A Liar Or An Asshole - What Is Worse?

**hey man** · 08.29.06, 04:39 PM

Hey All,

They say that everybody lies and there have been statistics to support this. Most people lie to others once or twice a day and deceive about 30 people per week.

The average is 7 times per hour if you count all the times people lie to themselves.

We lie in 30 to 38% of all our interactions.

- 10,000,000 people lie to the IRS each year.
- 80% of us lie on our resumes.
- 70% of all doctors lie to insurance companies.
- 100% of dating couples surveyed lied to each other in about a third of their conversations.
- 20% - 30% of middle managers surveyed had written fraudulent internal reports.
- 95% of participating college students surveyed were willing to tell at least one lie to a potential employer to win a job, and 41% had already done so.

We are lied to about 200 times each day.

So what do you think is worse - being a liar or an asshole. Everyone may lie, but not everyone is an asshole.

**vhrocker** · 08.29.06, 05:15 PM

A lieing asshole is the worst in the world.

**seenbad** · 08.29.06, 05:56 PM

A liar is way worse than an asshole. At least you know what you're dealing with when you talk with an asshole.

**jws5150** · 08.29.06, 08:10 PM

A liar sucks way more than any asshole. Trust me...I'd know. I'm an asshole and that's not a lie.

**LLFHS** · 08.29.06, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by jws5150

A liar sucks way more than any asshole. Trust me...I'd know. I'm an asshole and that's not a lie.

Sigworthy.

I find an asshole far easier to deal with than a liar. At least with an asshole, you know where you stand at once. Liars, you have to find out about - often after some damage has been done.

**Texas Poundcake** · 08.29.06, 08:26 PM

what if they are a lying asshole? I know one of those

**jws5150** · 08.29.06, 08:28 PM

Originally Posted by LowLifeFlatHeadScum

Sigworthy.

I find an asshole far easier to deal with than a liar. At least with an asshole, you know where you stand at once. Liars, you have to find out about - often after some damage has been done.

That's a great idea. It's now done. Thanks dude.

**JCJanko** · 08.29.06, 10:20 PM

I won't lie to you. I'm an asshole.

**janthraxx** · 08.29.06, 10:37 PM

I'm not an asshole, but I am a liar.

Have we exhausted all possibilities yet?

**onefootoutthedoor** · 08.30.06, 02:51 AM

Just ask Brad S...

**Rovus** · 08.30.06, 02:57 AM

Originally Posted by hey man

- 70% of all doctors lie to insurance companies.

I work in the medical malpractice insurance field and that statement is pretty much true. lol

**WinterlessIceness** · 08.30.06, 04:40 AM

Depends on a liar, and depends on an asshole. The writers are liars at it's perfect

, I mean - elfs/goblins

, chronicles of Numenorean ppl - by months

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**jimmy812** · 08.30.06, 04:49 AM

After reading your post, how do I know that all those stats you mentioned are true??!!

**WinterlessIceness** · 08.30.06, 04:52 AM

Lmfao

, well it took my 9-year old brother some time to get convinced elves really didn't exist coz he seriously planned on having a trip to Valinor

**Ted Van Halen** · 08.30.06, 05:23 AM

Ultimately in my book a liar is much worse. I don't think the two are mutually exclusive such that being an asshole makes you a liar, but being a liar automatically makes you an asshole to a certain extent.

If you'll lie, you'll steal. If you're an asshole, it's pretty well understood that most everything you say, true as it may be, is gonna stink to some extent.

Ted