When someone tells a story you don't believe

I know what bipolar is. I don't need your lectures of how you know everything about everything using big words to impress. I probably know much more than you about bipolar but have no need to boast

LLol. I actually knew a guy at school, complete loser who did have a ticket. At the time it was a big news for 15 year old but this lad was fuming because the concert was cancelled not only that but the bus was non refundable but he got his ticket refunded. Now he wishes he had his ticket. From where we were at the time we knew the band was in trouble but couldnt see how it was going to turn out.

Very interesting topic. I've had experience with a few guys I've met doing this. The first one was in college in England. This guy was a bit billy-no-mates and actually a fairly decent guy. But he had this habit of making up stories that he knew and we knew didn't happen. One that sticks in my mind was when he tried to make a story that happened to us all as a group which he was privy to, sound like it happened to him. Basically all of us were sitting around smoking late at night watching the landscape channel after a mad night out. He tried to sell this story back to me as "me and a big group of my mates, right, we were all really stoned and were up late watching the landscape channel". He had to know that I would see through this as he didn't really have any friends.

Another guy I knew was an eccentric farmer who had lived a bit of a loner life in a rural area. He used to talk about how he farmed in England and once had a thousand sheep somewhere (he had a very small farm in Ireland). Also, he had an old van/land rover or something and he claimed to have driven all over the continent and it had a million miles on it!! This sounded preposterous as to my knowledge he'd never been out of the country much.

The last one I came across was an ex-boss who was a bit of a narcissist and a bully. When he first started in the job he seemed to want to big himself up a lot and used to tell lots of outlandish stories. Anything anybody mentioned around the lunch table was a jumping off point for another boring story where the same thing happened to him/his family/his friend bla bla. One that sticks in my mind is where he said a friend of his was so drunk that he sat on top of a lit stove and burned his a*se cheeks!! Like seriously, who would be stupid enough to do that? Also, he had lots of stories of how he broke bones playing sports -he mustn't have had any unbroken bones left with the amount of stories he told. He also would come into work limping at times basically as a way of getting attention. When asked he would have picked up an injury playing sport at the weekend. Was like dealing with a surly 5 year old!

The narcissists are the worst. Been everywhere. Met everyone famous. Did everything. And know everything and love showing off big words they don't understand. A fella on reddit used to talk of medication given "off label". He couldn't say medication that wasn't approved for the condition. Picking up phrases from his friends who were doctors

I see a lot of that on reddit people know a little more than most about a subject but have to use big words and jargon to try to build up their image.

The guy they say shot JFK was a bit like that. He would read up on some subject then engage someone in a different field about the subject and say he is stupid because he didn't know about it

True, the man with his prisoner of war story was pretty harmless no malice. He was gas though.

I remember a guy at work, he would have been in his 50s, a bit harmless. He was telling us he was going to Spain with this local woman who was around 22, very good looking woman. anyway after we came back from holidays, we asked him how the holiday went. he said they didn't go because he lost his passport. 😂

another guy was always telling these crazy stories about celebrities he met, being a spy for mI5 etc and if you mentioned say a Lamborghini, he would say he drove one. so one time I said something about a helicopter to see if he would say he flew one, but he didnt which really surprised me, and I asked him if he ever flew one, he said no, maybe he thought he had told enough tall tales that day.