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Gossiping about people you don't even know.

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  • #32
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 25,004 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Eleanor Roosevelt wrote:
    Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
    Eleanor Roosevelt was obviously a smarter lady than our mammies! :p

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  • #33
    Knex*
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    Maybe I'm a self absorbed ass hat, but I am thoroughly uninterested in the regular day activities, or social habits, of pretty much everybody that I work with.

    I totally zone out when people start gossiping.


  • #34
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    If, as the thread title says, it's people you don't know then I either just say I don't know them or have no interest in them or that it's their own business or suchlike. If I know the person I quickly let the gossip know I know the person lest they thought I didn't. If the gossip is just news then fair enough it's only chatting. If it's rumour mongering I'm inclined to dismiss it until proof positive arrives. If I know it to be wrong, I just tell the gossip so.

    Gossip or chat or news - a very thin line at times. It's a universal thing though. I heard as much gossiping in the Boston, Berne and Perth, while working there, as I do in the parish here at home now.


  • #35
    K-9
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    Us men do it for football stuff mostly, transfer gossip, today being transfer deadline day and all.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #36
    Knex*
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    Don't believe K-9. Apparently he wanders through the politics forum, talking to himself, and he eats Bran Flakes with no milk.


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
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    Knex. wrote: »
    Don't believe K-9. Apparently he wanders through the politics forum, talking to himself, and he eats Bran Flakes with no milk.

    I heard it was weetabix.


  • #38
    Shrap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    K-9 talks to his weetabix? Well I'm not surprised. I heard something about him getting political about milk too, so there ye go....must be true :eek:


  • #39
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
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    New neighbours moved in beside my boyfriend's parents a bit back, young couple with a baby and another on the way. Long story short, the man seemed a bit unstable and annoyed a few people around the place, then he died in a road accident. My bf's mam was in the shop a few days after and over barrels local Cnutyface McGossipsalot asking at the top of her voice 'what was the story with them, I heard they weren't getting on, he was an alcoholic was he', until bfs mam told her to stfu. No consideration of the fact that the man's family, the partner's family or whoever could have been in earshot.

    To be honest after exposure to how nasty and poisonous small town gossip is, I've nearly a soft spot for the purely boring stuff, seems so benign!


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