People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud

We humans are curious creatures, and what we say or do doesn't always seem rational. At least not on the surface. So Reddit user Fastenbauer got interested in digging a little deeper—they asked people online to share the things that everybody knows but nobody talks about out loud. And their post quickly went viral! Continue scrolling to check out the unspoken truths folks keep quiet, whether out of fear of judgment or the risk of offending others.

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud When people betray or abuse you, they know what they're doing. They're doing it on purpose, and they're not sorry. They're consciously making a choice.

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud Money absolutely matters.

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud Having mentally sane parents is one of the most important privileges in life, yet it isn't talked about nearly as much as race, class etc.

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud The world population is too high.

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud People who get paid the least do most the work.

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud There actually *are* people above the law.

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud Looks do matter, and they matter a lot.

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud Emotional intelligence is vastly underrated.

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud We all have dark thoughts that we dont act on.

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud That religion is a social construct, where you are born largely determines your religion. If you happened to be born in India there is over an 80% chance you will be Hindu. If you are born in the US you probably will be a Christian.

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud Children that are complete a******s exist.

The parents know.

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud Some friendships only last as long as they're convenient or beneficial.

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#13

The amount of Government incompetance and wastefulness in many countries is staggering. And the only reason I'm not a libertarian is that I don't trust private enterprise either. History has shown time and time again that companies big and small will absolutely f**k over people given half a chance and especially if there are no laws and regulations.

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud Most newborn babies are ugly on the first day. 🤣.

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud Some People don't apologize because they have remorse for what they did. They apologize because they think it will end the conflict.

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud I shouldn’t have to ask “how are you” in a work email. It should be ok for me to just talk business and get straight to the point. .

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud Nobody’s actually read the Terms and Conditions, like ever. We just scroll to the bottom, hit accept, and hope we didn’t sell our souls to some tech overlord. 😂.

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#18

People aren’t equal. I don’t mean by race. Racism is nonsense.

Some people are good looking nice smart and athletic and had the right upbringing. They got it all . Some people have nothing going for them.

Not even equal before the law.

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud That we are all certain to die and be completely forgotten within a handful of generations.

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#20

People often pretend to be happy when they're not.

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud We are all just kids walking around in grown up bodies.

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#22

Consumer capitalism is destroying our habitat super quickly and with every passing day we make it worse.

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#23

People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud Everybody knows that success often comes from luck and timing, but we rarely admit it. We prefer to believe it's all hard work and talent.

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud That being alive at all and conscious is just really, really weird.

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#25

Most people spend their time complaining about things out of their control rather than fixing things in their control.

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud Violence sometimes is the answer.

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud Most meetings could easily be an email, but no one wants to admit it because 'face time' somehow still feels important.

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Umberto Cavallaro 1 week ago

Often speaking to each other in person resolves issues more quickly than a Q&A via email

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Nemo 1 week ago

A quick call can resolve things in minutes. But some people hate being on the phone so there will be texting and confusion for the next three days. Great times

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iseefractals 1 week ago

It's not resolving issues in a productive way though, it's just that you're more likely to avoid confrontation when face to face. So you're not going about doing something in the best possible way, just the least contentious.

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Data1001 1 week ago

It depends on whether or not you have people in positions of power who frequently go off on tangents, or repeat things that everybody knows, like my current boss does. Most of those meetings could have been solved in a few emails -- except he's also terrible at writing emails, lol.

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Lila Allen 1 week ago

You must have unusual coworkers if in person resolves issues.

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Huddo's sister 1 week ago

My work stopped running weekly region meetings (online) for this reason and it's so much better

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Rinso The Red 1 week ago

General rule - if two emails in and they still aren't getting it, call them. You'd be amazed

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Sand Ers 1 week ago

General rule. Put it in writing. That way the story can’t be changed retroactively.

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Sand Ers 1 week ago

I absolutely loathe “meetings”, but I do most things in person.

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Meagan Glaser 1 week ago

I'm pretty sure "this meeting could have been an email" is a super common sentiment. If it makes it into meme's I don't think "no one talks about it" applies

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Kathy L 1 week ago

"Face time" is the control freaks' excuse to micromanage.

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Blondie23 1 week ago

THIS....IS...PAINFULLY....TRUE!!! Meetings are so antiquated! My manager recently went through all my meetings and got rid of most of them because they weren't helping me get work done. Now I have only a couple of meetings a week and I am getting sooooooooooooooooooo much done!!!

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Papa 1 week ago

I disagree that most meetings could be an email. Maybe most meetings could be a series of emails, but the meeting is often faster.

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Surgichick 1 week ago

You also could've told me that in 10 minutes (not 3 hours)

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JohninND 1 week ago

Davos. Over 1600 personal jets-no facetime for them.

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Cool crow 1 week ago

It's like we have to give managers and supervisors something to do. Otherwise...

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BookFanatic 1 week ago

A couple of the committees I'm on have been known to schedule a meeting "just in case" and we always take great joy in canceling it later.

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#28

Gambling is a sucker’s game. Unless you make it a career (and in some cases even then), you will lose more than you win in the long run.

As long as you recognize that and you are willing to “spend” the money for entertainment purposes, more power to you. But if you think gambling is a good money-making idea, think again.

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Most of the gay scene (from an LGBT perspective) is extremely toxic and ironically closed minded and judgmental of any outsiders (i.e. straights).

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People Share 30 Things That Are True, But No One Wants To Say Out Loud How disturbing the food industry is. How pigs, fish, cows, chickens are all harvested so we can eat them. How can we not expect aliens to do the same s**t to us if that’s what we do to our fellow earth inhabitants.

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What do you think ?

kansasmagic 1 week ago

I like the mix of "surprising facts" and "personal prejudices elevated into universal truths".

13points

Júlia Fortes 1 week ago (edited)

Other people are not just NPCs in your life. They're humans too, treat them the right way and stop being entitled

7points

Crescent 3 1 week ago

As much as people hang their hopes on it, what no one really says out loud is that karma, in the common, colloquial sense, DOES NOT EXIST. There is no great cosmic balance that rewards good and punishes evil. People rely on it because it helps them sleep at night in a world where evil runs rampant. The belief in karma is a great coping mechanism; but "what goes around" most often does not "come around." Bad things happen to good people with permanent consequences, and good things happen to bad people with impunity. Life isn't fair, it isn't balanced - it just IS.

Tries to be 'deep' but devolves into personal grievance/fashionable contempt.

Katie Allen 1 week ago

There is not "somebody for everybody". a LOT of people go through their whole lives in no relationship, or the wrong one.

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Roberta Surprenant 1 week ago

"looks" matter to the vain and shallow, if that is the main thing they take away from meeting someone.

guinea_pig 1 week ago

Fun post, but feeling discouraged at all the bigotry against religion in the comments. Live and let live.

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Why am I being downvoted for being against bigotry? I don't understand.

antoinette maldari 1 week ago

People will NOT vote for Harris because she is a black woman.

Schmebulock 1 week ago

Most of these things listed are talked about regularly.

Justin Tyme 1 week ago (edited)

The tipping system in the US exists and is expanding not because of bad employers, but because customers are willing to pay tips. If customers would actually refuse to pay tips instead of just whining about it, then tipping would cease to exist.

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Aelin Wildfire 1 week ago

But what would happen to the people who rely on those tips in the meantime?

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