Outrageous Liars

xoxo_2

My Mums bio-dad is a terrible liar. I don't think I believe a single thing he's ever said. There's nothing he hasn't done, despite apparently having cancer, strokes, being at deaths door for 80% of his adult life. He even had my Mum trying to fly out to Australia at one point because he had 'only days to live'. She was trying to beg and borrow for the money to get to see him, until her half brother emailed to say he was actually ok and she didn't need to come.

This is from a recent email he sent my Mum, after 15 months of no contact...

[Aunties name]sent an email last week for a connection for me on Facebook. Having worked for ASIO the Australian govenment special agency with the Security Institute & Australia Defence Force I am not allowed by strict security laws here to put any of my personal details onto groups like 'Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter and any other such company. It could lead to somebody who has been jailed who wants to take reprisals.

This man is in his late 70s, obviously a huge concern to the Australian Government/Defence and anyone wanting "to take reprisals" via his Facebook page.

He's also "the only person in the world" to have had one of his hips replaced twice, which was such a major op the best surgeon in the whole of Australia personally oversaw after travelling back home from his holiday a week early. :rotfl: The same thing happened when he had a heart problem, only this time the surgeon also made several home visits to him whilst he was recovering and they're now good friends who regularly have lunch together, despite the surgeon living in a completely different part of Australia.

I'm having a brain blank. But he's a terrible, terrible liar. The scary thing is I think he believes half of the crap he comes out with.

candygirl

Someone once told me he had never been married, as his ex had died of cancer when they were in their teens, and he didn't drve as he has been in a crash that'd killed his best mate:eek::eek:
An ex of my mates told her he's been in the SAS:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:a common theme among inadequate men , I reckon:mad:
I also knew a girl who was a pathological liar, and invented tons of pregnancies, abortions and illnesses, all for attention:(:(
Very sad people imo:(:(

nixe

not taking him seriously that he set fire to the kitchen and then heroically put the fire out. Unfortunately (for him) he was spotted starting the fire and got sacked. It was such a stupid thing to do as there were loads of people in the building [ quote ]

i almost choaked on my cig lol.
the thing is why. at first i believed this all action hero
but everytime we spoke he came out woth more and more.
in the end i talked to others and none of what he has said was true
well peeps do think he may have saw the queen.
but he did not get any medal or honour.
just read pseudologica fantastica thanx bangers and mash
so these peeps have a condition i just thought there bare faced liars.
i cant stand lying i find it insulting and dont see why as in the person on the train { earlier post } would do this.

somethingcorporate

I guess people would rather live the life they want in their head rather than the one that we all actually get.

Or so Sigmund Freud, sat in the corner, keeps telling me.

Caroline_a

My ex was another liar. He told me he'd been in the Army for about 6 years and had done 2 tours of Northern Ireland (in the 70s) and trained with the SAS. He'd also worked in Canada for several years. I believed him - had no reason not to - until I met his ex. We got on quite well and then swapped stories. He'd been in the Army for about 3 weeks, didn't finish basic training, his father had to buy him out! And the Canadian story was pure fantasy! He'd not even had a passport during the time he reckoned it happened!

I often wonder what lies he tells people now about the time we were together!

pigpen

the childrens dad has told DD1 he as several brain tumours.. nutter... he doesn't even have a brain

He told them he passed his driving test first time (8th to my knowledge!.. I paid for 3 of them)

My friend XH used to tell her amazing whoppers.. he was going to Ibiza for 2 weeks fire fighters training.. He was in the TA element of the SAS.. he drove tesco bread about.

A girl I was at college with pretended to be pregnant while bragging about a holiday and how much she had drank and how many guys she had been with.. She had been to Tenerife with her mum and dad.

Life would be quite boring without such people in them.

I don't need to make anything up, my life is insane enough without tall tales!

Saturnalia

There's one on here who posts on DT! He is, simultaneously:

a penniless student freezing & starving,
a home & land-owner in Cornwall,
a married family man,
16 years old (and has been for donkey's years)
and as of yesterday, a suddenly wealthy internet businessman.

The hilarious thing is that if anyone pulls him up on his other stories, he denies everything, he truly doesn't seem to realise anyone can check his posting history! (Or remember what he posted 3 hours earlier.)

dacouch

They're called "Black Catters" in London...if you have a black cat, theirs is blacker.

bangersnmash

Yes, I know the one you mean. He exhibits several other rare or unique posting styles and various obsessions as well.

I'd just add to that that when challenged he did say that he had let another person post using his account - but as lots of people pointed out, that wasn't really particularly convincing for various reasons.

Cooper18

I'm honoured to have met 3 people in my lifetime who all claim to have had cancer. All were friends of friends and I sat in their company as they regaled their friends with their tales of woe. Except I knew they were lying through their teeth. It's totally pathetic that these people devastate their own families to get whatever kick it is they get. Could never work in the field of mental health, I'd be sacked in a heartbeat!