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The biggest lies you've told your parents (as an adult) ?

  • 06-06-2014 01:18PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭


    What is the biggest lie you've told your parents as an adult?

    I don't really lie to them anymore but there is a big one about myself that I've been keeping from them for a few months that I feel bad about but it's for their own good, it doesn't affect them in any way but they'd be annoyed if they found out. It's akin to them lying to me about Santa for nine years :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,946 ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    You first.


  • Posts: 11,734 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That I'm straight

    there extremely religious and homophobic so I'm not telling them noting


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Of course I won't throw you in a home Dad.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    Probably that I'm feeling grand when I'm not. I don't like them worrying about me. Other than that, I conveniently leave out some details about my life they don't need to know, which is not lying as such.


    I was an awful liar when I was a kid/teenager though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    No Mammy, I'm grand. I don't need any money.


    *Fastens bailing twine around black bag pants*


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 277 ✭✭BBJBIG


    What stains - I blew me Nose with the bed sheet ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,811 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    "I only paid X for that insert frivolous object here".

    (Where x = half of actual price.)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    I've no idea where Tiddles has got to?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    My washing machine is broken:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 172 ✭✭Yogosan


    I'm adopted.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,757 ✭✭✭flutered


    girls never tell their mums everything, never have, never will.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Aglomerado wrote: »
    " insert frivolous object here".

    I'm getting this printed on knickers for the girlfriends birthday.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,811 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    I'm getting this printed on knickers for the girlfriends birthday.

    Feck I knew when I posted it that there was a double entendre in there! (Fnarr!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,586 ✭✭✭Glebee


    It was only low alcohol beer....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,013 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    No, I've never taken drugs. Sure, look at me. I'm healthy, have a good job and exercise regularly. Couldn't do all that on drugs now, could I?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Aglomerado wrote: »
    Feck I knew when I posted it that there was a double entendre in there! (Fnarr!)

    I think that counts as a quadruple!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭imitation


    Probably that I'm feeling grand when I'm not. I don't like them worrying about me. Other than that, I conveniently leave out some details about my life they don't need to know, which is not lying as such.


    I was an awful liar when I was a kid/teenager though.

    This right here, theres this funny cold war between parents and adult kids about medical stuff where they leave out anything too worrysome!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,692 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    Separate Rooms. Of course!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭cletus van damme


    No, I've never taken drugs. Sure, look at me. I'm healthy, have a good job and exercise regularly. Couldn't do all that on drugs now, could I?

    ha ha.. I've been dragged into a discussion a few times on so and so and their filthy drug habit. As usual I chime in saying "and he is such a nice lad, terrible shame......"

    frequently it's about a relative i socialise a bit with and I play down my involvement with him. terrible I know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Smoked for ten years, 'the house smells like smoke because my friends smoke'. Maybe she knew, but she never let on if she did.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Direct lies? Not really. Lies of omission? Manifold.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,757 ✭✭✭flutered


    i would never have sex on a first date, never mind after getting pulled in a pub.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭qwertyabcd


    that I didn't smoke, the smell of smoke was because all the girls I worked with smoked, I quit smoking a month later anyway


  • Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I go sparingly on the outright lies but I'm generous with omissions (usually).

    Recently there was the 'Mum, I can't drive up for X's wedding tomorrow, I've a sprained ankle and I've to keep it elevated. No, no, I'm grand, I can manage by myself. No, I didn't fall because I was drinking, I just twisted it out of the blue. No, it's been x-rayed, theres no fracture. No, it's not in plaster. No, what's tubigrip?... Besides, I hit my head and I have a headache. No, my pupils are the same size. No, no, I didn't black out...'

    'Alright, I'll be there before dinner :('

    The moral of the story is never tell a health lie to an MD.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭Vito Corleone


    My parents never told me the word "fart" until I was about ten. :o We used to say windy-woo. :P

    For some reason my Mum didn't like the word "fart", hahahaha. Windy woo. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 106 ✭✭Sinister Pigeon


    "You are my parents."


  • Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    My parents never told me the word "fart" until I was about ten. :o We used to say windy-woo. :P

    For some reason my Mum didn't like the word "fart", hahahaha. Windy woo. :D

    I think that's adorable :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    I never speed. I'm a safe driver.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    imitation wrote: »
    This right here, theres this funny cold war between parents and adult kids about medical stuff where they leave out anything too worrysome!

    I was talking more about being down in the dumps or not feeling fantastic mentally but yeah, same thing I suppose. I've never had serious physical medical problems, thank jaysus. I think I'd actually tell my dad and step-merm if I did tbh.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 646 ✭✭✭cactuspaw


    That I've never smoked, I'd say they have a fair idea.


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