So many people are fake.

I don’t understand this thread really either What you say in your opening post Desdemoner is not what I call fake
Surely saying one thing to one person and something different to someone else is lying, or being sneaky or a stirrer .
Fake to me is pretending to be something you’re not I m not sure what media things you are on about All the ‘stars’ who’ve had loads of things done to the faces and boobs etc are fake

Perhaps you can give us some ‘for instances’

Pippa22

GoodAfternoonTea

I've known a few fake people in my time. One, years ago, used to drop designer label names all the time. She did not have a car, she had the 'Asto'. Her bag was the Ted Baker. I have also known a couple of really quite fake religious people who went around professing their faith to all and sundry. When the crunch came for a bit of help or kindness, they were no where to be seen.

GoodAfternoonTea I don’t understand . I thought being fake was about how you act and behave not about possessions.

Having a Ted Baker bag is no boast, they are not designer and not very expensive, certainly wouldn’t go with an Asto !,

But isn't it all part of the 'image'.#? If you refer to items you use by their brand names which she obviously considered gave her status, not sure about Ted Baker (?), but that was her thing, aren't you being fake? I would say 'Where is my handbag?' or I came by car today, not 'Where is my Ted Baker?' and I came in the 'Asto'. It is all about building a false image of yourself which surely is 'fake'? But, then again, I am a working class girl from an Irish family and to us a spade is a spade.

Well I don’t call that fake I call it showing off
Surely it’s not fake if she really does have a Ted Baker handbag or a posh car, that’s just bragging ( not really into ‘names’ so it would fly past my head)
Fake would be if she told everyone lots of tales about her wealth when she hadn’t two pennies to rub together in other words giving herself a false lifestyle

I think “being fake” can mean slightly different things to different people depending on how we’ve experienced it. For me, it’s about someone putting on a false image of who they think they are or how they want to be seen or heard.

GoodAfternoonTea

I've known a few fake people in my time. One, years ago, used to drop designer label names all the time. She did not have a car, she had the 'Asto'. Her bag was the Ted Baker. I have also known a couple of really quite fake religious people who went around professing their faith to all and sundry. When the crunch came for a bit of help or kindness, they were no where to be seen.

This person isn’t fake. Fakery= lying.
She was just displaying very bad taste. No one with taste refers to one of the most beautiful cars ever made as an astro 😱

petra

GoodAfternoonTea

I've known a few fake people in my time. One, years ago, used to drop designer label names all the time. She did not have a car, she had the 'Asto'. Her bag was the Ted Baker. I have also known a couple of really quite fake religious people who went around professing their faith to all and sundry. When the crunch came for a bit of help or kindness, they were no where to be seen.

This person isn’t fake. Fakery= lying.
She was just displaying very bad taste. No one with taste refers to one of the most beautiful cars ever made as an astro 😱

I totally agree. I think you have summed it up beautifully.

To me, a 'possessions' fake is (as the saying went in less liberal days), all fur coat and no knickers.
Pretending to be, or do something, with a smile or serious face, when you want to impress, or have no intention of carrying out your promise, is not just fakery, but compulsive lying.
We only have to watch the Machiavellian antics of our psychopathic, narcissistic 'leaders' where we are told, with utmost sincerity, that black is white, to realise that fake and lying go hand in hand.

This thread is pointless…

Don't know about fake people but do know people that say one thing and do the other, don't know where you stand with them, arranger to do something with you until a better offer comes along, as soon as i think someone has shown to be like that, I distance. Do not need them in my life..