When I lie, it’s most often a lie of omission. Are you more of a falsehood teller? Or do you lie out of ignorance? Or is there a particular subject you’re likely to lie about? Or a person who you tell most of your lies to?
Do you always tell the truth? If yes what type of lie was that?
- nicktron ( @nicktron@kbin.social ) 31•1 year ago
I’m good, how are you?
- FoundTheVegan ( @FoundTheVegan@kbin.social ) 19•1 year ago
“No it’s fine. I don’t mind.”
- mifan ( @mifan@feddit.dk ) 16•1 year ago
I’ll do it tomorrow.
- SorteKanin ( @SorteKanin@feddit.dk ) 5•1 year ago
I wish this comment wasn’t so relatable.
- Provoked Gamer ( @ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca ) 1•1 year ago
Or even “I’ll do it in an x amount of time”
I’ll do it after 3 hours. I’ll do it in the evening. I’ll do it in 3 days.
- nevernevermore ( @nevernevermore@kbin.social ) 13•1 year ago
I lie on the internet fairly regularly as weird precaution to make myself less identifiable. I don’t want any of my accounts to link to eachother, let alone back to me
- rufus ( @rufus@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•1 year ago
Approved. Just make it a good and enticing story. I don’t care so much if it’s true 😉
- nevernevermore ( @nevernevermore@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
That’s my sentiment as well. I take everything I read with a grain of salt, so should everyone else. I come to comment sections for entertainment, not facts.
- Techmaster ( @Techmaster@lemm.ee ) 12•1 year ago
I’m a big fan of the super obvious lie. It makes people think you’re really bad at lying, and they overestimate their ability to detect your lies, so they let their guard down.
- Nonameuser678 ( @Nonameuser678@aussie.zone ) 11•1 year ago
I hope this email finds you well.
- Miku Luna \ she/it ( @backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 11•1 year ago
“I’m a boy”
The fact that this is a common lie for me might mean that people I talk to don’t believe it either.
- FoundTheVegan ( @FoundTheVegan@kbin.social ) 8•1 year ago
I hope one day you are able to live your truth. ♥
“Thank you for shopping here.”
Like seriously there’s like one grocery store in this entire small-ass town and this is it. Not like you were doing me a big favor.
I also just don’t give a shit if you shop elsewhere. Whether you shop here or elsewhere won’t change my less-than-living-wage paycheck, thank you very much.
- Haus ( @Haus@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
At work, I oversimplify things to the point that they’re no longer strictly true all the time.
It’s those lies like how bards and storytellers do it.
And I know I am bad at it, but I practice so I could be a storyteller to a degree when I will need it.
- nieceandtows ( @nieceandtows@programming.dev ) 5•1 year ago
“I’m working on it”
- Thorny_Thicket ( @Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz ) 3•1 year ago
I actually lied for the first time in about 3 years just few days ago.
I had an appointment and at the front desk the clerk asked me wether I came there by car (do I need a parking permit) to which I said no even though I did but I left it further away so that I don’t need said permit. Funnily enough the person I came to meet then asked me the same thing to which I sad “Yeah, but I left it further away” and I’m quite sure the clerk heard me so… …yeah. That’s why I don’t lie.
The previous lie before that when a beggar came asking wether I had any cash to which I said no even though I did. Again a completely pointless lie.
- Call me Lenny/Leni ( @shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee ) English3•1 year ago
That depends. Do exaggerations, errors in perspective, adapting to others’ perspective, and literary devices count as lying? If we’re talking classic lies, I don’t remember the last time I did that if I ever did. If we’re being more broad, though, you could say I beat around the bush a lot. Shame is a terrible attribute in society. People often ask about my mental health, how I’m doing, the quality of my day, and so on. Things along those lines. And I don’t want to say “well I existentially don’t care” or this kind of thing happens, so I say stuff like “I’m top of the morning” because I don’t have to betray what’s below the surface.
- awwwyissss ( @awwwyissss@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
I like to tell “sexy” lies, like “I just had sex”, or “people want to have sex with me”
- Hadriscus ( @Hadriscus@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
People do, you just don’t know it
- awwwyissss ( @awwwyissss@lemm.ee ) 3•1 year ago
I’m just joking, but I appreciate the positivity
- Hadriscus ( @Hadriscus@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
Alright
- megane-kun ( @megane_kun@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
Lie I tell most often: “I’m fine.”
It is easier to do, and easier on the conscience to lie by omission, so that’s the kind of lie I do most often, which is mostly to smooth things over in social situations.
Rather than telling the truth, which would require me to talk about my mental health and current state, and face possible stigma, I’d rather just lie about being fine.