A lie is as plain as the nose on your face.
A word of warning the Blue Fairy gave Pinocchio in Disney's animated classic.
But even if their nose doesn't grow with every lie, it can be painfully easy to tell when someone is lying.
It can be detected in their body language, their cadence, and especially their nerves.
Serving as a reminder to us not to trust these people with any major secrets.
Redditor KlingyYT was curious to hear the most pathetic and heartbreaking cases when someone one-hundred percent knew they were being lied to, leading them to ask:
'What is the most obvious lie you have ever been told?"
Be careful what you lend others...
"My first watch was an omega and I saved up on high school to get it."
"One of my good friends back then asked to wear it for 1 period and would give it back at lunch."
"He begged and begged so as a high school kid I gave in or couldn’t keep saying no I guess, weak on me, obviously."
"Well, he smashed it, apparently smashed the glass to test it, gave it back and said it was a fake and that’s why the glass cracked and said he didn’t do it and it just fell apart."
"A**hole became a medical doctor and is now involved in politics and holds state office."
"I’m still pissed about the watch he never admitted he broke cuz he was salty and jealous."
"D*ckhead then, d*ckhead now."- sunset117
There's an easy, if disgusting, way to see if that's true!
“'I did not feed your dog any human food'."
"my mom, while my dog pukes and sh*ts all over my house."- Hambushed
Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth
"When a co-worker told my own story back to me as his own."
"Twice."- lurkity_mclurkington
No Way What GIF by NBAGiphyIt's Not The Way You Sound, But What You Have To Say...
"I speak French, though I’m losing it from lack of use."
"But one of my college guy friends started dating a girl 'from France'.”
'He was all excited because she could talk to me in her native language and I could help translate. So he brought her to a party at my sorority house and introduced us.
"I greeted her in French with a very simple, “bonjour, bienvenue, comment ça va” which is just hi, welcome, how are you."
"Blank stare and red face in response."
"She then said, in what I thought was a kind of strange accent, that she’s sorry, she didn’t understand me. "
"I looked at the guy and said 'I thought you told me she was French?' Because maybe she was of a different nationality and he was confused."
"He looked at her and she just turned and left."
"He followed then returned a bit later and said he had caught up to her and she started screaming at him in perfect Midwestern accented English that he was a jerk for setting her up to look like a fool."
"He had genuinely been excited that he could introduce her to someone she could talk to so he was blown away by her accusations and then angry that she lied."
"She apparently felt faking an accent would make her more appealing or something."
"I would see her around on campus after that but she avoided me like the plague."
"TBH, I felt bad for her, but if you’re going to fake it, at least pick a country with a language you can speak."- LaLionneEcossaise
Happy French GIF by Lillee JeanGiphySometimes, All You Can Do Is Laugh
"When I was a kid, the internet wasn't a thing so, my friends were whoever happened to live in the neighborhood."
"One kid was a well known liar and exaggerator. We were maybe 14 years old at this time.'
"This kid could play guitar and was always talking himself up about it and talking about 'his band'."
"He actually could play, but 'his band' did not exist."
"One day, I called him at his house, from my house. I don't remember what it was about, but a few minutes into the conversation, told me, 'by the way, I'm in Florida with my band', just out of the blue."
"This was before even pagers were a common thing."
'I called him.'
"At his house."
"I just said something like , 'uh huh. Ok'."and ended the conversation."
"I then proceeded to tell all the other kids in the neighborhood."- Knight_Owls
No One Who Did This Would Actually Promote It!
"In the early 90’s I was at work making $5/hour, and a co-worker looked me straight in the eye and said he had bought a surface to air missile from China and kept it stored at him mom's house in a different city."
"Wtf dude?"
"That’s not even close to believable."- AbeLincolnsBallsack
missile GIF by RivenordGiphyActions Have Consequences...
"When I was a public defender my dipsh*t client called up his victim from the jail phone the night before his trial."
"He said kill repeatedly in an attempt to intimidate her."
"When I was telling him how stupid this, was his excuse was that he was watching Kill Bill and someone changed the channel on the cell block communal TV. "
"That dumba** is now doing 28 years in prison."- Monkey-Tamer
Peloton
"My friend told me that getting a Peloton changed her life. I looked up her workout stats & she had used it 4 times in 5 months of owning it. Her husband fared a little better with using it 9 times."
"Don't know why this annoyed me so much." - natasha_c
Not The Workout He Was Expecting
"Reminds me of my ex wife. Joined a gym, got all the gear for it: shirt, lanyard, water bottle, hat. Everything. She was always telling people she went to the gym, and she would tell me she was at the gym while I was at work. I decided to join the gym and went down to sign up. They told me I could add to my wife's plan and I'd save the enrollment fee. She pulled up the account, and she had attended 3 times in about six months span, and canceled the membership. The silver lining was me finding out that was one of her excuses for cheating on me." - evanjw90
Miraculous
"Used to have a friend that spewed BS all the time. Told me her bio parents, who live together, were divorced and seeing other people, and also that she had 25 siblings. Brought it up to her mom one time, which was an interesting conversation. She also told us she had cancer, and then a week later it was miraculously cured." - thursdayplurbonym
Human Weapon
"A childhood friend and I met up for coffee one day after not meeting for a few years. He casually "let it slip" that ever since he earned a black belt, he has had to register with the state as a "human weapon". -Readordie5
Let Me Check The Books
"As a tax accountant, I'm told lies about how much money people actually made all the time during tax season."
"My favorite was a guy telling me he's broke because he only makes $35,000/year in NYC so my (very reasonable) fee is too much for him. He says this after he asks me if he can deduct the new BMW 5 series he just bought his son all cash."
-reusethisname
We've all found ourselves in situations where we feel we have no choice but to lie.
However, if we really have to struggle to come up with a bogus story that no one will believe, then it's probably smarter and easier to do something which requires considerably less effort.
Tell the truth!
Experiencing death is a fascinating and frightening idea.
Who doesn't want to know what is waiting for us on the other side?
But so many of us want to know and then come back and live a little longer.
It would be so great to be sure there is something else.
But the whole dying part is not that great, so we'll have to rely on other people's accounts.
Redditor AlaskaStiletto wanted to hear from everyone who has returned to life, so they asked:
"Redditors who have 'died' and come back to life, what did you see?"
Sensations
Happy Good Vibes GIF by Major League SoccerGiphy"My dad's heart stopped when he had a heart attack and he had to be brought back to life. He kept the paper copy of the heart monitor which shows he flatlined. He said he felt an overwhelming sensation of peace, like nothing he had felt before."
PeachesnPain
Recovery
"I had surgical complications in 2010 that caused a great deal of blood loss. As a result, I had extremely low blood pressure and could barely stay awake. I remember feeling like I was surrounded by loved ones who had passed. They were in a circle around me and I knew they were there to guide me onwards. I told them I was not ready to go because my kids needed me and I came back."
"My nurse later said she was afraid she’d find me dead every time she came into the room."
"It took months, and blood transfusions, but I recovered."
good_golly99
Take Me Back
"Overwhelming peace and happiness. A bright airy and floating feeling. I live a very stressful life. Imagine finding out the person you have had a crush on reveals they have the same feelings for you and then you win the lotto later that day - that was the feeling I had."
"I never feared death afterward and am relieved when I hear of people dying after suffering from an illness."
rayrayrayray
Free
The Light Minnie GIF by (G)I-DLEGiphy"I had a heart surgery with near-death experience, for me at least (well the possibility that those effects are caused by morphine is also there) I just saw black and nothing else but it was warm and I had such inner peace, its weird as I sometimes still think about it and wish this feeling of being so light and free again."
TooReDTooHigh
This is why I hate surgery.
You just never know.
Shocked
Giphy"More of a near-death experience. I was electrocuted. I felt like I was in a deep hole looking straight up in the sky. My life flashed before me. Felt sad for my family, but I had a deep sense of peace."
Admirable_Buyer6528
The SOB
"Nursing in the ICU, we’ve had people try to die on us many times during the years, some successfully. One guy stood out to me. His heart stopped. We called a code, are working on him, and suddenly he comes to. We hadn’t vented him yet, so he was able to talk, and he started screaming, 'Don’t let them take me, don’t let them take me, they are coming,' he was scared and yelling."
"Then he yelled a little more, as we tried to calm him down, he screamed, 'No, No,' and gestured towards the end of the bed, and died again. We didn’t get him back. It was seriously creepy. We called his son to tell him the news, and the son said basically, 'Good, he was an SOB.'”
1-cupcake-at-a-time
Colors
"My sister died and said it was extremely peaceful. She said it was very loud like a train station and lots of talking and she was stuck in this area that was like a curtain with lots of beautiful colors (colors that you don’t see in real life according to her) a man told her 'He was sorry, but she had to go back as it wasn’t her time.'"
Hannah_LL7
"I had a really similar experience except I was in an endless garden with flowers that were colors I had never seen before. It was quiet and peaceful and a woman in a dress looked at me, shook her head, and just said 'Not yet.' As I was coming back, it was extremely loud, like everyone in the world was trying to talk all at once. It was all very disorienting but it changed my perspective on life!"
huntokarrr
The Fog
"I was in a gray fog with a girl who looked a lot like a young version of my grandmother (who was still alive) but dressed like a pioneer in the 1800s she didn't say anything but kept pulling me towards an opening in the wall. I kept refusing to go because I was so tired."
"I finally got tired of her nagging and went and that's when I came to. I had bled out during a c-section and my heart could not beat without blood. They had to deliver the baby and sew up the bleeders. refill me with blood before they could restart my heart so, like, at least 12 minutes gone."
Fluffy-Hotel-5184
Through the Walls
"My spouse was dead for a couple of minutes one miserable night. She maintains that she saw nothing, but only heard people talking about her like through a wall. The only thing she remembers for absolute certain was begging an ER nurse that she didn't want to die."
"She's quite alive and well today."
Hot-Refrigerator6583
Well let's all be happy to be alive.
It seems to be all we have.
Trying to lose weight is a struggle understood by many people regardless of size.
The goal of reaching a healthy weight may seem unattainable, but with diet and exercise, it can pay off through persistence and discipline.
Seeing the pounds gradually drop off can also be a great motivator and incentivize people to stay the course.
Those who've achieved their respective weight goals shared their experiences when Redditor apprenti8455 asked:
"People who lost a lot of weight, what surprises you the most now?"
Redditors didn't see these coming.
Shiver Me Timbers
"I’m always cold now!"
– Telrom_1
"I had a coworker lose over 130 pounds five or six years ago. I’ve never seen him without a jacket on since."
– r7ndom
"140 lbs lost here starting just before COVID, I feel like that little old lady that's always cold, damn this top comment was on point lmao."
– mr_remy
Drawing Concern
"I lost 100 pounds over a year and a half but since I’m old(70’s) it seems few people comment on it because (I think) they think I’m wasting away from some terminal illness."
– dee-fondy
"Congrats on the weight loss! It’s honestly a real accomplishment 🙂"
"Working in oncology, I can never comment on someone’s weight loss unless I specifically know it was on purpose, regardless of their age. I think it kind of ruffles feathers at times, but like I don’t want to congratulate someone for having cancer or something. It’s a weird place to be in."
– LizardofDeath
Unleashing Insults
"I remember when I lost the first big chunk of weight (around 50 lbs) it was like it gave some people license to talk sh*t about the 'old' me. Old coworkers, friends, made a lot of not just negative, but harsh comments about what I used to look like. One person I met after the big loss saw a picture of me prior and said, 'Wow, we wouldn’t even be friends!'”
"It wasn’t extremely common, but I was a little alarmed by some of the attention. My weight has been up and down since then, but every time I gain a little it gets me a little down thinking about those things people said."
– alanamablamaspama
Not Everything Goes After Losing Weight
"The loose skin is a bit unexpected."
– KeltarCentauri
"I haven’t experienced it myself, but surgery to remove skin takes a long time to recover. Longer than bariatric surgery and usually isn’t covered by insurance unless you have both."
– KatMagic1977
"It definitely does take a long time to recover. My Dad dropped a little over 200 pounds a few years back and decided to go through with skin removal surgery to deal with the excess. His procedure was extensive, as in he had skin taken from just about every part of his body excluding his head, and he went through hell for weeks in recovery, and he was bedridden for a lot of it."
– Jaew96
These Redditors shared their pleasantly surprising experiences.
Shopping
"I can buy clothes in any store I want."
– WaySavvyD
"When I lost weight I was dying to go find cute, smaller clothes and I really struggled. As someone who had always been restricted to one or two stores that catered to plus-sized clothing, a full mall of shops with items in my size was daunting. Too many options and not enough knowledge of brands that were good vs cheap. I usually went home pretty frustrated."
– ganache98012
No More Symptoms
"Lost about 80 pounds in the past year and a half, biggest thing that I’ve noticed that I haven’t seen mentioned on here yet is my acid reflux and heartburn are basically gone. I used to be popping tums every couple hours and now they just sit in the medicine cabinet collecting dust."
– colleennicole93
Expanding Capabilities
"I'm all for not judging people by their appearance and I recognise that there are unhealthy, unachievable beauty standards, but one thing that is undeniable is that I can just do stuff now. Just stamina and flexibility alone are worth it, appearance is tertiary at best."
– Ramblonius
People Change Their Tune
"How much nicer people are to you."
"My feet weren't 'wide' they were 'fat.'"
– LiZZygsu
"Have to agree. Lost 220 lbs, people make eye contact and hold open doors and stuff"
"And on the foot thing, I also lost a full shoe size numerically and also wear regular width now 😅"
– awholedamngarden
It's gonna take some getting used to.
Bones Everywhere
"Having bones. Collarbones, wrist bones, knee bones, hip bones, ribs. I have so many bones sticking out everywhere and it’s weird as hell."
– Princess-Pancake-97
"I noticed the shadow of my ribs the other day and it threw me, there’s a whole skeleton in here."
– bekastrange
Knee Pillow
"Right?! And they’re so … pointy! Now I get why people sleep with pillows between their legs - the knee bones laying on top of each other (side sleeper here) is weird and jarring."
– snic2030
"I lost only 40 pounds within the last year or so. I’m struggling to relate to most of these comments as I feel like I just 'slimmed down' rather than dropped a ton. But wow, the pillow between the knees at night. YES! I can relate to this. I think a lot of my weight was in my thighs. I never needed to do this up until recently."
– Strongbad23
More Mobility
"I’ve lost 100 lbs since 2020. It’s a collection of little things that surprise me. For at least 10 years I couldn’t put on socks, or tie my shoes. I couldn’t bend over and pick something up. I couldn’t climb a ladder to fix something. Simple things like that I can do now that fascinate me."
"Edit: Some additional little things are sitting in a chair with arms, sitting in a booth in a restaurant, being able to shop in a normal store AND not needing to buy the biggest size there, being able to easily wipe my butt, and looking down and being able to see my penis."
– dma1965
People making significant changes, whether for mental or physical health, can surely find a newfound perspective on life.
But they can also discover different issues they never saw coming.
That being said, overcoming any challenge in life is laudable, especially if it leads to gaining confidence and ditching insecurities.