Compulsive Liars

[Brahan]

Great thread!

I worked with a bloke who had a tattoo of a wolf on his arm. On asking about it he told me that he got it as proof that he completed training to be a ninja!

It's difficult to keep a straight face when someone looks you in the eye and tells you they're a ninja, an actual ninja! Hah - twat.

 

[joolsybools]

What is it with most of these saying they were in the army? Wierd.

 

[Kirstie]

What is it with most of these saying they were in the army? Wierd.

Because it's a reality which is concealed from most people. Unless you've been in the army, then you wouldn't know what goes on there and you'd have no way of finding out. It's a sure fire bet for a convincing lie, but you've got to be sure of who you're telling it to...

 

[MarkF]

Had a stores lad, about 17, who was always late on Monday mornings, I'd collar him and he'd come out with the most surreal stories/excuses. I don't know why he was always late because he had a V8 Corvette at home......

Once he was well late and I lost my temper. It seems that he had gone on a trip with one of his neighbours, an HGV driver, to Norway, they'd set off Friday night. They got caught in a snow storm and been had been rescued, eventually, that was why he was late. The helicopter had just "dropped him off"

 

[TVC]

What is it with most of these saying they were in the army? Wierd.

As Kirstie said, plus, soldiers get unconditional respect from the vast majority of people. A respect and status these people don't have in their actual lives.

 

[Cubist]

Sorry if I'm thread-mining, but I read part of this one yesterday and have only just managed to get back on to add to it.

When I was at school there was a lad who told us his father was an Argentine meat baron. He regaled us all with tales of living with the Gauchos, how he was a top musician, in fact a life of fantasy which had us all in absolute stitches as we listened to more and more preposterous b*llsh*t. Someone did a bit of detective work and discovered it was all true............

However, I have since met the man who was first through the window at the Iranian Embassy. (He was running a pub in Halifax in the early 90s).

I know someone who gave up a career as a pilot for Virgin Airlines to be a civilian detention officer at Dewsbury Police Cells.

I know a high ranking cop who cannot return to his native city as he had to sever all his ties with the criminal underworld, and who has fought and beaten some very frightening characters in his previous life as a bouncer........

 

[mr_cellophane]

i work with one called Ian,here are some of his porkies
1/ raced in the safari rally
2/ he & Alan Sugar are good mates & he head hunted all Sugars top staff
3/ he dated a top model
4/ he coached rugby with the england coach
5/William & Harry (the Royals) stay at his mates house in Kenya when they are in Africa
6/i run over a dog in the car & he run over a giraffe in Africa!!!

etc etc etc,its funny because we have started telling stupid stories at work to see if Gary can better them

There is probably another forum where Ian is posting the about Gary who tells lies at work and he has started telling stupid stories to see if he can better them

 

[ACW]

I keep lying about "next year i will get fitter/slimmer/richer" never do