I'm the buyer for a chain of bike shops. A sponsored 3 time Olympic track rider is sitting beside me in the back office. The new shop manager for the store my office was behind walks in. We chat for a few minutes between the three of us, but the new guy is clearly intimidated and talking too much. He starts talking about this brand of high end bike components that I am never going to order. Talking about the brakes, he says "and they are really popular with track guys too."

Olympian turns to me and it is all he can do to hold it in barely cracking a smile. Guy finally figures out that he is caught and leaves.

Track bikes are fixed gear and like the original bicycle in its simplest form. There is no freewheel (ratcheting mechanism in the rear hub). Braking involves putting back pressure on the pedals. Move your weight around and you can even lock the tire and skid stop. There are no shifters, levers brakes or gear transmission. So yeah, claiming some super expensive money-makes-magic brakes are for a track bike in front of a 3 time Olympian has to be my favorite. Like the most pure distilled fundamental bike thing just needs that bling.

[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago

A man I worked with years ago was always telling absurd obvious lies. He lied to the manager that the manager had told him not to do a task. The liar went into details about seeing the boss, and the boss had said XYZ, and the liar had checked details, then the manager etc etc. The story made no sense, and the manager FLIPPED.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Guy at work was obviously a piece of shit, he was some sort of management consultant. He went from walking in my office to tell me what the new deal was, to getting all outraged on my behalf that "they" would try to give me such a raw deal, said I was 100% right, it was bullshit, he was going to set it straight for me, don't worry.

Like dude... I heard what you said in the first half. I was here. It was literally like three minutes ago.

[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's brazen.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 2 points 4 days ago

What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we’ll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do then? What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth and content ourselves instead with stories?

When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. But it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That America is the land of the free.

That the American dream is a thing.

That I might not be getting a raise now at work, but I would be getting a substantial one mid-year. I did not get anything at all. I left that job 2.5mos later.

That my ex was happy in our relationship - she broke up with me a week later with a laundry list of grievances.

That my coworker had been in a car accident and couldn't make it to work - turns out no car accident, they just spent the week day drinking. Kind of insane because we had unlimited PTO...they could have just requested time off. They stupidly got caught because of social media posts.