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Aalborg Hammer
11:32 Wed Nov 2
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Before the arrival of the internet ,I wound a bloke at work up by telling him that Graham Hill and Jimmy Hill were brothers...given their similar chins and facial hair,it went a long way
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11:21 Wed Nov 2
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It always used to be held that the further from home the bigger the lie that could be told.
Google has cramped the style of many though.
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BRANDED
11:04 Wed Nov 2
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The EU is undemocratic
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mashed in maryland
10:38 Wed Nov 2
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FEH, no offence to yourself or any other ex-pat/Thailand based WHOers, but I reckon you must come across a lot of people making things up about their life among the ex-pat community?
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Far East Hammer
10:34 Wed Nov 2
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Another obvious giveaway regarding people pretending to have had significant experience of two-way firing ranges is when they have absolutely no hearing problems in their right ear!
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Far East Hammer
9:08 Wed Nov 2
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mashed - the other thing I've spotted with "military pretenders" is that they ain't half full of themselves. And always ready to recount their supposed heroics at length.
Whereas those who might genuinely have grounds to proclaim their heroics are generally stumm - trying to get them to talk in anything more than vague generalities is like trying to get blood from a stone.
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Razzle
2:30 Tue Nov 1
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There is no way that! is going to fit in there.....
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mashed in maryland
1:37 Tue Nov 1
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I think I was lying to myself before posting this in the confidence that one of the Labourites wouldn't find a way to have a rant about the nasty Tories.
ogn, my dad was ex army but doesn't look "the type" at all, said that back then when people were bullshitting about it it was glaringly obvious, they'd say things like "I was in the SAS stationed at Sandhurst" or something just assuming no one would know any different. I suppose these days with the internet etc its easier to fabricate a story but also must be much easier to catch people out. The geezer I was on about yesterday got caught out cos he was in court for something and claimed he had PTSD from being in Iraq, the service records were brought up and showed he'd never been deployed. Then lied about it being with the FFL, they were contacted and said they'd never heard of him.
Thinking about it its a fucking massive thing to lie about and must so easily be disproven. Might as well lie about having 3 heads.
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overbyyer
1:10 Tue Nov 1
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Haha
SIT DOWN, Johnson.
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Johnson
12:52 Tue Nov 1
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Of course you didn't overbyyer you strange little man
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ohgodno
12:51 Tue Nov 1
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mashed in maryland 5:45 Mon Oct 31
I know scaffolders are a bunch of cunts because my old man was one. Which is also how I know these weirdo's were lying.
Also in the 90's I seemed to encounter millions of "soldiers". I've no connection to the army at all but used to work with homeless and disabled ex-army, a lot, so got told all the right questions to ask. Which was always funny.
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violator
12:47 Tue Nov 1
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Was in Blackpool once with some pals and chatting some girls, and one of them was from Preston, she told my mate she was Jim Bowen's daughter. He ended up going back to hers and shagging her, but he said she wasn't Jim Bowen's daughter, very odd.
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overbyyer
12:42 Tue Nov 1
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Used to do a lot of pub refurbishments back in the 80's and would tell the nosy fuckers that walked past that their local was being converted into a mosque.
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Dan M
12:39 Tue Nov 1
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Always remember while I was at university I lodged with a bloke who actively enjoyed making up small bit of shit for no reason. It was genuinely his hobby.
Example: we're all sitting watching telly and out of the blue he pipes up with "You know now Ian Rush has retired he's become a Formula Three driver".
You almost have to admire the banality of it all.
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overbyyer
12:38 Tue Nov 1
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I once heard someone tell a pointless lie, something about us "all being in this together".
Well he lied and got replaced by a woman who says that she is not driven by the interests of the privileged few.
Oh how we laughed at these strange, random pointless lies.
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Grumpster
12:28 Tue Nov 1
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We have an acquaintance from the pub, who used to insist he was a member of Spurs firm.
Reckon my missus could have taken him and one of those blokes who has the really pathetic handshake that instantly gives away that he's weak as piss.
Also worked with a chap called Pete, who was 5'0 tall and reckoned he had loads of money as he was some sort of loan shark. Cunt was a post room boy in a law firm and blatantly had wedge as his dad had died and he'd been paid out on the insurance.
He also brilliantly used to tell us he had a new bird and would show us a picture on his phone that was clearly a picture of a bird he had taken from FHM or something.
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Alfs
3:27 Tue Nov 1
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When I was in the SAS during the Kuwait crisis, my unit of three men came under fire from two attack helicopters. Running out of ammunition, we threw stones at the Copters and managed to bring them down. Whilst water boarding the pilots one of them told us that he'd nicked the helicopter as he'd promissed his wife that he'd be home for dinner on time, but got stuck in a traffic jam.
Oh, how we laughed.
Then I shot him between the eyes.
I fucking hate liars.
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normannomates
2:50 Tue Nov 1
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Currently have the misfortune of being on a job with a trappy dustbin
Lies about absolutely everything..mainly birds.
Sad cunt.
He hates me cos I'm quiet.and WHU..havent mentioned I am..dont need too.he pretends he's hasnt clocked my WHU tats ..but hasn't chirped up yet.
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WSM Hammer
2:39 Tue Nov 1
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He also told us about the day he dropped his pager (again years ago before mobiles were common) down the toilet but it was OK because he put it in the microwave for 5 mins to dry it out.
Dopey Twat
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WSM Hammer
2:38 Tue Nov 1
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Bloke I used to work with many years ago was saying he used to have a pet octopus that he kept in a fishtank (we all looked at each other as if to say yeah OK then) but then came out with this cracker, that he had to get rid of it as it kept getting out of the tank and getting into bed with him.
You can imagine the piss take that took place after that
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mashed in maryland
12:05 Tue Nov 1
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Was an episode of crystal maze on earlier. Reminded me of when Collins Wong posted about holding the record for completing it or something on FAH. Good times.
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