Do you know a pathological liar?

Munstergirl854

We can all tell a white lie from time to time or embellish a story to make it more attractive.

But I know someone who if you sent them to the shop for a loaf of bread they would tell you they met Elton John on the way back.

Constant job offers,holiday plans, phone calls from "friends" ....nothing ever comes to fruition.
Totally lies about every aspect of their life and can never be believed.

I actually feel sorry for people like this though,it must be rooted in a desperately low form of self-esteem.

ShatterAlan

Munstergirl854 wrote: »

We can all tell a white lie from time to time or embellish a story to make it more attractive.

But I know someone who if you sent them to the shop for a loaf of bread they would tell you they met Elton John on the way back.

Constant job offers,holiday plans, phone calls from "friends" ....nothing ever comes to fruition.
Totally lies about every aspect of their life and can never be believed.

I actually feel sorry for people like this though,it must be rooted in a desperately low form of self-esteem.

I know a barman who is so full of sh1t it's coming out of his ears.


He's a really nice guy but he is a complete spoofer. Every story is embellished to the point of absurdity. He once maintained with a straight face that the Shannon was the second longest river in Europe, FFS.

bogmanfan

pgj2015

I know loads of them. strangers are the worst for it as they know they can say anything they like. I sometimes think how thick do they think people are that they would believe their bull.

StevenToast

Mr fegelien

Rubberchikken

No:)

s1ippy

Knew a lad who used to be at that the whole time when we were teenagers. Met him a few years back in the pub and the poor fella had "terminal cancer". I didn't know what to believe tbh. If true, real life boy who cried wolf situation. But probably not true. But why say it then???

Oranage2

I know a guy really nice but he comes out with the most outrageous lies. He said he has a wooden leg and he clearly doesn't, showed us a picture of a model posing on a boat and said it was his girlfriend.

Andrea B.

Oranage2 wrote: »

I know a guy really nice but he comes out with the most outrageous lies. He said he has a wooden leg and he clearly doesn't, showed us a picture of a model posing on a boat and said it was his girlfriend.

A kick to shins should resolve that one.

banie01

A few.
Couple of family members who are so full of bullshít that I wouldn't believe their radios.

Oranage2

Andrea B. wrote: »

A kick to shins should resolve that one.

He wears shorts the odd time and he's in his 30s. Also had a heart attack, was in the army, studied in America. Literally every word is a lie, but he's actually such a nice fella nobody bothers trying to 'catch' him out, it's just accepted he's full of it

Man with broke phone

I work with a fella who is on the bottom rung of the company ladder. He tells everybody he meets, even new employees that he is their superior.

He takes tasks on that he has no business doing and when it goes wrong, and he gets in trouble he makes a big whopper of a lie for sympathy. He lies alot in normal day to day but he always has a big panic whopper everytime he thnks his job in under threat. Newsworthy death in the family that isnt in any paper sort of stuff,

His holidays are always in fancy locations and he always stumbles upon a business by chance that uses our products which he finds they were having a problem and he fixed them, but he never knows what was the problem or how he fixed them in any sort of coherent scientific method, he honestly doesnt even seem to know what the products do that we sell, he cant ask anybody though because then we will know he doesnt know everything about them.

He once stumbled into a meeting with a bout ten suits discussing sales projections for a new device and he interupted everybody to tell them what the initals of the product stood for like he was doing them a favour, it was wrote under the initals on a big projector behind him.

When he isnt stumbling around the place half drunk and nobody is looking he does his job out on sites drilling holes that people mark for him. Even out there he carries around the drawings and pretends to consult them and introduces himself to anybody walking around who he thinks might be impressed by his drawings.

When you stand back from it all its hilarious but it can be so much hard work dealing with him on a day to day.
Id probably get rid but his BMI is perfect and I have a policy.

The government artist drawing the dole aka AVB.

Bobblehats

Oranage2 wrote: »

He wears shorts the odd time and he's in his 30s. Also had a heart attack, was in the army, studied in America. Literally every word is a lie, but he's actually such a nice fella nobody bothers trying to 'catch' him out, it's just accepted he's full of it

Temptamperu

McMurphy

Used to work with one, couldn't tell the truth no matter what.

He was a budding amateur mechanic, was always buying fixer uppers and what not, i had to go to his one evening to look at s digger, and I spotted a beauty of an SR Nova - hadn't seen one in years, it was absolutely mint.

"Jeez that's some car there Tom" I exclaimed, "she's a beauty, absolutely mint"

"Don't talk to me about that fcuking thing" says Tom. "She's banjaxed, will never go again - that's the engine there, seized solid" he said pointing at an engine that was in about 50,000 pieces on the ground beside the shed.

Not ten seconds later, the wife comes out of the house with Tesco bags, jumps in the car and drives off up their laneway.

He carried on blathering like he never even noticed her.

freshpopcorn

My aunt once told us her friend died suddenly out in Greece. She mentioned the friend a few years later and my mother was like 'I thought you said she died' my aunt replied I was only messing.

miezekatze

I work with a guy, no matter what you're talking about, he will always come up with a story of something similar that happened to him. He's only in his mid thirties and started working with me around 10 years ago, but apparently he's worked in just about every job under the sun before that. He basically has the same job as me, but apparently he gets to make strategic decisions for the company (multinational, but we're outsourced) and often has meetings with senior management about stuff. It's exhausting working with someone like that, he is a total spoofer, but our direct manager believes every word. I can't trust him at all anymore.

Kylta

Yes I work with a few. When they start off we usually hand them toilet paper. Its to wipe the bullsh!t of their mouths when they finished their stories.
Saying that I find them amusing so what if they live in cloud cuckoo land, has long as there is no harm or malice in their story I say let them entertain.

kenmm

The best thing about these types us people claim 'ah sure, harmless enough'

No. They are a complete pain in the prick and if you need to deal with them in the work place or professionally they waste everyone's time.

GTFO ya mad lying prick ya!

Timberrrrrrrr

Loads, if i said I had been to Tenerife they would insist they had been to Elevenerefe.

punisher5112

Use too, he still owe me over €300 for letting him use my card to pay car insurance....

He worked for ESB and other contractors and drove all the vans etc but had only got s provisional at the time and couldn't drive at all, crashed in a business car park we worked in and even though he had no full licence he ended up driving the company van, I had a full licence years and wasn't ever allowed to drive and would have to be at the boss house before work so be could drop me to jobs....

He spoofed all the time, couldn't bend conduit or connect anything properly...

He didn't know how to use hammer action hilti drills and would basically sit on it to try get it through walls or floor which would end up burning out the drill bit and just took forever compared to using correctly....

He was actually very good at the talk but was an absolute nut, one night was out, he started on a guy, bouncer took him out, then he went for the guy outside but he wasn't alone and happened to be with bouncers off that night and one himself, I saved him from a beating that night and I got a box in the face off him for it...

He constantly slept around but was living with a lovely girl but she hadn't a breeze either....

Oh sorry meant to add.... He was that big a spoofer.... He didn't work for or drive other then when he joined where I worked, the boss loved him and honestly don't know why....

NickNickleby

Oh God, sat down to dinner with a group of people you I've known for decades, and one of them starts regaling everyone with outlandish tales from his youth. I'm staring at my plate waiting for one of the others to say "ah, Nick, that must've cracked you up" because I know he's absolutely spoofing. I actually went along with one of his most spurious, but harmless, spoofs. Because his wife believes it, because he first told it to her 40 years ago, and she had no reason to doubt him. I couldn't bring myself to out him. As I say, it's a harmless spoof, but I'm now complicit. If the truth ever comes out, no doubt the emphasis will all be about ME lying to cover for him. Hahaha.

Ah, that's what friends are for.

punisher5112

NickNickleby wrote: »

Oh God, sat down to dinner with a group of people you I've known for decades, and one of them starts regaling everyone with outlandish tales from his youth. I'm staring at my plate waiting for one of the others to say "ah, Nick, that must've cracked you up" because I know he's absolutely spoofing. I actually went along with one of his most spurious, but harmless, spoofs. Because his wife believes it, because he first told it to her 40 years ago, and she had no reason to doubt him. I couldn't bring myself to out him. As I say, it's a harmless spoof, but I'm now complicit. If the truth ever comes out, no doubt the emphasis will all be about ME lying to cover for him. Hahaha.

Ah, that's what friends are for.

What's the spoof, come on tell

NickNickleby

NickNickleby wrote: »

Oh God, sat down to dinner with a group of people you I've known for decades, and one of them starts regaling everyone with outlandish tales from his youth. I'm staring at my plate waiting for one of the others to say "ah, Nick, that must've cracked you up" because I know he's absolutely spoofing. I actually went along with one of his most spurious, but harmless, spoofs. Because his wife believes it, because he first told it to her 40 years ago, and she had no reason to doubt him. I couldn't bring myself to out him. As I say, it's a harmless spoof, but I'm now complicit. If the truth ever comes out, no doubt the emphasis will all be about ME lying to cover for him. Hahaha.

Ah, that's what friends are for.

Now that You started out, so finish......?.......

irishblessing

Yes, a friend I had a falling out over it with. He told me he said something to my cousin that he didn't. He found out I checked into the story (it was about a family of member of mine so obviously I would look into it) and then dropped me. Blocked on all social media including phone. 20 year friendship just ghosted. His loss.

Capt'n Midnight

No. *



*YYMV re factual accuracy

NickNickleby

punisher5112 wrote: »

What's the spoof, come on tell

Deleted User wrote: »

Now that You started out, so finish......?.......

hehehehe, nope sorry. I'd be identifying him straightaway, and I'm pretty sure one of them has rumbled me here.

Here's a similar type of scenario...

chap meets girl. Wants to impress, so tells her he had been a factory supervisor in the Irish branch of a large famous multinational. Roll on a few years, and old Nick reminisces about his time working in said factory. Suddenly spoofer's wife exclaims "oh, was that the same time my hubby was the supervisor there?" . ehhh, well he never actually worked there. But I just said "Yeahhhh......". He never batted an eyelid. In fact he went on to mention people I talked about over the years as if he knew them personally....


If she ever finds out, I'm done. Only my wife knows he's spoofing. We have other acquaintances that if they were ever present when he mentioned this, would say "....but hang on a minute, Nicks friend, you worked with me on the bin lorries then..." Then all hell would break loose. So, I do a Superman and Clark Kent on it.

He also reminisces about heroic feats or skullduggery he's got up to, and his wife might say ".....you're worse for letting him away with it" or worse "oh Nick, YOU'RE a dark horse aren't you" when I've been Robin to his Batman.