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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Aug 29, 2023 17:02:10 GMT -5
Pushing the boundaries of famous here, but at the start of the 2010s there was an English cricketer, Adrian Shankar, who achieved brief infamy for having built an extremely short-lived professional career on the most incredible lies. I did write out a whole post but it was going to be too long, so I'm just going to bullet point it (and it'll still be quite long): - When pressed on his age by a teammate at Lancashire, had said he was "stillborn" and spent the first three years of his life in an incubator, hence the confusion over his actual age; when said teammate pointed out that he would have continued growing, replied "No I didn't", and walked off.
That may be one of the most hilarious lies I've ever heard of. How you can expect anyone to believe that is incredible.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 29, 2023 18:14:37 GMT -5
Similar to the Adrian Shankar tale, I present the story of Carlos Kaiser, a Brazilian footballer whose professional career lasted from 1979 until 1992, during which he signed contracts for ten clubs and played a grand total of zero games.
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Post by crashmatsbazz on Aug 30, 2023 1:18:29 GMT -5
Similar to the Adrian Shankar tale, I present the story of Carlos Kaiser, a Brazilian footballer whose professional career lasted from 1979 until 1992, during which he signed contracts for ten clubs and played a grand total of zero games. Shout out to Ali Dia as well.
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Post by Hit Girl on Aug 30, 2023 1:58:20 GMT -5
Name practically any British tabloid editor since the late 70s
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Aug 30, 2023 3:14:29 GMT -5
Tommy Tallarico has to be the most amazing bullshit artist I've hear of recently. A guy so obsessed with claiming credits for things he didn't make he's been desperately trying to claim the "oof" sound from Roblox (which actually predates Roblox) despite the fact that he didn't actually make it (one of his employees did). But the reason i've heard of him recently is because he's the "genius" behind the Intellivision Amico and if you know anything about that thing, it's how disastrous its development is being and how many lies TOmmy told everyone. Between hbomberguy's video on Tommy as a whole and Slopes Games Room's video on the Amico in particular, I have now seen nearly 6 hours of videos going over just his most obvious lies. Here's the hbomberguy video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0twDETh6QaIAnd the Slopes Games Room one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BgAarlzVD4The funny thing is, I met the guy once around 15 years ago, completely oblivious to his lies and bluster, really only knowing him from some of his verifiable work. He was nice enough, but had that "salesman" vibe to him, and he signed a receipt I had on my person for free. I bring this up because I've actually been using that same wallet since then, and I had tucked the receipt into one of the pockets in it and left it there. So, I've been carrying Tommy Tallarico's autograph on my person for like 15 years, unknowingly, and that's just kind of funny to me. The saddest thing is that Tallarico genuinely has had a carreer that he could have been proud of and anybody would have found admirable. He's genuinely done spectacular work on high-profile games (and yes, we can verify that he did do it and didn't claim Joey Kuras' work for himself... as far as I'm aware) and Video Games Lives is undeniably a success. He has no reason to make up these lies to look impressive when he genuinely is impressive to begin with, but it's just never enough for him so he kept making more and more lies and making them bigger and bigger to the point that it's completely undone all of the very real achievements he can legitimately claim.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Aug 30, 2023 5:47:41 GMT -5
Pushing the boundaries of famous here, but at the start of the 2010s there was an English cricketer, Adrian Shankar, who achieved brief infamy for having built an extremely short-lived professional career on the most incredible lies. I did write out a whole post but it was going to be too long, so I'm just going to bullet point it (and it'll still be quite long): - When pressed on his age by a teammate at Lancashire, had said he was "stillborn" and spent the first three years of his life in an incubator, hence the confusion over his actual age; when said teammate pointed out that he would have continued growing, replied "No I didn't", and walked off.
That may be one of the most hilarious lies I've ever heard of. How you can expect anyone to believe that is incredible.
It’s mindboggling. The whole thing is incredible and it’s amazing that he got as far as he did. Cricket is a sport where records are meticulously kept, and the matches he played at Cambridge had first class status so would’ve all been recorded and the scorecards available online or in the Wisden Cricketers Almanack, and one cursory glance at this would’ve blown his lies about his age wide open considering that if he’d been born in 1985 as he claimed, it would’ve made him sixteen when he played for a university. The same goes for the fictional tournaments he invented, it would’ve been really easy for someone to look online and see that he was full of shit. So the fact that he managed to con two professional clubs in that way suggests that quite a lot of people weren’t paying very much attention.
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