What bullshit have you convinced people was true?

[runnernda]

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.

What about IT girls? Do we all wear glasses too? If so, I'm the exception to the rule.

OT: I'm usually the gullible one, (although my one friend hates how often I call him out on his BS), but I have made people believe ridiculous things. I convinced my one brother he was adopted once because his facial features are nothing like those of my other brother and me (although now I like to think that I was adopted because I refuse to believe I share any genes with my family). When I was in elementary school I convinced people I was an alien. I've also managed to convince a lot of people that I'm a terrible liar by being very obvious when I'm lying about something that doesn't matter. I'm actually an excellent liar, and when I have to lie about something that DOES matter, everyone believes me.

Also, I apparently bullshitted myself once. I used to think that I was passing out on purpose for attention (I had issues in high school), but once they sent me to the hospital, it turned out my heart rate had dropped into the 30s. I then went to a cardiologist and it turns out I have vasovagal syncope, so I was actually passing out.

 

[antidonkey]

When I was in highschool I convince a girl that clitorus was a color. She was a very sheltered child.

A friend convinced one idiot that spam actually came from the Spamelope family of deer.

 

[Melon Hunter]

I convinced my cousin a couple of years ago that Tesco was in fact a Swedish company and had originally been a competitor to Ikea, but switched to being a supermarket when they came to Britain.

I also convinced him that treacle comes from fossilised sugar cane deposits and is therefore taped from underground much like crude oil (cookie if anyone gets the reference)

The best one is that my dad works for Network Rail and the entire immediate family gets a little plastic card granting us free first class travel on any British train. Whenever I pull it out and have to explain to someone why I get the card, I just tell them 'my dad owns the railways'. About 90% of people I've pulled this on so far have believed it (or at least said "Really?!"), with one girl from my college believing it and even telling other people about for 3 months afterwards. She slapped me pretty damn hard when one of my friends took pity on her and told her the truth.

 

[spartan231490]

I once convinced a girl in my HS that her boots were made of "fake leather made from cows" and that real leather was made from "woven Human hair" It's unfortunate that the joke only lasted about a minute or so, but I just couldn't keep from laughing any longer.

 

[Mischa87]

At least a dozen times, I have convinced foreign (And some native-English speaking) "tranny-chasers" that transwomen lay eggs in men's asses to reproduce, and it would kill them as they emerged, sort of like chest bursters... but ass bursters... I think I've coaxed more than a few guys to give up their transphobic ways.

It always gets a good laugh out of any friends that witness it, as they slowly trod away very confused/scared looking... I think they believe me because I come off as very intelligent while explaining things such as this, and the lengths I go to explain in graphic detail of how the above occurs (I've done it more than a few times like I said, so it's really taken off)

 

[Ked]

I convinced my brother that if you hold your poo in it turns into farts, it lasted for a while... until he shat his pants.

I also convinced a girl at high school that I was dead and a ghost and she was the only one who could see me, I got the whole class in on the joke and even on of our teachers, it was great

 

[AusGamer44]

When I was 8 I sang the 'Aeroplane Jelly' jingle in French for Show & Tell.(Don't ask me why,I was a weird kid.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQerOQ4cnaA
This kid in my class asked me if I was French.I don't know why,but I said I was.(I have some French ancestry on my dad's side but never been there.I also have an antiquated French first name that was very uncommon in 1970s Australia.)So she kept pestering me to tell her about my former life there.So,using my dad's stories of travels in Europe plus old movies,I made up this long bullsh** story about eating croissants in Le Cafe and riding Le Metro.She bought it Hook,Line & Sinker.
A month later,my best friend & I were imitating the American accent of John Denver,whom we'd watched in a tv special the night before.(I told you I was a weird kid.)The SAME kid asked me if I was American.I'd told my friend about the previous ruse,& buoyed on by her to test her theory that said kid was particularly thick,said I was.Kid then nagged me AGAIN to tell her all about life in America.Made up similarly BS story involving Disneyland & movie stars.I also said the air looks 'filmy' there,based on the weird way old American tv shows look on an old Aus PAL tv set.She bought it as well leaving my friend & I to think she wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed.
Also,when I was 10,my 4 yr old half sister was annoying me.I told her I was 'a figment of her imagination' and that 'I'm not really here.You're imagining me.I don't really exist.' She ran screaming from the room.

 

[lacktheknack]

i taught younger kids in Sunday school when i was a teenager, does that count?

OT: I don't lie to people for giggles. I'll let you decide how true that statement is.

 

[JamesStone]

I made someone believe that I´m a secret agent, that my code was 005 and that´s how I got free drinks in a bar.

And, maaaaan, you must talk with really dumb people.

 

[Ytomyth]

I used to be one of those people telling others in online games that pressing Alt+F4 could only result in good things. (Like getting invisibility, moar money or whatever would be most acceptable at that time ) Which was usually followed by "Player X has left the game." and some vulgarity towards me afterwards. ^_^

In real life I once convinced some people from school that they should go easy on me lest they (unconciously) become my next target when I'm in a psychosis or something. Apologizing in advance if I did so, stating I couldn't help me, but please...can I have your pudding? Some actually fell for it.

Yes, I am evil reincarnated, don't have any conscience whatsoever etc. etc.

 

[Evil Alpaca]

I get it from my mom's side of the family.

My maternal grandfather once convinced the waitress at her restaurant that the plate of half fried shrimp and half fired oyster was a seafood dish where the individual shrimps and oysters had a cooked half and a raw half.

When my brother ate a bite of cat food on a dare from me and my friends, my mom didn't yell at him when she found out. She told him that cat food was notorious for having cockroach eggs on them and he would crap out live cockroaches for the next week. He was deathly afraid of going to the bathroom for days afterwards.

I convinced my friends that my car's AI had taken us prisoner by engaging the cruise control without them knowing. When they saw the car accelerate when my feet were no where near the pedals, they began figuring out how to dismantle the car safely from the inside.

 

[MR.Spartacus]

Myself and a friend managed to convince damn near everyone who knew us in highs-school that we were cousins. They were still convinced until very recently when I went out of my way to tell them it was bogus. Maybe not best for implausibility but definitely lasted a good while.

 

[Anthony Abney]

I once convinced one of those chatterbots that I was God, does that count?

Oh, and during Bungie Day a couple years back, when they gave everyone the flaming helmet for a day, my friend and I convinced some kid that we got the helmets because we worked at Bungie. We then told him that we'd give him one for the day if he beat one of us in a 1v1 and then threw the match, his reaction was hilarious, I had to mute my mic to make sure he didn't hear the laughing.

 

[SneeringCanuck]

Snorting salt gives you a massive high.

Granted, the girl I was talking to was dumb as bricks, but holy shit was it funny.

 

[Zoe Castillo]

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[gbemery]

I once got a friend to believe the moon had blown up the night before. It helped that he didn't have a television nor listened to the radio much and that other friends saw what I was doing and joined in...sadly it only lasted about ten minutes until he freaked out and asked a teacher why everyone had to be in school after such an event.

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I got a girl at work to believe that Mars was red due to a nuclear war. When asked "but I thought there wasn't life on Mars" I replied that at the height of the space race and Cold War that Russia and the United States had bases on Mars. Due to tensions back home they were having major territory disputes on astronomical assets. Then one thing led to another and the stockpiled nukes flew, exploded and increased the rate of oxidation of iron in the soil and as such the planet is now a deep red. I went for bonus points just to see how far I could take it and to try and solidify telling her that the subsequent nuke war was the reason the Apollo program was cancelled and why exploration of space was now done by robots as a result of the Space Territorial Claims and Exploration Treaty signed in Geneva by parties from the US and Russia mediated by the British in 1965.

 

[demoman_chaos]

I'm usually the one telling people the truth and disposing of the myths, particularly when it comes to weapons and armor. Countless times I've had to explain to people real battle chainmail was very good at stopping thrusts and a katana is a bad choice when facing heavy armor.

 

[MasterOfHisOwnDomain]

We convinced one of my friends that we'd been snorting cocaine and that one of our friends was passed out upstairs but that "She'll be fine with a bit of rest". Absolutely hilarious - the look on her face was priceless.