Pathological Liars :-p!!!

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What is it about some people that mean that they need to lie about horsey things?? I have a small minority of acquaintances who exagerate pretty much everything to do with them and their ponies;

PERSON A: "I sold my horse for £7k...."(actually advertised for £7k but no-one was interested so loaned him to a friend)

PERSON B: "I have done loads of eventing, I got my current horse up to BE Novice"...(actally said horse went round 3 intros and only completed 2 with person B's friend who is semi-prof rider)

PERSON C: "Course was HUGE, every jump was a good 95cms"....(competition was BE intro so wilst possible (?) maybe certainly not probable or likely)

....now I know that I should just grow up, ignore said people and move on, but it really gets under my skin!!! I am probabally too honest (well I think so) about mine and Av's shortcomings, and spend too long focusing on the negatives. So I'm thinking of developing a good old lying streak too as these people never seem to get their commupance (sp?) and are perfectly happy living in dream world...and I think actually genuinely believe it after a while!
 
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I know a few people like that too, and it gets on my nerves why they have to lie. They should know by now, liars get caught out when they least expect it. I think im too honest like you, if anything, i end up putting myself down. The other week, a few of the liveries on my yard went to the showground to practice, so i joined them. I reckoned i'd jumped my cob over a box that was about 2ft6 and i was quite chuffed (as im not a jumper) yet the girls measured it, and it was 3ft!
 
clipcloppop- you are truly a good person and I aspire to be as grown up as you!!:-D

Horseylass- that is completely fab, well done you and supercob and if you join my 'If you cant beat them, then join them gang' you can go even further and tell everyone that your jump was 11ft high hahahahaha :-)
 
avthechav said:
clipcloppop- you are truly a good person and I aspire to be as grown up as you!!:-D

Horseylass- that is completely fab, well done you and supercob and if you join my 'If you cant beat them, then join them gang' you can go even further and tell everyone that your jump was 11ft high hahahahaha :-)
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well...i did mean to say it was actually 5 ft LOL! ;) teeheehee

Also.....im LOVING your username! haha
 
Well i'm going to Badminton next year on Impy...do you want to groom for me??!!

Lol - you up for the eventers weekend in Feb? Maybe we can both go and jump all the Advanced fences cause they are so easy!

Ha ha love this thread - so true x
 
Well Lisamd, I would love to come and groom for you but unfortunately me and Av will also be competing. I havent had to qualify to anything though obviously, one of the organisers saw me at Sollihull unaffiliated intro and begged me to come :-P
 
Oh crikey, absolutely.
i sold a lovely coloured cob years ago who I'd bought as a foal but he grew wider not taller (great judge of a horse, me). he was about 15hands and a little chunky superstar. a few years later a friend went on hols to the yard where he was kept (small world) and the girl who rode him boasted to my friend when she got back from a competition that they'd been doing "a 4'6" xc course". Hmmmm. Badminton and Burghley aren't that big, for starters, and the only thing that would have gotten that little chap over 4'6" was a trebuchet... it was obviously said to really impress, but what a daft exaggeration. :( :(
also, another friend treats lots of horses and says that the owners will often say that it's an Advanced or an Intermediate eventer, and when she's nosey and checks up on its record it's done a couple of PNs or something. Again, silly boastful, not fair on the horse either in a funny sort of way, I think.
I can't stand liars around horses, they'll always get found out.
 
The only bit I dont like is that it does make a farse out of the effort and achievements of those people that are actually doing it. I think its very very hard for amateur riders to make it to a decent level of competition so those who have never put the effort or had the guts to do it really annoy me when they say oh yes I have done that!
Theres only a couple of people on my yard that compete and yet the others talk like they have been there done it and retired from top level competition even though are too petrified to canter out on a hack!
 
I had a brilliant one at my yard who claimed to be out BSing every week yet I never saw her and when I asked why I never saw her she said she doesn't go to the little venues only the big ones like towerlands which is miles from us!
She also claimed to have a string of 6 horses but she only keeps her favourite one at the yard with her and the others are kept at various competition venues.
Its quite sad really as we all know that she could not afford 6 horses and to compete them and the one horse she did have she was petrified of and you couldn't get her to canter.

They just make fools of them selves, but then you get a lot of that on here, I do sometimes wonder how much said on here is actually true! :p
 
Do you think the opposite applies and the likes of Mark Todd says he's popped a couple of logs in his time, Michael Whitaker says he'll have a go at a show jumping course and Laura Bechstolheimer (sp - should have chosen an easier name) says she's not too bad at lateral work on the right horse?
 
cariad said:
Do you think the opposite applies and the likes of Mark Todd says he's popped a couple of logs in his time, Michael Whitaker says he'll have a go at a show jumping course and Laura Bechstolheimer (sp - should have chosen an easier name) says she's not too bad at lateral work on the right horse?
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hahaha, yes maybe!...Maybe Edward Gal tells people that he has a Dobbin that can trot quite nicely!

Oooohhhh these replies are making me giggle. We are obviously only the sane people around. Im glad that its not just me that attracts the mentalists!
 
i think it happens within every sport, people can either accept their achievements whereas others feel that they have to 'flower' things up in order make themselves appear better than everyone else. it is insecurity. :confused:
 
one thing I learned very early on is how to spot a horse bull****ter! It's amazing how many there are! I apply the rule that, the more they blow their own trumpet, the higher the risk they are a BSer. Those who really know their stuff don't need to prove it.

;)
 
kerilli said:
Hmmmm. Badminton and Burghley aren't that big, for starters, and the only thing that would have gotten that little chap over 4'6" was a trebuchet...
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oh god, i meant to say that Badders & Burghley aren't as big as 4'6", not that they're "not that big" which implies that i think they're small, eeek, not at all. Ooopsy.

Just remembered a friend who intended to event years ago, did all the prep, registrations & entries, then w/d the night before his first event cos he totally wimped out. Years later we were on the same table at a Hunt Ball when someone asked him about his riding experience, at which point he said grandly "ah well, I hung up my eventing boots a long time ago" for all the world as if he was Blyth Tait or someone equally brilliant! I just cracked up and blurted out "but you never did anything" (ah, the Inescapable Truthfulness of Alcohol). ;) ;)
 
lol
I may see you all at badminton then? Team Gb selectctors want to see my young eventer before they make decision on his london 2012 bid?

shame hes only 17 months old and oooh 14 hh? :)
 
ah Kerilli, I often find that port and champayne is often the way to let the truth out!...but I do like his line about hanging up his boots (I might consider just giving up and saying that to everone about all disciplines)!

Millyard Rejects said:
lol
I may see you all at badminton then? Team Gb selectctors want to see my young eventer before they make decision on his london 2012 bid?

shame hes only 17 months old and oooh 14 hh? :)
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Actually just had a phone call straight from Yogi, apparently Av is so talented that she is actually on the 2012 team. I obviously wont be doing anything bigger than intros next year to mimise risk of injury...shame but Yogi did beg ;-)
 
Good lord, we used to have one on my yard, a complete and utter psycho-patholotical liar to the teeth.

For starters, she told everyone that she was a gp. Then she told some she was working as a locum for the OB/GYN or whatever you call it over here. Then she told some she was a consultant gp and worked in A&E. Then she told some that she used to work with the flying doctors, and some others that she was a surgeon working on seperating conjoined twins. Meanwhile, she was collecting benefits, and when her partner was queried as to what she did (innocently asked, of course) he said that she used to work as a care assistant in a nursing home.

Then it got really interesting, she started telling folk about how she was already trained as a gp, but that she was going to fast-track thru veterinary school cos she already had the medical background. mmmmm. And then she was going to a local RDA to ride a horse <?> and then told folk back at my yard that she was buying it. That got back the RDA center that was horrified to hear that this woman was going on about buying one of their ponies. Told THEM she was gp, too.

She'd lie about where she lived, who she saw, what she had for lunch. And to add to it, she was also a klepto (and lied and said "someone else took it"). She moved yards and left her tack box laying open, and in it were tons of stuff that belonged to other people - stupid stuff, head collars, schooling whips, a fly mask that had another horse's name on it (and she said she BOUGHT IT NEW like that!). lordy lordy

And yes, she would lie about her horsey ability too. She had a pony that she was afraid to ride unless it was being led (seriously) and yet when she moved yards she'd brag about how she'd be galloping/jumping/kid showing it county level (kid hated horses). She'd even offered to take on horses for schooling (!!!!) and then "bought an eventer", tho to do what with, I dunno.
 
Love this thread :D

I know so many of these people its astonishing. Actually I think that there are least 12 Great Britain teams for each event because I think I have met so many of them that surely there can't be only one!
 
PucciNPoni said:
Good lord, we used to have one on my yard, a complete and utter psycho-patholotical liar to the teeth.

For starters, she told everyone that she was a gp. Then she told some she was working as a locum for the OB/GYN or whatever you call it over here. Then she told some she was a consultant gp and worked in A&E. Then she told some that she used to work with the flying doctors, and some others that she was a surgeon working on seperating conjoined twins. Meanwhile, she was collecting benefits, and when her partner was queried as to what she did (innocently asked, of course) he said that she used to work as a care assistant in a nursing home.

Then it got really interesting, she started telling folk about how she was already trained as a gp, but that she was going to fast-track thru veterinary school cos she already had the medical background. mmmmm. And then she was going to a local RDA to ride a horse <?> and then told folk back at my yard that she was buying it. That got back the RDA center that was horrified to hear that this woman was going on about buying one of their ponies. Told THEM she was gp, too.

She'd lie about where she lived, who she saw, what she had for lunch. And to add to it, she was also a klepto (and lied and said "someone else took it"). She moved yards and left her tack box laying open, and in it were tons of stuff that belonged to other people - stupid stuff, head collars, schooling whips, a fly mask that had another horse's name on it (and she said she BOUGHT IT NEW like that!). lordy lordy

And yes, she would lie about her horsey ability too. She had a pony that she was afraid to ride unless it was being led (seriously) and yet when she moved yards she'd brag about how she'd be galloping/jumping/kid showing it county level (kid hated horses). She'd even offered to take on horses for schooling (!!!!) and then "bought an eventer", tho to do what with, I dunno.
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Oh my God, I have actually met people like that! It's actually really hilarious to listen to, but eventually it makes me sad. That they feel they have to make up all this ludicrous crap to get attention. They must have really low self esteem. Or some kind of severe superiority complex and they actually believe the rubbish they are spouting. The horsey world does attract some nut jobs.
 
Likewise, I can think of a couple of people who either lie about their prowess at certain competitions/lessons (but forget that we were there and saw it!) or just spout off about having done this, that and the other, when we know they haven't.

It ends up being a giggle amongst the rest of us who are honest... in a 'let's try and catch them out' stylie, or 2nd guess what's coming next!

People like this seem to have convinced themselves that what they've said is the honest truth though.... it's very odd.... very amusing
 
Not quite the same as outright telling lies, but we used to know a girl who genuinly did go to competitions away from the local area, but only little 'local' shows, she would then tell people that she was 5th, or 6th in the line up, or proudly show her 3rd or 4th rosettes off. What she didn't tell people was that either the rosettes were to 4th or 5th and the judge allowed the rest of the class to line up as they pleased, or that there were only 3 or 4 people in the class :D
 
still lol

Just had call about the shetland-paul nichols wants to use her for kauto stars fast work...not sure if i can let her? seen as shes in training for the national next april? :)
 
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