Bullshit and Bullshitters
We've had questions about lies and liars in the past, but this time we're asking about the sort of fantasist who constantly claims they've got a helicopter in the garden or was "second onto the balcony at the Iranian Embassy siege". Tell us about the cobblers you've been told, or the complete lies you've come out with.
Thanks to dozer for the suggestion
( , Thu 13 Jan 2011, 12:55)
We've had questions about lies and liars in the past, but this time we're asking about the sort of fantasist who constantly claims they've got a helicopter in the garden or was "second onto the balcony at the Iranian Embassy siege". Tell us about the cobblers you've been told, or the complete lies you've come out with.
Thanks to dozer for the suggestion
( , Thu 13 Jan 2011, 12:55)
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Well played by Will, I'd say.
The trick to bullshitting is to lace it with strange but genuine truths that you can back up.
Eg bullshitting children. I play the part well of being the silly/mad uncle, so when I informed the nephews and neices that a baby rabbit is called a kitten, they all jeered and called me out.
I got out the encyclopedia, dictionary, and pulled up Google, and now I can tell them that sheep grow from the wooly seeds found in fields and they don't bat an eyelid.
( , Fri 14 Jan 2011, 10:57, Reply)
The trick to bullshitting is to lace it with strange but genuine truths that you can back up.
Eg bullshitting children. I play the part well of being the silly/mad uncle, so when I informed the nephews and neices that a baby rabbit is called a kitten, they all jeered and called me out.
I got out the encyclopedia, dictionary, and pulled up Google, and now I can tell them that sheep grow from the wooly seeds found in fields and they don't bat an eyelid.
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