"have a blessed day"

we do need more britisher takes on this xxp

LOL US religious fanatics. I had never heard of this phrase until this thread!

I was genuinely kind of touched the first couple of times a Walgreens employee said 'be well' to me before I caught on.

it is always phrased as a command, which is unavoidably a bit aggressive.

x-post - hahaha awww!

"has 'have a blessed day' in her email signature"

Does she also have her email background set to fluffy clouds and her name in signature font? Seriously though - that would bother me. It's very unprofessional.

I feel weird because I don't have a good thing to say when someone sneezes that doesn't sound religiousy or rude

I say Gesundheit for that very reason

This is what I do because I've got such a knee-jerk opposition to anything supernatural in any way but it makes me feel like kind of a fedora-wearing militant atheist asshole. But less of a asshole than not saying anything at all apparently.

I say Gesundheit for that very reason

That's brilliant!

"Did you want the receipt in the bag or with you?"
"With me, please."
"There you are. And have a blessed day!"
"Gesundheit!"

I was obviously posting to MH regarding what to say when someone sneezes instead of "bless you".

but I might just start doing that now, yes

the last thing i want to happen after i sneeze is for someone to acknoledge that it happened.

I say "you just sneezed".

wait, how does one have a blessed day, i mean do i even have agency in that?

Well, you have to walk the path of the righteous in order to receive those blessed benefits, so yeah.

xp - "thanks, but it's not up to me"

It mostly just irks me that people are only willing to dole out the blessings day-by-day. Sure, today is blessed, but then I have to worry about tomorrow being a shitshow unless you give me a re-up. Have a blessed life. One time. How hard is that.

1. I recommend "scat cat" for sneezing.
2. I don't care for people telling me to "Have a blessed day" but I'm not an asshole about it.
3. There's a train operator for the CTA who does some intercom patter, which includes welcoming people to the Blessed Train as in "All aboard the Blessed Train. The Blessed Train is the best train" and I fully support this weirdness.

As long as the train operator doesn't do something irritating to counteract my interest in what you posted, I am 100% in favor of The Blessed Train.

He says all sorts of weird shit, like when he stops at the station near DePaul he'll say, "Study hard, DePaulies" or when he gets to the Loop he'll tell people to have a donut and a cup of coffee.

Full disclosure: Jeff can't stand him, but I always do feel a little more blessed when I ride the Blessed Train.

As far as "Have a bless'd day," it's been almost exclusively said to me by sweet and friendly older black ladies. This is pretty classic and not only do I not have a problem with it, I kinda like it and feel there's some small hope for mankind. Now, were some asshole to say it and pronounce it bless-ed and hand me one of those fake dollar bills with a Jesus message on it instead of a tip or whatever, my view would most certainly change.

On the pronunciation front, many hymns, I think, use bless-ed, two syllables. They need both syllables to make the weird hymn-style word salad work out right.

oh, if he irritates Jeff, I'm sold xp

I'm all for anything that interjects (non-threatening/non-bodily-emission-related) interest/weirdness into my morning commute.

LOL

god Bless

would ride Blessed Train

I take this phrase at face value as a sincere wish for blessings in my day. There are about a trillion things Christians (& non-Christians) can do that are more creepy & insidious than telling me to have a blessed day.

― welltris (crüt)

yeah this, it's always been around (lol at ppl finding this ott religious, wait til you get a load of 'bless his heart'), but i hear it alot more now in a customer service way, thinking specifically of cookout (which i don't think is national yet right?) i could imagine the owners being somewhat religious, wanting to emulate chic-fil-a's success somehow but sure as hell not about to close on sundays and going "we'll have drive thru say 'have a blessed day'" and maybe they'll get some of that truett cathey magic that way. i don't think any more of it than when some hippie store tells me namaste or whatever or when a cop or bankteller tells me koritfw when i'm done dealing w/ them. and ime it's blesst.

you get a lotta cops n bank tellers doin that??

a google search suggests that balls is in fact the only person who says koritfw

wait til you get a load of 'bless his heart'

Oh, I looooooove that.

well they may not say it but it's always implied

the relevant ilx thread for koritfw

what does that stand for

B
E
N
G
H
A
Z
I

except that's how they say it in arabic

The track was used in Donald Trump's announcement that he will run as a Republican candidate for the 2016 presidency. Young, a longtime supporter of Bernie Sanders, said that the mogul was not authorized to use the song.

Trump's campaign responded by saying it did pay to use Neil Young's tune at the presidential announcement, but won't use Young's music at any future events. "Through a licensing agreement with ASCAP, Mr. Trump's campaign paid for and obtained the legal right to use Neil Young's recording of 'Rockin' In The Free World,'" the statement read. "Nevertheless, there are plenty of other songs to choose from. Despite Neil's differing political views, Mr. Trump likes him very much."

Trump later hit back, posting a photo of him and Young shaking hands, and explaining that Young asked him for financing on an audio deal and invited Trump to a concert. In a Tweet, Trump called Young a "total hypocrite," adding, "'Rockin' In The Free World' was just one of 10 songs used as background music. Didn’t love it anyway."

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blessed
this word has lively comments section

WELL, I am at the point of my life in which I have used the word many ,many times, but recently am speculating if GOD even exist, well the GOD, I have known as GOD, the one whom has JESUS as his son....so if i use the word BLESSED, I want to make sure it has NO connection to GOD, but rather a term meaning I AM HONORED to have what I have, which is not much, but still every so much as in a BLESSING ITSELF....do you know what i mean ????? I once practiced ZENISM, and although an OCCULT/MYSTICISM SAYING.>>>BLESSED BE...I USED THAT SAYING OFTEN ! That was before finding Jesus...but now some 40 years later I find myself puzzled and question his existence.

well they may not say it but it's always implied

true

I'm struggling to think of anyone here who'd say "have a nice day" let alone a blessed one. It sounds like something hippies would say after bowing at you with a cup of nettle tea in hand.

lol my oldest friend (who admittedly shares approx 20 of these horrible things a day and who is essentially my polar opposite in a lot of ways) just put this on FB

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlf1/v/t1.0-9/11960183_1128391903899164_1193525635738877939_n.jpg?oh=c0bac17d1e37eb9c102e76c3064c7e3e&oe=566D0522

Thank you, homosexual cardinals!

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blessed
this word has lively comments section

Wait, why the fuck does Webster's even have a comments section? "I have an interesting (and shockingly-racist) story about 'the'."

have a nice blood

― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, August 31, 2015 3:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-original-meaning-of-word-bless-is.html

"goodbye" means essentially the same thing as "have a blessed day" btw

LOL at this thread.

In general it's a pretty innocuous thing just someone trying to be a nice person but can def see it coming across as religious humblebragging (file w the more condescending "Bless your heart").

stay blessed in the free world, y'all

^ killer shot of love outtake

I get real blessed on the reg

I don't think I've ever had anyone say this to me. It must be a Southern thing. It's weird and I don't like it.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB),

I am near Washington DC and hear it the most from African-American co-workers. I am used to it.

there's something about the sentence construction that casts it in a faintly absurd light

like "have a ______ day" is just a lego set of possible wishes, into which "blessed" has taken root and grown

like 80 years from now you might run into people saying "have a Trump day!" in homage to america's greatest president

this is totally my own fucked up attitude towards white 'murican xtianity but when someone wishes christ's blessings on me or whatever i feel like i'm letting the blesser down when later that day i curse or have premarital sex or think a mean thought.

like, would the blesser revoke the blessing if they had known my plans for that day?

I don't really mind if people say this to me, or even if they say "God bless". I mean these days, I meet so many petulant shits, someone being nice to me is kind of refreshing.

I only mind when someone decides to go on some sort of religious rant with me unprovoked, which lately seems to happen all the time as my face must convey "please, unload all of your baggage on me" to people.