I suppose if the rumor is being told to you by a mate you trust, then you would be inclined to belive it. There are rumors being told about a certain PH. These are from people who know the other partys involved. Now if they were to tell a story/rumor about the PH it would be second hand info, but would you be inclined to belive it if you trusted the person telling the story?

Now if story's keep going around about the same bloke but for different things, even though they are rumors, you would be starting to think that somethings not right with this PH/business man etc.

Now I'm sure there are people on this site that think I'm a dickhead

, they have never met me and only know me by what I write about certain subjects, if they told a mate that "shit that Bakes is a wanker" your mate will have a mind set about me even though he's never met me. Is that a fair way to judge someone. Not really but there's not much I can do about it, its their opinion.

People get judged all the time based on what other people say or think about them. It happeneds in my job. If we have a new guy posted into the section we ring up his old section and ask about him. I want to know if my new troop is unsafe around the dogs or a bit lax about kennel cleaning, if he's got the balls to come in and pull a dog off me that's chewing me up. Any good or bad things I get told is hersay but it gets filed away and when I meet my new troop I sit back and watch how he operates. But I have a pretty good idea on what he's like.