People have been confessing their most weird and wonderful lies and these are our 33 favourites
18.
Managed to convince one of my flat mates that ‘rumble strips’ on roads were for the benefit of blind drivers.
— David Goodsell (@dgoodsell1) August 5, 2018
19.
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
20.
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
21.
Used to tell my kids that coconuts are bears eggs. They believed me for many years!
— KG (@kbgman7) April 22, 2017
22.
I convinced my flatmate at uni that the lead singer of Led Zepplin was called Ted Zepplin
— Pidgy-Back Jack (@Cookiejacked) April 22, 2017
23.
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
24.
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
25.
My Dad told me that the cemetery was the dead centre of our town. I believed this to be the central geographic point of town until my 20s.
— C D Moorby (@CDMoorby) April 22, 2017
26.
My mum told me a bloke sits at the back of the Red Arrows planes and shakes out red or blue talcum powder.
— Debra 🐝 (@DebraBee_) April 23, 2017
27.
Was in an antique shop with my 6 Y.O. son. He saw a porcelain doll and asked what it was for. I told him it was a decoy for hunting babies.
— Alec McQuay (@Ironwrites) April 22, 2017
28.
I convinced a work colleague that wine gums contain alcohol. She wrote an actual letter of complaint to Maynards.
— Steve (@ScoobyEDF) April 23, 2017
29.
I convinced my wife that the reason our flight was quicker from Glasgow to London, than the other way, was because we were going downhill.
— Dave (@Gunner_Dave) April 23, 2017
30.
Me and my brother convinced my Dad the dancing woman at the start of Tales of the Unexpected was Princes Di before she met Charles.
— Bob Quin (@bob_quin) April 23, 2017
31.
My older brother convinced me that Cher’s vocoder voice in ‘believe’ was because of a terrible car accident which resulted in her getting a robotic vocal cord replacement
— Will (@Popher) August 5, 2018
32.
A group of us once convinced our poor, trusting friend that wasps make chutney.
— Katie Young (@Pinkwood) August 5, 2018
33.
https://twitter.com/DoChara/status/1026036075775582209
One of the lies, however, led to a worrying development.
I convinced thousands of listeners to my radio show that there was a manbeef plant in TX making beef jerky out of ppl & even offered free samples (Slim Jims in Manbeef packaging) 5 showed up to eat it. First bites were trepidatious but ultimately found to be flavorful😂
— jessie jessup (@JessieJessup) August 5, 2018