I'm inclined to agree with this. I often rant to my friends about weird bugs I've been hit by or the one guy I worked with who went out of his way to create drama. I can't imagine that's a unique practice.

If I'm talking about these things in an interview, I just repeat stories I've told before but with toned down profanity. On the flip side, I'm super skeptical if I'm interviewing someone and say "tell me about a time when a project didn't go well" and they insist that all of their projects have always gone smoothly, even after I prompt that they to go far back as high school group projects.