Stupid lies people beleived

[Ryuu]

mmk, well just post some dumb things you said, and shockingly the people believed you, mine would have to be....

When I was in middle school, and I had phys ed with all the popular people (woo hoo) anyways they always used to talk and stuff and I was way to shy to go over and talk to them, so one day, this one dude from that group asked me how much I can lift, I dunno why but I got really mad, so I said 300 lbs, and his face got like shocked and he was like really your so lucky, and stuff like that, never worried about being shy past then, in fact I became a part of them lol stupid me

[fastfly]

I once told a kid Barney was a real Dino.

[Rue]

I had my youngest son believing that there were flesh-eating grasshoppers in our yard for a few years...:hmm3grin2orange:

[Ryuu]

lol heres another one I kinda feel bad,

back home in germany, when my father was still living with us, my middle sister and I were swimming in this really big pool, well we always would have races to see who could swim from end to end, I always won of corse, so finally she was like, how do you swim that fast and I said well its a very big secret, im really a merman! she started getting all excited, finally when I told her I was joking she cried so much I felt bad

[Wild Turkey]

lol heres another one I kinda feel bad,

back home in germany, when my father was still living with us, my middle sister and I were swimming in this really big pool, well we always would have races to see who could swim from end to end, I always won of corse, so finally she was like, how do you swim that fast and I said well its a very big secret, im really a merman! she started getting all excited, finally when I told her I was joking she cried so much I felt bad

ROFL!!!!! aww

[Ryuu]

I had my youngest son believing that there were flesh-eating grasshoppers in our yard for a few years...:hmm3grin2orange:

lol funny, kind alike when my mom told me krumpoose was living in the woods behind out house,

btw, krumpoose, is related to christmas, you know how santa chooses the naughty and nice, well in germany, krumpoose comes and kidnaps the naughty if your not good, ill find a few pics of him, then youl know why I was afraid

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[Fishalicious]

I really can't think of anything shocking... too honest I guess LOL

There is one I told my 3 year old a year ago... that everytime he lied his nose would grow long like pinnichio's - best thing I ever did as everytime he tells a fib now he automatically goes to feel his nose HAHAHAHAHA Bless him... just wonder how long it is going to take him to figure out his nose is not going to grow :hmm3grin2orange:

[Ryuu]

Sorry another one, lol this one I believed,

When I was five I was well acting up (=0) and my mom goes, I swear yo you michael (I think thats how I spell it sorry I never use my first real name) I swear im going to sell you at a yard sale, and I said really, and shes liek yeah where do I think I got you in the first place! I never acted up again, till I foudn out she lied

[Wild Turkey]

Sorry another one, lol this one I believed,

When I was five I was well acting up (=0) and my mom goes, I swear yo you michael (I think thats how I spell it sorry I never use my first real name) I swear im going to sell you at a yard sale, and I said really, and shes liek yeah where do I think I got you in the first place! I never acted up again, till I foudn out she lied

ROFL omg thats terrible!

Yes Michael is the most common US spelling, its a masculine form of Michele

[Drumachine09]

Last year, we convinced a girl in Geometry that her blinker was blinking really fast on the way to school this morning (sign of a burning out bulb) because she was out of blinker fluid. She actually went to autozone and asked for blinker fluid, and got laughed out. It was hilarious.

[ILuvMyGoldBarb]

My family is from Nova Scotia but my sister and I both came to the USA to got to university. Well, it seems that there are a lot of people here in the southern US who are completely ignorant of what Canada is really like. She told a girl that when she came to the US she left her dogsled at the border. She never did tell the poor girl the difference.

When my nephew came to visit he had some poor South Korean kid believing that all Canadians lived in igloos. Again, he never told him the difference. LOL

[cocoa_pleco]

that was one of the biggest questions i got when i went to europe. everyone thought that canada was like some snow barren wasteland. everyone in london especially asked a billion questions.

when i went to las vegas a few years ago, some guy asked what size igloo i live in. lol

[invadertoast]

The first time my boyfriend came to visit from Nova Scotia, he had half my friends believing everybody rode horses instead of driving cars, and that he had a black one :)

[MeganL3985]

Whats sad is I would be one of those people....I know virtually nothing about canada....so if you said you lived in an igloo and used dog sleds as transportation I would be like "WOW!! COOL!" lol Yeah i've very ignorant when it comes to other countries and the things they do/have.
Thankfully I have a few Canadian friends online that fill me in a little. lol

[cocoa_pleco]

lol, canada is pretty much the same as the US with housing and everything, cities and all. once you get north though, not too many people live there, like in the yukon/northwest territories. inuit people live there, and some miners/gold hunters, thats about it

[1MileCrash]

i've got some rather pointy eye teeth naturally and i used to have some of the nieghborhood kids believing that i was a daywalker vampire.

[invadertoast]

i've got some rather pointy eye teeth naturally and i used to have some of the nieghborhood kids believing that i was a daywalker vampire.

OMG I have the same thing... although I haven't actually fooled anybody into thinking I'm a vampire, kids seem to imagine it on their own - even my own neice asked me "why are you a vampire?" not too long ago!

[Ellen4God]

I'm the person who would believe most of this stuff probably. I'm too trusting.


For example:

I was in Florida with a group from church, and they had me believing that I wasn't actually in Florida, but I was in Lower Alabama. Also that if I didn't set my watch back an hour because of the time change, I would get a ticket or get arrested.

[Ark6ie]

im rather too trusting when it comes to what people tell me, i was working at this job when i was 18, the two dudes i worked with had me convinced that one of the elderly gentlemen we worked with had invented the machine that made the wire coat hangers! i believed that for another 2 yrs till my mate told me they was full of s&%!#. im such a sucker :19:

[Ghostknife]

A couple of years ago, my company were having a soccer world cup in Holland. The woman who was organising the transport, etc was from Egypt.

So we were in Dublin Airport waiting on some of the team members, we all got chatting and decided to wind her up. We told her that the best exchange rates from Euro to Gilder (former dutch currency) were in Dublin as opposed to Maastricht. So she went up to the cashier & asked for the conversion. She got told that the Gilder had been changed over about 5 years prior! Very funny stuff. She was very embarrassed. Serves her right though, she ordered long sleeve jerseys, & the tournament was 30 degrees celcius. I suppose we are even now!!

[DragonGoby]

I grew up in Africa... So when I have to go to France to study, it was like the Festival of stupidity about how it was there...
So, in few words, they believed :
- That I went to school on the back of an elephant, because of the lions around our house...
- That school take place in some big trees... Still because of the lions...

I swear... I was so furious that they believe such stupid thing...:c4:

In another way, they were surprise when I said that we have computer... Because they believed we don't have electricity...
And now that I live in Canada, I can say that I eat beaver tail... And they believe me in France when I say that the beaver regrow his tail back... :hmm3grin2orange:

[Tolley]

hmm cant think of mine right now, but when one of my friends went to new york loads of local kids asked him how often he got to have tea with the queen!

[NickFish]

that was one of the biggest questions i got when i went to europe. everyone thought that canada was like some snow barren wasteland. everyone in london especially asked a billion questions.

when i went to las vegas a few years ago, some guy asked what size igloo i live in. lol

LOL, you have no idea how often I get that. Here's a very long post, but it's funny and I need to make it long to get the entire story in word for word.

I used to work at MarineLand, in Niagara Falls. You can imagine how many people from all over the world come here, and when I worked the cah register at the gift shop it was a joke.

They would ask me stuff like "Why is it so hot here? Like, we brought out winter jackets and stuff, we were expecting to go skiing!" In August!

"Where's all the local housing? I haven't seen an igloo yet?"

And "Where are all the moose? I came up here to see a moose and I haven't seen one yet!" LOL, to people really believe that there are moose everywhere in Canada?

They expect like, as soon as they cross the border there will immediatly be 10 feet of snow and inuits riding dogsleds.

I went down to California two years back, and there was this one blonde lady who was a friend of my relatives. She must have been at least 40 and had 2 kids in elementary school. We were talking about stuff and somehow I got into the topic of mountain biking.
And she looked at me all funny and said
Her: "Ummmm...how do you bike in all that snow?"
Me: What do you mean?
Her: Well, I thought people in Canada all lived in igloos." I couldn't believe someone could be that stupid. So I knew it had to be a joke, so I just played a long a little.
Me: "Oh ya, that's right. By mountain biking I mean I tie up my dogsled and we go up and down cliffs. I live in an igloo with 6 other families. Every morning I go out and hunt walrus before dogsledding to school."
Her: "Ya, so i heard. It must be very cold up there. What do you guys do for fun?"

And this whole time she's been looking at me in fascination. Then I realise. Does she really think I'm serious? No way anybody would be that dumb.
But it's true!

Me: "Do you really believe that?"
Her: "Of course, everybody here knows that! Even my kids know this stuff!"

I jsut looked at her and said..."you have to freakin kidding me. Where I live in Canada it's about as hot here as it is now. We get higher summer temperatures than parts of texas and california. We do have snow in the winter but it doesn't last more than a few months. And we all live in houses, just like here"

She was just starring at me smiling, waiting for me to say just kidding!

I wanted to smack her so bad right then. Turns out this is a common misconception in the southern states. I know none of you guys think this way but do you know anybody who actually does?

In my elementary school we have to know all the American states. But in the US they don't teach anything about any other countries? Come on! That is how we won the war of 1812. Because the states new NOTHING about Canada! Even though the US had almost 15 times more troops than we did, more advanced weapons, and stronger forts, but we won because they didn't know anything about our country. And I believe that is how the US will fall. Superpower now? Sure, but not for long, not at this rate.

[invadertoast]

I have a friend in Canada who used to work directing ferry traffic. The ferry to the island I go to has an open deck, and makes a 5 minute crossing every half hour between the main land and Long Island. It holds maybe 30 cars. There's only one road to get there down a penisula, and it's about 40 miles long. He'd have tourists asking "Is this the ferry to Prince Edward Island?" or "Does this ferry go to Maine?" I mean, how could you drive 40 miles through the middle of nowhere and expect the ferry ride to Maine to be 5 minutes long?? Plus it's hours and hours off course from P.E.I. Some people... lol

[ILuvMyGoldBarb]

Nick, down here they barely even teach national geography let alone international. Most high school students in these parts would have a hard time finding even some of the more commonly known countries like Germany and France. Geography is just not taught down here very much.

[DragonGoby]

@Nickfish : Funny, Africa or Canada : same thing... :hmm3grin2orange: Just a change of animals and transport...

At least there's a reason why in the US they don't know or know so few about foreign country, I mean if geography is less taught nowadays... But in France, they don't have this excuse... We had full course on history and geography!!!! And now, when I'm telling them to bring a swimsuit for the summer time in Quebec City, they don't believe me!

Well, I suppose that we can incriminate all the tv show on the poor people in Africa, or on the war or... long list... And I think it's the same thing for Canada, I mean, we see so much publicity about snow, and moose and how it's fun to come to ski... Now come on, we all know that all canadian male are lumberjack no? :hmm3grin2orange:
I think people are not curious... that's why there's so many stupid story... :c2: