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<p>Have you ever sat back as someone conjured all their persuasive energy to try to convince you of a load of BS? It can be equal parts entertaining and fascinating to watch the wheels turn as they pretend the conversation is worth it, particularly when both of you know they&#39;re not convincing you of anything.</p><p>Still, there is something to be said about the sheer gall of someone who keeps a straight face while committing to an utterly BS take, in many ways - trolls on that level deserve their flowers for sheer dedication.</p><h2>In <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/n1f38h/whats_the_biggest_load_of_bs_someones_ever_tried/" target="_blank">a popular Reddit thread</a>, people shared the biggest load of BS someone ever tried to convince them of, and it truly emphasizes how creative people can be.</h2><h2>1. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Jolkien-RR-Tolkien/">Jolkien-RR-Tolkien</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My dad tried to convince me that we were having stewed monkey brains for dinner when I was a kid.</p> </blockquote><h2>2. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/No-_-H8/">No-_-H8</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>That she had a child that she put up for adoption. We were in 5th grade.</p> </blockquote><h2>3. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RockNRollBuckeroo/">RockNRollBuckeroo</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My compulsive lying ex best friend tried to convince me she was in the &quot;Girls Just Wanna Have Fun&quot; music video even though she was born in 2000.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>4. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/lemon_difficult_9/">lemon_difficult_9</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>A classmate tried to convince me that satellites are alien creations and that everyone working for NASA is an alien...he really believed it though 😆</p> </blockquote><h2>5. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/CurtisMarauderZ/">CurtisMarauderZ</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;I was a beta tester for that amazing video game you just discovered.&quot; Screw you, Ian. You were not a beta tester for No Man&#39;s Sky. Your laptop can barely play Bloons 4 without having a seizure.</p> </blockquote><h2>6. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Hot-Bug8087/">Hot-Bug8087</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My friend tried to convince me that he was a were-rabbit.</p> <p>First he claimed he was bitten by a rabbit as a kid. Then he claimed that once he woke up next to the fridge and that next day all the carrots were gone saying his mom got a full bag of carrots the day before. He also claimed he took a video of him sleeping and saw a fuzzy tail in the recording.</p> </blockquote><h2>7. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ThornsAndTears/">ThornsAndTears</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I convinced my boyfriend that vaginas have taste buds and they make flavored tampons. I told him my favorite flavor was watermelon.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ventiangelcake/">ventiangelcake</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My dad&#39;s a crazy conspiracy theorist. He thinks Oprah Winfrey uses the Underground Railroad to make child trafficking happen.</p> </blockquote><h2>9. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Totallycasual/">Totallycasual</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>A guy with an Irish-sounding last name tried to tell me he was an explosives expert and was in the IRA, the c*nt was Australian and had never left the country, not to mention the fact that he didn&#39;t know the first thing about explosives lol.</p> </blockquote><h2>10. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Useless_Manchild/">Useless_Manchild</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My aunt tried to convince me the moon isn&#39;t real.</p> <p>Not for any reasonable reason but &quot;a photo taken of the earth is too high-quality considering when it happened.&quot;</p> <p>Bearing in mind the one she pulls up is one taken from the f**king space station not that long ago.</p> </blockquote><h2>11. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/WeWantExtraIce/">WeWantExtraIce</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>That they owned their own business and was making residual income that wasn&rsquo;t based on recruitment...while trying to recruit me at the same time.</p> </blockquote><h2>12. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/FrightenedZombie/">FrightenedZombie</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Had a guy tell me before he started working as a stocker at a grocery store that he owned his own gun store. Sold everything including WWI grenades, fully automatic weapons and almost had his own tank...and now he&#39;s stocking for $11/hour...yeah okay.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>13. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Mason3637/">Mason3637</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My (now ex) husband and his girlfriend tried to convince me there was nothing going on between them during that week they spent in a hotel together. Thank god I can laugh about it now.</p> </blockquote><h2>14. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Fandom_42/">Fandom_42</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>That audacity was pronounced Odyssey.</p> </blockquote><h2>15. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Plus-Contest-5173/">Plus-Contest-5173</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Saying his xbox 360 cost 7 billion dollars.</p> </blockquote><h2>16. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/curionsu/">curionsu</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I was arguing with a Christian and one of the points I bought up was &quot;so you think that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time&quot; he proceeded to send me numerous articles with no factual evidence. To top it all off, when I tried to call him out he proceeded to tell me that sources such as Harvard, Nat Geo and Britannica were fake.</p> </blockquote><h2>17. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RonSwansonsOldMan/">RonSwansonsOldMan</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;ve been working with a guy for years who claims he invented some car part that Ford offered him 10 million dollars for. But he won&#39;t sell because he knows Ford will just shelve his invention. Meanwhile, he drives a 15-year-old Ford.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>18. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/AnEven7/">AnEven7</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I was reading one of their posts on a public forum that they were mourning that day because it was the anniversary of his daughter&#39;s death, and that he was thinking about getting a memorial tattoo. This came as a huge shock to me because as far as I knew he wasn&#39;t a father, and of course, he wasn&#39;t. It&#39;s just one of those things he would do to illicit sympathy from strangers on the internet. I knew he was spouting bullcrap, but I asked him about it anyway.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>He seemed to be caught off guard and made up a story that there was a baby but it died, and that it wasn&#39;t technically his, but his post definitely implied it was. One of those things where if anyone ever called him out of it, he could say &quot;well, I didn&#39;t say it was my biological child&quot;. Sure, man, like, please stop that. It&#39;s super uncool.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>19. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Overthinker-dreamer/">Overthinker-dreamer</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I went to school with someone who tried to convince me that she and her family were once trapped in a caravan for a week because it had fallen on its side. Apparently, they called for help and no one did anything to help.</p> <p>She also around the same time said she almost fell out of the Eiffel Tower.</p> <p>She also said she was related to Mary-Kate and Ashley.</p> </blockquote><h2>20. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PossessedHood416/">PossessedHood416</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>McDonalds chicken nuggets are made out of human children.</p> <p>I swear, my family...</p> <p>Decently sure I&#39;m adopted.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

20 people share the biggest load of 'BS' someone ever tried to get them to believe.

Have you ever sat back as someone conjured all their persuasive energy to try to convince you of a load of BS? It can be equal parts entertaining and fascinating to watch the wheels turn as they pretend the conversation is worth it, particularly when both of you know they&#39;re not convincing you of anything.Still, there is something to be said about the sheer gall of someone who keeps a straight face while committing to an utterly BS take, in many ways - trolls on that level deserve their flowers for sheer dedication.In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the biggest load of BS someone ever tried to convince them of, and it truly emphasizes how creative people can be.1. From Jolkien-RR-Tolkien: My dad tried to convince me that we were having stewed monkey brains for dinner when I was a kid. 2. From No-_-H8: That she had a child that she put up for adoption. We were in 5th grade. 3. From RockNRollBuckeroo: My compulsive lying ex best friend tried to convince me she was in the &quot;Girls Just Wanna Have Fun&quot; music video even though she was born in 2000. 4. From lemon_difficult_9: A classmate tried to convince me that satellites are alien creations and that everyone working for NASA is an alien...he really believed it though 😆 5. From CurtisMarauderZ: &quot;I was a beta tester for that amazing video game you just discovered.&quot; Screw you, Ian. You were not a beta tester for No Man&#39;s Sky. Your laptop can barely play Bloons 4 without having a seizure. 6. From Hot-Bug8087: My friend tried to convince me that he was a were-rabbit. First he claimed he was bitten by a rabbit as a kid. Then he claimed that once he woke up next to the fridge and that next day all the carrots were gone saying his mom got a full bag of carrots the day before. He also claimed he took a video of him sleeping and saw a fuzzy tail in the recording. 7. From ThornsAndTears: I convinced my boyfriend that vaginas have taste buds and they make flavored tampons. I told him my favorite flavor was watermelon. 8. From ventiangelcake: My dad&#39;s a crazy conspiracy theorist. He thinks Oprah Winfrey uses the Underground Railroad to make child trafficking happen. 9. From Totallycasual: A guy with an Irish-sounding last name tried to tell me he was an explosives expert and was in the IRA, the c*nt was Australian and had never left the country, not to mention the fact that he didn&#39;t know the first thing about explosives lol. 10. From Useless_Manchild: My aunt tried to convince me the moon isn&#39;t real. Not for any reasonable reason but &quot;a photo taken of the earth is too high-quality considering when it happened.&quot; Bearing in mind the one she pulls up is one taken from the f**king space station not that long ago. 11. From WeWantExtraIce: That they owned their own business and was making residual income that wasn&rsquo;t based on recruitment...while trying to recruit me at the same time. 12. From FrightenedZombie: Had a guy tell me before he started working as a stocker at a grocery store that he owned his own gun store. Sold everything including WWI grenades, fully automatic weapons and almost had his own tank...and now he&#39;s stocking for $11/hour...yeah okay. 13. From Mason3637: My (now ex) husband and his girlfriend tried to convince me there was nothing going on between them during that week they spent in a hotel together. Thank god I can laugh about it now. 14. From Fandom_42: That audacity was pronounced Odyssey. 15. From Plus-Contest-5173: Saying his xbox 360 cost 7 billion dollars. 16. From curionsu: I was arguing with a Christian and one of the points I bought up was &quot;so you think that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time&quot; he proceeded to send me numerous articles with no factual evidence. To top it all off, when I tried to call him out he proceeded to tell me that sources such as Harvard, Nat Geo and Britannica were fake. 17. From RonSwansonsOldMan: I&#39;ve been working with a guy for years who claims he invented some car part that Ford offered him 10 million dollars for. But he won&#39;t sell because he knows Ford will just shelve his invention. Meanwhile, he drives a 15-year-old Ford. 18. From AnEven7: I was reading one of their posts on a public forum that they were mourning that day because it was the anniversary of his daughter&#39;s death, and that he was thinking about getting a memorial tattoo. This came as a huge shock to me because as far as I knew he wasn&#39;t a father, and of course, he wasn&#39;t. It&#39;s just one of those things he would do to illicit sympathy from strangers on the internet. I knew he was spouting bullcrap, but I asked him about it anyway.  He seemed to be caught off guard and made up a story that there was a baby but it died, and that it wasn&#39;t technically his, but his post definitely implied it was. One of those things where if anyone ever called him out of it, he could say &quot;well, I didn&#39;t say it was my biological child&quot;. Sure, man, like, please stop that. It&#39;s super uncool. 19. From Overthinker-dreamer: I went to school with someone who tried to convince me that she and her family were once trapped in a caravan for a week because it had fallen on its side. Apparently, they called for help and no one did anything to help. She also around the same time said she almost fell out of the Eiffel Tower. She also said she was related to Mary-Kate and Ashley. 20. From PossessedHood416: McDonalds chicken nuggets are made out of human children. I swear, my family... Decently sure I&#39;m adopted. 