I don’t mean to be rude but…..
How many of you are tired of the pithy little remarks that some people use to excuse themselves?
You know, like:
I don’t mean to be rude but…..(Simon Cowell of American Idol ilk used this as the title of his book.)
Don’t take this the wrong way….
No offence but….
To me, each of these cliched pre-ambles basically say I’m going to be rude but now you can’t complain. There is only one way for you to take this. I know it, you know it but maybe they won’t know it. However now I look politically correct and if you take offense, you are at fault.
I find these to be just slightly less offensive than the classic "It isn’t personal. Its just business.". Every time I hear this one I want to say "How nice for you that you don’t take it personal. If you were a better person, maybe you would!"
What other ones are you tired of?
Or should we only ridicule those that offer FREE GIFTS ?
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those
who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
Dante Alighieri
"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
Sandra
"Michael Moore is reminiscent of a heavy-handed Leni Riefenstahl, who glorified Nazism in the 1930s." Peter Worthington, Toronto Sun.