#55 Apologies
February 5, 2008 by clander
White people know that their ancestors did some messed up things. As a result, it has become hard wired for them to apologize for almost anything.
In fact, white people are so used to apologizing that they start all sentences that might cause disagreement with “I’m sorry.” For example “I’m sorry, but Garden State was a better film than Hard Eight.”
In other cases, white people will apologize without being asked.
“Excuse me Dylan, you dropped a piece of paper in front of my desk.”
“Oh, sorry about that!”
It’s just that easy! Just point it out and they’ll apologize.
Sometimes if you are out late at night and a white person irritates someone at a night club or a bar, the first thing they will do is apologize in rapid fire mode in hopes it will stop them from getting their ass kicked. This technique has a surprisingly high success rate, as the aggressor immediately knows that fighting this person will be very easy, with little satisfaction.
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Wow, Garden State over Hard Eight. As a White person, I am glad that sentence started out with an apology. Hard Eight all the way.
no one apologizes more than Japanese people. its the most humbled society in the world. They have about 10 different ways to say I am sorry and they use them all 100 times a day. but only 1 word for breasts. 1 word for penis, and 1 word for shit. Americans have like 25 for each of those.
I apologize a lot… it’s often more of a precaution, though. Like if someone said, “Excuse me, Annika, you dropped your paper by my desk,” I would say sorry because a) you never know if they’re expecting an apology, b) because hey, they might be annoyed you never know, and c) it just feels rude to not acknowledge that they just wasted a couple seconds to point this out to you.
I would also have said “Thanks.” Because it’s polite.
I wonder if there’s a post on here called “Manners”? If there isn’t, you should make one pronto. If there is I’m def. gonna read it.
[...] Apologies [...]
Clander:
FUCK YOU
-NOT SORRY
We thereby apologize for defeating your men and women’s hockey teams, and we’re sorry for referring them to “men” and “women” but are persons of another nationality (USA).
lol, funny…I do say “sorry” a lot, don’t even think about it. I don’t think anyone really means it either, it’s like saying “damn”, basically. Actually, I think use “damn” and “sorry” pretty interchangeably, lol!
ahaaahahaha i have i friend who i am constantly telling to stop apologizing. he never means it! it’s like a tick or something
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