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re: It amazes me how unusual common courtesy is to people in the north
Posted on 6/9/18 at 5:45 am to lsupride87
Posted on 6/9/18 at 5:45 am to lsupride87
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I 100% think all the stories of “I held a door open up north and they were angry” “I said yes ma’am and she was insulted” are mainly bullshite fairy tale stories that got passed along
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Posted on 6/9/18 at 5:50 am to TigersSEC2010
This friggin guy with this friggin topic again?!?
He looks at me and says “Yeah what about it?”
I says to him, I says, “”You blow your mother with that mouth!”
Fagg’it about t!
He looks at me and says “Yeah what about it?”
I says to him, I says, “”You blow your mother with that mouth!”
Fagg’it about t!
Posted on 6/9/18 at 5:52 am to McVick
quote:behind your back racists.
The only real difference I've seen between native Northeasterners and the rest of us is they are very
Posted on 6/9/18 at 5:56 am to RogerTheShrubber
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I don't believe it's necessarily rudeness, it's survival instinct from living in a region with more than 30 million people.
And often times Southerners confuse people's unwillingness to engage in small talk or acting rushed/direct as being rude but people in the North do not see it that way.
Sometimes it's that people in the North just don't want to bother other people. So it's a different kind of politeness.
Posted on 6/9/18 at 6:05 am to Pilot Tiger
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And often times Southerners confuse people's unwillingness to engage in small talk or acting rushed/direct as being rude but people in the North do not see it that way. Sometimes it's that people in the North just don't want to bother other people. So it's a different kind of politeness.
This
Posted on 6/9/18 at 6:28 am to Pilot Tiger
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Sometimes it's that people in the North just don't want to bother other people. So it's a different kind of politeness.
Yep, its called "civil indifference." Southerners love small talk and they think people who won't engage in it are rude. Northerns hate small talk and think people who do engage in it are rude.
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