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Published 17:07 24 Mar 2018 GMT
While some of us take longer than others, we all eventually find out that Santa Claus isn't real and that it was really your parents who were putting coins under your pillowcase, not the tooth fairy (sorry, if I've just dropped that on you). The point is that we all get there in the end, and boy do we feel silly later in life for having believed characters like that existed.
But it turns out there are a bunch of other things people thought really existed for years before they found out they weren't real. The people of Reddit have shared the most embarrassing things they used to believe in, and they are hilarious. Here are 8 of the best.
1. Acting would've seemed one of the bravest careers
"When I was a kid, I thought that when someone died in a movie, that they actually died (for real). When I would watch a movie in which someone died, I would always wonder to myself, 'was this role worth dying for (especially if it was a terrible movie, or if they were just an extra)? how did the actor come to the decision that this would be their last role?' And I would feel sad for the actor that they couldn’t make movies, or be alive, anymore."
2. Terrifying
"My mother used to tell my sister and me about 'tunnels' inside stores where they sent misbehaving children in an attempt to get us to behave.. she had us fooled a majority of our childhood, because when the A/C kicked on, she’d say, 'Oh, they caught another one.'"
3. No pears for 22 years!
“I was having lunch with my uncle while we were on a fishing trip. There was a bowl of fruit and I grabbed the last pear – he told me 'You don’t want to eat that, you’ll get pear farts.' I put it back and he picked it up and ate it. I was about 5. For years, I refused to eat pears in any form. When I was about 27, I was visiting home for Thanksgiving when his wife brought a pear and apple pie for dessert. I refused a slice, citing pear farts, only at that moment realizing that it was all a lie and he had just wanted the last pear.”
4. Just imagine...
“A guy I work with once told me his friend thought a pepperoni was its own animal up until he was 20. A four-legged creature called a pepperoni.”
5. OMG the "pickle whistle"
“As a child, I believed in a place called Fred’s Pickle Warehouse. Every time my parents went on what I now know was a date, my dad would say they went to Fred’s Pickle Warehouse and the open barrels of pickles were too dangerous for children. He kept up the ruse for years and even brought back a pickle whistle one time. He told me when I was 15 that it wasn’t real.”
6. So where did all my Christmas presents to her go?
“My Aunt Carol. For years as a child, my parents took phone calls from my Aunt Carol, received packages from her, and would go to the office to write her letters. I heard about her so much I formed an imaginary picture of this woman in my mind: the way she looked, talked, walked, etc. Turns out 'Aunt Carol' was parent-code for weed. I have no Aunt Carol.”
7. Same, TBH
“I thought that those anti-gravity chambers that astronauts use in certain movies were real. One day in a science class, we were talking about gravity, and the teacher said something along the lines of 'There are actually people that think you can just turn off gravity using a machine like in the movies'. Everyone else was just like, 'Wow, there are some dumb people out there'. On the outside, I was saying 'Psh, I know, who would ever think that?' But on the inside, I had no idea that it wasn’t a real thing.”
8. Impressive indeed!
“When movies show flashbacks and there are younger kids playing the characters…I thought they were the actors as kids. I was always impressed that they resumed filming after 15+ years.”
Have you got any of your own to share?
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Published 18:39 04 Mar 2021 GMT
A mother has divided social media users after revealing that she's already told her children that Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy aren't real.
According to The Daily Mirror, TikTok user Nevada Sharee sparked the fierce after sharing a video to her account on February 12, in which she answered the question: "Name something about the way you raise your kids that people think is weird, but you think has been really healthy for them."
Take a look at the divisive video below:In the video in question, Sharee states: "So I've never told my kids that there was a Santa Claus, Easter Bunny or Tooth Fairy at all and my reasoning behind that is, I never wanted to build my children's childhood on lies.
"I never wanted to build their hopes up, only to have them crushed later.
"I was often criticized, saying that I'm not allowing my children to have an imagination, or I'm not allowing my children to be a child, but actually I'm allowing my children to have imaginations of their own choosing. I didn't put imaginary creatures in their head."
Sharee continued:
"They still got Christmas presents, they still got Easter baskets and I personally rewarded them and praised them for getting their teeth out and all the other things that people normally get.
"I just didn't make them believe in something that wasn't true."
The video currently boasts over 300,000 views, 63,000 likes, and thousands of more comments from other TikTok users as of the time of writing - and people had a lot of differing opinions on the matter.
For instance, one person wrote: "Personally I don't share the same opinions but 100% respect yours. Just please teach your children not to ruin Santa [act] for other children."
Another person stated: "My mom always explained Santa was the spirit of giving, which I really like as an adult but other kids and class confused me as a [kid]."
Another person said: "I let my son decide when he would get his first haircut. People were outraged that I let my child decide how he looked."
Someone else said: "as a teacher i once had a 12 year old kid tell me 'all adults lie, santa claus and easter bunny, how do we know what's true. [sic]"
However, others were slightly more skeptical, with one person stating: "She just broke and can't afford the presents from Santa, the Easter bunny, and [the] tooth fairy."
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Published 12:38 17 Dec 2019 GMT
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Published 14:16 04 Jul 2018 GMT
There is nothing worse than feeling humiliated in front of a crowd of people. It's honestly the worst feeling in the world. Feeling the blood move up your body and fill your cheeks; the sweat; the clammy hands - it's terrible. However, it's something we all endure and thanks to Reddit, we can bask in other people's humiliation while trying to forget about our own.
Here are 10 of the most embarrassing stories that you will ever hear.
1. Kids say the funniest/worst things
"I distinctly remember my mom tying my shoes one time when I was 3 or 4 years old and I asked her to "tickle my pickle". I really hope she doesn't remember that..." - modulev
2. So close, yet so far
"When I was in the sixth grade, my friends used to call me a dildo all the time. I used to hate it. Crucially, I didn’t know what a dildo was, but I had a sneaking suspicion that it was a penis. I didn’t realize my error until one FATEFUL day, when my friends once again decided to call me a dildo during P.E. In my anger, I shouted “At least I have one!” I’m 30 years old, and to this very day, anytime I see one of those people, they inevitably bring up the fact that in the sixth grade, I shouted that I had a dildo." - trainwreck42
3. It's a cool name to go by though
"I got my first iphone about 7 or 8 years ago. Anywho, i was listening to a lot of hip hop at the time and the phrase i chose say to Siri was ‘i love it when you call me big papa’. Siri asked me if i wanted her to call me Big Papa. Why the fuck not, I thought. So this event totally left my memory until i was looking for an email I had sent from my phone. I found it and was horrified to learn that it had been signed off from ‘Big Papa’. Everything i had sent from my phone in those two years, including job related emails and even applications, had been signed off from Big Papa. "- Luther_van_boss
4. A bag of coal will be coming your way
"I was watching a movie with my parents when I was 7 and heard the characters talk about porn. I asked my parents what it meant and they didn't tell me so I looked it up on our family computer. This was around Christmas time and I got so scared I wouldn't get anything for Christmas because I looked it up, so I wrote a letter to Santa apologizing. He wrote me back and said it was ok. The next year I realized Santa was my parents. It still keeps me up at night." - Strungeart
5. And no one corrected you?
"Until about a year ago I thought facade was pronounced faykayd" - The_Dork_Lord
6. Too much info, man
"When i was young, i didn't know the difference between getting laid and getting laid off. So, when my dad lost his job one year, the next day at school i went around explaining to all my classmates: 'Yeah, things aren't going well at my house, my dad got laid yesterday.'" - BobJohnson2003
7. This could cause some arguments
"Whenever I think sexual thoughts I sneeze. It has gotten to the point where if I ever sneeze my girlfriend just gives me a stare and says no." - Moonkeyman120
8. As long as you don't eat it
"I like to pick my nose" - Lex_Wrecks
9. How?
"Swallowed a fork, ended up in hospital, and had to have stomach cut open because they couldn't risk pulling it back out." -Tikana11
10. Toy Story 3...
"I get really choked up at the sappy emotional parts of kids' TV shows/movies." - metagloria
While I'm sure you feel like your experiences of being humiliated are worse than anyone else's, it's always nice to laugh at other people, isn't it?
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Published 14:26 17 Dec 2019 GMT
Christmas is a time of giving: family, friendship, parties, food, more food, things you can eat and presents that are often also things you can eat. However, it is also an absolutely unambiguous prime-time for the prank, the practical joke and those subtle little acts that will prompt both laughter momentary disdain and overt reactions exclaiming - "YOUVE RUINED CHRISTMAS, HOW COULD YOU?!?!?!" And so, here we have it, a collection of thirty examples where people, depending on the context, beholder, and spectator are having a little go at ruining Christmas in the most humourous (mostly) inconsequential manner possible. Join me in a few festive chuckles, would you?
[post_page_title]#1 Ruined? Or Made?[/post_page_title]
For this first example, it seems your position on the humor spectrum needs to be taken into account. Has this ruined your home-town Christmas? Landed a dark stain on your festive getaway or rather improved the lightheartedness of it all? I really hope this was a genuine mistake because it's all-the-more funnier if it was.
[post_page_title]#2 Surrounded by "Loved Ones"[/post_page_title]
Initially, I was going to place this absolute corker of a Christmas prank at the very end but the more I scrolled up and down my massive list, the more I couldn't resist its early entry! No judgment here, the festive season should always result in the ones you love (or admire) present and smiling (sort of).
[post_page_title]#3 Be Careful What You Wish For...[/post_page_title]
Fairplay. No one ever suspects cute little old Grandma. I do believe this young man's gently quip has resulted in either self-ruination of his December 25th or perhaps even made it. Either way, its place on this list is more than justified.
[post_page_title]#4 Accidental Brilliance[/post_page_title]
I'm sure this caused quite the varied set of reactions in the classroom, the playground and huge ensemble of parents waiting for their daily child collection duties to begin. Look at his face, that's Christmas cheer right there. Or is it? I reckon this Christmassy child knows EXACTLY what his jumper is showing.
[post_page_title]#5 Rude Not To![/post_page_title]
Now, with this one, I have a job for you. I want you to scroll slowly, take in the image and then upon seeing the white coloration at the end, know that it gets better, so much better. If you're going to ruin someone's Christmas, do it humorously, do it well and do it in such a manner as this. Utter genius is hard to come by these days.
[post_page_title]#6 Christmas (Dinner) IS Absolutely Ruined![/post_page_title]
Once again, do me a favor and scroll, scroll away. Once again, this thread's comments are golden, but I think we need to look deeper into this. What if, now hear me out, the family cooking operations were divided and this was but one facet of the operation?
[post_page_title]#7 Ruination Two-fold? Maybe.[/post_page_title]
Each to their own when it comes to Christmas. Some people enjoy it more than others and within that, some enjoy certain aspects above all else. Much like this furry Quadruped. By prospective and likely in the past destroying the tree, el pooch-hound here would be having the time of his life but also ruining Christmas for his owners.
[post_page_title]#8 This...[/post_page_title]
... is ...too real.
[post_page_title]#9 'Every Year I'm In Charge Of The Nativity And This Year I've Out Done Myself'[/post_page_title]
Please refer to the title of this entry when an explanatory copy is required. Brilliant. The Christian story of Christmas is one we all know, and one we have all heard more times than we care to count, and so, why not jazz it up a little? Again, brilliant.
[post_page_title]#10 Each Tree According To Its Own Decorator[/post_page_title]
Decorate your trees as you will humans of Christmas time! What is most amusing about this little tiny-toe-Jesus is that severed body parts are often synonymous with hell, and this piece is about people HELL-bent on ruining the festive fun. I'm just connecting the dots here.
[post_page_title]#11 Happy Lens Crafters![/post_page_title]
Once again, genius is the true gift of Christmas with no ruination in-sight. I mean, I'm this could be spun round into something negative but what really would be the point? Tongue-in-cheek wins the day.
[post_page_title]#12 Savage Christmas Times In This House[/post_page_title]
Poking fun at or partaking in actions designed to stir those into an annoyed temperament at this time of year is a common past-time. Don't lie now, you know you have yourself jibed at loves ones and chucked all the live-long day.
However, as fun as it is for you, others find it amusing too...
[post_page_title]#13 'For A Minute I Thought My Dad Had Got Me The Best Present Ever...'[/post_page_title]
Parents are the true and unchallengeable masters of the Christmas ruination! Let us never forget or underestimate their raw power! HEED THOSE WORDS!
[post_page_title]#14 'I Bet It's A Book..'[/post_page_title]
Cats are known to see humans as their underlings. Take that feline! This would also be an excellent gift for someone who is less-inclined towards the popular household pet and thus ruining Christmas. This list is so educational!
[post_page_title]#15 'Family Christmas Photobomb'[/post_page_title]
The family photo is a sometimes stressful experience any time of year let alone at Christmas, and there are always a few jokers and witty rapscallions dotted about who only live to ruin such occasions! Enter this next image. LOOK HOW ACCOMPLISHED IT LOOKS!
[post_page_title]#16 'I Can't-Wait To See The Tree!'[/post_page_title]
... said NOT the person who captured this image. Imagine if decorating the Christmas tree was your absolute favorite thing to do ever in all the world's plethora of activities. Imagine having to get this out of the box without compromising it or the boxes' structural integrity.
[post_page_title]#17 'MAKE IT STOP!'[/post_page_title]
I guess this is growing up. *Insert 'Dammit' by Blink-182 here*. This made me laugh as much as it did nod in compliant resignation. How long can we really fight this for? IT'S ALL RUINED! WAAAAA!
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[post_page_title]#18 'What A CHEAP Joke'[/post_page_title]
You know who and/or what is absolutely HELL-bent on ruing Christmas in its omnipresent limitless existence? Ebeneser Scrouge! No, but close. CAPITALISM. The answer is capitalism.
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[post_page_title]#19 Some Never Grow-Up...[/post_page_title]
Being a child is fun, but what is perhaps more fun is how much you can revert to this previous stage in your existence at Christmas once you have reached societally accepted adulthood. Once again, I proudly salute and include an image showing someone hell-bent on ruining a microcosmic localized Christmas in the best way possible.
[post_page_title]#20 'This Is One Of The Funniest Holiday Cards I have Ever Seen'[/post_page_title]
Here we are again, an image prompting a few lines depicting a point that suggests that someone, somewhere, has likely taken offense and had their precious Christmas ruined. Unconventional Christmas be damned! Or you could just laugh like the person who received this absolutely brilliant modern jibe at Christmas time.
[post_page_title]#21 It's a Boxed Up Life, For Us![/post_page_title]
Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. It's not just about the presents you know! It is the manner in which said presents are presented that really matters!
[post_page_title]#22 Even The Internet Is Chipping In![/post_page_title]
Typing in random or loosely focussed sentences, questions and statements into search-engine fields or address bars is what it is and what it is insanely fun and a perfect momentary cure for boredom! Ruined those old-time and overtly overplayed Christmas numbers or... made them better?
[post_page_title]#23 'This Guy Gets Christmas'[/post_page_title]
Take the tradition of it all and make it your own! He really does get Christmas! Hats off spikes up and then hats back on! This Punk's wonderful jibe at Christmas surely annoyed someone? Surely! No? It didn't? Good.
[post_page_title]#24 An Investigative Need For Deeper Meaning... And A Little Humor[/post_page_title]
Sometimes, you simply can't just leave well alone and that can bother people. Sometimes though, the same old same old bothers people, and it just sits there in need of a little festive refreshment via a little dry-witted excellence. Christmas people for reindeer justice! This is our year! We stand with Rudolph!
[post_page_title]#25 Off Home For Christmas? Lock Your Door...[/post_page_title]
As much this would have been a post-Christmas present, the point stands and its place on this list is absolutely substantiating. Imagine the effort it took to do this?! Imagine the effort it took to remedy this?!? Merry Christmas and be thankful for what you already have, unless it belongs to the university that is, be thankful for - and so on.
[post_page_title]#26 Happy Scare-mass![/post_page_title]
'Ohhhhhhhh that's so cuteeeeee!' Or is it? Scroll and think about that. How is the ruining Christmas I hear you ask? WELL! Either you are now completely and utterly terrified of Christmas altogether, having recurring nightmares of this image or at the very least now complete petrified of Christmas trees!
[post_page_title]#27 Whatever Seasons Your Greetings![/post_page_title]
I've never been one for Christmas cards. This woman might have changed my mind.
[post_page_title]#28 Christmassy Geographical Inspiration![/post_page_title]
Personally, I love this but sadly, this husband's attempt to change-up the family Christmas fell foul of traditional-or-nothing eyes! Three minutes is the new benchmark! Make Christmas spicey again! Down with the same old!
[post_page_title] #29 Here Come The Three Kings! [/post_page_title]
This is another that begs the question of who is the real festive troll here? Who took it upon themselves to ruin the family Christmas photos that tediously permeate the annual event? Was it Johnny? Maybe. Does it matter? No! Hilarious and subtle ruination wins the day once more! Rejoice! It's a Christmas miracle.
[post_page_title]#30 This Is End...[/post_page_title]
... not only of another one of these insightful and partially educational lists but of CHRISTMAS ENTIRELY! It was true. IT WAS ALL TRUE! Whoever decided to let these tearaways out in time for their festively-ferocious-five-finger-festival has truly gone and done it! Ruination, RUINATION!
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Published 11:27 26 Dec 2018 GMT
I think that everybody remembers the exact moment they stopped believing in Santa.
For some, the sight of a mall Santa on his smoke break was enough to shatter the illusion, while others simply grow it of it, letting the sands of time slowly erode away the wonder. But some kids get their detective mode on, and similar to a conspiracy theory, they begin asking the real questions.
Eventually, curious kids set up elaborate sting operations, and that's when the illusion tends to fall. For example, this clever boy, who set up a camera to catch Santa in the act of laying down the presents. But when he looked over the footage the next morning, he found something way, way worse.
On Twitter, user @lntolisa told us all about her resourceful brother, who used the camera on his iPad to gain irrefutable evidence of Santa, putting the rumours to bed once and for all. Better yet, he uploaded the incident to social media so we could see what happened too.
Now, the adults among you are probably wondering. We know Santa isn't real: most likely, this kid would catch an unidentified gloved hand, or more often than not, his parents munching down on his milk and cookies. But what happened here was far more hilarious.
Okay. So the camera's set up. @lntolisa's brother walks us through the sting, showing us the gift he got for his parents, and then we're off. 'Twas the night before Christmas, but here's another fact: a boy set up a camera to catch Santa in the act.
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When you first see the chihuahua sniffing around the gifts, you might not realise right away what's going on. But the best part of this video is that once it becomes clear that the dog is about to do, it's already halfway in the process of happening. That's one way to start Boxing Day, huh?
I don't know what @lntolisa's dog was doing his business on (I think it might've been a blanket), but I sure hope it ain't expensive. But wait, there's more: her brother came back the next morning to record his reaction.
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I'm not going to lie, but I'm kind of disappointed there was not a more extreme reaction. "You're probably wondering what that is," begins the young boy, "but I think you guys know." I don't know about you guys, but I'm really glad he posted it to Twitter, where it's already got nearly seven million views.
"That is simultaneously the best and worst thing I've seen all hour," said one user in response to the videos, and I don't know if there's a better way of putting it than that. Well, Merry Christmas, you guys! Whatever Santa brought for you this Christmas, I doubt you got anything like this under the tree.
So... if you're not happy with your gifts, try not to raise a stink.
