Outrageous Liars

CKhalvashi

emsywoo123 wrote: »

Wrong.

The GCSE is to create a proxy exemption from an aspect of an apprenticeship. Not the same thing as an NVQ, and plenty of people do apprenticeships who have GCSEs and A levels!

I do agree that they do not diminish in value for professions. My point was that in the example given, the chappie MAY have been telling some truth!

Regretting. Starting. This. Now!

I'm in agreement with this.

Although a degree qualified teacher, I've had to take an NVQ4 (A-Level equiv.) in Child Protection as part of my contract with a non-teaching body. I've also voluntarily taken an NVQ in Music Production for what I do now, as I have a Sciences-based degree. I also had to take an access course.

CK

smartpicture

Someone who lived a long way from me owed me some money, and had shown some reluctance to pay it back. The last straw was when they told me they were going to pay cash into my account at the only bank in their village, but they couldn't because the bank had burned down!

After I had ranted and raved for a while, I googled it - and was mortified to discover it was true! :rotfl:

pigpen

sweetsheep84 wrote: »

Hi pigpen. I thought if you were behind on rent and got evicted. The deposit would have gone towards the behind rent.

According to him, the council helped him with admin fee so I thought it is not the same agency nor same landlord.

The council here do help with bond money in some circumstances, Shelter do too. If he had been evicted he wouldn't have got another property with the same landlord so I'd probably assume the eviction was the lie.

CKhalvashi

pigpen wrote: »

The council here do help with bond money in some circumstances, Shelter do too. If he had been evicted he wouldn't have got another property with the same landlord so I'd probably assume the eviction was the lie.

We're the same with regard to the bond money, but it's only guaranteed for a year.

CK

nzmegs

The worst thing is that we are all so polite that we don't want the other person to know that they have been caught out. We worry they will be embarrassed so we pretend that they are telling the truth. especially if other people are around or we have only recently met them.

Liars rely on us being polite. they can say whatever they like and most people will just say "really? Wow, that's incredible..." Obviously at some point their lie is exposed, but they have lived it for so long by then that they can't comphrehend why you are so upset about it.

I believed the lies of my ex because I initially trusted him. Then i wondered if maybe i got it wrong and misheard him, then i began to wonder if he was mentally ill or perhaps just needed help to get to the bottom of what was true or not. then I realised that the man was simply abusive and i left. takes a while to get to that point.

Erinnire

I once was on a week of very earlies at work and I had to travel down lots of country roads. Three days in a row there was dead deer in the middle of the road it was really difficult to squeeze the car around them. I stopped and called the police all three times making me a few mins late for work all three days. I reckon my colleagues thought it was bull. I probably would have done if someone had said that to me!

redfragglebiker

Gra76 wrote: »

An ex-colleague of mine brought a picture of 'his stunning girlfriend' into work years ago after weeks of boasting how gorgeous she was and how her dad was a multimillionaire American who owned a chain of garages. It was fairly obvious he'd printed it off himself as he had the face of a gargoyle and the personality of a sloth. The picture he brought in was of a stunning woman, we all knew he was extracting the urine but we played along with it to humour him. He'd printed a picture off the internet, we all knew it.

A few weeks further down the line he said he was leaving because his 'girlfriends dad' had offered him a managers position in one of the garages in America. He said he was going to be on a 6-figure salary and seemed really happy about it.

We all figured he was winding us up again but for the sake of not getting into an arguement we all just chuckled behind his back.

Then one day he didn't come in...we figured maybe he HAD gone to America after all. Maybe he wasn't pulling the wool over our eyes, maybe he did have a stunning girlfriend and maybe he did go to America and get a 6-figure salary managers job in one of the garages that his girlfriends dad owned...

The next Christmas one of my colleagues came in one Monday morning with a stupid grin on his face. I asked him what was so funny. He'd been Christmas shopping at Meadowhall shopping center and had seen our ex-colleague working in the McDonalds there...the lying git hadn't gone to America after all. Needless to say the next weekend a few of us went to Meadowhall to go and visit said McDonalds and took great pleasure in heckling our ex-colleague as he tried to hide!

Oooh Meadowhall eh? Makes me wonder if I know who you're on about! Sheffield's not that big y'know!

lizziebabe

Mmmmm...... some interesting tall tales :rotfl:

My neighbour told someone that we were in trouble with the Police and they had been to see us as she had got an injunction out on us to keep off her 'land'. Turned out that the 'someone' was a friend of mine who told me the story. I phoned up the neighbour and told her in no uncertain terms if she carried on spreading scandal about us that I would sue her for slander. Haven't heard a dickie bird since

When I was going out with my boyfriend years ago, (now ex-husband, who also lied but that is another story) his ex-girlfriend told someone that she had been engaged to him. Again, that someone was a friend of mine.

It seems to me that these liars always get found out, especially lying cheating husbands. Nuff Said!!!

hemophobic

When I was at school (year 11) me and my friend were talking in the corridor looking at an atlas on the wall , when she told me that her dad lives in Australia and she goes to visit him some weekends.

That was just one of many but I think the others have been blocked from my memory.

Olokia

The thing about the GCSEs expiring is true.

I have GCSEs, International Baccalaureate and a HNC but I need to do Functional Skills (the new name for Key Skills) in English, IT and Maths because they only recognise my GCSEs and I did the GCSEs more than 5 years ago so they expired. The other people on my course don't need to do the Functional Skills because they did their GCSEs 2 years ago.

GCSEs still count for evidence to an employer but they do expire when trying to use them as evidence for applying for education.

Someone on my course is a compulsive liar, to the point that I never believe anything he says any more. If someone says that they did this unlikely thing then he says he did it too but makes it more outrageous. He says his father worked for the SAS and was quite high up in it.

I believed him at first about everything until he said something that I know had to be untrue. I can never prove anything though.