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Secular alternatives to ‘bless you’

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Started by Citizen Erased (confused again) in Chit-Chat

Am riled by people saying ‘bless you’ when I sneeze, partly as don’t feel comfortable saying it back (admittedly I’d rather they said that than ‘I hope you fucking die, you black hearted piece of syphilitic filth’) - what seular alternatives are there? ‘Gesundheit’ just makes you sound a bit of a knob.

Posted on Mon, 11 May 2009 at 10:57

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Gav wrote:

It doesn’t matter what you say, I’d be running like fuck in case you had swine flu!

How was your Mexican holiday?

Posted on Mon, 11 May 2009 at 11:11

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chr1s (I can't remember my own name) wrote:

Boom Shanka!!!!

Posted on Mon, 11 May 2009 at 13:10

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Gill Rockatansky (The Music That Nobody Likes) wrote:

Don’t say anything then. If the phrase bothers you so much I guess you’ve also eliminated terms like “Oh God”, “Jesus Christ”, “Angel”, “Blessing In Disguise”, “Devil” etc… from your vocabulary.

I’ve never been religious but I still say “Bless You” as relates to sneezing, though I don’t say “God Bless You” - which I’d say is the proper, religious response.

Saying anything to people after they sneezed has it’s roots in religion, rather than being a social nicety, so there really can’t be a secular response.

Posted on Mon, 11 May 2009 at 14:14

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caffeinebomb (Caffeine Bomb) wrote:

What about “fuck you?” I like that one!

Can also be used in place of thankyou.

as in ” ah, fuck you very much”

People rarely notice.

Posted on Mon, 11 May 2009 at 14:18

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Gav wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bless_you

No alternatives offered…

Posted on Mon, 11 May 2009 at 14:55

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Gill Rockatansky (The Music That Nobody Likes) wrote:

Might as well as for a secular version of Merry Christmas.

Posted on Tue, 12 May 2009 at 02:07

#7

Citizen Erased (confused again) wrote:

There’s an EU directive for that sort of thing ;-)

Posted on Tue, 12 May 2009 at 08:26

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Gill Rockatansky (The Music That Nobody Likes) wrote:

It’s political correctness gone mad. ;)

Posted on Tue, 12 May 2009 at 11:51

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Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

I think you’ll find it’s ‘political correctness with mental health issues’. :mad:

Posted on Tue, 12 May 2009 at 12:53

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Gill Rockatansky (The Music That Nobody Likes) wrote:

I think you’ll find it was a quote from the hideous scumbucket that is Cockface Littlejohn.

Posted on Tue, 12 May 2009 at 13:08

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Gav wrote:

Did anyone see the Stewart Lee Comedy Vehicle?

Posted on Tue, 12 May 2009 at 16:40

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glen wrote:

King Caffeinebomb I wrote:

What about “fuck you?” I like that one!

Can also be used in place of thankyou.

as in ” ah, fuck you very much”

People rarely notice.

lmfao i’ll have to try that one

Posted on Tue, 12 May 2009 at 17:57 in reply to an earlier post

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hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

I did Gav, and very good it was too.

Posted on Tue, 12 May 2009 at 18:11

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Gill Rockatansky (The Music That Nobody Likes) wrote:

deadsetgav wrote:

Did anyone see the Stewart Lee Comedy Vehicle?

Richard Littlejohn. Cunt, not someone who works as a cunt.

I’ve been to see Stewart Lee quite a few times, always brilliant - hoping he’ll be in the comedy tent at Leeds again this year.

Posted on Tue, 12 May 2009 at 19:44 in reply to an earlier post

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Gav wrote:

I only managed to see the first three - the political correctness one was the last one i saw - I must make a point of downloading the rest!

Posted on Tue, 12 May 2009 at 22:16

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Tubthumper (Scott) wrote:

Ronan Keating believes you say it best when you say nothing at all.
But do any of us actually trust the Irish?
;)

Posted on Wed, 13 May 2009 at 10:56

#17

Citizen Erased (confused again) wrote:

He has arseholes in the ear, according to Steven Gately. The NME went on about this for ages.

Posted on Wed, 13 May 2009 at 12:58

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Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle was great. I’ll be getting the DVD when it’s released.

Posted on Wed, 13 May 2009 at 15:31

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