On a coin collecting forum I am a member of...
- there is a constant name dropper
- there is someone who always gets the most outrageously good deals when buying.
- there is someone who is always discovering rare valuable error coins in their change.

In a previous forum I was on a member was constantly trying to impress everyone with how perfect and flawless her daughters were due to how well she brought them up.

On this forum there are members who boast about how well off they are or how they only date blonde haired blue eyed girls.

So my question is. On an anonymous internet forum, why do people feel the need to make stuff up to try and impress other anonymous members?

some could of course be telling the truth..LOL..I do question some on here though, one on when delivering a pizza was met by a girl stripping her clothes off, by all accounts a well known act as she was supposedly schizophrenic.... and guess what his boss forgot to mention it???.. like they do...I of course said in your dreams...it sounded phony and like he had read it somewhere and was turning it into his own experience...which of course people do...dont worry about it nothing wrong with making idiot things up on a forum like this..I always think one day they will be telling a true story and no one will care...I would love to do a bit of bragging on here but I dont think you will believe me now..LOL..

KJT1981 wrote on May 22^nd, 2013 at 7:43am:


I snatch deadly cakes.

I’m a Pakistini Bastard.

cods wrote on May 22^nd, 2013 at 7:22am:


bugger your an idiot ... i didn't say she was stripping her clothes off, i said she was in her negligee (it actually happens quite often when you delivering up to 5am... but lets not let facts destroy your fantasies cod) ...., I didn't say her schizophrenia was well known I said it was known by others, and yes, my boss didn't mention it until after the fact, maybe because he didn't feel the need to check every address i had to deliver too, he was busy cooking the pizza's . ... you are to stupid for your own good.

There is a very good reason not to lie about your real life here.

There may come a time when someone here will ask you to meet them in real life, so we should be careful not to make up any outlandish, unbelievable, too-incredible-to-be-true stories. Just be yourself.

Who knows? Someone might suggest an interesting project. You're curious and you're enthusiastic about it, but there's one problem. You wouldn't want to get involved because you don't want anyone to meet you in real life. By not lying, you keep that option open.

Remember your Miranda rights. You have a right to remain silent, a right to a lawyer. Anything you say or do can be used against you in real life. There is no need for false confessions.

I am pretty sure Andrei Hicks is who he says he is. For someone who has a net income of $150k per year and had a private education, I don't find it hard to believe he would be so conceited. I have known people like that in real life, so I am not surprised.

I agree that most people judge by their own standards. From that you can tell a lot about a person.

It's one of the fun things about posting I reckon, that we can learn a lot about people, and ourselves, just by reading and typing words on a screen.

Sometimes anonymity can be a crucial ingredient because there's things you might sometimes say that would come across badly to close friends or relatives if they happened to be posting on the same board.

When I  posted on "Cracker", I pretty easily worked out that my uncle also posted there.
He has passed now, and I was careful to not let him know that I was his nephew, mainly because he was very religious and I posted a lot of opinions on my beliefs about Christianity which might have been hurtful to him ...considering the crap he used to give me about wanting to see me baptised before he passes 
I didn't get baptised 'again' as he wanted. Screw that crap.