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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Can someone please clue me in? What kinds of things do Southerners tend to say to be polite that a Yankee wouldn't say?

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Please, thank you, and excuse me[/quote]

Yes, but unlike Southerners, when Northerners say these things, they actually mean it.[/quote]

Southerners mean those things too. It's the other stuff that's two faced. [/quote]

Not pp but so its different rules for different things that Southerners are fake about?  Ok I would much rather be a loud rude Northerner who did not lie or choose when to be "polite."[/quote]

Things like "please, thank you, excuse me, yes ma'am, no sir" are cut and dry and just good manners, like anywhere else. And of course we mean those. I think the difference between Northerners and Southerners is we are just not as blunt. Northerners are pretty rude in general, but they're all like that, so nobody cares. If someone from New York says "Are these shoes ugly?", someone else from New York would probably just say, "Yeah." Or, like a coworker I used to have, just offer their unsolicited opinion on the shoes' ugliness and then call it "being blunt." (FYI, if someone asks your opinion and you answer truthfully, that's blunt. If you just walk up to someone and say some rude shit, that's just being rude.) In the South, we might hate those shoes, but we're probably not going to tell you. "They make your legs look good!" "The heel is a nice height." Something, anything, other than saying, "Your shoes are pretty hideous." It's just this complete aversion to wanting to be seen as rude. I don't always think the baby is cute or the shirt is pretty or the drink is good, but if someone asks me, I'm sure as shit not going to say anything other than something nice. [/quote]

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