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Me: Hahaha that's funny.
Her: What's funny?
Me: Oh honey...
It took me literally half an hour to even get her slightly on board with the fact that things are called things because we decided on the name not because things inherently have a name we discover.
I wish I was joking.
#2
Yeah, no. Have a nice life.
#3
She was 100% convinced that the sky was all their was and that space was a huge cover up by the government.
At first I laughed, then we argued and I couldn't win because I haven't been to space to prove it exists.
We didn't see much of each other after that.
As reported by Forbes, the most important factors to consider whether someone is a liar include a person’s body language, voice inflection, and eye contact.
For example, based on research by the University of Michigan, liars maintain eye contact 70% of the time.
Meanwhile, according to former CIA agents in the book, ‘Spy the Lie,’ people naturally want to physically cover a lie and to hide from others’ reactions. So, some folks actually physically cover their mouth or close their eyes.
And if someone says that they’re a ‘good liar,’ you should believe them. This is a better indication that they’re actually a good liar than taking a lie detector test.
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**Me:** Dude, everyone already knows that you're gay.
**Friend:** Yeah that's what I wanted to tell you. How did everyone know?
Me: Haha, funny man. What is it that you really wanted to tell me.
**Friend:** That was really it. I'm gay.
**Me:** No. Really... stop playing. What did you want to tell me?
**Friend:** I'm gay.
**Me:** Wait...Oh my god, you're serious?? I'm so sorry! I was just joking. I didn't think you were really going to say that you're gay.
**Friend:** Haha. It's ok but yeah.. Are you okay with that? Can we still be friends?
**Me:** Dude. I don't care if you're gay or not.
Yeah. He was really worried that we weren't going to be friends afterwards. It was a bit awkward (mostly my fault for joking about it) but we're still best friends.
Something else to look out for is changes in one’s tone of voice. As Time magazine points out, when a person is nervous, their vocal cords might tighten up in response to the stress they feel. So, their voice becomes very high-pitched. Hearing a creak in an individual’s voice or them clearing their throat may be signs of dishonesty.
On top of that, someone who suddenly raises their voice may be doing so because they’re lying and getting defensive.
Other things to note are folks who use suspicious phrases such as “honestly,” “let me tell you the truth,” and “I want to be honest with you. That’s alongside overusing filler words such as “uh,” “um,” and “like” to buy more time to figure out what to say next while lying.
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#9
It wasn't really awkward for me because I just continued laughing at him.
Broadly speaking, people are fairly good at judging liars. The caveat is that you’re capable of doing this subconsciously. Meanwhile, it’s your conscious mind that throws a spanner in the works, according to research.
Lies can be categorized into three main categories:
- Lies of commission, where a person is actively telling false statements
- Lies of omission, where someone fails to disclose information that is relevant
- Lies of influence, aka character lies, which are used to create misleading or false impressions, even if the statements aren’t necessarily untrue. Lies of influence can be used to state something unrelated in order to cover up untruths
#10
Edit: her issue with dinosaurs wasn't so much creationist denial as much as it was a belief in a marketing scheme companies invented to sell dinosaur toys. Also the toy companies must've planted fossils, because how else did they get there...
#11
I said, "Oh, great! So if I have a problem I can come to you?"
He said, "No, I mean keep your office door open at all times."
Oh.
#12
What is the most ridiculous, bizarre, or awkward thing that someone has ever told you that seriously made you think they were either lying or joking? What happened next?
Do you think you’re fairly good at picking up on liars, or do you tend to believe everything and anything others tell you? Share your thoughts below.
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5 minutes later, an older lady who is in the store almost everyday, maybe in her 50s-60s, came up to me and said " I just drove into your building."
I looked at her, and right before I began to laugh out loud, I realized she actually did.
#15
Me: "Did she have pneumonia?"
Manager: "No, she had a baby"
Me: "HA. Right. So what did she really have?"
Manager: "A baby"
Me: "oh"
#16
Once we get back home to Florida, my girlfriend decides to tell me that her dad thought we were coming out to Vegas to get married and he dressed up because he was planning on taking us to get married that day. She had to tell him that we had no intention of getting married in Vegas.
#17
I chuckled and said, "I guess I'll have to look into that." He came back to me 5 minutes later and asked if I had found out yet.
#18
So, I was at the mall toy store one day and I came around the corner of an aisle and saw a kid a little younger than me on the ground.
I delightfully shouted, "DUDE, YOU ARE GOOD!"
I'll never forget his parent's faces when I looked up and figured out what was really happening.
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