Why do people ********?
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reloader54
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Chasey
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We had a Chinese live in nanny who told my wife id been making advanced to her whilst she was away on business trips
My wife litraly didn't stop laughing for 10mins when she told me about it. I just stood there with a WTF expreson on my face
The nanny was not exactly a looker
Later in broken English she tried to tell me my wife wasn't going on business trips but was actualy having an affair?
I was cool with that because every time she went away we got an extra couple of grand in the bank a few weeks later
We actualy felt sorry for her but had to let her go as she obviously had a screw loose and she was supposed to be looking after the kids.
I have a mate who tells whoppers all the time, usually embellishments to a half true story, but hes very entertaining so we all give him a pass.
Lets face it we all lie
My wife askes if she looks fat in the new dress, and I say.........
My wife litraly didn't stop laughing for 10mins when she told me about it. I just stood there with a WTF expreson on my face
The nanny was not exactly a looker
Later in broken English she tried to tell me my wife wasn't going on business trips but was actualy having an affair?
I was cool with that because every time she went away we got an extra couple of grand in the bank a few weeks later
We actualy felt sorry for her but had to let her go as she obviously had a screw loose and she was supposed to be looking after the kids.
I have a mate who tells whoppers all the time, usually embellishments to a half true story, but hes very entertaining so we all give him a pass.
Lets face it we all lie
My wife askes if she looks fat in the new dress, and I say.........
reloader54
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Lets face it we all lie
My wife askes if she looks fat in the new dress, and I say.........
"aye right!?
alberta boy
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That is deep ....... mind blown . I worked with one guy who , if you kept track , had been attacked by more Grizzlies than any human on earth . When I told him I'd been around quite a few over the years and had never been attacked , he replied it was because he was large and menacing and the bears reacted to his presence out of fear . I just had to walk away from that one , sometimes it gets to deep to wade into .
My Dad used to tell people he'd been attacked by a Griz , when they asked him how he survived , he'd tell them he didn't , the bear killed him . The old man had a funny sense of humor .
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FISH BOY
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My wife askes if she looks fat in the new dress, and I say.........
Ha ha - when my Mrs says that - I get up and walk down the end of the garden - and shout "nah you look ok"
Cracks me up everytime
To be fair, Sometimes bulls**iting can be fun, (As long as you are returning the favour)
, Standing, well, leaning very hard 
on a bar top in a Dunbar dive pub after a 14 hour welding stint in Blue circle cement, we were regaled by a chap who was trying to cop off with the barmaid, He was a nuclear physicist, (Power station build job going on just down the road a bit) .. He asked us what we were engaged in ....... I informed him that we were "Metallic fusion engineers" , He retreated straight away.
, Standing, well, leaning very hard on a bar top in a Dunbar dive pub after a 14 hour welding stint in Blue circle cement, we were regaled by a chap who was trying to cop off with the barmaid, He was a nuclear physicist, (Power station build job going on just down the road a bit) .. He asked us what we were engaged in ....... I informed him that we were "Metallic fusion engineers" , He retreated straight away.
Anyone ever indulged in 'reverse bullsh*tting'?
By which I mean pretending to know substantially less than you do, and to be awed and impressed by the bullshi**er in an effort to see just how far they'll go? Best practiced when you have a suspicion they are going to tell a story that either originated with someone else in the room, or when there is (unbeknownst to the yarn spinner) a genuine expert in the room.
As something of a dabbler in the arts of 'exaggeration to dramatic effect' myself, I well know the burn when someone catches you out...
By which I mean pretending to know substantially less than you do, and to be awed and impressed by the bullshi**er in an effort to see just how far they'll go? Best practiced when you have a suspicion they are going to tell a story that either originated with someone else in the room, or when there is (unbeknownst to the yarn spinner) a genuine expert in the room.
As something of a dabbler in the arts of 'exaggeration to dramatic effect' myself, I well know the burn when someone catches you out...
Not with the idea of catching someone out...but I have learned an awful lot from people who may not have been so forthcoming had I not presented myself as an ingenu. People can be very generous with newbies...don't see them as a threat...when they may not be confident enough to share information with an "equal"!
Alan
tikka_madras
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As a professional who changed fields I get this reasonably often when people only know my current job and hold forth on matters linked to the old one. I find myself saying "I don't think it works like that" and "I wouldn't do that if I were you" but they never listen. Only if they're apparently planning on doing something very silly do I identify my former career to stop them doing themselves a mischief. It never earns me a favourable response, no matter how kindly meant...
You sound like my shooting, reloading mentor and friend who is a qualified engineer...unlike me who is a less formally trained largely self taught metalworker...
Whenever I am holding forth about something and he says "I don't think it works like that" my response is along the lines of Bl**dy engineers, always letting fact get in the way of a good story!
Oh how we laugh!
Alan
mchughcb
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I once hooked a whale while out for snapper off the rocks. A small 6m southern right whale. My boss who was a mad keen fisherman though I was the biggest BS in the office. This went on for a week.
Then I showed him the photo I managed to take when it surfaced with my line jagged on its back before it headed out to sea.
Not sure why you need to BS unless you haven't lived
Then I showed him the photo I managed to take when it surfaced with my line jagged on its back before it headed out to sea.
Not sure why you need to BS unless you haven't lived
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.
Seems to be attract them for sure.
Tell me about it. When I used to own a gunshop we used to get the worlds supply of bellends in there.
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