lying

Always a soft place in our hearts for fabricated reviews getting torn down by the truth. Whether it's a potential competitor trying to stain the reputation of an upstanding establishment with words pulled out of thin air, or some fool named Zachary trying to give a car wash a bad time over a bunch of nothing; bring it on. When the truth wins, and it's captured in a fiery response from an owner who's had enough, we are all about it. 

Lying customers are hellbent on ignoring the inevitable callouts from restaurant owners, when they take to their online review scribblings. They're hurting the image of the business, and people's ability to experience potentially kickass service and/or food. The vigilance of truth-defending restaurant owners is deeply appreciated in this case. 

Stupidity and ignorance run amok online. Fortunately, we have people who task themselves with calling out the blatant lies, and unfounded incendiary statuses/comments. I do wonder if we'll ever find a time, when people actually up and quit their bs, online. But I'm doubtful, at BEST. It's just too easy for people to weave a tale anchored in imaginative fiction, online, when they can hide the truth in their eyes, behind a computer screen they post from. 

These people fell victim to the very web of lies they created. 

We get a raging sense of justice when we see liars get called out on social media. It almost makes you feel like there are actual repercussions for dishonesty in this world. Anyway, here are some times people got called out for their falsehoods, large and petty.

If you grew up believing that sniffling would kill your brain cells, or crossing your eyes ran the risk of them remaining like that; then, you might benefit from this list. Parents are capable of filling our childish, unknowing minds with all manners of misguided, outright dishonest tidbits of "knowledge." If we're lucky, we grow up, and discover the truth for ourselves through that good 'ol life experience. 

Sometimes you craft a lie that's just believable enough to work. In the case of these 30 liars who got away with their BS, and then shared their success stories on Twitter, we're equally impressed and appalled. 

In times of doubt, check the tapes. The internet is brimming with fake reviews, as well as wonderful responses from the companies themselves. What we haven't seen is someone give such a detailed, minute-by-minute account of the reviewer's visit. This is some very thorough destruction.

The internet is so full of lies, it's hard to know what to believe sometimes. That's why it's so satisfying to catch someone in the act, like these folks have done here. Whether it's in a twitter thread,  a review or even a random comments section, trolls and liars are no match for the justice-obsessed truth-tellers of the internet. 

These people's half-baked attempts gave way to just the kinds of fails we're all about at the Fail Blog. A sweet and spicy combination of carelessness meets the online heroes, aware enough and ready to call out the bullshit. And, we're thankful for it. 

All I'm saying is if this kid took that silly little lie that far, how do we know what's being put out right now as a story grounded in truth, isn't just another work of fiction? That being said, the creativity is still on point, and to imagine such a scenario actually happening, is WILD. 

Sometimes people need to be reminded that the world can detect the stink of the BS they're putting out. In these cases, liars met their match in the online world's toughest truth-defending warriors. 

These people threw their lies out on the internet for the online world to eat up; and the ones committed to calling out dishonesty with the untold truth, did what they could. As far as we know these are fitting examples of quityourbs, but maybe there's even more to the picture. Every now and again, the one telling the alleged "bullsh*tter" to drop the act, is doing some of the bullsh*tting themselves. A wild world we live in, and lies can distort the real picture, when people allow themselves to get caught up in telling them. 

Writer, Nicole Cliffe, got real with people on Twitter and started something of a running confessional with fellow self-concerned liars who tried to get along in life, by stringing trusting people along with their web of lies. It's refreshing to see people using social media as a platform to confess on the BS, instead of being called out in a quityourbs kind of forum. And oh, we have plenty of those. 

We are masters at deceiving ourselves, and the weirdest part is we can so stubbornly overcommit to believing the lies we set out to tell that we actually start believing them.