62 People That Thought They Got Away With Their Lies, But Their Audience Was Just Pretending

"This is our year!" - Dallas Cowboys fans.

Probably when someone says they’re “five minutes away” and they haven’t even left the house yet. We all know that lie.

My old boss invented a husband that didn’t exist.

When someone says, “I'm fine,” and everyone knows they're clearly not, but nobody wants to ask what's wrong.

One of my relatives is insanely jealous of her sisters (close in age) and she’s the one who ended up unattractive. But as someone in a similar spot with my own close cousins of close age, I can say her personality is the biggest turn off. She constantly says at family gatherings how she’s gonna lose the weight and be just as hot as the other two and have men clawing after her. We all tell her go get it, and hope she succeeds.

We all know she won’t do it. She gives up on everything that requires the teeniest bit of work. We both were on GLP-1s (former type 2 diabetic me) & I gave her every tip for getting it cheaper and how to make sure she keeps her supply as some places were short on it. Couldn’t even keep to that. I think she just likes complaining.

General shows up to our meeting impromptu asking about some metric, which he has set a target as X. The Colonels assure him that it is indeed X, when the whole room knows dang well that it is actually 4X and that X will never happen. And that the General will now proceed to inform policymakers which in all likelihood will result in fewer resources and increased risk of harm to the people in the room. But it will earn the General admiration for having accomplished X.

"This will be a quick meeting" and the whole room just sat down and accepted it like we hadn't all been burned before.

The bloke we saw three or four times a year who had a painfully obvious wig.  Then he turned up without it and said he'd had meningitis and all his hair had fallen out.

Not a soul in the room believed him.

That one of my husband’s sisters wasn’t with a married man who had a wife and 2 children at home while he attended my husband’s sister’s family Christmas and other dinners. Made me so upset my husband and I stopped attending.

Sis saying she's been studying at a library, reasoning out why she keeps going home late despite having a daughter to care for.

I went to a lecture of Jurgen Habermas, who is a famous philosopher, in college. It was completely impossible to understand a single word of what this man was saying. He was quite old, back then I believed he had some kind of speech disability. Yet the auditorium was FILLED with professors and students who all seemed fully engaged with his lecture.

It reminded me of the story of the king without clothes who gave a speech and didn't realize he had no clothes on, yet his audience pretended that everything was normal.

“I couldn’t do my homework, my grandad passed away last week”.

No he didn’t, I saw him yesterday!!

I convinced a group of my friends that denzel Washington was a distant descendant of George Washington

American history is not widely known in the uk.

Generally speaking Linkedin. There's a reason why it's called Facebook for Professionals.

This meeting could’ve been an email” nah the real lie is when the boss says “there’s no stupid questions” and then looks at u like that 💀.

Managers encourage feedback and promise will improve ways of working.
And 3 months later, nothing really changed, just some new names for same thing.

My sister one time showed up to a huge family dinner with bright red henna dyed hair. She was the center of attention and told everyone it was natural. Everyone believed her and swooned over it all night. Obnoxious.

That my dad didn't cheat, we all knew. So glad my mum dropped that jerk. She is a lot happier now.

Thanksgiving 2025. mom served a turkey so dry it could double as kindling. we all said 'oh wow, perfectly roasted!' while chewing gravel. i wanted to scream but just kept smiling and passing the cranberry sauce to hide my face.

There's one actor I follow who's wife basically only posts about him and people totally fall for her "we're so happy posts" when like if they were really happy she wouldn't have to post about the relationship all the time. (Actually one did admit to me she found the couple to be shady but posted and gushed about them so she wouldnt look bad).