September 1st, 2008
Factually
Fact tags may well get limited use, but bulls**t tags will be everywhere.
I’m assuming you know how to detect if a person is lying. If not, read this article from wikiHow. The great thing is that I’ve spotted two errors in that article… two lies, small ones, but still.
Now that we’re all up to scratch and expert lie detectors were going to play a game that I have shamelessly ripped off the television. I would tell you that it was my own idea, but that would be a lie. It wasn’t even their idea either…
So, I’m going to tell you three things about myself, only one of them is the truth. It’s up to you to spot which one. Also, I want you to do the same…
- I once convinced someone that the Ashton Memorial was made entirely out of linoleum.
- I once convinced someone that famous bender Uri Geller had died from rubbing his own neck.
- I once convinced myself that I lived at my next-door neighbour’s house.
That shouldn’t be too hard. I’m a terrible liar.
I’m gonna go with 1 being true. But I’m sure I’m wrong.
1. I have a “thing” about only bathing on the third Sunday of the month. Every other day gets only a shower.
2. I once convinced someone that Narnia was a real place. (It’s in Norway, if anyone’s wondering.)
3. I once convinced someone that grapes come from the lungs of sheep.
I’d have to go with number 2 there… 1 sounds plausible, but 3 just seems too difficult to pull off.
You are indeed correct, Adam!
Although number three has been pulled off. A group of friends managed to convince one (usually non-gullible) friend – who also happens to be of the vegetarian persuasion. Impressive, I’m sure you’ll agree.
I do, that is superb! The consequence of that being true are pretty cool too… sheep wine! You just give them a bit of a squeeze.
Although now I know, I feel a little sad to realise that narnia is indeed fictional….
Number 3!
Who is number 1?
I am not a number…
I am a free man!
Just to round things out I think number 2 is the truth.
1. I once convinced my little brother that Brussel sprouts contained surprises inside so he’d eat them all instead of me.
2. I once convinced my Chinese roommate that Americans always have sex on the first date.
3. I once convinced someone that eating strawberries would turn you red and eating blueberries would turn you blue.
If only one of them is true you are a genius… I just wish all of them were.
Again, I think 2 might be the most plausible… mostly because I have always assumed that to be true too.
I am also going with number 2, in number 1 you give too much info, and in three you give very little!
Ahh, clinical reasoning…
That’s easy, if you’re a terrible liar then it rules out number 1 and 2 so the answer is 3
(unless you’re actually a good liar and you lied about being a terrible liar!)
Joe gets trapped in the liar paradox:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_paradox
For Adams, either one or three.
I am sure I could pull of one, so I will give Adam the benefit of the doubt and three, because alot of ppl make that mistake.
For Philipa, Two, it seems easily plausible, if you are open minded to some things.
For Chris, Two is true anyway.
I’ll think of some things in a bit. Too many meetings in the last 25hrs.
OK, enough with the guessing. Chris and Davey score as our human (I’m assuming) lie detectors…
The trick was half-truths…
1. Wasn’t actually me, it was the author Ian Marchant who coined that scam, and pulled it off.
2. This is the truth, it involved beer, plenty of it, but I managed to convince someone that Uri Geller had indeed done himself a mischief with his own powers.
3. The lie in this one is that it wasn’t my neighbours house, but one that I had lived in several years ago… oddly enough beer was involved in this one too.
Okay, I thought of some!
1) I convinced someone that “Sweat Bread” was a kind of pastry. You should have seen the look on her face when her order arrived.
2) I spent a semester in college getting about half of my daily calories form foraged foods (nuts, berries, edible plants and roots, etc.).
3) I once painted a picture so grotesque it caused someone to vomit upon viewing.
The truth is…
The truth is… that all of these are true… seriously, you’ve beaten me. I was waivering between 1 and 2… but I know that there’s quite a common condition that can cause people to vomit when presented by artwork (at least I think that’s the explanation for everyone vommiting at the comics convention)… I don’t have a clue.
*pictures Roo foraging for nuts and berries… seems all too plausible*
Hahaha! You got it on the last try… I have actually spent a most of a semester foraging in my spare time. It was a tight year, there were problems with my financial aid packet, and all the money I had went into tuition — nothing much left for food. Luckily it was the same year I was enrolled in a Dendrology and Forest Ecosystems class, taught by a guy that was semi-obsessed with edible plants.
The other two are really half-truths (the best way to fool people, as you’ve taught me!):
Number one didn’t take any doing — Sarah did that all by herself, though she didn’t actually get so far as ordering one; I stopped her. She did have a really great face when she found out sweetbread was actually fried thymus glands.
Number three is close: I painted a picture that caused my roommate in college to cringe and cover his face, every single time he looked at it (he still does, to this day), though he never actually vomited. I posted the picture on the ‘fridge. (Probably the weirdest thing is that, looking at it now, I’ve come so far as an artist, it looks really amateur in a lot of ways. I don’t know how it had such punch with him, despite the subject matter. Link.)
That’s amazing. I’ve always been a little too worried about picking something poinsonous – these berries taste like burning – to really get into, but then again I am quite partial to urban foraging… I can pretty much eat for free in my hometown, not trough gathering from trees and bushes, but by knowing when and where everyone disposes of unsold food at the end of the night. Takeaways, restaurants etc. all good places for free food if you know when.
Your picture is uncomfortable for me to look at… I’m oddly squeemish about things like that (there was a Dr Who episode featuring a human interface that resembled you picture, made me feel quite unwell). but I think it is a mixture of graphic red and the expression on the face…
Mmm, the breads… my uncle taught me what they were. He worked in a slaughterhouse and would supply me with all manner of offal and such. i’m not sure how the word ’sweet’ became attached to them though. he also showed me a perfect black sphere, a little bit smaller than a basketball and weight no more than a kilogram. He wanted to know if I could work out what it was…
Black, light, spherical…? Hmmm… I’m going to guess an encapsulated cancer of some sort, probably intestinal carcinoma, although a melanoma could work too, but I think that’d be less likely to be spherical. Though it’s rather large for that.
Hmmm.
Could potentially be an enlarged testicle too, I suppose.
Am I close?
The ‘intestinal’ bit is reasonably close… otherwise, not quite there.
Hmmmm… can I ask questions?
Any openings, ports, valves, etc.? Or perfectly contained?
Texture at the surface? Was it vascularized?
Straight black, really?
Ask away,
perfectly sealed, no seam, valves, openings or such…
Pretty much uniform in colour, some lighter patches but essentially black and shiny, and rather smooth.
Roo, that picture is scary. but luckily, it’s obviously a painting, so it doesn’t make me want to vomit.
Dunno if it’s too late to join this game or not, but here’s my three:
1. In year three I ate an entire pencil, and nearly ate a second but the teacher stopped me.
2. In year five, someone accidentally shoved a pencil through my bottom lip, and a little graphite got trapped in the cut.
3. I once convinced someone that pencils were made from pigeon guts and squirrell fur.
Knowing you, I’m gunna go for the first one being true. (-:
Aaaand, I’ll take that as a compliment t’words the painting.
It’s never too late Maddie, I hope you had a good summer!
Y’know, I’m hoping none of these are true… actually, that’s a lie, I am hoping that you munched your way through a pencil.
But i suspect that piercing your lip with a writing implement is the sort of thing that goes on in year 5… so I’ll pick that.
Well, Adam wins, because I did indeed get stabbed through the lip by accident. I have a scar to prove it.
Although number one is partly true. I ate half a pencil, but you know, them things are pretty big.