I think my problem with it is that it feels like something someone very deliberately came up with to "combat secularism" associated with "have a nice day," sort of like adding the word "God" to our money and our pledge of allegiance. I doubt it was in common usage prior to fairly recently, either here or in any of Christendom.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:10 (eight years ago) link
Just say nice. Have a nice day. It's simple.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:11 (eight years ago) link
have a good one
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
namaste
― welltris (crüt), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
lol just had a conversation with a friend about saying namaste instead
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:13 (eight years ago) link
Turn it around on them with a convivial "blessed be".
― how's life, Monday, 31 August 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
I don't mind being wished a blessed day. It sounds labored when you could just say nice instead, though.
My favorite is when I get an added "sugar" or "baby" or "darlin'".
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 31 August 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
Maybe try to out-religion them, like "May your day be such that Christ did not suffer in vain"
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:15 (eight years ago) link
lol
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 31 August 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link
I'm gonna start answering "And also with you..."
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
I always feel embarrassed when someone tells me to have a nice day, it seems sort of presumptuous somehow? but it's not as common here in the UK, I guess.
― soref, Monday, 31 August 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tdq-e4nqY
― welltris (crüt), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
tortoises all the way down, my friend
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:18 (eight years ago) link
we do need more britisher takes on this xxp
"I should never intrude into someone's life such to tell them what kind of day to have!"
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link
have a nice blood
^^^^^
― welltris (crüt), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I don't think that's nearly as common in England. I've heard people say, "Oh everyone is so weirdly friendly in shops here" meaning the US. It's just not a thing there i don't think.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
I'm no great fan of "Have a nice day," fwiw Something about it bespeaks capitalist malaise, like "Go in niceness. Don't expect any meaning or personal connection to enter your life, let alone redemption, but I hope things are nice. I hope traffic isn't too bad and you enjoy your snacks and your favorite HBO drama tonight and manage ok on 6 hours of sleep tomorrow at your dull job."
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
OK, that's just weird. I say things like "have a nice night!" to co-workers when I'm leaving work but it's because I genuinely want them to have a nice evening which isn't related to personal connection or redemption and jesus you are way way over thinking this one MA.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
May Jesus accompany you to the pub
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:23 (eight years ago) link
And I guess I do mean that I hope they don't hit awful traffic or that things go smoothly and are peaceful for them until I see them next but I guess because that's all I really want for myself at the end of a long day.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:23 (eight years ago) link
IRL of course I just say "have a nice day" or "have a good one." I only overthink things like this on ILX.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:24 (eight years ago) link
suuuuuuuuuuuuuure
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:24 (eight years ago) link
;)
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
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― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:28 (eight years ago) link
I'm in the mid-Atlantic, regionally. I haven't heard this construction very much, to be honest. Most times I can remember hearing it, it's been from black women. It's a little surprising, but on the whole I don't have a problem with it and just reply back with "Thank you! You too."
― how's life, Monday, 31 August 2015 19:28 (eight years ago) link
When I leave work I say "See you" or some equivalent because that's what I anticipate happening the next day.
When store clerks say "Have a nice day," I usually say, "Thanks, you too." When they say "Have a blessed day," I make a noise to myself like Sideshow Bob stepping on a rake.
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
Someone tells me "have a nice day" and I tell them "no" and hold their gaze for a good ten seconds until they've fully internalized their effrontery.
― Herbie Mann's Push Push Pops (Old Lunch), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:31 (eight years ago) link
If somebody told me to have a blessed day, I'd literally piss on their shoes while telling them God is a fiction
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:32 (eight years ago) link
nah mah stay day
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:33 (eight years ago) link
It's a little surprising, but on the whole I don't have a problem with it and just reply back with "Thank you! You too."
THIS IS HOW THEY GET YOU
― j., Monday, 31 August 2015 19:34 (eight years ago) link
When "have a nice day!" became mandatory for retail employees in the USA, it felt extremely artificial and uncomfortable for a lot of the customers because everyone knew it was coerced by management and we were being coerced into accepting it. Since then it has been normalized by familiarity and doesn't feel weird any more.
I agree that "have a blessed day" would also feel weird and mildly coercive to me, too, if I began hearing it often (it hasn't been taken up here in Oregon yet), in that it has just a bit of the flavor of Mormons baptizing dead people; iow an involuntary imposition of a particular religious pov where it was not invited. After the thousandth time, it would probably just become part of the expected social pattern and nbd.
― Aimless, Monday, 31 August 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link
A woman who's probably the kindest and most generous person in my workplace has 'have a blessed day' in her email signature. I don't know how many more times I'm going to have to go to HR to get her fired.
― Herbie Mann's Push Push Pops (Old Lunch), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link
Would welcome the return of 'may thy god go with thee'
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:38 (eight years ago) link
LOL US religious fanatics. I had never heard of this phrase until this thread!
― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:38 (eight years ago) link
I was genuinely kind of touched the first couple of times a Walgreens employee said 'be well' to me before I caught on.
― Herbie Mann's Push Push Pops (Old Lunch), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
it is always phrased as a command, which is unavoidably a bit aggressive.
― Aimless, Monday, 31 August 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
x-post - hahaha awww!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
"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.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:42 (eight years ago) link
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.
― joygoat, Monday, 31 August 2015 19:48 (eight years ago) link
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!"
― Aimless, Monday, 31 August 2015 19:50 (eight years ago) link
I was obviously posting to MH regarding what to say when someone sneezes instead of "bless you".
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link
but I might just start doing that now, yes
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link
the last thing i want to happen after i sneeze is for someone to acknoledge that it happened.
― brimstead, Monday, 31 August 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link
I say "you just sneezed".
― Herbie Mann's Push Push Pops (Old Lunch), Monday, 31 August 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link
wait, how does one have a blessed day, i mean do i even have agency in that?
― seriously what if i were romeo in black jeans (rip van wanko), Monday, 31 August 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
Well, you have to walk the path of the righteous in order to receive those blessed benefits, so yeah.
― Herbie Mann's Push Push Pops (Old Lunch), Monday, 31 August 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
xp - "thanks, but it's not up to me"
― Gett Off, Eileen (WilliamC), Monday, 31 August 2015 20:04 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Herbie Mann's Push Push Pops (Old Lunch), Monday, 31 August 2015 20:09 (eight years ago) link
like, would the blesser revoke the blessing if they had known my plans for that day?
― brimstead, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 22:33 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 22:46 (eight years ago) link
they'd shake their heads sadly and maybe even put a dagger in with "bless his heart"
xpost
the modern usage of #blessed is just "i'm lucky" so i guess it's you, the putative blessee, get to choose in your own mind how to divvy up what percent of it is "may destiny smile upon you" and what proportion constitutes the remaining, residual jeezo-speak
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 22:49 (eight years ago) link
#humbled
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 23:30 (eight years ago) link
#koritfw
― balls, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 01:52 (eight years ago) link
#notallcashiers
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 02:18 (eight years ago) link
#dootdooladootdoo...
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 09:08 (eight years ago) link
'Bless your heart' was, I always thought, Southern-lady code for 'fuck you'.
In the UK, when someone is inept or a child does something childlike, there's 'aw, bless!' where nobody using or hearing it assigns religious intent.
― denali is a mountain in alaska (suzy), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 09:54 (eight years ago) link
"bless your eyes" is the most sickly variant I've come across
― ogmor, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 11:12 (eight years ago) link
I hear this a lot but I feel like this aspect of it has been way overblown
― welltris (crüt), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 11:18 (eight years ago) link
it's often like "oh that unfortunate person, how could they have known" but in any case it can sound v condescending v easily
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 11:23 (eight years ago) link
"god'll get you for that"
― brimstead, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
Hear this shit all the time
― calstars, Saturday, 26 August 2017 02:29 (six years ago) link