Stories friends swear are true

redmgar · 25-07-2019 2:51pm #1

Hi,

Do you have any hacks / cheats that your someone you know claims deffo happened to a friends brothers cousin but sound very dubious?

Such as if you over pay by cheque a speeding ticket, they cant cash it but your fine gets cancelled.

FunLover18 · 25-07-2019 3:06pm

That story about minding a neighbour's dog while they're away, the dog dies, so they have to put it in a suitcase to carry it to the vet and the suitcase gets stolen. I've heard that story three times from three separate people.

Then of course there's Douglas Adams's story about the packet of biscuits which I've also heard people pass off as their own (of course Douglas probably borrowed it as well).

Not really what you were looking for maybe.

B.A._Baracus · 25-07-2019 3:21pm

Not friends but i've personally lost count how many times a taxi driver has told me they saw the black woman leave the buggy at the bus stop.

harry Bailey esq · 25-07-2019 3:21pm

You ARE the kids father Harry, look at his lovely brown eyes. There nice alright says I, they match his lovely brown skin. Now stop fkin turning up at me door at this bloody hour :mad:

Deebles McBeebles · 25-07-2019 3:23pm

Friend of a friend told Shane Lowry to "go on" last Sunday. He duly did.

Tammy! · 25-07-2019 3:26pm

Everyone from Dublin has an aunt that once dated Phil Lynott.

Pauliedragon · 25-07-2019 3:28pm

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

You ARE the kids father Harry, look at his lovely brown eyes. There nice alright says I, they match his lovely brown skin. Now fkin turning up at me door at this bloody hour :mad:

Of course Charles is your father Harry. It's a coincidence you're the spitting image of a guy your mum just happened to be sleeping with around the time you were conceived.

LollipopJimmy · 25-07-2019 3:28pm

JeanL wrote: »

Everyone from Dublin has an aunt that once dated Phil Lynott.

Possibly true - he did get around

0byme75341jo28 · 25-07-2019 3:31pm

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Not friends but i've personally lost count how many times a taxi driver has told me they saw the black woman leave the buggy at the bus stop.

I've heard the same but also a variation with them just leaving buggies in their old social housing before they got moved to a bigger house. Who believes this sh*t?

freshpopcorn · 25-07-2019 3:36pm

I knew a guy who went to college in Cork and was from Ennis. He he said it cost them over €80 to drive from Ennis to Cork in their 1.2 litre Renault Clio.

The Princess Bride · 25-07-2019 3:54pm

An acquaintance told me of her friend who was in the local shopping centre
And she looked into her buggy and saw that her daughter was gone.
And she screamed and the security guard came running.
And he closed down the shopping centre so all of the exit doors were shut.
And they searched for the child.
And they went into the bathrooms.

...and found the child, who'd been changed into boy clothing and had had her hair cut short to make her look like a boy.
And this happened in the town next to us and oddly enough, never made it onto the news or into the papers.

redmgar · 25-07-2019 3:55pm

The friend that was there when a terrorist attack happened in the exact spot...…………………………..
One week before.

Deebles McBeebles · 25-07-2019 3:58pm

redmgar wrote: »

The friend that was there when a terrorist attack happened in the exact spot...…………………………..
One week before.

That's a great one. I must know about 20 people who were at the Twin Towers in early September 2001.

nthclare · 25-07-2019 3:59pm

Everyone I know from Cork City who's over 44 knows someone or themselves seen Nirvana in Sir Henry s even though I heard that there was only twenty odd people there...

What are the odds of that

freshpopcorn · 25-07-2019 4:01pm

When people who are well off and live in very plush areas say they'd like a halting site in there area!

Leg End Reject · 25-07-2019 4:01pm

The girl with the snake that takes to lying beside her on the bed.

Turns out the snake is measuring her to ensure she can be swallowed whole.

kunst nugget · 25-07-2019 4:05pm

redmgar wrote: »

The friend that was there when a terrorist attack happened in the exact spot...…………………………..
One week before.

Katherine Thomas even got an Indo article out it...

http://vipmagazine.ie/kathryn-thomas-opens-up-about-mums-near-miss-in-tunisia-terrorist-attack/

This was from around time they had a daily quota of Katherine Thomas articles in the Indo.

ArnoldJRimmer · 25-07-2019 4:12pm

During the Celtic Tiger, the following happened to a lot of friends of friends:

Their wedding was scheduled for Ashford Castle/ Castle Leslie/ Adare Manor on a certain date when the hotel gives them a call asking could they possibly move the date. The reason being that Paul McCartney & Heather Mills/ David and Victoria Beckham wanted to get married/ renew their vows in that particular hotel on that certain date. To compensate Paul/ David would pay for their entire wedding on a different date. They were extremely generous as there happened to be a ton of weddings in these locations on that particular day

Definitely a joke in there somewhere about Heather Mills and having your leg pulled

The Real Ramona · 25-07-2019 4:15pm

The year Posh and Becks got married in Ireland, everyone seemed to know the couple who had apparently chosen their date at the venue first and then were offered to have their mortgage paid off by P&B in exchange for the date.

Same story went around the month of Posh & Becks' 10 year anniversary. The story was that they wanted to renew their vows at the same venue but someone already had booked that date, so they offered them insane money to change their date.

I'm sure neither happened but everyone seemed to know a friend of the couples apparently involved.

B.A._Baracus · 25-07-2019 4:18pm

Kristopher Nervous Pocketbook wrote: »

I've heard the same but also a variation with them just leaving buggies in their old social housing before they got moved to a bigger house. Who believes this sh*t?

god knows who :pac:
The last time a taxi driver told me I said to him it's a load of bollocks. He then told me how his "mate" seen it and swore he wasn't the liar either.
Either he's a spoofer or a fool. lol.

CoBo55 · 25-07-2019 4:19pm

JeanL wrote: »

Everyone from Dublin has an aunt that once dated Phil Lynott.

Or a relation who was in the GPO in 1916...

Phileas Frog · 25-07-2019 4:20pm

The man in the white van driving around estates offering sweets to the children.

freshpopcorn · 25-07-2019 4:21pm

Larry Murphy is in the local town!

Ush1 · 25-07-2019 4:22pm

JeanL wrote: »

Everyone from Dublin has an aunt that once dated Phil Lynott.

Also everyone in Corks granddad was in the RA.

xabi · 25-07-2019 4:22pm

Heard one recently, Becks and crew decided they wanted a particular house in Portrush for the Open. Owner keeps refusing money offers, 10K, 20K, 30K etc. Eventually Becks decides to pay off yer mans 200K mortgage and he accepts.

The Real Ramona · 25-07-2019 4:24pm

xabi wrote: »

Heard one recently, Becks and crew decided they wanted a particular house in Portrush for the Open. Owner keeps refusing money offers, 10K, 20K, 30K etc. Eventually Becks decides to pay off yer mans 200K mortgage and he accepts.

Same as the first wedding story I posted on the last page. The amounts were going up by 10k and the couple who had the date they wanted booked kept saying no until Becks offered to pay off their mortgage.

murpho999 · 25-07-2019 4:24pm

The one about the girl going into pay for petrol and a sex attacker got into the back of the car and then attacks her from behind later.

Heard that from numerous people over the years.

25-07-2019 4:24pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Larry Murphy is in the local town!

lary lives with the monks up in wicklow

is_that_so · 25-07-2019 4:25pm

Ush1 wrote: »

Also everyone in Corks granddad was in the RA.

In Tipp too I believe! Had a very old great uncle who apparently was an IRA local bigwig way back when or so everyone else said!

Markcheese · 25-07-2019 4:25pm

nthclare wrote: »

Everyone I know from Cork City who's over 44 knows someone or themselves seen Nirvana in Sir Henry s even though I heard that there was only twenty odd people there...

What are the odds of that

Well everyone in Cork knows everyone else so...

EmmetSpiceland · 25-07-2019 4:27pm

Yeah, I’ve a “friend” who’s always telling those type of “tales”. Been going on for over twenty years at this stage.

There was the one about the guy who finds out he’s about to ride a member of the travelling community when she tells him to “horse it into me, boss!”.

Or the one about the “closet goblin” where a guy takes acid and basically kidnaps a child with special needs and locks him into a wardrobe.

Or the one about the guy who “shíts the bed” in his girlfriend’s house and blames it on the dog, which gets put down as it was old and crapping inside is a sign they aren’t going to last long.

Or the one about the guy pulling a “strange”, hot, girl, who, during sex, stuffs a face cloth up his arse telling him he’ll “cum like a horse”. She whips it out as he’s about to blow his “muck” but instead of the frontal “joy” he ends up shítting all over the place. He then runs to the bathroom to clean up and when he returns the hot girl is rolling around and making “poo angels” on the bed.

All juvenile, fictitious, nonsense and all told with a straight face and a “swear to god”.

Woke Hogan · 25-07-2019 4:32pm

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Yeah, I’ve a “friend” who’s always telling those type of “tales”. Been going on for over twenty years at this stage.

There was the one about the guy who finds out he’s about to ride a member of the travelling community when she tells him to “horse it into me, boss!”.

Or the one about the “closet goblin” where a guy takes acid and basically kidnaps a child with special needs and locks him into a wardrobe.

Or the one about the guy who “shíts the bed” in his girlfriend’s house and blames it on the dog, which gets put down as it was old and crapping inside is a sign they aren’t going to last long.

Or the one about the guy pulling a “strange”, hot, girl, who, during sex, stuffs a face cloth up his arse telling him he’ll “cum like a horse”. She whips it out as he’s about to blow his “muck” but instead of the frontal “joy” he ends up shítting all over the place. He then runs to the bathroom to clean up and when he returns the hot girl is rolling around and making “poo angels” on the bed.

All juvenile, fictitious, nonsense and all told with a straight face and a “swear to god”.

You really need to calm down with those inverted commas.

xabi · 25-07-2019 4:39pm

Woke Hogan wrote: »

You really need to calm down with those inverted commas.

"ah", "be" nice

BENDYBINN · 25-07-2019 4:40pm

Woke Hogan wrote: »

You really need to calm down with those inverted commas.

He’s certainly “over done it”

topper75 · 25-07-2019 4:47pm

What do people get out of this?
Some kind of deception joy?
I smile politely when they've finished their performance because there is nothing to be gained from challenging them. However, I've never understood the motive.

Leg End Reject · 25-07-2019 4:49pm

topper75 wrote: »

What do people get out of this?
Some kind of deception joy?
I smile politely when they've finished their performance because there is nothing to be gained from challenging them. However, I've never understood the motive.

Some people believe everything they hear and read, sure it must be true if it's on Facebook.

Doctors room ghost · 25-07-2019 4:51pm

FunLover18 wrote: »

That story about minding a neighbour's dog while they're away, the dog dies, so they have to put it in a suitcase to carry it to the vet and the suitcase gets stolen. I've heard that story three times from three separate people.

Then of course there's Douglas Adams's story about the packet of biscuits which I've also heard people pass off as their own (of course Douglas probably borrowed it as well).

Not really what you were looking for maybe.

Bit late bringing it to a vet if it’s already dead no?
They’re good but they ain’t miracle workers

Duane Dibbley · 25-07-2019 4:57pm

Ush1 wrote: »

Also everyone in Corks granddad was in the RA.

My Grandad was but im from Dublin

Ipso · 25-07-2019 4:58pm

Markcheese wrote: »

Well everyone in Cork knows everyone else so...

Well everyone in Cork is related to everyone else in Cork.

Sheridan81 · 25-07-2019 5:02pm

I had a friend who, with a straight face, told me he knew a guy who kept a woman chained up in his basement and was going to try to blackmail him before going to the Gardai. I couldn't believe what I was hearing so I whacked him with a shovel and he's down there now too.

PinotNero · 25-07-2019 5:03pm

All unsolved murders of women in Ireland are linked to Larry Murphy, regardless of facts or evidence.

banie01 · 25-07-2019 5:04pm

is_that_so wrote: »

In Tipp too I believe! Had a very old great uncle who apparently was an IRA local bigwig way back when or so everyone else said!

Well, in Tipp if ya go back more than 3 generations....
Everyone is related

So myth confirmed IMO :P

ArnoldJRimmer · 25-07-2019 5:04pm

PinotNero wrote: »

All unsolved murders of women in Ireland are linked to Larry Murphy, regardless of facts or evidence.

Hi Larry, this PR stunt won't work here, we know your game

Sheridan81 · 25-07-2019 5:07pm

PinotNero wrote: »

All unsolved murders of women in Ireland are linked to Larry Murphy, regardless of facts or evidence.

That's one of the tricks of the police trade everywhere. Got a shady guy who is responsible for two or three attacks? Try to pin every cold case on him to clear the warehouse. Henry Lee Lucas is the most famous example.

mfceiling · 25-07-2019 5:07pm

Bono having dinner and the person asks his dining companion to take a photo of them and Bono together.

The person who they asked to take a pic just happened to be Bruce Springsteen.

Pauliedragon · 25-07-2019 5:12pm

Ipso wrote: »

Well everyone in Cork is related to everyone else in Cork.

All us langers are related to all the beours sometimes twice removed so that makes it ok. It might explain a certain Ms Thompsons actions though as the problem with inbreeding is it creates a lot of jealousy.

HalloweenJack · 25-07-2019 5:22pm

More a friend of a friend.

Have a friend fron London who told me that onw of his mates growing up was from an Irish family and used to spend his summers in Ireland.

Apparently, he told my friend that he got his hole one summer. The girl he was with looked at him funny when he dropped the hand. Her words were: "No funny stuff, just lob it into me". At the time, we were with another Irish friend of mine and we both burst out laughing. Our London seemed to have been convinced that story was true all along.

Amazing that story actually made it out of the country.

mikemac2 · 25-07-2019 5:26pm

Friend of a friend was on Bus Eireann and the tourist Yanks were impressed they built Bunratty Castle so close to Shannon airport

Insert Windsor castle and Heathrow for the English version

OneArt · 25-07-2019 5:29pm

Friend from secondary school said that in primary school, one girl vehemently believed in fairies even at the age of 11. Fair enough, but what made it weird that the the parents actively encouraged it. The girl would write letters to the fairies and the parents would write responses. She apparently even brought the letters in as proof.

This friend who knew the girl was a known waffler, though. I think I would've believed it if anyone else had told me.

Peatys · 25-07-2019 5:41pm

Delivery driver collecting cash (?) scores and she brings him back to the house. They do the deed, next morning he wakes, jacket gone with the collected cash.

He wrecks the house, (how much damage varies from story to story, shítting and rubbing it on the curtains has been mentioned) and on the way down the stairs, meets herself with the jacket on and breakfast bought.

He grabs the jacket and cash still in pocket, runs.

Peatys · 25-07-2019 5:42pm

And loads of friends from Sligo to Dublin have mates who a traveler lady told them to

"Lob it into me boss, none of your fancy business"

Stories friends swear are true

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