the bedshitter
so a quick glance on wikipedia tells me that:

... "Pathological liars often actually convince themselves that they are telling the truth... A compulsive liar will resort to telling lies, regardless of the situation" ...

i have come across both, so to speak, but if those are the categories then the bedshitter was addicted to compulsive lying. to go with his other pleasant habits of extreme pikiness, violence and shitting the bed.

he would lie about the most pointless of things.

me: did you eat/drink/snort all that whilst i was asleep?

him: no.

me: but it's all gone!

him: it wasn't me.

me: but it's 4am. there's noone else here. it must have been you.

him: i didn't take it all.

me: but... but... it's all gone. and the wrapper is on the top of the bin (he didn't believe in emptying bins).

him: IT WASN'T ME!

or

me: so i hear your korean ex gf is coming to stay for a fortnight

him: no she isn't

me: well, you've told everyone in the corporate team

him: why do you never ever believe a word i say? for the millionth time, stop going on about her, i'm never going to see her again

me: but i've got an email in my hand that you wrote to your colleagues telling them

him: i didn't send that

or

me: this skirt is black

him: no it's white

and so on. it was bizarre the way he had this compulsion to lie about every single tiny little thing, no matter how pointless. which is quite different to making up a fantasy life i think, but equally weird to those of us who just always tell the bloody truth!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 2 Dec 2007, 11:02, 5 replies)

hehe
"This skirt is black"...
"No, it's white".
Made me smile for the first time this morning...*click*
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Mon 3 Dec 2007, 10:04, closed)

Sounds like a top bloke...
Not.

We're not all like that. Honest.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 3 Dec 2007, 10:38, closed)

Was
the skirt grey?
(frankspencer, Mon 3 Dec 2007, 11:58, closed)

men? you're all the same!!
although frank's skirt comment did make me laugh.

no, it wasn't. only my school uniform gymskirt is grey. and i didn't waste that on him!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 3 Dec 2007, 12:24, closed)

I've been found out.
Yes, we are all the same. Damn! I was hoping I'd get away with that one.

It's a fair cop. Etc.

Goes off to shag furiously and indiscrimately whilst arguing that black is white, with the likelihood of getting killed on the next zebra crossing. (Apologies to Douglas Adams).
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 3 Dec 2007, 12:43, closed)