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What is the biggest BS story someone has told you?

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TripleHFa · 24/05/2019 00:16

In school a friend claimed he was sat on the side of the road and a guy in a car drove past and took his DR pepper.

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dreamyspires · 27/05/2019 21:52

There’s some low down people in this world, but Rainbows ex must take some beating. What a truly horrible thing to do. Shocking.

Emily1091 · 27/05/2019 22:30

Really enjoying reading this thread it’s made me think of a few I’ve heard in the past!

  1. My mums ex partner was a multi millionaire who owned a business fitting bars in nightclubs, he wasn’t able to tell me his business name but he turned over 150 million a year. He was also in the Navy SEALS on the front line and had killed countless women and children, he had a scar on his arm where this bullet apparently had struck him. Turns out he was training to be a medic but dropped out. He had MS and underwent a pioneering stem cell transplant which cured him completely, prior to this he just to fall on his hands and knees and bang his head against the sofa as a symptom. His mum was a top barrister (dress maker) his daughter had bought her dream car which was the super fast car from the film gone in 60 seconds and was also training to be a top barrister. He had met Michael Jackson on several occasions and Michael knew him. Can’t think of any more but I’ve had a giggle writing that!

Another friend claimed to be super duper in the sack and claims to be able to make an woman orgasm just by looking at her 😂😂 hard to keep a straight face when I heard that one.

funkylittleboatrace · 27/05/2019 22:37

My friend said her dad bonged the gong on bohemian rhapsody...

Passtherioja · 27/05/2019 23:01

A friend said he was late because on the way to our home (very rural) he had come off the road while going over a hump back bridge that goes over a railway track. He flew off the bridge, hit a cow, killed it, he got back in the road and that's why he was late.

No damage to car, bridge and no local farmers mentioned a dead cow.... Scottish mate-nickname begins him back Ockanorey!!

Passtherioja · 27/05/2019 23:22

begins him back...??? Nickname was....

Saavhi · 27/05/2019 23:28

When I was 15 (ten or so years ago) a friend told me she was stripping to pay her grandmother's medical bills. It was the talk of our grammar school - her compulsive lying that is.

SadOtter · 27/05/2019 23:48

I used to run a pub so heard many a bullshit story, my favourites were:

The guy who claimed to own the much posher bar the other side of town, he didn't, the posher bar was owned by the same guy who owned the pub I was running.

the guy who tried telling me he was a founding member of the Knights Templar (I did ask him if he was a vampire, he got really pissy about it, so he was either lying or actually a vampire...)

Peacocking · 28/05/2019 00:30

This is a bit grim. My EXH told his family and then girlfriend that I was terminally ill. He borrowed thousands off them to 'pay off my credit card debts so I wouldn't have to worry about them'. It all came out after my son had a serious accident and we all met around his bedside - everything came into the open. He still makes up things about me despite us not having been in contact for a long time. The very latest is telling the adult kids and others that I'm a drug user. Sigh. He also has had fake certificates and medals made relating to his time in the SAS (actually a couple of years as a civilian instructor for air cadets) and seems to have a long running lie that he may be called upon to provide special forces support at any time. He's utterly mad. My family dont seem to see it and even ten years after our divorce are very very close to him and his new wife. As a result I'm increasingly less close to them.

colbyandmontysmum · 28/05/2019 16:46

Many years ago, DH and I had a friend who told us he had a horrible kidney disease and had just 3 months to live. He was in the process of breaking up with his wife at the time but she felt so bad, she got back with him in order to nurse him. After 4-5 months, I noticed he didn't seem to be getting sicker (or dying) and I asked him about it. Apparently, he was so distraught with the breakdown of his marriage, he took an overdose of aspirin to end it all - he didn't die but the overdose miraculously cured his kidney disease.

Over the time we were friends, we heard so many bullshit stories that we would just laugh about it. I was the youngest of the group which, for some reason, he didn't like. He went away to a family do and came back to tell us that he just found out a mistake was made on his birth certificate and he was two years younger than he thought Hmm so he was actually the youngest of us all. He forgot his birthday month was 4 months before mine and I took great delight telling him that!

iklboo · 28/05/2019 18:32

A friend of MIL's told us his son was a well established stage actor in London, worked with many famous stars and his daughter was a published author.

We met his family at a party and chatted with them. Turns out his son does am dram and his daughter once did a creative writing course at night school.

DanielRicciardosSmile · 28/05/2019 18:51

Someone once told me that he'd killed a man in a fight by kicking his head, but the police hadn't taken it further because he'd warned the man before the fight that he had a black belt and a licence to kill.

We were both 9 at the time...

francienolan · 28/05/2019 19:25

Years ago I sat next to someone on a plane who told me he was a spy. He was cute so I went along with it LOL

Angharad07 · 28/05/2019 19:31

He took part in a research study as a child because he could “turn off his emotions”. I asked him to give an example. He made his face go blank and stared wide-eyed into the distance. He was 23. I was a very embarrassed psychology student.

poglets · 28/05/2019 20:20

@Cariadne
Your post made me laugh. Certainly entertaining.

Patroclus · 28/05/2019 23:59

Have a read about the various lies of Steven Segal. Hes a magnificently tragic figure.

pisspawpatrol · 29/05/2019 16:35

I had a "friend" at school who tried to stop her boyfriend going on a family holiday by telling him she had been selected to be a part of an all girl pop band and they were going on a two year round the world tour supporting Atomic Kitten. She told all sorts of other awful lies too. She said that she'd been a twin but the twin had been killed by her in the womb because she was 'stronger'. She claimed to have been forced to have an abortion at 12 and the baby was buried in the local church yard and she was distraught at mother's day (this was when we were 16 and she'd never before mentioned this) She was addicted to heroin but we couldn't tell anyone and blah blah blah. All bullshit. None of us believed her but no one ever called her out on it either. So odd.

I had another melodramatic friend as a teenager who told me she had 'a consumption' of the stomach and she might die at any moment. I think she'd been watching Moulin Rouge and heard the term there, because she had no idea that 'consumption' is TB and was pissed off when I pointed it out.

NerrSnerr · 29/05/2019 16:41

I used to work with a bloke who was full of bullshit. He drove a banger of a car and lived on his daughter's settee but told us he was a multi millionaire but his ex made him give every penny to charity. He also had a contract with m&s to make pastries but he was waiting it out ( he's a nurse). He also could have been an international cricketer but the weight training he was doing stunted his growth. There was loads more too.

I also worked with someone who told me her son was dying of cancer. Turns out she was lying, he was fit as a fiddle (and still is 20 years later)

Mammajay · 29/05/2019 16:45

That when Donald Trump last visited the UK as President, he was going to their house friend's house for dinner unofficially, but had to cancel due to a change in his official schedule!

lunicorn · 29/05/2019 16:46

My friend told me she'd had her house valued and it was worth £650K plus. I went on Zoopla and their estimate was £140K. I asked her about it again and she said it was somewhere between 400 and 600. Why talk absolute bs? I don't understand some people.

Orangeballon · 29/05/2019 16:47

My ex husband told me he loved me? 😆

PregnantOnPurpose · 29/05/2019 16:53

After telling my friends I'm pregnant, my one 'all eyes on me' type of friend. Then proceeded to ask me how far along I am, I was roughly 5 weeks at the time, very early but we have an occasion coming up where we would otherwise be drinking alot, so I decided to tell them early.

Said friend lit a fag right next to me, then started talking about how she had a miscarriage at 5 weeks and remembers being sat on the toilet when the baby came out and it had arms, legs and eyes.

Now, I'm no expert, but im pretty sure at 5 weeks it's still a little barely possible blob.

She also said we were never ever allowed to mention said miscarriage infront of her boyfriend (who she said knew at the time and was sleeping with someone else while she was 'bleeding to death') or her parents.

She has a lot of form for getting her stories very twisted and umm.. lying, is the best way to describe it.

Its probably the worst thing I've ever heard.

EnglishRose13 · 29/05/2019 19:31

A girl I went to school with told us her grandad had died. We were about 14. The group were all very supportive of her but then it all started to unravel.

The funeral was on a Saturday and she travelled there alone as her family didn't want to go. Then the mum of another girl at school bumped into lying girls mum and gave her condolences. The mum had no idea what she was on about!

Turns out her grandad had died... years before!

Provincialbelle · 29/05/2019 20:43

Stayed with some in laws in America some years back, when DS1 was 1. One in law was an utter bore. I glazed over with the stream of crap she was coming out with, and only woke up when she said both her daughters were toilet trained at 9 months. I said “what, really? 9 months” and she snarled “yes” at me as if I was a pathetic inadequate for questioning her.

BadTigerKitty · 31/05/2019 11:11

The mind boggles at some of these. I seem to have a dearth of bs stories in my life.

Except for the age old story of a boyfriend who turned out to not be single after all. Bastard. I even spent time getting to know his dad, which makes me Envy

MsJuniper · 31/05/2019 11:12

My son just told me all the cards in his hand "just happened" to favour him after dealing without me seeing. Hmm