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How annoying are people who over exaggerate their stories?

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bitchassphatz
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I find this very, very annoying. Who has a crazy story about getting coffee, retrieving the newspaper, or a ton weird phobias?

I met a person today and they would not stop over exaggerating their stories to sound more interesting or to tie into a previous lie. Eventually conversation became a game of catching her in the embellishments. i didn't even care about carry conversation, I wasand more focused on disecting her responses to questions. Every story was something of an extreme, 'terrified of bugs! on time i was watching aracnaphobia and a spider landed on my face!' 'i road trip everywhere with my room mate on week ends and such, im so random! (this was funny when i asked about where she went, i think she went on one road trip, cuz then a couple moments for thought came and family vacation from her youth came up.)', when comparing concepts of time for travel on certain trips i've drove myself and she had as well. she made it in half the time doing 20 miles faster than i did (me: 90 where possible. her: 115-120 where possilbe.), which was an obvious lie. who drives 115mph everwhere? in addition to that she got great gas milage at 115mph, so they didn't have to stop as much and that was the reasoning for me taking so long, like it took a couple of hours to pump my gas. lie after lie after lie!

this was my first ns.com member to meet in real life and holy crap that was interesting one of the weirdest social interactions i've evr encountered. i wish i was taking psycology for that one.

it reminds me of that dane cook sit. if you haven't heard it, check it out. 'Dane Cook - Exaggerating GF/Bachelor' off of the album 'Retaliation: Need'. check it out fucking funny.
Jul 25 2006 2:24PM
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skiierman
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That sucks dude. People like that are wicked annoying and just pisses me off. Just reading your story makes me mad haha.
Jul 25 2006 2:32PM
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skifree919
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wow you must be bad at pumping gas! (sarcasm meter) But I have a friend like that, he exaggerates every god damn thing he does just to sound sweet. He one time told my friends and I that he had tried every drug, even heroin, lsd ect ect, and then a week ago he contradicted himself. Then he gets distracted and talks about how much poland rules (hes polish obviously) and how stupid ALL israelis are and how they deserve to die. The funny thing is, he is insanely naturally smart, but if you ever met him you would think hes retarded
Jul 25 2006 2:33PM
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freezed
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hahah...I love that Dane Cook skit.

"If I were to guesstimate...I would say there were a THOUSAND. of US."
Jul 25 2006 2:42PM
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bitchassphatz
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hahahaha i found the skit. some weird kid is doing it. but the sound is accurate.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wMWgqFs42jU&search=dane%20cook%20exaggerating%20gf
Jul 25 2006 2:46PM
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miss_hevern87
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whatever mercer, i drive 180 miles an hour everywhere in my car AND i get 1000000 miles to teh gallon, plus it only takes me seven seconds to refuel because of my pit crew that follows me on all of my journeys. but the spider thing, one time i saw a hobo eat a brown recluse. and that is true. hahahaha ski instructors.
Jul 25 2006 2:48PM
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Calb3rt
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"one time i was listening to the heavey meatal death band from scandanavia and tehy were really good..... but my friend told me that the lead signer was a canable and ate the other memebers....and then he made a neclace out aof their ribs. i'm serious"
Jul 25 2006 2:51PM
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bitchassphatz
Posts: 6171 - Karma: 107
yeah people should start posting the rediculous shit they've been told. lets hear some great lies.


but so this post is useful:
im searching for dane cook skits.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=crKhfR1DAL4&search=dane%20cook%20not%20so%20kool
Jul 25 2006 2:56PM
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J.Bass
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who was it?
Jul 25 2006 2:59PM
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bitchassphatz
Posts: 6171 - Karma: 107
haha maybe they'll 'fess up, but i don't wanna say their name. they're online right now and i'm pretty sure they read this thread.

sorry, but you know you did that shit. next time be yourself when you meet a stranger.
Jul 25 2006 3:09PM
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bitchassphatz
Posts: 6171 - Karma: 107
if you wanna make it a game. hints: female, boulder.
Jul 25 2006 3:11PM
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J.Bass
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nichole?
Jul 25 2006 3:11PM
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J.Bass
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i hate that shit. one of my buddies does it all the time. ive learned to just laugh it off and it doesnt really bug me anymore.
Jul 25 2006 3:17PM
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Elijah.
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I pretty much agree with everything you say there, because one of my good friends has taken to lying about everything, so no one ever believes that sucker.

Jul 25 2006 3:20PM
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twix_182
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i usually say the what happened then say someting like "and then this huge squirrel came after me with his gang buddies, they surrounded me holding their wiffle ball bats and came for me. i then used my kung fu and killed all of them"
Jul 25 2006 3:24PM
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Download-My-Apps
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yeah i have a friends that lies all the time.

he told me he went skiing in Jasper and whistler over one spring break.

He said that he flew to whistler from my town, and skied. The drove to Jasper, I asked him how long it took, he told me 3 hours! For those of you who dont know where jasper is its in alberta, so im sorry it would take much longer to drive across all of BC.

He also told me he was staying in the same hotel I had stayed at. I asked him if he spent much time in the pool. He just said "nah I spent most of the night going to the hotel gym." Truth be told the hotel didnt have a gym. I never pointed it out so I wouldnt embarass him, i just didnt understand the point of all his lying.
Jul 25 2006 3:34PM
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bitchassphatz
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why lie when you can relate to the truth and continue conversation.
Jul 25 2006 3:37PM
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yellav
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my little brother used to have a big problem with that. he used to lie his ass off for no reason other then to look cool. but now me and my friends beat his ass every time he lies and hes kind of stopped at least im beating ihm up for a reason i fucking hate liars. why would you lie? and with no legitimate reason whatsoever?i never lie. ever. to my parents anything. there is absolutely no point in lieing. dumbest shit ever.
Jul 25 2006 4:10PM
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nichole
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yeah, i fucked up today and i think that its better for people to know what a lying sack of shit i was today. I am going to work on it, I just wish I could make it up to them cause I don't think that's the kind of person I am, nor that i want people to think I am... but he's right. I had the basic story but i dramatized it. No excuses, I was a dipshit. Thanks for telling me so. Since we already talked, you don't have to say anything... just thought that I would confess.
Jul 25 2006 4:23PM
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skifree919
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^very noble of you
Jul 25 2006 4:25PM
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jibsworth
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I hate any exaggerations, even when people say stuff like "its a million degrees outside," just make a rough estimate or think of a better way to describe the heat.
Jul 25 2006 4:41PM
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Jessbuff
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AHA, I know a few of those people. Actually one in particular. He get's his lying abilities from his Dad. It's funny seeing them interact because they are both trying to out-bluff the other. Very entertaining.
Jul 25 2006 5:09PM
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Jessbuff
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and i meant to add that it is fair game to embelish any story or personal statistic by up to 5%. Over which point it is called douchbaggery and people should call them out on it.
Jul 25 2006 5:11PM
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asac
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"i swear to god dane there were like a thousand firefighters!"

"NO THERE WAS NOT. Who calls a thousand fire fighters?! They'd all be out there bumping into each other like 'Who called a thousand of us?! Is anyone on the hoses?!'"
Jul 25 2006 5:39PM
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Melvs
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Christopher, I want to meet you sometime so I can tell you about my travels through Luxenberg from the summer of  '81.  Maybe after we can have some drinks back at my place, you at all interested?
Jul 25 2006 6:45PM
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Grimace.
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i have met a few people from ns and they all have storys, but non are that exagerated.
michelles are the best
Jul 25 2006 6:46PM
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Redstar
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No there was NOT! That's way too many firefighters. They'd all be out there bumping into each other "what the fuck are we doing out here guys!?" There's like 1000 of us. WHo called 1000 of us? Is someone on the hoses!?
Jul 25 2006 6:47PM
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Redstar
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"I get home from work today, I took like a 100 hour nap."
"no you did not. You'd be very sick if you were taking 100 hour naps. That's a coma! Say you took a coma after work, then I can follow the story"
Jul 25 2006 6:48PM
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hendrik.
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-i took like a 100 hr nap today after work
-NO YOU DIDNT! if you had, that'd be a COMA! you oculd say, i came home from work and had a coma, oh a coma? yeah, 100 hrs, oh, thats a very nice coma.
Jul 25 2006 6:50PM
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SkiCrzy
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one of my friends will tell people about his "crazy" longboarding adventures and he will lie with me right next to him........example....this happened a couple days ago-my friend was riding behind the trally-sp- and the convo went like this when we were with some of friends

him- yeah the trolly was doing about 30-35 and making these really tight turns but i held on becuase im really good at longboarding

me- he was doing 25 at the most and there are no tight turns in his route

him- well still, after everyperson i passed somebody cheered

me- no, that was only one group

him- yeah but it was still hard to hold on to but im pretty strong, you prolly couldnt do it

me- you bench 50 lbs...

this went on for a while until i gave up. he always does this so i had to call him out on it


Jul 25 2006 9:28PM
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DDrem.
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"when you talk to me i dont listen, i listen"
Jul 25 2006 9:32PM
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FUUUCK
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its FREEZING out guys (its 8 celcius)
Jul 25 2006 10:07PM
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miss_hevern87
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i actually have a penis.
Jul 26 2006 2:08AM
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wAy2sTeEzY4u
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i talk to people like that like a billion times a day
Jul 26 2006 2:26AM
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J.Bass
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oh ya, prove it.
Jul 26 2006 2:29AM
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jizack
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its true..... i was there. remember that shit lisa? it was way outta control!
Jul 26 2006 2:57AM
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CJHski
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the worst is when you are trying to tell a storie and someone interupts and just goes on about bullshit
Jul 26 2006 2:59AM
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Elijah.
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My friend told me he hit up 30x extract from salvia. I thought it was bullshit.
Jul 26 2006 3:01AM
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3ski6guy0
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dude my friends got 15 and it was crazy. 30 would be scary
Jul 31 2006 12:16AM
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bitchassphatz
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they don't even make 30. pretty sure it's 21x, then there is only one high and it's called 'triple x' or 'XXX' or some shit.
Jul 31 2006 12:30AM
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MarkieR
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this dumb trick i know told me that she was a student at columbine high school during the shootings in 1999. sounds moderately possible right? wrong. the bitch is 19 years old. that would mean that she was in high school as a 12 year old. what a fucking retard.
Jul 31 2006 12:33AM
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bitchassphatz
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yeah, im from littleton. it's amazing how many people 'knew' people in the shooting right after. people were taking weeks off from school because they were so worried! littleton is very safe, god that shit made my high school administration a joke. why would people want to be associated with that?

'oh my god, you were in columbine? you're so hard! that's street credit for real.'

definately osmething Lil G would claim.
Jul 31 2006 1:25AM
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kingarthurs
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god, this thread reminds me of the millions of myspace "passed out drunk" pics. jesus i cant help but laugh. i asked one girl about it, and if she had a mad hangover the next day and shit, and she said" o no, i felt fine, i even played a soccer game that day" haha that made me giggle.
Jul 31 2006 1:33AM
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_crakajak_
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i heard two true things today.

1. nichole is fucking awsum. and anyone who thinks otherwise has some kind of mental defect, probably caused by the combined factors of their parents being brother and sister, and that they were hit on the head with a frying pan when they were a baby.

2. bitchassphatz is a fucking wanker who has no sence of morale, and, to use a well-worn phrase, needs a bullet. or 1O. seriously hes pretty bloody sad and if someone really gives a fuck about him theyll find a nice padded room. no sharp corners either.

its funny because those are proven facts.
anyone who disagrees can seriously,
GO FUCK YOURSELF, YOUR DAD, AND YOUR DOG AGAIN.

happy holidays y'all =D
Jul 31 2006 2:07AM
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bitchassphatz
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word. i hope you didn't hear those facts when you met nicole, she might have been exaggerating how 'awsum' she was. haha
Jul 31 2006 2:33AM
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MarkieR
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this bitch is a pathological liar. i've got stories for weeks. it was sooo funny when she told me this particular story because it's sooo unplausable it's ridiculous. she must think i'm retarded.
Jul 31 2006 2:52AM
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_crakajak_
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do you really think she cares what you think?
who gives a shit if she exaggerates. if thats all it takes to piss you off you got problems.
its just a bitta fun so fuckin chill, mate. seriously just stop caring.
stop talking to her!
Jul 31 2006 3:35AM
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iskindiana
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"I took like a Hundred hour nap"
-"No you didn't, if you did, you would be very sick... thats like a coma" DANE COOK
Jul 31 2006 8:28AM
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-=koLLac=-
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I can't believe you guys are not talking about my retarded ex-girlfriend...are you sure it wasn't her?
Jul 31 2006 9:36AM
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bitchassphatz
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i told myself i wouldn't respond, but i'm tired of reading my book and im listenin to a new cd. (thanks Ski Song Cult)

so here goes:
"do you really think she cares what you think?" - no i don't, but i think you care what i think. which makes me think, why is this guy thinking about what im thinking?

"who gives a shit if she exaggerates? if thats all it takes to piss you off you got problems." - i think you give a shit that she exaggerates, you really seem to enjoy it. i think it's obvious i have some sort of mental disability, i did agree to meet her. afterward when the disability wore off, i thought "what the hell is wrong with me? i think i was just temporarly retarded.?" so i'll look into it.

"its just a bitta fun so fuckin chill, mate." - exactly, this is fun. it's just at the expense of her, which seems to make you feel unchill, mate.

"seriously just stop caring." - i'm not sure if emotions work in the same manner for kiwis as they do for americans, but to stop caring you have to start caring at one point. i might be misunderstanding what i wrote the subject of this thread about. So if i could analyze my own thoughts for a second, i might be able to extract reasoning for this thread. I think the author was relating an unusual situation he had just experienced to a famous comedian's skit. however off topic this may sound, I think you're right. people should not form their own opinions, why should we feel anything, positive or negative?

"stop talking to her!" - you have my word. i will not speak to her until i die. which shouldn't be too long and difficult as expressed through your opinions. however talking about her, oh man! i can't garantee that. i have to laugh about that experience. i'm not gonna lie, i did not expect a runner/ski instructor to be so...fat. it totally threw me off. it shocked me so hard i'm still not on. it's totally fucking with my game.
Jul 31 2006 2:04PM
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=Worf=
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yeah we got a buddy who is a one upper. anything you have done he will have done it better with a more interesting story. so we actually gave him the nickname Story
Jul 31 2006 2:07PM
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