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It's time we all stopped saying 'God Bless You' (when people sneeze)
NY Daily News ^ | March 16, 2017 | Ariel Scotti

Posted on 03/16/2017 2:35:20 PM PDT by Zakeet

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To: Zakeet

Cursed be you, Ariel.


61 posted on 03/16/2017 3:10:55 PM PDT by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: Zakeet

Let’s stop saying “goodbye “. Its religious connotations are subtle: it comes from “God be with you”. <\s>

I don’t say “God bless you” because it’s based on a silly superstition. It is not based on legitimate Christianity. It is not a religious act.

I will say it in the appropriate context. While we’re at it, sneezing into one’s hand is stupid. The hand then touches doorknobs, switches, noses and other hands.


62 posted on 03/16/2017 3:19:01 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism is the denial of human nature.)
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To: Zakeet

Bless you heart, Ariel.


63 posted on 03/16/2017 3:19:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: \/\/ayne

“May God bless Ariel Scotti many times over.”

Wow, that’s a lot of hot coals.


64 posted on 03/16/2017 3:20:32 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Zakeet

Gezunheidt


65 posted on 03/16/2017 3:20:43 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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To: Zakeet

Why?? If it bothers you wear ear plugs.


66 posted on 03/16/2017 3:25:32 PM PDT by mulligan
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To: Zakeet

Next we’ll be told not to say goodbye when we go, due to its religious connotations.


67 posted on 03/16/2017 3:28:12 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( rent this space)
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To: Fast Ed97

I agree, do you say “blessed” as one syllable or two?

I go for two, btw.


68 posted on 03/16/2017 3:28:53 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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To: Zakeet

Can we say “Jesus Christ bless you?”


69 posted on 03/16/2017 3:30:22 PM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: Zakeet
It's time we all stopped saying ‘God Bless You’ (when people sneeze)

NEVER! you don't like It? TOO BAD!

70 posted on 03/16/2017 3:31:37 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Hugh the Scot
Yes, I believe so. Nomen omen.

According to Wikipedia, his paternal ancestry was Dutch and the name was originally spelled Krankheyt. I would assume that would mean the same as the German Krankheit.

71 posted on 03/16/2017 3:39:50 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: lee martell
"Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes.
He does it only to annoy
Because he know it teases."

--Alice in Wonderland

72 posted on 03/16/2017 3:43:46 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Zakeet

This fool doesn’t have much to get worked up about.


73 posted on 03/16/2017 3:48:30 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Parroting fake news is highly profitable for some.)
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To: Zakeet

God Bless yer Lil heart...

You’re welcome


74 posted on 03/16/2017 3:52:46 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Verginius Rufus
There is always the longstanding alternative: Gesundheit!

Or, if you don't like the person, say Krankheit!

I hear the EU is now mandating that these be replaced with, Fahrvergnügen!

75 posted on 03/16/2017 3:52:56 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Dr. Zzyzx; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON
You are sooooo good lookin’!
Seinfeld’s alternative phrase to use if the intent is to make people feel better after the sneeze.

But what if it's an ugly baby?

76 posted on 03/16/2017 3:57:20 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Zakeet

How ‘bout, God Bless You and I pray you will survive long enough to have a Merry Christmas!


77 posted on 03/16/2017 4:03:31 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: heterosupremacist

That’s what I learned as well.

If ya think about it though, a sneeze IS God ‘blessing’ you. - it’s your body expelling stuff that shouldn’t be there. And it’s quite reliving when it’s finished as well.
God could’ve let us just live with it.


78 posted on 03/16/2017 4:06:50 PM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: Zakeet

To Ariel:

You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As they say in Texas, I’ll bet you couldn’t pour p!ss out of a boot with instructions on the heel.

You are a canker. A sore that won’t go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You’re a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel.

Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon. You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done. I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you.

You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell? Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly.

You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood.

May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs. You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You’re a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won’t have sex with you.

You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake?

You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile, one-handed, slack-jawed, drooling, meatslapper. On a good day you’re a half-wit. You remind me of drool.

You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go. You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill.

You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away.

I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid, so stupid it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I’m sorry. I can’t go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me.

After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I don’t have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh. The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped away most of what you wrote, because, well... it didn’t really say anything.

Your attempt at constructing a creative post was pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us “normal” people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are “challenged” persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known, that this was your case then I would have never read your post. It just wouldn’t have been “right”. Sort of like parking in a handicap space.

I wish you the best of luck in the emotional and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you.

/Hat Tip to the original author firehat


79 posted on 03/16/2017 4:07:27 PM PDT by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I said it twice to a lady who sneezed twice, as I was standing in line on a plane, waiting for folks to find their seats. She just smiled and said "Thank you".
She had sneezed once, and I said "Bless you". She sneezed again, almost immediately, and I said "Bless you, again". Folks around us kinda chuckled.
80 posted on 03/16/2017 4:16:15 PM PDT by SuziQ
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