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Catching liars out

  • 06-09-2012 5:46pm
    #1
    lazygal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭


    I've a friend who's boyfriend lies about the most stupid things. If you've been somewhere, he's been there but met a celebrity or had some adventure or other. He's been caught out with his tall tales several time. He exaggerates more than outright lies, but its painful to listen to him go on.


    He got caught rightly last night though. He had this big one-upmanship story about a time her was on holidays and was caught out by someone else. Very satisfying.


Comments

  • #2
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    lazygal wrote: »
    Very satisfying.
    Not for us. You haven't given us any details.


  • #3
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,941 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Not for us - you haven't given us any details.

    Lazy, one might say.


  • #4
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,650 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Colleague of mine claimed that a new-ish female manager cracked on to him and wanted to sleep with him at the xmas party. Unfortunately for him, he was the only person in the entire office that didn't know she was a lesbian :pac:


  • #5
    LostCorkGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 445 ✭✭LostCorkGuy


    I can't relate to the OP , I dont have a boyfriend who lies or a boyfriend at all for that matter

    I do have a dog who robs food , he always looks guilty tho so catching him out isn't an achievement so it's not very satisfying , its more a feeling of anger / hunger


  • #6
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    some people do it automatically, I have seen it millions of times, and every time it is the exact same lie.


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  • #7
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    Used to have a friend like that. He would suck the life out of you. You come in with something on your mind or a story and he turns around and says, sure that's nothing! And starts telling you some story you've heard before except this time it's even more exaggerated.
    He could go to the shops and come back and he'd turn crossing the road into some kind of outlandish conspiracy against him.
    I think it's a certain kind of stupidity some people have. A kind of tunnel vision for whatever rubbish they want to get across, even when they've been caught out, they just blag on with even more stupid stuff. The same guy would ruin every film or TV show. He would keep saying he just wants to tell you this one bit over and over and then as soon as he gets into it he's ruined the entire thing from beginning to end. Completely unrepentant.


  • #8
    Firewalkwithme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭Firewalkwithme


    OK, so you've told us about this guy but what's your take on it other than its satisfying to see him get caught out?

    In your opinion, would you say he does it for attention or could he be a fantasist? Could it be that he is unhappy in with his own life some way and therefore creates these tales to compensate for that or is it that he feels a need to try to impress people so that he fits in and has something to say?

    What's your theory?


  • #9
    Jimminy Mc Fukhead
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 305 ✭✭Jimminy Mc Fukhead


    lazygal wrote: »
    I've a friend who's boyfriend lies ......


    Yeah, well I have THREE friends who are like that. It seems you have just one.
    And they're much worse liars than what you describe.


  • #10
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    I've a few friends who do it. Sometimes I'll humour them and ask pointed questions so they dig their own graves.


  • #11
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Jimminy Mc Fukhead wrote: »
    Yeah, well I have THREE friends who are like that. It seems you have just one.
    And they're much worse liars than what you describe.

    Pfff.. three? Lucky you.

    I have eight friends like that and they're celebrities too the lying bastards.


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  • #12
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    use to have a mate like that, a full of **** fantacist :rolleyes:


  • #13
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Pfff.. three? Lucky you.

    I have eight friends like that and they're celebrities too the lying bastards.

    8 pffft I have 31 friends like this


  • #14
    TheBody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,629 ✭✭✭TheBody


    I think you should ride him till he starts to tell the truth. That'll teach him!!!


  • #15
    lazygal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    TheBody wrote: »
    I think you should ride him till he starts to tell the truth. That'll teach him!!!

    How do you think I finally caught him out?


  • #16
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible




  • #17
    goose2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    Thinly-veiled "I have a friend" thread.


  • #18
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    I can't understand liars.


    Do they think the person they're lying too is stupid? :confused:
    Do they hide behind the "how do they know its not true" mentality :confused:


    Probably neither. Just dont care and get some weird enjoyment out of it.


  • #19
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    LordChessington wrote: »
    Colleague of mine claimed that a new-ish female manager cracked on to him and wanted to sleep with him at the xmas party. Unfortunately for him, he was the only person in the entire office that didn't know she was a lesbian :pac:

    maybe she was trying to get back on solids then changed her mind


  • #20
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    This one time Tom Cruise was telling me that he read a thread like this about liars. I knew he hadn't though. What a fuppin' liar.


  • #21
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    Jay from the inbetweeners anyone?


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  • #22
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    cloud493 wrote: »
    Jay from the inbetweeners anyone?

    Yeah, good mate of mine so he is. What about him?


  • #23
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    cloud493 wrote: »
    Jay from the inbetweeners anyone?

    He's not all he's cracked up to be. Lately, he was telling me he was on this successful Channel 4 comdey. Comes out with unbelievable stuff, he does.


  • #24
    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    Red Hand wrote: »
    He's not all he's cracked up to be. Lately, he was telling me he was on this successful Channel 4 comdey. Comes out with unbelievable stuff, he does.

    Made a film out of it and all apparently, full of **** that eject :rolleyes:


  • #25
    Rigol
    Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭Rigol


    Probably some kind of insecurity/inferiority complex and a need to control.

    I saw many such cases during my time in Miami as a police psychologist / hostage negotiator.


  • #26
    Defiler Of The Coffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Defiler Of The Coffin


    That's nothing. It was me who turned dogs and cats against each other


  • #27
    Lawrence1895
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    I suppose, he will go into politics and finally end up as a government minister ;)


  • #28
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,650 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Compulsive lying syndrome's proper name is the best name ever: Pseudologia Fantastica


  • #29
    Boombastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    IM0 wrote: »
    8 pffft I have 31 friends like this

    Facebook friends don't count:pac:

    Tell the truth, how many have you got?


  • #30
    bdoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 574 ✭✭✭bdoo


    My brother is a woeful bas***d for telling lies. He would stuff you with stories about the stupidest things.

    We all know what he's like and give him a fierce time over it but it makes no difference he keeps at it, definitely a compulsive liar if I ever knew one.

    Even when we were kids in primary school, we were in the same classroom but different classes. He'd start telling one of his stories, there the muinteoir would be looking at me as if to say 'get this guy checked out'


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