Teachers Divulge The Most Amusing Family Secrets They Accidentally Learned From Their Students
February 18 | 2021
Parents... one of the first life lessons you should be teaching your children is the art of discretion. Children have loose lips. That's why inappropriate four letter words could come flying out of their mouths at any given moment. Family secrets should be explained as such. I know when I was a kid I was a treasure trove of stories. I knew all about the family and neighborhood news because adults assumed I wasn't listening. The surprise was on them. Especially when all the news is aired to educators.
Redditor u/reasonable_doubt1776 couldn't wait to hear from the educators out there who've discovered some "surprising" facts about their pupils by asking... Teachers of Reddit, what amusing family secrets did you accidentally learn from your overly talkative students?<div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_1"></div>
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<p>Children are highly observant. And once they commit to memory something they've seen or heard, all bets are off. I would constantly call out people without knowing. Once, I heard my babysitter tell a friend she hated their other friend because said friend was a skank and she never wanted to see her again. So imagine my surprise a few days later when said friend shows up to hangout. I was confused. So I asked..<em>. "Isn't she the skank you never want to see again?"</em> I believe the people sharing on this thread understand the awkwardness of it all. </p>
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A shot in the... butt?
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<p>In the middle of a library summer reading program, I picked a little girl, probably about 4-5 years old, to come up and be my volunteer for a magic trick, which then you explained the science of after it was done. I asked what her name was, she said it into the mic, zero shyness in front of approximately 200 kids and adults. I asked if she had ever heard of the "trick" we were going to do and she said, "Nope!</p>
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<p>My favorite dinosaur is a triceratops! And I like your shoes! My dad is back there HI DAD but my mom couldn't come tonight because she got a shot in her butt and can't sit on the hard chairs this place has." Dad (and all the other adults in the audience) were dying. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnlmsyx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Detective_Meow</a></p>
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Grandpa Died
<p>8th grader, excitedly: Mrs. Rosiedokidoki, guess what I found out? My grandpa was a nazi!</p><p>Me: do you know what a nazi is?</p><p>8th grader: no!!</p><p>Me: maybe you should go talk to your mom about that.</p><p>She came in the next day and went, "yeah my mom told me I can't tell people about my grandpa anymore." </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnltgg1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">rosiedokidoki</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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On the Swings
<p>I had a child once playing on the tire swing. He was a veeeeeeeeerrry serious kid and he looked me dead in the eye and said how much he liked the swing at daycare and how when he grew up he wanted to have a swing just like his mummy and daddy did in their bedroom... Looking his parents in the eye that day telling them he had a good day and keeping silent was difficult. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnlpzyl?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Telfaatime</a></p><p>Teachers hear the craziest things. Someone needs to compile a comedy list of "overhearings" from educators and publish it as a coffee table book. The profits could single handedly fund schools in underprivileged areas for decades. It must make teachers like part of the family, at least for the day. </p>
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Congratulations!
<p>If someone in your family is pregnant, and you've told your child, I already know. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnlkgt5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">WildMage89</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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That's Quite a Tree
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTY1OTU3MS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxOTUwMjUxOH0.nwOQJrQ_NKBmg4UvkGEzwy3Y9oko0pzeFsbMZP_6Rtg/img.gif?width=980" id="e5c50" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="37ca2afdf939b8360befc2f0ae4c100b" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="270" />Giphy<p>Worked at an afterschool program run by the YMCA. Once had a 4th grader explain to me in detail how her sister was also her cousin.</p><p><strong><em>edit:</em></strong> they had the same dad and their moms were sisters, so half siblings through dad and 1st cousins through moms. having a 9 year old run you through that is quite a trip. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnkjwzp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">F0zzysW0rld</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
Show & Tell
<p>My daughter's kindergarten teacher told me about how one child entertained them at Show and Tell with a complete report on the new alarm system in their house including the code and where the keypad was located behind the curtains! </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnl6ljj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">SpeedyPrius</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Save the Water
<p>Kudos going out to all the teachers for glossing over the home stuff they learn!</p><p>My sister wrote in her daily journal in grade 1 that our parents had a shower together the night before. Teacher wrote "What a great way to save water!" </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnl1gl3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Careful-Drama</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_9" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>I remember when I was about twelve and had just figured out sex on my own, I was at a friend's house and she mentioned offhandedly that her parents bath together. I was like, "that's a thing people do? When their kids are around to know?"</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnl1gl3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>My parents have always been very private, and I thought that was how everyone was. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnlbeyv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">shoopvedoobop</a></p>
<p>How many times do you think teachers take and use what they hear? like if it's not a horror story but a funny tagline... you know they use good comedy in real life or the class the following year. They probably owe some royalties for certain witty wisdoms that endeared them to others. The best writers steal, so do teachers. I can feel it. </p>
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I'm the DJ
<p>Here's a cute and lighthearted one—I had a girl stay for some help after school one day. At the time I was teaching geometry (10th grade) in a mostly Hispanic school. She told me about growing up in Peru until about the age of 10 or so (I can't remember the exact age she told me). She was telling me that she worked with her uncle sometimes on the weekend. I asked what kind of work—many of our kids worked construction with their families.</p><p>"He's a clown... I'm his DJ." That really gave me a smile. </p><p> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnl974f?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">calcbone</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_11" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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In the Kitchen
<p>We were talking about calling 911, but what a real emergency is. This is tricky with 10 year olds because you want to use real emergency examples but not freak them out. One kid... "so if your mom gives birth in the kitchen, that's an emergency"</p><p>Sure enough mom picks him up with his baby brother who was born last week in their kitchen. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnlpnm9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">icamom</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_12" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Nunna Yo!
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTY1OTU1OC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYyNzUxMTE0OH0.wTh7JsNW6bIyr75BVRIHADA-ZIiMaUeOiWyC2W2SQGk/img.gif?width=980" id="358eb" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="075260a7d4b52870e221373251877461" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="500" data-height="500" />None Of Your Business No GIF by Late Night with Seth MeyersGiphy<p>4th grade. A student on Zoom the other day asked why another student had been gone a few weeks, and we all heard his mom in the back yell, "Boy, that is nunna yo damn business!" before he muted. I almost burst laughing but I held my composure. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnlejoh?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">UndercoverPackersFan</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_13" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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High Tea Lady
<p>One of my students once said "Mummy wants to know if you want to come round for tea because daddy is away at work."</p><p>The mother couldn't look at me for weeks on the playground, cause I think she heard her daughter ask me. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnl62en?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Fallen189</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnl62en?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>Well, what's wrong with a bit of tea? She probably just wants another grown up around to talk to. </p><p><span></span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnljdfi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Emperor_Cartagia</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_14" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Puff Up
<p>I did a placement once and students had to talk about what they would do with a million dollars. One kid gets up in front of the class and goes "My mum said if she had a million dollars, she would buy lots and lots and lots and lots of weed." </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnlimlc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Sleep-Gary</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_15" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Lord the world is a mess for the youth isn't it? If kids had even half a clue about what they're saying... they'd be too mortified to leave the house. </p>
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11th grade blues...
<p>An 11th grader was talking about how he moved back with his grandparent's when his mom dies. He mentioned that his mom also attended this school and so did his dad, but he never met him. He only new his dad's first name. So he says the name in my "get to know other students first day ice breaker." A freshman girl asked a few pointed questions, pulls out her phone and calls their dad. Dad is there within 15 min. <span></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_17" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Turns out the dead mom's family moved mom out of the city to hide the pregnancy and the dad only knew the child's first name. Dad spent years trying unsuccessfully to track his kid down. The dad settled down becomes an EMT, gets married, has 3 daughters, the oldest daughter was the freshman. There was a GD family reunion in my ice breaker on the first day of school.</p>
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<p><strong><em>Edit:</em> </strong>Thanks for the awards everyone. Some points: the boys mom and dad were high school students when she became pregnant. I don't think that was clear. Mom moved from (downtown major northern city) to Alabama or Louisiana to be with her (grand)fathers, the boy got the (grand)fathers name (not sure if it was the moms father or grandfather). The dad would not have had the money or resources to trace the mom's movement, this would be in the pager/cassette days not cell phones and Facebook. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnloald?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">wittbrij</a></p>
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"Kid Beer"
<p>While I taught 4th grade, I had a kid tell me that his dad works on car rims at night. Another one told my friend, the bilingual teacher, that she came back from visiting family in Mexico over the weekend by going through the river. Edited to add, another one! I taught the son of a 2nd grade teacher. </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_20" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>He came in one weekend talking about drinking lots of "kid beer" over the weekend at his dad's house. His mom stopped by later and I mentioned the story, she shook her head and said, "It's apple juice, I keep telling his dad to stop calling it kid beer!" Thanks for the awards! These are my very first ones! </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnlkcxp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sjs1244</a></p>
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Now that is Drama
<p>Okay, so not a teacher but in grade 9 there was a girl who got completely plastered in the girls bathroom. And my 14 year old self had one too many slushies at lunch so I ran into her there. This girl's makeup was a complete mess and since I was at the peak of social anxiety problems I just tried to slip away. </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_22" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>As usual I was too late and this girl clung to my arm and fell apart sobbing to me about how her boyfriend had gotten her mother pregnant. I ended up missing the rest of the day to sit in the corner of the bathroom with this girl I had never met before in my life, and we never talked again. But man, I feel bad for that disfunction family. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnl4c7u?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">madyhatter44</a></p>
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Mrs. A
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<p>If I was a teacher I bug my classrooms. Then I'd go home and wrote everything down, change some names and wrote a novel, heck a series of novels. I'd be a millionaire. In fact...</p>
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Dad's Anatomy Issues
<p>Several years ago, I did a brief stint teaching junior high (I now teach high school). In that time, I learned a <em>lot</em> of information from students that, I am sure, parents would prefer I had not learned.</p><p>The one that stands out the most to me was the boy who accidentally let it slip to the entire class that dad has a small penis.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_26" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>The bell hadn't rung to start class yet, so I was letting the kids (seventh grade) be a little crazy and get some of their pent-up energy out before we began class.</p><p>I hear one boy say to another "shut up, you'll always have a tiny penis."</p><p>The kid, in a moment of suicide by words, just said "I've seen my dad naked. He's tiny. You're probably right."</p><p>Thank God the bell rang and I was able to move the kids onto their actual lessons. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnlboua?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Onyx_Owl</a></p>
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Road to Hell
<p>A bit different but nonetheless hilarious. My step brother was in kindergarten & his teacher overheard him say to about 5 other kids, "I've been to hell & back & let me tell you, it's freakin scary!" The teacher had to discipline him but then right after stepped out of the room & proceeded to laugh her butt off. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lkitqv/teachers_of_reddit_what_amusing_family_secrets/gnlhurw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">boots311</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_28" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Quit the Smoke
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<p>Children are always going to surprise you. That is the only fact you can count on when you go into education. I remember several times in school my teachers shushing me when I wasn't appropriate, but with a smirk. I once announced my mother's age to the class and that was when my teacher, Mrs. Klein, informed me that gentlemen never discuss a ladies age. But I know she found it amusing and she used it as wisdom. Good on Mrs. Klein. </p>
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Science is science. Fact is fact. Truth is truth and simple is simple. These are things we must now attest to in 2021. Can we please all get onboard with what has been proven? Everything is not a hoax. One of the greatest lies that for some reason continues to circulate is also one of the most believed farces. The Earth is in fact... round. Gravity holds us down as it revolves, if it was flat.... someone would've walked off the edge by now. Its in pictures by everyone from space and on Earth. What more does it take?
Redditor u/jbarms wanted to hear from those of us who have come around to giving into facts and science and those of us who brought people to the "circle" by asking..... Former Flat Earthers. What made you come round?<div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_1"></div>
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Wisdom in Age
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTUwMzQ5Ny9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1NDExODE2NH0.PaczFPq111HM9muXXpDcs8gQxo49yNfLwVWDsC9YaB8/img.gif?width=980" id="25aa0" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="f02850aabcd38c5af5362a458548e4ca" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="400" />Smart Think About It GIF by FriendsGiphy<p>Quote I got from somewhere...</p><p>"for 5 years I believed the Earth was flat, then I turned 6". </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9se47?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">-QED-</a><span></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Love the Sphere
<p>I convinced a flat earther, temporarily, by asking him if it was possible for a sphere to be so large that you could not tell it was a sphere my simply being on the surface of it. It took him a while, I used an analogy of a extremely long line that was so slightly curved you could not tell so by looking at a small section of it. Eventually he said yes to the sphere and I told him that was how big the earth is.</p><p>A few days later he reverted, most of these people aren't mentally stable, they believe in a lot of conspiracies.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p><em>Edit: </em>Corny edit, but as connoisseur of flat earth content my personal favorite is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/ProfessorDaveExplains/videos?view=0&sort=p&flow=grid" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Professor Dave</a> on YouTube. He is a underappreciated dude who just had a Science channel on YouTube and got brigaded by flat earthers for an unrelated video. He made like 6 video responses in total just owning these guys but they eventually gave up. Check it out. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gja0qp9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">McClain3000</a></p>
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Get a Clue
<p>Look, it's really easy:</p><p>If the Earth is flat, there would be an edge(s). And there would be a freaking Disney park at the edge, and we could bungie jump off the side and paraglide into the void etc etc.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Someone would be making an absolute ton of money off of it - if it existed.</p><p>Guess what? Nobody is doing that -- in this world where absolutely everything is exploited for profit -- if no one is making money off of it then it does.not.exist. No edge. Not flat. Get a clue. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gja0p36?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gedwyn19</a><span></span></p>
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Gazing...
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"Truth behind the curve"
<p>I watched a documentary about flat earthers called "Truth behind the curve" and my analysis from watching that these flat earthers are a group of people who found a community to be a part of. It's a shame their community is based on a lie, but I saw a bunch of people who were to be part of a community.</p><p>Most of the people were social awkward and what not, and so an opportunity to be an influential figure within the community so they double down on their flawed logic.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>The more against you are of them, the harder they rep their flatness.</p><p><em>TLDR: </em>I see flat earthers as a group of lonely people looking for a community that will accept them.</p><p><em>edit: </em>wtf did not expect this comment to blow up. Thanks for the silver, and the dialogue everyone. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9ycvd?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">imthatguydavid</a></p>
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"What do you think now," said the Captain.
<p>The inclined seat conformed perfectly to his body, strategically placed in the cockpit so he could reach no buttons with outstretched arms. The straps anchored him firmly in place, they were uncomfortable but necessary. The engine burst to life with a roar that burned out all the other audio, the vibrations tore through his body and he felt his body sink back into the seat as the G-Force began to take hold.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>The captain was watching the readouts on the LED displays and monitoring their trajectory as the acceleration began to peel his thoughts away, there was no more room in his brain, it had been filled by pure fear. The boosters grew with greater ferocity as they lifted higher into the sky, the sun beaming down on the left side of the shuttle.</p><p>But faster they went.</p>
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<p>Through max Q and higher into the stratosphere until the engines grew quieter, the air more silent, and the vibrations became less violent. They were approaching space, the final frontier.</p><p>An hour later, and with the path of the shuttle a success he noticed as his raw emotions withdrew that his body felt funny, head hair drifted aimlessly across his eyes as the captains pen hovered in mid air and he knew the impossible was true, his childhood dream, he was in space. Weightless.</p>
<p>The captain turned around to him, and motioned him to unhook his seatbelts. He did as he was commanded. They both left their chairs and glided over to the tiny glass windows to overlook the magnificence of Earth.</p><p>"What do you think now," said the Captain.</p><p>He recoiled in horror, it couldn't be. NASA had replaced the windows with high definition screens in order to perpetrate their lies that the world was spherical. Those b**tards. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9kdl2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Naamibro</a></p>
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Throw a Rock
<p>I talked to a flat-earther about my job working for a company that tracks ship locations, routes, and speeds by satellite. We also had ways of monitoring carbon emissions based on fuel consumption and known weather conditions. None of this would work at all if the earth was flat. Not a jot of it. I could only explain the most basic concepts, but it was enough for him to understand and realise that I was right and that he'd been convinced by someone who had no practical experience of the spherical nature of the Earth. </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_11" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>I think that's what really did it - my experience was really tangible. This happens then this happens then we measure this etc etc... no theory, just practice. A bit like showing a child a rock dropping to the ground in order to explain gravity, rather than giving them the whole theoretical shebang. Y'know?</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gja2p99?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Administrative-Task9</a><span></span></p>
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Travel Plans
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<p>I said the same thing on another post. However someone more familiar with the conspiracy said they believe the earth is actually a circle with the north pole in the middle with the south pole, or Antarctica encircling us. For me it just brought up more questions.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9r8vx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CptBLAMO</a></p>
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The Deniers....
<p>I spent about a year infiltrating the flat Earth community on Instagram. I garnered a decent following with an account dedicated to flat earth travel photos (an intentionally absurd premise). In that time I learned a quite a bit about the community including how to discern the trolls from the real deal. The majority of legit flat earthers are extremely distrustful of anything the government says or does. These same people are 9/11 truthers, Holocaust deniers, and anti-vaxxers and they connect these conspiracies together. </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_15" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Many of them have also attached flat Earth theory to religion, magic, or mysticism. Before my infiltration I'd always considered conspiracies fun. Like they were the fan fiction of real life. Now they mostly make me sad. For all the phoney accounts like mine, there are still plenty of people out there willing to drop a couple of hundred dollars on a flat Earth convention. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gja4vsz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Zelph_Onandagus</a></p>
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Why Lie?
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Truthers
<p>Not a flat earther. But I <em>was</em> a 9-11 "truther" I guess you could say--insofar as I thought it was an inside job. I was heavily influenced and believed in multiple conspiracies in the Zeitgeist film as well. There was a never ending source of dark, shadowy "they's and them's" controlling everything behind the scenes.</p><p>I think there were a few factors that helped me escape that:</p><ul><li>Losing my father. It was such a life changing event at that age that it made me reconsider everything in my life.</li><li>Some light training in evaluating information. I learned about how to vet sources, primary, whether something was actually news or just an opinion/editorial, etc.. Ironically, this education came <em>before</em> I was duped. After my dad died, suddenly this started to kick in more.</li><li>Lack of time/means to dig myself a deeper hole. I started college shortly after my father passed and that + a full time job took up all my time. I had none to buy further into the newest crazy BS. I had no Facebook/Twitter/IG/etc.. No smart phone or texting. My primary use of Reddit once I discovered it was for <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Naruto/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">r/Naruto</a>, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Bleach/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">r/Bleach</a>, rage comics, and advice animals.</li></ul><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_18" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>So all in all, I think the time away gave me time to detox. If I had been on social media as I discovered those things, I can only imagine I very well may have become a Q believer as well. Looking back I see how gullible I was in that moment, fooled by the onslaught of half truths and clever "logic" of the various theories. I know better now (and I should have known better then), but I've been humbled to the fact that everyone is vulnerable to this sort of stuff. To think otherwise is deluding yourself. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9xsrb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">redyellowblue5031</a></p>
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Sheep-like
<p>Not me, but got a flat Earther to question his beliefs (and hopefully critically analyze them) by giving him the proof he asked for, to which he responded "mainstream science and media are lies". I asked why he asked for proof if he could just disregard it as lies either way, then told him that since he required no proof (or evidence against) to believe something, it made him the easiest person to deceive and that it seemed pretty sheep-like to me. </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_20" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>He deleted all of his flat earth comments and hasn't posted about it since.</p><p><em><strong>ETA: </strong></em>Holy Round Earth, Batman! Thank you for the karma and awards and GOOOOOLD! I promise I'll screenshot next time!</p><p><em><strong>ETA2: </strong></em>He didn't block me, I can still see everything he posts/posted, and the OP thread creator also said the comment disappeared. Shame... Shame... Shame... </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9tdwk?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">thelife0fZ</a></p>
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Observations
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTU1ODE4NS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxNzYzNDY5OX0.UlWYRbl9_m1LUsRWHiqoU7BwOlHybcram2UJ5BNqWhw/img.gif?width=980" id="d2c34" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b60cdd3a6859d1f0ae643241602d9c66" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="400" data-height="267" />sky GIFGiphy<p>Surprisingly enough. Facts and logic. More specifically star patterns. What we observe can not happen on a flat earth. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9vh50?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Safinkodyr</a><span></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_22" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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True Believers
<p>Obviously there's a lot of memeing around here, but if the question was meant seriously we should understand what exactly Flat Earth belief is. As Dan from the channel Folding Ideas puts it in his excellent video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">In Search Of A Flat Earth</a>:</p><blockquote>Nominally, Flat Earth is a belief that the Earth isn't a globe, but is actually flat, a fact that has been kept from Us, meaning normal people, by a nebulous, powerful Them for nefarious, inscrutable purposes. ... I think it's worth considering that the shape of the Earth might actually be the least important belief of Flat Earth. Flat Earth is a syncretic, biblical belief that is both evangelical and apocalyptic. ... The world is flat and They are hiding that fact from you because a flat Earth would be irrefutable proof that we live in a divine fishbowl and, thus, that God is real.<br></blockquote><blockquote>Flat Earthers are not otherwise empty vessels who believe one kooky thing. They believe that thing because it suits their purposes. Flat Earthers have an agenda. ... Their anxiety is that the world has become too complex, that too many things are changing, and that science and progressivism are actively malicious elements working to obstruct the true nature of God. Most people don't actually believe Flat Earth because they were persuaded by shoddy evidence... they do so because it says something they already believe about the nature of the social world. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gja0k27?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Didgeridoox </a><br></blockquote><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_23" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Being Different
<p>I suspect that some people who deny crap like this are the same people who just wants to be different. They'll say they disliked a movie because the majority likes it. They'll say they don't enjoy a type of food coz most do. Basically.... They don't really care how they truly feel about something. They just want to be different and say the opposite of the majority. Maybe not with everything. But they'll choose a few things in life because they want to feel special. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9t2qb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">mydogiscuteaf</a><span></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_24" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Half a Decade
<p>It took about five years. It was a lot of wilfull ignorance on my part, I just refused to question the logic of it. In fact I spent most of my time coming up with crazy fantasies about a lot of things I didn't understand. But you have to understand that there is just so much we don't know about that sometimes our priority on what is real and what can be believed can get confused. I was learning so much so fast that I really didn't question something so inane as the world being flat. </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_25" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Of course it was, why wouldn't it be. The day that changed it forever though was when I asked my father what happens when you get to the edge of the world, he of course said the world is round like a ball. Being about five years old I thought that made a lot of sense. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gja1fww?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Orbitaldropbear</a></p>
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Watch Carl
<p>Okay I get the question is funny and all but I actually did believe, for a time, that the earth was flat. I was raised in a very religious family, and basically came to the conclusion that the Bible declared the earth was flat, because since I believed the earth was created in seven days, the idea that God set the stars in the sky in one day made much more sense if the stars were simply points of light in a sort of snowglobe formation extrapolated onto a bigger scale. </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_27" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Otherwise, he took one day out of the seven to make a septillion or so balls of flaming gas, all with their own planets, and set each one into galaxies before breaking for lunch. It just didn't make sense to me that he would spend five days on one planet, and make the creation of the trillions of other stuff in the universe a little footnote. I was confronted about this belief a couple times, only one of which wasn't laughed off. </p>
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<p>That single person who engaged started a serious discussion, presenting much more evidence for the globe earth, and eventually told me to watch Carl Sagan. The Cosmos series was on YouTube, and once I watched it, I had to know more. Finally, a video from the channel MinutePhysics convinced me, in no uncertain terms, that the earth was round. All it took was one quote, which I still remember leaving chills down my spine: "you should have put a serious tag on this question." </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9qpun?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">maleorderbride</a><span></span></p>
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Let me explain...
<p>When I was a tutor there was this guy who went back to college to get a degree. We dealt with everything from the top of the class students to special needs students. He was doubtful of science because it has been wrong in the past, and was very stubborn and bad at logic. What he did was hear a description of something and if it made sense he would latch onto it if it didn't he would say it is false entirely.</p><p>Vaccines are good for you. Yep it is like a workout for your immune system.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_30" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Earth is round. Nope it looks flat when i look at it.</p><p>He was very hard to help because he would argue with you about everything. Try to explain anything in a non-intuitive way and he would ask countless questions, and once you need to check for an answer he would treat it like a gotcha and like the whole explanation is wrong. He enjoyed explaining a scientific topic the way a stoner tries though with things half right. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9zw11?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">dognus88</a></p>
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Nuts and Cooks
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God did It...
<p>Met a couple. One was so "clever" at not believing what the sheeple all believe he didn't believe anything that he hadn't found through conspiracy theories somewhere. It wasn't so much that he didn't believe in science/scientists but that he only believed what he could see himself. And any time you tried to question any of his theories beyond what was rational he would ignore the question entirely or bring up something about you that he though made you stupid.</p><p>The other got his knowledge from religion and any question that he hadn't learned an answer from the bible or his pastor for was "God did it." </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9z4nx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">legendary_lost_ninja</a><span></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_33" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Bad Jokes
<p>Man, I figured there would only be a couple legit ones but I was really interested. Instead it's the same tired old jokes you've been recycling for the past few years. Don't you guys get tired of upvoting dogcrap like "there's flat earthers all over the globe." </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9w3wf?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Thats_an_RDD</a><span></span></p><p>I think the problem is that flat earthers who change their mind are incredibly rare. There's not many flat earthers to begin with and only a tiny percentage of them will ever change their mind. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gjal8yn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ftctkugffquoctngxxh</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_34" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Ask NASA
<p>I'm not a flat earther, but I wanna ask them, "why would NASA and the govt lie to you? Why would they spend extra energy and time and money and whatever faking crap like the moon landing and outer space pictures of earth. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9twcq?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">villainized</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9twcq?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a><span></span>There is a logical reason to why they'd fake the moon landing, during a space race with the USSR in the middle of a cold war...</p><p>But there would be no reason the USSR would just admit defeat instead of calling bull if the landings were indeed fake.</p><p>All the other stuff you mentioned though, yeah, there's nothing to gain from it. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9y4wq?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">elheber</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_35" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Changing Thoughts
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Needed Facts
<p>Man, we really need this knowledge now. I don't know how we are going to reach "Stop the Steal" truthers when they already think they know more than the Supreme Court, 60 Republican and Democratic-appointed federal judges, every state Election Commission, every Republican and Democratic governor, Trump's (now former) right-hand man and Attorney General of the United States William Barr, and the party-warrior and Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConell. Somehow, we have to find a way. I was thinking the other day about whether the flat earth movement shows us the way out of this situation America finds itself in because it seems to be a very similar phenomenon.</p><p>Good question OP. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9nwbj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">free-advice</a><span></span></p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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The Fire Ball
<p>Sunsets man. Sunsets. I watched all these videos read a book on it talked to people about it. I was one of them. Everyone else was crazy for not seeing the truth.(still i have a lot of questions about how the heck this thing could possibly be a globe but thats besides the point) but i had an answer for everything. People would ask why don't we fall off the edge? There is no edge the earths an infinite space. Why do balloons pop when they go high enough? </p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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<p>Because theres only so much air and it sinks to the earths surface but eventually you can fly above it and then theres no pressure of the air pushing against the ballon so it pops. Hows gravity work? Gravity is made up i believe in buoyancy. But one day somebody asked me if the sun is a spotlight in the sky, then how does a sunset work? I was like uh... and i looked into it. Couldn't find anything that makes sense. Sunsets turned me back. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gjaxtzt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NamelessSithNPC</a></p>
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Full Circles
<p>While having coffee with my sister one day, she revealed that she was a flat earther.</p><p>I said I wasn't going to try and convince her otherwise because if literally millions of pieces of evidence doesn't convince you, then nothing I can say will, but I will ask you a couple of question so that I can understand a bit more. This was the brief conversation:</p><p>Q. Do you think the sun is round? Her answer - It appears to be</p><p>Q. Do you think the moon is round? Her answer - it appears to be</p><p>Q do you think all the other planets are round? Her answer - they appear to be</p><p>So to clarify, you're saying that the sun, the moon and all the planets are round but we're floating on a flat disk in the same space. Ok.</p><p>I think it made a difference from the look on her face but we've never spoken of it again. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gjbl7xl?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ThelastReject</a></p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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Laser Tests
<p>I entertained it for a while. What convinced me the earth was a sphere was a video I came across of a group of flat earthers doing a laser test over water. They found a stretch of level water around 2 miles long, then used level lasers to measure the distance from the water. The test came back quite accurately indicating the earth was a sphere and not flat. They all got super upset and were crying about it. Seems like a doable and effective test and their reaction, confusion and heartbreak seemed genuine. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gjban1v?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">w1lliamsss</a><span></span></p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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The GPS Knows
<p>Another "not me but might have convinced someone else" story.</p><p>I was on the bus home and a flat earther decided to talk with me about something. Idk what it was but the conversion quickly turned to the earth being flat. Humoring him I asked 'if the earth is flat how does GPS work?' He told me that GPS comes from cell towers. I pressed him and told him 'that can't be true because I have an app on my phone that shows my location on a pdf when I have no cell signal. </p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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<p>I use it when I go hiking in the mountains.' He told me that 'the GPS signal is so much stronger than the cellphone signal that I would still get it up there.' Just then we passed though a tunnel and I asked him 'why, if the signal is stronger, do I lose GPS tracking in a tunnel?' He seemed confused and just said 'I don't know I'm just asking questions.'</p><p>As a general rule all flat eathers are just trolls and I tell that to their face if it comes up. That out of hand dismissal by itself tends to shake them. But I was in a playful mood that day. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gja27xk?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">t014y</a><span></span></p>
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Back in the day...
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Part of the Cult
<p>A question I wonder about is can a flat earther ever stop being one?</p><p>I think it's a question for psychologists. Being a flat earther isn't about facts, it's a way to gain an identity and reassurance. A flat earther wants to not walk the earth not understanding anything and not knowing who to trust. It's a way to carve a sense of self out of a sense of incompetence. </p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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<p>Instead of walking around as an idiot, now you tell yourself you are one of the few who knows the truth and can't be tricked like the other headless sheep.</p><p>To stop being a flat earther would be to give up this coping mechanism to deal with your own mediocrity. Even worse, it would be admitting you were wrong, and therefore again reaffirming the thing you were running away from to begin with: the fact that you are just another idiot who doesn't know anything.</p>
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<p>So I doubt anyone can give up being a flat earther without first overcoming the original psychological need that brought them there in the first place. Just like any other cult (yes, I'm talking about you trumpists out there). The more invested you are in the lie the longer and harder the withdrawal process will be. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gja54a2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dadaofkufsa</a></p>
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Australia
<p>Was friend to a flat earther a couple of years ago before the time when they came up with the idea that Australia was not real and it's just a hoax by the British govt. fast forward to the time when they finally came up with that crap, needless to say, this flat earther had a sudden change of heart, at first it didn't process to him that Australia is just a hoax that it's not real. Then finally came to his senses that the earth is round and he's been a moron for being a flat earther. Reason for his roundabout? We live in Australia. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gjakyny?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">workredditme</a></p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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Such a Tease
<p>I actually love the flat earth argument. Every time I encounter an anti-vaxer or a plandemic nut I listen and agree. I then make them listen to "my" logic on how the earth is flat. Every time they respond by picking apart the flat earth logic. I then defend the flat earth and sincerely compare my "proof" to their "proof" against vaccines or Covid. They get so frustrated that I compare their point of view to something as dumb as flat earth. This is especially fun with the anti-vaccine crowd because they think they understand data and scientific research. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gja48wt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reasonable1svoice</a><span></span></p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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<p>Serious answer here.</p><p>I was really into flat earth, I never admitted to being 100% sure it was, because I wasn't, but I know the general aspect of how it could be possible. I'm not sure if I "converted" but I just decided to stop giving it the time and attention I was dedicating it. Like there are lots of thing wrong with the flat earth theory, but there are also lots of questionable things regarding the earth being a globe. So, for me its more of a live and let live kind of thing.</p><p>Leaving it like that, just because I don't feel like writing a whole monument script of my thoughts right now. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gjaei48?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">FutoRicky</a><span></span></p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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<p>After I saw a computer simulation of how stars movement would look like if we were indeed on a flat surface. It was based on human point of view aka how our own eyes sees stars and planets. If I find it again, will share it here. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gjbhb1o?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gibttlik</a></p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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<p>I was "The physics guy." So once, when the neighbor's home schooled kids started asking about earth and stuff, my wife invited them over. I had a globe, a ball that i used as the moon, a lamp that i used as the sun, he whole lesson plan.</p><p>i explain about seasons, and eclipses, and day/night.</p><p>I explain about the phases of the moon.</p><p>after about an hour, the dad (THE DAD ?!?!?!) asks me, "wait, are we on the outside or in the inside of the globe. "<br></p><p>it must have been a brain fart, the guy's not an idiot, but it amazed me that this is the first he ever thought about earth at all. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gjbzsv0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">vishnoo</a></p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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<p>He asked me "majornerd, you are a smart guy, how do we know the earth is round"</p><p>I said "you'd think it would be because we went to space"</p><p>he said "yeah, but we didn't. It was a lie to fool the Russians."</p><p>To which I replied, "that's not how we know the earth is round. We've known for centuries that it was round."</p><p>"How?"</p><p>"It's easy, and you can do this too. Stand on any dock in the world and look to the ocean. What part of the boat do you see first?"</p><p>"Huh? I don't know."</p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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<p>"You see the mast and sails first. The question is why? The hull is much larger, why do we see the top of the mast, then the sails, then the hull?"</p><p>"I don't know"</p><p>"Because the earth is curved. So the tip of the boat appears first as the rest comes into view, literally around a corner"</p><p>"Holy crap, I'm forty and nobody has ever explained that so easy to me. I have to think about this."</p><p>He told me a couple days later that I changed his mind on the subject. He had no idea we had known for so ever loving long. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gjas5vt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">majornerd</a></p>
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<p>99% of flat Earthers don't really, truly believe it. What they believe is that scientists are liars, the government is preventing us from understanding the natural world, and they enjoy seeing just how scientifically illiterate the average person is. Part of what makes them believe it is that most people have no idea how to explain it because they just accepted it. They watched that Columbus Disney movie or just took it as gospel from a teacher but probably can't prove the Earth is round. That feeds the doubt. But deep, deep down they know they are wrong. Except for the truly delusional ones. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gjazymb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">bigdaddyradio</a><span></span></p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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<p>The ones saying "it's simple, if ___ then ___." It's not that simple. I've seen a lot of this flat earth community, and I'm telling you there is an explanation for everything. This is like the MCU of conspiracy theories, it goes very deep. I get why people fall for it.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gjba6n2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SnakeASaur</a></p>
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<p>My husband and I have talked about this a lot. He saw some flat earth stuff, and started the conversation with how do we know the earth is round? I'm 99 percent sure he knows the earth is round, but he debates it in fun so earnestly I love to bring it up around groups of people because it's hilarious. </p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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<p>Anyway, my question has and always will be... why would anyone lie about the earth being round? How could anyone believe that all the countries of the world have somehow all collaborated together to lie to all citizens that the earth is round when it's truly flat. What benefits are there to this? </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gjbhudx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">missourifarmgirl</a></p>
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<p>An ex of mine was brought up as a Creationist.</p><p>She said there was a moment after she moved out to university and she went to a museum and there was a display about evolution and her mind was BLOWN. She told me she stared at it for hours then went home. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gja1uhy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">satellite_uplink</a><span></span></p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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<p>One of my Geometry students believed the earth was flat. I found out because the other students were mocking her for it. I told them to knock it off, and then quietly didn't the rest of the year trying to demonstrate how the earth was not, in fact, flat. We did a day on spherical Geometry and measuring angles on a sphere. </p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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<p>We did projections from three to two dimensions and looked at different maps of the earth. They drew the continents on an orange and then peeled it different ways to make it lay flat, and compared distortions between the different ways of opening.</p>
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<p>I got and airline pilot to come talk about using math, and one kid asked why they fly over Greenland to get to London, so he grabbed my gloves and talked about segments of great circles and how beautiful it was to see the earth curve away through the windscreen. We measured a bunch of shadows on our football field and then Skyped a buddy in Alaska, whose class measured shadows on their field, and tried to use our data to calculate the radius of the earth. (we were way off). </p>
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<p>I there in a calculus activity on local linearity- that any curve can be assumed straight on some small scale, and explicitly stated that it was like how earth looks flat to us but is really a sphere. We even watched videos of tall mast ships disappearing over the horizon during the break in the final exam.</p>
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<p>At the end of the year, I pulled her aside and asked if she believed the earth was flat. She said, "well, for airplanes and boats and stuff, and like Geometry, it's a sphere, but really it's flat."</p><p>So, she knew it was round, but chose to believe it to be flat.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gja5p2a?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FailedAtMasonry</a></p>
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<p>I was never a flat earther, but I went down the rabbit hole one day and let myself hear out their main arguments and had a moment when I started getting freaked out and scared that it could be true. So, I googled proof that it was spherical and quickly found several practical experiments that you can do at home which prove it is a sphere. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9w2z4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">writing_wrongs</a><span></span></p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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<p>I ran into a young man (I worked with his brother ages ago) while visiting my hometown and sometime during our stop and chat he began saying things about how the earth is flat.</p><p>My boyfriend and I glanced at each other and realized at the same time that this person was serious and not messing around.</p><p>I asked how he knew, tried my best not to let on that I was shocked I'd finally met a flat earther. </p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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<p>His reasoning was that when you look at the water (he's only seen a few Great Lakes and rivers) that the sky doesn't curve and the water looks flat all the way out.</p><p>He had a few other reasons and it was sad because his "proof" was due to his limited ability to travel out of Michigan and actually see things. I think if other people and also the planet seemed more real that a lot of individuals would be better for it. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gja1jwm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">kendrahoffdude</a></p>
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She IS Smart...
<p>My SIL is a flat-earther. She is very educated. That being said... we think she is likely mentally ill or has some kind of mental issue. She believes all kinds of conspiracy theories and falls for all the fake news. Despite having a Master's degree she seems to possess zero critical thinking skills. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7f6g0a/former_flatearthers_of_reddit_what_convinced_you/dqa1x74?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">inclusivefitness</a><span></span></p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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<p>Former flat earther here.</p><p>Thought the earth was flat because the floor in the room I was in was flat. Then I turned like, a few years old.</p><p>Probably, anyway. Nobody should figure out the earth is round while they're old enough to remember how. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7f6g0a/former_flatearthers_of_reddit_what_convinced_you/dq9swp0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">eifersucht12a</a><span></span></p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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He's Kidding...
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<p>I have a co-worker that thinks the Earth is flat. His logic is that god did it to show humans they were special and the devil works with a Jewish shadow government to lie to the world in order to "maintain control".</p><p>You should visit voat.co it's where the crazies convene and share their "proof" for a number of conspiracy theories. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7f6g0a/former_flatearthers_of_reddit_what_convinced_you/dqa180f?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Lucasaurusawesome</a><span></span></p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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<p>Not a former flat earthist, but I've reminded a few of them about gravity, and how it exerts its force around matter in spherical shape. And when they rebuttal "Gravity is a flawed theory", I remind them that the gravitron's existence has already been confirmed. That convinced the majority of them. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7f6g0a/former_flatearthers_of_reddit_what_convinced_you/dqa0sgr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">IAmSpinda</a><span></span></p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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Deep Thoughts
<p>I don't believe in flat earth, but theres some psychology behind this. Most people choose to beat people with the right answer rather than guiding them down a gentle path to it. If I was in intellectual darkness, I'd stay away from someone who chooses to blast a floodlight of truth in my face, but would easily accept it if it starts dim and then gradually gets brighter. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gk7d5o/former_flatearthers_what_made_you_realize_the/fqs5gu8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Goomonster</a><span></span></p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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<p>I fell in and out of the belief over time until I saw a video of an experiment where one group flew a helicopter far out over the ocean and another group watched it with a powerful telescope as it slowly lowered to the horizon. It disappeared behind the horizon while the helicopter was still a considerable distance from the ground. That ended that phase for me for good.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gk7d5o/former_flatearthers_what_made_you_realize_the/fqq0udb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">I_literally_can_not</a></p>
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<p>I doubt you'll find many, if any reformed flat earthers. For people like that who are so entrenched within their ideology, the flat earth isn't just something they believe, it's who they are. They have flat earth friends, listen to flat earth podcasts, watch flat earth YouTube, and wear flat earth clothes to their flat earth meetings. Even if deep down, someone like that had an epiphany and realized that they were wrong, imagine how hard it would be to reject all of these relationships, the community, and the friends that are held together because of that one common belief. It's similar to why it's so hard for people to leave cults or extremist religious or political groups. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gk7d5o/former_flatearthers_what_made_you_realize_the/fqpg8q6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">_Nyarlethotep_</a><span></span></p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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Head South
<p>As someone who entertained but never genuinely believed the idea and went pretty deep down the rabbit hole it's distance/time. On a flat earth map circling the north pole should be an extremely short trip while circling the south pole would be the longest route on the planet. The further south you get the further apart things should be and the longer trips would take. The flat earth map really falls apart there. Once they start arguing that time works differently based on location you know there's no way to justify the argument. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gk7d5o/former_flatearthers_what_made_you_realize_the/fqpxj2n?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">spacedandy1baby</a><span></span></p><!-- Please do not remove-->
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To Mars
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Hawaii looks like a beautiful place. And I long to visit one day. It looks like perfection, like life there is a constant state of paradise and beauty. But I do know people who have lived there and it seems that paradise is more like every other place in the world, with it secrets and mundane routines. There is definitely a cost and a downside to the "perfect place." But hey... I'm still going.
Redditor u/Higglesworth98 wanted to hear truth from those that spend their days in paradise by asking.... People who live in Hawaii, what are some misconceptions and/or things people don't realize about island life? [Serious]<div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_1"></div>
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Same old, same old....
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQzODk1Ni9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYyNTUwNzk4OH0.yPkKLoEguF4MGR6ug4zWX7eQAkvc-A2ASsG30YsUn_8/img.gif?width=980" id="48332" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="041b92dc0bc3179ac3fe187ecde4b8eb" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="500" data-height="300" />lilo and stitch water GIFGiphy<p>Life can often be very routine. There's less space to build new stuff so new developments are generally a much longer timeframe. If you're not comfortable going to the same two beaches, the same three restaurants and the same coffee shop on a regular basis, life can be very difficult here.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/gituquh?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">captain199</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Island Staples
<p>A major employer and source of residency is the US military.</p><p>Those of Japanese ancestry make up the second largest ethnicity.</p><p>Staples like groceries and gasoline cost a fortune to account for shipping costs. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/giszfxm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Yesarooni</a><span></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Alea....
<p>Lived in Aiea for 3 years.</p><p>It's not all about Zippys, Hilo Hattie, and Abc stores.... Apart from the tourist stuff everyone is living and working normal jobs.</p><p>Dating is rough if your if your looking for a LTR. Dating pool is small, but tourist and military people we pretty cool for small stints in my case.</p><p>Also very few mexican food places. :(. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/gitmg28?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Orangeglazedcattails</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Things of Nightmares....
<p>Damn giant centipedes. Found one a good 10" long on our pillow before going to sleep one night. Also had one get stuck half way in a sticky trap, and I woke up to the sound of it dragging that box all over the kitchen tile trying to escape. Nightmare fuel.</p><p>It's a beautiful place to live and has a lot of advantages, but f**k centipedes.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/giu3eyx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">bravehamster</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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On TV
<p>This isn't a thing anymore, but in the 1960s and 1970s EVERY TV show would have their characters greeted by Hawaiian dancers and get a lei necklace as soon as they stepped off the plane in Honolulu. For awhile I think a lot of people believed this is what happens all the time. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/gito5nw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">AnthillOmbudsman</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Loveless in Paradise....
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQzOTQxMC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2NDg2MzMxM30.qoNp-1YEy_nO4XCpNZM_bgnkrChmZbDVDpbYNiQ9WQM/img.gif?width=980" id="58e58" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="91eec63de202e97238038b8fc00f2e24" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="270" />Bench Press Hulk GIF by Love IslandGiphy<p>Dating is hard in Hawaii. The population is small, and there is a joke that "people are waiting for someone to break up." I could see it being lonely there long term if you didn't find someone quickly or move there with someone. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/gitj32t?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reddit</a></p>Before Cali....
<p>Born and raised on the Big Island, live in California now.</p><p>I can only speak to my own experience in the town I grew up in, on the island I grew up on, but it's a pretty damned normal life, just happens to be in a very beautiful and unique place.</p><p>Like any other tourist destination, the vast majority of visitors only see what's on the path of the "guided tour" so to speak. When you peel back that curtain, you just see people living their lives like anywhere else. </p><p><span></span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/gisqezw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Murdathon3000</a><span></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Peek a Boo
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQzOTYwNi9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0MzIxOTg2NX0.TACaH77OqU8_BZFf6JE7WiqYOj4TyXyMo5FJ5CT_SlA/img.gif?width=980" id="2b374" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="fad810ab7d0fa729f22d607ff5a02dd7" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="500" data-height="365" />scooby doo halloween GIF by Boomerang OfficialGiphy<p>It's not very easy to hide from police on a small island... so "don't do crime kids and stay in school" is a very important message here. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/git0yng?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jonukas96</a><span></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Crazy Expensive....
<p>I was born and grew up on the mainland. My wife and I have lived in Hawaii (Maui) for almost a decade now. It is definitely a lot more expensive to live here. 2 bags of groceries is generally in the $100 range. Rent is crazy. Gas is stupid expensive. The other end of that is that pay can be higher too, depending on the job. If you get a good job serving somewhere fancy, it's not uncommon to leave with $300-$500 for a shift. </p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
<p>We depend completely on tourism here to survive. So as much as tourists can be annoying, intrusive, rude, and entitled, we need them. Distance is weird. If I'm gonna drive 30 minutes somewhere, we better be having a whole day planned. Eating out somewhere casual is at least $30 for two people. It's really like living anywhere else tho honestly. </p>
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<p>I have fast internet, Wal-Mart and Target aren't far away. My family is on the east coast, so seeing them is hard during normal times. Forget about it right now. So that sucks. Also, I miss hoodies, good sammiches, and the woods. But Maui is stunning and magical and living and breathing. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/gitc0vb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NakedScrub</a></p>
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Influence of the West....
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Climate Needs
<p>I am kind of surprised no one has said that the homeless population is outrageous in Hawaii. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/gitwru7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"> saltywings</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/gitwru7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a>A big part of that is the fact that homeless people come from the mainland to be homeless here because it's a more livable climate. </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_11" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>I've met soo many homeless people who came from like Washington or Colorado.</p><p>And then also, when all the mental health hospitals were closed, there still hasn't been any programs or ways to help people who needed those services and therefore, homeless.</p><p>And then now Covid. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/giukfcy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hi_Supercute</a></p>
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Molokai'i it's just what it is...
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<p>It's like living in the mainland when you have shortages from storms and such. The grocery store just has what it has and if it doesn't wait a few days for the next barge.</p><p>On Maui and Oahu and the big island you don't really see this, but out on Molokai'i it's just what it is.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/giu0673?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">payperplain</a></p>
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Oahu
<p>Born and raised on Oahu. Every local I know doesn't wear shoes or slippers in the house. And most dislike going to tourist spots (like Waikiki). Also a half hour drive is considered a long drive. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/gitvwfr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"> kira621</a><span></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_15" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Bad Times
<p>My dad moved to Oahu and stayed out there for many years. I would go visit when I could.</p><p>The biggest thing I noticed was the drugs and outright poverty that seems to go over looked. With that came violence. My dad got mugged and put in the hospital coming out of a bar. I was beat up walking out of a hotel once. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/gitsj4e?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">per_alt_delete</a><span></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_16" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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The Theme Park
<p>We went to Kauai a couple years ago and while there we attended the agricultural fair. A local told us he dropped $500 on he family at the fair. He said that was it as far as amusement parks so every year the fair was <em>the</em> thing. It hit us then that for us we could go a couple hours to say Busch Gardens or a day to Disney World. If they were to go to anything like that other than the fair it would be a major haul to the mainland. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/gitwzdf?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">AllSoulsNight</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_17" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Big Island
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<p>A quick shaka will do, since you may know them or see them at the store soon anyway.</p><p>We lived on O`ahu for a decade, and have family born and raised on there and the Big Island, but will never be "local".</p><p>Don't try to talk pidgin. I know the lingo and tonal inflection, but still, just no.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/gitkyxx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wrathchilde</a></p>
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I'll be there for you...
<p>Lived on Oahu for about 4 years from 2012-2016. How expensive everything is is definitely at the top of the list. The one that most people don't expect is that I had a hard time making friends. I'm guessing this could be hard in any tourism based place but I'd go to the restaurant or bar and meet tons of people. They were all there for the week. It seems that even residents my age were all only there for a short timeframe as well. I just had a constantly rotating group of friends and it got old. </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_20" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>That's part of the reason I moved back to the mainland. Also everyone was always stealing stuff. Mopeds and other goods get stolen all day every day if it's not locked, it's gone. It was frustrating the amount of stuff that would just go missing or get broken into.</p><p>All that being said, I would live there again. I do miss it every once in awhile. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/gitu8vg?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FeelinFishy16</a><span></span></p>
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flying out...
<p>Was stationed at Oahu. When I first got there I thought the place was beautiful and had a great time. But after 3 years I kinda got sick of all the disrespectful tourists and the fact that it is a small island and the only way for me to leave was flying. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/gisy8b3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">aznsensation8</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_22" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Haole
<p>Being called a haole can be derogatory or neutral depending on how it's used. I'm a white woman married to a brown man. Once, we were having dinner out while I was pregnant and our server told us we were going to have the cutest hapa-haole baby. She was pretty nice and I'm pretty sure she said it completely innocuously. </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_23" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Another time I was visiting the Big Island (I lived on Oahu) and was checking out an off-the-beaten-road beach that belonged exclusively to the locals. It was crystal clear that I wasn't welcome, and though they never called me it to my face, I heard them call me a haole amongst themselves and it definitely wasn't neutral.</p><p>When I first moved to Oahu, my husband's employer hosted us for a dinner party with some of his new co-workers.</p>
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<p>Another white dude who had lived there for about 20 years pulled me aside and told me point-blank that I should expect to be called a haole and not to let it bother me. That I was a white person from the mainland in their space - it was my trade off. Broadly speaking, it wasn't really an issue while I lived there. Most people were really nice as long as you weren't acting like a self-entitled fool. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/giu5m8a?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reamund</a></p>
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The Florida of Paradise...
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<p>I also lived in Florida for five years and I always tell people that Hawaii really is what people only think Florida is. I've shared many stories on Reddit over the years of the endless string of lunatics and crazies I dealt with on nearly a daily basis out there. There's something about being on a remote island in the middle of nowhere that really brings out the loony in people. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kukr2w/people_who_live_in_hawaii_what_are_some/gitmfw8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">schnit123</a></p>
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Humans are dumb. I'm not being mean that is just simple, scientific fact. Sometimes we're just gonna act a foul. Or our brain is just going to malfunction. Don't panic. It is also perfectly normal to be a bit... scattered. Life is hard.
Redditor u/IMA_COW_IRL wanted everyone to fess up about all the times they've used a few more brain cells than they usually do by asking What's the dumbest thing you've ever done?<div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_1"></div>
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It Burns....
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTI2Mjk2NC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0ODg1NzI5M30.WuHRndyIc_yWzpAQwYJwof2kx2vwWOSIyCqWM3MN1MA/img.gif?width=980" id="7101b" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="43c64da52fbba21f7d37caa59c793899" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="270" />scary movie burn GIF by UsGiphy<p>I applied hair removal cream meant for women on my testicles. I can't tell you how much pain I was in. I was in the shower at a friends house and I couldn't even ask for help. Air caused a burning sensation. So I switched off everything and just lay in bed.</p><p>I also dumbly sprayed myself with pepper spray. But that's another story for another time.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kox9um/whats_the_dumbest_thing_youve_ever_done/ghtvodh?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ClinkingDoorKnob</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Going Up?
<p>At work we have glass elevators. Once, a guy was inside as I approached, so he was trying to press the button to open the door to hold the elevator for me.</p><p>He accidentally pressed the button to close the door instead. </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>I could see him inside panicking as the doors slowly closed, and as the elevator started to ascend he put his hand out to gesture an apology.</p><p>For some reason, the sight of him and his hand gesture slowly floating up in the elevator made me laugh so much. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kox9um/whats_the_dumbest_thing_youve_ever_done/ghv55xb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">island_seashell</a></p>
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Being a Kid
<p>When i was about 8, i was walking out of school, i picked up some pink fairy floss (cotton candy) off the ground and put it in my mouth. It was insulation. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kox9um/whats_the_dumbest_thing_youve_ever_done/ghtvxl0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"> NitaRising</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kox9um/whats_the_dumbest_thing_youve_ever_done/ghtvxl0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/NitaRising/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a><span></span>Hahaha. Reminds me when I was a kid around that age, my cousin and I were hitting each other and playing around in insulation lying around when construction was being done on his house.</p><p>We learned the hard way that day. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kox9um/whats_the_dumbest_thing_youve_ever_done/ghvkvrb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">IMA_COW_IRL</a><span style="background-color: initial;"></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Holed Up
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTI2Mjk2Ni9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2MDc3ODgzNH0.43e1mExILwirZhVTL2Kx_s1AOwbBR3Agq3866yrJ3qY/img.gif?width=980" id="2987a" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="20b276ad702abeec3f78d8d94c470339" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="269" />kate mckinnon put some pants on GIF by Saturday Night LiveGiphy<p>I've shared this before on similar threads but I can't get over how dumb it was.</p><p>I turned my pants inside out after noticing they had a hole in them, thinking the hole would be on the inside that way. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kox9um/whats_the_dumbest_thing_youve_ever_done/ghtw80x?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Firestarhk</a><span></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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The Worst Part
<p>I tried free climbing down a 20 ft rock wall towards the top of a mountain on Oahu with no climbing experience. Ended up falling right off of it, but there wasn't much space to land. So, I took an 80 ft tumble down the side of this mountain before I slammed into brush strong enough to stop me.</p><p>Had to get airlifted off the mountain to a field where flight for life took me to the hospital with a broken wrist, broken humerus, shattered elbow, ruptured diaphragm, broken ribs, and a laceration on my spleen. I got lucky it wasn't my legs or head or neck.</p><p>Worst part is if I'd have been patient I could've taken the little trail down next to the rock face that I climbed. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kox9um/whats_the_dumbest_thing_youve_ever_done/ghttx88?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Flashdime</a></p>
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NO!!
<p>My sister once told her boyfriend she lost her phone, while on the phone with him, set down her phone, scoured the church for her phone, returned, picked up her phone and said, "I can't find my phone anywhere."</p><p>And yet that's not the worst my family has done. </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>My dad once stopped mowing the lawn to tell me to put the lawnmower (big red lawnmower with an 8 foot deck) onto the trailer so when he was done mowing the lawn we could tow it to the next location. It took a bit of explaining why I said, "No." </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kox9um/whats_the_dumbest_thing_youve_ever_done/ghuwuyr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aminar14</a></p>
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Don't Jump
<p>In a wedding I was alone, probably 13yo, exploring the space which was filled with beautiful gardens, when I found a large space, it's ground looked wavy like a skateboard park except it was black, I figured it was plastic so I jumped on it.</p><p>It wasn't plastic.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>It was a net covering a biga** water reservoir and I sank in it knees deep before I got right out. Went back to my parents and no one noticed my legs we're super wet before they finally dried out, and my crazya** story I never told anyone stayed buried in my memory... Thus far at least. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kox9um/whats_the_dumbest_thing_youve_ever_done/ghtwjhy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">thingusracamagucous</a></p>
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The Flash
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<p>Decided to mask a fart with a cough during class one day at school. Coughed, fart came out a second late. It was a cheek slapper. Then immediately proceeded to blame the kid next to me. Everyone knew it was me, and I still cringe about that moment to this day. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kox9um/whats_the_dumbest_thing_youve_ever_done/ghtzlca?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"> MemeasaurusFlex</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MemeasaurusFlex/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a><span></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_10" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Dive In
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTI2Mjk3NS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2OTYzNjkwM30.ujAoyeyqRlYOEO-zejCMwLX9uKq7O8HR73yz7Y_6H1c/img.gif?width=980" id="ddd1a" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="9afe76b6772b71fc52533e3c09de7085" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="350" data-height="250" />pool party GIF by Silicon ValleyGiphy<p>When I was younger my friend and I were messing around in my basement when we found some chemicals used in swimming pools and whatnot.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_11" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>We started playing scientists and began mixing them all up in random ways and to this day I'm still surprised we didn't blow ourselves up or melt our faces off. Good times.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kox9um/whats_the_dumbest_thing_youve_ever_done/ghtqbsl?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">amlammy</a></p>
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Sometimes, no most times, truth is stranger than fiction. Often people will tell us wild stories and regale us with detailed recountings that just seem s bit.... embellished, but later we see ourselves proven wrong, which leaves us stunned. It is true, some people just live through crazy moments that couldn't be thought up by even the most gifted writers. So be careful when you accuse someone of telling tall tales. They may be spewing facts.
Redditor u/Not-A-Robot12 wanted everyone to chat about the times they realized the truth was the truth which left them stunned by asking.... What was your biggest "Oh, you weren't lying" moment?<div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_1"></div>
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At 5
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<p>I had just started working there and this lady was telling me all day that her mum was coming to pick her up soon, she was about 60.</p><p>Sure as heck, at five o'clock a little eighty year old lady comes to pick up her daughter</p><p>I felt like such an idiot, it was a very valuable lesson for me though, don't just dismiss someone because they've got dementia! </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kd7jl8/what_was_your_biggest_oh_you_werent_lying_moment/gfuvy3x?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Juststrathmore</a></p>
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The Family Tree
<p>Elderly neighbor told me that at one point in the sixties he was the only British person in Finland, and the Finnish secret service had spies on him all day.</p><p>Also told me his nephew cloned Dolly the sheep.</p><p>That his ex wife was a former Miss Finland.</p><p>That his mum had been the governess for the kids of an Indian Prince. (Not sure of proper title)</p><p>Yeah, turns out all of it was true. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kd7jl8/what_was_your_biggest_oh_you_werent_lying_moment/gfvom8l?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">notjustsomeonesmum</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Moneybags...
<p>I worked with a guy in his late 30s who had all kinds of crazy stories from when he was younger and had won a big chunk of money. I just kind of brushed it off as him being a bullsh***er. Then he brought in a ton of pictures. Ok, so you really did party with Metallica, crash a Lamborghini, get arrested base jumping, and still own a vacation house in Italy. I thought he was just full of shit. Nice guy too. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kd7jl8/what_was_your_biggest_oh_you_werent_lying_moment/gfvl51d?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Reddit</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Through the Smoke
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<p>I said "haha, yeah sure" and kept driving. I pass by the fire department and see the ambulance pull out so I decide to follow. I see it pull into my neighborhood and from the highway, I see the fire truck and all the smoke, and I just remember being like "holy crap."</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kd7jl8/what_was_your_biggest_oh_you_werent_lying_moment/gfv9syv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tfm256</a></p>
"Twas I"
<p>I was the one suspected. I ended up playing semi-pro rugby in NZ and none of my friends back in the US believed me (even though I was captain of my college team.) Post season I ran into a teammate of mine who had made it big and we ended up in the news. "[Teammate] out on the town in Auckland CBD with former teammate [Me] of the [Our team.]"</p><p>But then I didn't want to be the guy to post it and be like "see, I told you guys." Luckily a friend of mine saw the paper and tagged me on FB. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kd7jl8/what_was_your_biggest_oh_you_werent_lying_moment/gfvlzun?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">AnythingButYourFlair</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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"call the neighbors."
<p>When I was in 4th grade, the teacher was calling each student over to her desk one by one and asked them a question. When she called me up to her desk she said. "You see thick smoke coming out of your neighbors window. What do you do?" I said "call the fire department." She asked "what else would you do?" I again said that I would call the fire department. Then she asked again "what else would you do?" </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>This went on for a few minutes until she said that I could go back to my desk. When I got home from school, I mentioned this to my mom, and I asked her if she could think of anything else which I could do. My mom said "call the neighbors." To this day, I have no idea if that was the answer which the teacher was looking for or not. I also have no idea why she asked that question. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kd7jl8/what_was_your_biggest_oh_you_werent_lying_moment/gfvqtj3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">locks_are_paranoid</a></p>
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That Day
<p>I was in middle school during 9/11 and our school didn't announce it or put the tv on or anything so most of us had no idea what was going on. In lunch me and my buddies are sitting there when another kid, who was a known bull sh.... artist, came up and told us about the attacks. We laughed in his face and called him a liar because we didn't believe him. I didn't find out he was telling the truth until I got home and my mom had the news on. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kd7jl8/what_was_your_biggest_oh_you_werent_lying_moment/gfvq86l?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"> dperonejr</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/dperonejr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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4/1
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNDk2NTY4My9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzNjk3NjM1N30.TkuFqDH3l6NlehqW7drFVpFd19be8N_NnyP8eZor4BQ/img.gif?width=980" id="6e99f" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3b937cbe6dc3f95c86977fe09b993f29" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="270" />Hilary Duff Laughing GIF by YoungerTVGiphy<p>A neighbor called me on April 1st to tell me that I left a faucet turned on, and it caused damage to the apartments below.</p><p>Laughed my butt off.</p><p>Still paying, though... </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kd7jl8/what_was_your_biggest_oh_you_werent_lying_moment/gfvxbwe?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Michailius</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_9" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Get the RAID!!
<p>My daughter, aged 6 or 7 at the time, is the biggest worry wart. I've never met a more highly strung kid (I'm already aware she's got anxiety and going through steps now to help relieve it and give her tools as she grows) She came running in yelling that a spider ran across her face in her sleep. </p><p>Her hair was wild and it was like 2am in the morning. So I'm like "pickle, it was your hair, come on let's go back to bed"<br></p><p>Next morning as I'm getting her clothes ready I see a huge palm sized huntsman beside her drawers. It was indeed a huge spider who crawled across her face.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kd7jl8/what_was_your_biggest_oh_you_werent_lying_moment/gfweoic?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Firesunwatermoon</a></p>
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I'd rather Pepsi....
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<p>We didn't believe her.</p><p>She stood up, unhooked her bra, put an empty Coke can between her breasts, kinda flexed her arms forward, and completely crushed that can.</p><p>I don't remember much after that. I kinda rebooted, and then it was the next day. Dunno where she went.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kd7jl8/what_was_your_biggest_oh_you_werent_lying_moment/gfw37kc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">StillN0tATony</a></p>
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Grain of salt
<p>I had a friend who was just super dramatic and and full of over the top stories about how f*cked up and crazy their family was; I took it all with a grain of salt. As years went by I had multiple experiences actually meeting their family members, and gradually came to realize that they had not been exaggerating AT ALL. I now look at them in wonder and with profound respect, for managing to come out of such a background as well as they did.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_13" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Small town
<p>I'm from a small town and went to a small high school. In the area it was common for kids to switch back and forth between tri-county schools due to parents divorce or guardianship/foster care. Well one day I was talking to a girl next to me in class and I was asking her where she was from. She said the small town and said "yeah there is only one traffic light in the town and it's in front of the middle school." I thought she was just joking around until about two weeks later my academic team went to said small town and I saw she was right. There was only one traffic light and it was in front of the middle school.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_14" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Snip
<p>During my vasectomy. My doc said "ok I'm done on that side" it felt like he had been down there for an hour and it was painful. I laughed thinking it was him making light of the situation. He then scooted his chair over and kept working. 😬😅</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Zestyclose_Ad5389/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Zestyclose_Ad5389</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_15" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Strike out
<p>My grandfather told me that bowling used to have nine pins. I honestly thought he was joking, but I looked it up and it's true.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/locks_are_paranoid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">locks_are_paranoid</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_16" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Spurt
<p><br>I was a huge joker in 8th grade and my teacher (who was a really cool guy) knew it. One day I came in class asking for a bandaid because I was bleeding and he said, "Aw you're messing!" So then I squeezed my finger and blood just spurt out of it. He explained that he thought I was joking and proceeded to get the medical kit.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/im_from_9gag/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">im_from_9gag</a></p><p>-</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_17" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Wait, what?
<p>At the beginning of the year, a supervisor where I worked asked me if I wanted to be on the Coronavirus Strike Team (where we'd go to other prisons hit by covid and help them out if staff got sick). This guy was a noted prankster and had a perfect deadpan delivery, so I figured it was another one of his many jokes. I laughed and said sure. Keep in mind, this was January, it didn't seem that big a deal then. Three months later, I got a text reading: "Pack a bag for 3 nights, we're going up to [redacted] Prison. They're hit hard and need people."</p><p>I went ahead and kept my word, but I wasn't happy about it.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/packersfan823/" target="_blank">packersfan823</a><span></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_18" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Missing
<p>When my parents believed I was kidnapped at the age of eight years old or so and decided to organise a search party after not seeing me for the whole day when I was actually in a new friends house from primary school that was up the road from us and I was happily stuffing my face with hotdogs etc with the rest of her family. If I didn't randomly appear in the square when I did during late evening when a family friend was walking back to her house, I'd have definitely ended up on the news as a missing child.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Next_Sky2546/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Next_Sky2546</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_19" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Talking stalk
<p>​<span>A guy I worked with in the late 90's claimed he was being stalked by his ex, not entirely unusual. The picture he showed was of some supermodel who was so hot the picture was practically smoking. I did a double-take and looked at the nerdy little goof ball who showed us the picture. I couldn't believe for a half-second this little dweeb with his D&D obsession and fondness for everything Star Wars was being stalked by some woman with a body like an angel. I pretended to go along with it until one day she showed up and confront him, and yeah she had a heavenly body. You couldn't not notice how hot she was, a gay dude in the office couldn't take his eyes off her. She cried for him to take her back, apologizing over and over about something, but he kept shaking his head and told her to leave him the hell alone. We had to get the police to take her off the property.</span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_20" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>​<br>Much later I learned that she wasn't always that hot little number, they had known each other through high school and got together around graduation. She too had quite the obsession with D&D, making her as rare as a unicorn at the time. The girls cousin came to visit and took her for a makeover and showed her how to maintain her appearance. She had instantly found success modeling and was taking courses to help her get into acting. Her looks got her lots of attention she'd never had before, but that was the problem. She wound up having an affair and kicked her boyfriend to the curb. Later she realized all of the guys she was sleeping with only cared about her looks, but her boyfriend cared about her. He was willing to let it all go, but wasn't willing to take her back.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/weirdinchicago/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">weirdinchicago</a></p>
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Odd jobs
<p>That's a common thing people have said to me, usually about my job history/hobbies. I've worked as a MMA instructor (adults and kids, with the kids I've taught martial arts summer camps too), makeup artist/hair assistant, personal support worker, and registered nurse. I'm 23.</p><p><span>When you look at it in order though, it makes sense.</span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_22" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p> I started jiu-jitsu at age 5, did a few small local exhibition-type fights as a teenager and taught as well. Then I worked at a salon after moving out, as a makeup artist/hair assistant (they provided the hair assistant training) while studying a year of biochem and then switching into an RN degree. I worked part-time as a personal support worker doing homecare in my last two years of my 4-year degree, while still working part-time at the salon. Now, I'm a registered nurse (with some odd skills in my back pocket)</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/BabaTheBlackSheep/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">BabaTheBlackSheep</a></p>
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Adoption
<p>I was volunteering in an animal shelter, working in the small pet supply shop that was attached to it. A happy, excited woman came in and asked me to help her find a collar that would be a good fit for the dog she was about to adopt. She didn't have the dog with her, so I asked what kind of dog it was so that I could get an idea of its size.</p><p>She told me that it was a Rottweiler/dachshund cross. I admittedly thought to myself, "Right, OK, you don't know much about dogs, this is probably going to be a corgi." But I humored her and said, "Wow, that's an unusual one! Let's wait until they bring him out and we'll size the collar right onto him."</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_24" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p><br>Out he comes on his little blue-and-white slip-lead, and I swear on my honor, there is nothing this dog could have been BUT a Rottweiler/dachshund cross. He looked like a stocky dachshund with a Rottweiler's head grafted onto its shoulders. His body was dark liver-dachshund and light liver-dachshund in the classic Rottweiler dark/light pattern. I was just speechless. He was quite a little sight to behold.</p><p>My absolute favorite part of this story: the lady turns to me, eyes shining, and says, "Isn't he the handsomest dog you've ever seen?" Lady, there sure is something beautiful here. Just warmed my heart.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Terpsichorean_Wombat/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Terpsichorean_Wombat</a></p>
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EmergencyÂ
<p><br>Working at Frito Lay, stocking a store in inner city St. Louis at 3:30 in the morning. Guy walks in and shouts "Call 911, I've been shot!" He looked completely fine until he turned around and the back of his wife-beater was completely red with blood.</p><p>Got the store clerk to lock the door and call 911 while I provided first aid until police/EMS arrived.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RepairmanJacked/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">RepairmanJacked</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_26" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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