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haveyou ever caught anyone out lying on mumsnet

212 replies

FluffyMummy123 · 07/08/2008 13:15

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SheikYerbouti · 07/08/2008 17:14

I realise sometghing was amiss when Boco tried to get me in the back of his/her Eddie Stobart

SheikYerbouti · 07/08/2008 17:13

You qare all liars anyway. I have it on good authority that you are all hairy knuckled truckies called Stanley

NorthernLurker · 07/08/2008 17:13

My name is definately a lie - I am no longer a lurker. I'm an addict - but Northernaddict sounds a bit Ken Loach don't you think?

SpandexIsMyEnemy · 07/08/2008 17:09

don't think so, and tend to stand by the points if I wouldn't say it in RL then I dont' say it on here unless it's a highly embaressing prob of a health nature lol. when I name change!

tbh I could prob have an online persona but would slip up - cos well, my memory just ain't that good!

SheikYerbouti · 07/08/2008 17:07

I am a 6ft leggy blonde with pneumatic breasts.

If any of you fuckers dare say I am lying, I will get my mate Fat Barry to do you in

RoccocoFlourishes · 07/08/2008 17:06

Hatrick, the children's names lie. That could have been deliberate. If the poster thought she'd revealed too much, throw out some red herrings.

derelicte · 07/08/2008 17:04

Effie - I always thought your name was a pun on the asthma drug Epipherine. Doh.

brimfull · 07/08/2008 17:04

oooh never thought about lying

am going to start making myself more interesting

lisad123 · 07/08/2008 17:04

I cant lie about my job, as my sisters would tell on me

RoccocoFlourishes · 07/08/2008 17:02

No, don't think I know anybody on mumsnet in rl, but I used to amuse myself at work by typing names in to the name search on Friendsreunited, and seeing how my colleagues had bigged up their jobs.

wasveryannoyed · 07/08/2008 17:02

so it wasn't a lie as such, just soemthing that went wrong.

wasveryannoyed · 07/08/2008 17:00

i once (have name changed) accepted an offer of financial help on here, and some others did too. MIne didn't come.
I was very embarrassed, but had to say that person mine hadn't come. The mnetter, said she would look into it, so i said great (still embarrassed). She never di tho.

Made me feel pretty sad, and as tho I was wrong for ever asking for the help.

FabioFridgeFluffFrenzy · 07/08/2008 17:00

Pixel you'd have to be nuts to do that though.

[self unaware]

PixelHerder · 07/08/2008 16:52

I reckon there must be a fair few fantasists (or perhaps frustrated fiction writers, to be generous) who have created fake personas, right down to photos on their profile etc. It must be quite easy to create different MN accounts with different email addresses etc.

I don't have the energy or imagination to make things up myself though, I really AM this dull

EffiePerine · 07/08/2008 16:41

ahem

muggglewump · 07/08/2008 16:41

I lied on here once, I said I'd booked a hotel when I hadn't.
I was going to book it the following Monday but ended up not having the mony. We will no longer be going to London for DD's birthday but I do have 2 Megabus seats that I can offer for free now!

On the other parenting forum I use I've seen a few lies, I always pull them up on it, the squirming and backtracking is quite amusing

ForeverOptimistic · 07/08/2008 16:40

Why on earth would someone lie about their purchases?

More to the point how would you catch them out?

Sobernow · 07/08/2008 16:38

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RubyRioja · 07/08/2008 16:32

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Piffle · 07/08/2008 16:30

in selling fgs
someone could not afford to refund me for £10 worth of shitty stained ripped clothes
yet sells end on end and buys end on end of luxury prams...
I mean ok I kinda (not quite but) understand buying a different pram a few times.
but buy one sell one then buy the same back

smells of scam

CountessDracula · 07/08/2008 16:24

my fat sister may I add

theSuburbanDryad · 07/08/2008 16:23

Ah yes - that would explain it.

CountessDracula · 07/08/2008 16:22

No that was my sister

theSuburbanDryad · 07/08/2008 16:18

CD - i've met you! Does that mean i'm a liar too?!

I don't really live in a tree (wish I did though - that'd be cool).

TheLadyofShalott · 07/08/2008 16:15

If I'm answering a one of those 'Have your DCs ever done this threads?'I often can't remember whether it was DD or DS who, for example, ate a crane-fly, but it seems daft to keep saying so, so I might well have been inconsistent on different threads.