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32 posts & 28 voices | Started 2 years ago by mooman | Latest reply from Philby

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mooman - Member

Why is it that some people need to lie so much.

I know a person who claims to have done everything. If somebody says they are a nurse .. Well he used to be a brain surgeon .. If somebody saw a UFO - he’d claim to be the one flying it.

His latest story goes something like this.
He laid out 2 or 3 guys. he was able to cos he boxed at Olivers gym in Salford a few years previous.

Now. I knew it was another one of his stories. But I couldn’t work out why he chose Oliver’s gym in Salford to base his latest story on. Then I remembered the previous night(this Friday) Jamie Moore was fighting on Sky Sports … and where do you think Jamie Moore hails from? And what gym do you think he trains at? Yep you were right.

So why do people like this feel the need to lie/
And anybody else care to share a tale about another infamous liar they have met?

Posted 2 years ago #
TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR - Member

I've had two mates in the past that were like that. They are no longer mates.

Posted 2 years ago #
ton - Member

i worked with a bloke like that
we called him black dog.....

Posted 2 years ago #
mooman - Member

I should have added. The 2 or 3 guys he sparked .. was at the same time

A friend and I have estimated he would have to be 103yrs old to have done all the things he claims to have .. he just so happens to be under 40yrs old

Posted 2 years ago #
tails - Member

I don't know it's not as if he is lies are causing other people a big problem.

I too have friends/acquaintances who are like this part of it is people myself included like to be associated with success as we can't always be successful we find people/something that is.

The best way to change them or lessen it is to out them in front of a group.

Posted 2 years ago #
TheSwede - Member

we had a black dog at our work ton but ours was way blacker than your mate.

Posted 2 years ago #
deadlydarcy - Member

Yep, everybody knows somebody who fibs and fibs and fibs - you know every story is going to be exaggerated to the limit. I guess it's probably some kind of deep seated insecurity thing that they have to do it to make themselves feel better.

There's plenty of it goes on here. Try starting a thread about running...

Posted 2 years ago #
firestarter - Member

weve a lad at work like that hes called topper

Posted 2 years ago #
tails - Member

There's plenty of it goes on here. Try starting a thread about running...

Not forgetting the internet hardmen.

Posted 2 years ago #
BoardinBob - Member

I love folk like that

You've been to Tenerife, they've been to Elevenerife

You shat in the Sahara, they stood in it

Posted 2 years ago #
ron jeremy - Member

i used to work with a guy like that he was known as Billy Two Sheds (cos if you had one shed he had two), never really had mates like that, we all exaggerate from time to time but as i was saying to Kiera Knightley and Natalie Portman as we were lying in bed this morning there is a limit!

Posted 2 years ago #
markfu - Member

I had a friend who told me and lots of others that he had AIDS. We all knew he was lying, the rest of them don't really talk to him anymore. I still stay in touch with him, other than his bullsh1tting he's a decent bloke. I don't think he does it so much anymore, that one kind of tripped him up big time. I Agree that it's some sort of insecurity thing.

Posted 2 years ago #
higgo - Member

Has he ever eaten 6 mars bars in half an hour?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGDKTTNXH2w

Posted 2 years ago #
skiboy - Member

We have a guy at work in the stores, he knows bill gates, he used to work with him !, he says steve jobs is a tosser, he also knows the motoGP hero rossi, used to race with him too,

he has no testicles (store bloke not rossi) as they were blown off in motorcycle accident?, but he has a son, little fat kid, just been picked for england basketball team? i could go on...

we also had an earlier store man who was in the SAS in the 70's

I also worked with another guy , a forklift driver who at the same time was a shaolin trained martial arts expert and a few years later i actually saw him on the front page of the local rag claiming to be a druid high priest who worked as a expert aligning stone circles..

you gotta love them,

Posted 2 years ago #
Wookster - Member

LOL know a chap like that we called him two shits....cos if you had had one he'd had...well you get the idea!!!

Posted 2 years ago #
zaskar - Inactive

There was a guy at my Dad's workplace called Harry who used to sell porn tapes, dvds and other recorded porn.

We used to call him Dirty Harry!

I think the guy got away with lying and can't stop himself-maybe he's insecure or even mentally ill.

You could A) stick around or B) Choose friends wisely.

Thing is what if he isn't lying?

Posted 2 years ago #
tails - Member

I had a friend who told me and lots of others that he had AIDS

Posted 2 years ago #
seanoc - Member

Is this the same guy that constantly podiums at 24hr events and just happened to have cycled the length of Wales in sub 24 hours.

You are an ignorant and jealous civvie ****.

Posted 2 years ago #
DrJ - Member

I knew a guy who, if you told him you knew a liar, he'd immediately say he knew a worse liar

Posted 2 years ago #
JulianA - Member

Most of the people I've met with 'black cat syndrome' have been either forces or ex-forces...

Posted 2 years ago #
neilsonwheels - Member

Used to "smoke" with a lad like this "back in the day". Good lord he could bull sh!t.

We were exchanging funny driving stories the one day, mainly lorry based stuff and he chipped in with a yarn about loosing all the air in the brakes and coming to a halt a long way away in a muddy field. It was then explained to him that if air brakes fail they lock up and do not just simply stop working. He was very quiet for the rest of the night. Bless him.

Posted 2 years ago #
theotherjonv - Member

The Mighty Higs.

Exactly what i thought when I read the thread. Ah, preposterous!

Posted 2 years ago #
waihiboy - Member

my old school mate is like that...

we had him years ago when we were 17-18 we made up a fictitious girl who fancied him and put a note on his car saying she would love to meet up.

he told us about the note then made up that he met her and was seeing her the next saturday, he kept this going for about 3 months!!! we always wondered what and where he actually went on those saturdays when he wasnt out with us!

he also told a classic porky the other week, he bought a new car that didnt have alloy wheels (just very clever hub caps that looked like alloys), anyway he was showing me around the car and ended with and "its got alloys" actually kicking the tyres...

used to work with a bloke that gave you the classic "No word of a lie...." before his stories, he may aswell have started with "what i am about to tell you is total bollox but anyway..."

why do people do it??

Posted 2 years ago #
Wonky - Member

Anthony,
maybe this guy has done all the things he says.
And you are just a bitter twisted A&*&hole?

Posted 2 years ago #
Suggsey - Member

Its nice to know I have had so many friends in my 44 years so far

Posted 2 years ago #
Goz - Member

Used to work with a top downhiller, then we went riding with him, quite clearly he was'nt....it was all in his head...poor chap..

Posted 2 years ago #
Mog - Member

I'd just been reading that thread too!!

Sounds 'ard as nails. What a guy!

Posted 2 years ago #
thomthumb - Member

know a guy who tells srories but every time they get bigger and bigger.

eg. bear in a ski resort where he was skiing, bear jumped out on him when sking, he wrestled the bear etc.

also implies that he was in the SAS, although we all know where he's worked his entire life - and he was never in the military.

also skiied in the olympics!

Posted 2 years ago #
mooman - Member

Good tales for sure..

And why is it some people who once served in the military .. always seem to have served in the thick of it in Afghanistan? even though they had left the army a good few years previous.

Posted 2 years ago #
ernie_lynch - Member

BoardinBob - Member

I love folk like that

Agreed

Posted 2 years ago #
duntmatter - Member

I knew a guy at uni who told people he was left an eight bedroom house by his Gran, so he let all his friends live in it free. In reality he rented the windowless basement room in said student house.

Later on, his office had a pool and a helicopter pad on the roof. Obviously, the place would fall apart if he wasn't there. The work was high level, mysterious, and important. His face was priceless when he saw me in the queue of people going in to start work in the callcentre.

Posted 2 years ago #
Philby - Member

A guy I knew told everyone including his family and his girlfriend that he had terminal brain cancer so that his g/f wouldn't break up with him - what a t*at!

I also have a female friend who works in the film industry and is always name dropping about which film / rock star is going to work on her many projects - none of which have seen the light of day! I think her self-esteem is so low that only the perceived links to these famous people give her a sense of being.

Posted 2 years ago #