Question of the Day: What Do You Often Lie About?

"I lie to men about being attracted to men."

Everybody lies. The statement "I never lie" is itself a lie, and anybody who tells you that is absolutely full of shit. And that's fine: lying is the oldest, most reliable way to hack life, to manipulate reality into the way you want it to be, as opposed to the way it is. The truth hurts, as they say, and the easiest way to avoid that hurt is to lie.

Everybody lies about different things though. Some tell big lies, some tell small lies, and some just insist that they genuinely understood the end of Interstellar. So to get a general, non-scientific sample of what people lie about, we approached a bunch of people around the streets of Melbourne and asked them.

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