Psychologists have looked at many aspects of lying, but only a small amount of the work has studied whether men and women tell different types of lies.
To help set the record straight, it is time for a fun project. If you are female, briefly describe the last big lie you told below. As with the confession posts last week, do remember to make sure that your post is anonymous!
I will then compare the lies reported by men and women and see what we get.
Ok, so what was your last big lie?
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September 22, 2009 at 7:00 am |
I told someone who asked to borrow money that I had none.
September 22, 2009 at 7:00 am |
I told my mom that I dont smoke weed.
September 22, 2009 at 7:01 am |
i pulled a sicky from work so i could recover from a night investigating the paranormal….hehe.
September 22, 2009 at 7:06 am |
I told someone else’s child that the local police helicopter has a camera on the bottom that emails pictures of naughty kids straight to Santa.
Used it on my eldest and now on my 5 year old. Works wonders!
September 22, 2009 at 7:06 am |
I didnt tell my sister that I went somewhere with our cousins
September 22, 2009 at 7:07 am |
I told a friend I was busy cos my children don’t like her children and didn’t want to go to her party
September 22, 2009 at 7:11 am |
At my gran’s 90th birthday party, I told her when asked that our cats were fine even though one of them had been hit by a car and passed away the previous night. I couldn’t ruin her day
September 22, 2009 at 7:12 am |
I went to a horribly boring party recently, and told the hostess that we’d had a lovely time and we’d definitely come again soon
September 22, 2009 at 7:12 am |
I work a part time job which required me to attend a meeting on a Monday morning at an office that was a long drive away. My boss knew I was working a full time job previously, and I still haven’t told my boss that I quit the full time job two months ago.
I lied and told my boss I couldn’t attend the meeting because I had work at my full-time job scheduled.
September 22, 2009 at 7:19 am |
When the subject of alcohol consumption comes up, I consistently lie to my psychologist. I certainly don’t have an alcohol problem, but I strongly get the impression that he’s against even occasional binges and will start blaming being pissed the odd time on some of the issues about which I see him.
I also have kept from him – not specificially lied, but deliberately witheld – information on some of my psychoses from him. I rationalise this on the grounds that this is more the foray of my psychiatrist, but really I’m probably just scared that he’ll make some sort of negative judgement on me (even though rationally I know that’s unlikely).
Transference anyone? Bleugh!
September 22, 2009 at 7:21 am |
I recently told someone I’m dating that I wasn’t being deliberately busy… Have no idea how to tell this very nice, very funny and kind man that I just don’t fancy him!
I wish my lie was a bit better! I once didn’t deny that I was Konnie Huq and got a free cheeseburger (true story)
September 22, 2009 at 7:24 am |
I told my mom that I stayed home from school because I was sick. Really, I had just been dumped and was too upset to do work.
September 22, 2009 at 7:34 am |
It’s kind of a long story, but I ended up attending a meeting to get a better perspective on a certain issue. It turned out that the meeting was organizational, not informational, and that it was assumed that I would do some of the work to promote a cause. Since I do sympathize with the cause, I feel bad that I am going to do this, but I know that I will likely lie in order to get out of doing the work. Although I am not busy yet, this would be a bad time to get too involved in something that takes up a lot of my time later on.
September 22, 2009 at 7:38 am |
I have for years told people that I have an allergic reaction to alcohol. I don’t drink, but often go out with groups of people who may be drinking; it is SO much simpler to say there’s a physical reason for not partaking than to explain my own personal reasons. And it also keeps others from feeling self-conscious about drinking in front of me (since they assume I’m not drinking because I have “a problem”).
September 22, 2009 at 7:40 am |
I had to think for at least 10 minutes before I remembered a lie!
As I was thinking, I was also considering what exactly people define as a lie, or a big lie. Personally, I think that nót telling something can feel as a lie (or at least as cheating) when as a result someone else believes something that you know is not true. However, I don’t think it actually ís a lie.
Now, I don’t lie very often, but I keep silent about something I don’t want others to know sometimes. The last lie I could think of is of this kind, but here it feels more like a lie than normally, because in this case someone else lied for me and I kept my mouth shut.
For my study, I was going on a seminar and everyone had to prepare a short presentation in advance. I didn’t have time to do so. But the girl I was to work together with told me she’d make the presentation and we could say we did it together. And so she did. Now, I never said I worked on the presentation, but she did. And the teacher never questioned it.
September 22, 2009 at 7:40 am |
I told a friend I don’t like very much that I was too busy to give her a lift, when I just didn’t want to give her a lift … sorry that was pathetic!
September 22, 2009 at 7:43 am |
I told my PhD supervisor that I had family stuff on yesterday so I could take the day off.
September 22, 2009 at 7:48 am |
i told my family i was fine and just having routine tests when i knew they were tsting me for ms
September 22, 2009 at 7:50 am |
i told my family i was just having routine follow up tests when they were actually testing me for ms
September 22, 2009 at 7:56 am |
Told my husband I was going to my friends & went to see an old ‘flame’ instead. Done it a few times.
September 22, 2009 at 8:00 pm
flirting with disaster…
September 22, 2009 at 7:58 am |
I told a cold caller who was trying to sell me electricity that my supply had been cut off for non-payment and if his company was prepared to reinstate my supply I would be delighted but would still not be able to afford to pay my bills.
September 22, 2009 at 8:02 am |
I lied to my boss (by phone), that I’m sick when I wasn’t cos I had to get a day off from work and coudn’t arrange it other way.
September 22, 2009 at 8:06 am |
I told my boss that my second (and last) day of jury duty lasted the whole day, when I was really released at 11:30.
September 22, 2009 at 8:08 am |
i believe any lie big or small are just as bad. i dont lie to my partner or keep things from my partner at all (believe me or not but i know how much it hurts to be lied to) last lie ive told is to my health visitor to say that i think the depression has lifetd
September 22, 2009 at 8:13 am |
I told my granny I was fine when I was ill.
September 22, 2009 at 8:17 am |
I want to lie just to participate!!
September 22, 2009 at 8:19 am |
I don’t mind anyone knowing this is me because the event in question is over. I lied to my parents and a couple friends that I would be going to the NECSS conference with a group of people and not just one lone guy I met online. Yeah, only went with my skeptic friend from the internet. All went well, he wasn’t a psycho.
September 22, 2009 at 8:36 am |
It’s okay.
September 22, 2009 at 8:52 am |
I really can’t remember a very big lie, or many little ones! I told my mum I’d borrowed her computer speakers because I was using them to find wedding music for her, when I was really just using them cos I wanted music and sound in general. ??!! That’s the best I can do! How boring…
September 22, 2009 at 8:52 am |
I told a friend I didn’t really fancy one of our best friends…oopss
September 22, 2009 at 9:13 am |
Told my boss a distant relative had died so I didn’t have to go to work for 2 days! Im so wrong. In my defence this job is so awful it gives me migranes all the time! Needed time away
September 22, 2009 at 9:17 am |
I really try not to lie at all, but when my mum asks me about how far I’ve come with my Uni term papers and I always say I’m really working hard on it. I rarely am. Miost of the time I’m surfing the Internet, messaging with freinds, reading books not connected to my studies or watching films. So she always thinks I work way more than I actually do. But I’m really just very lazy and can’t motivate myself to work. So I always have to do anything last-minute.
September 22, 2009 at 9:27 am |
I told the neurologist that the last time I’d smoked pot was 3 years ago when it had actually only been 6 months.
September 22, 2009 at 9:43 am |
I don’t think I make very many Big Lies. Last might be this winter, when I phoned in to work and told my boss I had “something horrid and viral” when actually I had just given myself near hypothermia while snowboarding. I couldn’t face telling him I’d brought my illness on myself!
September 22, 2009 at 9:48 am |
I cheated on my ex right after we got back together after a long split, he asked if I was seeing anyone when we were apart and I said no (so in a way I did tell the truth).
September 22, 2009 at 9:49 am |
I told a taxi driver on Saturday night that I was doing a phd in genetics (I’m a graphic designer) and used the plot of Deep Blue Sea to explain how I was using sharks to research Alzheimer’s Disease.
I was under the influence of quite a bit of alcohol at this time.
I think he bought it!
September 22, 2009 at 10:15 am |
I told my friend that I loved a present she bought for me, but I threw it in the bin when I got home.
September 22, 2009 at 10:15 am |
Some boy came up to me at the mall and called me James, when I said I wasn’t James he asked what school I went to. I gave the name of a co-ed school instead of my all-girls school because I didn’t want him to realise I was a girl.
(To the person who lied to the cold-caller: How did you explain that your phone was working without power?)
September 22, 2009 at 1:33 pm
SemiColon:
Traditional POTS phone lines work just fine without power. That’s how we contact the power company when our block loses power.
September 22, 2009 at 10:45 am |
inb4 guys posing as gals in comments
September 22, 2009 at 10:49 am |
I told my husband that I was ready to get married.
September 22, 2009 at 10:59 am |
I lied to mother about my being ill. I didn’t want her to worry.
September 22, 2009 at 11:04 am |
I told him I didn’t have sex with my friend.
September 22, 2009 at 11:11 am |
I said I didn’t have a bottom bunk
September 22, 2009 at 11:12 am |
I told my son I buried our wee dead hamster in the garden….he went in the bin. He’d be devasteted if he knew. Jeez I feel bad.
September 22, 2009 at 11:13 am |
I tell my fiance that i like his hairstyle- honestly though, i just want to cut it better again
September 22, 2009 at 11:18 am |
My parents think i study heaps and go to university all the time D: really i skip classes and do my assignments at the last minute, also they dont know i already failed 2 classes. They pay for my uni fees too
September 22, 2009 at 11:18 am |
I met my boyfriend online, and have been dating for 3 years even though he lives halfway across the country. My parents don’t know that he’s never even been to this state. In fact, they think that he used to live in the next town over and that’s how I met him.
September 22, 2009 at 11:20 am |
My lies are pretty much always to cover up my laziness. Most recent one was probably that I did loads of useful things with my weekend, when infact I mostly browsed the internet and watched start trek episodes.
September 22, 2009 at 11:20 am |
I lied by omission. My sister said she went away on a mini vacation break but she really went to get an abortion.
September 22, 2009 at 11:20 am |
i told a friend that i really enjoyed her party but actually it was really boring
September 22, 2009 at 11:23 am |
I said I had sex with my last partner’s brother. I didn’t. But I didn’t want to break up with him just because I was bored with him (which I was…) I wanted him to have a reason to not like me anymore… because he was way way way too involved with me…. Oh yeah, this act also brought the brothers closer somehow… I don’t know why… but there was a silver lining to this scenario. I’m happy, he’s happy… we’re both fine…
September 22, 2009 at 11:26 am |
I told a friend that we really enjoyed her party and had a fantastic time when in fact it was really boring.
I also lie all the time to my husband about my sciatica, I tell him it’s not as painful as it actually is, however I’m such a bad liar he always knows!
September 22, 2009 at 11:31 am |
i lied this morning…i told someone my husband was away and thats why the big pile of garden cuttings is still outside my back door. hes not away, just too lazy to clear it lol
September 22, 2009 at 11:31 am |
i also told my husband that my mum is paying for a hotel room when we go see Derren Brown, shes not, i just dont want to drive all the way home afterwards lol!
September 22, 2009 at 11:32 am |
There is a very contentious issue going on in a professional organization, and I have people from opposing sides calling me [to be sure, I'm at the edge of the situation myself, but know a lot of the players].
I have been extremely selective in letting people know who has talked with me and what they’ve said. In one case, it involved anonymous comments on an online forum and one of my interlocutors was guessing as to the identity of one commenter [he was way way off. I know the guy, and he's not of the stature this guy was thinking]. For the most part, I’ve been playing ignorant, because these sides aren’t talking to each other, they have no clue what I know.
It’s more a lie of omission than commission. I prefer deception where I just let a misimpression stand, because that requires a lot less work, and I don’t have to remember any details about anything.
September 22, 2009 at 11:34 am |
I told my boss I can’t work the evening shift today because of a family event. I’m really going to be interviewing for a job with better pay.
September 22, 2009 at 11:35 am |
I blew friends off on my birthday because I didn’t feel like making anything of it & would’ve rather just been with my boyfriend. My iphone was frozen for a while, so I had a perfect escape.. then it started working again, but I just told two friends my phone wasn’t working all night. it’s not really a big lie.
September 22, 2009 at 11:51 am |
i told my parents that my 8am tute was cancelled, im just too lazy to get up that damn early!
September 22, 2009 at 11:52 am |
I told my mum I had rang up Universities to check if there were any spaces left on their courses. I had done no such thing, and have no intention of doing so.
September 22, 2009 at 12:05 pm |
Told my friends I didn’t go to school because I was ill. In fact, I’m fine but don’t want to go cause I have a big spot on my nose.
September 22, 2009 at 12:13 pm |
I told my Mum she couldn’t come down to see me because I would be in London for the day when I wasn’t
September 22, 2009 at 12:24 pm |
I told my mom that I have never smoke a cigarette. (I am 19)
September 22, 2009 at 12:40 pm |
I lied to someone about having an eating disorder that I never had, to excuse the fact that I’m overweight.
September 22, 2009 at 12:41 pm |
I am moving back to university soon and told my regular part-time job there that I was still doing my summer job at home (I’m not) so I didn’t have to start back yet and do the hour long train journey to get there :S
September 22, 2009 at 12:41 pm |
I can’t remember any big lie..
Usually I don’t lie I just don’t tell entirely everything (while people think I do).
It was really boring when some days ago my dad told me the same story as two weeks ago. I don’t like when he is repeating himself but I’m afraid he wouldn’t take the fact he’s forgetful easily.
Oh, and I’ve said to my parents that my employer don’t have part-time job opportunities and I’ll have to study hard this year so I won’t ask my director to continue my job contract. Honestly, I just want to wait and look for more interesting job. I believe I can find one but I hate when my parents worry about opportunities I missed
I usually don’t pick the stories by importance. I pick them by reactions they cause. I try to keep the right balance between good and bad things in my stories (while in my life there are far more happy moments but I hate criticisms such as “It’s good that you’re happy but don’t be too relaxed. You have to worry about your future.”)
September 22, 2009 at 12:53 pm |
I told a friend I couldn’t make lunch because I was short of cash, when really I just didn’t want to go.
September 22, 2009 at 12:54 pm |
I went for a bite to eat with a very good friend at Nandos and for some strange reason didn’t want to admit I’d never been before! She asked me how spicey I usually have the chicken and I was just like “oh the medium”. What is wrong with me??! :S Lol!
September 22, 2009 at 1:06 pm |
I lie to my 3-y.o. by giving her fantastic reasons why she should do what I want or don’t want her to do. Behave or Santa Clause won’t bring you toys is the latest oldie but goodie.
September 25, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Another good one is to say the ice cream van only plays music when it has run out of ice cream
September 22, 2009 at 1:07 pm |
I dont mind people knowing this is me so here you go: I tell my parents I go out with my friend Roisin every Tuesday and Saturday when in fact I am seeing my ex, who they hate and I am too scared to tell them! I’m 23!!
September 22, 2009 at 1:09 pm |
I gave a beggar the impression that i didn’t speak his language and couldn’t understand what he was asking for
September 22, 2009 at 1:29 pm |
I always told people, as my weight hovered around 100 lbs at 5’4 that I was just naturally slender, and it was difficult for me to gain weight. I told doctors, when queried about my eating habits “I eat when I’m hungry.” which would always stave off their questions, too. I kind of wish one had asked me how often that was.
All those things are true, I do have a slight build (think 3.5 ring size), it was difficult for me to gain weight despite my efforts, and I did eat when I was hungry (and often when I wasn’t) but what I left out is that I was depressed to the point of having no appetite. In fact, there were times when the idea of eating made me feel ill. If I was in the middle of eating and something happened or was said that made me sad or angry, I’d be unable to finish. I could go 24 or more hours before suddenly realizing how long it had been since I’d last eaten. I often had to force myself to eat because I knew I should, not because I felt any actual drive to do so. When I hit 100 lbs, I really started regimenting this and got up to 107 by the time I figured and worked things out. I tend between 115 and 120 now and am happy with that.
I was so worried that people would confuse me for Anorexic (body image was one of the few problems I didn’t have), and so afraid of burdening people with my own seemingly pathetic problems, that I just wouldn’t give the real reason for my thinness.
September 22, 2009 at 1:41 pm |
I told my housemates I was going out for a long bike ride when actually I was going to a Mensa meeting and was too embarrassed/ashamed to let them know.
September 22, 2009 at 2:32 pm |
If you’re asking for a BIG lie, that is already going to influence what we tell you is the type of lie we told. Maybe women tell less big lies and more fibs.
September 22, 2009 at 2:50 pm |
A friend that I am realizing I don’t particularly like treated me really badly last week. She emailed and phoned and wanted to make sure everything was alright and apologized for her behaviour (a pattern with her, again, I am realizing). When she said: “I just want to make sure we are okay and that we’ll still be friends”, I said “Of course we are”, when really I know I am going to do everything in my power to limit my exposure to her.
September 22, 2009 at 2:55 pm |
I told the Greenpeace guy on the street corner that I didn’t have time to stop because I was heading back to work even though I wasn’t.
September 22, 2009 at 3:02 pm |
I told my boyfriend that it doesn’t hurt me that he isn’t ready to commit yet.
September 22, 2009 at 3:24 pm |
I lied to everyone about engagement. My fiance decided that he wanted to ask my Dad’s permission *after* he’d already asked me. So I set up a fake engagement and told everyone that’s how it really happened.
September 22, 2009 at 3:32 pm |
I was heading out with some girls on Saturday night. It was unplanned as it was supposed to be a girls’ night in. I told one girl that she looked awesome cute because she didn’t want to borrow my sister’s clothes and change before we went out. She would have looked better had she changed, but she wasn’t going to, so I said she looked perfect as is.
September 22, 2009 at 4:24 pm |
I said I worked really hard on uni stuff over the weekend, when I didn’t, but I’d turned down 3 different invitations in order to write this essay. I wanted them to think that I turned them down for a reason – and I did turn them down for the essay (it wasn’t just an excuse), it just takes me a while to get into writing again after a break.
September 22, 2009 at 4:41 pm |
I told someone I was out of the country and wouldn’t be able to come in for a meeting.
September 22, 2009 at 4:49 pm |
I told someone I didn’t feel like going out because I was going out that same evening with someone else.
September 22, 2009 at 5:22 pm |
I told someone I might have been naughty, when I knew damned well I had been naughty.
September 22, 2009 at 6:01 pm |
I cheat on my husband constantly and lie so I won’t get caught. I gave my husband an STD and denied that it was from me.
I love my husband, but it is so exciting to have different men. I feel bad, but then it feels sooooo good.
September 22, 2009 at 6:27 pm |
I told my tutor I’d been in hospital to get a deadline extension.
September 22, 2009 at 6:36 pm |
when college friends saw me crying, i told them that my grandmother was in ICU. I didn’t want them to know my boyfriend had dumped me.
September 22, 2009 at 6:40 pm |
There was a guy I had more than fancied for a couple of years. At one stage I told him how I felt, but it wasn’t reciprocated. I held out hope for another year and a half (maybe he just didn’t want a long distance relationship?). One day on the phone he started talking about getting together at the end of the year. It sounded like he was interested, so I confronted him again. He didn’t mean as a relationship, he meant just travelling together. My lie was that I told him I hadn’t thought about him in that way for a long time, that was why I was confused, when in fact I had still been hoping for something all along.
That’s the biggest recent lie I can think of. Though I’m over him now and we’re still good friends
September 22, 2009 at 6:43 pm |
I told my mother that I had an ovarian cyst removed when I had an abortion because I just didn’t want to deal with explaining it to her. I have since publicly announced it, and if she ever bothered to read my blog (that I have given her the url to), she’d find out about it too.
September 22, 2009 at 6:53 pm |
I am an awful, awful person.
Today ALONE I told the following lies…
Pretended the house was a mess because I was working late a lot ( I am, but last night I was main lining West Wing and could at least have but my dishes in the dishwasher)
Told my Gran the doorbell went so I could get off the phone (I don’t watch Corrie, I have never watched Corrie, why is she so invested in making me listen to the plot up-dates)
Wished someone well with an interview when I am secretly hopeing they don’t get it as I think they will try really hard but do a rubbish job.
Denied pulling that bank job even though my mattress is bulging with cash (made that one up because I am so boreing it’s a shame)
There. I would be going to hell if it existed.
September 22, 2009 at 7:00 pm |
I lied to my mom about dating my roommate. I am. She thinks I am. I tell her I’m not. She’ll eventually find out.
September 22, 2009 at 7:41 pm |
I regularly lie about my nationality. Ladies’ tennis, no-one on the team will see forty again, piddling local league, but we’re not allowed two foreigners on the team (laughable). It would in theory be possible to get one of us ‘neutralised’ (apparently no medical procedure necessary), but it’s easier to pretend.
September 22, 2009 at 7:56 pm |
last lie was that i didn’t have an extra cigarette, when in fact i did… well, actually it wasn’t “extra”, i need them all, so never mind.
September 22, 2009 at 8:38 pm |
I told the people at my current temping job that they are a great bunch of people and I will be sorry to leave next week so that I would get a good reference. Truth is they are a hideous bunch of back-stabbers whom I have no intention of keeping in touch with and I am counting the minutes until I leave.
September 22, 2009 at 10:24 pm |
I told a friend that I had this amazing life, filled with excitement, back in college. I totally enjoyed “spilling” the details, making it up along the way.
September 22, 2009 at 10:43 pm |
I told a couple of muggers, one of which I knew from helping paint my apartment, who had gained access to my apt. on the pretext of making repairs, who had bashed my head against the wall and proceeded to throttle me, demanding to know “Where’s the money?” that I didn’t have any [none for THEM--true], and that I’d made a payphone call to the realestate guy who’d rented the place to me who they were supposedly to have been sent by to complain that he (the one I knew by first name) was late (He’d cased the apt. the day before, supposedly to find out what repairs I wanted.) for the appt. we’d made the day before, thus leaving taped evidence, if I was killed, that I had been expecting him just before my death. I was in shock at the time, but I suspected that someone who knew I knew who he was and could ID him was unlikely to leave me alive afterwards unless I could convince him that he would get caught.
Yesterday I participated in a Yes Men action, distributing a satirical (i.e. fake, although the news was all true) edition of the NYPost, hawking it as a “Free NY Post!” and “Special Climate-change Edition”, if you consider that a Big Lie. It’s the only “lie” (legpulling practical joke) I’ve told since the other one, and again, it was in an effort to save lives.
September 22, 2009 at 11:43 pm |
I keep telling my mum that I gave her back her back card weeks ago and she’s still looking for it…I’m a student so I need the cash! But I feel bad about it so I keep buying her presents with her own money…which probably just makes it worse!
September 23, 2009 at 1:44 am |
When my Mum wondered why I hadn’t answered my home phone for a few days, I told her I had been out a lot. Really I had unplugged the phone at the times she usually calls, because I’m fed up of her phoning the whole time.
September 23, 2009 at 1:57 am
Not a recent one, but similar – a female relative asked me for my phone number at a family funeral, so we could keep in touch. I can’t stand the woman, so I lied: for an obscure reason, I had a small TV remote control in my handbag. I got it out and said “Oh my god! I picked up my remote control instead of my phone, how stupid!”, and pretended that I didn’t know my own mobile number. She bought it but then told the entire family I’d brought my remote control by mistake.
September 23, 2009 at 2:36 am |
I let my friends to think that I was still employed, while I have been unemployed for a year.
September 24, 2009 at 7:50 am
My ex-sister-in-law actually got away with leading her entire family on to believe that her daughter was still in high school for an entire year. Turned out her daughter had slipped through the cracks in the system when they were moving from one district to another and neither school would take her as a student. That might be a lie, too? :-/
September 23, 2009 at 3:29 am |
I lied about where I was born, for no particular reason, I haven’t even been to that country.
September 23, 2009 at 4:27 am |
My lies are mostly by omission. I don’t say things that are untrue, but I don’t tell my husband things I should really tell him.
September 23, 2009 at 10:48 am |
I have not told my therapist, whom I am seeing for low sex drive and fear of sex, that I have a second boyfriend with whom I do have a good sex life. Now, my main relationship is open and my primary boyfriend does know about the other, but I have not told any of this to my therapist. Instead, I tell her that I am no longer afraid of sex (which is true), but that my sex life is slow due to libido-inhibiting drugs that my boyfriend is taking (which is true – of my primary boyfriend!). I fear that she will judge me for taking on a second boyfriend when I am having sexual problems in my primary relationship, even though it is completely consensual.
September 23, 2009 at 12:38 pm |
A woman I don’t like so much asked if we could come to dinner on Friday. I said I would check with my husband and get back to her, but I didn’t, and didn’t show up either. Felt bad.
September 23, 2009 at 12:50 pm |
Can’t remember. I normally dont make up lies or stories, I do tell people not everything at times (some dont understand the result in someone’s words .. dont understand that it would take a very long time to explain to them the why’s and such). What is big, another thing .. what is big to the other, is small to yourself perhaps, or not even a lie. Where you come from is quite important (who you are). It’s a bit too complex at times to give a simple answer, but I can honestely say that I fail to remember a big lie. I am quiet honest in my words, and that confuses a whole lot of people .. they look for emotion .. and if you dont show them but tell about them or about your visions .. that confuses the hell out of a lot of people who still adapt from their (in their eyes) normal self. Normal selfes dont come from the same place all the time. If I am honest, it might be not being honest for someone else if they would see to the same system as me, and vice versa. The tiny spot deep inside is the life of others, some lived from that spot, built thereselves from there.
I once wondered too .. why they didn’t see it normally .. WHY?! Pretty annoyed .. curious … I discovered why .. we are not the same, did not start out the same way.
Erm .. I love life .. that is, now, my latest biggest lie I told someone … here .. a few seconds ago .. (and I wont continue telling people that .. they think I do though .. quite often … weird huh?!).
September 23, 2009 at 12:56 pm |
To avoid reproach from my family for leaving my job to start my own company, I said I’d been made redundant.
September 23, 2009 at 1:20 pm |
I routinely tell telemarketers and the like that call my home and ask for me that I’m not there, because they don’t know me – especially if they can’t pronounce my name correctly.
September 23, 2009 at 2:50 pm |
last week I told a friend I couldn’t go with her and the rest of my class to the cinema, because I had to finish some ethics homework. what I did later (and had planned from the beginning) was not ethics but meeting my boyfriend. thought, he’d be more important than anything with my classteacher I would see this week anyway
September 23, 2009 at 5:43 pm |
I told my parents that C was having a parentally chaperoned sleepover. I told my parents that we ended up at J’s house at about 10.30. I told my parents that we got given a lift to J’s by C’s grandparents. I told my parents that I didn’t drink anything. I told my parents that we had to leave C’s because C’s step-dad’s stalker was outside and it was safer elsewhere. I told my parents that we didn’t go near the stalker. I told my parents the stalker was no big deal.
C was having a ‘Skins’ themed sleepover when his parents were away becuase they didn’t know. We ended to at J’s house at around 1. We were made to have a lift from C’s uncle. I drank. We had to leave C’s because his grandparents threw us out when they saw how drunk B was and how much mess we’d made. We went outside and shouted at the stalker. Becuase of the stalker the police were phoned and we had to hide the bottles and bottles of alcohol incase they came in the room we were in.
September 23, 2009 at 7:14 pm |
The last lie I can think of was…I told someone I would hang out with them when I knew I was going to cancel the next day.
September 23, 2009 at 11:13 pm |
Well, I lied to my dad on Monday when he called and asked where I was. I was at my friends’ house because they set up a surprise cheer-up party for me because I was having family problems and they knew. I told my dad that instead I was out at the shops, looking for a particular CD, because I didn’t think he’d approve of me being with my friends so soon after a domestic.
September 24, 2009 at 7:47 am |
I recently told my boyfriend that I paid only half of what I really paid for an item. That’s actually a norm.
September 24, 2009 at 9:56 pm
me too! I aaaalways lie about things prices… everything is so much cheaper in my world : P
September 24, 2009 at 2:43 pm |
I told my cousin that my car had a flat tire so that I didn’t have to go to a family event I had previously said I would attend.
September 24, 2009 at 4:07 pm |
I lied about a paradoxical posting that I made to a blog. I also lied in that I’m not female.
September 24, 2009 at 9:20 pm |
I lied that I was busy when I wasn’t.
I think i lie alot, but I don’t make up big lies (or I try not to)
People would try (and probably suceed) to find out if it were an important thing.
September 25, 2009 at 1:41 pm |
I went for a job interview the other week and when I was asked where I went I said I’d had an appointment (and made it sound medical related). I’ve since got the job and am until I get my official letter before I resign. I’m also waiting until I go on a training course because otherwise they may not let me on it!
Biggest lie I’ve ever told by omission:
A few years ago I cheated on my boyfriend with my best friend. She was engaged and this went on for a few years. The only reason it finished was because her fiancee found a letter I’d written to her. She went back to him and I know she’s not as happy as she could be….I’m now seeing someone else (female), but I think I’m still in love with her over a year later. She’s not allowed to see me but seeing as we lilve about 200 miles apart now it’s not likely we’ll bump into each other.
September 25, 2009 at 1:48 pm |
My classmate asked me if I was going home.
I told her I was going to a movie because I didn’t want to do her the favour (I knew she was going to ask for one)
September 26, 2009 at 12:33 am |
I think i’m a great liar, only when it’s appropriate to do so of course
I told my uncle and aunt who were meant to be staying over for a few day’s that i had swine flu. I even managed to sound ill on the phone telling them this by exposing myself to things that make me allergic (dust) I sounded awful on the phone (sneezing etc..) How could they not believe that! Reason i lied -> I wanted to have two duvet day’s
Does that make me a bad person?
Diane x
September 26, 2009 at 2:31 am |
During my yearly evaluation at work, I told them that I would be thrilled to advance in the company when, in actuality, I was planning to go to the UK on a 2 year work visa in 2 months…
I did give them a months notice though, which was twice the 2 weeks required, so yay me!!
September 28, 2009 at 8:07 am |
In a form to get a new work I wrote I have worked 4 years in a job I never had experimented.
September 28, 2009 at 9:03 pm |
I told my husband that I ‘forgot’ to sign some papers, but I didn’t really forget. I just don’t want him to get the loan against our house and get us into debt again. Sadly, he’s proven he cannot be trusted with large sums of money.
September 29, 2009 at 8:06 am |
told boyf i had not contacted old boyf from 20 years ago on internet social site!
October 7, 2009 at 8:24 pm |
Most of my lies involve pretending I have some kind of social life. Reading some of these lies, I’m probably better off without one.
October 8, 2009 at 1:54 pm |
i lied to my fiance when i told him i’d be busy tonight. he wants us both to go meet his friends and i’m not into meeting new people and couldn’t bother less.
January 21, 2010 at 10:29 am |
I was with a man for 1.75 years. Lived with him, had his child, and never once enjoyed sex with him. he never caught on. Not surprising.
April 30, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
i told my church teacher tht i was raped before in the church