Do you have friends that compulsively lie? I have one and it's bugging me.

[fujiyama]

I have a friend that does... and that too they aren't about important things, but extremely petty... I like to say he tells very tall tales.

For years this friend of mine keeps telling everyone we ever meet that he got a degree from a prestigious college, when I clearly know he was lying. Hell, it's funny because he doesn't even try to lie to me about it, because he knows I know, what he tells others is completely full of shit.

The same friend then goes on to tell us that he has several interviews lined up and that he has had job offers from practically every other part of the world.

Now, I really don't care what he tells others, but considering I'm one of his best friends, it is irritating that he tells me these ridiculous lies too.

Do you have friends that tell ridiculously obvious lies? My friend is a good guy, but has faced various difficulties in recent months - he got off a bad relationship, was depressed for a while. But his complusive bullshitting is nothing new with him. He's been doing these things since I met him. I've never actually told him I don't believe him, because I figured it's unecessary...

[Jamastiene]

1. YES

I know one and she steals my lines too. I used to say I wanted an addadicktome operation (meaning sex change operation) all the time, now she's using it. Plus she's a con artist. I can't be around her any more without my gag reflex going off. I don't know about your friend, but my "friend" turned out to be an enemy.

[Borgnine]

2. Yeah.

The bad part was I was in love with her for the damndest time, but she's really just a nasty, vile person who lies her ass off and laughs about it later.

[Jamastiene]

3. And people wonder why

some people turn into serial killers. But then again a pathological liar is pretty much likely to become a serial killer too. Hmmm...

[Behind the Aegis]

6. Oh man!

How I love that picture of HD! What a crazy night tonight, but then I see that and all is well!

BTW...I hope you cut her out of your life!

[Seabiscuit]

4. A lot of compulsive liars are also petty thieves.

Like my younger brother. He never changed and I haven't spoken to him for decades.

[orleans]

5. it's very annoying when a friend is like that

there's something about it--a trait of untrustworthiness maybe--that drives me crazy.

i had a friend who carried on a charade of being straight for a couple of years--and we were best friends. he went out of his way to deceive me (talking about hot girls, moving in with a cute girl he worked with) and when he finally came out (and it was way out--midnight cab rides to the adult bookstore and giving the cabbie a you-know-what job) i wasn't very happy for him. he had lied and deceived me and gay friends of ours that there was too much of a sense of betrayal--we were still friends, but not like before; in my mind he was a major sneak and couldn't be trusted. and as it turned out i was right (from other crap he pulled down the road)

life is too short to live it spinning tales to those who love you the most.
if that's what they do--they're hardly a true friend