Things others have convinced you of/ made you believe

Piste · 18-01-2009 07:56PM #1

I'm terribly gullible and will believe anything anyone says if they say it with enough conviction. My dad knows this and is ALWAYS able to fool me, you'd think I'd know by now. The biggest thing he made me believe was only 2 or 3 years ago when RTE had that documentary on what to do if Selafield exploded, he made me believe that it had actually happened and called me down to the kitchen to look at the news. He even went to soak towels and block out gaps in the doors. I was almost in tears saying we should get in the car and drive to Cork immediately and asking where my mum was. I was on IRC and MSN at the time and told everyone that there'd been a horrible accident in Selafield, until I was linked to the RTE website which had information on the doumentary. I ran down to the kitchen and saw on the TV there was mood music playing over the news and that's when I copped my dearest dad had taken complete advantage of my gullible nature. Jaysus I felt like an idiot and my dad and sister had such a laugh at my expense.

Had anyone else ever been tricked into believing something totally outrageous and felt like a total idiot when they found out it wasn't true?

AlmightyCushion · 18-01-2009 08:01PM

Piste wrote: »

He even went to soak towels and block out gaps in the doors.

Lol, you've got to admire his dedication to the joke though.

One of my friends tried telling me that gullible wasn't in the dictionary. I told him it was but there was a massive movement in England to get it removed as officially it isn't a word. He actually believed it.

javaboy · 18-01-2009 08:03PM

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Lol, you've got to admire his dedication to the joke though.

Could be that her dad believed it all himself but then when he found out it was a mock news bulletin, he covered it up by claiming he was winding her up.

gino85 · 18-01-2009 08:03PM

i did somthing similar to a dude i worked with, was shortly after the iodine tablets were posted out to everyone, we told him Selafield blew up during the year and when he finishes work he should go home and take one, we said we already took ours and had him worried all day lol

Mark200 · 18-01-2009 08:06PM

They took gullible out of the dictionary.

But I checked and it's still there

edit - someone already mentioned something similar

embarrassing

jaffa20 · 18-01-2009 09:10PM

Mark200 wrote: »

They took gullible out of the dictionary.

But I checked and it's still there

edit - someone already mentioned something similar embarrassing

phasers · 18-01-2009 09:14PM

I used to believe that this fella came into your house once a year and gave you a big gift.

It turns out that Uncle Paddy wasn't supposed to do that, he'd been lying all along

Red Hand · 18-01-2009 09:19PM

Well, there was the time I ordered Gullible's Travels online for free.

Still waiting for it...

Seriously, this one time when I was 5, my brother convinced me that the priest was hiding behind the altar at church. We had gone in there with my Mom and Grandmother. My Grandmother wanted to go in there as she had missed Mass that morning. There was noone else in there. He had me so convinced, that I started shouting and laughing at the top of my lungs, and trying to run behind the altar to check...they had my brother take me outside until they were finished.

18-01-2009 09:26PM

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

Seriously, this one time when I was 5, my brother convinced me that the priest was hiding behind the altar at church.

Oh, the ole "Priest behind the alter trick!";)

samhail · 18-01-2009 09:31PM

i do that way too often to my friends and family.
my sister is so easy to get

one of the lads from belfast thats down working with us is too easy to get too.
he lost his security badge for work mid week, so got a temp one from security. the security guy have him hassle telling him to search for his old one first.
anyway... he was going for a cup of tea and left it sitting on his desk.
he was asking for it

just for the look on his face.

I know its gonna come back and back fire on me one of these days. but hey its all for a bit of fun

Earthhorse · 18-01-2009 09:35PM

Piste wrote: »

Had anyone else ever been tricked into believing something totally outrageous and felt like a total idiot when they found out it wasn't true?

No but your dad sounds pretty cool.

Piste · 18-01-2009 09:36PM

Or evil, take your pic!

Earthhorse · 18-01-2009 09:37PM

:cool:

galwayrush · 18-01-2009 09:41PM

Yore Da, I like his style.:cool:

Senna · 18-01-2009 09:48PM

In catering college we convince a mate that McDonnels dont use potato to make their chips, they use a mixture of flour and wheat etc. We forgot about it and a year later we went to a McD's for a project. While we were there, acting all professional, taking samples, records and asking sensible questions, the mate asked "do many customers notice that you dont use potato in your chips?". The manger just looked at us and fell around the room laughing.
Now he was gullible, we got him on loads of things but this was the best.

drunkmonkey · 18-01-2009 09:52PM

my dad conviced my mate to tow him down to the garage and back with an invisible tow rope, just in case a garda stopped him for no tax or insurance, he was going to pretend he's been towed.......so off he went and towed him up and down the road with the invisible rope......I don't think he copped it until he came back and saw us rolling around the floor:D

Mad Dads FTW!!!

Piste · 18-01-2009 10:00PM

Actually I just remembered a few years before he played the whole Selafield prank on me I pretended I got my lip pierced on the day of my granny's 90th birthday party (appropriately enough it was April Fool's day) and the blood drained from his face as he realised my granny would see me with a pierced lip.

The look on his face was priceless as I took the ring off and burst out laughing.

Terry · 18-01-2009 10:06PM

jaffa20 wrote: »

If you're going to try to take the piss out of someone, it's probably best to link properly.

andrew · 18-01-2009 10:07PM

Me and a friend convinced a friend that James Blunt was in fact one of a minority of 'ass babys' who are born anally. The guy is about 16 and was absolutely convinced for ages!... until he mentioned it to someone else who set him straight. We had been hoping that he'd bring it up during a biology class or something, now that would have been brilliant!

GirlInterrupted · 18-01-2009 10:41PM

When I was very little, my brothers convinced me that little girls, were in fact, little boys who's willies had dropped off.

I told my teacher this. She agreed.

brianthebard · 18-01-2009 10:52PM

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

When I was very little, my brothers convinced me that little girls, were in fact, little boys who's willies had dropped off.

I told my teacher this. She agreed.

How freudian!

conf101 · 18-01-2009 11:03PM

When I was really young I asked my mother if I smashed the TV screen and jumped in would I go to wherever I was watching before I smashed it. She just said yes. She's very lucky she didn't end up with a smashed TV. I really wanted to go and meet the Power Rangers but two things stopped me:

1. I was scared I wouldn't be able to get back to Ireland.
2. The Putty Monsters

giggsy664 · 18-01-2009 11:09PM

conf101 wrote: »

When I was really young I asked my mother if I smashed the TV screen and jumped in would I go to wherever I was watching before I smashed it. She just said yes. She's very lucky she didn't end up with a smashed TV. I really wanted to go and meet the Power Rangers but two things stopped me:

1. I was scared I wouldn't be able to get back to Ireland.
2. The Putty Monsters

Mine was the other way around. I thought if I watched power rangers and I smashed the tv, they would come out and beat up bullies and monsters etc.

Michellenman · 18-01-2009 11:13PM

I'm gonna hold up my hands here and admit to being one of the gullible people.

I was on holiday in The Netherlands during the summer and was not in my right mind to say the least. Me and two of my male friends got chatting about one of our friends who couldn't make it to the festival and they convinced me that this absent friend (who I know very well) had a pet snake. This is quite plausible but I questioned it and they convinced me further. They then went on to tell me that he could talk to said snake, he had perfected a technique of getting his voice to the correct pitch so he could make the snake do things. Parceltongue, yes, like Harry Potter. And yes, I believed it.

It wasn't until the next day when we were all sitting around someone mentioned him in passing and I go ''DID YOU KNOW HE HAS A PET SNAKE?! THAT HE CAN TALK TO?!'' Needless to say everyone rolled around laughing.

Trinity · 18-01-2009 11:15PM

My Dad had a near fatal accident when i was a kid and when my Mam wanted to me to eat beans or peas and i said no why does Dad not have to eat them, he told me the doctor said after the accident he wasnt allowed to eat them.

I believed this until a couple of years ago when i said it to my own kid that granda cant eat them and he laughed and said you still believe that ya fcuking eejit, i'm 34

18-01-2009 11:18PM

When I was a teenager I was in the car with my dad and we were coming up a major roundabout, there are yellow strips before the said roundabout, when I asked my dad what they were for he said they were to warn the blind people there was a roundabout ahead - I believed him.....

Michellenman · 18-01-2009 11:41PM

I also convinced my friend that she'd just missed a really beautiful rainbow....

At like 3 in the morning. :pac:

GirlInterrupted · 18-01-2009 11:42PM

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

Well, there was the time I ordered Gullible's Travels online for free.

I'm trying to figure out how I can introduce this into conversation, and claim its mine.

Funny.:)

tony1kenobi · 19-01-2009 01:25AM

When I was a kid we went to Minehead on holidays.On a forest ramble thing I noticed red rings painted around a lot of the trees about four feet up. I asked my dad what these were and he said Robin Hood and his band of merry men painted them so they could navigate the forest and,over time, the trees grew and the rings ascended with them. I believed this until I told my own boy the story. I always knew Robin Hood was fictional but for some reason believed my dads sh1te talk.

Got a bootleg of Braveheart on cassette.Came home early to find my dad and brother were watching it without me.My brother announced to me that he dies at the end(I didn't know it was based somewhat on fact).I had the last laugh because the tape ran out before the film ended.

I often pick up receipts from outside shops, walk in, pick up one of the items on the receipt and return it in exchange for cash......there is no one more gullible than someone that believes in human morality.

K-9 · 19-01-2009 01:27AM

I was sent to get the packet of Southalls by a chef!

Baxtards. I was 19!

19-01-2009 01:29AM

A few months ago my girlfriend, who is 18, was asking me about catholicism and protestantism etc. I told her that if both of her parents are catholic then that makes her a protestant...And vice versa etc. And made up all these crazy religious rules regarding children that she just believed

:o

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