Gossip Girls and Boys

Boys don't like to admit they like to hear gossip, but if you say, "Hey, guess who just got a random picture text today of a penis?" You bet they're gonna be interested. :greenie:

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Originally Posted by Miriel

Hey, guess who just got a random picture text today of a penis?

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Well? Who was it?

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Originally Posted by Miriel

Gossip isn't about spreading SECRETS. Or at least, I don't think it is? :confused: If a friend confides in you and then you spread those secrets, that's just called being a bitch. If a friend specifically asks me not to say anything, I won't.

Gossip is...finding out that someone is getting married and then talking about this news with your friends. "Did you hear so-and-so is getting married?" "Omg, are you serious, when??" "In the summer!" "Are we invited?" "I think she's gonna do it in Vegas!"

That's gossip. Like I said in my first post, it's not about being malicious.

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Dude... maliciousness is EXACTLY what gossip is. Talking about things behind people's backs, talking about things people wouldn't want you to know about, talking about people without them having any chance to correct themselves or offer input. It doesn't necessarily have to be overtly labelled as 'secret' for gosspping about it to be sketchy.

I mean, I do all that. I just don't care, because that's how we are. Everyone does it, people do it about me, I'm sure.

Gossip doesn't interest me in the slightest.

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Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF

Dude... maliciousness is EXACTLY what gossip is. Talking about things behind people's backs, talking about things people wouldn't want you to know about, talking about people without them having any chance to correct themselves or offer input. It doesn't necessarily have to be overtly labelled as 'secret' for gosspping about it to be sketchy.

I mean, I do all that. I just don't care, because that's how we are. Everyone does it, people do it about me, I'm sure.

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I dunno, a lot of the gossip I get, I get directly from the source. *shrugs*

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

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Originally Posted by Miriel

Hey, guess who just got a random picture text today of a penis?

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Well? Who was it?

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It was my best friend! She actually offered to send me the picture, but I declined. :)

This thread reminds me of when me and Azar (I think) and Hsu and probably Sepho were playing #tot with foa and rubah and they were amused by what a bunch of gossip whores we were. So I think that says it all about me http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...appy/wacky.gif

I draw a distinction between harmless 'gossip' (in quotes because I don't consider it gossip) such as, for example, telling everybody I know that Mandee was getting married all those years ago, and real gossip, like something I won't say in this forum. Like, for example, that [example]Pam's going to dump Jimmy this Saturday[/example]

The above is a real piece of gossip with the names of people changed. Nobody from EoFF. I swear on the life of my mother.

In fact, I'm usually so good at this that sometimes I feel like I'm betraying friends for not being a blabbermouth. I'm sworn to secrecy for a lot of things. The only time I 'share' is when it has to do with me directly (like how I'm an emotional mess due to Pam's plan to dump Jimmy).

edit: I'M FINDING MYSELF GOSSIPPING. THIS IS SO FUN! I'M BEING SELF RIGHTEOUS!

Seriously, I rescind everything I said in this thread

I try not to, but I do it sometimes.. Just like everybody else. Everybody gossips. Anyone who says they don't is in denial.

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Originally Posted by Breine

I try not to, but I do it sometimes.. Just like everybody else. Everybody gossips. Anyone who says they don't is in denial.

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I haven't done it in so long. It's better than sex!

Actually a lot of things are better than straight sex.

I listen to it a bit but I don't go spreading it or believing it (unless it sounds true enough).

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Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF

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Originally Posted by Miriel

Gossip isn't about spreading SECRETS. Or at least, I don't think it is? :confused: If a friend confides in you and then you spread those secrets, that's just called being a bitch. If a friend specifically asks me not to say anything, I won't.

Gossip is...finding out that someone is getting married and then talking about this news with your friends. "Did you hear so-and-so is getting married?" "Omg, are you serious, when??" "In the summer!" "Are we invited?" "I think she's gonna do it in Vegas!"

That's gossip. Like I said in my first post, it's not about being malicious.

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Dude... maliciousness is EXACTLY what gossip is. Talking about things behind people's backs, talking about things people wouldn't want you to know about, talking about people without them having any chance to correct themselves or offer input. It doesn't necessarily have to be overtly labelled as 'secret' for gosspping about it to be sketchy.

I mean, I do all that. I just don't care, because that's how we are. Everyone does it, people do it about me, I'm sure.

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No it isn't. Gossip is just idle talk. You might've been the victim of malicious rumors, but gossip isn't automatically malicious. It's just idle, busybody stuff.

Idle talk can be malicious, it just depends on what kind of person you gossip with. I gossip, but I also make sure that whatever I say "behind someone's back" is something I'm also willing to say to their face. I'm just open like that.

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Originally Posted by DK

This thread reminds me of when me and Azar (I think) and Hsu and probably Sepho were playing #tot with foa and rubah and they were amused by what a bunch of gossip whores we were. So I think that says it all about me http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...appy/wacky.gif

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That's because you are the BIGGEST gossip whore I know. xD

amg yes i love gossip. :DDD

No, but I have somehow come to know to know an abundance of useless information about people I hardly know.

ALL THE TIME!

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Originally Posted by fire_of_avalon

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Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF

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Originally Posted by Miriel

Gossip isn't about spreading SECRETS. Or at least, I don't think it is? :confused: If a friend confides in you and then you spread those secrets, that's just called being a bitch. If a friend specifically asks me not to say anything, I won't.

Gossip is...finding out that someone is getting married and then talking about this news with your friends. "Did you hear so-and-so is getting married?" "Omg, are you serious, when??" "In the summer!" "Are we invited?" "I think she's gonna do it in Vegas!"

That's gossip. Like I said in my first post, it's not about being malicious.

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Dude... maliciousness is EXACTLY what gossip is. Talking about things behind people's backs, talking about things people wouldn't want you to know about, talking about people without them having any chance to correct themselves or offer input. It doesn't necessarily have to be overtly labelled as 'secret' for gosspping about it to be sketchy.

I mean, I do all that. I just don't care, because that's how we are. Everyone does it, people do it about me, I'm sure.

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No it isn't. Gossip is just idle talk. You might've been the victim of malicious rumors, but gossip isn't automatically malicious. It's just idle, busybody stuff.

Idle talk can be malicious, it just depends on what kind of person you gossip with. I gossip, but I also make sure that whatever I say "behind someone's back" is something I'm also willing to say to their face. I'm just open like that.

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I'm not gonna argue, I'm just saying, this is the first time I've ever come across gossip as anything other than malicious rumor spreading and secret sharing.