"have a blessed day"

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.

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

#humbled

#koritfw

#notallcashiers

#dootdooladootdoo...

'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.

"bless your eyes" is the most sickly variant I've come across

'Bless your heart' was, I always thought, Southern-lady code for 'fuck you'.

I hear this a lot but I feel like this aspect of it has been way overblown

it's often like "oh that unfortunate person, how could they have known" but in any case it can sound v condescending v easily

"god'll get you for that"

Hear this shit all the time