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Why do people lie online are they living a fantasy or winding us up?

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Sago Mon 29-Jun-26 20:53:11

Just that really,

I don’t understand why people come online with a story with more holes than a sieve.

Do posters not realise they have left a trail?

petra Tue 30-Jun-26 07:59:55

They are definitely knicker obsessed.
In a fun thread about what would you steal from a house I’d you were a burglar they posted knicker elastic. 🥴

MissAdventure Tue 30-Jun-26 07:59:41

I must have missed the bit about them being worn!!! shock
They were put back in the drawer, having been worn?!!

BlueBelle Tue 30-Jun-26 07:59:21

Or the workman could be joining in the threesome( or foursome) all wearing blue knickers 🤣🤣🤣

Sago Tue 30-Jun-26 07:55:46

MissAdventure

It was by someone who had claimed to have both a husband and wife at different times talking about their light blue knickers, the ones they wear under white trousers, having been possilbly stolen by a workman. smile

MissAdventure

You forgot the most important detail……..they had been worn😉.

Perhaps having a wife and a husband means the laundry sometimes gets muddled up and of course enjoying naturism means you could go days without wearing any.

MissAdventure Tue 30-Jun-26 07:50:36

It was by someone who had claimed to have both a husband and wife at different times talking about their light blue knickers, the ones they wear under white trousers, having been possilbly stolen by a workman. smile

SpinDriftCoastal Tue 30-Jun-26 07:49:28

Not exactly lying but I once knew a young girl who sadly did not do very well at school because of her lack of ability. She had a pretty face and could work a bar where men were concerned and she used this to her advantage much to the chagrin of her other friends who did well at school. She always played the pretty victim but a time came when she got known and people would avoid her. Cunning comes in many forms.

Sago Tue 30-Jun-26 07:47:44

BlueBelle

Has it anything to do with workmen and knickers ? Sago
🤣

Yep!

Galaxy Tue 30-Jun-26 07:46:50

Ferry it is conpletely possible you are right and I am too cynical.

MartavTaurus Tue 30-Jun-26 07:35:46

MaizieD

MartavTaurus

Galaxy

It's a thread asking for advice about knickers.
If I get deleted/ suspended for this rather than something interesting I will be irritated .

What's wrong with that? They're only an item of underwear? Off to take a peep - at the thread, not at anyone's knickers. 👀

I can’t find the thread. I vaguely remember seeing the title but wasn’t interested enough to look at it.

Now it seems I’ve missed out the latest bit of Gnet gossip and don’t know who is on the naughty step hmm 😳

????
There's one in Chat about Underwear. ??

Is that wicked reporting poster twisting knickers to suit their agenda this time? 🙊

MaizieD Tue 30-Jun-26 07:29:39

MartavTaurus

Galaxy

It's a thread asking for advice about knickers.
If I get deleted/ suspended for this rather than something interesting I will be irritated .

What's wrong with that? They're only an item of underwear? Off to take a peep - at the thread, not at anyone's knickers. 👀

I can’t find the thread. I vaguely remember seeing the title but wasn’t interested enough to look at it.

Now it seems I’ve missed out the latest bit of Gnet gossip and don’t know who is on the naughty step hmm 😳

MartavTaurus Tue 30-Jun-26 07:19:37

Galaxy

It's a thread asking for advice about knickers.
If I get deleted/ suspended for this rather than something interesting I will be irritated .

What's wrong with that? They're only an item of underwear? Off to take a peep - at the thread, not at anyone's knickers. 👀

ferry23 Tue 30-Jun-26 07:18:28

I'm clearly too trusting.

It doen't occur to me that people are fantasising or lying. Maybe because I wouldn't - I just don't see the point.

David49 Tue 30-Jun-26 07:10:43

They lie online because they can, we are all anonymous the worst sanction is to get banned, then you start again with a different user name.
Many of the scams and hacking are just mischievous, to prove they can, all ages do it, taken to extremes it becomes an online fantasy world.

GrannyGravy13 Tue 30-Jun-26 07:07:24

I imagine that in real life they are lonely and sad people.

I sussed out knickergate immediately

Galaxy Tue 30-Jun-26 07:06:15

It's a thread asking for advice about knickers.
If I get deleted/ suspended for this rather than something interesting I will be irritated .

Galaxy Tue 30-Jun-26 07:02:53

Knickers.

MaizieD Tue 30-Jun-26 07:02:12

I’m baffled.

What is this all about?

Galaxy Tue 30-Jun-26 07:00:21

I worked on a sexual health line for a while, obviously in addition to the genuine callers, we had a few non genuine ones, they were easy to spot.

HelterSkelter1 Tue 30-Jun-26 06:57:19

Oh OK. I avoid the N&P thread as I am sure it attracts the Walter Mittys and life is too short to waste reading some posters.

A quick dip in and out of Gransnet while having a cup of tea and feet up in the heat is best for me. Scrolling past any which to me are rubbish.

MawsRosie Tue 30-Jun-26 06:56:10

I posted this on another thread, but perhaps it’s more appropriate here.
When I was a Sam we would sometimes get (hoax) calls (at night) about some potentially embarrassing situation often involving a man and his teenage daughter’s friend who invariably omitted to lock the bathroom door, or some tale involving underwear or accidental, of course, voyeurism. The story would develop becoming more and more risqué and our aim was to deflect the caller from achieving their their intended objective IYKWIM.
With experience you could usually spot the genuinely distressed or potentially suicidal caller so we would start by giving the benefit of the doubt, but the dodgy ones soon became easy to spot.
# justsaying.

BlueBelle Tue 30-Jun-26 06:52:40

Has it anything to do with workmen and knickers ? Sago
🤣

Allsorts Tue 30-Jun-26 06:41:47

Yes there's on regular on here and politics whose stories don't
add up
It is sad because she obviously has the opposite life.
On line you can be what you want not what you are.

Astitchintime Tue 30-Jun-26 06:30:57

I’m puzzled too…….do enlarge Sago, please.

HelterSkelter1 Tue 30-Jun-26 05:52:53

Has something specific happened?

Doodledog Mon 29-Jun-26 22:41:33

wink