Outrageous Liars

building_with_lego

So I love this thread! :blushing:Interesting reading indeed!

A quick tally of the 42 posts before this one reveals some patterns of lying, namely
SAS/Paras/Marines/Army etc 9 mentions
Police 1 mention
MI5/ KGB etc 3 mentions
Cancer, of self or significant other 14 mentions. Crikey, as my daughter would say.

I had a housemate for a while who boasted to anyone who would listen about his wages (we were full-time students working part-time) and the interest rates he got on his savings, yet he'd ring me up asking me to go into his bedroom to find paperwork which was underneath his :eek: bank statements :eek: , plus my parents were his landlords and let me know that he wasn't paying his rent. How he thought I wouldn't know is beyond me, but I've still no idea where all the money was going.

There was another girl at uni who claimed that her father was dying of cirrhosis of the liver and had a year to live. Sad times. Unfortunately she told my housemate that her father had six months to live, and our other housemate that her dad would be dead within three months. If you're going to lie you've really got to have a good memory!

Cooper18

building_with_lego wrote: »

So I love this thread! :blushing:Interesting reading indeed!

A quick tally of the 42 posts before this one reveals some patterns of lying, namely
SAS/Paras/Marines/Army etc 9 mentions
Police 1 mention
MI5/ KGB etc 3 mentions
Cancer, of self or significant other 14 mentions. Crikey, as my daughter would say.

And to summarise, as a good friend of mine would say, crazy people walk amongst us. :rotfl:

mwa

What a brilliant thread!!

My SIL is a compulsive liar, nothing grandiose like some stories on here but keeps us all amused with her escapades, mostly having affairs and stealing (always such elaborate stories about how something ended up missing, she's currently being investigated by the police, oh how I hope that works out!!)

My sister got taken in by an Internet romance, she met a girl who claimed to be a famous TV actress, she had my sister going for about a year until she finally admitted she wasn't! Shame my sister is the gullible sort, we always had doubts but she was totally taken in...

FatVonD

When I was 15 I had a boyfriend who told me he used to be in the Hells Angels. He carried around a cut-off, vomited-over denim jacket thing (it was the 70s, we'd all read the books :rotfl: ) then told me that, because of an administrative oversight the first time he took his bike test, he would need 'L' plates on his new moped :rotfl:

Much, much later I had a friend who insisted he'd once been in a famous band though there was no video/photographic evidence to back up this being true, the funny thing is, his long-term partner would go along with it and I never knew if she was bullshlting too or if she really believed him. When 100% mortgages were around they bought a flat and were struggling with the mortgage and took in a lodger he told me they were adopting a kid... the boy was about 20 :rotfl:

The friend is dead now, I wish he didn't feel he had to lie because we all liked him anyway, it would be so disappointing when you thought you were making some headway and he'd then come out with another whopper

Calien27

One from back when I was in college, a new boy started half way through the year. He went around telling everyone he'd moved from Australia and that the people from Neighbors and Home and Away were his friends.

He left at the end of that year to move back to Dorset, where he'd moved from mid way through the year. I kind of wish he'd attempted to put on and Aussie accent :rotfl:

Hermia

building_with_lego wrote: »

If you're going to lie you've really got to have a good memory!

I remember a woman in the first place I worked who told everyone a different story. She told me she was adopted and her adoptive parents and siblings adored her. She told someone else that she was adopted and her adoptive parents abused her and threw her out when she was 15. She told someone else she was an orphan. She turned out to have a very ordinary pair of loving middle-class (not adoptive) parents.

I had forgotten all the liars I have known in the past and this thread has reminded me!

candygirl

pigpen wrote: »

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

LOL same here hun:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

emsywoo123

[QUOTE=CrazyAngel;
4. He thinking of going back to Uni, but as he did his GCSE's over 5 years ago they have 'expired' LOL!! So hes got to do them all again before he can consider doing anything else him.[/QUOTE]

Um..... This one is true! Grade A-c are recognised for 5 years, D-F for 3 years.

I used to be an NVQ assessor and people get the raging hump about it!!

candygirl

emsywoo123 wrote: »

Um..... This one is true! Grade A-c are recognised for 5 years, D-F for 3 years.

I used to be an NVQ assessor and people get the raging hump about it!!

what?:eek::eek:so people have to take their GCSES every few years?surely not;)

bangersnmash

I've noticed since I was a kid that lying is commonplace but I didn't quite realise that extreme fantasy lying is apparently quite as common as this thread suggests, till I read the above. A bit of an eye opener, I was previously under the impression that Walter Mitty type stuff was relatively rare.

But, no, it would seem that there are large numbers of people doing it routinely, and lots of it compulsively, as a matter of course. Getting away with it, although lots of people clock it the bods merrily doing it carry on anyway.

Maybe they don't often get told that they've been sussed so they incorrectly assume that people are swallowing it all. Blimey. Ooh er. That is a bit shocking to realise, actually. A tad.

So how many of them are also doing fraud regularly and various other crime. Possibly a lot or even most of them. But maybe not, perhaps it mostly just stays at tall stories and not much or any action as such. But, gawd, what if loads of them are just rabid crims as well. There's certainly lots of crime going on all the time everywhere so maybe that kind of lying is indicative of more serious pathology a lot of the time. It is some of the time, for sure, but quite how much. Could be lots, couldn't it. Yuk.

So, don't believe or trust anyone new until you've checked them out thoroughly. Lots of con artists are smooth and convincing. Often sound like nice sensible caring people, to get your trust. Then bang, they'll have you. As much as they can get out of you.

So, obviously, commonsense, don't ever trust anyone for anything like relationships or business until you can be sure.

I keep reading lots of reports in media of women in particular being ripped off by fraudsters preying on their lonely hearts adverts on dating sites which apparently is a booming business for serial crims at large everywhere.

Etc.