Being Asian, I get a lot of times where people ask me "Are you from China/Japan/Korea?". My answer? #QUOTE#"Nope, I'm from Spain/Germany/Switzerland/Canada/The South Pole."

The scary thing? ''They believe me''.

What, you think there's no asians in those countries?

Well, having nothing else to go on besides your race, how would they know you weren't really from Spain/Germany/Switzerland?

I know a person who does the same thing, except he tells people he's black. One person asked him what language he spoke and he replied 'blackinese'.

This troper's friend did this to some creeps hitting on her whilst we were on holiday: "Are you English?" "No, I'm Japanese." they drove off.

I'm Asian as well (half-Korean from my mother's side), and I always had very little body hair. In 6th grade gym class, people would ask me if I shaved my legs. Sometimes I'd reply "No." which was the truth, but other times I'd reply "I wax them." and once, I gave the BodyHorror[=/=]{{Squick}}[=-=]tastic answer "I don't have hair growing on the ''outside'' of my legs..."

That reminds me of a character in John Webster's 'The Duchess of Malfi'. He starts going insane with guilt and digs up bodies, thinking he's a werewolf. The only difference, he says, is that "they [Lycans] have their hair on the outside." So, older than you think. And, more tragic, even though he brought it on himself after having his sister, the titular Duchess (whom he had the hots for) murdered.

This troper (and presumably every teen in existence) all them time, such as:

Answering "Yes" to "Have you cleaned your room?"

Answering "Yes" to "Have you done your homework?"

Answering "No" to "Did you eat X?"

Answering "No" to "Did you break X?"

Answering "No" to "Is there something you want to tell me?"

Answering "Nothing" to "What are you doing?"

Answering "Nothing" to "What did you say?"

Answering "Fine" to "How did you do in the exam?"

"Yes, I am 18 years old."

This troper has described {{Eversion}} to others as "A perfectly innocent little platform game where you go around as a joyful flower to rescue the princess in a world that's not Lovecraftian or SilentHill-esque in the slightest."

Isn't that verging on SuspiciouslySpecificDenial?

This troper, when challenged on a lie or asked to explain a wrongdoing, tells people that I wasn't there at the time I was on the moon... with Steve

I was dead at the time!

So it was YOU that took my boyfriend to the moon!

Giggity.

Thanks, I just choked on my water laughing.

This troper relies very heavily on blatant lies for his comedy, which tends to overlap with SarcasticConfession on numerous cases-- people can hardly tell when I tell the truth. This tends to boil down to the fun game of "Let's try to guess [my] sexuality," and of course I tend not to give that away. I've been pinned as an AnythingThatMoves Bi, Asexual, and various others.

In drama class, this troper will sit through an extremely funny scene trying to keep a straight face, then turn to her friend and say: "I am completely serious." Cue laughter.

You too?

Ah, the school this troper goes to has a wonderful summer reading program, especially for the honors students, who must write a 3 page reaction paper to the specifically assigned book. The PDF on my school's website explains that "[t]he books that have been chosen are also part of the Honors English curriculum and will be reviewed at some point during the term that you have English." Two guesses as to whether or not the books are actually ever mentioned during the entire school year...yeah...

I prefer to answer stupid or obvious questions with this. Unfortunately, if you want to try it, it can lead to a 'cry wolf' situation. #QUOTE# '''Sister''': ''Are you in the kitchen?'' #QUOTE# '''Me, from the kitchen:''' ''No.''

That's just how my roommate communicates...

Same with my ''entire family.'' To the point where someone telling the truth often throws us off.

Variations on the following conversation occur often in my home: #QUOTE#This Troper: [Is in his room, reading]. #QUOTE#This Troper's Mother: What are you doing in there? #QUOTE#This Troper: Shooting up on heroin.

Same here only it's usually along the lines of 'shagging someone'.

For fun, THIS MALE TROPER likes to do this with a completely straight face. It's surprising what you can convince people of if you say things matter-of-factly, look them in the eye or while you're distracted with something else #QUOTE#''THIS MALE TROPER* in the middle of a conversation involving a half-dozen people'': You know, on Thursdays in Britain, public nudity is allowed, and in fact, keenly encouraged. #QUOTE#''Exasberated friend'': Really? #QUOTE#''THIS MALE TROPER'': *breaking facade* of course not, don't be ridiculous.

Ah. That'd explain why the police are after me.

This Lurker found this out a couple of years ago, and tried to see how far he could take it, by asking a good friend, and the smartest girl in the class, both grade-wise and in life this question- #QUOTE# Did you know that dogs do not have a brain?

To which he fully expected a facepalm or a sigh in answer, but instead got: #QUOTE# What, none at all?

This troper once told her brother that if you melt ice-cream in your mouth before you eat it, all the calories melt away and you don't gain any weight. He believed her. But then her dad had to come along and ruin the fun by saying, "Troper, don't tell your brother BlatantLies."

This troper when poking, playfully pushing, tickling or (with my wife only) groping when there's no one else around or close enough to have done any of the aforementioned actions will either say, "Wasn't me", "I didn't do it", "It was that guy (pointing off in random direction)" or "It wasn't me, it was the one-armed man!"

Today, this troper's parents had come in to her room to wake her to go Christmas shopping and were surprised to find her talking in her sleep to someone named Tara. This troper, being a hugh Buffy fanatic, was having a dream in which she was friends with the Scooby Gang and in a romantic relationship with Tara. When her parents suspiciously questioned her as to who Tara was, she told them it was a boy on the show. Her mother asked who would name a boy "Tara", and this troper pointed out that the show also had a male character named "Angel". They then decided to accept this explaination, despite the fact that my father works with a man named Angel and neither of them has never met a male Tara in their life, and probably never will. This troper presents to you her parents: the teacher and the lawyer. And now, if you will excuse her, she has to go hide in case an angry Willow comes calling...

When this troper was little, his older sister had a love for telling some of the stupidest lies to make herself seem more intelligent, and being little, he believed every word of it until I got older. Some of the things I remember include: PG-14 movies exist, there used to be Burger Queen restaurants, and she was Santa's little helper.

This troper's Japanese professor told his class that it's rude to ask a woman her age directly. Ask for her Chinese zodiac sign and figure it out later. Her sign? [[spoiler:'''Panda''']].

This conversation with my teacher: (everything had happened to me at some point in my life, however) #QUOTE# Why are you late? #QUOTE# I got a nosebleed. #QUOTE# Where's the blood? #QUOTE# Got cleaned up in the nurse's office. #QUOTE# Why were you there? #QUOTE# My legs gave out during gym. #QUOTE# How did you walk here? #QUOTE# Wheelchair. #QUOTE# Where is it? #QUOTE# Broke halfway here, so I had to crawl. #QUOTE# Ah. Sit down. Class, take out your homework. #QUOTE# I can't, fireworks set my bookbag on fire last night. #QUOTE# Then why do you have everything else? #QUOTE# Turns out I had someone else's bag the entire weekend. #QUOTE# What happened to them? #QUOTE# They moved last night and took the charred homework with them. #QUOTE# Sounds like you've had a rough day. You should go home.

This troper has weird roommates. As the person whose name is actually on the tenancy agreement, she feels obligated to ask a lot of questions she doesn't actually want the answer to, like "Why is there a frog in the microwave?" and "What is that bike doing on the roof?" and "What smells like sulfur?" Any answer that doesn't start with "We were drunk, and..." is this trope. Fortunately it's entertaining.

This troper's reply to anyone asking where something they lost is: #QUOTE# Me: "It ran away and hid."

And yes, some people ''have'' believed me. I wish I was making this up...

This troper works retail, and sometimes when customers come up to me and ask if we have a restroom, I have said, "No, they make us go out back." Of course, I always follow that up with "Just kidding," because I don't want to be totally cruel.

This troper has a friend who claims:

His parents are black (he has a very pale skin tone)

He has a third level black belt in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu (at age 12)

Maybe he does, and just goes to a really shitty school where they give out ranks like candy and don't teach people how to actually fight. I've met a few other people who practice kungfu for whom that was pretty much the case.

His uncle is vice president of Marvel among other, slightly more believable, things.

This troper dealt with plenty of Blatant Liars in middle school, one girl in particular. She would hit kids (read: me) and call them names IN FULL VIEW OF THE TEACHERS and then deny it when I complained seconds later. But since AdultsAreUseless...yeah. Still, how one manages to become a pathological liar by age ''twelve'' is beyond me.

Oh that's easy, they move their lips!

I met one that was freaking ''ten''.

Went to an "all you can eat buffet at a curry place yesterday." Ludicrously false advertisement. It was just a three course meal which was alright, but we didn't even get a sweet until we asked, and we got TINNED PINEAPPLE RINGS.

Ad I saw: "Click this link to see how I made $500 dollars a day through cell phones! (Not a get rich quick scheme!)"

Every time this Troper links or advices how to obtain any kind of information on the web illegally, she swears she's not promoting Digital Piracy (ussually turning the statement into a link to this page)

This Troper at least according to his parents has been blatantly lieing since he was a toddler. According to them when ever he did something bad with both his siblings at school he blamed it on them.

@/{{Tunod}} had a friend who convinced him when he was little that his (the friend's) uncle was Chef Boyardee. This was typical of him, really.

Once, a boss walked up to me and asked me if I was using a knife without a safety glove. I'd never have come back with an innocent-sounding 'no' if I actually thought he'd ''believe'' me.

Once when asked if This Troper had any famous ancestors, he replied Richard the Lionheart, (true). This trope was all I heard for the rest of day, only once or twice ommiting the word blatant.

When This Troper was in High School, teachers would occasionally ask aloud where an absent student was when doing roll-call. My usual response was a calm, deadpan "I ate him/her."

In a similar vein to the above This Troper's go-to answer in high school was "Ninja Attack" follow-up joke to that, if the missing students arrived before the end of class, was "...I overpaid those guys." When I was late, and asked why, there was only one possible answer. "On my way to school a band of ninjas attacked and killed me. It was a very traumatic start to my day."

In chat rooms, when a new person arrives, I fail to introduce myself with my actual name. I feel it is far more effective means of being remembered to have the rest of the room yell at me for lying. By the way, I go by Curly.

This Troper had a roleplaying experience with a character that was really, really bad at lying. It was in an academic setting, and this troper's character was caught late at night by a teacher. The lie she came up with? Another student was unconscious because of a fairy's curse, but this troper's character could handle it because she used to go to Hogwarts. She never did, and she didn't even know magic. The other student was passed out drunk.

At my high school, when a new student was being introduced to a class, I would always introduce myself as King Awesome the First.

This line: #QUOTE# Person: "Are you asleep?" #QUOTE# Me: "Yes."

I happen to be, AND I AM NOT JOKING, related to the actual Pocahontas. A relative of mine mapped out our family tree. Every time I speak of it, this trope is invoked. Hell, I have the family tree book in the house! I've seen the page! I AIN'T LYING YOU LITTLE SODS....Uh, sorry about the angry mini-rant.. ^^;

My cousin broke my DS in half while i was taking a leak, my bro told me after he left and i saw the 2 pieces, I called him and this happened: #QUOTE# Me: Did you break my DS? #QUOTE# Cousin: no, who told you? #QUOTE# Me: My little bro #QUOTE# Cousin: oh, what will he blame me for next? #QUOTE# Me: will you swear on the bible that you didn't do it? #QUOTE# Cousin: No #QUOTE# Me: Why not? #QUOTE# Cousin: Because if i lie, i will go to hell #QUOTE# Me: but you wouldn't lie if you didn't break it. #QUOTE# Cousin: ...*click*

I once told my little brother that his birthday had been cancelled. He started crying and our mom yelled at me for it. Hey, I wouldn't have said that if I'd known that he would actually believe me!

Any time this troper is training a new coworker and is asked a "Why?" question she doesn't know the answer to, she replies "Out of respect for the dead."

This Troper's exgirlfriend liked doing this whenever her dad asked what we were doing, as he really did not like me dating her. Knowing her, yes. Dating her, no. Case in point one day when we were in her treehouse... #QUOTE# Dad: What're you doing up there? #QUOTE# GF: Getting the condom on. #QUOTE# *Father comes storming up the ladder and blasts the door open, sees me terrified and hiding in the corner, her in the center of the floor, fully clothed and laughing uncontrollably.* #QUOTE# Dad: ....There's something fucking wrong with you.

This Troper once managed to convince her friend (who is in 8th Grade by the way) that the national language of Japan is French and justified it by saying that Japan had been colonized by the French back in the 18th century. That Troper's friend actually believed her is astounding.

This spam message I got in my inbox "Head of Outstanding Payment/ Your Funds is Released (Not Spam)"

This guy would always claim someone who was late/absent in high school had been hit by a train. For further Blatant Lies points, when telling this story to other people, I would frequently append "then Jimmy got hit by that train..." (which didn't happen).

This troper is a triplet, and she and her two brothers look nothing alike. People find it hard to believe they're related. She gets annoyed by the "Hey, aren't you Bob/Steve's sister?" #QUOTE#Alice: Hey, aren't you Steve's sister? #QUOTE# Troper: No. #QUOTE# Alice: . . . #QUOTE# Alice: I thought he had a brother and sister. #QUOTE# Troper: I'm sorry, I don't know anyone named Steve. I've got to get back to class.

There's a time when one of my classmates didn't attend one day, and everybody started joking by saying she stepped on a manta ray (by the way, this is in a place far away from the sea), except one girl that actually believed it. Needless to say, to this day nor my classmates nor me have live it down.

When a guy from our Latin class didn'T show up on a Monday, our teacher wondered where he had gone. Everybody answered "He's gone to Greece in the weekend and hasn't gone back yet" (not sure what happened, but either he was sick or he was skippin'). Mixed with {{BrickJoke}} when, a few weeks later, the same guy was gone again. The next day, our teacher asked "So how was Greece ''this time''?". He had believed it all along! Then we finally confessed to lying.

This troper's ex-girlfriend (the near-example of Yandere, not the OlderThanTheyLook one he actually did it with) said she would help him get in touch with a common friend he had a crush on. Four weeks later and still no contact with said friend. Slight aversion as I knew in my gut feelings she was likely pulling a shifty from the beginning...

This troper has a pair of friends, one of which is rather lacking in the intelligence department. The smarter friend not only managed to get her to admit she believed Mentos are made from whale sperm, but that eating too many can actually get you pregnant. She was seriously terrified until we all burst into uncontrollable fits of laughter.

I just edited a lie out of DoingItForTheArt. It said that is was a SubjectiveTrope.

I was once in a forum roleplay, and was a stow-away on a ship. I hid in the laundry room and when someone told me to come out, I replied that I was clothes, and could not hear their request.

My mother told me a story once of when she was a young girl, she was visiting a neighbor when their dog got ran over by another neighbor. The guilty neighbor burst in with a cry of "Mr. Sexton! Your dog done had a heart attack under my car!"

I totally wasn't drunk on New Year Eve.

I once convinced a fellow computer hardware student that red video cards go faster, by the obvious virtue of being red.

This troper once saw a small movie about Marie Curie in his chemistry class. The two main characters (sisters that are suspecting Curie of being a spy, as it takes place during WWI) eventually sneak into her lab and eavesdrop on an argument between her, her daughter, and a soldier. Before they leave, the younger girl takes a pestle off of a table and puts it in her pocket. As they get home and hang up their coats, the pestle falls out of the younger girl's coat. When questioned by her sister as to why she brought it home, she says "I didn't mean to!" My thoughts: #QUOTE#'''Me''': Bull crap, you picked that up deliberately, you little liar.

This troper's very voice is a blatant liar. She has been asked repeatedly now if she's from Europe, or Germany. She was once even asked if she's from London. Next time someone asks about her self-developed accent, she will almost certainly invoke this trope.

This trope is commonly invoked in the kitchen, when this troper and her mother are in the same place. Something random will be dropped or knocked down, and her mother will say, "you tried to kill me, didn't you?" And this troper will answer, with a straight face, "yeah. I'll do better next time."

This troper has gotten in blatant lie contests with her friends. It usually involves UPS trucks.

This troper's father likes to tell his children that for dinner they'll be having "possum patties and gopher gravy..."

You know all of us do this.

a friend of this troper is NOTORIOUS for this. among his lies: he started a one-man doom metal project called nyos, and that it's a youtube sensation. he lost his virginity age eight with a prostitute. he knows everything about tournament-level pokemon. he can play drums. he can play bass. he can sing. he has some form of recognisable musical talent. he isn't stalking someone else's girlfriend. let's debunk all these together, shall we: the only music-related result for nyos on google is the national youth orchestra of scotland. he wouldn't be able to afford a prostitute at age eight. he has made no attempt to display this knowledge, except for random mentions of pokerus. he can't play drums, play bass, or sing (I know this from hearing him attempt these in person, his music tech grades, and how he was kicked out of a band for sucking), and there is spoken testimony from both the guy whose girlfriend he's stalking, and the girlfriend. why is he still my friend? because it's damn fun to debunk his lies.

This troper has been able to convince people that monkeys will take over the world post-CharlesHeston's death, that he is Japanese(I'm Hispanic), and that he built a bomb out of a Pringles can. All you need to do is speak in deadpan and people will believe you. Always.

This troper never lied to his little brother when his parents forced him to help him with math or computer usage because he got fed up with trying to teach him. Well hey, they get what they don't pay for.

This troper just had a conversation with an obvious case of this. Might end up crossposted at RefugeInAudacity because- probably due to this troper's reputation among her friends as being the quiet one who knows far too much about Pokemon- the friend (initially) believed her. #QUOTE# Troper: In FireRed and LeafGreen, if you go to the truck (by S.S. Anne), you can get a Lava Cookie. #QUOTE# Friend: Bullshit. Everything about that truck is a lie. #QUOTE# Troper: Actually, if you go to the truck and press A 255 times, the truck will move and reveal a portal to... I forget the name, but it's north of Indigo Plateau, I think the name is another color. And that's where you catch Mew. But it only works in FireRed and LeafGreen, not the originals. #QUOTE# Friend: *turns to another friend* Is she being serious, or...? #QUOTE# Other Friend: *looks at me, sees me trying not to burst into laughter* I'm pretty sure she's BSing. #QUOTE# Troper: (later, to Other Other Friend) Note to self: People will believe anything if you say it with a straight face.

This happens at an alarming frequency: #QUOTE#Troper's father: -Enters house and calls Troper's name- #QUOTE#Troper: -From inside the house- Yes? #QUOTE#Troper's father: Are you home? #QUOTE#Troper: Nope. #QUOTE#Father: Okay.

My mom just got an email from with from someone at her college with an attachment. The body-text read "This is a document from the FBI. Open it. Signed, the FBI." How many of you bet it's a virus?

This troper has a friend who constantly uses blatant lies, and the sad thing is he thinks people believe him. This is while he can't keep his stories straight for five minutes. One time, he was lying about having a girlfriend to a few friends, told a stranger he was single in front of these friends, and then claimed he "got to third base, was caught by her stepfather, and he didn't mind except for the fact that they were on the kitchen table." The only good thing about his lies is that it's hilarious to hear him contradict himself several times a day.

This Troper often responds with "No" when asked if he can do something, and then immediately does so. Most of his friends have gotten used to this.

This troper's roommate comes from a religious family, whom he told that he was living in an all-male household. The day his mother turned up and found the troper's bras drying on the line was an awkward one. Instead of a semi-believeable explanation, like that they belonged to a roommate's girlfriend, he said they were ''his''. Facepalm.

This troper has had long hair (halfway down my back) since I was about five. I recently got it cut to about an inch long, and when asked if I'd gotten a hair cut would respond with "no" because it was so ''goddamn obvious'' that I had.

I have just had an IM conversation with someone using Yahoo. I have a Windows Live account and use Pidgin. His status was given as Offline throughout the conversation.

The caption for the TwoGirlsAndAGuy which claimed that the ''{{iCarly}}'' trio was one of the less drama filled versions, with no romance complications.

No, this troper is not wearing a fork in their hair, it's actually a highly advanced device that only ''looks'' like a white plastic eating utensil.

Haru Axeman was skiing at his favorite mountain, far outside the boundaries with his friends, when they took him off the technically-not trail and we came to this unauthorized ski trail with a handmade sign and a green bottlecap. The sign said it was really easy, and anyone, after considering how many trees were nearby and how steep it all was could see it was a blatant lie.

Because of this troper's intense love of hockey I have been asked if I was from Canada. I reply, "Yes I am, and I come from the Seskatchamoose province."

This troper lives and breathes this trope. Usually it works, but unfortunately, her Dad is far too good at reading her poker face, so it's impossible to lie to him, especially when this troper's done something wrong.

This troper once walked into a classroom shortly after the lunchbell rang, seeking a friend of hers. The teacher who had been conducting a class in there was very annoyed (despite it being in no way against the rules to enter an unlocked classroom outside of class time), and demanded this troper's name. Taken aback, she replied at once: "Eleanor Rigby". The teacher, apparently not a Beatles fan, replied, "Well, Eleanor, don't intrude on any more of my classes." and departed.

This troper had a classmate that tried to convince me that he beat I Wanna Be the Guy on his first try without trying. Even more prove he never played it. (Note: I died at least 2000 times on my first play.)

This troper was watching a video online, but when he tried to play it, a pop-up advertisement appeared. When he closed it, he spotted a box at the top of the original window saying 'Firefox prevented this site from opening a pop-up window'.