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Post by IRS on Dec 19, 2019 21:01:12 GMT -5
It wouldn't be as long of a wait for the next GN'R album. Do you count The Spaghetti Incident? Either way, I can't believe it's been over ten years since Chinese Democracy dropped. I remember the GNR nerds here going wild waiting for that one back in the day. Since none of TSI is original material, no, not really. I guess if we're being technical, we did get an EP worth of new material this year... it just wasn't "officially" released.
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Post by vampiroporvida on Dec 20, 2019 17:10:06 GMT -5
The biggest lie is that the next year will be better than this one....it never seems to happen. #christmasblues
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Post by kennyw86v2 on Dec 21, 2019 13:28:04 GMT -5
This isnt one lie, but a series of them.
I used to work at Tyson chicken on the production line. We had a guy there that COULD NOT allow anyone to have a one up ever. He always had to top whatever was going on.
I'll call him Rob.
One guy got a speeding ticket going 85 in a 70. Well dont ya know Rob got one for 110 in a 65, AND he had to let the cop know he would beat his ass if he tried "that bullcrap".
A guy was bragging about hooking up over the weekend. Well as luck would have it, Rob had a threesome that night! With twins!
One guy talked about being a star cornerback in high school and going to D2 school. Well cool story bro, but big Rob, all 165 pounds of him, was an all American linebacker and going to Alabamaas the #1 recruit until he tore his ACL. Nevermind the fact that Alabama wasnt any good at that time, but why would he know that.
It was literally everything. You drank 8 Pepsi's, he drank 11.
It got to the point where we joked that if we said we saw a dinosaur, he would claim to have not seen it, but rode it! And fed it an apple. And that the picture was somewhere at his granny house.
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Dec 21, 2019 14:02:55 GMT -5
I have another one.
I've known this guy for years, and he was an ass when I first met him. His name is Marty Munsch. He's in his 50s & here's a list of the whoppers he's told.
He went to school with Debbie Harry from Blondie. When we told him that was impossible because of the age difference, he quickly changed it to "Debbie Harry was my babysitter".
He disappeared for 8 years because he was training to be a Navy SEAL.
It's because of him that punk rock was allowed in New York, and why the "punk scene" is still thriving.
He was the one to suggest to Lux Interior (from The Cramps) that he should get his hair cut like Frankenstein.
He owns a recording studio & has numerous connections with indie labels.
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Post by CM Poor on Dec 23, 2019 14:25:39 GMT -5
This isnt one lie, but a series of them. I used to work at Tyson chicken on the production line. We had a guy there that COULD NOT allow anyone to have a one up ever. He always had to top whatever was going on. I'll call him Rob. One guy got a speeding ticket going 85 in a 70. Well dont ya know Rob got one for 110 in a 65, AND he had to let the cop know he would beat his ass if he tried "that bullcrap". A guy was bragging about hooking up over the weekend. Well as luck would have it, Rob had a threesome that night! With twins! One guy talked about being a star cornerback in high school and going to D2 school. Well cool story bro, but big Rob, all 165 pounds of him, was an all American linebacker and going to Alabamaas the #1 recruit until he tore his ACL. Nevermind the fact that Alabama wasnt any good at that time, but why would he know that. It was literally everything. You drank 8 Pepsi's, he drank 11. It got to the point where we joked that if we said we saw a dinosaur, he would claim to have not seen it, but rode it! And fed it an apple. And that the picture was somewhere at his granny house. Hey, screech! Looks like somebody we know!
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Post by Valbroski on Dec 26, 2019 12:58:36 GMT -5
A friend I grew up with would always lie. When we were in elementary school he told us he was scouted at the mall to star in a movie. His mom ended up telling mine that it really was just some lady with a clipboard at the mall trying to get her to sign him up for acting classes. He also told me he was friends with Rey Mysterio’s nephew and Rey came to his house. He promised me an autograph 3 different times and a replica mask but obviously never delivered.
Those are the only 2 I remember clearly but it was always stupid little lies to make himself seem more interesting.
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Post by CM Poor on Dec 26, 2019 13:42:54 GMT -5
A friend I grew up with would always lie. When we were in elementary school he told us he was scouted at the mall to star in a movie. His mom ended up telling mine that it really was just some lady with a clipboard at the mall trying to get her to sign him up for acting classes. He also told me he was friends with Rey Mysterio’s nephew and Rey came to his house. He promised me an autograph 3 different times and a replica mask but obviously never delivered. Those are the only 2 I remember clearly but it was always stupid little lies to make himself seem more interesting. This always seems to be the crux of it. Sad, boring people crafting fantastical takes on reality to try and compensate for missing factors in their lives. I often feel the same way about people who'll buy conspiracy theories without a second thought, but that's a different thread.
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Post by Mongo Bears on Dec 26, 2019 16:24:11 GMT -5
Any time anyone says they know the best place there is when it comes to some type of food
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Post by The Dave on Dec 26, 2019 17:00:07 GMT -5
"That's okay, it happens to all guys."
*sigh*
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Post by Valbroski on Dec 26, 2019 18:34:03 GMT -5
A friend I grew up with would always lie. When we were in elementary school he told us he was scouted at the mall to star in a movie. His mom ended up telling mine that it really was just some lady with a clipboard at the mall trying to get her to sign him up for acting classes. He also told me he was friends with Rey Mysterio’s nephew and Rey came to his house. He promised me an autograph 3 different times and a replica mask but obviously never delivered. Those are the only 2 I remember clearly but it was always stupid little lies to make himself seem more interesting. This always seems to be the crux of it. Sad, boring people crafting fantastical takes on reality to try and compensate for missing factors in their lives. I often feel the same way about people who'll buy conspiracy theories without a second thought, but that's a different thread. Yeah and the funny thing is, I'm the most boring ing person on the planet. So for people to feel the need to over compensate for their lives to me is hysterical.
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Post by jayrod2009 on Dec 27, 2019 20:12:17 GMT -5
Biggest lie I ever heard involved me, a friend if mine, a neighbor, and her famous pro wrestling friend. She called me one day and said she was picking her friend up from the airport that was staying at her house for a few days and he was a famous pro wrestler and she said he wanted his fans to come see him. Should have taken that as a red flag, and I asked who he was. She said his name was "Big Steele". And I pretended I had heard of him and I would love to meet him. She said he was a former WCW champion and I looked his name up that night and found nothing about him. A few weeks passed and I had honestly forgotten about it when my neighbor called me and said Steele was coming in the next night. I was kind of pumped, and when time came to meet Mr.Steele, boy was I in for a treat. He was a big guy, maybe 6'6 and about 395 lbs, not the muscle kind either. He shook my hand and immediately went into his achievements. He handed me a WCW promo 8x10 of him holding the WCW world title and the bottom showed 1993. I didn't want to call him out, because I knew every champion and I have never heard of this guy. I let him continue as he told me he was planning a major return to wrestling. This gets better. He goes into his bag and pulls out an ECW Tag Team Title belt and tells me Vince is reviving ECW and him and his partner were coming in with the straps. Now, I would easily consider myself a wrestling buff, and when it comes to ECW, I know every champion ever, and every wrestler that stepped inside that ring, and never have I heard this guys name. So, I asked why they wouldn't have The Dudleys or Danny Doring and Roadkill come in with the titles. He said, "oh man you know your stuff, yea man we are going to fo the job to Danny and Roadie and they'll be the champs!" This guy..... THIS GUY. My buddy asked for pictures and I got a glimpse of the back of the belt and sure as crap, there was that FigInc logo on the belt. He was trying to pass a replica belt as the real deal and had fake promo pics from WCW. Then, best part, he makes us watch his big return video. It was a youtube video from some really bad barnyard feds. He was The Real Deal Big Steele making his long awaited return to pro wrestling..... I felt so cheated when we left. I remember my friend saying how cool it was to touch a real belt, and I didn't have the heart to tell him the guy was lying.
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Post by GBGav on Dec 28, 2019 4:35:12 GMT -5
WEWIE I just thought of another one, and boy, it's a doozy! Years ago, I lived *clap clap clap clap* deep in the heart of Texas. This all kinda happened when I was about 8, and this kid (who also subbed as my best friend L O L) used to swear up and down that he was the creator of Sonic the Hedgehog. Let that sink in. Now, before you get ahead of yourself, I'll just go ahead and confirm that no, I was not best friends with Naoto Ohshima when I was 8 years old. I was best friends with a fellow white, middle class, suburbanite 8 year old with a vivid imagination and (and this is the kicker) sh*t drawing skills. One day my third grade class challenged him, as the sole creator of the character, to just draw the thing. An hour long sketch turned out a million excuses..."I'm drawing him with sunglasses". "He's wearing a hat". You know...any sort of cover you'd need to obscure the fact that you can't draw for sh*t. Eventually I moved away and I think he actually got into animation, but I'm fairly certain he still hasn't created any characters of pop-cultural renown. Sounds like he was the one responsible for this: I just remembered one kid from when I was at school (about 12/13 years old.) This kid was never popular. Not a bad kid, just incredibly quiet and had very few friends. Then one day he says that his dad can get his hands on copies of every video game and console for dirt cheap. We're talking £5 for a Gameboy Advance for example. So he started taking orders from loads of gullible kids and unsurprisingly failed to deliver the goods. The teachers caught up with him and I just remember seeing him crying at being found out but I don't really know what happened to him after that. For a brief few days he was the most popular kid in school so I guess that's why he did it.
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Post by Scott! on Jan 1, 2020 15:55:48 GMT -5
Mews under the truck at the S.S.Anne in Pokemon Red and Blue. I believed that for years as a kid, until I had two Game Boys, traded over someone with Cut and tried it myself. God kids in school were evil.
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Post by The Shiniest Wizard on Jan 1, 2020 19:36:12 GMT -5
I know a person who constantly lies about everything that they do. From dating information all the way to simple things that they do in their everyday life, such as eating habits. I feel like it is to try and impress others but Jesus, it gets ridiculous sometimes because it DOESN'T really impress ANYONE. But I have to say, I don't completely cut them off because sometimes their stories are absolutely ridiculous to the point of being entertaining.
For example, they went out of their way to tell everyone that a friend that we all know was "talking" to them. Not thinking about the consequences they just spewed their BS out there for everyone to hear about a "late night meet up" that allegedly happened. I sat there with my popcorn as the fireworks began to spark off at this point when word went around about what was being said. Eventually the friend found out and blew a gasket leading for everything to go to crap in the end for them. But even after all this, they still make up stories that are easily debunked by other people to this day which truly blows my mind that they never learned from this.
Made for some fun reality show level TV though.
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Post by Zincdust on Jan 2, 2020 15:08:13 GMT -5
Oh boy. I've known quite a few of these jokers.
The one that immediately springs to mind was this feller that worked under me as a security guard in the early 90s.
He was about 20-21 at the time, and he was always saying things like how the hot office gals (at the tech company we worked for) were always hitting on him, to how, while in high school, he rode his horse through the school halls. The principal, of course, confronted him and asked him and his horse to leave. And this kid, in front of THE ENTIRE SCHOOL, said "SCREEEEEEEEEEEWW YOOOOOOOOOOOOOU, DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE". The principal was so embarrassed that he immediately went into his office, closed the door, and never spoke to him again. Just crap like that. Every day was something new. I'd always give him an unimpressed "Mm-hmm."
The one that pushed me over the edge was this one (imagine this in a southwestern Idaho country boy accent): "Yeah, me'n mah buddies were just clownin' around in computer class in high school, programmin' stuff, and th' teacher said 'you know, y'all look lahk yer onta somethin' there.' So we wrapped it up that week an' shopped it around. We ended up sellin' it ta Nin-TEN-dohhhhh, and they slapped it in a cartridge and sold it! I get $10 every tahm one o' 'em is sold. Y'maht 'a heard of it; s'called the Legend of Zelda."
I blew my gasket on this one. "Are you joking?! That game was programmed and originally distributed in JAPAN. If you had claimed that you were involved in the localization for the United States version, you MIGHT have people believing you."
He didn't speak to me (except for work-related matters) after that. He ended up being fired for helping his girlfriend (who was the wife of a married couple on our company's cleaning crew) steal a bunch of pizzas from a company party.
I can still remember that vividly, especially the way he pronounced "Nin-TEN-dohhhhh", just all drawn-out and sprawly.
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Post by rowdy1971 on Jan 2, 2020 15:45:42 GMT -5
Way too many to mention but there is a funny one that involves a life long friend who ALWAYS lies or stretches truth. HE said he use to do coke with Dice Clay and Rodney Dangerfield, the Joe Pesci character from "Goodfellas" was loosely based on him and another guy from his neighborhood, and also Robert Dinero once saw him sitting at an Italian restaurant and invited him to have dinner. YEAH RIGHT! Anyway, Me, my brother, and my friend were playing poker one night and not for any big money, just quarters and dimes and stuff. This was the time the new state quarters came out and I got on with Georgia on it and I hadn't seen that one yet so I thought it was kinda cool. I said "hey, look, a Georgia, very cool!" And then my friend right away said "Aw yeah, last week I got a quarter with Poland on it."
To this day when I see my brother I always ask him how many "Polands" does he have on him.
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Jan 2, 2020 16:44:59 GMT -5
So "R. Gonzales" who I work with had quite a New Years. While he was skiing at Camelback in Pennsylvania, he rode a small avalanche to the bottom of the slope. I'm not sure if he actually listens to himself when he talks.
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Post by rKoNomad316 on Jan 4, 2020 23:39:23 GMT -5
Back in 03-04 a guy at Wendy’s noticed my Denver Broncos shirt & proceeded to tell me he was a former Bronco as a backup safety from 99-02 (I’ve been A fan since the late 90s) I never heard of this guy. I played along & asked about his former teammates (which I made up names & he went with it) why he stopped playing, how he liked the organization, etc. To cap it off he said he was in a legal battle with the team for owed money due to injury.
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Post by 3Lephant (Naptown Icon) on Jan 5, 2020 0:24:52 GMT -5
"I used to own the R3 Tech Mr. Perfect"
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Post by dewbert on Jan 5, 2020 3:36:51 GMT -5
“Everything is fair and the playing field is fair.” Definitely learned this isn’t the case in multiple scenarios, and I’ve both benefitted and suffered from this 🤷🏼♂️
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