people's preoccupation with each other / gossiping / nosey bastards

[Phlexor]

And then there are neighbours who know where to buy weed for you  

I actually had a next door neighbour who was a drug dealer. However I did not know this fact for five years, until she was arrested and the story made the local newspaper. 

Didn't you notice all those visitors they had that stayed for 5-10mins at a time?

[TheoK]

I've noticed that this is one of the major upsides of getting older- stupid shit bothers you less.

As long as it doesn't have any actual influence upon you, yes.

[Parts]

And then there are neighbours who know where to buy weed for you  

I actually had a next door neighbour who was a drug dealer. However I did not know this fact for five years, until she was arrested and the story made the local newspaper. 

Didn't you notice all those visitors they had that stayed for 5-10mins at a time?

One of our neighbors sons sells drugs on and off.  I figure they will never bother me about anything I do in the yard or noise as I don't complain about them

[Untermensch]

Didn't you notice all those visitors they had that stayed for 5-10mins at a time?

I dont think I paid much attention what was happening next door to be honest. Neither did my dad and stepmother who I was living with.

[Untermensch]

Oooh, scaaaarrrrry.    

Hell no, I thought when I hear the arrest. All that time and I did not realize I could just go next door and buy drugs (assuming she had more than just Meth, which I will not touch with a 100 foot pole).

[El]

Oooh, scaaaarrrrry.    

Hell no, I thought when I hear the arrest. All that time and I did not realize I could just go next door and buy drugs (assuming she had more than just Meth, which I will not touch with a 100 foot pole).

lol

[Untermensch]

Gossiping is something I have learned to do, in a limited way. Although I dislike myself being the subject of people's gossip, because when I am being talked about, it is almost always bad stuff. Lately I have discovered people are gossiping about me in positive ways, especially at my volunteer job at a local neighborhood house. When for example; I had to take days off because I am busy with uni studies, they asked my friend who teaches guitar classes there about what I was doing and he replied I was extremely busy.

That revelation has slowly started to changed my opinion of gossiping, especially about people gossiping about me.

[richard]

age/ imaturity/past abuse issues

[richard]

and on further thoughts i would like to think that most people who go through this, eventually grow up unless there mentally ILL. 

["couldbecousin"]

And then there are neighbours who know where to buy weed for you 

I actually had a next door neighbour who was a drug dealer. However I did not know this fact for five years, until she was arrested and the story made the local newspaper. 

Didn't you notice all those visitors they had that stayed for 5-10mins at a time?

  True story, told in a local newspaper article about the difficulties of being a landlord:
  A naive, kind-hearted landlord, a recent transplant from a small Midwestern town, was telling his friends
  about his new tenant, such a nice guy with so many friends coming to visit him at all hours!  The landlord's
  friends had to break the sad news that this tenant was almost certainly a dealer.     My sister had a
  similar realization in one of her places of residence.  She noticed that her landlady's son kept a dog tied up
  outside the house and had cars coming and going at all hours, and got out of that apartment ASAP. 

[Icequeen]

As I get older I think this is all some people have to do...talk about other people.

I tend to avoid everyone and I get so pissed at the SO for telling people what's going on in our lives all the time...especially if it's bad...they seem to love to share the bad stuff. But my MIL is attending church now and on Facebook...so even stuffing a sock in SO mouth before we go out in public isn't going to do much good.

I like my private life private, and I don't want to hear about anyone elses either. If I ever get that damn bored I'll take up lint collecting first.

[Queen Victoria]

Gossip is one of my weaknesses.  I love to hear it and I love to share it.  But then I did some thinking on it.

Why am I reading/sharing this?  Is it to feel important?  That I know something you don't know?  To hurt the person I'm talking about?  I notice that I censor myself more lately since these questions are in my mind.

What if it's something that the listener needs to know?  I try to say that XX had some experience with the situation (investments, purchases, etc.) and maybe you should talk to them about advice.   (We had a horrible experience with an electrician and while I won't speak freely about him, if asked for a good electrician I will share my experience.)


I've learned to skip most of the snarky/ tittilating news articles.  However my one big weakness is the Free Jinger Forum (snarks on fundamentalists).  Lord, what a rabbit hole/howl.

[Jack]

It got so overwhelming at work, completely disengaged over two years ago. Take breaks alone, decline lunch invites, decline celebrations or group activities; do my job and go home. Am more content for it; when rarely hearing them snipe about each other, also rarely wonder what's being sniped about me, and also rarely encouraged to participate. Had to make it clear to a few, especially own team members and boss, if it's not about the data then don't want to talk about it. It's been nice.

[Grey Area]

I often wonder if strangers who see me frequently have a nickname for me that they use behind my back.

[Al Swearegen]

I hate people