haveyou ever caught anyone out lying on mumsnet

i always thought she was messed up and needed help.

same with the Tamba thing.

dont you think that anyone inventing pg must be a bit troubled? unless they are a bored teenager having a laff? i mean its not funny is it? or witty?

the pregnancy was appreantly invented, IB, some felt the number of children were.

not sure about that.

but deffo sure about falling down stairs, being unconcious for 20 minutes and then posting on here instead of going to hospital.

She didn't invent any children by the way, just so you know.

What were you saying about Titania inventing children ??

I can't scroll down threade for some reason.

Those two posters invented pregnancies (and possibly number of children in the former's case) and a bunch of other stuff.

But didn't start out as trolls IYKWIM.

Presumably your post meant that someone called Titania invented some children. How odd. Like inventing piles.

I started off being a bit cagey on here & sometimes posted a couple of red herrings in case anyone in RL spotted me whingeing about my family etc.

I still namechange quite a lot because I cannot resist telling friends about MN and practically pressgang them into having a look. I then have paranoid episodes where I imagine them discovering who I am and searching my posts... then cringe at what I've written about ladybits or whatever and imagine them telling their DHs...then cringe at myself for being so self-important to think that anyone would ever do that...

So yes, I sometimes tell the odd fib. Not for delusions of grandeur reasons, just for preserving anonymity.

I'm not really made of cheese and no man lives within me

not sure....

I get a bit POed at people trolling about things like bereavement, TTC or adoption. Y'know, where Mners spend ages trying to help soemone who they think is upset or has been through a difficult situation but is just " having a laugh". Then i think that soemone must in fact be quite troubled to make up stuff like that

i LOVE the obviously trolling but witty threads like the hamster in the soup one

No, I don't mean trolls in the sense that they start out trolls.

It's just something that's come up fairly recently, particularly on money threads.

Where you just think, 'Yeah, right.' Something just doesn't ring true about it. Not sure why.

do you mean like the bored school kids trolling with ridiculous stories?

or the regular Mners who have "ishoos" and come on here attention seeking? Like the " i am pg guess who i am ? " threads

HugeMistake/Tamba

Titania

Gosh do you really think that Expat? I'll believe (at a pinch) that people will make up jobs to aggrandize themselves but who on earth would make up children?

I have read some posts - particularly recent ones - from people that make me go .

I think some people make up a job, income, lifestyle, kids, whatever.

Not sure why, but if I get a feeling about someone I usually just avoid them.

Someone once asked me why I was posting about my dd when my profile page says I have no children. I am to thick to work out how to do my profile page so have no idea why it says I have no children, nor do I now how to (or have any desire to find out) change it.

I don't namechange, either.

A lot of people know my real name, and I've met people on here IRL - so they know I really do a) dye my hair b) have uneven skin tone c) my kids are named very Gaelic names.

I'm too lazy and often (when not pregnant) drink too much to be arsed lying.

Besides, why would someone lie about being 50% grey, having sun damage freckles, being skint and having poor taste in shoes?

I sometimes change DCs ages so that I am not recognised. But then, I namechange every month or so, so there is little chance of that.

On another parenting website where everyone is hun xxx was someone who said she'd been held hostage by a friend of the family, raped, became pg and had gone on to have the child. I'm not sure how she was busted but she also posted a picture of the expensive Elizabethan house she supposedly lived in.

Why would anyone invent such a horrible experience?

i am a size 10

No it wasn't you nappyadict (but was a well-known Mnetter )

oops just realised i never finished what i was writing before i clicked post. was gonna say there were a few bizarre/suspect threads around last week. it must be the summer holidays!! that MIL/cat one was very suspect and the one about the DH crying was quite bizarre and then there was the benefits one purely because i'm sure people start those just for a reaction.

"I had someone having a right go at me once on a thread about something I said, disagreed with my pov, etc, then a few months later I saw her more or less parroting my views herself! OK maybe she was just having a bad day on the first thread but...."

was probably me i am very indecisive and chop and change views all the time.

wannabe - which thread was it?