growing up!
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Anthony Crowley 1 year ago
This is basically the plot of a black mirror episode, it's scary that that kind of thing is possible
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censorshipsucks 1 year ago
hilarious. I hate golf so I am totally ok with people cheating in it. Please do not murder me. My contempt for it is due to how it is used to occupy vast parts of african land and water which underprivileged people cannot use for housing in a country with water shortages.
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Anna Ekberg 1 year ago
Hmmm, i faked not knowing english or swedish to get out of talking to some pushy guy but never to this level.
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PinkFloofyUnicorns 1 year ago
this happened to me, but it was my year 7 science teacher.... :( i really liked them
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Mrsmiawallace 1 year ago
I’m a woman from oz & always assume that the majority of guys do this
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Mary Peace 1 year ago
What's wrong with that? Yesterday on here I was reading complaints that it's all American!
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What's wrong with that? Yesterday on here I was reading complaints that it's all American!
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