backyard crowing ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- arse commiseration Okay, studmuffins: Let's say there's a figurative arse in your life. Some nice person says/asks something about them. You could: a) Say they're an arse. Option A could get back to the arse, gain sympathy points from the nice person, or cause the nice person to think you might be a gossipy arse yourself. Option B results in no gossip reaching the arse, no sympathy for the nice person, and no reasonable risk of being called a gossip. So the only benefit that I can see is commiseration. Sometimes it's worth it, sometimes it's not. I was supposed to tell you not to gossip, wasn't I? Some self-help guru I am. Here's a nice little platitude that brings it all home: "Live in such a way that if anyone should speak badly of you, no one would believe it." There. That's what I meant. 10:46 pm - Saturday, Jan. 02, 2016 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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