People Speculate How They Would Turn Lies Into Money

As Dr. House taught us, “everybody lies.”

He was able to turn that not-quite-epiphany alongside a fictitiously brilliant medical mind into big bucks and huge clout.

But what about those of us who failed chemistry or whatever? How might we spin lies into cash? Maybe through a scenario like this?

Every time someone lies to you, $100 gets deposited to your bank account. What is the fastest way for you to get rich? from AskReddit

Let’s get creative with the people of Reddit.

1. Psychics.

Walk down the alley of fortune tellers and future psychics.

I’m interested in two things: if they lie, I get $100 rather quickly; if they are telling the truth, then I found something game changing.

– crispybaconsalad

2. The DMV.

Go to work.

I work at my local DMV office and people can and will lie about everything.

– mommy876

3. Cut people in.

just say “tell me a lie and I’ll give you 10 bucks, no questions asked. Doesn’t even matter the lie, just tell me a lie.”

It would be a great YouTube video too.

– Nroke1

4. Rekindle a flame.

Get back together with my ex.

I figure in one month alone I’ll be a multimillionaire, sky’s the limit.

– MAXIMILIAN-MV

5. The pharmacy.

Go to work.

I’m a pharmacist, people lie to me (and themselves) all day, every day.

I wouldn’t have to keep working for long.

– thatmedicinegirl

6. Have kids.

I have small children.

Did you hit your brother? Did you break that? Have you brushed your teeth?

2 kids, both lying to each question, I’ll be able to hire a nanny and go sit on a private island within a week

– BaymaxIsMyPatronusv

7. Pretend to have kids.

Show people a picture of an ugly baby and claim that’s your kid.

Everyone says a baby is cute, even when they look like a gremlin that was fed after midnight.

– ChefChopNSlice

8. Enlist!

Go talk to a Marine Corps recruiter.

I mean, that was the old way….now we can just watch anything political on the major new channels

– avidtraveler81

9. Fairytale solutions.

Build a Pinocchio

– Geronimoguy

10. Start a business.

Become a freelance reporter and offer to interview multiple politicians. Or if you just wanna exploit it.

Instead of making it your main income you could just advertise that you’re literally the only reliable and scientifically proven lie detector. That way you can just set open a thing displaying your deposits and ask anyone anything and if is a lie you’ll get a deposit, otherwise you know it’s the truth.

You could literally earn like 50k a day interviewing suspected spies and political prisoners.

– FreenBurgler

11. At church.

Go to a church and start asking people, “How much and what kind of p*rn do you watch?”

– genericname692

12. Have kids.

My kids lie to me dozens of times a day.

I could probably top that, but as it is I literally would pull in about $60k a month.

Not rich per se but definitely richer than anyone I know.

– Painting_Agency

13. Get the vax facts.

Go to an Antivaxxer Facebook page or website and ask them why they think vaccines are bad

If there’s enough Karens, I’ll be swimming in gold after an hour of typing.

– BLizardLeLizard

14. Tools of the trade.

Attend a huge trade show and listen to every sales pitch.

– EmEmAndEye

15. Recursive thinking.

Post “Can you tell me a 1 lie about yourself?” on r/askreddit

– PoinDexter90

And remember, as Dr. House would say, “It’s not lupus.”

Do you have another creative answer to this question?

Hit us with it in the comments.

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May 7, 2021

What Are the Dumbest Lies That People Believed?

We all grow up believing certain lies that our parents, siblings, friends, and enemies tell us.

Some of the lies are big and important, some are little and insignificant, and some are just plain DUMB.

What I’m really trying to say is that we live in a world full of LIARS.

What are the dumbest lies that people actually believed?

Here’s what AskReddit users had to say.

1. How does this work?

“You give birth when the doctor puts a key in your belly button and opens it to get the baby.

Was mindblown a decade later when they told me how kids were actually manufactured.”

2. It’s poisonous!

“Growing up my dad told us kids that eating pie without ice cream was poisonous.

My mom thought it was funny until one day, when my dad was working out of town, she tried to feed us pie without ice cream and we all believed she was trying to poison us and would not eat it.”

3. He got away.

“My dad told me that one time, a leprechaun stole his newspaper off the front porch.

He didn’t get a good look at it, but he saw it running away down the street.

I believed that stupid story for yeeeeears.”

4. You made this?

“My grandma said she worked in a factory that made our Christmas presents.

I… I believed it longer than I care to admit… And I believed it despite knowing what she actually did for a living… I just didn’t put 2 and 2 together because of my tiny child monkey brain.

I was just so humbled and impressed that my nan made this Power Rangers action figure set.”

5. Fraud.

“In the 1800’s, a man named Denis Vrain-Lucas forged tens of thousands of fake letters from historical figures.

He made hundreds of thousands of francs from prominent French collectors by selling documents supposedly written by Biblical figures such as Judas, Mary Magdalene, and Pontius Pilate, and got away with it for years.

This would all be pretty understandable–except that all the letters were written in modern French, on watermarked paper.”

6. Can’t get over this one.

“When I was a toddler, my mom lied to me that when the ice cream van plays music it means that all the ice cream is gone.”

7. Not buying it.

“I was working for a midsized company.

One day we had a company meeting where the CEO gave a speech where someone asked if they were going to put in cubicles. The CEO swore that there would never be cubicles at a company he ran. We all believed him.

Three weeks later workers showed up and started assembling cubicles. Then we had meetings with our mangers where it was explained to us that they were not cubicles. They were ‘work stations’ and anyone who said the word cubicles would be fired.”

8. A popular one.

“For whatever reason, I went on for years thinking you just couldn’t turn the lights inside the car on.

One night, I was eighteen years old and went to drive home from work. I saw some cops on the side of the road and didn’t realize my overhead lights were on until I had already passed them.

I panicked and started wondering why they weren’t chasing me, but I guess that was the night where I figured it’s actually okay to have those lights on.”

9. I believed it!

“That gum took 7 years to digest if we accidentally swallowed it.

An older kid I knew also perpetuated this lie by telling me he had to get surgery to remove a big wad of gum that had accumulated in his stomach.

His mom backed him up.”

10. Compulsive liar.

“When I was a kid there was a guy maybe about 10 years older than me in our church.

He worked at a grocery store and drove a Camaro. we thought he was the coolest guy in the world. He was telling us that Phil Jackson would go into the grocery store all of the time and they were friends. This is believable since Phil lives in the area and most people have encountered him at least one time.

Phil told Camaro guy that Shaq and Kobe were coming to the area to stay with him and they needed someone to come play with them to keep their skills sharp. Camaro guy said he wanted to go but couldn’t because he had to work his minimum wage job.

At the time us kids were extremely impressed with this. As I got older and wiser, I realized there was no way Shaq and Kobe needed a 5’7″ overweight grocery store clerk to keep them NBA ready.”

11. Don’t drink that.

“That drinking pickle juice will dry your blood up.

My mom told me that (we’re from the South we believe a lot of stupid stuff). IDK where my mom got it.

When I pointed it out to my High School Home Ec teacher she just looked at me like I was a moron… and I was an honor student.

It’s actually good for muscle cramps.”

12. You fell for that?

“My dad had weird rules to music.

For the longest time I believe that Spotify would make me lose my hearing beacuse he told me that the app used a certain frequency that the army used to torment POWs.

Turned out he just didn’t like the fact I was listen to music he hadn’t pre approved.”

13. Very controversial.

“That Mormonism (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) was the one “True Church” even though everything it claims about itself is either a fraud or a lie according to all extant evidence.”

What do you think are some of the dumbest lies that people have believed?

Sound off in the comments.

Please and thank you!

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May 7, 2021

People Talk About Dumb Lies That Folks Believed

I still remember some of the dumb lies I believed when I was a kid.

If you swallowed gum, it would get stuck in your stomach and you’d have to have it surgically removed. And then there were the fake stories about certain rock stars and actors and the incident with the gerbil…do you remember that one?

My point is, there are a ton of dumb lies floating around there and every generation has their own version of the old classics.

Folks took to AskReddit to discuss the dumb lies that folks out there believe.

Let’s check them out!

1. Propaganda.

“That carrots help vision. It was WWII propaganda.

“…the British government—aided and abetted by Walt Disney—told Britons that eating carrots could sharpen their eyesight and help win the war…. Portraying carrots as a night vision-enhancing superfood had another benefit—hiding a secretive English radar technology from the Naz**.”

2. A hard truth.

“The American dream of “If you go to college, work hard and study hard you can have a good job, great life and be happy”.

That’s not how reality works.

A lot of the times it’s a mixture of dumb luck, right place/right time and/or nepotism.”

3. How it really went down.

“Galileo was burned for saying the earth revolved around the sun.

He was actually excommunicated for mocking the pope…

A pope that was supportive of his work.”

4. So ridiculous.

“That the wind turbines that failed in Texas this winter are proof that wind power is not reliable.

Fox viewers believe that to this day.”

5. Is that a lie?

“That you need to drink 8 glasses of water a day.

I cant even drink 8 glasses of anything else.”

6. No more.

“Growing up my mom always told me that i have to eat two bananas together because if I eat just one the banana won’t give me any potassium.

It takes two bananas to work together to activate the potassium release.

I just stopped eating bananas.”

7. Not true.

“You have to go to college if you want a good paying job, otherwise you’ll be working as a garbage man.

Trade schools exist and garbage men make a pretty decent salary.”

8. Fell for it.

“My grandfather told me he got his gold tooth from not putting his tongue in the area he lost his baby tooth from.

I’d try to get a gold tooth every time but I’d always cave at like a day or two.”

9. Disproven!

“That your tongue has 5 taste ‘bud’ centers, each in different areas of the tongue.

They made us do a taste test in jr high.

I couldn’t taste what the hell they were talking about.

Since been disproven.”

10. Is it out there…?

“Bigfoot.

Dumb enough to get a primetime tv show called Finding Bigfoot, too.”

11. I remember this one.

“When I was in elementary school, we were always told that the fire alarms would squirt ink on your hands if you pulled them.

Fast forward to me as a teacher in my 20s. A kid pulled the fire alarm. The principal mentioned pulling video footage to find out who did it. I told my principal “just look for the kid with ink on their hands!”

My principal was confused at my comment until I gave more detail. It was only then that I realized I still believed a lie told in elementary school!”

12. Sorry…

“That there are hot singles in my area looking to meet me.”

13. Misinformation.

“Unions are bad for workers.

My job is unionized and we get 4 breaks, $22/hr, basically f**king free health care (a guy got 4 X-rays and paid nothing) and the company is still profitable.

Don’t let the rich pigs tell you otherwise. Unionize your workplace.”

Okay, it’s confession time.

In the comments, tell us about the dumbest lie that YOU ever believed.

We can’t wait to hear from you!

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May 7, 2021

People Discuss Really Dumb Lies That People Actually Believed

I remember the dumbest lie I ever believed when I was young.

A kid in my neighborhood had a whole group of us mesmerized one day at the bus stop telling us his epic story…the night before, he had actually seen THE FREAKIN’ EASTER BUNNY hop out of his house.

Yes, the night before was Easter, so it totally made sense to our second-grade brains. We were all blown away…and apparently, we were also pretty dumb.

AskReddit users talked about the dumb lies that folks actually believed. Let’s dive in!

1. Gramps.

“My grandpa told me this story of those signs that warn for falling rocks on the road.

He said a Native American chief put them up in an attempt to find his estranged son named Falling Rock. Every time I saw those signs I would look for him, only to be told years later that he made the whole thing up.

Man, I was a dumb kid.”

2. Spy games.

“In middle school, rumor was that I was a Russian spy.

Literally everyone believed it and ignored me for the next month, since they don’t want to leak information about themselves to Russia.”

3. A lot of this going around.

“A government providing financial aid to citizens in need (even during a global health and economic crisis) is a form of Communism and should never even be considered.

To be clear, I never believed this, but many others do.”

4. Okay…

“I heard this one a couple times when I was a kid:

“God is so precise in his designs that if the earth was a few inches closer or farther away from the sun we’d burn down or freeze.””

5. A tall tale.

“My grandpa used to tell me that story where he went to hunt one day and, as he was focused on hunting, a snake ate his leg.

Then he cut her open from head to tail in a rage attack but felt guilty after a while and sew her together again. She ran away and his leg grew back some time later.

Why I believed that, I have no clue.”

6. Ouch!

“When I was around 4, my older brother told me that since we were in a house with no chimney, we had to leave the door unlocked for Santa to get in on Christmas Eve.

We forgot and were robbed a month later.”

7. Red scare.

“”If South Vietnam falls, next week the whole world will be Commies”

And its sequel: Vietnam War 2: Middle Eastern Boogaloo.”

8. Carpe Diem?

“”Live life in the moment.”

High school and college loved to teach us that Carpe Diem stuff. Like, no bud, reflect on the past, dream and plan for the future.”

9. That’s why.

“In high school a student asked why the American soldiers in WWII got the nickname dough boy.

I said because when they were in France they would visit the French women and love the French bread so much they kept coming back. This is also why we have the Pillsbury dough boy.

This explanation was quickly shot down by my teacher but for just a moment I had them.”

10. I see what you did there.

“A few thousand years ago, a group of lunatics in the desert decided that there was a Big Man in the Sky that wanted them to k**l any person who didn’t agree with them about the exact qualities of The Big Man in the Sky.

Over the years they came to also believe that The Big Man in the Sky would send you to burn for all eternity if you mast**bated, but was perfectly fine with slavery.

Unfortunately many people still believe this lie.”

11. Have some!

“My stepdad always drank this vegetable juice so he could lose weight, but for years he told us it was blood and always tried to get us to have a sip, we would cry almost every time he tried to get us to have a sip.

I believed this for years until I actually bothered to read the bottle and realized it was just vegetable juice.”

12. Don’t touch that…

“My husband’s dad told him that the hazard light button was the “self-destruct button” of the car.

First time he saw the hazard lights get turned on, it terrified him.”

Okay, now it’s your turn, friends.

In the comments, please tell us about the dumbest lie that you actually believed.

Let’s do this!

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December 8, 2020

People Share Stories About Little Lies They Told That Snowballed Into a Big Mess

Tell me if you’ve had this happen to you before: you tell a lie, a little white lie, that fib catches on, and then, before you know it, the whole thing has spread like wildfire and taken on a life of its own.

And then the situation spirals out of control!

Yes, it happens from time to time, even to the best of us.

Are you ready to hear some interesting tales?

Let’s check out some stories from AskReddit users.

1. Hilarious.

“Young co-worker and his sister would play practical jokes on each other.

She put an exploding “cigarette load” in one of his cigarettes.

He discovered it, stopped by drugstore on way home and bought an eyepatch. Went to a bar to kill some time, called home and told mom cig exploded and he was at emergency.

Unknown to him, sis confesses to mom, mom slaps her upside head and much tears and sadness and anger all around.

Co worker goes home with eye patch on, unaware of turmoil.

Much sympathy and apologies and crying, even nearby relatives had come to house to berate sister.

Co-worker has to wear eye patch for six weeks, never ‘fessed up.”

2. Ouch…

“I can’t go to your party because I’m feeling sick tonight.

A few hour later, my friends are knocking at my door with chicken soup when all I wanted was a quiet evening to read and mast*rbate.”

3. Storytime.

“Okay so I was trying to get my lying calibration with a budding drug addiction in early adolescence and figuring out when to hold/when to fold. Like, when do you make sh*t up and when do you lie by omission, right?

So one night I come home and just book it past my parents because I am far too high to deal with them. I have cinnabar eyes and sniffles, its a bit much. Last time of “say nothing” erupted so I just made something up quick so I could go to my room without being bothered.

When asked “Why are your eyes so red?” I blurted out with 0 thought “SETH’S SISTER HAS CANCER!” and kept sniffling then shut the door.

Seth is an only child. This story had to evolve with his assistance every time I saw him. I made him participate.

Mom asked me about “Rebecca” regularly for like, a decade.

Im 13 years clean in October. Theres this whole thing about making amends unless to do so would injure them or others, and since mom would murder Seth for going along with it, I have said nothing. She hasn’t asked about it in maybe 5 years so I don’t feel as bad anymore.

I’m an awful person, but for what its worth, Rebecca is in remission now and has a beautiful family.”

4. You monster.

“I was a little devil. So my family from my mother’s side is Mexican. All of my cousins are blonde and/or very, very light-skinned including myself.

I went to stay there for a summer when I was around 6-7 and my cousins and I spent a full day at a nearby pool with a bunch of other kids. I was used to bringing sun screen in my back pack, but my cousins didn’t even think about it since no one else was using sunscreen.

As the day ended most of the other kids were okay, maybe just a little more tanned. My cousins had major sunburns and were crying. One of them asked how come I was fine. Instead of showing them my sunscreen and aloe vera lotion I told them I used the same thing we used for mosquito bites-lemon. Yes, they tried it.

It resulted in 6 kids full of blisters and no birthday party for me that year. After my first real sunburn I realize how much of a monster I am.”

5. Liar!

“I was 13 and I used to have a paper round and I couldn’t be bothered to deliver one evening.

So I decided to dump them and told the paper shop owner that I had my delivery bag stolen from me when I went to start my route.

They then asked me a few questions and then the police got involved and even went round in the police car to where it “happened” and if I knew who did it.”

6. That’s him!

“My academic department had a booth at a comic con for recruitment and research. A guy was cosplaying as George RR Martin (writer of Game of Thrones).

He looked a lot like George RR Martin, was wearing the signature black hat and carrying a copy of one of the books. We had him sit at our booth for photos as a joke.

People started to line up for his autograph. Then he started to sign books, then he started to give writing and life advice. It went on for far too long and I was dying the whole time since I technically was at work.

If George RR Martin signed your book at Tampa Bay Comic Con, I have bad news for you.”

7. Bad experience.

“I told a girl I had a gf after she messaged me saying she wanted to hookup, and she then threatened to kill herself and take me with her, along with threatening my “gf”.

I alerted my school, and they sent a social worker to talk to her. fast forward a few weeks I had to change classes, deactivated my Instagram, and almost filed a restraining order. At the time, I was a sophomore and she was a senior.

Worst experience of my life.”

8. Busted!

“Called out sick from work then a few hours later I got pulled over for speeding right across the street from the plaza where I work.

Needless to say all my coworkers saw it.”

9. You scored!

“Called in to work just wanting a day off after a month of blackout days.

Said I feeling sick and next thing I know I’m filling out a “Self Report” for Covid-19 with a full week off work, signing up for a Covid test the next day, and having to explain to people why I’m home when I’m usually not.

All in all it turned out nice because I really enjoyed that week off, but I wasn’t expecting all the extras that came with.”

10. Passing the lie down.

“I was driving somewhere with my friend’s fiancee. Up ahead I could see a dead skunk on the side of the road so I switched the AC from vent to recycle.

She looked at me confused and asked why I did that. I lied for the fun of it and said we were in kind of a marshy area with lots of bugs and I didn’t want them to get into the car through the vent.

Flash forward 10 years and I’m driving somewhere with my friend’s wife and she reaches over and switches the AC from vent to recycle. I ask her why and she explains there are a lot of bugs in the area and she doesn’t want them getting into the car. I’m about to educate her that that isn’t how it works and then suddenly I remember… oh… so I just leave it alone.

Flash forward 10 more years and I’m driving somewhere with my friend’s teenage daughter and she reaches over and switches the AC from vent to recycle… uh-oh.”

11. Jimothy.

“I worked at a rather large medical facility with a staff of several thousand, in a position that had contact with pretty much everybody in every department.

I had a coworker named Jim, and one night I was talking to some random nurse, and she referred to him as James. I asked who James was, and she said you know, Jim? He’s on your shift? I laughed and said, “His name isn’t James, it’s Jimothy.”

That spread like wildfire, that this poor bastard’s real name was Jimothy. This was probably 2003. I left that job in 2010. I’ve been assured by many people, including Jimothy himself, that the majority of the staff actually believe his name is Jimothy.

And this has been passed down to new employees in the oral tradition.”

12. It’s my birthday!

“I was backpacking Australia by myself for several months.

At some point I realized that telling people it’s my birthday is an instant ice breaker and great way to make quick friends/drinking buddies. It worked great in several cities and was fairly harmless… For a while.

I took an overnight bus to a new city and my hostel was supposed to pick me up at the bus station, but they weren’t there when I arrived. I called them to confirm they were on the way. When they finally showed up, apologizing profusely, I said something like, “no worries. I’m just exhausted from the bus journey and it’s my birthday tomorrow”

Well… They upgraded my stay (from a bunk bed to a queen bed), gave me a free dinner and paid for my club crawl pass for that evening. I immediately felt guilty but was way past the point of no return.

I made fast friends with other people at the hostel and we all piled into a bus for the club crawl. After a bit, people started pulling out their passports to compare horrible passport photos.

I knew that the birthdate listed on my passport was not the current date we were celebrating my “birthday” so I decided to be proactive and head it off at the pass.

I told them that my father worked for the government but I didn’t know specifically what his job was. And a few years back, my entire family had to move and change all our details on our passports. Our last name spelling was changed, birthdate, etc. Everybody believed me, and they were gutted that we couldn’t announce to the bouncers that it was my birthday.

We walked in to the club and I came face to face with a group of guys I’d met at a different city a week ago… Who I’d also told it was my birthday, a week ago. I just breezed past that detail by saying it’s my birth week.

Anyway, it was a fun night out, nobody suspected me for a filthy liar and it was probably my favorite spot in Australia.”

13. Trilingual.

“Something funny rather than negative happened a while back.

I lied by adding I speak a third language fluently, that’s ‘Tamil’ on my CV (my country’s two main languages are Sinhala and Tamil). My work colleagues thought I was cool for being trilingual and made me teach them to swear in both languages. The third language had poorly pronounced words but I was enjoying the attention.

Eventually, there was a big chance to secure a deal with a client who spoke Tamil. My boss specifically brought me to the trip and introduced us and jokingly said ‘now talk in Tamil!’.

I thought I was f*cked and decided to speak in my second native language (Sinhala), thinking confidence can sell, right? The bugger spoke back to me in Sinhala! I explained the lie to him. Luckily it went well and we both laughed it off in front of my boss.

My workplace still thinks I’m trilingual.”

Has something like this ever happened to you?

Well, don’t keep the story to yourself! Tell us about it in the comments.

Please and thank you!

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June 23, 2020

People Admit Propaganda They Used to Buy Into, but Later Realized Was BS

These days, a lot of people live in complete echo chambers and they never hear any dissenting opinions or information AT ALL.

And sometimes those echo chambers are filled with misinformation, lies, fake news, and absolute BULLSHIT.

But that’s how propaganda works.

And that’s just the world we live in right now.

Let’s hear from some AskReddit users who talk about how they used to buy into certain propaganda only to later learn that it was total BS.

1. YOU’RE the idiot.

“When I was a teenager I thought that everyone over 30 is old and doesn’t understand me.

I was a fucking idiot.

It’s something in the brain chemistry but to the teenager, life experience is irrelevant because that life took place before I was born and therefore is now out of date and not in the slightest but applicable to me.”

2. Pretty rare, actually.

“That most people achieve success in their lives during their 20’s. This is bullshit in the grander scheme of things. Lots of super talented people end up becoming successful in their late 30’s, 40’s, and even 50’s.

The same goes for the concept of “If you want to get good at something, you have to start super young..” Which does SOMETIMES work. But a lot of people can actually get good at a skill in older ages.

You can learn the Piano in your 30’s, and get really good at it. But you’re not going to be doing concerts or anything. But it doesn’t mean that you’re not good/great/exceptional at it.”

3. Not true!

“That carrots give you exceptional night vision.

I later found out that that particular belief became widely accepted due to a British propaganda campaign from world war II designed to hide the invention of radar from the Germans. They claimed that the reason their air force pilots were so effective at night was due to them being fed carrots to increase their night vision. It was so effective that people still tout that particular benefit of carrots years after the war ended.

Edit, a couple corrections: While carrots are rich in vitamin a which helps prevent your eyesight from deteriorating, they still do not give superhuman vision like the propaganda claimed. The myth isn’t that they are good for your eyesight. It is an exaggeration of how effective they actually are.

Also I was incorrect when I said that the British were trying to cover up the invention of radar. They were in actuality trying to cover up an an advancement in radar technology that they didn’t want the Germans finding out about.”

4. Cult life.

“I was born into the cult of jehovahs witnesses. I left at 25 when I found out the leaders were covering up child abuse and then instead of changing their rules to protect victims they enforced their archaic rules and then told elders to burn and delete any evidence relating to past cases.

Sick bastards, but Ofc I get shunned and disowned and called a worker of Satan, an agent of the devil, a spiritual warrior committing acts of warfare against god sent to dissuade gods chosen people from the one true god….(who’s chosen peoples leaders cover up child abuse. ) when all I did was try to show my friends and family the multitude of court cases against them

Least I got a badass title.”

5. Accept it.

“Trivial but I bought into the lie that the more you cut hair, the more it grows. I’ve been shaving my beard for years hoping to get a nice thick bush to no avail.

I just have to accept that nature played me and deal with my patchy face hair.”

6. Imagine that! Reading!

“Anti-vax. At one point I was completely sold on the whole “how can you inject infants with dangerous chemicals” thing.

Then I read up on the actual science and realised how uninformed I was.”

7. GMOs.

“GMOs are dangerous for your health.

Not only is the idea that they’re bad bullshit, the global food supply would be more expensive, less plentiful, and poor parts of the world would experience more frequent, prolonged shortages of crucial items if it weren’t for GMOs.”

8. Not for everyone.

“That the only way to achieve success in life is to study hard, get top grades, and go to university and study something like law or medicine.

Plenty of people I know have achieved success and happiness without top university education. I also believed the idea that the career you study for is for life.”

9. Conspiracy theory.

“I totally bought into that ridiculous Denver airport conspiracy for a few months after a friend showed me it in high school.”

10. Going on a mission.

“Mission trips are for helping others…. really it’s just a huge ego boost for many people who want to exploit people’s needs to feel better about themselves.

Plus the whole part where it might actually be more harmful than helpful…”

11. Chiropractors.

“I had always thought chiropractors were bullshit, but what confirmed it for me was when one day after hurting my back a friend recommended I try it and I thought “meh I guess it’s worth checking out at least.”

So I called but forgot it was a Sunday and they were closed, but I left my name and number saying I was interested in making an appointment. While I was at work the next day and couldn’t answer, the chiropractor left me about 7 or 8 voicemails, each one sounding like one of those gym sales people trying to get you to join.

After that I was like yeah no legit healthcare place would be trying to sell me this hard on making an appointment offering this discount or the other just to get me in the door.”

12. Just say no!

“The anti drug campaigns we all had to listen to as a kid.

The cop that came to my school to give our anti drug talks ended up drinking himself to death at 51.

Guess no one told him alcohol was more dangerous than what he was telling us not to take.”

13. Total fiasco.

“Iraq had WMDs.

I believed it well before Bush came into office. I would read in the paper how even during the Clinton era that Saddam would block actively block weapon inspectors. To me, that sounded like he was hiding something. I still believed it months after the invasion.

Then the truth started coming out, ‘Curveball’ was some taxi driver that made shit up, Cheney outed a CIA agent because she found out that Iraq wasn’t going for nuclear material and it went against their narrative. It would be one thing if they have bad intel, but this was intentionally falsified intel to justify their war.”

14. Too bad a lot of people still believe this shit.

“I used to be big into conspiracy. Alex Jones was right, Clinton’s are actually alien lizard people, and all sorts of crazy stuff.

I even believed Obama was a secret agent Muslim going to install martial law and kill all non muslims. It got to the point I was even considering grabbing guns, I even thought about if I attacked a mosque that I could help stop the Muslim takeover.

It took so long to get my mind straight. It’s a slippery slope, and it’s not something I want anyone to go down on.”

15. Not getting laid.

“I bought into the abstinence-until-marriage crap in middle school, when they made you sign all the fancy pamphlets about why it’s the right thing to do. Really felt it would stop my fellow classmates from having sex until marriage.

My belief in that fell apart in high school. A teammate on my football team would tell stories in the pregame time for JV games about how he had banged some girl the other week. I can still remember 3 specific stories, one of which was how he had sex while wearing a ziplock baggie instead of a condom.”

16. Politics as usual.

“Everyone on my political spectrum are all good and everyone on the other side are terrible people who have absolutely nothing to offer in a discussion and no valid opinions”

In middle school, they made us take political party quizzes to see what we would vote. It became this whole us vs them atmosphere. This only became worse when my parents would be talking about the other side like they were all idiots.

I firmly believed growing up that anyone opposite to me on the political spectrum are evil, dumb people and any points that may align with them are bad. I believed you had to be all or nothing. I was very closed minded.”

Very interesting perspectives in there, that’s for sure.

How about you?

Did you previously believe wholeheartedly in things that you later realized were not true or even total BS?

If so, please share your stories with us in the comments.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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September 7, 2019

10 Teens Who Caught Their Bffs in Really Bad Lies

There are people you should never lie to, most notably your best friend.

But what happens when the tables are turned and you discover that your best friends are lying to you?

The following confessions come from teenagers who caught their besties in RIDICULOUS lies…

1. How were you going to get away with this?!?

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2. Well, not mad at this smart ass bitch…

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3. So fucked up. Jeezus…

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4. OMFG!!!

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5. Horrible!

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6. NEVER lie about mental illness.

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7. If you do this, you’re a COMPLETE piece of shit.

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8. Not mad at this bestie either…

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9. Not your bestie then…

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10. Wow. That’s cold.

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Have a story where your BFF turned out not to be? Share in the comments!

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July 23, 2019

10+ Times Propaganda Was so Successful, People Still Believe It Today

This question was asked on Reddit: Which propaganda effort was so successful, people still believe it today?

Over 22,000 comments later, we’ve got 13 gems to share.

Enjoy!

13. Hot coffee

That the old woman who sued McDonald’s over burning herself with her coffee was just money hungry

For clarity: an elderly woman was a passenger in a car, pulled over in the lot to add sugar after getting a coffee and it spilled all over her lap. It burned her really bad and she just set out to get McDonald’s to pay her hospital bills bc they served the coffee way too hot.

They ended up launching this whole PR campaign where they smeared this poor lady, even taking out spots in local papers over how silly and money hungry she was.

Comedians, musicians, and radio hosts made fun of her and made her out to be money hungry instead of a victim.

12. That dandelions are weeds.

I recently discovered that these pretty yellow flowers were re-classified as weeds because of lawn culture and some successful marketing by herbicide companies.

Dandelions have been used in food and medicine for centuries.

11. Lie detector tests are accurate.

They’re junk science at best.

People, when the inventor of the device and procedures used is on record saying it’s crap, we should probably listen.

Looking at you, Florida, for allowing LD test results as evidence in court.

10. Jewish myths

I am from Germany and some of my grandparents still believe the stuff they were told about Jews by the Nazis.

Like when a jewish person dies on a christian holiday they get hung behind the door and everyone who comes in has to spit on him.

It’s some vile stuff. I can’t believe how they were spoon fed with this in their early years.

Another one I remember is that they were told that at a jewish funeral, the dead person gets a stone put in their pocket, so if they cross Jesus in the afterlife they can throw it at him.

9. Cleopatra

Cleoptra was a slut who became powerful only by sex appeal.

Contemporary and unbiased sources actually suggest she was rather plain, but it was her intellect and charming conversation that got her power. Also, as far as sexual relations go, her affairs with Julius Caesar and Antony, as well as her traditional marriages to her brothers, aren’t bad compared to the well-known affairs of some other figures, especially Antony.

Defaming Cleopatra made her easier to demonize and portray as a seductress ruling over Antony, making war easier for Octavian.

8. Drinking fountains are unhealthy.

The bottled beverage industry commissioned and publicized a series of studies in the early 1990s when they decided to get into the bottled water business. The problem was that their largest competitor was free and available in schools, parks, and public buildings everywhere.

Anyone who took even a semester of biology knows that if you walk around and swab and culture anything, you’ll find that it’s covered in bacteria. That’s ecology on planet Earth.

7. Not a fan of fans

Many Korean people believe that fans can cause death.

Even my mother, who moved to America in her mid teens, still prohibits me from leaving a fan on overnight for fear of death. There is a conspiracy theory that the South Korean government spread this myth as propaganda to prevent energy overusage, but it’s origins are unknown.

It’s strange that many Koreans believe this myth considering it is one of the most technologically advanced countries.

6. The whitest teeth

People should know that a healthy set of teeth doesn’t mean they’re perfectly white. Super white teeth are not even normal.

Our enamel will slowly become more translucent as we age, revealing the colour of the dentin (which is yellow) underneath it.

Thats why as we get older, our teeth will become yellower.

Doesn’t mean they’re not healthy or unclean.

5. Carrots make your vision better

This rumour was started in WW2 to hide the invention of RADAR.

The public was told that allied pilots found the German bombers during the blitz because they had good eyesight because they ate their carrots.

But in reality it was that the British had an early RADAR system in place that they did not want the Germans to find out about and bomb.

4. The MSG myth

MSG will kill you and is horrible to ingest, “I’m allergic to MSG”

Really, it is delicious and your body produces it naturally while breaking down regular salt.

Some people do have sodium issues, and it may not be good for them. But that’s a tiny micro-percentage of people.

3. Autism and vaccines

Andrew Wakefield, a former gastroenterologist and the man responsible for this anti-vax shit show, originally wanted to prove that vaccines were responsible for bowel disease as well as linking it to autism.

He was put through a tribunal by the GMC, it was found that not only had he lied about his research, but was found to have committed 12 acts of abuse against developmentally disabled children after he put them through unnecessary and invasive procedures.

To try and prove that vaccines were responsible for autism and bowel disease, he put young children through unnecessary colonoscopies and lumbar punctures (spinal taps).

He was struck off from the Medical Register and is no longer allowed to practice medicine. He continues to make a living promoting and speaking at anti-vaccine propaganda events. People should remember that. Anti-vaxers are looking to an abuser found to have put developmentally disabled children through unnecessary medical procedures for advice.

Let’s not understate how much of a piece of shit the man is.

2. Don’t cop to it…

That if you ask if someone is a cop, if they are a cop they legally are required to say yes they are.

Of course they aren’t required to, that defeats the entire purpose of working undercover!

1. The lie that nuclear power is terrible.

It is worse than renewables, however instead of chucking huge quantities of dangerous waste into the air like a coal power plant, it can all be contained, and 95% can be reprocessed into new fuel. In the 60s and 70s, a lot of oil giants used advertising to link it’s reputation to the very real danger of nuclear weapons, and if this hadn’t have happened, global warming would have been much less of an issue. Very few people realise that coal power actually causes more deaths per MW than nuclear power due to nitrous oxide emissions, even when Chenoble is included in the statistics.

Edit: A lot of people are saying that nuclear is as good, or possibly better than renewables. I agree that at the moment, for baseline power, it is better, and we should be using it a lot more. In the long term though, I think that renewable are a better solution due to not needing refueling, and needing less oversight (once production of the power plants themselves becomes cleaner and better storage solutions are devised).

What are some myths you’ve believed in the past?

Have you ever tried to question your own beliefs?

Do tell!

The post 10+ Times Propaganda Was so Successful, People Still Believe It Today appeared first on UberFacts.

July 23, 2019

10+ Times Propaganda Was so Successful, People Still Believe It Today

This question was asked on Reddit: Which propaganda effort was so successful, people still believe it today?

Over 22,000 comments later, we’ve got 13 gems to share.

Enjoy!

13. Hot coffee

That the old woman who sued McDonald’s over burning herself with her coffee was just money hungry

For clarity: an elderly woman was a passenger in a car, pulled over in the lot to add sugar after getting a coffee and it spilled all over her lap. It burned her really bad and she just set out to get McDonald’s to pay her hospital bills bc they served the coffee way too hot.

They ended up launching this whole PR campaign where they smeared this poor lady, even taking out spots in local papers over how silly and money hungry she was.

Comedians, musicians, and radio hosts made fun of her and made her out to be money hungry instead of a victim.

12. That dandelions are weeds.

I recently discovered that these pretty yellow flowers were re-classified as weeds because of lawn culture and some successful marketing by herbicide companies.

Dandelions have been used in food and medicine for centuries.

11. Lie detector tests are accurate.

They’re junk science at best.

People, when the inventor of the device and procedures used is on record saying it’s crap, we should probably listen.

Looking at you, Florida, for allowing LD test results as evidence in court.

10. Jewish myths

I am from Germany and some of my grandparents still believe the stuff they were told about Jews by the Nazis.

Like when a jewish person dies on a christian holiday they get hung behind the door and everyone who comes in has to spit on him.

It’s some vile stuff. I can’t believe how they were spoon fed with this in their early years.

Another one I remember is that they were told that at a jewish funeral, the dead person gets a stone put in their pocket, so if they cross Jesus in the afterlife they can throw it at him.

9. Cleopatra

Cleoptra was a slut who became powerful only by sex appeal.

Defaming Cleopatra made her easier to demonize and portray as a seductress ruling over Antony, making war easier for Octavian.

8. Drinking fountains are unhealthy.

The bottled beverage industry commissioned and publicized a series of studies in the early 1990s when they decided to get into the bottled water business. The problem was that their largest competitor was free and available in schools, parks, and public buildings everywhere.

Anyone who took even a semester of biology knows that if you walk around and swab and culture anything, you’ll find that it’s covered in bacteria. That’s ecology on planet Earth.

7. Not a fan of fans

Many Korean people believe that fans can cause death.

Even my mother, who moved to America in her mid teens, still prohibits me from leaving a fan on overnight for fear of death. There is a conspiracy theory that the South Korean government spread this myth as propaganda to prevent energy overusage, but it’s origins are unknown.

It’s strange that many Koreans believe this myth considering it is one of the most technologically advanced countries.

6. The whitest teeth

People should know that a healthy set of teeth doesn’t mean they’re perfectly white. Super white teeth are not even normal.

Our enamel will slowly become more translucent as we age, revealing the colour of the dentin (which is yellow) underneath it.

Thats why as we get older, our teeth will become yellower.

Doesn’t mean they’re not healthy or unclean.

5. Carrots make your vision better

This rumour was started in WW2 to hide the invention of RADAR.

The public was told that allied pilots found the German bombers during the blitz because they had good eyesight because they ate their carrots.

But in reality it was that the British had an early RADAR system in place that they did not want the Germans to find out about and bomb.

4. The MSG myth

MSG will kill you and is horrible to ingest, “I’m allergic to MSG”

Really, it is delicious and your body produces it naturally while breaking down regular salt.

Some people do have sodium issues, and it may not be good for them. But that’s a tiny micro-percentage of people.

3. Autism and vaccines

Andrew Wakefield, a former gastroenterologist and the man responsible for this anti-vax shit show, originally wanted to prove that vaccines were responsible for bowel disease as well as linking it to autism.

He was put through a tribunal by the GMC, it was found that not only had he lied about his research, but was found to have committed 12 acts of abuse against developmentally disabled children after he put them through unnecessary and invasive procedures.

To try and prove that vaccines were responsible for autism and bowel disease, he put young children through unnecessary colonoscopies and lumbar punctures (spinal taps).

He was struck off from the Medical Register and is no longer allowed to practice medicine. He continues to make a living promoting and speaking at anti-vaccine propaganda events. People should remember that. Anti-vaxers are looking to an abuser found to have put developmentally disabled children through unnecessary medical procedures for advice.

Let’s not understate how much of a piece of shit the man is.

2. Don’t cop to it…

That if you ask if someone is a cop, if they are a cop they legally are required to say yes they are.

Of course they aren’t required to, that defeats the entire purpose of working undercover!

1. The lie that nuclear power is terrible.

It is worse than renewables, however instead of chucking huge quantities of dangerous waste into the air like a coal power plant, it can all be contained, and 95% can be reprocessed into new fuel. In the 60s and 70s, a lot of oil giants used advertising to link it’s reputation to the very real danger of nuclear weapons, and if this hadn’t have happened, global warming would have been much less of an issue. Very few people realise that coal power actually causes more deaths per MW than nuclear power due to nitrous oxide emissions, even when Chenoble is included in the statistics.

Edit: A lot of people are saying that nuclear is as good, or possibly better than renewables. I agree that at the moment, for baseline power, it is better, and we should be using it a lot more. In the long term though, I think that renewable are a better solution due to not needing refueling, and needing less oversight (once production of the power plants themselves becomes cleaner and better storage solutions are devised).

What are some myths you’ve believed in the past?

Have you ever tried to question your own beliefs?

Do tell!

The post 10+ Times Propaganda Was so Successful, People Still Believe It Today appeared first on UberFacts.

April 13, 2019

14 People Who are Lying, But We Don’t Care Because They’re Funny

We’ve all seen them. Those bullshit, humble brags on social media that we all know are lies. But some are actually legit hilarious because they’re so ridiculous.

Today, we’re bringing together 14 of the dopest, dankest, nonsensical social media lies people have posted – because why not? It’s time to laugh. What more reason do we need besides that?

Let’s go!