Why do people ********?

[DVS1]

It's always beyond me why people do this...what's the gain from it other than being labelled a d**k! A whale sized one at that!!

We have a guy at work who has had more medical treatment than the 6 million dollar man!

Teeth removal
Knee op x4
Shoulder op - playing pool 4 days later
His mother's died 3 times
He's told 2 different ex's he dying of cancer
Carpel tunnel syndrome
Toes
Shins
Fingers
Ears
Eyes
Stomach

You name it he's had a holiness through to the doc, hospital, or dentist!

Yet the management do nothing to manage him 'out the business' with a sickness record of 20%+ in 6 months!

Great humour had at his expense though hahaha

 

[Alantoo]

It's always beyond me why people do this...what's the gain from it other than being labelled a d**k! A whale sized one at that!!

We have a guy at work who has had more medical treatment than the 6 million dollar man!

Teeth removal
Knee op x4
Shoulder op - playing pool 4 days later
His mother's died 3 times
He's told 2 different ex's he dying of cancer
Carpel tunnel syndrome
Toes
Shins
Fingers
Ears
Eyes
Stomach

You name it he's had a holiness through to the doc, hospital, or dentist!

Yet the management do nothing to manage him 'out the business' with a sickness record of 20%+ in 6 months!

Great humour had at his expense though hahaha

What all 4 knees?

That really is a poxy case of Munchausen's syndrome!



Alan

 

[DVS1]

 

[kes]

At work when I was younger we had a chap who had to go one better - you go on holiday - he flew to the bahamas. It became so typical with almost every issue we used the nickname 'Topper'.
He could never understand why.

 

[white van man]

Whilst walking my dogs one morning I met up with a mate and his dogs, he was looking after a neighbours daughter who had come for the walk as well. After a while my mobile went off, it has a really spooky ring tone.
The little girl was in awe "wow what is that" I proceeded to tell her it was my mate James from Jupiter ringing me and he was a spaceman , I carried on for quite a few minutes answering her questions, I told her James looked the same as us but had three nostrils so he could breath better as there wasn't so much air on Jupiter.
Later that day she was sitting on the swing in my mates garden and she proclaimed " Pops that man doesn't half tell lies". Just goes to show even a four year old can suss out a B#########r.
Steve.

 

[sir-lamp-alot]

had a new driver start at another depot a few years ago who didnt know that i went shooting and started to tell me all about his "guns" which were of course a 9mm pistol and a .303 (as you do) so i played along and he even told me he made his own bullets to which i at that point felt that he had dug a big enough hole and replyied "oh you reload do you, i shoot myself what size heads are you using in your guns and how on earth did you manage to get a pistol and under what conditions and how many rounds is it ristricted to?" he promptly realised he had out ********ed himself and told me he couldnt remember what size heads he used as they were the same in the 9mm pistol and the .303 and quickly changed the converstaion as i told him how impossible that was.

 

[polester]

For some reason the best liars have always been plumbers. one of the best ones was when an apprentice plumber had Sadam in his sights as Sadam was washing up (as all dictators do) and maggie thatcher rang him on the sat phone and said "Don't shoot he's working for us" The same lad was on HMS Conquer when it sank the Belgrano bearing in mind this was in the early 2000 and he was 21. He was worth employing just for site moral we reckoned the plumbing contractor went on recruitment drives at the nut house the amount of lunatic liars he ended up with

 

[padge]

At work when I was younger we had a chap who had to go one better - you go on holiday - he flew to the bahamas. It became so typical with almost every issue we used the nickname 'Topper'.
He could never understand why.

The sister in law is like that , we call her " 2 S--ts " , if you've had 1 she's had 2

 

[Cootmeurer]

Grew up with a fellow that was a great liar. Whenever anyone had something brag worthy (fish, feather, or fur) this guy would show up with camera and get some pics. Usually first couple pics were you and your bag, then a couple pics of you and him and the bag, then lastly one or two of just him with your game. Took us about 5 years to catch on. After high school he moved about 60 miles away and became a manager of a sporting goods department - and one friend went yo visit him there. Turns out the bulletin board was covered with pictures of all of "his" greatest catches - with all of those trophies looking amazingly familiar.


To his credit, he was taught to be that way. His father (that I have more respect for) was always glad to take youth out hunting, fishing, trapping. However, his dad was also the local version of Capstick. He was a great storyteller that could begin with a bare handful of facts and develop that into a novel so interesting that you didn't even recognize the events, even when you were there.

 

[Stephen86]

I recently (just in June) done my DSC1 in Perth. Was a bit of a mixed bunch of folk, but there was one absolute weapon of a guy. He was in the military and knew 'everything' there was to know about shooting, he even tried to give me a few tips before the shooting exam. He then proceeded to miss the 100mm target with all but one of his 3 shots. Afterwards, he blamed the gun as the big calibres he use(5.56) are much flatter shooting than the .243 that he had and that he only had to give a 6" hold over at 600yards. I said my .223 would drop around 120" at that distance, to which he replied, yeh but we shoot 5.56, its a different kettle of fish.

I agreed, laughed and walked away.

 

[Woodsmoke]

I said my .223 would drop around 120" at that distance, to which he replied, yeh but we shoot 5.56, its a different kettle of fish

Kind of scares me that anyone that stupid managed to get an FAC to begin with

 

[Stephen86]

I imagine the Taliban felt very safe in his presence.

 

[Essexsussex]

One of my pet hates is people who tell porky pies. The first time I came across a lie linked to shooting was when I was about 10, a friend and I came across a youth shooting with an ASI paratrooper air rifle. He was bull-shitting about how good he was at shooting and said he shot every rabbit through it's right eye. We walked away and both thought, what if the rabbit is showing it's left side. I must say I have came across a lot more bull-**** since then.

I had to check where you live to make sure it wasn’t me! I used to love my brothers ASI paratrooper - is shot my first air rifle rabbit with it and proceeded to finish it off with the stock (as you can see I missed its right eye!) and it wasn’t much use after that! It was a really fun air rifle of its time though.

 

[User00025]

Yonks ago I used to be pals with a guy who could really spin one (He was actually ex paras but always told of exploits in the RAF).
His knack was to use a very posh very loud voice to get people listening and then get them cocking their ears as he lowered his voice and confidentially told me an exploit. You could see people listening and even getting closer.
His favourite was being in his plane and shooting down two MIGs but then being pursued by three more and this battle would go on for ten minutes. He like to heighten the tension to a point where he could not lose the aggressors then stop talking. The amount of times an eavesdropper couldn't resist and said "what happened then"? Don would just look at them and say "They killed me" and turn away.
He was a classic B...…..r but was somebody who didn't need to, because he had done a lot. God bless Don, wherever you are now, you will even con the Devil if you are there.

 

[Alantoo]

One of my pet hates is people who tell porky pies. The first time I came across a lie linked to shooting was when I was about 10, a friend and I came across a youth shooting with an ASI paratrooper air rifle. He was bull-shitting about how good he was at shooting and said he shot every rabbit through it's right eye. We walked away and both thought, what if the rabbit is showing it's left side. I must say I have came across a lot more bull-**** since then.

I didn't notice the possibility until EssexSussex quoted you second time around...are you sure he didn't say or mean "he shot every rabbit right through the eye"? which would still be a "aye right" boast but make a bit more sense....

Alan

 

[sikamalc]

It's always beyond me why people do this...what's the gain from it other than being labelled a d**k! A whale sized one at that!!

We have a guy at work who has had more medical treatment than the 6 million dollar man!

Teeth removal
Knee op x4
Shoulder op - playing pool 4 days later
His mother's died 3 times
He's told 2 different ex's he dying of cancer
Carpel tunnel syndrome
Toes
Shins
Fingers
Ears
Eyes
Stomach

You name it he's had a holiness through to the doc, hospital, or dentist!

Yet the management do nothing to manage him 'out the business' with a sickness record of 20%+ in 6 months!

Great humour had at his expense though hahaha

What's his name............LUCKY

 

[enfieldspares]

Clement Attlee when Prime Minister was becoming aggravated, it is said, by some American politicians boasting their hunting prowess in Africa. One asking Attlee if he'd, Attlee, had ever himself shot any dangerous game. To which Attlee finally, by then tired of their nonsense, replied "Yes. Germans."

 

[jimbo1984]

Clement Attlee when Prime Minister was becoming aggravated, it is said, by some American politicians boasting their hunting prowess in Africa. One asking Attlee if he'd, Attlee, had ever himself shot any dangerous game. To which Attlee finally, by then tired of their nonsense, replied "Yes. Germans."

Love it !

 

[dggowdy]

There will always be people who have to do one better than anyone else I don't understand why because anyone with any knowledge will see straight through them.

 

[enfieldspares]

There was a guy in the pub I used to go to called "Digger Man". The man. Not the pub. As he drove a JCB. And as other said if you told him something he'd done that too. Only better, longer and at less cost.