There's a guy who sells newspapers at the metro station by my office. He makes eye contact with everyone who gets off the escalator each morning and says "have a blessed day' at first it didn't bug me, but after a while it became incredibly annoying. I actually used to get pissed off as I started to approach the escalator and knew what was coming.

It seems to me that if you routinely bless everyone you come across each day, it ceases to have any meaning. It's a holier than thou, almost hypocritical, move. Insincere. You shouldn't bless anyone unless they want to be blessed. Feel free to pray for them to yourself if you want, but don't try to get credit for it by telling them about it unless you know they would want to hear it.

I'm on about you being an hater.



you do this all the time. I say something that is meant to be funny....in my own particular idiom of over the top spazzing out way.....

and you stroll by and take it seriously as though i am 100% serious or ACTUALLY angry in real life about whatever it is....and then you climb up on your high horse and pass judgment on me and anyone else that has been seen in my company.

I expect that you prod me specifically because you enjoy my reactions. a little trollish of you, I think. why don't you stop it?

Speaking of blessings, I remember when I used to go to church and the priest would say to the congregation "May God bless you." And the congregation would reply "God bless you" back to the priest.

Sounds all good and fair right? WRONG!

Ok, so the priest says to us 'bless you' so we, the congregation, have to take that one single blessing and split it amongst ourselves so I get a whopping one one-hundreth or so of one blessing. What's that gonna get me? But the priest, to whom the full-on one hundred of us said 'bless you father' gets one hundred blessings! Yeah, sounded so good at first blush but start deconstructing things a bit and we, the congregation were getting hosed while the priest was raking in the goodness.

I actually asked that question in Cathecism once. The room full of blank or horrified stares that I got back confirmed what I had pretty much already figured out.

Fuckin' Father, always bogartin' the blessings. :headshake

(One more in the "going to hell" column.)

Great Googly Moogly, Jim. It's not always all about you. Yours was not the most vitriolic message in the thread by far and I did not single you out.

But the dogpile on the blessed woman got pretty high and I felt it was time for an alternate viewpoint. That's the point of a message board like this, yeah?

It's possible that the woman is a sanctimonious bible-thumper. But maybe not. Not all Christians are like that and I will point it out when the subject comes up.

And don't try to tell me this thread was just for laughs. There was some venting behind your humor.

I didn't try to tell you that it was just for laughs. I tried to tell you that it wasn't 100% serious, and that you should stop trying to treat the things I say like that.

but whatever. you go ahead and do what makes you feel good. listen to the beatles, pray for stuff, eat healthy foods, and play your bass.

I'm gonna go stand over here now.

First of all, I already said I wasn't particularly talking to you. The 'cock' thing was just an example of something that people could take exception to but shouldn't because people should take stuff the way it's intended.

But if you really want to make it about you, I was talking to the part of you that was part serious.

Ah Jim you know me so well. I like the Beatles well enough, but they're not a thing for me. Also I have Crohn's disease so eating healthy really isn't an option for me. But I do pray and play the bass from time to time. Thanks for your permission.

sorry, but this needs to be said

Oh noes. Jim's devastating wit. I am wounded unto death.

you want me

To do my yardwork.

ya know what's funny?

when you click through that blahblahblah video to youtube, the related video list includes a rick roll

:D You devil you. :evil2: :devil:

I just receipted a check from a customer, and as she left, she wished me a Bless'd day.

Didn't really bother me. She was nice.

Am I mellowing, or was it just because she said it to me, personally, as opposed to an insincere voicemail with a 'form letter' blessing referenced in the OP? anyway, it reminded me of this thread.

boy, I'm glad that dar512 guy doesn't post here anymore. the pole up his ass had a pole up it's ass. ;)

This greeting happens every day at the pawn shop.

When you hear it in person, you can gage the verbal nuances that separate a wish, from an order, and a threat.

From the customers, or the employees?

From the customers. The employees joke about it.

To all of you all, Have A Blessed Day!

I'd rather people say "Have a blessed day" than have a blessed week, month, year or life; so, the numbers will be more impressive when I go to count my blessings. :D

Have a blessed blessing!

Bless you, sexobon, to infinity.

Well that should cover all the sneezing I'll ever do.

You never said you were superstitious.

The proper response to "Have a blessed day," is "Well, bless your heart."

:D

You spelled supercilious wrong.

:bolt:

:eyebrow: ............................. :lol:

I work with someone who regularly tells customers to "enjoy the rest of your day"
She is sincere and sweet, but given that I only ever work with her in the morning, it sounds slightly sinister to me.

I think she probably heard someone say it and took it on board as a way of saying "have a nice day" without actually saying that.
It's just to me, picky picky me, it's only really appropriate at the end of the day. And if you just discovered it's someone's birthday or something.

I settle for just saying thank you to customers unless I've had a proper exchange with them. In which case I might hope they enjoy what they're trying, or have a good party etc etc.
While over-using the word lovely of course. Deliberately left that out until now. I'm trying to wean myself off it. It's become a verbal tick, like grim used to be.
Still, that's a positive progression, right?

Lovely sounds lovely in your voice though.
I usually, after signing a customer up, tell them to "drive fast, Take Chances!"
They love it. and usually tell me how slow they drive, or blah blah blah......
I'm at 97.5% CSi, though, and that one bad survey was a customer that I never met. I swear.

Even that lady who told you that God wanted her to have a PT Cruiser? :lol:

I'd rather be told 'have a nice day' by some insincere shit that didn't mean it than be told to 'fuck off and die' by some sincere shit that did (mean it).

You gotta get approved to get a car... And you gotta get a new car to get a survey.... It would take a miracle.

Hahaha. Nicely put.

It seems to me that it means more at the beginning of the day.
In the morning, it's like "enjoy the whole day!".

In the evening, it's like "well, the day's running out, make the best of the time you've got left...".

NY Times: "Blessed" becomes a hash tag in social media

Ladies and gentlemen, the New York Fucking Times. I think the author made this shit up entirely based on one Google search.

Really? Seems to fit in with my experience more or less, with social media.

I don't agree necessarily with the observation of how it's used - I mean, it does get used in that braggy way, but mostly I see it used in a fairly innocuous way by people who aren't necessarily talking of God in particular but a general sense that the world or fate has shined on them - for having a loving and supportive hubbie, for surviving breast cancer, great days when their kids make them laugh etc

A vogue for hashtagging it and using it to brag may well be the case but chances are if the press are noticing it, it's already begun to run out of steam.