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Re: bitching about negative people

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 12:36 pm
by The Leveller
H20nly wrote:
The Leveller wrote:Interesting book: 59 seconds by Richard Wiseman.

Suggests that when people gossip the listener actually transfers the negative things the person is saying onto the person who is actually saying them.

They probably deserve it too.

:? what?

so if this guy ----> :x is being negative
and this guy ----> :| is listening...
then this guy -----> :x is having the negativity transferred to him...
by this guy ------> :|



i'll take geometric shapes for 500 please Alex.

an ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point

What is a circle?
That is correct.

Say someone comes up to you at work and starts slagging off a colleague for being a shifty workshy sponger, then you subconsciously start to think that the person telling you is actually also a workshy shifty sponger.