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
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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
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!]
Sounds like anyone in your city who has heard of Miss Marple should send the police in her direction next time there's a crime they're unable to solve.
Load More Replies...We had the Unicorn Man, an older man with dreadlocks wrapped into one huge silver spike ontop of his head, wrapped in hundreds of hair bands and scrunchies. Way too many people made fun of him (he had some sort of mental/emotional issues, possibly schizophrenic). When I worked at a grocery store, he would only come to my lane because I absolutely loved talking to him. He would pay in mostly change, which he would have to count a few dozen times, but I didn't mind. He was fantastic to talk with. Everything from existentialism and universal suffering, to which of his cats would only eat certain flavors of food. I will always miss him. (Oh, and there was the Moxham Ninja, a self-proclaimed superhero who would be seen "hiding" about town, protecting us from crime...)
Actually it was more of a cylinder shape that a spike.
Load More Replies...Nijmegenaren be like: tamboerijnvrouw (In my hometown Nijmegen there was this streetperformer lady playing the tambourin EVERY FREAKIN DAY, and not even good but just endless shikkashikkashik and sometimes random yelling. She was so well known that when she died, it made the newspaper and hundreds of people came together at the square she used to sit and play on.)
Omg that’s 100% true. In Olney Maryland we the “Walking Guy”. I’ve been seeing him walk miles and miles ever since the mid 90’s. Usually wearing high cut, almost booty shorts and his fluff of red/blond hair has become an icon https://mocoshow.com/blog/the-olney-walking-guyrunning-man-html/
The running man Jon the running man. And I was just coming here to give him his just due. He lives in Baltimore. And had ran the entire Maryland and some parts of the dmv. He is still out here running.
Load More Replies...Ours is "Bike Man". The dude rides all around Perth in tight stubbies and a wife beater. The dude's huge and hairy like a gorilla. You can be 6 hours out of Perth, he goes cruisn' by.
Had to google stubbies. Wish I didn’t. I can’t unsee those shorts now.
Load More Replies...We have a guy in our city who wears bunny ears all year round. He's everywhere...from one end of town to the other and anywhere in between. Bunny Ears Guy. He spends a lot of time in different McDonalds around town or at the mall food court playing Chess on one of those electronic chessboards.
We used to have an old dude (like Gandalf looking old) that would ride around the city on a 10-speed wearing the smallest g-string bathing suit you could imagine... that image you're imagining? Smaller...
So true. We have a guy that looks like Jimmie Hendrix but dresses like a pirate. All leather, big hat with feathers. He stands on street corners playing air guitar for tips.
We have the Unipiper in Portland, goes around in a kilt, on a unicycle, playing the bagpipes, and almost always wearing a Darth Vader helmet.
The college town I went to had St Cloud Superman. Just a dude in a Superman costume who stood on the street corner with his hands on his hips watching over the town. The town I now live in has a dude we call Micro Mini Pimp. Tiny little guy who always has a gaggle of ladies with him.
In brussels we kept seeing this guy on a bycicle, always with a different huge stuffed animal on the back: the coca cola polarbear, the pink panter,... one time he was sitting on a Bench with one of his bears, blowing bubbles
Portland is full of these people. My favorite is the guy who rides a unicycle while wearing a kilt and a Darth Vader mask and playing bagpipes with flames coming out of them. "Him? He's just the Unipiper."
He was mentioned further up in this comment section! Your post is proof that Unipiper is one of those people everybody in town knows. 🤟
Load More Replies...Hahaha we always had "patches" in my town. Old guy mostly homeless but nice dude always had a pair of jeans that he would continually patch for years and years. He eventually got a new pair a few years back but he will always be patches to this town and I still see him walking around from time to time. I'm in my 30s and he's been patches since before I was born.
We had an Empress in my town, she passed before i was born but i heard about how extravagantly she dressed and when some teens asked her whats the time she pulled out a whole alarm clock from her handbag
We had Swivel-Head Ted, but please don't ask it's too complicated to explain. Just exercise your imagination...
I'm envisioning like an exorcist scenario with a bowl mullet
Load More Replies...We had a guy who walked really fast, swinging his arms and his garbage bags. For many years he picked up every bit of trash every day. He was also in every local parade. When he passed, a mural portrait was painted on a downtown building. Everybody knew him and loved him.
we have Crazy Captain American ... a Veteran who is completely naked with an American Flag as his cape
We have a guy with a chili bowl mullet!! I saw him a couple of weeks ago moving a yard. My brother said “did he leave it king in the back?”
we got the mail man. we dont know his name but he knows everything about everyone and will literally spill it to my mom all the time
Ah, in our town we have parrot man. Ever once in a while he walks right through the middle of town with his parrot in a shopping cart. I think he was the mayor at one point.
We had Tractor Tom, he wore overalls with no shirt and drove a tractor around town like a car for a least 15 years. I heard it was because his license was revoked for drunk driving but farm use vehicles are an exemption. Don't know if it's true but what a way to exploit that loophole.
Saint Batman in my town is like that but it's a statue not a person. (It's a saint people dressed like batman once).
Is that like the old guy who rides a bike around town because he can't get a license anymore?
I grew up in a small town so we had quite a few. One of them was A4J which was short for Ally 4 Jackets. I can't say I ever saw him wearing four jackets but he probably did once and that is how he was known henceforth 😄
I don't think so? Now I'm worried that means I'm that guy. And now I'm worried I don't live up to Horseback Jesus.
50p Dave. Funny thing is that he's been banned from so many nearby towns that it's more of a county wide thing.
We had an old homeless man named Johnny, drinking beers all day and shouting at people 'I went to the war and I was shot twice! In the @ss! There and there!'. The locals loved him, the tourists were frightened.
I knew immediatly I had to read the comments and I was not dissapointed
I do this but it's usually a first name thing. Stupid Jim idiot stick Amy. Or just gently mock something because I'm mean like that. Our neighbor was big boobs for years. Never new her real name. Obviously not to their face lol
We have the guy who always wears a suit and a top hat absolutely covered in artificial flowers
We had a guy who did crazy s**t all over town and people just expected it of him and thought he was mildly funny- he turned out to be a child molester. Especially creepy because he had relatives (grandkids, nieces, not sure) at my primary school, so he was at many school events.
I lived in central Illinois, and there was a guy named "Alley Oop" who dressed like a woman, purse-shoes-everything, really nice guy. But, everyone would just say "That's Alley Oop.
We have one of those!!! He rides a moped though not a horse. Cooler than the one in my old city that just walked everywhere.
Here we have Speedo Biker and he literally just rides a bike around town while wearing speedos. I'm not kidding.
In San Francisco, we had Ribbon Man. He rode a bike down a popular street, wearing a hat with at least a dozen flowing ribbons on it. When he’d ride by, people would shout “RIBBON MAN!!!”, and he’d flip them off. Why wear a fabulous ribbon hat while riding your bike down a popular road and be sour like that?
We have Lloyd. He dresses in camos (this is a small country town in the UK btw), and like to tell people he was in 3 Para. Definitely not the sharpest tool in the box, but sweet enough. Everyone knows him.
We had a leprechaun named Tommy. If you knew the magic word he would make you a balloon animal. ( it was fantasmagorical btw)
Most of ours are homeless, high or related somehow to those ststes...
My area of the city has a birthday bridge. There are many, many bridges but only one has been designated the bridge from which you hang banners. Don't be hanging your happy birthday, happy retirement or will you marry me from any of those random bridges, it goes on the red abandoned railway bridge over the fire station. Anyone else have that? And no, that bridge isn't remotely central or near a popular hangout, it's literally over the fire station access road.
In Miami Beach, we used to have a guy with a rooster; but then someone complained to the city and the rooster is - and the guy is - no more. Everyone hate on the haters. They're a blight.
Ours is "Old Salty" -- at least that is what my husband and I named him. He's like 80, stands in front of his house and waves at everyone who drives by. He also rides his bike everywhere and waves to passers-by. If you're really lucky, he'll ask for $5 without explanation and with no offer to pay it back. That's Old Salty.
This is why I miss living in Atlanta. You get horseback jesus and at least 300 different characters in addition. And they hang out at stoplights. My favorite was coked out robot man.
I don’t live in a city or neighborhood or anything like that so I can’t relate
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 ?
The Future People
Anyone Know The Meme?
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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