It's the difference between speaking in a complete sentence (Don't mention it.) and speaking in a phrase (No problem). To my ears, the former sounds better, the latter sloppy and insincere.
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It's the difference between speaking in a complete sentence (Don't mention it.) and speaking in a phrase (No problem). To my ears, the former sounds better, the latter sloppy and insincere.
No.
There are standards of civilized, polite behavior in society, and those standards are eroding steadily and rapidly in this country. Take a step back and look around you...
Do you need some examples?
Miley Cyrus and her 'twerking'. (Would that have been shown on a major television network, in prime time, 20 years ago?) Justine Bieber and his antics. (Remember when teen idol singers tried to be squeaky clean?)
Politicians caught doing all sorts of unsavory things...and getting re-elected.
The music lyrics one hears these days from some very popular performers.
The language many Americans use in public.
The way folks behave in places like movie theatres. (Texting, talking, etc.)
My reflection isn't decaying, and I don't cringe at what I see in the mirror...but I do worry about where the United States is headed as a society. And I think anyone who doesn't worry about that has not really been paying attention to what's been going on here.
Your attempt to make this some sort of racial or ethnic discussion is misguided, to say the least. No one but you has seen any racial aspect to anything said here by anyone, on either side of this issue. Your innuendo is unwarranted and unsubstantiated.
That you think drooping pants -- with someone's underwear exposed -- is in any way "polite", marks your views as unworthy of discussion, let alone serious consideration.
Throw 'em a curve say "It's my pleasure"
Steve
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When we start going from grammar into "drooping pants, backwards hat wearing youths", yeah, I think there's a bit more motivating some people than a serious love of the language.
Look at the arguments! On this page we have arguments that society is decaying because of music and dance on TV (just like Elvis killed our society!). Politicians getting reelected after awful things? How many times did Strom Thurmond get elected? How about all the shady stuff attached to Johnson, Nixon, and Vietnam? People are people always. Hell, look at the old Adam 12 episodes. How ridiculous does it look now when clean cut kids (before we got to the hippies) in jeans in button ups that insult police are held up as the decay of societies moral fiber?
The culture has changed, this is true. There's unprecedented amounts of leisure time, and that gap between time spent working either in a job or in household necessities (when's the last time we sewed up cheap tube socks instead of tossing them?). Everybody has cheap access to previously unimagined communications and media technology(which not all use for fine intellectual pursuits such as showing off our revolvers
).I'll stop arguing, because just like whether it cheeses someone off if I say "no problem", it cheeses me off that others are willing to dismisss large groups, even generations as just awful, with no hoipe for the future, when EVERY generation prior thought the same of the one that followed them. Each generation past we see great triumphs: the triumph over fascism, the moon landing, civil rights breakthroughs, coupled with horrible choices that bite the next generation in the ***: a doctrine of toughness that led to upping the ante in Vietnam, the coup in Iran, staying off of the "third rail" that is Social Security policy, etc. People are people, no matter if they're born in 1960 or 1990. The only differences are the interchangeable details that get your dad mad at you
RobertJ.
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This is in direct response to the OP: Because to the person saying it, it means exactly the same thing. Okay, we know it's not quite proper, but they don't, and as long as it's polite, so what?
I remember hearing my dad say, "it damn well better not be a problem!" and thinking what an angry reply to someone who's just being nice. That was just one example I got from my dad of what I don't want to be!
I remember hearing my dad say, "it damn well better not be a problem!" and thinking what an angry reply to someone who's just being nice. That was just one example I got from my dad of what I don't want to be!
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gunblade
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I don't have any real heartburn hearing it. I think it's a common expression, possibly more so among people younger than I, but not as annoying to me as other types of public behavior or speech one witnesses these days. I was just wondering how others responded to it. Lively discussion anyway.
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Sometimes when someone holds a door open for me, I tell 'em to go to hell and they get offended. Geeez, what's up with people today!? Touchy, touchy! Oh, and I am 43
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It's still a nice response to "thank You Sir or Ma'mm", forgotten more often by the rude and oblivious to common manners.
CHEERS;
LEFTY
It's still a nice response to "thank You Sir or Ma'mm", forgotten more often by the rude and oblivious to common manners.
CHEERS;
LEFTY
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