Can I hear real-life Catfish stories?

[W.T.Faulkner]

I'm watching the show right now.  On this episode, a guy sent tons of money to this girl (DUMB) he was "dating."  He meets her, she Catfished the shiiiiiit out of him, and then BOUGHT AN ENGAGEMENT RING WITH THE MONEY HE SENT AND PRETENDED HE SENT IT TO HER, posting about it on Facebook.

I'm supposed to be studying but clearly I'm failing.

Tell me you're watching too, OR tell me real-life Catfish stories, please (if you have any).

[Booze Raccoon]

Oh just wait on this episode ... it totally fucked up.

I have no catfish stories.

[sherbanator]

I have a real life catfish story. I was about 13 or 14 at the time and this guy called my phone but he had the wrong number. This was before cell phones, btw. Anyway, we started talking and before you know it we were talking all the time. We finally met up, I went with my friends and he went with his friends and met at the mall. HE WAS NOT CUTE! I asked specifically and he said he was. Catfished!

[jayandemm]

That episode is great. Her mom gets involved and is all "MY DAUGHTER NO LIAR!!!".

[W.T.Faulkner]

Jul 10, 2013 21:15:04 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

:coughfakecough:

Noooooo!  Really?

.....Aw, man.  I'm so gullible.  I'm sitting here all caught up in it, like, "WHY DID YOU EVEN AGREE TO MEET HIMMMMM!!?"

[W.T.Faulkner]

Jul 10, 2013 21:23:25 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

Jul 10, 2013 21:16:43 GMT -5 W.T.Faulkner said:

Noooooo!  Really?

.....Aw, man.  I'm so gullible.  I'm sitting here all caught up in it, like, "WHY DID YOU EVEN AGREE TO MEET HIMMMMM!!?"

Heh, yeah.  It's all scripted.  I'm sure most of the stories have at least a few grains of truth, such as these people "met" each other on facebook or whatever.  But they add a lot of the details.  Also, before they even start filming, everyone already knows that the person they're going to "reveal" is fake, including the person that's being catfished.  That's why Nev can so easily track down all the other profiles and stuff.. it's already been done for him and they've been given all the info prior to filming.

I have been enlightened and devastated.

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Jul 10, 2013 21:15:04 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

:coughfakecough:

You just broke my heart.

[TrickyBob]

I've told this before. My ex best friend (A) and our other friend (B), her neighbor, would hang out together. We were around 15 and A would go into chat rooms. She really liked IRC (internet relay chat) and met this dude on there. So A and B would hang out at A's house and chat this dude up, he'd send them photos and they'd send photos. B ended up really liking dude and A was jealous that B got his phone number. B spent a long time talking to this dude and found out where he lived, his hobbies, his myspace, etc. Finally A was all "I want to talk to him!" and she'd gush about how hot his voice was.

Dude fessed up to being a girl, a 17 year old. She said she did it because she liked girls and wanted to be a dude. It was only years later that B was like "you know, I always wondered why he had such a high pitched voice". *headdesk*

[Booze Raccoon]

Jul 10, 2013 21:23:25 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

Jul 10, 2013 21:16:43 GMT -5 W.T.Faulkner said:

Noooooo!  Really?

.....Aw, man.  I'm so gullible.  I'm sitting here all caught up in it, like, "WHY DID YOU EVEN AGREE TO MEET HIMMMMM!!?"

Heh, yeah.  It's all scripted.  I'm sure most of the stories have at least a few grains of truth, such as these people "met" each other on facebook or whatever.  But they add a lot of the details.  Also, before they even start filming, everyone already knows that the person they're going to "reveal" is fake, including the person that's being catfished.  That's why Nev can so easily track down all the other profiles and stuff.. it's already been done for him and they've been given all the info prior to filming.

Don't care!  I just want to see Nev, I'd watch him comb his chest hair for an hour.  

[TrickyBob]

Also, every time I hear Nev, I think Neville Longbottom.

[W.T.Faulkner]

Jul 10, 2013 21:30:33 GMT -5 TrickyBob said:

Also, every time I hear Nev, I think Neville Longbottom.

I would be much happier if he were Neville Longbottom.

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Jul 10, 2013 21:26:18 GMT -5 TrickyBob said:

I've told this before. My ex best friend (A) and our other friend (B), her neighbor, would hang out together. We were around 15 and A would go into chat rooms. She really liked IRC (internet relay chat) and met this dude on there. So A and B would hang out at A's house and chat this dude up, he'd send them photos and they'd send photos. B ended up really liking dude and A was jealous that B got his phone number. B spent a long time talking to this dude and found out where he lived, his hobbies, his myspace, etc. Finally A was all "I want to talk to him!" and she'd gush about how hot his voice was.

Dude fessed up to being a girl, a 17 year old. She said she did it because she liked girls and wanted to be a dude. It was only years later that B was like "you know, I always wondered why he had such a high pitched voice". *headdesk*

Ahh, I'd forgotten about IRC.  That was fun!  

[thinkofthesoldiers]

Remember when AOL had all kinds of chatrooms? (Do they still exist?) I used to go on there and get guys interested and then give them my phone number. The few times I did this, they were OLD (like 50+) and would want phone sex. I was a virgin, about 15, had hardly any experience at all, and thought it was hilarious...until some dude called when I wasn't home and tried to get my mom to have phone sex with him (we sound identical on the phone)...

So I guess I somewhat catfished old dudes.

[game blouses]

In high school I was online friends with a girl who claimed to be a teen mom. She talked about how her boyfriend abandoned her and how she raised her baby by herself, etc etc.

One day she invited me to a play that she was starring in. I don't think she expected me to show up, because she wasn't starring in the play, she was taking tickets. She was a totally different person than in her pictures, even a different ethnicity. She had no baby and lived at home. She continued to lie people about it though, even making up new babies and marriages.

[Bree Van de Kamp]

Jul 10, 2013 21:15:59 GMT -5 jayandemm said:

That episode is great. Her mom gets involved and is all "MY DAUGHTER NO LIAR!!!".

I have officially fallen in luv with Max after that episode. He was on his game, talking to that crazy ass family.

[W.T.Faulkner]

Jul 10, 2013 22:14:14 GMT -5 mofongo said:

Jul 10, 2013 22:08:14 GMT -5 HRH Queen Dick I said:

can we talk about filet o'fish in here?

I want a filet o'fish, cheeseburgers, tons of hot McD's fries, ORANGE DRANK and for some reason a bologna sandwich - which I am blaming on the hot dog thread.

And we're coming back to the orange drank.

[W.T.Faulkner]

Jul 10, 2013 22:19:26 GMT -5 mofongo said:

Jul 10, 2013 22:18:31 GMT -5 W.T.Faulkner said:

And we're coming back to the orange drank.

I'm not sure we've ever left it.

I was trying to avoid it, but like body hair kept in jars or whatever, it won't go awaaaaaaaaaay.

I do like orange drank, though.