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Originally posted by cherish:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Tempus sans ITC, Papyrus,Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="3" face="Tempus sans ITC, Papyrus,Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by DarrensPassion:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Tempus sans ITC, Papyrus,Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="3" face="Tempus sans ITC, Papyrus,Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by cherish:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Tempus sans ITC, Papyrus,Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="3" face="Tempus sans ITC, Papyrus,Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Laurina:
Oh! Epiphony about "rumours"!
From my experience, rumours typically come from one of two places. Either they spark from an all out fib that someone has said that just spreads and spreads (I have personally witnessed this happening far too often), or it starts from someone's fears. Take for example this hospital rumour - he's been quite, there are no new pics, etc.. etc... I hope he's okay, what if he's not... and so on. And one person's fear gets shared with another and so on and so on and each person interprets what they have heard differently and suddenly someone's fear is replaced with a statement that is being shared as fact.
It's frustrating... and it always worries me because originally when I hear something like this my first reaction is one of fear "What if he is?!" kind of fear.