In some situations one might feel like there’s no other option but to lie; for example, when your mother-in-law serves her famous stew you don’t like that much, but say how much you enjoy it every time nevertheless. (As a matter of fact, people reportedly tell an average of 1.08 lies per day.)
However, sometimes, the white lie is completely uncalled for or unnecessary, especially when a person tries to prove just how much they enjoy an activity, even if they don’t (and there’s no mother-in-law to impress). People on Reddit recently discussed such situations after one of them asked netizens what activities many people only pretend to like. Reddit users covered all sorts of scenarios, from talking about kids to social media use, so if you’re curious about what else was there, wait no longer and scroll down to find out.
Below you will find not only the netizens’ answers but thoughts shared by the OP themselves as well as by the Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, Richard Wiseman, who was kind enough to answer a few of Bored Panda’s questions about why people pretend to like certain things.
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#1
Happy birthday song at a restaurant.
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#2
Networking and making sure you know people that know people. Job politics etc.Can I just get a job based off experience and not who I know ?
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#3
Office get togethers.
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#4
Watching NASCAR. I don't know how anyone can sit there and watch those cars go around and around for hours.
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#5
Smoking cigarettes.Pretty much every smoker I've ever known wants to stop doing it and would prefer to never have started in the first place.
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#6
New years in times square.
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#7
Hearing about people’s kids.
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#8
Social networking.
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#9
Cruises.You spend how much money to be cooped on a boat with 3,000 strangers, for how long?
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#10
I do not understand runners, especially people that run marathons, 5ks, etc. purely for “fun”.
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#11
LinkedIn.
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#12
Watching the 10 million videos someone posts on Snapchat from a concert.
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#13
Going to a parade. Just standing there looking at mostly-uninteresting stuff walk by, and your feet hurt and there's nowhere to pee. I hate them.
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#14
Hanging out with the parents of your child's friend.
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#15
Nightclubbing, especially the idiotic dancing.
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#16
Family Gatherings.
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