People Share Lies They've Told That Some People Actually Bought

I once managed to convince a friend that Dutch cars don’t have handbrakes.

— Moose Allain Ꙭ (@MooseAllain) April 22, 2017

When I was working as a vet in practice a nurse used to tell clients I was one of the Nolan Sisters, but unfortunately couldn’t sing at all. And not to mention it as it was a sore point with me. There are probably people who still believe that. https://t.co/sXZkkTpGP0

— Katherine Nolan (@DoChara) August 5, 2018

In an old job I convinced several people that a) dogs are solid meat and have no internal organs and b) greyhounds are fast because they are hollow dogs. https://t.co/UplaoruDcZ

— Errrrrr, Will (@teletextpage152) August 5, 2018

We once told my mate that Starbucks was owned by Jimmy Tarbuck

— Harry Myers (@PeasOneDay) April 23, 2017

as a teenager, i convinced a girl my mother had invented the concept of the filled baked potato.

— euan mccolm (@euanmccolm) April 23, 2017

My brother briefly convinced me that Rugby was invented by Sir Geoffrey Rugby

— Frey (@Bolt_451) February 10, 2020

Once told a friend that our local boating lake, known by all as the Boating Lake, was named not after the boats you could hire but a breed of duck, the Boateng Duck, which was imported from Vietnam after its natural habitat had been destroyed by Agent Orange.

— David Llewellyn (@TheDaiLlew) February 10, 2020

I once told a work colleague that if she took a cup of tea to Mercury it would expand to be the same size as Lake Windermere. I heard her repeat the fact to someone else.

— Graeme Flynn (@BonkersMendez) February 10, 2020

My Dad told me, then 11, that Salvador Dali got his first job painting bikes in a Harley Davidson factory. You can still find the odd one inscribed Dali Havidson. Worth a fortune. Told my art teacher in front of the whole class. As the words came out my mouth I got the joke.

— Joshua (@freestylejish) August 5, 2018

Also convinced my kids that the side of the road we were driving on was for people going….the other side was for coming back…

— James Blake (@jamesrhblake) February 10, 2020

I told my kids that cooling towers are cloud factories. The idiots fell for it.

— Dave Lee (@davelee1968) April 22, 2017

German colleague liked Rotundorangundgrunstopgehenlampen (traffic lights). He said that a German would understand what you meant.

— Nel Norris (@NelNorris) April 22, 2017

We convinced a visiting American student that you need a visa to get into Wales; when we drove there for a rugby match, we hid him in the boot

— Bear Bad Man (@Bear_Bad_Man_) August 5, 2018

convinced a friend that my real name was Joe Kerr and my bro’s was Wayne Kerr, but we were allowed to use aliases at school to stop bullying

— Alex Jamieson (@Alex_Jamieson) April 22, 2017

Dad’s pal got contact lenses. When someone commented that he was driving without his glasses, he claimed he’d got a prescription windscreen

— Rick Rowling (@rickrowling) April 22, 2017

Convinced my daughter that on being introduced to a French girl for the first time, you should say, “Salute salope”. So she did.

— Mr Farty (@MrFarty) April 22, 2017

Convinced our kids colours were not invented until 1939 and showed them black & white films to prove it including The Wizard of Oz to show the moment colour became real.

— ★ Unklerupert (@unklerupert) August 5, 2018

My dad convinced us that he worked at London Zoo as a giraffe (used a broom for the neck) & left when they made him a sealion & he had to swallow whole fish.

My mum told us she drove an ambulance in WW2 picking up injured soldiers. Took us a while to realise she was 4yrs old.

— Liz (@ejp72) February 10, 2020

I convinced someone that a local anaesthetic was one that was administered where you lived.

— Dave Milnes (@PhotoDM) February 10, 2020

When I was at uni in America, a Swedish guy convinced everyone they carry rifles in Stockholm cos of polar bear attacks in the underground 😆

— Kaz (@kazzani) April 22, 2017

I very nearly convinced Sprog2 that she had 6 fingers on each hand. Every time she counted 5, I said, “No, you missed one,” and counted 6.

— Alys Wilfred Earl (@alysdragon) April 22, 2017

My Dad told me the pages on Teletext were called “texticles”. A ‘fact’ I repeated to a teacher at school.

— Jake Archibald (@jaffathecake) April 23, 2017

On.a trip to Dublin we told a friend you had to order guinness as a ‘Big glass of gwinnee’ no convincing he just believed it!

— Toots (@izzymact) April 22, 2017

Granddad convinced us if you broke a biscuit in half, all the calories fell out. He was a nutritional chemist, so of course we believed him

— Chris Riley (@criley2008) April 22, 2017