# What do you lie to/deceive yourself about? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 5, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-lie-to-deceive-yourself-about/761856 "2016-08-05T17:41:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-lie-to-deceive-yourself-about/761856/41 "2016-08-08T04:13:57Z")
> [@Marion\_Wormer](#): > > Sadly, I think I’m pretty, until someone takes a candid photo of me. It gets harder and harder to brush that off every year. I don’t want to disrespect your freedom to your own opinion, but maybe you have not considered the difference between a woman’s appearance and her photograph? One is a poem, the other is an unanimated artifact. A poem exists separately for each personal observer, where a photograph is objective- I suppose someone may notice this part of a photograph first, or that, but it does reduce to data. I bet you focus on what you think is worst in a photograph. What if you resemble someone’s favorite person? Anyway, I don’t know if it counts as a lie to myself or not, but I have sort of walled off a whole chain of thought. My relationship with my gf fell apart, and it isn’t a good time to work through all the angles, so I have all but forgotten about it! ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-lie-to-deceive-yourself-about/761856/42 "2016-08-08T19:19:30Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > My mental image of what I look like does not match the image in the mirror. I tend to avoid mirrors but I also think I look better than I do. Girl I am looking fine as _shit_ today justpleasenobodytakemypicture ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-lie-to-deceive-yourself-about/761856/43 "2016-08-08T19:21:20Z")
I really _won’t_ plant flowers in the front garden. It will remain the domain of our twice-monthly yard guys, who will renew the mulching and trim the shrubbies as needed. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-lie-to-deceive-yourself-about/761856/44 "2016-08-08T20:15:29Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Girl I am looking fine as _shit_ today justpleasenobodytakemypicture I also feel like I look much better without clothes than with clothes. Clothes aren’t very well proportioned to my body, so I can feel very self-conscious in them, but I don’t have that when I’m naked. ---
**Author:** ![I.Dunno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9f8e36/32.png) [@I.Dunno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I.Dunno)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-lie-to-deceive-yourself-about/761856/45 "2016-08-08T20:30:33Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I also feel like I look much better without clothes than with clothes. Clothes aren’t very well proportioned to my body, so I can feel very self-conscious in them, but I don’t have that when I’m naked. Maybe you should post some pics and let the Dopers decide.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-lie-to-deceive-yourself-about/761856/46 "2016-08-08T20:36:40Z")
> [@I.Dunno](#): > > Maybe you should post some pics and let the Dopers decide.😃 True story. We once had a weird glitch on this board in which all the threads were made temporary (I think this was the Winter of our Missed Content) and some Dopers really did post pictures of themselves naked. I was not among them. As sexually liberated as I may be in terms of my ideals, I am pragmatically speaking, more on the modest side. I suspect everybody looks better naked. I do wonder if most people _feel_ better naked. ---
**Author:** ![yesanything](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@yesanything](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yesanything)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-lie-to-deceive-yourself-about/761856/47 "2016-08-08T20:37:11Z")
I smoke Skydancer native american 100% natural no additive cigarettes. They are better than typical USian cigarettes, but far from “healthy” ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-lie-to-deceive-yourself-about/761856/48 "2016-08-09T11:38:42Z")
It’s all variations of “I got this” I don’t got this, any of it. ---
**Author:** ![I.Dunno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9f8e36/32.png) [@I.Dunno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I.Dunno)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-lie-to-deceive-yourself-about/761856/49 "2016-08-09T16:17:28Z")
Well, I have several I’m sure. But the main one is that I’m gonna lose those 15 pounds, damn right I am! Of course I first have to lose the 10 that I put on since I told myself that. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-lie-to-deceive-yourself-about/761856/50 "2016-08-09T16:20:24Z")
> [@I.Dunno](#): > > Well, I have several I’m sure. But the main one is that I’m gonna lose those 15 pounds, damn right I am! Of course I first have to lose the 10 that I put on since I told myself that. Nice username / thread title combo. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-lie-to-deceive-yourself-about/761856.md?page=2)