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Old 04-21-2009, 03:32 PM   #31
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If she has blessings to bestow, perhaps she could bless me.

What's that?
I'm already blessed with beauty, brains and boobies?

You're right.
She can stick her spiritual sort of blessings up her blessed arse.
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Old 04-21-2009, 03:33 PM   #32
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I believe someone said "forgive 70 times unto 7" so that equal to 490 times to be forgiven. I probably ran out of forgiveness in my mid-twenties.

anyway - have a blessed day.
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Old 04-21-2009, 05:50 PM   #33
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I've been hearing 'have a blessed day' a lot lately here, too. I thought it was the, uh, culture change.

I wish, just once, a student would end our conversation with "you've been very helpful. Have a great fucking day!"
You should come and work over here. No one says have a blessed day. lol They might not tell you to have a great day, but you're almost certain to get a 'fuck' in there somewhere.
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Old 04-21-2009, 05:57 PM   #34
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Would you have felt better, LJ, if she'd said "Blessed be"?

At least you'd have known she was a Pagan. Of course, Pagans virtually never say anything like that to someone unless they know them to be Pagan.

Pagans are the worst proselytizers on the planet. This is probably due to the fact that we don't get J&C Salvation Stamps with each blessing.
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Old 04-21-2009, 05:58 PM   #35
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What's that?
I'm already blessed with beauty, brains and boobies?
Sweetie, if you were any more blessed with those things, you'd be required to start your own religion.
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Old 04-21-2009, 06:09 PM   #36
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You should come and work over here. No one says have a blessed day. lol They might not tell you to have a great day, but you're almost certain to get a 'fuck' in there somewhere.
And dammit, that's how it should be. :p
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Old 04-21-2009, 06:10 PM   #37
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Would you have felt better, LJ, if she'd said "Blessed be"?
I guess the issue I have with it is the obvious assumption that it's acceptable for her to dump her religiosity in my(everyone's) lap on her business voice-mail message. And the rest of the message sounds as though she is either aping other professional sounding messages she's heard, or she's reading it out of a handbook of some sort. And the whole time you can hear it building....to that.......have a blessed day bit.


I'm fucking tempted to post her phone number so you can hear it yourself.

PM me. damn.
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Old 04-21-2009, 09:33 PM   #38
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Oh, hey, I hate that shit, too. I wasn't disagreeing with you at all.

The best thought I can come up with in these cases is something like, "At least she didn't tell me to go fuck myself".
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Old 04-21-2009, 10:14 PM   #39
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The best thought I can come up with in these cases is something like, "At least she didn't tell me to go fuck myself".
Yeah, but somehow "go fuck yourself!" sounds more sincere than "have a blessed day!" Blessed by what, exactly? That persons vengeful god? Their sick sense of superiority?

Don't mind me, kids. I've got my cynical shoes on.

Oh, what color are they? Jade!
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Old 04-21-2009, 10:19 PM   #40
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You jade!!!
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Old 04-21-2009, 10:40 PM   #41
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Would someone kindly explain what the fuck a blessed day is exactly?
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You get blessed a lot when suffering from seasonal allergies... not something I'd wish on most people, though
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Old 04-22-2009, 12:55 AM   #42
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Would someone kindly explain what the fuck a blessed day is exactly?
It's when the saints name is in red on the calender.
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Old 04-22-2009, 01:03 AM   #43
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New Orleans football calendar?
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Old 04-22-2009, 02:59 PM   #44
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Assuming that the woman is not a hypocrite, believes in someone/something with the power to bless, and wants you to have this blessing, I can't see why anyone would be offended.

Is it that it comes in a religious context? Can't you accept it in the spirit it is given? Should anyone here be offended when Jim uses 'cock' in a message? Doesn't he expect us to take it in the spirit it was intended?

I don't understand all this anger over something that seems well-intentioned.
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Old 04-22-2009, 03:12 PM   #45
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I am a cynical jade. The "blessed day" smacks of Christianity to me.

Call me what you will but I am nothing if not sincere when I curse you. (and, truly I say, I curse none)

I just don't want a certain diety's blessing...so shoot me. or hang me...or make me do the "if she weighs the same as a duck..." thing.

oh, I WISH i weighed the same as a duck....

eta: when jim uses 'cock' in a message, i know he REALLY means it. saying "have a blessed day" is like saying "have a good day!"

cliche, cliche, cliche, and LAZY. Like, "I'm all saved and good and going to heaven and shit coz I blessed everyone!"

yeah. some people don't NEED blessings. they need something else.
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"Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her.
—James Barrie


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