What bullshit have you convinced people was true?

[GreyFox389]

I've convinced numerous people that the word "Bouquet" was named after Jacques Bouquet, who spent his life studying flowers and their arrangements.

Thus a group of flowers is called a "Bouquet" in his honor.

 

[Genericjim101]

I convinced someone that platforming games in Japan go from right to left due to the Japanese reading system. Having them go right to left is easier for the eyes to follow as the Japanese populace are used to reading that way.

 

[generousX]

that daddy long legs are the most poisonous spiders in the world

 

[Latinidiot]

I once did one, but I'm laughing so hard from some of these entries that I frgot my own bullshit story.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

on a festival campground i spread the word that i am a trained physiotherapist and will give free massage-treatment to nice girls. Worked damn fine

On the last uni-party (90's trash motto) we used some fake tattoos from an old youth magazine and i convinced some people that the rose on my cheekbone and the shamrock on the side of my neck indeed are real.

once on a spontaneous camping trip to the netherlands i convinced some dutch surferteens that i am english and just on vacation with my german friends. At least i could enjoy the weekend without getting insulted or pranked by them.( my crazy mix of dialects i cought by staying in Camebridge some time would never convince any real englishmen i guess, but it sounded british enough for the dutch)

 

[WarCorrespondent]

I'm not much of a bulldust artist, my cousin on the other hand...

He convinced his friends that there was in fact an insect called a Starch Beetle, which was the only reason potatoes are able to grow, similarly to bees pollinating flowers.

I laughed my arse off for days after hearing this.

 

[Frybird]

Without even meaning to, i convinced someone that (somewhere between 2000 and 2005) Nokia has a special feature called "Phone Sharing" wich, if you lay one Nokia Phone on top of another, gives you access to the other phones service.

Also someone once asked me if every "IT guy" wore glasses. I said yes, he believed me. Don't know if that counts.

 

[j0frenzy]

I recently almost convinced my a friend of mine that the origin of the phrase 5th columnist came from a requirement to have both sides of any argument in a newspaper and dissenting opinions are reserved for the 5th column to bury them. Would have worked except another friend who was listening asked what the fuck I was on and corrected me. Sigh.
I've also spent the past 3.5 years convincing a bunch of teachers that I am a competent college student who does most of the reading. No one has caught on yet.

 

[Bloodstain]

A few classmates once convinced some Americans that here in Germany, we don't drive cars but ride horses. Also, agriculture is our main source of income.

I mean, seriously? How could they believe that? We effing invented cars!

 

[unindexedsearchengine]

i've convinced my whole class that i have the ability to photosynthetise to some extent

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

Made up a bunch of stories with a friend that another friend was incredibly racist. We had a few people believing it so we just started making outrageous claims of just how racist he was. Now it's a running joke.

 

[BestOfWest]

I convinced a friend that Will Ferrel was the drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

 

[Dunkerloop]

Well, it wasn't me, but I'm pretty sure my older cousin doesn't know what to believe anymore because of my grandpa. He convinced him that at street crosses, you have to look left and right for cars, and up for helicopters (Which we still see him doing occasionally), and when my grandpa was jokingly saying "We have Camels here on this island", turns out there actually is a camel on the island.

 

[ZehMadScientist]

I had this social studies teacher a few years back whose stupidity knew no bounds. This one time a couple of friends and I convinced her that the beamer in the classroom had a touchscreen, by simply having one person tap the screen and have someone else click it with the mouse.

She then tried it herself, and after doing so asked in all seriousness: "Why does it not work when I do it?"

I was on the floor (alongside the rest of the class). Honestly, I can't remember the last time I genuinely laughed so hard. Poor woman.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

eh for some reason only one of the bad ones comes to mind.

was sitting in class one day, and our teacher asked the dumb chick in front of me a question about the beginning of WWII, which of course she had no idea on but didn't want to look stupid, and by quick thinking i wrote an answer down and gave it to her saying it was the answer, in which she read it word for word:

"The polish had quick thinking by killing 100,000 jews before Germany, and Germany swooped in to stop poland, but ended up just doing the same thing in the end."

She read it without a doubt in her mind....

the teacher was absolutely dumbfounded, and just didn't even say anything, while everyone else in the room was cracking up.

She was doing subjects like chemistry and maths specialist so she wasn't that stupid.

Book smarts does not guarantee a lack of stupidity.

agreed, hell easily 8 out of the top 20 kids in my graduating class were some of the stupidest people i had ever met when it came to anything not involving a dry as fuck boring book.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Made up a bunch of stories with a friend that another friend was incredibly racist. We had a few people believing it so we just started making outrageous claims of just how racist he was. Now it's a running joke.

i've had this happen in a way, (i'm white) used to walk to class all the time with a friend of mine who was black, and we'd be in a hallway that wasn't used often, only the occasional 4-5 students walking by us, and he would randomly yell out fast "WHITE POWER!" as loud as he could, then look at me in disgust really fast, and everyone would look over at me thinking i was some kind of KKK member (usually he would do it while other black girls were walking by.)


First time it happened i near half shit myself, now a days i just find it hilarious.

 

[Ren3004]

Me and a friend once convinced my brother that he was invisible. Yeah, that was fun. There was also the time we taught him English, obviously teaching him completely wrong words. That didn't last long, though.

 

[Sora112112]

I've done my homework, seriously.

 

[Biodeamon]

all kinds of crap like how one made-up european country used leaves as currency. i think of lying of a sport.

 

[jonyboy13]

Convinced someone I was 32 when I was 16. Power of the beard.