What is the biggest BS story someone has told you?

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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.

Popcorntwice

This will totally out me but when I was at school one girl in my year, who was very attention seeking, told us all that she'd been to the Smash Hits Poll Winners party, and ended up meeting, and sleeping with, a member of Take That.

Don’t worry, you haven’t been outed as it happened at my school a couple of times with the story told by different girls! Lol! Sign of the times I think.

I knew a man who reckoned he wrote the Lionel Richie song "Hello" and the notebook he wrote it in was stolen at a house party by Lionel Richie. I could be wrong but I don't think Mr Richie ever spent much time in Croydon.
I know a woman who says a vegan diet cured her of placenta Previa.

If you’re going to claim to have written a famous song, why would you choose a cheesy awful one?

My 14yo best friend claiming she had sex with her first cousin, got pg and had an abortion. At the hospital she knew someone in the ward with her and was worried about being found out.. Some things just didn't make sense.

I know a woman who says a vegan diet cured her of placenta Previa.

That reminds me of the one who wrote seriously that she'd conceived a boy, but when she realised (at 10 weeks!) she ate lots of ice cream which changed the baby to a girl.
She held to it firmly, proving most conclusively that there's no arguing with stupid.

Provincialbelle God knows. He also reckoned he invented piri piri sauce after climbing a mountain in South America and getting the recipe from a wise old man at the top.

My ex was a pathological liar and although it is a much overused phrase on MN, he is the one person who I think underlines the criteria of a narcissist. I didn't notice it at first as we were long distance but when he started lying about really weird things that didn't benefit him (he once told me his best mate's sister got an unconditional offer to read law at Manchester University - in the days where it just would not happen) I began to call him out on it. I finished with him when he told me had cancer but they were just going to "watch and wait" - it was not the type of cancer where you would do that.

It then came out after we finished that he had lied about his dad having a heart attack (used as a reason as to why he couldn't come and see me one weekend), lied about his ex girlfriend being his ex (she was very much current and I had been the bit on the side all that time), and, bizarrely, lied about where he got his degree from.

The cancer thing really got me though: I was staggered that someone could do that for no real reason.

He's long dead but my aunt was married to a Walter Mitty type guy. He claimed to be a psychic medium and he said he'd saved Rommel's horse in the desert during the war.
Looking back the family were incredibly tolerant of this bullshit.

I was matched up with a guy on an old personality site called the spark (anyone remember that?)

His profile said he was a fighter pilot...

The closest he’d ever been to that was being an air cadet

An ex-colleague didn't show up for work one day and didnt call in. Finally managed to get hold of her and she claimed that she had got run over by a car thats why she wasnt in and didnt call. She came to work next day absolutely fine/normal self and didnt even so much as mention it

She also mentioned at a later date that it was a lie

I met a woman I used to work with for a coffee a few weeks again, her husband had always been a bit fast and loose with the truth —jail time— but she doesn’t think anyone has this opinion. He’s just got a new job, he’s so talented at his job that the whole company will be trained by him to upskill everyone to his level. Anyone who doesn’t reach the standard expected by him will be sacked and he will recruit replacements.

I find it amazing that he’s so talented in this area of work considering that he achieved his degree, masters degree and phd in a different area entirely. Remarkably he managed to achieve all 3 in a year because he was fast tracked, he didn’t actually have to go to university though, he just did everything online with Oxford University which is why it only took him a year.

His first job was supposed to be on a salary of £100k, this was directly from college. He told them he’d accept £25k because, you know, £100k would be a strain on company finances and just because he was so talented he didn’t want them jeopardising the whole company just to have him on board.

I could go on, it’s amazing that she actually enables this bullshit from him.

A lovely young graduate at work who claimed his great-grandfather had invented Marmite (we googled it, he hadn't).

Another work colleague who claimed to have been both in the Special Forces and also an Olympic downhill skiing champion for the Army (we googled it, he hadn't.) Despite his military training and amazing skiing ability, he was more than once unable to get into work if there was anything more than a small snow flurry within 15 miles of his home.

My Mum, who told me if I fiddled with my bellybutton, it would unscrew and my bum would fall off.