creative lying!

[na§tee]

came into bristol yesterday speeeding along in my mum's boyfriend's nissan skyline begging him to go 0-40mph in point five of a second or something ridiculous, and i find out my brother's girlfriend is here for christmas! ARSE! :mad:

oh, my god.

that girl is hard work.

she came last year, and ranald came last year too, and oh god - laugh a minute! ugh.

i could write an essay about it but i wanted to run this one thing by youse.

girl says she is allergic to toffee, and not fudge. hazelnuts, but not other nuts. custard. weird things.

you absolutely, 100% cannot be allergic to these things unless YOU ARE ALLERGIC TO THEIR CONSTITUENT INGREDIENTS. and, to my knowledge, the only difference between toffee and fudge is ONE IS SOFT, and the OTHER IS HARD. custard is just milk, eggs and sugar! she isn't allergic to any of these things. and hazelnuts? PUH-LEASE. there are no special hazelnut ingredients.

my mum's boyfriend is an orthopedic surgeon and when she refused a dessert my mum made because it was made of toffee not fudge and explained her curious allergies, he said "i think you're splitting hairs there" but she's too stupid to understand what that means.

my question is how should i call her out? i know this is going to come up sooner or later. she'll probably start crying that we've run out of malibu like she did last year (seriously, we have never stocked malibu at christmas ever before and i don't know anyone in the world who ONLY drinks coconut flavoured liquers! honey, if you want that, fucking go to ibiza or something) also, last year she didn't have the super special christmas trifle because it had custard in it, but caved later and scraped it off and still gulped it down. hmmmm. i think not!

anyway, what are your experiences of creative lying? please share!

[hitmonlee]

i tell people that i'm allergic to all kinds of things, so i don't have to eat them. like for some reason people always want to give me bags of mandarins, so i just tell them i'm allergic. not sure what i'd do if they then offered me oranges. i also tell people i'm allergic to nuts and seafood.

i say don't call her out. eating at other people's houses can be very stressful, and people can be very weird with food. the worst is eating at a bfs parent's house. i don't want to upset his parents, but i'm such a picky eater that i simply can't eat most food that other people cook for me.

just let her eat what she wants in peace. you know she's a liar, she knows she's a liar, its not worth calling her out on. if it was something important, then yes. this isn't important.

and yeah i know its frustrating when someone is lying and you want to bust them for it.

[trailerprincess]

My sister used to make out she was allergic to lasagna despite eating meat, cheese and pasta quite happily

This girl at school said that she and I had been in the same restaurant in New York at the same time. I called her bluff by raving on about the brilliant bacon and jam sandwiches which didn't exist at this restaurant.


I used to read a lot of Nancy Drew.

[icy manipulator]

came into bristol yesterday speeeding along in my mum's boyfriend's nissan skyline begging him to go 0-40mph in point five of a second or something ridiculous, and i find out my brother's girlfriend is here for christmas! ARSE! :mad:

oh, my god.

that girl is hard work.

she came last year, and ranald came last year too, and oh god - laugh a minute! ugh.

i could write an essay about it but i wanted to run this one thing by youse.

girl says she is allergic to toffee, and not fudge. hazelnuts, but not other nuts. custard. weird things.

you absolutely, 100% cannot be allergic to these things unless YOU ARE ALLERGIC TO THEIR CONSTITUENT INGREDIENTS. and, to my knowledge, the only difference between toffee and fudge is ONE IS SOFT, and the OTHER IS HARD. custard is just milk, eggs and sugar! she isn't allergic to any of these things. and hazelnuts? PUH-LEASE. there are no special hazelnut ingredients.

my mum's boyfriend is an orthopedic surgeon and when she refused a dessert my mum made because it was made of toffee not fudge and explained her curious allergies, he said "i think you're splitting hairs there" but she's too stupid to understand what that means.

my question is how should i call her out? i know this is going to come up sooner or later. she'll probably start crying that we've run out of malibu like she did last year (seriously, we have never stocked malibu at christmas ever before and i don't know anyone in the world who ONLY drinks coconut flavoured liquers! honey, if you want that, fucking go to ibiza or something) also, last year she didn't have the super special christmas trifle because it had custard in it, but caved later and scraped it off and still gulped it down. hmmmm. i think not!

anyway, what are your experiences of creative lying? please share!
you 2 need to battle it out in a wrestling ring

possibly filled with jelly

possibly wearing bikinis ;)

[mikizee]

Possibly??

[Pres Zount]

i tell people that i'm allergic to all kinds of things, so i don't have to eat them. like for some reason people always want to give me bags of mandarins, so i just tell them i'm allergic. not sure what i'd do if they then offered me oranges. i also tell people i'm allergic to nuts and seafood.

i say don't call her out. eating at other people's houses can be very stressful, and people can be very weird with food. the worst is eating at a bfs parent's house. i don't want to upset his parents, but i'm such a picky eater that i simply can't eat most food that other people cook for me.

just let her eat what she wants in peace. you know she's a liar, she knows she's a liar, its not worth calling her out on. if it was something important, then yes. this isn't important.

and yeah i know its frustrating when someone is lying and you want to bust them for it.

That's very good advice. But you should be very, very snide instead. Buy a box of toffee's and offer them around! When she says she can't have them, say "I thought that was fudge... oh, whatever" and roll your eyes!


If I want to get out of eating something I don't like, I just say that it gives me migranes.

[hitmonlee]

also, when i eat trifle, i only eat the jelly and the custard bit, i hate the alcoholic cake at the bottom.


is she doing it for attention? because if she is, and she won't admit to lying, the best thing might be to ignore it, and don't serve food that has anything she can complain about in it. don't give her the attention shes craving.

[Pres Zount]

I say create a scene. Make it a christmas to remember.

you want to get back to ranald with something to bitch about, right?

[faz]

possibly filled with jelly


She'll probably say she's allergic to it.

[QueenAdrock]

Is creative lying the same thing as compulsive lying? I can't tell. Because I know someone who's a compulsive liar and lies just to lie. Like saying he just got back from cliff-diving in Peru and traveling South America for a month, despite the fact that he works as a waiter in a shitty restaurant and lives (supposedly) in a nice place in a nice area so he would NOT be able to take that much time off and spend that much money.

Oh and he told me stuff like he's been cleared to get his Master's degree even though he only has his Associate's now because the master's program REALLY WANTS HIM (yeah, his community college education and high school dropout status are great resume builders). :rolleyes:

[marsdaddy]

You should tamper with the ingredients on things you know she'll eat -- like add toffee to Malibu. Then, whilst playing an intense game of Clue (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088930/) start to unlock the clues that none of her allergies exist. She might not get the subtlety, but the rest of the people will enjoy having fun at her expense.

[na§tee]

great advice, guys!

well, i haven't par, um, took in any of it yet but i will, i betcha.

i've told ranald some remarks i've said today and he was like "CLAIRE! just think.. if ranald was here, would he hold back? yes. he probably would. or maybe not. whatever."

creative lying, QA, is just totally bizarre-oh compulsive lying, i guess.

and yes, she does crave attention, hitmonlee. like a mofo.

this isn't lying, but today i took a taster of a delicious bit of cheddar from a deli we were visiting in clifton today and when i bet it she was like "EW. OHMYGOD. did you just take a bite out of that?" and i said "um. yes. it's cheese." and she said she can't eat cheese normally, only grated. GRATED. and, hey, ranald said this was rude when i told him but he still laughed at it - i said "what am i meant to do, suck it? seriously, only CHILDREN AND DISABLED PEOPLE purely eat cheese grated!" :/ oops? hahah!

[b-grrrlie]

My sister used to make out she was allergic to lasagna despite eating meat, cheese and pasta quite happily

Maybe she was allergic to bechamél sauce! That's what I don't like about in lasagne.