h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well?...lol

Some of them don't, not even to get out of doing the washing-up.
Oh, and I lie too... lots (but rarely maliciously) tho I am not a man.
Is this about real, total untruth-lies, or just fibbing?

Well i think everyone fibs from time to time..so yeah real total untruth
For example when i first met my b/f (we met online in a chatrooom)he took 10 years off his age!..lol

Usually when the lie is discovered, an obvious reason for it can be deduced: to present oneself as younger and more attractive, for example. There is no blanket reason for lying.

Yes , but why cant they just be honest??? ..lol
Actually he nearly stumped himself cos i like older men! and the age he initially told me he was i considered too young for me ,never told him that until after he came clean though.

He just wanted to make a good impression on a girl he liked, I guess. But you're right, it would be easier for everyone if we were always honest.

Now i never said life would be easier if we were all honest,cos i guess it wouldnt be unless we salso doing all the things we had to lie about in the first plce!..But itmight generally be a nicer plce to be without lies.

As you are already convinced my answer will be a lie, I wont give you any

Not all men lie. But there are some questions which require a lie. For example, "does my bum look big in this"?

There's one lie that Richard regularly tells which annoys me no end. Richard has a habit of falling asleep in front of the TV. Sometimes it's because he's had a hard day at work and is tired, sometimes it's after a big meal, sometimes he's just very relaxed. But I can tell he's falling asleep by the change in the sound of his breathing - which can almost turn to snoring! As I often don't want to watch the video / TV on my own, I turn the sound down (or turn the TV off) and/or stop the video so that it doesn't disturb him. If he's not fast asleep, he'll sit up and complain, and then hotly deny that he was falling asleep. A short time later, he'll be fast asleep.

I've asked him more than once why he denies that he's falling asleep when it's pretty darned obvious that he is. He has yet to come up with a reasonable answer. I still love him, though, and wouldn't want to be without him.

Often we deny things when we are half asleep which we could not possibly deny when we are awake. "I wasn't snoring!".

Well, with snoring it's just one persons word against another cos you were asleep

As for the lying, that is clearly a male problem. No woman would ever think about lying herself younger of course. No thought could be further away. Besides, it was a chatroom. If you were to believe everything said on there, half the population should consist of young buxom blondes.

It's like applying for a job. A little mendacity is to be expected at the interview, to embellish your credentials. When they employ you, they expect complete probity at all times and then sack you if you lie about something. So it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Why do women whinge?! Lets all lie and get our own back on the naughty men!

Women are the biggest liars..

They wear high heals - You're not that tall.
They put on makeup - You don't look like that.
They pad there bras - Your boobs arn't that big.

Dear Zorpheus

I don't wear high heels, never have
or make-up
or bras, let alone padded ones

oh and I am definately a women!

me too..

no high heels..(i'm under 5ft tall..or should that be small....)
no make up..
no bra..
what u see is what u get....
i don't lie..(well..very rarely)..i'll avoid or refuse to answer a question..rather than lie..

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coz they're weak & feeble....i've got more guts than any man i've known..

men may be physically stronger..but..women are mentally stronger....

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ps....i'll not be able to get back here often to have a at replies..

I occasionally wear high heels, but not often 'cos Richard isn't much taller than me and I don't like looking taller than him. Not that he minds.

I don't wear make-up. I tried using it in my teens, but didn't have the patience with it to get good results so I haven't worn any since.

With a bust the size of mine, I don't need padding. On the other hand, not wearing a bra isn't an option.

On the subject of women being mentally stronger, back in Victorian times it was said that they were mentally inferior to men (intellectually, emotionally). One thing used to back up this theory was the fact that women have smaller brains than men. In fact, brain size is related to body size, and women are smaller than men. If you do a ratio of brain size to body size (using average sizes of both brain and body for men and women), it comes out slightly higher for women than it does for men. Which *could* mean that women are slightly more intelligent than men.

Hmmmm.

I'm not chasing other women, I am not drinking, I am not smoking, I am not spending work time on H2G2.

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But I lie...

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