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dehro
2012-05-25, 04:10 AM
I have a healthy passion for Fisherman's friends
these here sweets, for the few that might not know them
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00761/SNN2327FF-380_761733a.jpg
I've actually collected a few of the boxes that they can come sold in (not the carton boxes..the tin ones.. so I often carry one of those around and can be seen crunching or sucking on the sweets.
during one summer holiday in the South of Italy, my best friend told me that the word was going around that I was a druggie, because obviously everybody knows that the only real use for one of those little boxes is to hide your extasy pills in...nobody really eats those sweets. :smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin:
admittedly, the "open-house, music, booze and partying" policy my friend had instituted 24/7 on that particular holiday, didn't help.
we did laugh it off and actually played it up a little.
what's your story?
Killer Angel
2012-05-25, 04:24 AM
The dumbest?
That I was gay.
Obviously, what makes it so totally dumb and stupid, it's not the rumour per se, but the "reason" behind it:
'cause at the age of 19, i was beginning to play D&D, instead of doing real macho things. (choose the smile that fits better :smallsigh: or :smallfurious:)
Beacon of Chaos
2012-05-25, 04:27 AM
Hm. I don't know of any rumours about myself. That means that either a) Nobody is talking about me, or b) they are talking about me, and are doing a good job of hiding it.
...
Great, now I'm paranoid. Thanks.
dehro
2012-05-25, 04:57 AM
Great, now I'm paranoid. Thanks.
you're welcome..it's a service I provide :smallbiggrin:
Starwulf
2012-05-25, 05:03 AM
Hmmm...that I was the town male slut and had had sex with over 50 different girls by the time I was 19? Absolutely ludicrous considering I've only been with 5, and at that point in time my count was 2. LOL. I just dated a LOT of different girls, that's all.
Dallas-Dakota
2012-05-25, 06:19 AM
On a festival, with the average of 10.000 people coming each day, three out of four locations accused me of drinking up a popular brand of soda. I actually saw them refusing people with ''I'm sorry, we're out. (my name) drank it all, can we offer you something else?''
No idea how they coordinated that...Or why...:smallconfused:
But it was amusing. xD
Aedilred
2012-05-25, 07:02 AM
There was a rumour for a while that I was gay. Not the childish schoolboy stuff where it's used as an insult but an apparently serious suggestion. This has always amused and bewildered me slightly. It turned out that this was mostly because I didn't express any overt interest in women, although that my college had a reputation for that sort of thing didn't really help. It's also been suggested that, in comparison to the bulk of the peer group where the rumour originated, I dress suspiciously well.
My housemate did call me on it recently (long after the original rumour dissipated) when I was lounging around in a shirt with lace cuffs and smoking jacket - "and you wonder why people think you're gay".
I'm sure that's not the stupidest rumour I've heard about myself, though - there was at least an understandable, if ill-informed, basis for that one.
BShammie
2012-05-25, 07:22 AM
The dumbest rumor would probably be the one a friend of mine started a couple of years ago. He had walked around school, telling everyone that knew me that I was... ah... extremely well endowed. As in, around a foot long.
He thought that I wasn't dating enough people, so he tried to help by telling an outrageous lie.
The sad part is that some people actually believed him. :smallsigh:
Castaras
2012-05-25, 07:41 AM
I was *clearly* a Lesbian because I watched the dance group on stage doing their practise rather than talking to the people I was eating with, and because I wore a large backpack instead of a handbag.
That was also the time when people kept coming up to me and asking if I was a boy or a girl. :smallconfused: kids and brats are strange.
Pie Guy
2012-05-25, 08:09 AM
Some kid told me I must be a smoker, because in science class I said that everyone dying would be good for the environment, so if you rally want to save the environment, you should start smoking.
That one was a little weird.
Mono Vertigo
2012-05-25, 08:54 AM
Apparently, when I was still in primary school, my mother feared people (including my own family) would believe I'm autistic just because I was a little asocial and socially awkward. (Knowing that made me feel even more socially awkward, to catastrophic results.)
Pretty sure today that rumour did run at some point in the family. Maybe it still does.
Nothing wrong with being in the autistic spectrum, but geez. :smallannoyed:
Winter_Wolf
2012-05-25, 09:00 AM
"He's a devil worshipper."
What?
I know who started the rumor, and I have no idea why. She was probably still is a nutjob, though. I was not: emo; goth; burn-out/stoner; a drinker/partier; claiming to be a devil worshipper; or really anything but a quiet high school freshman who was in advanced classes and got good grades. So clearly that meant I was on a first name basis with the Prince of Darkness. :smallannoyed:
This was first brought to my attention by my then best friend who was dating a member of said nutjob's clique. Which made it all the more WTF because between the two of us, he gave off way more of that kind of vibe. He's still a friend, she's still a nutjob, and I still don't know what that was all about, more then twenty years later.
ArlEammon
2012-05-25, 10:15 AM
"He's a devil worshipper."
What?
I know who started the rumor, and I have no idea why. She was probably still is a nutjob, though. I was not: emo; goth; burn-out/stoner; a drinker/partier; claiming to be a devil worshipper; or really anything but a quiet high school freshman who was in advanced classes and got good grades. So clearly that meant I was on a first name basis with the Prince of Darkness. :smallannoyed:
This was first brought to my attention by my then best friend who was dating a member of said nutjob's clique. Which made it all the more WTF because between the two of us, he gave off way more of that kind of vibe. He's still a friend, she's still a nutjob, and I still don't know what that was all about, more then twenty years later.
"Armin is a gay Jewish Amnish Irish SATANIST!!!" :smallfurious:
Das Platyvark
2012-05-25, 10:25 AM
That I tried to knife a girl in the grade above me. Granted, I do have a knife I like to use, specifically for carving things, not murder, and I do somewhat dislike her—but I try and avoid people I dislike, not assault them.
Also, people usually find it impossible to believe that I'm not high all the time.
(In fact, I never have been, and I never intend to be—I just act a little weird.)
LaZodiac
2012-05-25, 10:25 AM
That I'm a pedophile.
The only explanation for this is "my sister hangs out with someone who is describable as the devil" and lets leave it at that.
The Bandicoot
2012-05-25, 10:54 AM
That I'm high all the time, pop pills, and like to show people my bits and bobbles.
In reality I'm 17, have an odd sense of humor, have chronic joint pain so I take a lot of over-the-counter paid medication, and have no interest whatsoever in showing off my bits.
Hazzardevil
2012-05-25, 11:57 AM
That I am Asexual.
I displayed for quite a long time no interest in anyone and had no idea how to talk to anyone about sexual stuff. So people thought I was asexual. I didn't particularly mind, it just meant that a some of the girls didn't see me as someone who thought about getting their clothes off all the time.
Karoht
2012-05-25, 02:02 PM
I have a top 3.
It's time for Karoht's Dumbest Rumor Countdown!
Countdown. Countdown.
Coming in at number 3.
Number 3
That I was a practicing warlock and had hexed some people by obtaining samples of their blood.
The funny part?
Some of the people I was accused of 'hexing' I hadn't even been within 100 yards of in 3 years.
How it got started?
Not a frigging clue.
This was a good decade before Charlie Sheen and his claim of being a pope ninja warlock with adonis DNA and tiger blood.
Coming in at number 2
NUMBER 2!
The rumor that I beat my ex-fiance. Instigated by her. There was no mark on her. What was really funny was that some of my closest friends showed their true colors by actually believing her.
Then there were the people who knew me less, but were flabbergasted to hear it.
It got around for about a month until some of my friends set the record straight.
And in the process, my ex also admitted to adultery, which she had been flat denying, despite the fact that I caught her in bed with another man when I came back from a vacation.
What made this extra dumb? These friends stood by and watched as I was essentially brow-beat and dang near bullied by this girl on a daily basis for a solid year or so before we hooked up. I took some pretty sharp physical violence. To be truthful I kind of took crap like that from women due to some other issues.
And they thought that *I* hit her?
Bwah?
Aaaaaaaaand the moment you've all been waiting for. Coming in at Number ONE!
Number One on Karoht's Dumbest Rumor Countdown!
Countdown. Countdown.
*drumroll*
*more drumroll*
When I was in college, I literally didn't see my friends for just about a year. I made new friends on campus, but the old friend group from highschool was sort of out of touch.
At my college, an incident involving a student and a teacher made the news. For whatever reason, among these friends they just assumed it was me. Despite the fact that I was THE WORST with the ladies at the time.
They assumed that I managed to charm the horned rimmed glasses off an older lady, despite having next to no experience in that department, and being an incredibly awkward person at the time.
BUT WAIT!
It gets better!
Since I point blank denied everything, for whatever reason people assumed that it MUST be true.
And then it got worse. At a halloween party I spent about 5 minutes flirting with a girl from high school, and I admitted that I did have a pretty bad crush on her during high school. She was genuinely flattered and gave me a kiss on the cheek.
Well. That did it. Apparently I was THE playboy of campus, having sex with all kinds of ladies. Students, teachers, whatever.
And my friends believed it. Bwaaaaaaah?
What brought most of this to my attention?
A flyer in one of the dorms was brought to me by the headmaster. It had my photo on it, a phone number that did not belong to me, and the advertisement of my services or advice for the princely sum of $50 an hour.
Yeah. Weird. Stupid. Bizarre.
golentan
2012-05-25, 02:32 PM
That the boy who molested me as a child was my boyfriend, and that the reason I got him expelled and spent years in therapy was because we had a falling out.
Ravens_cry
2012-05-25, 03:20 PM
People claiming that I use a bunch of sock-puppet youtube accounts to 'shill' conspiracy theory rebuttals, that I am paid by the US government to do this.
That one was good for a quick laugh.
Nepenthe
2012-05-25, 05:56 PM
That I was dead.
Cobra_Ikari
2012-05-25, 06:11 PM
I don't know that I ever received enough attention for people to start rumors about me. I mean, back in high school, I was kinda the kid who knew everything about everyone because groups of people would form around me without noticing me and start discussing private or intimate secrets as though I wasn't there.
I did have some odd conclusions drawn about me by some people on occasion, though. Like the one girl who was convinced I was planning to shoot up the school. =\
WarKitty
2012-05-25, 08:46 PM
Probably the one where I was gay. Which is actually true, but the reason was still dumb. See, the reason was that I hadn't had a boyfriend yet. At age 12.
Emperor Ing
2012-05-25, 08:55 PM
Apparently I trained my dog to be racist.
:smallannoyed:
I don't even have a dog.
Akowrules
2012-05-25, 10:43 PM
First rumor:
Well, I have quite an interesting one. I'm what you may call, shy, and have trouble talking to others. Especially girls. But, however, this Apparantly means I have connections with every girl due to my 'mysterious charm'. Sure, I've recieved compliments from girls about my eyes or hair, but I don't know how constitutes to my 'mysterious charm', which I have no idea who came with that.
Second rumor:
Apparantly, since I listen to Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and other pop singers, and I do not like dubstep or rap, it means I'm gay.
Third rumor:
Apparantly, since I get A's in all of my classes, geometry and chemistry being the two highest, it means I'm Asian. I do not look asian, or Asian at all.
And I think that is about it.
Elemental
2012-05-25, 11:09 PM
Wow... I need to get out more.
As far as I know, no one tells rumours about me.
I should start one.
Bulldog Psion
2012-05-25, 11:43 PM
Not exactly a rumor, but pretty weird, anyway. It was about 15 years ago, when I was just out of college, where I was a quiet bookworm type, and I had just gotten my first mundane work at a local arts and crafts business. The story of my life up until that point was: got educated; read a LOT of books; read some more books; and had just gotten a rinky-dink job packing boxes for a crafts wholesaler.
I went into the local grocery store one day, went to the counter with my purchases. There was a distinguished-looking older lady in full business togs there, waiting in line also. This was a person I'd never seen before in my life. She looked at me, so I said, "morning" and gave a slight nod.
She looked me up and down, actually sneered at me, and said frostily, "Oh, I've heard all about you." Then turned her back on me very pointedly and didn't even say anything to the person behind the counter as she bought her stuff and stalked out.
To this day I have no idea who she was, or what the heck that was about.
At that point, the only things she could have "heard" about me that could have been true were that I was reading history books as fast as I could get them out of the library, and that I was stuffing Christmas ornaments into shipping boxes 8 hours a day, because that was the complete extent of my life.
My reaction is still somewhere between :smallconfused: and :smalleek:.
Ravens_cry
2012-05-26, 01:57 AM
That I was dead.
Are you?:smalltongue:
Moff Chumley
2012-05-26, 04:11 AM
There's a pervasive rumor at my school that I'm a totally straight-laced kid with perfectly good grades. :smallannoyed:
dehro
2012-05-26, 04:26 AM
Apparently I trained my dog to be racist.
:smallannoyed:
I don't even have a dog.
so far, for some reason, this strikes me as the funniest one
you should totally wear a dog-mask and a nazi armband at the next halloween party you attend.
That I was Canadian.
Me CANADIAN. Most preposterous thing I've ever heard.
Lycunadari
2012-05-26, 05:45 AM
That I am mentally retarded, because I don't use make-up. That was when I was 13. The girl who started that rumour was 11. :smallconfused:
Elder Tsofu
2012-05-26, 06:04 AM
Hm no rumours that I've heard myself, but people have a way of believing that I am things which I am not when they meet me.
This includes being a taliban, a neo-nazi, a poet, someone working at a clinic on the other side of town, British, an artist, a woman and a general belief that I'm 10-15 years older than my real age.
Teddy
2012-05-26, 12:42 PM
Hmm, there haven't been a lot of rumors about me, but I'm pretty sure my grade 7-9 class was convinced that I was asexual because I didn't like having my classmate's pornography shoved in my face. :smallsigh:
That I liked one of the girl's in my high school. She was the one who told me at one of the high school dances. That was the first time I had ever seen her or heard of her. Finding her ugly I decided to say that the rumor was false and ignore her.
ShadowySilence
2012-05-26, 06:02 PM
When I was in middle school I often argued with people in History Class about the existence of a higher being (goodness knows how it even came up :smallconfused:). So it started going around that I was a crazy atheist who hated religion and god for a while, in truth I was actually agnostic and just loved debating and playing devil's advocate.
It didn't last long, but honestly that was the only time I can remember having a rumor spread about me. :smalltongue:
The funniest part is that 50 % of those kids are now either atheistic or agnostic! :smallamused:
TheLaughingMan
2012-05-26, 06:08 PM
The funniest part is that 50 % of those kids are now either atheistic or agnostic! :smallamused:
:smallfrown:
ShadowySilence
2012-05-26, 06:19 PM
:smallfrown:
Why the sad face, I didn't mean to offend you if I did. :smallfrown:
Nepenthe
2012-05-26, 07:31 PM
Are you?:smalltongue:
Nope. The weirdest part is that this was told to my face by some guy who didn't know I was the person in the rumor. I was so stunned I didn't even correct him.
Science Officer
2012-05-27, 12:31 PM
At one point some of my friends thought that I might be Smarter Child. :smallconfused:
Oh, and a teacher and several of my friends (jokingly) believe that I'm a time-traveller sent from the future to monitor this time period.
Howler Dagger
2012-05-27, 03:39 PM
Apparently, according to my middle school, I constantly poisoned people (this one was for laughs, they would 'blame' me if my twin or a friend wasn't at school),both my brother and I have dated the orchestra director at another school (when in reality it was my older brother who I never talked about because I almost never saw him because he was in college), I am an evil clone, I am an evil secret triplet who came to replace the real me, and I use "quantum entanglement" to be super good at the cello.
TheLaughingMan
2012-05-27, 03:39 PM
Why the sad face, I didn't mean to offend you if I did. :smallfrown:
I'd trend into religious discussion if I told you, if that helps clear things up.
To put it this way, it's always sad when fans abandon your favorite sports team, even if you didn't like those fans much in the first place.
Scowling Dragon
2012-05-27, 06:16 PM
To put it this way, it's always sad when fans abandon your favorite sports team, even if you didn't like those fans much in the first place.
Just hope that they found another way to fulfill their spiritual need without belief in a higher power.
I sure can't =P
Hope this isn't crossing the form rules.
Leecros
2012-05-27, 08:26 PM
Well, there was one time that my class thought i was insane because i was writing up rather basic strategies for a video game i was playing at the time. I think it was....Total Annihilation. These strategies apparently put me into a category of "Insane person trying to conquer the world". Although that one did kind of turn out to not be entirely false....Of all the people i know I'm probably best known to be the least in-touch with my sanity. Of course the only people whom knew that were people i was around a lot and had nothing to do with this particular rumor.
Probably the most embarrassing rumor that was going around about me was that i didn't use deodorant. It actually got to the point where it reached back to one of my teachers and she did a whole lecture on personal hygiene. She never mentioned my name in the lecture, but she stopped me before i left the room to give me my own mini-lecture. Also one of my friends went out and bought me some deodorant. I don't have any for-sure reason as to why this rumor started, but i do have an idea. A couple of days before i caught wind of the rumor(no pun intended) i had told off a bully whom was...well....bullying one of my friends. I had been bullied a lot and i normally just brushed it off, but seeing it happen to a friend right in front of me really set me off and it was really the only time i stood up to one. Of course no good deed goes unpunished....
Another rumor that went around was that i was gay. Most of my friends are male(still) and the female friends i have, i never asked out. I'm shy and i have quite a few insecurities...so i never really dated a girl until after high school(which ended in a mess :smallfrown: ) and afterwards found an awesome girl and we're still happily dating:smallsmile: . Still, apparently hanging out with other not-very-social guys and not asking girls out and dating girls seemed to have coalesced into a rumor that i was indeed a homosexual...
Wyntonian
2012-05-27, 08:45 PM
Well, every fight of any description that I've ever been in was because of a remarkably pervasive rumor that I am a raging homosexual, spread by a former bestest friend during a time in which he was having some familial issues.
But yet, somehow, I have both a stunningly attractive girlfriend, a short string of people who now declare that there's no possible way I'm gay (it's that or admit that a homosexual whupped them), and a small harem of female friends, one of whom kicked a guy in the spot he thinks with for telling his friends how "gay" I was.
I actually don't mind too bad. The doucenozzles who believe that crap are people I wouldn't want to know too well anyway, and having them be all vocal and aggressive just makes them easier to spot.
So, yeah, dumb.
Rallicus
2012-05-27, 09:12 PM
spread by a former bestest friend
... Most straight men don't refer to their bros as "bestest" friends. And you seem awfully defensive about the whole thing, bringing up reasons that don't really help your cause. Plenty of gay people have girlfriends they use to cover up their homosexuality; plenty of gay people have friends or acquaintances that think they're straight (and the fact that they think you're straight because you "whupped" them doesn't help your argument). And a harem of female friends? Gay guys are most likely to have those, unless you're a pimp and doing all of them.
I don't really doubt you're straight, you probably are. But acting defensive like this just adds fuel to the fire. If they think you're gay - who cares? You don't need to justify yourself on an online webcomic forum, nor to anyone in the real world.
As for me, I'm not sure. If there ever has been a rumor about me I've never heard it. Most things people say about me are true, for better or for worse.
polity4life
2012-05-28, 12:00 AM
Dumbest rumor about myself?
Evidently I started the, "Booyah!" craze in my high school. It proliferated to the point where saying the word was a punishable offense (detention) and other teachers consulted the Spanish language teachers to discover a possible hidden meaning.
Of course, I didn't start that. I was pushing "Boomshakalaka!" but it never took.
dehro
2012-05-28, 02:27 AM
Dumbest rumor about myself?
Evidently I started the, "Booyah!" craze in my high school. It proliferated to the point where saying the word was a punishable offense (detention) and other teachers consulted the Spanish language teachers to discover a possible hidden meaning.
Of course, I didn't start that. I was pushing "Boomshakalaka!" but it never took.
evidently people, both teachers and students, have too much time on their hands in american schools :smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin:
Not really a rumor I guess, but the first time I went to a shooting range near where I live nowadays, I was there for some sort of shooting competition where they set up scenarios and you move through it for time. Stuff like "You're a pharmacist going to your office early in the morning, when you surprise a band of drug-seeking hooligans!", then you shoot up the cardboard hooligans in a mock-up of a pharmacy.
Anyhow, at the end of the day, the guy who runs the range was impressed, and asked where I learned to shoot. As I don't talk a lot about my military service with strangers, I told him I rob liquor stores for a living. He laughs, and says "Ohhh". So whatever.
Two weeks later, I go there to shoot some pistol on my own, and after about an hour of shooting, a couple cop cars pull up. Turns out the owner called the cops to come pick me up! That was a little awkward. Especially when one of the cops asked "Why would you ever tell that to people?"
Adlan
2012-05-28, 04:58 AM
Not really a rumor I guess, but the first time I went to a shooting range near where I live nowadays, I was there for some sort of shooting competition where they set up scenarios and you move through it for time. Stuff like "You're a pharmacist going to your office early in the morning, when you surprise a band of drug-seeking hooligans!", then you shoot up the cardboard hooligans in a mock-up of a pharmacy.
Anyhow, at the end of the day, the guy who runs the range was impressed, and asked where I learned to shoot. As I don't talk a lot about my military service with strangers, I told him I rob liquor stores for a living. He laughs, and says "Ohhh". So whatever.
Two weeks later, I go there to shoot some pistol on my own, and after about an hour of shooting, a couple cop cars pull up. Turns out the owner called the cops to come pick me up! That was a little awkward. Especially when one of the cops asked "Why would you ever tell that to people?"
I hope you answered because ' I don't talk a lot about my military service with strangers'.
Dumbest Rumour about me:
That my Real Name is Boarhunter, and I just happen to hunt Boar and have a Boar Tattoo. When in fact the nickname comes from my ink. Many people in my TA unit had no idea what my real name was.
grimbold
2012-05-28, 02:04 PM
There's a pervasive rumor at my school that I'm a totally straight-laced kid with perfectly good grades. :smallannoyed:
for shame moff for shame!
as for me 2 rumors spread
1 that me and my cat... got carnal :smallfrown: this was mostly because at the time me and my cat were best friends at the time and i talked about her a lot and meowed and stuff... puberty folks... chaaaaanges
2. that i slept with my best (male) friend
while technically we were under the same cover together it was only because we were locked outside by our friends for 2 hours at 3 in the morning in january in paris (so it was like -5 celsius)
CurlyKitGirl
2012-05-28, 03:32 PM
I was *clearly* a Lesbian because I watched the dance group on stage doing their practise rather than talking to the people I was eating with, and because I wore a large backpack instead of a handbag.
Oh noes! I has a backpack too, does this mean I'm a lesbian?! :smalleek:
I'm not allowed to stare at male eye candy any more! That's just cost me fifty percent of my eye candy damn it!
:smalltongue:
Dumbest rumour about me?
I think there are two that tie for it, but for different reasons. Maybe three.
1. That I was actively suicidal and had tried to kill myself.
Literally no idea who, what, where, when, how or why. Had one of my friends walk up to me when I was in . . . Y10 I think telling me about this, and that they were worried.
Oddly it didn't take very long for it to die down, perhaps because I broke down laughing and when I'd enough breath back to talk denied it quite strenuously. I think I laughed because I was, and still am, a generally genial and happy person who can literally make people happier just by talking to them for a few minutes.
. . . maybe the rumour started because I used to be very introspective?
2. That I was a cruel, terrible person who beat other people up for funsies.
I do know how this started. I used to reminisce about one of my favourite memories from my first primary school a lot: I punched out someone who was nearly a year older than me. In my defence he started it by punching me in the mouth when I mentioned I had an annoying tooth that would. not. come. loose. Even after weeks.
And then there was this girl who used to bully me and a few others, frankly I couldn't care what she said about me (I honestly didn't even notice she was actively bullying me until after the incident); but then she turned on my honorary cousin (long story).
First time she did that in front of me we were in the girl's changing rooms, I forget what she said now, but it made me so angry that I walked up to her, tapped her on the shoulder and when she turned 'round I slapped her in the face so hard she staggered backwards. I'm fairly sure I told her never to do that ever again, and went back to getting changed.
Oddly we were really good friends after that.
Anyway, after that incident the rumour started getting passed around. I remember that I was annoyed about it more than I was amused, so just corrected people by saying that I didn't enjoy beating people up unless they started it first. Which probably didn't help much either.
3. That I played DnD.
This is actually more 'amusing' than 'dumb', but what the Hell.
This one's been trailing me since I was eleven or twelve, even though I didn't really know what DnD was exactly until I joined the forums. That is, I knew about the game and some of the very basics, but everything else I learned was after I joined here.
I never really bothered to correct them as the only thing that arose from this was that I was acquired really quickly by various nerdy groups as a Tabletop Gamer Girl. Also I like being the Geeky Girl, even if at times it means I'm a token.
I now take it as a point of injured vexation that even though I've been a DnD player for ten years according to rumour, I still haven't played DnD! I've played Star Wars D6, and a game of Burning Wheel and the like. But no DnD, Pathfinder or anything like that.
Again, I don't even know how or why this started up. Maybe I just screamed Nerd early on? Probably helped that I'm never without a book, and when I first started secondary I was rereading my David Eddings before swiftly moving on to Terry Goodkind (yeah, eleven years old and reading Wizard
s First Rule, let me tell you, I got a right shock when I met the Mord-Sith), Terry Books, Terry Pratchett and the like in very short succession.
Because if you read lots of sword and sorcery or other high fantasy books you must play DnD. Especially if you're a girl!
Oddly, even though the minute I'd finished reading a book I leant it to my (male) friend he never got hit with the same rumour.
Thufir
2012-05-28, 04:23 PM
I'm not actually aware of any rumours about me at any point in my life. I'm sure there must have been some (I was a weird kid), but they've never gotten back to me.
noparlpf
2012-05-28, 07:30 PM
That I was dead.
"The report of my death was an exaggeration." -- Mark Twain.
My rumors:
1. I'm straight. (I'm not. I'm asexual.)
2. I'm incredibly attractive. (This one is true, of course.)
enderlord99
2012-05-28, 07:40 PM
Something has me confused about a post. It's in a sidebar. Anyone care to guess what it is?
Something has me confused about a post. It's in a sidebar. Anyone care to guess what it is?
CurlyKitGirl's gender?
noparlpf
2012-05-28, 11:30 PM
Something has me confused about a post. It's in a sidebar. Anyone care to guess what it is?
Why my avatar was a grainy picture of a salad?
Othesemo
2012-05-28, 11:48 PM
When I was about 13-14, I suffered from fairly devastating depression (the genetic propensity for which is, unfortunately, part of my family). During this time, I missed a great deal of school. As a result of this, several rumors were abound (some of which I started myself, but were still pretty stupid).
The obvious one- I was dead (this one resurfaced each time I went to school for one day and then didn't come back).
The amusing one- One of my friends claimed that I had been framed in a murder case and that I had fled the country.
My favorite (which I also made up)- That I had failed to file my income tax, and as a result faked my own death to evade the IRS. I actually managed to keep this one going by claiming that I had found a legal loophole whereby I could claim to be a practitioner of voodoo, and thus was able to be legally dead while still going to school.
The scary thing is that people actually believed this stuff.
Starwulf
2012-05-28, 11:52 PM
Something has me confused about a post. It's in a sidebar. Anyone care to guess what it is?
Here's a better one, how did you get a hold of my avatar that was specifically made for me? ^^ Also, do you know who it actually is, or did you just like the look of it? :) At first when I scrolled down, I thought maybe I had made a post I had forgotten about! :)
On another note, I'll say it's probably CurlyKitGirl. Her sidebar shows her as being a male, but her post clearly indicates that she is a female, but someone with less then observant reading skills might end up pulling out the "I walked into this girls dressing room and slapped her" notice the poster has male marked as their gender, and start flipping out. I know that's what went through my post until I continued to read and saw her clearly refer to herself as a geek girl and tabletop gamer girl.
Surfing HalfOrc
2012-05-29, 12:36 AM
Me? I sometimes WISH my sex life was as good as the rumors had it!
Reality: Married, 21 years, 100% faithful.
"You can think about, but don't you do it!" Sheriff Buford T. Justice.
Rumors: "Just a gigolo..." :smallwink:
Just because I can talk to a female coworker doesn't mean I'm sleeping with her. Seriously... :smallsigh:
Silkspinner
2012-05-29, 12:47 AM
Hmmm, dumbest...
I guess it would be that the cause of my friendship with a 50 year old, 400 lbs woman mostly confined to a wheelchair due to an incurable medical condition... was because I was in love with her.
Couldn't possibly be that not only had this woman been like a mother to me since my childhood, but that I'd fallen in love with her drop-dead gorgeous daughter of my age and with similar interests and outlook.
Oh no, the daughter was just the front to disguise my true feelings for the mother, you see.
Wth...
Crimmy
2012-05-29, 07:44 AM
Something has me confused about a post. It's in a sidebar. Anyone care to guess what it is?
As an avatarist, I'd say it's stealing an avatar.
I dunno, I don't see any "thanks for the avatar, X!" or something of the sort.
As for the sidebar post, I'll guess that your avatar has nothing to do with your username (or that's the strangest Trainer/Pokemon I've ever seen).
Or maybe it's that polity4life's avatar is, in fact, the face of Wrex (or your average Krogan).
Whip-poor-will
2012-05-29, 08:29 AM
For a while, all of my classmates were under the impression that I was in jail. At first, I assumed only a few people were so naive as to believe this, until some of my hunting buddies told me how excited they were that I was out.
In reality, I had went to court over some custody issues with my parents, started home-schooling, and quit hanging out in town as much. Now that I've apparently "been through it all" all of my stoner friends beg me for legal advice. :smallannoyed:
enderlord99
2012-05-29, 08:45 AM
As an avatarist, I'd say it's stealing an avatar.
I dunno, I don't see any "thanks for the avatar, X!" or something of the sort.
As for the sidebar post, I'll guess that your avatar has nothing to do with your username (or that's the strangest Trainer/Pokemon I've ever seen).
Or maybe it's that polity4life's avatar is, in fact, the face of Wrex (or your average Krogan).
It has nothing to do with me (read the first spoiler in my sig). It was directly under the phrase Location:AWESOMENESS, and was confusing only when combined with the post it was next to.
Thufir
2012-05-29, 10:16 AM
Geez, these young Playgrounders, acting like they've never seen a misleading gender symbol before...
grimbold
2012-05-29, 10:56 AM
Me? I sometimes WISH my sex life was as good as the rumors had it!
i know right?:smalltongue:
Devmaar
2012-05-29, 11:58 AM
It might not be original, but I heard a rumour I was gay. It was particularly interesting because I first heard that on the same day I started going out with my first girlfriend :smalltongue:
Morph Bark
2012-05-29, 12:06 PM
That I was a British lesbian was quite prevalent amongst the people on role-playing forums I attended. I don't even know if it was stirred up by the people I actually had spoken to in person, but the guys seem like they mighta done that.
Only one of those two parts ever might be possible anyway. :smalltongue:
Other, short-lived ones were that I was a smoker and I was musically talented. Only one of those will, hopefully, ever come true. Hint: it involves hitting the right notes!
Serpentine
2012-05-29, 12:41 PM
Like many others, I too have been rumoured to be homosexual. In fact, I was distinguished from several other people with the same name by having "Lesbian" in front of it.
In high school, I was notably rumour-free. A friend of a friend's came to the school for a few months, and brushed up on the goss about our group. The aforementioned friend supposedly came to school every day stoned (she actually had "eye dandruff" which made her eyes red, apparently), another was gay (that one was right and not very secret... except that years later it turns out they're actually transsexual), and the third was a lesbian Satanist.
Me, though? Nothin'. Not a word :smallfrown:
Although those same friends made assumptions about me. For instance, they never invited me to their wilder gatherings, because I "never went to them" so they figured I wasn't interested. I pointed out that I never went to them because I was never invited.
Crimmy
2012-05-29, 01:07 PM
It has nothing to do with me (read the first spoiler in my sig).
Meaning precisely what I said before: Stealing an avvie.
It was directly under the phrase Location:AWESOMENESS, and was confusing only when combined with the post it was next to.
Yeah, yeah.
----
There were rumours spread about me in elementary, something about changing schools often because of my violent behavior. I recall being violent in the school I went to before that one, so that part wasn't a lie (in fact, I proved one of them right by slamming him against his desk. Noses aren't metal-proof, y'know).
A year later, it was spread that I did that because I was secretly homosexual. Since I wasn't (and am not, atm) really into dating, [be it because I have bad luck with friendzones or because the ones who do want know nothing about me and end up being creeped because of my tastes in many things] there wasn't much I could say to stop those rumours. But headdesking people proved to be effective once again.
After that, I went into a military school and really left violence behind me after 2 more years of Junior high, and my 3 years of high school.
So, as a reference: Don't prove rumours wrong with violence. It might be gratuitous violence.
Starscream
2012-05-29, 01:52 PM
That I knew martial arts.
This would have been about 7th grade. I was having some sort of discussion during lunch about action movies with some people, and we got onto the topic of various martial arts and the differences between them.
Somehow the fact that I knew some very basic stuff that my classmates didn't (i.e. kung fu has nothing to do with ninjas, Taekwondo is from Korea, etc), and that when we tried to imitate some moves we'd seen I inexplicably looked like I knew what I was doing (no idea how that happened), gave some people the impression that I'd actually taken a course or two.
For the record I am actually out of shape and so uncoordinated that I have been known to fall on my face while tying my shoe.
MikelaC1
2012-05-29, 02:27 PM
That I was a lesbian.
The rumour was actually started by the head of the cheerleading team in HS, after making the team, I was proudly informed by her that I was officially now one of the "hot girls" in school and could now give up that "geeky" game and losing the "nerdy" BF. When I responded by quitting the team, she couldnt even concieve of how anyone would quit cheerleaders.
HalfTangible
2012-05-29, 02:46 PM
That the only friend i had in middle school and I were not only man-children but gay for each other.
Apparently, this was because we talked about pokemon a lot and didn't hang out with anyone else. The latter was true - the former was not, we spent time making up characters and staging hypothetical battles between immortal beings that could obliterate galaxies. 'Course, that didn't stop the rumors. Couldn't possibly have been that I was bullied constantly, neither of us had any other friends, and we had fun talking, oh no, i was obviously taking it in the ass >.>
And the kicker to the whole thing was that the rumor continued after our friendship ended with a punch to the gut. Not even a 'they had a falling out' alteration - we were still gay, just behind closed doors even though we couldn't even stand to look at each other any more.
Also? I'm celibate.
The rumors stopped by the next year and i haven't heard any rumors about myself since.
EDIT: Actually, no, the strangest thing i've ever heard about myself is that I could've been a RL Shelldon Cooper or the next Albert Einstein. I am making Cs and Ds on a regular basis now and while the latter has evaporated the former still exists. All of my WHAT.
Serpentine
2012-05-29, 03:39 PM
You could be gay and celibate. Just sayin'.
Again, not so much a rumour as an assumption, but everyone at my high school assumed I'd get dux of my year. I think I was in the top, say, third, but I was a pretty long way from the very top (although I did have issues with my English teacher which may have caused some degree of my lower-than-expected marks).
Morph Bark
2012-05-29, 03:47 PM
If I may ask, what's a "dux"?
I presume it has nothing to do with ducks and maybe only slightly with dukes.
Starwulf
2012-05-29, 04:09 PM
It has nothing to do with me (read the first spoiler in my sig). It was directly under the phrase Location:AWESOMENESS, and was confusing only when combined with the post it was next to.
LOL. Now I understand what's going on. After seeing a few others with different avatars, I checked to see what this weeks theme week was(or if we had one). My suspicions were proved to be correct when it was revealed to be Masquerade week ^^ I actually feel honored that someone decided to Masquerade as me with my OOTS style Zelgadis Avatar :).
Dimonite
2012-05-29, 04:10 PM
Oh, the stories I could tell. The main few were:
1. That I had celiac disease. I don't, but my sisters and my dad do, so I knew a few Gluten-free recipes that I happened to bring to school, which got the rumors going.
2.That I was born in England. I was actually born in Minnesota, but my love of grammar and my apparently good British accent made some of my classmates think I had lived in England for a time.
3. That I could write computer programs. I have no real idea where that one came from, but my computer abilities are strictly limited to typing and gaming.
Dimonite
2012-05-29, 04:11 PM
Oh, the stories I could tell. The main few were:
1. That I had celiac disease. I don't, but my sisters and my dad do, so I knew a few Gluten-free recipes that I happened to bring to school, which got the rumors going.
2.That I was born in England. I was actually born in Minnesota, but my love of grammar and my apparently good British accent made some of my classmates think I had lived in England for a time.
3. That I could write computer programs. I have no real idea where that one came from, but my computer abilities are strictly limited to typing and gaming.
Serpentine
2012-05-29, 04:14 PM
Morph: top of the class/year.
Traab
2012-05-29, 05:47 PM
When I was a freshman in high school, I got attacked by a senior football player who was apparently under the impression I had been saying bad stuff about him. Just to make things clear, at the time I was 5 foot nothing, and weighed 90 pounds soaking wet. I got totally blind sided, my glasses broken, and dented a locker with my spine. I didnt even get the chance to fight back before it was over. Hell, I never even got to see his face as I lost my glasses instantly and im functionally blind without them. I got suspended for it.
When I came back, suddenly everyone was congratulating me on "kicking the seniors ass" Right up till I left the school people would still bring that up to me. I can only assume the football player got expelled or something because I never ran into him again, (that I know of, I still dont know who the hell he was) and im pretty sure he would have broken me in half if he had heard those rumors.
MikelaC1
2012-05-29, 06:12 PM
I didnt finish the story about my tormenting cheerleader queen.
I responded to her rumour-mongering by seducing away her BF, and then dumping him less than a week later. It lent credence to her rumour that I was a lesbian, but left her in the embarrassing position of having to explain how the "hottest girl" in school managed to lose her BF to a girl who didnt even like men.
WarKitty
2012-05-29, 07:49 PM
I didnt finish the story about my tormenting cheerleader queen.
I responded to her rumour-mongering by seducing away her BF, and then dumping him less than a week later. It lent credence to her rumour that I was a lesbian, but left her in the embarrassing position of having to explain how the "hottest girl" in school managed to lose her BF to a girl who didnt even like men.
That's...just cruel.
Maxios
2012-05-29, 07:59 PM
I didnt finish the story about my tormenting cheerleader queen.
I responded to her rumour-mongering by seducing away her BF, and then dumping him less than a week later. It lent credence to her rumour that I was a lesbian, but left her in the embarrassing position of having to explain how the "hottest girl" in school managed to lose her BF to a girl who didnt even like men.
Wow. You just reminded me of a small-scale female Jimmy Hopkins. Note to self: never tick you off :smalltongue:
TheLaughingMan
2012-05-29, 08:01 PM
That's...just cruel.
Yeah, what the heck?
Winter_Wolf
2012-05-29, 08:09 PM
I didnt finish the story about my tormenting cheerleader queen.
I responded to her rumour-mongering by seducing away her BF, and then dumping him less than a week later. It lent credence to her rumour that I was a lesbian, but left her in the embarrassing position of having to explain how the "hottest girl" in school managed to lose her BF to a girl who didnt even like men.
So...those little pointy things on the head of your avvie are fiend horns, not elf ears, hey? That's flat out evil. I approve. Although one wonders, what did the BF ever do to you, that you would do that to him?
CapnRedBeard
2012-05-29, 08:11 PM
That I like chicken.
How dare they!?!
I mean REALLY...what right do THEY have to say such things about me?!?
Yeah it's true...but STILL.
Othesemo
2012-05-29, 09:28 PM
I didnt finish the story about my tormenting cheerleader queen.
I responded to her rumour-mongering by seducing away her BF, and then dumping him less than a week later. It lent credence to her rumour that I was a lesbian, but left her in the embarrassing position of having to explain how the "hottest girl" in school managed to lose her BF to a girl who didnt even like men.
Oh my god, that is hilarious. I feel kinda bad for the guy, but that is awesome nonetheless.
Eldariel
2012-05-29, 10:51 PM
Other servicemen in my unit (during my military service) were convinced that I did drugs 'cause I managed to keep my cool through basically the whole service in spite of the bullcrap you have to go through there; didn't help that I don't cope well with lack of sleep so I did my share of relatively simple plunders in various exercises. Oh, and I didn't smoke so there had to be something wrong with me; clearly I'm a druggie 'cause I don't rage over having to scrub the floors over again or whatever. This lasted for almost the whole 6 months. :smallsigh:
Thufir
2012-05-30, 07:02 AM
That I like chicken.
How dare they!?!
I mean REALLY...what right do THEY have to say such things about me?!?
Yeah it's true...but STILL.
"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."
CapnRedBeard
2012-05-30, 09:06 AM
"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."
:)
another 9.
Karoht
2012-05-30, 10:48 AM
Do you have any idea how much USEFUL information I get through the rumor mill?
A startlingly high amount.
Of course, one could ask the question, when 4 people were there to witness something and are passing it on, is it really a rumor at that point?
HalfTangible
2012-05-30, 11:30 AM
You could be gay and celibate. Just sayin'.
True, but the rumors ALSO stipulated we were having sex. :smalltongue:
(Also, straight.)
"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."
So win.
SO sigged.
...if there's room.
Thufir
2012-05-30, 11:41 AM
So win.
SO sigged.
...if there's room.
In that case, you should probably indicate that it's an Oscar Wilde quote.
Mono Vertigo
2012-05-30, 02:16 PM
In that case, you should probably indicate that it's an Oscar Wilde quote.
Somehow, that confirmation makes me a little sadder inside, knowing what happened to him. :smallfrown:
Solaris
2012-05-30, 05:52 PM
That I was a lesbian.
The rumour was actually started by the head of the cheerleading team in HS, after making the team, I was proudly informed by her that I was officially now one of the "hot girls" in school and could now give up that "geeky" game and losing the "nerdy" BF. When I responded by quitting the team, she couldnt even concieve of how anyone would quit cheerleaders.
People like that actually exist? Huh.
So...those little pointy things on the head of your avvie are fiend horns, not elf ears, hey? That's flat out evil. I approve. Although one wonders, what did the BF ever do to you, that you would do that to him?
He cheated on his girlfriend. I say he got what he deserved.
I'm the sort of guy who has all manner of rumors follow him around. I've heard that I was dead, in prison, on drugs, plotting to kill everyone, had a gun in my backpack, had a knife in my backpack, you name it. This stopped while I was in the artillery (hey, the cool thing about grown men - they ask), and when I made the mistake of going over to support side... yeah, it's like high school all over again, except the rumors expanded to include pedophilia, necrophilia, and rape. It got so my command, who I thought to be grown adults and slightly smarter than your average nineteen-year-old, bought some of the rumors and I caught punitive action for things that did not happen.
And people wonder why I hate them.
Morph Bark
2012-05-30, 05:56 PM
"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."
Shouldn't it be *about*, not *against* one?
Though I could see in more archaic English it meaning "something negative about one"...
BladeofObliviom
2012-05-30, 06:22 PM
Well, there is the rumor going around my school that I'm secretly the Second Coming of Jesus. And a Stoner. At the same time. By the same people.
...Yeah. I let this one keep going since there are worse potential nicknames in High School than "Jesus," and because I have better things to do than stopping Rumors that nobody actually believes anyway. :smalltongue:
(Also, I'm apparently some kind of celebrity because literally everybody I meet seems to already know my name.)
Oh, I forgot the best one. Apparently, I am also a boiling pot that is just waiting to explode, build an enormous robot army, and take over the world! MUAHAHAHAHA!
noparlpf
2012-05-30, 07:34 PM
I'm the sort of guy who has all manner of rumors follow him around. I've heard that I was dead, in prison, on drugs, plotting to kill everyone, had a gun in my backpack, had a knife in my backpack, you name it. This stopped while I was in the artillery (hey, the cool thing about grown men - they ask), and when I made the mistake of going over to support side... yeah, it's like high school all over again, except the rumors expanded to include pedophilia, necrophilia, and rape. It got so my command, who I thought to be grown adults and slightly smarter than your average nineteen-year-old, bought some of the rumors and I caught punitive action for things that did not happen.
And people wonder why I hate them.
Oh yeah. I hear some amusing ones regarding weapons. Admittedly, the one about the hatchet in my bag and the crowbar under my mattress were true. The one that I'm a knife geek is not. I don't even carry a knife of any sort anymore.
Oh, and the ones about my physical prowess? Not unfounded, but exaggerated. Sure, I'm stronger than normal for my level of activity and fitness. I managed to (just barely) keep up with my brother's MMA class when I visited, despite being totally out of shape. But I have never been in a fight and don't know how I'd do in one except that I'm naturally pretty strong and quick, and that I have a high pain tolerance. And yet people think I'm some kind of Die Hard badass or something.
Triscuitable
2012-05-30, 07:46 PM
That I was queer. It's funny because I was in denial (and I really am), and they knew before I did. Don't ask how that works. Life is funny with unanswered questions.
Gnoman
2012-05-30, 07:53 PM
There's a persistent rumor that's followed my about for years that I'm either a sociopath or have Aspergers (I don't, the school had me tested), because I tend to let insults pass (because not getting hung up on irrelevancies obviously means you don't know you've been insulted), and my face rarely shows emotion. The fact that I have occasional bouts of crippling depression doesn't help.
onthetown
2012-05-30, 08:02 PM
Apparently, I was a lesbian for my entire high school life. Didn't find out 'til the end of it, though. When I got a boyfriend in junior year, they switched it up to bisexual.
To add to it, I was supposedly a learning-disabled lesbian. If you ask them, the only reason I didn't get put into the special education classes was because I "just barely made the grade".
I was a top grade student the entire time. :smallconfused: I just kept to myself and enjoyed wearing sweatshirts instead of tank tops.
Then again, we are talking about high school... These are the same people who weren't too impressed when I helped the teachers launch an anti-bullying campaign against the worst of them, so some damage was to be expected from it. :smallamused:
The Underlord
2012-05-30, 08:06 PM
People were under the impression I had a mafia once. Never did anything of the sort though.
AtlanteanTroll
2012-05-30, 08:15 PM
Hmmm. I was new to the district in my freshman year of high school so I go two interesting rumors. The first was that I was gay as I had come to school with purple hair and have a bit of a lisp. The second was that I moved back to my old district when I missed near a week of school because I had strep throat. As far as I know those are the only two rumors. There's a bit of a rather nasty joke going around that I'm a pedophile because of a flub someone made delivering a speech I had to write about myself, but people know it's a joke. I think.
First year of highschool, my classpeople thought that I'm a dangerous thug. It's kinda weird. It's mostly because it was at a phase where I tried to act cool I think.
dehro
2012-05-31, 02:14 AM
People were under the impression I had a mafia once. Never did anything of the sort though.
I'm curious... how did they figure you even can "have a mafia"?:smallconfused:
oooh, knives..
well, I used to collect them (old ones and odd/rare ones) as a kid and later, when I realized it was illegal for me to have them, sold them off managing to make a very tiny profit. I also used to carry one around, which, again, was foolish, illegal and dangerous, although it did help me out on a couple of occasions in my darkest times....
thing is, on one of those occasions I was with a classmate who considered himself the tough guy in class. afterwards I got some measure of grudging respect which came together with a reputation of being streetwise and kinda dangerous..much more so than I actually was. this reputation kind of lingers with the people that still know me from back then.. like my best friend who knows I'd have his back in a fight..but who for some reason is convinced that I could do more than sharing some of the pain we'd both go through in a fight... and he doesn't mind telling so to other people.
I haven't trained in any martial arts in... longer than I'd care to admit and am badly out of shape..so this rumor really should die
Knaight
2012-05-31, 03:58 AM
I was reputed to have died in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, based entirely on having lived in Thailand during the time. I was up north, about as far from a coast as possible, and at a fairly high elevation. Moreover, I specifically sent several emails to the effect of "no, I didn't die in the tsunami" to people who didn't know that. Yet somehow, the rumor still propagated until I came back to the U.S.
Anecronwashere
2012-05-31, 04:04 AM
My dumbest rumour is odd as it's 3-4 rumours, all believed despite being contradictory.
1. A friend named Alice shared the same last name as me. Obviously we must be cousins. Despite having never known each other until after the rumour started.
2. Alice and myself must be going out, because two people of opposite genders can't be friends without ending up in bed.
3. I managed to screw my way through every girl in a kilometer radius of my house.
4. I was gay. Not just gay but flamboyant, anti-girl gay who couldn't even touch a girl (the last bit was kind of true but for different reasons and all people, not just girls)
The stupid thing was, every person (except my actual friends) believed them. All of them, despite the contradictions and ignored me when I pointed out the flaws.
Another rumour: I must be a satanist because I read so much fantasy fiction.
Spread in my 10th year, after I'd stopped reading out of classes altogether. I didn't read a single novel except for homework. WTF?
JeminiZero
2012-05-31, 05:57 AM
Once upon a time, a classmate went around writing "I Love JeminiZero*" with markers, on the labcoats of the other students. This led to our teacher asking me why did everyone love me. Of course, I told him that it was just a prank by a classmate, rather than a series of independent events.
*Obviously he wrote my real name** instead of 'JeminiZero'.
**Which shall continue to remain mystery... except to those who were there at the time... I reasonably suspect that such a ridiculous story is unlikely to occur twice in modern history. So if you've heard of such a story in real life, chances are, that guy was me. I could be wrong though, so drop me a PM or something to confirm.
Once upon a time, a classmate went around writing "I Love JeminiZero*" with markers, on the labcoats of the other students. This led to our teacher asking me why did everyone love me. Of course, I told him that it was just a prank by a classmate, rather than a series of independent events.
*Obviously he wrote my real name** instead of 'JeminiZero'.
**Which shall continue to remain mystery... except to those who were there at the time... I reasonably suspect that such a ridiculous story is unlikely to occur twice in modern history. So if you've heard of such a story in real life, chances are, that guy was me. I could be wrong though, so drop me a PM or something to confirm.
Are you sure it's a prank? Not a secret admirer :smallamused:?
JeminiZero
2012-05-31, 07:24 AM
Are you sure it's a prank? Not a secret admirer :smallamused:?
I'm pretty sure for 2 reasons:
1) Since he did it even while I was standing 10 ft away, I know exactly who did it. And he is a straight guy.
2) I'm not the type of person to have admirers. At all. Let alone secret admirers.
I'm pretty sure for 2 reasons:
1) Since he did it even while I was standing 10 ft away, I know exactly who did it. And he is a straight guy.
2) I'm not the type of person to have admirers. At all. Let alone secret admirers.
Well, he could be secret secret admirer (double negative turn positive right?) but okay. Good. And while we're at it, I also want to tell you that I don't admire you secretly or not too then.
CrimsonAngel
2012-05-31, 07:45 AM
In sixth grade I was very timid and mostly stuck to my group of friends. I had a boyfriend who was pretty much the same way. There was a rumor that we were both furiously making out in the hallway. It didn't last very long.
Nobody really spreads rumors about me anymore.
grimbold
2012-05-31, 01:56 PM
you had a boyfriend in 6th grade and claim you were timid?:smallconfused:
Maxios
2012-05-31, 09:45 PM
You guys are lucky. You've had rumors about having mafias or being the Second Coming and all that stuff, and the worst rumor I've heard about myself is that I've had cooties :smalltongue:.
To clarify: This rumor was started when I was in the fourth grade by a particuarly rude redheaded girl, and I started being homeschooled after the end of fourth grade.
Roc Ness
2012-06-01, 04:47 AM
For me, the silliest rumour I have heard was that I was an absoute ace computer programmer and script jockey. I... really don't know anything about computers and computing language, nor did I have anything substantial to do with them. :smallconfused: Only just discovered last year what the difference between hardware and software was. Pretty tame compared to some of these other weird ones (nobody has ever believed I was dead before). XD
Other pervading misconceptions are mostly along similar lines. I get a lot of other kids asking me for help on subjects I really know little to nothing about, the reason supposedly being that I was really good at it. Ditto misconceptions with me being good at playing music, basketball, other languages, etc.
... I do wish I could do all that stuff they think I can do though...
Capt Spanner
2012-06-02, 09:57 AM
I remember missing a few days of school to go to the funeral of a family member in Germany.
When I returned someone had tried spreading the rumour he had stabbed and killed me in order to pick up some "street cred" around school. My several-day absence (which had been authorised by the school) let him get away with this until I came back, healthy and with no stab wounds.
I think that qualifies for "dumbest" rumour, because he was so very obviously going to get rumbled.
ThePhantasm
2012-06-02, 10:05 AM
That I'm secretly a crime-fighter. Totally ridiculous and absurd, no matter what Alfred tells you.
noparlpf
2012-06-02, 10:11 AM
I remember missing a few days of school to go to the funeral of a family member in Germany.
When I returned someone had tried spreading the rumour he had stabbed and killed me in order to pick up some "street cred" around school. My several-day absence (which had been authorised by the school) let him get away with this until I came back, healthy and with no stab wounds.
I think that qualifies for "dumbest" rumour, because he was so very obviously going to get rumbled.
"Hey everyone, I stabbed and killed somebody!"
...
I think he mixed up "street cred" and "a good way to get in trouble".
dehro
2012-06-02, 10:17 AM
I think that qualifies for "dumbest" rumour, because he was so very obviously going to get rumbled.
not the dumbest rumour, but definitely the award winning dumbest rumour spreader...
EternalMelon
2012-06-02, 02:20 PM
1. That my (then newest) best friend and I were Gay, but not for each other. This Is because I am fairly adroginist, and I act like the opposite sex all the time. Also, my hair, long or short, makes me look like the opposite sex. As for my friend, we were quite close all of a sudden, and they did have a large group of (Known) admirers that they refused to date. (Braces)
2. That I'm (and my group of friends) bullying one of my friends. This one is very stupid, because what were doing is making a sort of "False idol" out of our friend, showering him with complements, and presenting him as the "perfect being"". We also Photoshopped his face onto a bunch of muscle bound dudes, put his name on the front of a magazine, then attempted to use it as a prop for the play were were in. Somehow, all this made our teachers think we were bulling him.
3. That I have ADD/ADHD/Turrets/Mental Retardation/Insane/Multiple personality disorder/OCD/Spasms/Ect. These ones are also perpetrated by my teachers. (Especially the ones I'm friends with.) These ones might be true, but I never got tested, so What ever.
Sneaky Weasel
2012-06-05, 06:17 PM
Let's see...there have been many rumors about me, most of them true. Including, but not limited to: That I was a brony(I've never seen My Little Pony in my life), that I was a werewolf(true, but only on the full moon), and that I am a virtuoso flute player(I've never so much as touched a flute).
Probably the most annoying rumor was one started by my brother for his own perverse amusement. He somehow convinced a number of people that I was a psychopath who went out with girls and then murdered them, hiding the remains in the woods.:smallconfused: I hope I don't need to tell you that this isn't true.
The whole thing is so ridiculous that I don't know why anyone would believe him, so it's surprising how many people did. Including the girl I was dating at the time, who left me because she was afraid of being my next 'victim'.
An Enemy Spy
2012-06-05, 06:19 PM
Some people thought I had gotten a girl pregnant when I was in High School. Have no idea why.
Riverdance
2012-06-05, 09:28 PM
A friend with the same last name likes to tell people we are brothers. Sometimes it takes a long time to get them to believe we're not.
Also that I eat roadkill. In truth I have eaten roadkill, but it's annoying when people base their entire idea of my character on that. And for the record it's perfectly safe to eat the parts that haven't been bruised or contaminated by inner organs as long as the roadkill is fresh.
Adlan
2012-06-06, 12:07 PM
Also that I eat roadkill. In truth I have eaten roadkill, but it's annoying when people base their entire idea of my character on that. And for the record it's perfectly safe to eat the parts that haven't been bruised or contaminated by inner organs as long as the roadkill is fresh.
I kinda like that people ask me if I've ever eaten roadkill in the tone of voice that means they really expect me to say no, that's a stupid rumour. I think it's the look on their faces.
dehro
2012-06-06, 12:09 PM
wasn't there an episode in Top Gear where they were meant to eat roadkill whilst touring the states.. and Jeremy Clarkson reached camp with a dead cow strapped on the roof of his car?
Thufir
2012-06-06, 12:52 PM
Shouldn't it be *about*, not *against* one?
Though I could see in more archaic English it meaning "something negative about one"...
a) No, since I googled the exact wording of the quote before posting it.
b) That's not archaic English, it's still a perfectly valid meaning of the word.
Strife Warzeal
2012-06-11, 02:20 AM
I feel boring compared to what's happened to some of you.
As far as I know I've had no rumors around me, or maybe some old ones I don't remember.
I'm sure there have been at the least a rumor passed around about me.
Theories: (In which I guess some possible rumors about me)
That I'm gay. Possible, I've shown no interest in women or other "manly" activities. Other possible adaptation of this is asexuality which I think may be true to some extent.
Anti-social/Asperger's. Okay this one is true, tested by my doctor and school, I don't go out of my way to talk to others (coupled with how visibly uncomfortable I am during dialogues) and because of my general speech patterns.
That I've died. I wouldn't be surprised about this one, because during my junior year around Thanksgiving I just stopped showing up to school. This was because of a still unknown problem that caused me to have very little energy and just general motivation (not from depression is all I can remember). I was out for 3 months and wouldn't be surprised if some rumor about why got passed around.
I'm not really sure how viable these are because I just don't understand most people's thought patterns and their links to rumors.
noparlpf
2012-06-11, 09:55 AM
I remembered the one about how I had an orange tree growing under my desk freshman year. I literally always had oranges on hand, so people decided I must have some sort of magical unlimited source.
grimbold
2012-06-11, 11:37 AM
well today i heard that i'm a bestiality fetishist (is that the term in english?) because of my fondness for MLP :smalltongue:
enderlord99
2012-06-11, 05:34 PM
The easiest way to tell is to answer the following multiple choice question. I was told this by a bronie BTW.
Which of the following are you more likely to watch the show with:
A-A tub of lube.
B-A tub of ice cream.
C-A pizza.
D-Your children.
If you answered A, then the rumor may be true. If you answered B, C, or D, then the rumor is likely untrue.
What does engine grease have to do with... that?:smallconfused:
Partof1
2012-06-11, 05:43 PM
Certain, potentially high friction, board inappropriate activities. Don't think mechanical lube, think vaseline or something in that vein.
thubby
2012-06-12, 10:06 PM
well today i heard that i'm a bestiality fetishist (is that the term in english?) because of my fondness for MLP :smalltongue:
if you mean the idea that you want to... *ahem* with animals, yes that's the term and holy hell that's messed up.
somehow people (read: the idiots that were my highschool classmates) got to thinking i tortured animals because i volunteered at the animal shelter. yeah, you try figuring that one out. :smallconfused:
Salbazier
2012-06-12, 10:31 PM
Not exactly a rumour but a friend of mine once thought I have antipathy towards religious activity or sort of because I've made some fuss once in religion class :/
Vixsor Lumin
2012-06-13, 04:29 AM
I went on one date with a supposed "good christian girl" who was anything but, and when things didn't work out she told everyone I left her because I was gay. I don't know how many people she knew, but that was sophmore year of high school and every girl I dated from then until graduation told me that they thought they had turned me staight haha. The fact that I'm kind of an out there guy, hung out with gay people, and wasn't one of those guys obbsessed with girls probably didn't help with that haha :smalltongue:
Ricky S
2012-06-13, 10:04 AM
That I wanted to be a vampire.
One night while partying I said "Man I wish I could be a vampire, drinking blood would be so much easier than having to eat food all the time". It was said purely in jest.
It went from that one statement to everyone "knowing" that I dressed up as a vampire at night and practiced dark magic.
Honestly people these days :smallsmile:...
valadil
2012-06-13, 10:37 AM
Freshman year of high school there was a rumor going around that I believed I was god. Not sure I could explain it without violating forum rules, but even if I told you how it started I couldn't trace the rationale that my classmates followed to reach that conclusion.
I went on one date with a supposed "good christian girl" who was anything but
*snip*
I find it really funny that your statement could mean she was a "bad pagan boy" in disguise.
Suentis
2012-06-13, 10:41 AM
There were a few about me.
1) Everyone in HS thought I was one of the smartest kids in school. I know how this one got started, but I couldn't believe it followed me all of HS. Long story short, freshmen year first day in my first class we were being put into groups. We were told to create our own groups and a girl I hardly new in middle school yells out, "Suentis is in my group! I need at least one smart kid!" (Suentis is obviously not my real name). I was a B student throughout all of HS, yet it helped because smart kids grouped with me because they didn't want to carry dumb kids.
2) That I was a rapist. This one came from a bad breakup where an ex claimed rape afterwards. The reality was there was no rape, and the police investigation (yeah it went that far) confirmed it. Afterwards she admitted to saying it and trying to press charges because "she was hurt" but no one ever remembered that she broke up with me. Anyways, believe it or not, 14 years later I still run into people who believe this rumor, or know of me because of this rumor even though they don't know they are talking about me to me! I always own up to it and they can't possibly believe it is me. Funny little fact, my wife was one of the people who knew of me through the rumor prior to having ever even met me.
3) That I fought in underground 'no rules' fights. I don't know where this one came from. I did fight when I was younger, but it was because I was always the smallest kid and my father taught me that defending yourself is the best way to stop bullies. I was 3'9 going into HS if that tells you how short I used to be. Anyways, when I finally grew to 5'8 people stopped picking on me, but I would still get in fights to defend friends or kids I saw being picked on for no reason. I changed my mission from 'stop being picked on' to 'stopping everyone from being picked on'. Still don't know where the underground fighting came from.
Vixsor Lumin
2012-06-13, 10:54 AM
I find it really funny that your statement could mean she was a "bad pagan boy" in disguise.
things never got that far, so for all i know she couldve been hahaha :smalltongue:
dehro
2012-06-14, 02:39 AM
Funny little fact, my wife was one of the people who knew of me through the rumor prior to having ever even met me.
oh, so that's how you find a partner these days?..
mmmh I shall try and go peek at people from the bushes..see if that gets me a girlfriend .. or a boyfriend in jail :smallamused:
Love can happen in mysterious places.
Chainsaw Hobbit
2012-06-14, 03:35 PM
Throughout my life, a lot of people have thought that I'm gay (I'm certainly not) because I wear a trench-coat, top hat, and leather shoes, and carry around a pocket watch.
Vixsor Lumin
2012-06-14, 05:00 PM
Throughout my life, a lot of people have thought that I'm gay (I'm certainly not) because I wear a trench-coat, top hat, and leather shoes, and carry around a pocket watch.
......what's gay about dressing like a sir? Hahaha
Chainsaw Hobbit
2012-06-14, 05:06 PM
When I was thirteen, my father sat me down to awkwardly tell me that it was okay for me to be gay. I explained that I was not gay. We didn't talk at all for the rest of the day.
Vixsor Lumin
2012-06-14, 05:11 PM
My dad gave me the same talk...and my mom....and they still ask me despite the fact that I'm moving in with my girlfriend haha
Lord Raziere
2012-06-14, 06:50 PM
Doesn't really count as rumor, but people thought I knew martial arts just because of where I came from.
and that place is NOT anywhere asian. I even have red hair and green eyes, and where I'm from is literally on the other side of the world from asia.
Keep in mind that this is all local; I came from a small town to a big city college, so I just found it weird that people in the college thought I knew martial arts just because I came from that small town :smallconfused:
Doesn't really count as rumor, but people thought I knew martial arts just because of where I came from.
and that place is NOT anywhere asian. I even have red hair and green eyes, and where I'm from is literally on the other side of the world from asia.
Keep in mind that this is all local; I came from a small town to a big city college, so I just found it weird that people in the college thought I knew martial arts just because I came from that small town :smallconfused:
So what you're saying is that you don't know martial arts even though you're not Asian and come from a small town?
The Glyphstone
2012-06-14, 08:11 PM
Doesn't really count as rumor, but people thought I knew martial arts just because of where I came from.
and that place is NOT anywhere asian. I even have red hair and green eyes, and where I'm from is literally on the other side of the world from asia.
Keep in mind that this is all local; I came from a small town to a big city college, so I just found it weird that people in the college thought I knew martial arts just because I came from that small town :smallconfused:
I guess they think you're an innate master of Drunken Boxing?
Janus
2012-06-14, 08:15 PM
Once heard a rumor that I was contemplating suicide. Sure, I wasn't in the highest point of my life, but nowhere did I ever say anything about suicide.
Granted, I also question the honesty of the guy who told me people were saying that, so I dunno.
Lord Raziere
2012-06-14, 08:39 PM
So what you're saying is that you don't know martial arts even though you're not Asian and come from a small town?
Technically I knew a form of martial arts (Aikido) but I never got passed the entry stuff and I stopped doing it three years ago… I've forgotten most of what had been taught. So yes, I technically don't know martial arts, because I've pretty much forgot it all.
Anecronwashere
2012-06-15, 12:48 AM
(invisible post bug fixing)
grimbold
2012-06-15, 09:26 AM
I was 3'9 going into HS if that tells you how short I used to be.
Oo
that is
very very short...
that must have been tough
Suentis
2012-06-15, 12:03 PM
Oo
that is
very very short...
that must have been tough
Probably would have been easier if I didn't move around so much. My father was in the navy so we moved around quite a bit. Everywhere we went I was the smallest kid so I got picked on right away, probably why my father was so willing to let me fight to stop bullying.
Siosilvar
2012-06-15, 12:55 PM
First I was gay for having male friends.
Then I was gay for having female friends.
Then my girlfriend was just a cover.
*Then* I was gay for watching My Little Pony (this one was started by a guy whose favorite band is Erasure; he's well aware of the hypocrisy).
Now I'm gay for occasionally not playing video games with my friends, but that one's not so much a rumor as an inside joke from when they were all in middle school and "gay" was the insult of the day.
Yeah, the rumors in high school weren't very original. I imagine that I'll still be "gay" when I get to college because my girlfriend'll be in a different state, so I won't have "proof" that she exists. :smallannoyed: Whatever.
thubby
2012-06-16, 01:12 AM
in my experience, college is better.
maybe it's because all the idiots stop going to school after highschool, or maybe the pressures and demands of higher education do something.
also, erasure? as in "robot unicorn attack" erasure?
ThiagoMartell
2012-06-17, 01:28 AM
First I was gay for having male friends.
Then I was gay for having female friends.
Then my girlfriend was just a cover.
*Then* I was gay for watching My Little Pony (this one was started by a guy whose favorite band is Erasure; he's well aware of the hypocrisy).
Now I'm gay for occasionally not playing video games with my friends, but that one's not so much a rumor as an inside joke from when they were all in middle school and "gay" was the insult of the day.
Yeah, the rumors in high school weren't very original. I imagine that I'll still be "gay" when I get to college because my girlfriend'll be in a different state, so I won't have "proof" that she exists. :smallannoyed: Whatever.
Not that there is anything wrong with it!
Siosilvar
2012-06-17, 06:10 PM
in my experience, college is better.
maybe it's because all the idiots stop going to school after highschool, or maybe the pressures and demands of higher education do something.
also, erasure? as in "robot unicorn attack" erasure?
Yup.
Not that there is anything wrong with it!
There's nothing wrong with it, it's just the fact that I'm not. It gets tiresome is all.
nerd-7i+42e
2012-06-18, 11:04 AM
Not a lot about me, as far as I know. There was once a rumor that I had slept with my then-girlfriend, which wouldn't have been terrible... except we were in middle school. We hadn't so much as kissed. :smallsigh:
My brother has a couple interesting rumors. He has the same name as someone who was fairly famous for a time, so he would tell people that he was that person's son. Also, a friend once mentioned to my brother that he had just had a lesson involving the human blind spot. My brother joked that he has no blind spot. The next day, he got an e-mail from his friend's professor inviting him to come in so the professor could find his blind spot.
The Succubus
2012-06-18, 11:47 AM
I was once accused of being the lovechild of Alan Rickman and the Honey Monster.
It didn't help matters when a Playgrounder confirmed this as being at least partially correct. -.-
Ranger Mattos
2012-06-20, 12:42 PM
So one day in middle school I was home sick, as was this girl (who I only knew from my science class). And because we were both not at school, we had obviously gotten married and moved to the Bahamas. And we did some pretty, uh, board inappropriate things while we were there.
Luckily, this rumor did not persist very long. However, once we got to high school, it did evolve into a new rumor that we were dating. Once again, I only knew her from that science class.
JCarter426
2012-06-20, 02:01 PM
I'm only aware of three rumors about me, from days yon past. One is party based on truth, so it's not relevant - though they're all dumb for their existence in the first place. Not that it's inconceivable for such misconceptions to exist; I am very withholding when it comes to information about myself. But for that reason, I shouldn't make a good subject for rumor; they wouldn't know enough about me to be interested in the first place. And yet this is not true, in at least two cases. I can't decide which is dumber, so I'll do them in chronological order.
First, apparently everyone I knew when I was 15 or so was afraid of me because I had some kind of uncontrollable temper. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry, that kind. In truth I was never involved in any fights, and I'm not the sort of person to cause them. I'm rather short, not in good shape - indeed I was a lot fatter back then than I am now - and on the rare occasion when I care enough for someone to make me angry, I just avoid them whenever I can. I only heard this from one guy who often showed up to school drunk, though. So it might have just been in his head.
The second one I heard from multiple people, so it seems to have been a genuine rumor. Evidently I had been courting this girl for some time, without my knowledge. Again, the stupidity is in its absurdity; I only knew her because a) we shared a few classes and one study period, and b) our names fell close in the alphabet, so we were often seated next to each other. Talking to the person next to you constitutes a romantic relationship, it seems.
WarKitty
2012-06-20, 02:17 PM
It's kind of amusing the kinds of reasons people have for "gay" rumors. Not that I'm against being gay, but...well, the reasons people have for deciding if someone is gay are kind of nuts. Why is this kind of speculation so popular?
Siosilvar
2012-06-20, 02:45 PM
Ooh, I remember another one! My German exchange student saw the D&D books on my shelf, and later that week I was somehow able to turn myself into a dragon.
Chainsaw Hobbit
2012-06-20, 03:19 PM
Ooh, I remember another one! My German exchange student saw the D&D books on my shelf, and later that week I was somehow able to turn myself into a dragon.
I doubt anyone actually believed that.
GFawkes
2012-06-20, 03:47 PM
Not quite sure if it reached rumor status, but in 10th grade I know one of my advisory-mates thought I was a robot because he never saw me eating.
Siosilvar
2012-06-21, 12:30 AM
I doubt anyone actually believed that.
One person literally walked up to me and asked me. I'm pretty sure they were... in an altered state of mind at the time.
PINfont
2012-06-21, 12:59 AM
That I'm a drug dealer. I just have one of those faces of someone that looks high most of the time, when, in fact, I've never done any form of drug besides for medicinal purposes.
How did it start: Middle of last year. Some people saw me taking an injection and giving "tablets" to a fellow student. The injection was for, as I said before, medicinal purposes, and the tablet was a freaking mentos. A MENTOS.
How many people know about it/believe it: Most of the people in my grade and one grade below me. I've had people ask me what I'm selling multiple times.
When did it stop: I don't think it has. Though I really hope most people have realized it was a stupid rumor by now. If not.. Well then they're stupid.
grimbold
2012-06-21, 08:57 AM
Ooh, I remember another one! My German exchange student saw the D&D books on my shelf, and later that week I was somehow able to turn myself into a dragon.
the possibilities for pranking are endless... :smallbiggrin:
Xallace
2012-06-21, 01:31 PM
Oh wow was this a fun thread to read through.
So, I had a few, and they were all started by the same small group of people (my roommate at the time and his friends). I didn't ever tell them much of anything about my life, so they took the liberty of filling in the gaps themselves.
I broke up a couple in order to "get with" one of them. This stemmed from a dinner I had put on for a friend and her girlfriend, and when they broke up about a month later (for unrelated reasons) I somehow was pinpointed as the direct cause. Although the public response to that was less "You awful person!" and more "Why'd you break them up instead of going for both of them?" :smallsigh:
The other was that I was having wild parties in my room with multiple girls at once! :smallwink: ...I was. They were LAN parties. Apparently L4D sounds a lot like a wild sex romp?
Edit: I just remembered the one about me being a True Fae. I don't think anyone seriously believed that one, although I never did anything to discourage it.
Karoht
2012-06-22, 01:42 PM
Not really a rumor but just an observation of how other's opinion of me tends to wax and wane from time to time.
I do a lot of events per year. Between swordfighting, the Calgary Expo, some other obligations, and stuff I more or less invent to keep from being bored, I have a tendancy to be the center of rather a lot of awesomeness. Which is fine, I don't let it go to my head. But I'm always talking about upcoming projects and activities.
So my friends have a pretty high opinion of me, which is great. But after a few weeks or so, it sort of winds down. For weeks I will tell people about a really cool upcoming event, and it is more or less met with handwave type responses.
Then an event takes place, pictures end up on the internet, and all of a sudden I'm the center of attention again. Questions, stories, pictures, etc. Everyone saying "Wow, that was really cool, I wish I was there."
A few weeks later, the process repeats.
I tell my friends about something cool, they more or less disregard it, then it happens. I've overheard one of my friends actually say the words "...the Legends were true. He really did/does/can..."
I'm more disappointed that my friends never seem to want to come along for the ride, but they bandwagon like champs after the fact. I rather enjoy involving others in adventures and stories and tales of hijinx and shennanigans.
Mentioned, because it is an observation of how people will pay attention to something (a rumor) then drop it, then pick it back up once it proves to be true, then drop it until the next one comes along, or some itteration of such a process.
grimbold
2012-06-23, 01:23 AM
I was having wild parties in my room with multiple girls at once! :smallwink: ...I was. They were LAN parties. Apparently L4D sounds a lot like a wild sex romp?
Xallace you dog :smallamused:
The Succubus
2012-06-23, 01:30 AM
The other was that I was having wild parties in my room with multiple girls at once! :smallwink: ...I was. They were LAN parties. Apparently L4D sounds a lot like a wild sex romp?
"So she's going to tongue her first, then she'll pounce the other one then you come in and blow your load over all of us."
grimbold
2012-06-23, 06:57 AM
"So she's going to tongue her first, then she'll pounce the other one then you come in and blow your load over all of us."
i feel...
dirty :smalltongue:
Chainsaw Hobbit
2012-06-23, 02:25 PM
In middle school, there was a rumour that I had slept with the top female drug dealer (it was a strange culture), and then another rumour that I WAS a drug dealer.
Both earned me a fair amount of respect, so I did nothing to debunk them.
grimbold
2012-06-23, 02:55 PM
In middle school, there was a rumour that I had slept with the top female drug dealer (it was a strange culture), and then another rumour that I WAS a drug dealer.
Both earned me a fair amount of respect, so I did nothing to debunk them.
ahhh
the innocence of youth!:smallwink:
TheWolfe
2012-06-23, 03:37 PM
I have a series of scars on my lower back, and when I was 16 my class had a beach party, where I had taken my shirt off to swim. About a week later, there was a rumor going that I was being abused by my parents. This even led to the school starting an investigation to see if it was true. It was not.
The week before we learned in Biology about learning and training. In this lesson it was mentioned that abused children often start abusing their own children later. I found out later that another guy had started the rumor about me being abused because we were in love with the same girl and he hoped she wouldn't want to be with me because I would abuse her kids.
It didn't end there though. When the girl did hook up with me, the guy started the rumor that I was only allowed into the highest class because the school pitied my abusive background and ignored my actual grades. At this time the school's investigation concluded that there was no abuse, and the headmaster even came into our class to disprove these rumors. However, the shadow of corruption and nepotism still hangs over me, and it seems many people still think it's true. It led to me not being selected for committees and groups out of fear of being accused of nepotism and unfair selection.
All because of some stupid jealous kid.
grimbold
2012-06-24, 01:25 PM
that is...
so sad...
:smallfrown:
out of curiosity how did you ACTUALLY get those scars?
Elemental
2012-06-25, 06:27 AM
that is...
so sad...
:smallfrown:
out of curiosity how did you ACTUALLY get those scars?
I have small feeling that it may have involved something suitably awesome.
Like lions, or a ninja-related incident.
TheWolfe
2012-06-25, 10:39 AM
It didn't have anything to do with lions, but I suppose I was trying to be a ninja. I fell out of a tree and into some thorny plant. I think I was about 10. Basically, my entire lower back was covered in cuts and wounds and they never really healed well.
grimbold
2012-06-25, 12:06 PM
ouch
that must have hurt!
Elemental
2012-06-25, 11:31 PM
It didn't have anything to do with lions, but I suppose I was trying to be a ninja. I fell out of a tree and into some thorny plant. I think I was about 10. Basically, my entire lower back was covered in cuts and wounds and they never really healed well.
Damn. It's so hard to get scars that come with awesome stories.
I think someone around here has some that came from a lion... But I'd have to look up that thread that was started about people's coolest scars/injuries...
dehro
2012-06-26, 12:51 AM
It didn't have anything to do with lions, but I suppose I was trying to be a ninja. I fell out of a tree and into some thorny plant. I think I was about 10. Basically, my entire lower back was covered in cuts and wounds and they never really healed well.
so you basically fell in a cactus ACME style... that sounds like a great story to me:smallbiggrin:
prufock
2012-06-26, 09:33 AM
I'm not aware of any rumours about myself at any point in my life that I can remember. Hard to believe?!
However, I've had several people tell me independently that they thought I was gay when they met me, and maintained that belief for varying lengths of time.
Glass Mouse
2012-06-26, 12:39 PM
This thread is making me paranoid because I have so many apparantly rumor-inducing traits :smalltongue:
I'm either very boring or no one ever speaks to me, but I remember... two very boring rumors and one weird one.
1) I'm a very hard-working, extremely intelligent student. Heh. I remember high school buddies being so shocked when they learned that I only did minimum homework. I'm not even sure they believed me.
I'm also not sure why this one keeps following me, considering my grades haven't been good since high school. I suppose some unconscious attitude thing?
2) A friend of mine was my boyfriend. We lived close to each other, so sometimes we met on the way to school and teamed up. Never really spoke when we were at school. But apparantly that was enough.
Nevermind the fact that I did have a boyfriend. Who was not aforementioned friend.
3) There was a brief period in 7th grade where a few girls were convinced that I and a friend of mine engaged in kinky, lesbian S/M sex. Um... okay.
dehro
2012-06-26, 02:05 PM
well, did you?:smallamused:
Glass Mouse
2012-06-26, 02:21 PM
I wish :smalltongue: Actually, I'm pretty sure she's asexual. And if I had given thought to sex back then, I probably would've concluded the same about myself. We were the biggest dorks, too.
Othesemo
2012-06-26, 10:17 PM
so you basically fell in a cactus ACME style... that sounds like a great story to me:smallbiggrin:
How unfair. I've actually fallen into a cactus and I don't have any scars from it.
I feel cheated.
grimbold
2012-06-29, 07:39 PM
I wish :smalltongue: Actually, I'm pretty sure she's asexual. And if I had given thought to sex back then, I probably would've concluded the same about myself. We were the biggest dorks, too.
heheeh
I C wat u did thar
:smallbiggrin:
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