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AIBU?

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to get really pissed off when people lie on here?

187 replies

daisy5678 · 01/09/2010 11:18

I know lying is wrong anyway. But it's almost insulting to lie on here when, if necessary, people can see that you've lied as your words are stored forever! If you're going to lie, at least lie well Grin.

What bugs me is when people lie to get sympathy or admiration for something that is directly contradicted by something else they wrote and they can't possibly both be true.

And then everyone piles in and goes 'oh, poor you' and you know it's bullshit and you can't say 'yeah, but they're lying' because nobody will believe that you have a photographic memory and will think you're stalking the poster and also everyone will think you're being a bitch.

I think IABU. Oh well. I'll get over it.

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xstitch · 01/09/2010 13:40

Are you OK oblomov?

Oblomov · 01/09/2010 13:44

sorry. wrong place. no. I'm not o.k. not at all. but this is not the place for this. sorry.

Altinkum · 01/09/2010 13:47

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ChippingIn · 01/09/2010 13:49

Oblomov - do you want to talk on another board? x

Desperatelyseekinginspiration · 01/09/2010 14:07

Oh Rats, I've just realised I should have been lying all this time. Lets hope all those people I've moaned about don't ever log onto Mumsnet.

I will be toast if they do.

Oh and from now on, don't believe a word I say Grin.

Perhaps it's time for a name change.

Desperatelyseekinginspiration · 01/09/2010 14:11

Sorry, that was really insensitive of me. I've only just read this page.

TotalChaos · 01/09/2010 14:19

Reality - are you sure you really exist, and aren't just a chick lit construct? do you bear a suspicious resemblance to Renee Zellweger?

Oblomov · 01/09/2010 14:26

no I don't look like sandi tosvig or velma.
I am tall, slim, small breasted, newbie to MN. with nice kids, a lying cheating twat of a husband, who is fucked in the head from an abusive childhood. i hate my sil's and mil. I don't have a close relationship with my muver. I drive a pink cadalac and work in the sex industry.
Oh well, thats me put to rights then. Lying from here on in Grin

Oblomov · 01/09/2010 14:27

Total, my post was inspired by your post. does Reality look like Renee then ? is that what was said on that 'what does someones's MN name envisage for you' thread ?

thesecondcoming · 01/09/2010 14:38

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sanielle · 01/09/2010 14:45

Are you sure that you are not occasionally confusing posters?

I've found myself seeing someone on a board and thinking oh she was the one that was really bitch to me on my thread, and then a quick check reveals she was on that thread but actually nice. And I've mixed her up!

TotalChaos · 01/09/2010 14:49

sorry oblomov, I was making a lame chicklit/bridget jones type joke!

in response to the OP - sometimes people are fundamentally for real (i.e they say they have 5 children, 3 ex husbands and 10 iguanas and they actually do) but overegg the pudding - whether because they genuinely perceive something or because they want a bit of extra attention, who knows - in a way that can be more confusing to deal with than out and out liars! people are complex.

thesecondcoming · 01/09/2010 14:54

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nancydrewrocked · 01/09/2010 14:59

If you are pissed off enough to start a thread about this you should just out the person on the thread concerned.

Although a word of warning....on another forum I was having a row with someone, I was accused of not knowing what I was talking about and I mentioned something to do with the birth of DC3 which specifically backed up my point- cue lots of bitching back and foth and finally the accusation that I'd cleary made up the "facts" cos I had posted on another thread about my 2 children.

Strangely that particular poster slunk off pretty damn quick when it was pointed out by someone else that my DC3 had in fact been stillborn....

nancydrewrocked · 01/09/2010 15:00

Oblomov hope you are ok?

nameymcnamechange · 01/09/2010 15:02

Givemesleep - I have the same weird memory for things people have said on here too. I don't have stalkerish tendencies and I don't have a spreadsheet Shock. I just seem to remember what people have said. Sympathies - because if you say something to the poster on the thread concerned, people will accuse you of being too involved and needing to get a life (I see someone very original has already done that on this thread Grin). It wrankles though, doesn't it?

KurriKurri · 01/09/2010 15:09

I lie like a demon, constantly. No I don't.

southeastastra · 01/09/2010 15:11

is it me, have i posted about wanting a sandwich toaster before BlushGrin

Asdashopper · 01/09/2010 15:13

You said you already had a sandwich toaster on another thread Grin

MorrisZapp · 01/09/2010 15:14

Totally agree with secondcoming. It's about the cheerleading response, some people thrive on it.

I have a stock response to people who post about how a school mum screamed in their face or an old lady shouted they were evil etc, which is 'wow, that's unbelievable'. Makes me feel better albeit in a passive agressive way - I wouldn't dare call anybody a liar as then you kick off the whole troll hunter thing.

Oblomov · 01/09/2010 15:29

laughing at astra's sandwich toaster. no you ungrateful witch, wait till xmas, like the rest of us.

nancydrewrocked · 01/09/2010 15:30

ooh morriszapp I had noticed that someone did that...I always wondered if it was meant in that way!

BitOfFun · 01/09/2010 15:31

I did have to snigger at your characterisation of the breastfeeding threads, Morris- you are so right. "My MIL snatched my baby away, screaming at me to 'Put those devil bags away, you WHORRRRRE!!'"... "Are you sure?"- "Well, she looked a bit embarrassed at seeing my nipple and maintained a very fixed eye-contact with me when she took dc from me so I could finish my lunch"...

Jasonthunderpants · 01/09/2010 15:38

Yes there is no need for lying on here, it really annoyes me
My penis is 11" in lenght and as fat as a big cucumber do you think it is to big? I worry sometimes that I am hurting DW when we are being cheeky. She really moans and groans and I cannot help thinking that I am hurting her