Do you know any liars?

[Parafox]

21 hours ago, RobHawk said:

 Not a liar per day, but I think it fits well in this thread. 

 

I used to know a guy and about 15 years ago, he went to Bristol for the weekend. He came back with a Canadian accent which had never been heard in the first 4 years of knowing him.  

 

I haven't seen him for probably 5 years now but last time I did, he still had the ****ing stupid accent. 

 

Always blew my mind

A Canadian accent must be one of the hardest to fake. 

[Parafox]

21 hours ago, RobHawk said:

 Not a liar per day, but I think it fits well in this thread. 

 

I used to know a guy and about 15 years ago, he went to Bristol for the weekend. He came back with a Canadian accent which had never been heard in the first 4 years of knowing him.  

 

I haven't seen him for probably 5 years now but last time I did, he still had the ****ing stupid accent. 

 

Always blew my mind

 

20 hours ago, FoyleFox said:

Brilliant! Some people bring really rubbish souvenirs from their holidays, that's outstanding! 

And to not even mention it 😂

Has anyone here faked an accent? I did when I was in my late teens. I tried an Australian accent as I figured girls liked guys from Oz and I might get laid as a result. I might have sounded more Welsh...

 

 

[HighPeakFox]

I used to work for a total sociopath, utterly convincing of course, he believed every word he said until the next time you saw him, then he'd behave as if he'd never said whatever it was he'd espoused yesterday and he'd already moved on to the next thing he'd convinced himself of. It was therefore rather familiar when Trump, Farage et al turned up and convinced so many people - the process was identical, and the sad thing is how many people just lapped it up uncritically (in all cases), and then conveniently edited out all the crap spouted to maintain their position thereafter. It still goes on everywhere.

[cambridgefox]

2 hours ago, Parafox said:

 

Has anyone here faked an accent? I did when I was in my late teens. I tried an Australian accent as I figured girls liked guys from Oz and I might get laid as a result. I might have sounded more Welsh...

 

 

Lad at work emigrated to Australia for a whole year,due his daughter not be able to stay he returned, and came back with an Aussie accent .We took the piss all week and the following Monday it had totally disappeared.We still took the piss.

[Vlad the Fox]

31 minutes ago, cambridgefox said:

Lad at work emigrated to Australia for a whole year,due his daughter not be able to stay he returned, and came back with an Aussie accent .We took the piss all week and the following Monday it had totally disappeared.We still took the piss.

When I was a kid I knew this family that went to America for a year, when they came back they were all trying to talk with American accents  

[FoyleFox]

If you move somewhere with a noticeable accent, and you're there for say 10 years, would you expect to pick up the accent? I do have a friend who moved London way and now has a terrible 'mockney' accent. I've acquired a few sayings from 12 years in Northern Ireland but never started to sound like Jonny Evans. 

Edited 12 November 2022 by FoyleFox

[FLAN]

Couple of lads I used to knock about with used to fake scouse accents in town with the girls. Odd 

[FLAN]

6 hours ago, FoyleFox said:

Me too...

Is your username anything to do with your surname? And christian name initial S?

That’s me! 

[FoyleFox]

10 hours ago, FLAN said:

That’s me! 

I thought so, as soon as you posted the first reply.

How to help you? I worked for Jenny and Eddie in the portakabin - that's a frightening 25 years ago! At one point, we ran admin teams working for Tracey Allen/McLaughlin at CP. I went off to do Y2K IT stuff, I think you did that for a bit too? I stayed on in IT support & projects. Does that help?

[FLAN]

1 hour ago, FoyleFox said:

I thought so, as soon as you posted the first reply.

How to help you? I worked for Jenny and Eddie in the portakabin - that's a frightening 25 years ago! At one point, we ran admin teams working for Tracey Allen/McLaughlin at CP. I went off to do Y2K IT stuff, I think you did that for a bit too? I stayed on in IT support & projects. Does that help?

Memories there. Probably the happiest time of my working life in Oadby and early CP days. Being young and it being a daily new setup.  I can’t put my finger in who you are despite the clues. 
And it’s really bugging me.

I still bump into Chris Woollatt now and again or Charlie at the odd game. 
only person springs to mind first name starts with A. 

Edited 12 November 2022 by FLAN

[FoyleFox]

32 minutes ago, FLAN said:

Memories there. Probably the happiest time of my working life in Oadby and early CP days. Being young and it being a daily new setup.  I can’t put my finger in who you are despite the clues. 
And it’s really bugging me.

I still bump into Chris Woollatt now and again or Charlie at the odd game. 

Yes, great times. Loved it too. Lots of young people, so many good nights out. Christmas parties were legendary - probably best not to share those memories

I see updates from Woollatt and a few others on FB and still see Charlie, mainly at games, too. Had been due to go to his Silver wedding party in the summer and was really looking forward to catching up with some old faces, but Covid scuppered it.

 

I'm sure you did a short secondment to Mortgage Development at the same time as me, into a team with Webby and scary Sarah. I just never went back to MCS. So if your computer broke at CP, it was me, Nula or Charlie, then a few years later Matt or Scott, that were called to fix it. I still loathe printers!

Edited 12 November 2022 by FoyleFox

[FLAN]

Now I think you are someone else

 CQ?

[FoyleFox]

31 minutes ago, FLAN said:

Now I think you are someone else

 CQ?

No. On the right track...I think the first support team was when we, the development area merged with MSC support, which was just CQ and Geoff Trill.

Edit - I think it was just me, Webby, CQ and Geoff in the beginning. CQ and Geoff went off to telephony, and that's when Charlie joined.

Edited 12 November 2022 by FoyleFox

[FLAN]

Ok last guess. AS or KE ? 

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

22 hours ago, Parafox said:

 

Has anyone here faked an accent? I did when I was in my late teens. I tried an Australian accent as I figured girls liked guys from Oz and I might get laid as a result. I might have sounded more Welsh...

 

 

I went out one paddy's day and got absolutely obliterated, many years ago, I'm pretty good at impressions and accents if I don't say so myself and at some point during the night I thought it would be a great idea to put on a thick northern Irish accent. Great for a few hours and had a right laugh with my mates but as the night wore on and I got more and more wasted my insistence on doing the accent was only matched by my inability to pull it off consistently due to my ever increasing inebriated state. I nearly got my head kicked in a few times before I was hauled home by some mates for my own safety. Not my proudest moment but looking back now it was quite funny. 

[FoyleFox]

10 hours ago, FLAN said:

Ok last guess. AS or KE ? 

AS.

I'm now trying to think who KE is...

[STEVIE B]

22 hours ago, Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot said:

I went out one paddy's day and got absolutely obliterated, many years ago, I'm pretty good at impressions and accents if I don't say so myself and at some point during the night I thought it would be a great idea to put on a thick northern Irish accent. Great for a few hours and had a right laugh with my mates but as the night wore on and I got more and more wasted my insistence on doing the accent was only matched by my inability to pull it off consistently due to my ever increasing inebriated state. I nearly got my head kicked in a few times before I was hauled home by some mates for my own safety. Not my proudest moment but looking back now it was quite funny. 

Not really connected with the topic, but l was in lreland many years ago with a mate. 
We were in a hotel bar in a town near Galway. There was a group of people in the hotel from Belfast, this was during ‘the troubles’. 
Myself & mate went for a p*** & were chatting whilst making room for more Guinness, when a large fella joined us at the urinals. Shortly afterwards he said ‘Do l detect a British accent ?’. ‘Err yeah, English’. To which he replied ‘The only good Brit, is dead one !’.

We left shortly afterwards ! 

[Free Falling Foxes]

On 13/11/2022 at 16:21, STEVIE B said:

Not really connected with the topic, but l was in lreland many years ago with a mate. 
We were in a hotel bar in a town near Galway. There was a group of people in the hotel from Belfast, this was during ‘the troubles’. 
Myself & mate went for a p*** & were chatting whilst making room for more Guinness, when a large fella joined us at the urinals. Shortly afterwards he said ‘Do l detect a British accent ?’. ‘Err yeah, English’. To which he replied ‘The only good Brit, is dead one !’.

We left shortly afterwards ! 

Similar situation when a family member was drinking in a pub in southern Ireland. He was getting on well with the locals and they were buying each other rounds. After a while one fella turned to him and said that it was the first time he had had a drink with the enemy .

[FLAN]

On 12/11/2022 at 23:34, FoyleFox said:

AS.

I'm now trying to think who KE is...

Kerry. But don’t think she did move to MDS actually 

[FoyleFox]

Just now, FLAN said:

Kerry. But don’t think she did move to MDS actually 

It came to me later. KE went to IDC after MCS.

 

See Jo Whitt at games regularly too.

[foxfanazer]

On 07/11/2022 at 19:05, taupe said:

How does one get someone to seek professional help when they do not even acknowledge that they might have a problem, and any attempt at intervention ends in heated argument. Has anyone any experience? 

If his lies are harmless as you say then it's probably not worth pushing him to get help. He's presumably old enough to decide if he needs help. I get your frustration though

[Bellend Sebastian]

Old people can be great liars can't they?

 

I'm going to be vague for libel avoidance reasons but there was a lovely good news story recently about a veteran who enjoyed a distinguished service career during World War II despite only being 6 years old when it ended

[Guest Lako42]

Please, for the love of god give Gossipmongers podcast a listen. 

 

Some of the best stories I've ever heard 

 

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GCEA_enGB944GB948&sxsrf=ALiCzsadlX-xHSrsma1kgVb0ZjFcTh6jGw:1668523055004&q=gossipmongers&spell=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwitv_jftLD7AhWFG-wKHVEFDOoQBSgAegQICBAB&biw=1920&bih=937&dpr=1

Edited 15 November 2022 by Lako42

[Bellend Sebastian]

2 minutes ago, Lako42 said:

Please, for the love of god give Gossipmongers podcast a listen. 

 

Some of the best stories I've ever heard 

 

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GCEA_enGB944GB948&sxsrf=ALiCzsadlX-xHSrsma1kgVb0ZjFcTh6jGw:1668523055004&q=gossipmongers&spell=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwitv_jftLD7AhWFG-wKHVEFDOoQBSgAegQICBAB&biw=1920&bih=937&dpr=1

It was great to start with but I think the public started to scrape the barrel a bit so the stories weren't as good. Is it still going?

 

I know they still do Chatabix which is great, and I've heard My New Football Club is also very good

[SkidsFox]

It's not the perpetual liars you have to watch. After a while you know always to take their word with a pinch of salt. It's the guy or girl who is normally very honest but then slips one in.