You’ll find that if the more you question them, the more they’ll repeat sections of their story in the exact same way. Someone who is telling the truth will vary up their expressions, but someone who’s lying will struggle to be able to do that. If you spot that someone has explained the same point word-for-word during their story when pressed, chances are they aren’t being entirely truthful with you. 5. Their Words And Body Language Don’t Match Up His brags were generally pretty pedestrian - about having had two women at once while on holiday in Italy, having been involved in a criminal gang, coming from a rough family with criminal connections in a rough part of town - the classic things people with very little imagination tend to spew out. On top of that, he claimed that he had numerous sexual perversions which he practiced with various people, often of the bondage variety. One day he came in the pub just as one our mates was taking a tablet (prescribed laxative from doctor for a real life problem....long story ).

Went to an open air rave in Barcelona(despite never going out side of his home town) and got off with hundreds of lasses over 3 nightsI do believe that the best treatment for a soldier is another soldier,” says Billingham. “We know that often it’s about sharing a joke about something that happened, rather than giving someone more sympathy than they can handle.” New beginnings

he refused to join the SAS after they had head hunted him as he had to take the bairns swimming on a saturday. Eventually he came out as being gay and I didn't believe that either, and my response was so sceptical that he never really forgave me and stopped talking to me not long after. "I'm trying to come out here!" To this day I don't know if I believe that he genuinely was homosexual or not. Perhaps that might explain some of his bullshitting weirdness, but then again, when you're bombarded with so much attention seeking, it's hard to fathom what's true and what isn't. I was far from being the only person who greeted his announcement with extreme scepticism. to live a life that is dishonest because you are pretending to be something that you are not, either to yourself or to other people. that he was a former Marine who had six Purple Hearts and two Silver Stars (which put him up there in Audie Murphy territory). This was a dude who didn't have a mark on his body, but told her that he was a 'fast healer.' Of course he was part of a super special secret branch of the Marines. They always are. It felt like everything was imploding on me. I was stranded,” recalls the 57-year-old today. “It was a whole new world for me. I was scared to talk to people. I couldn’t tell them what I’d been doing for years. The Special Forces world is all cloak and dagger, no one knows who you are or what you are.”we all (me her, her DP and my DH) went to a comedy show and had to travel so we spent nearly all day in there company.

My DH says I should be straight with my friend and tell her he's not our cup of tea. I disagree and think we should say nothing and be busy for the foreseeable future. As previously I've found when people have the billy bullshit trait if you don't enable them and feed off there lies then they don't bother with you. I don’t talk about SF [Special Forces] operations stuff, and rightly so, but it is my life. I spent most of my early military career trying to get into the SF and then the rest of the career not talking about it. Then when you step out it’s ingrained into you not to talk about it.” I used to have a friend who was a constant bullshitter. He claimed to have been a joyrider as a teenager, for example, but when he started taking driving lessons we all observed with interest how he seemed to have barely a basic grasp of the workings of a car. He also doesn't get out of bed for less than a grand a day (despite begging drug dealers for bail every week).

Nothing particularly wrong with either of these scenarios, and the lie isn’t terrible – a conversation is just that; a conversation – but the latter would probably result in less probing questions from a partner, friend or colleague! 3.Using Passive Rather Than Active Voice Mental health wasn’t something Billingham ever talked about while he was serving in the SAS for 17 years, even when they returned from an operation one soldier down, an empty bunk representing a friend lost. “I honestly never believed in it. I actually thought it was a weakness. I know it’s not now,” he says emphatically. “I now know it’s a big problem.”