Someone Asks People ‘What Was The Biggest Lie You Got Away With?’ And This Guy’s Reply Gets 34,000+ Upvotes
Subreddit /AskReddit is a place where people can go to ask and answer thought-provoking questions about anything and everything. Someone recently asked the liars of Reddit: “What was the biggest lie you got away with?” and got some hilarious responses.
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One response, however, stood out from the rest. Uploaded by user Orange_Kid, it was the classic tale of the high school reading task, when the kid never gets around to reading the actual book and opts to simply watch the movie instead. We’ve all been there, I mean who has time to read a whole book when there are video games to play? This kid picked a great book, with an all-time classic movie adaptation.
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So far so good. This teacher has seen it all before though and can smell a rat. It probably happens on a weekly basis, if only kids put as much time and ingenuity into getting their work done, as they do getting out of it, they would all get straight A’s!
People were on the edge of their seats throughout the story and were quick to applaud Orange_Kid’s quick thinking
Funny how we had to read such a long-winded story about how he was too lazy to read a book. There's a word for that, but I'm too lazy to look it up.
It's hypocri...aww nevermind I'm too lazy to type it all out :P
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Major difference between the book and the movie? Probably Jack Nicholson's part. I mean, his acting in the book was so absent, I had to imagine all the scenes by myself.
The biggest lie we all get away with, " Yes I have read the terms and conditions."
Here is one I got away with in school - English class, pre internet.. We had to do a speech. i was challenged by a classmate to make it up off the top of my head - so I did. A 10 minute talk on an animal nobody had heard of, because it didnt exist. The Venezuelan Oust. It was a creature similar, but smaller than a weasel. It's parents reared it on regurgitated food similar to birds. It could swim, but not very well, typically had 2-3 young and hibernated. Most common around Lake Maracaibo and their main diet was frogs. I deflected every question with further invented answers - even from the teacher who said he was impressed at learning something new about unusual wildlife I got 10/10
I remember reading about someone who started a new job and was asked if they could work Saturdays. They replied they couldn't because it is their day with their son. Cut forward a few years and this imaginary son had finished nursery, started school and was a member of various clubs and school activities. I thought that was pretty impressive to keep up!
What's ironic is that King hates the movie and has been very vocal about it, it's very different from the book. A few years ago he was asked about it and had this to say: "The book is hot, and the movie is cold; the book ends in fire, and the movie in ice. In the book, there's an actual arc where you see this guy, Jack Torrance, trying to be good, and little by little he moves over to this place where he's crazy. And as far as I was concerned, when I saw the movie, Jack was crazy from the first scene. I had to keep my mouth shut at the time. It was a screening, and Nicholson was there. But I'm thinking to myself the minute he's on the screen, 'Oh, I know this guy. I've seen him in five motorcycle movies, where Jack Nicholson played the same part.' And it's so misogynistic. I mean, Wendy Torrance is just presented as this sort of screaming dishrag. But that's just me, that's the way I am."
In college, I didn't have time to read everything I was assigned. In my Ancient Greek class we had to read the account of an ancient Greek historian. I read a few pages of the beginning, the middle, and the end to get a basic idea and wrote the whole report based on those few pages. I volunteered to give my report to class and the teacher asked me about this one part that I didn't read. I acknowledged that part, then brought it back to the part I had read to back up my paper. I got an A!
I did something similar in college for my German Culture Class. For our final project we had to pick a book about German Culture and write a paper. I wanted to read Defiance (it's based on a true story, during WWII). My professor had never heard of the book or the movie, but approved my choice. Read half the book, watched the movie twice, got an A on my paper.
For book reports i would pick books i already read in the past and not deal with the presentation till the end
Smart idea, and not really cheating. You did read it, after all. :-)
Load More Replies... I suppose because thats what children/ students do and get away with. For many people reading a book is a lot of work.
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It's a good thing he didn't read Cujo. The book ending was different from the movie ending.
I made the mistake in 8th grade American Lit of reading and doing a report on The Last of the Mohicans. There was no such thing as internet and they had not made a blockbuster hit of the book at that time. I knew I was in trouble when one of the characters was rowing a canoe across a lake and it took 4 pages to describe how the trees' branches looked hanging down over the water and it took about 40 pages for the guy to just row across the lake. To say James Fenimore Cooper is long-winded is an understatement. Cliffs notes saved my a*s but my teacher knew I had not read the entire book. I think the book is only 470+/- pages but at the time it might as well have been 5,000.
In highschool I had a quite strict teacher of Polish. The class wasn't too eager to learn and one day she got mad that we didn't bring the books so she started checking homework. As she was going through the class giving equivalents of "D"s (worst marks yuo could get) she turned up at my desk and I showed her the pencil notes from the day before in my notebook. To this day I have no clue, whether she knew I lied to her and praised my brilliance (she was of the sort of teachers who vouched for out-of-the-box thinking) or she just believed me, since I always was quite good in her class. :x
Mine was close to this. In 10th grade we had to read “the sword in the stone.” I didn’t read a page of it but had seen the Disney cartoon a million times. That was the only reason I passed that section.
teacher may or may not have seen movie, but probably didn't read book, and was unable to ask a question that would have sunk the kid
I love reading and I love books. But there was a time I could hardly bring myself to read an entire novel, even the not too long ones. Somehow, the texual medium just isn't friendly with everyone's brain. That doesn't make one more stupid, mind you, it's just a difference of individual affinities and these people would need a help to get into enjoying the book properly.
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Funny how we had to read such a long-winded story about how he was too lazy to read a book. There's a word for that, but I'm too lazy to look it up.
It's hypocri...aww nevermind I'm too lazy to type it all out :P
Load More Replies... Major difference between the book and the movie? Probably Jack Nicholson's part. I mean, his acting in the book was so absent, I had to imagine all the scenes by myself.
The biggest lie we all get away with, " Yes I have read the terms and conditions."
Here is one I got away with in school - English class, pre internet.. We had to do a speech. i was challenged by a classmate to make it up off the top of my head - so I did. A 10 minute talk on an animal nobody had heard of, because it didnt exist. The Venezuelan Oust. It was a creature similar, but smaller than a weasel. It's parents reared it on regurgitated food similar to birds. It could swim, but not very well, typically had 2-3 young and hibernated. Most common around Lake Maracaibo and their main diet was frogs. I deflected every question with further invented answers - even from the teacher who said he was impressed at learning something new about unusual wildlife I got 10/10
I remember reading about someone who started a new job and was asked if they could work Saturdays. They replied they couldn't because it is their day with their son. Cut forward a few years and this imaginary son had finished nursery, started school and was a member of various clubs and school activities. I thought that was pretty impressive to keep up!
What's ironic is that King hates the movie and has been very vocal about it, it's very different from the book. A few years ago he was asked about it and had this to say: "The book is hot, and the movie is cold; the book ends in fire, and the movie in ice. In the book, there's an actual arc where you see this guy, Jack Torrance, trying to be good, and little by little he moves over to this place where he's crazy. And as far as I was concerned, when I saw the movie, Jack was crazy from the first scene. I had to keep my mouth shut at the time. It was a screening, and Nicholson was there. But I'm thinking to myself the minute he's on the screen, 'Oh, I know this guy. I've seen him in five motorcycle movies, where Jack Nicholson played the same part.' And it's so misogynistic. I mean, Wendy Torrance is just presented as this sort of screaming dishrag. But that's just me, that's the way I am."
In college, I didn't have time to read everything I was assigned. In my Ancient Greek class we had to read the account of an ancient Greek historian. I read a few pages of the beginning, the middle, and the end to get a basic idea and wrote the whole report based on those few pages. I volunteered to give my report to class and the teacher asked me about this one part that I didn't read. I acknowledged that part, then brought it back to the part I had read to back up my paper. I got an A!
I did something similar in college for my German Culture Class. For our final project we had to pick a book about German Culture and write a paper. I wanted to read Defiance (it's based on a true story, during WWII). My professor had never heard of the book or the movie, but approved my choice. Read half the book, watched the movie twice, got an A on my paper.
For book reports i would pick books i already read in the past and not deal with the presentation till the end
Smart idea, and not really cheating. You did read it, after all. :-)
Load More Replies... I suppose because thats what children/ students do and get away with. For many people reading a book is a lot of work.
Load More Replies... It's a good thing he didn't read Cujo. The book ending was different from the movie ending.
I made the mistake in 8th grade American Lit of reading and doing a report on The Last of the Mohicans. There was no such thing as internet and they had not made a blockbuster hit of the book at that time. I knew I was in trouble when one of the characters was rowing a canoe across a lake and it took 4 pages to describe how the trees' branches looked hanging down over the water and it took about 40 pages for the guy to just row across the lake. To say James Fenimore Cooper is long-winded is an understatement. Cliffs notes saved my a*s but my teacher knew I had not read the entire book. I think the book is only 470+/- pages but at the time it might as well have been 5,000.
In highschool I had a quite strict teacher of Polish. The class wasn't too eager to learn and one day she got mad that we didn't bring the books so she started checking homework. As she was going through the class giving equivalents of "D"s (worst marks yuo could get) she turned up at my desk and I showed her the pencil notes from the day before in my notebook. To this day I have no clue, whether she knew I lied to her and praised my brilliance (she was of the sort of teachers who vouched for out-of-the-box thinking) or she just believed me, since I always was quite good in her class. :x
Mine was close to this. In 10th grade we had to read “the sword in the stone.” I didn’t read a page of it but had seen the Disney cartoon a million times. That was the only reason I passed that section.
teacher may or may not have seen movie, but probably didn't read book, and was unable to ask a question that would have sunk the kid
I love reading and I love books. But there was a time I could hardly bring myself to read an entire novel, even the not too long ones. Somehow, the texual medium just isn't friendly with everyone's brain. That doesn't make one more stupid, mind you, it's just a difference of individual affinities and these people would need a help to get into enjoying the book properly.
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