You Know What's Annoying? 002

You know what's annoying? Rumors.
A rumor, or rumour if you don't know how to spell right, is a lie that get's started out of jeliousy, boredom, an over active imagination, or the plane and simple desire to be cruel or to be stupid. Likewise, the person who blindly believes a rumor without any proof is also pretty dimwhitted and stupid.
Here's an example of a rumor:

Actor Hugh Jackman was seen running into actress Dakota Fanning on the sidewalk yesterday. Us at the hoity toity celebraty magazine thinks that Dakota Fanning is far too young to be ran into by Hugh Jackman because Hugh Jackman is an adult. But they are both in movies so they will probably get married.

This is the typical celebraty gossip that can be turned around into a rumor with no proof. Hugh Jackman, in this scenerio, running into a child actress on the street would not lead to wedding bells. I'm sorry very stupid celebraty magazines. They just don't work that way. They only thing in this that would have been a fact if it were true, would be the running into eachother randomly. However, I just made it all up...all of it...so it is, in fact a rumor and has no basis in reality.
Now, sometimes, rumors can also lead to the demise of someone. In this article, yes it's from Wikipedia, but since it's about rumors, it's okay if the info isn't exactly accurate, we read how rumors lead to the downfall and very small upcline of actor/commidian Fatty Arbuckle:

In 1921 Arbuckle threw a party during Labor Day weekend. Bit player Virginia Rappe became ill at the party and died days later. Soon Arbuckle was accused of raping and accidentally killing Rappe, enduring three widely publicized trials for manslaughter. His films were subsequently banned, his career was ruined, and he was publicly ostracized. Though he was acquitted by a jury and received a written apology, the trial's scandal has mostly overshadowed his legacy as a pioneering comedian.[1] Though the ban on his films was eventually lifted, Arbuckle only worked sparingly through the 1920s. In 1932 he began a successful comeback, which he briefly enjoyed before his death in 1933.

Now, the reason that rumors are annoying (I say annoying because phrases I want to use might not be family friendly) is because they are started by cowards, believed by idiots, tarnish the reputation of people involved and, believe it or not, effect those who either aren't involved or are involved by proxy.

I heard about a real rumor, one I will not repeat here, a while back that at the time, was old and I assumed was dead. Apparently, this rumor has been resurected. The people who are involved are hurt.
Rumors can be summed up with the following:

rumors are answers for the weak.

rumors are also weapons of the cowardly and believed by the stupid. Anyone who believes rumors blindly without proof are idiots

It's because rumors are "secret" that they have power.

"How do rumors get started, they're started by the jealous people...."

A rumor is only a rumor because it's not true. If it were true, it wouldn't be a rumor. My logic migh...t be off somewhere but the fact that it's a rumor makes it not true.

A few of these are mine but not all. My reason for posting these is because I personally feel like, if people don't realize what a rumor is, then the rumor has power and assumed to be true. If you can recognize when a rumor is a rumor, then you can recognize when the jerk-off who's starting it IS in fact the jerk-off starting it or the idiot follower is the idiot follower. Always remember that your turth lies with you and if you have that truth, it can't be taken away by a jerk-off with more speaking power.