haveyou ever caught anyone out lying on mumsnet

you have a boat you lying lying fecker!

i don't discuss money on mumsnet as it consider it extremely boring vulgar. actually i don't think i ever post anything of consequence.

Actually pruners, I worry people take stuff at face value on here and will think I'm a big fat pants on fire....

For example, I often say we are skint. Which is true. But then people will see we have a boat and think ''lying, lying fecker'.

But we were given the boat. It is a very ramshackle, scruffy old narrowboat. We cannot sell it as we have no money to do it up, so hence, we have a boat!

Is it CV-licious?
just seen your other thread, fingers crossed this one does the trick .

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ah well

fmv you just met me you didnt check out my cv

Zippi! Are you real then? Thank god for that, I thought I had an imaginary friend in that travel lodge....

I am namechanging frequently at the moment, to avoid detection (!) but that is quite different from having different personas.

well i met llareggub and she is very nice and was really tolerant of my gabbiness and really helped with looking at my cv

so i am now officially authenticated

possibly

pruners - you have also said you are unattractive which is blatantly a lie you big sexiness you!

I knew someone on a different site who made up a whole new persona.

The screwed up part of it was that she befriended her best friend in rl with this persona, so had different emails/msn address etc. The new persona was so different that her friend had no idea.

When it all came t light I think the friendship ended over it all.

No idea why she did it. She said that she just wanted to come across different to the way people perceived her. Bit sad really.

I also knew someone (I didn't know any of these people in person btw just online) who was quite open about the fact that only about 80% of what he told people was true. His view was that considering he was unlikely to ever meet any of the people he talked to it didn't really matter if some of what he told them about himself was made up. Have no idea to this day what was true and what wasn't, apart from the fact he claimed to be single and was simoltaniously arranging to meet up with at least three different women while he actually still had a live-in girlfriend at home. .

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i think i have, not lying as such but story didn't add up. there was a poster who was complaining about being skint, and wanted to persuade her dh to ebay something he owned and how he was flatly refusing (not going to say what as it may identify the poster). but they had already started a thread talking about their recent holiday abroad (can't be that skint then ), and on further investigating, had also started a thread previously about her dh selling the item in question on ebay and a query about reducing the reserve or something, so he obviously wasn't against selling it either

not a serious one, but still i couldn't work out the reason for it all

oh yeah, flight, i am hoooooooootttt!

i always think if people are lying , more often than not , it is due to massive insecurity rather than anything sinister, especially some of the spectacular trolling that has occured...madame reynaud springs to mind..

Oh I do that Custy...mind you I don't moan about being skint. I just live in a nice little cloud where my overdraft is actually my money...

But I really am a lion tamer.
Why won't anyone believe me?

I changed my name the other day so that I could 'bark' on a very stupid dog haters vs dog lovers thread (it was getting quite ridiculous and needed lightening up a bit IMO). I found that quite liberating and fun, which was sad, really.

In reality, apart from about 4 or 5 posters, I don't remember enough about anyone to know if they would be lying.

i can;'t say i take enough interest in mumsnetters individual lives to piece it all together inspector lindley stylee.

the only moments i have had have been around people saying they are skint and also saying they just bought x.

but caught out? i don't give that much of a shit tbh!

Quite fancy you actually Arnie but didn't like to say

i'm a cabbie called arnold

I agree that there are some bullshitters around. I haven't got the imagination for that!!!!

I didnt think you could have more than one account on mn because of the computers IP address... mn hq would be able to find you out surely?

I've been astonishingly coy to avoid identification in RL. Also namechanged 2/3 times (but not started trollery). Don't thing that counts as lying.

sheik.

I've told some white lies so that people can't identify me too closely, but I've never told a lie to impress ie. I'm a high flying city slicker when actually I'm a SAHM or whatever. There are a few complete bullshitters on here but seeing as they're quite entertaining i let them carry on