Girl Tricks Boyfriend Into Believing He Didn't Get Full Ride to Prestigious Music Program, Gets Sued
He was boy. She was a girl who knew the password to his email. Can I make it anymore obvious?
Woman Who Used False Male Identity to Trick Friend Into Sex Sentenced to 8 Years
Gayle Newland, a 25-year-old UK woman, was recently found guilty of three counts of sexual assault for impersonating a man in order to have sex with her female friend. Judge Roger Dutton, calling Newland “an intelligent, obsessional, highly manipulative, deceitful, scheming and thoroughly determined young woman,” has…
Horny Minnesota Legislators Apologize for Getting Caught Making Out in a Park and Then Lying About It
On August 25, two state lawmakers—Minnesota House Republicans Tim Kelly and Tara Mack—were issued citations by a park ranger for “making out” in a car. The pair, who are both married to other people, issued statements today apologizing for accusing the park ranger of lying about the incident.
Bill O'Reilly Exaggerated His War Stories, Just Like Brian Williams
No one is more disappointed with Brian Williams than Bill O'Reilly. After Williams' tall-tale-telling was exposed, the Fox host went on a tear, saying Williams' lies should have all of us questioning other "distortions" in the liberal media. But Mother Jones points out O'Reilly has a few serious whoppers of his own,…
Man's Attempt to Play Gay to Help a Friend Backfires Spectacularly
It started out innocently enough (it always does) — one man pretends to be gay for a single dinner party to help a friend out. As lies do, this one sucked in the friend's family, free time, and living situation. And, before he knew it, the Helpful Man found that the lie had spiraled completely and entirely out of…
How to Catch a Liar (or Become a Really Good One)
I'd like to think that I'm pretty good at spotting a liar. Like this morning, when I went to grab some ice cubes for my cold brew and there was only ONE CUBE left between BOTH TRAYS and I said to the 10-year-old, "Did you put the ice cube trays back in the freezer with only one ice cube left?" and she looked at me…
Nearly 1% Of Women Claim They Were Virgins When They Gave Birth
Virgin births: not just for teen Jewish girls hanging out in Bethlehem barns anymore. According to research, almost 1% of American women claim that they, too were unpenetrated by the peen of a man when they became pregnant.
Need A Professional Lying Service? There's A Company For That
Paladin Deception Services, the self-proclaimed "The Leading Fictitious Reference Provider," can "put together almost any fictitious scenario that you require.”
Fox News Says Middle School Anti-Bullying Class Is 'Lesbian Role Play'
When Bard College students recently held anti-bullying workshops at a middle school on topics like gender identity and consent, instructors split boys and girls into two groups to practice "saying no" in a comfortable setting. Cut to: Fox News claiming that the girls' class promoted "lesbian role play" while boys were…
Watch These Clueless Kids at Coachella Lie About Liking Fake Bands
It's Coachella o'clock! Which means, of course, that a bunch of nervous, entitled white children in macrame shirts are pooping in buckets in a desert somewhere (if one of their poops casts a shadow, then it means six more weeks of war bonnets!). And also Moby is there! It's weird!
Everyone Lies Online, About Everything, All the Time
According to a new survey of 19,500 U.S. members on WhatsYourPrice.com, a seeking arrangements site where "wealthy" men bid on dates with women, one third of New Yorkers lie in their online profiles. For shame, New Yorkers! You seem like such an honest people.
Sprinkle-Smeared Kid Begins Perfecting The Art of Lying To Mom
Oh, little one. It's no big deal yet, but a decade from now, when you're riding shotty in your mom's SUV back from your buddy Kyle's party and she smells Bacardi Grapefruit on your breath, you better have this shit down.
Almost 40% Of Women Use Their Period As An Excuse To Get Out Of Lame Things
My glorious monthly flow (or, at least, my convincing lies to Mrs. Dunn about having it at that very moment) sure served me well during the swim portion of high school gym class, but for almost half of women, it doesn't end there. An online study of 1,000 women has found that 38% of women have used our menstrual cycle…
Is Mitt Romney a Race Baiting Felon? (Possibly!)
Irony of ironies: after being booed by an unimpressed crowd at the NAACP convention yesterday, Presidential candidate Mitt Romney turned around and tried to use those boos to get his rich white friends to give him more money at a fundraiser. "Support my run for President! Black people hate me!" And less than…
This Won't End Well: MTV Casting Show about People who Lie on the Internet
Piggybacking on success of the maybe-real, maybe-fake documentary Catfish (spoiler alert! Someone lies on the internet!), MTV has begun casting a TV spinoff of the show. So if you or someone you know is about to become entangled in a web of lies, if you're maintaining multiple fake social networking accounts or…
When Making Deals, Men Have a More Flexible Sense of Right and Wrong Than Women Do
When you're negotiating with someone, it's often hard to know who you're dealing with. Are they honest or are they willing to lie, cheat, or steal to get what they want? Well, there's no surefire way to tell—until you discover later that you've been screwed over, of course—but the results of new research show that if…
Rich People Are Lying Cheaters, Says Science
A new study from the Department of Making You Feel Better About Yourself has concluded that there may be more to the stereotype of the rich jerk than meets the eye — in many cases, wealthy people are more prone to act like dicks than the rest of the population.
Yoga Mogul Turns Out to Be a Total Scumbag
There's a big scandal brewing in the yoga world. (That's a world, right?) It centers around John Friend, creator of the popular practice of Anusara yoga. It turns out that behind the sunny facade promising fulfillment and happiness through yoga, there was some pretty dark shit happening. But now his sexual escapades…
Four Ways to Tell If an Online Dater Is Lying
When scientists set out to find what online daters lie about most, the results weren't that surprising: height and weight. What is really interesting is how you can tell when someone's lying.
