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I got Phoenix.
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Natalie Portman being confused by the fact that you have to say “hi” to someone before starting a conversation in France got me like ?????

“I feel there’s a lot of rules of politeness and codes of behavior there you have to follow. […] A friend of mine taught me that when you go in some place you have to say “bonjour” before you say anything else, then you have to wait two seconds before you say something else. So if you go into a store you can’t be like “do you have this in another size,” or they’ll think you’re super rude and then they’ll be rude to you.” [X]

#wait you don’t do this is other countries??

So that’s it guys. French are not rude, we just don’t like it when people don’t say “Hello” or “Hi” when they start a conversation.

Don’t everyone say “Hi” before they ask something to someone? What’s next? Saying please is also a french thing or others countries does that too?

Canada is similar. We say sorry and please. The Hello thing seems strange, but it actually makes sense.

Bro, this threw me for a loop when I moved up north. Like in the southern United States you say “Hi, how are you?” And then make a few seconds of small talk before you ask your question or order your food and when I went to Connecticut they were like “What do you want?” Without any hello or anything. In other places they just STARE at you waiting on you to place your order and gtfo.

I laid my hand over my chest the first time, and the only way to describe my look was “aghast” before I said “Good lord!” My husband said it’s the most southern thing he’s seen me do. He thought it was hilarious. But…. Like??? That’s rude as fuck??????? Don’t y'all say say “Hello” before throwing your demands at someone??

maybe this is why everyone thinks new yorkers are rude

this is absolutely why ppl think new englanders r rude. no one has any fucking manners

african culture, at least in ghana, demands you greet a person before you ask them something. if youre in an open market they may even ignore you if you dont.

We do this in Australia as well. If you just started straight off saying “yeah I want XXXX” we’d think you’re rude as all fuck. You say hi, then make your request. It’s basic acknowledgement of the other person as a person rather than some random request-filling machine.

Huh. Speaking as a New Englander, I usually go with “Excuse me,” but sometimes “hi” or “hey,” but with no pause – it’ll be, “Excuse me, hi, I was looking for X?” From my POV, it seems rude to get too chatty and waste some stranger’s time; I assume they have better things to do than make small talk with me, so I just get my request out there so they can answer me and get back to whatever needs doing. I always thank folks for their help afterwards, if that helps?

(The rules of etiquette are strange. People say New Englanders are rude and cold, but once during an unexpected snowstorm here in Seattle, my car got stuck and I was standing by the side of the road at a busy intersection in the snow for half an hour waiting for my housemate to come pick me up, and not a single person stopped. Back in Massachusetts, every other car on the road would’ve been pulling up to check to see if I was okay, if my phone was working, did I need a lift, etc.)

No but this was the first thing my cousin told me in France? you never ever ever start a conversation with anyone, not even like “Nice weather today, huh?” without saying Bonjour first. You HAVE to greet them or, just like Ghana, they’ll ignore the shit out of you, you rude little fucker

(And “excuse me” or “pardon me” doesn’t cut it. you still have to open with bonjour)

[and I can’t speak for New England but coming from Chicago and then moving Out West where the culture is VERY influenced by the South and DETERMINED to think of themselves as small town folk… I HATE when I have to make small talk before ordering food??? Like, if it’s a coffee shop that’s pretty much empty I’ll chit chat for a few seconds, but I’m still not going to make inane conversation about the weather unless the weather is extreme.

In a big city it is rude as fuck to waste my time making small talk with me when we are not even friends or neighbors??? I am here to get shit done. There are four other people in line behind me, and I don’t want to waste their time. I am here, I HAVE MY ORDER ALREADY DECIDED BY THE TIME I GET TO THE FRONT BECAUSE I AM NOT A CAVE WOMAN, and I am being polite by saying both Please and Thank You and not wasting other people’s daylight.]

I live in a small northern city, and I feel it would be rude to engage someone in more than maaaaaybe a sentence of small talk before placing my order. In addition to feeling I was wasting their time, I’d feel like I was demanding emotional labour (small-talk is emotional labour for *me*) that they weren’t being paid to give.

so bizarre. New Yorker here. Saying hi, how are you, etc before these kinds of commercial interactions is what’s rude to me - because ffs, there are people in line behind you, we have lives, move it along. It’s really just a dramatic cultural difference - but borne of a real practical necessity.

Oh my god saying ‘hi’ takes less than A SINGLE SECOND YOU ARE NOT WASTING ANYBODY’S TIME In Spain you have to say hello to people before you talk to them even people who work in retail deserve that bare minimum courtesy hello??

Transplanted New Yorker here, and the feeling here is: people who work in retail deserve the bare minimum courtesy you would afford anyone else, which is to not waste their time. You maybe say a half-second “hi” and/or possibly “excuse me” to be sure you have their attention, then you get to the point as quickly and concisely as possible. You don’t wait to get a “hi” back, you probably don’t ask “how are you”, you definitely don’t talk about the weather. You smile and keep your tone of voice courteous-to-friendly, you say please, you thank them when you’re done, and you do. not. waste. their. time.

Except ”time” is really only shorthand for the concept: you don’t intrude on their lives more than you have to. NY is a very very crowded city which allows for very little personal space, so New Yorkers have developed a form of courtesy that involves minimizing our unavoidable intrusions on each other. Which is why we hold doors without making eye contact, and why we tend to feel that in any interaction with a stranger, it’s actively rude to do anything but get to the point immediately.

Interesting discussion of regional differences in conversational convention. But the amount of “my way is the right way; everyone else is super rude and also wrong” going on in this post is giving me hives.

Hey. Listen. "Polite” and “rude” are relative concepts. Something you were taught was rude may not be seen as rude elsewhere, and might even be the polite thing to do. Conversely, something you might have been taught was polite might be seen as rude elsewhere. Saying “no one has any manners” about a group of people whose culture and, by extension, whose conversational expectations work differently than yours is really arrogant.

In the US the thumbs up means good job or great. In France and Germany it means one, they start counting with the thumb instead of the index finger. In Greece it’s an obscene sexual gesture.

This guy I knew in college worked with the campus d/Deaf/HoH group and told a story about the dinner they had to welcome everyone in. They were trying to tell this little old lady what one of the dishes was, something casserole I forget what kind, and she was getting really flustered. Finally they figured out they were speaking to her in ASL and she was from South Africa. The ASL sign for whatever it was (spinach maybe?) in South African Sign means sex. They were offering this little old lady a sex casserole.

There’s an Italian toast ‘chin chin’, mimicking the sound of the glasses clinking together. It becomes hilarious when Japanese folks are around since in Japanese chin means penis.

As for the South, I will bet you anything that how we have conversations at the register stemmed from the homestead days when a farmer would come in to town maybe once a month and this would be the only time they’d get to talk to someone they didn’t live with. I like talking with customers! If I can get them to smile then it’s a victory and I have a better day for it. It only becomes emotional labor if they’re an outright ass or are sexually harassing me. But in the big crammed city of New York it makes sense to take the get your shit and get out approach, people have a subway to catch. Out here I had to drive myself anyway since it’s fifteen minutes to the edge of town from where I live, so what does it matter if I spend an extra minute at the register?

It’s important to be aware of the differences and ultimately there’s a degree of ‘when in Rome’ that has to happen. Someone who moves from Greece to the US is going to be startled by the amount of thumbs up but ultimately they’re going to have to adjust. Someone from the US is probably going to be shocked that telling someone they did a good job was taken as an insult and they similarly are going to have to adjust. Mom’s a damn Yankee transplant and said it was weird moving to the South and having cashiers younger than her daughter call her dear, but that’s just what we do. Sweetheart, darling, honey, sugar, they don’t have overtly romantic/sexual connotations here. As long as there’s not a leer attached to it if a guy calls me ‘sugar’ when I’m at work it doesn’t parse as a flirt because it’s not one, it parses the same as if he called me ‘miss’. But when a busload of Californians came through it took me three people to realize that ‘baby’ was not flirting, it was just California. NOTHING is universal.

This is the biggest place I’ve ever worked so it took some getting used to, like any skill, but even being socially awkward it’s easy to tell what scripts to follow. Test the waters, if they don’t respond then okay this is a move them through kind of person, be quick and efficient and to the point, feel good when they smile at ‘last question I promise, do you want your receipt’. If they do then pull out the five small talk scripts, get a smile, feel good when they laugh at the cat small talk script.

It’s also important to note that claiming your culture’s way of doing polite right is a fantastic way to fall into some really bigoted nonsense. In Puerto Rico the personal bubble is much smaller than in the US proper, like RIGHT at your elbow close. I had a cashier who was super uncomfortable because our steward was getting in her personal space constantly and he was pissed off because he was trying to HELP her with moving orders why is she mad at him? Once I sat them down and explained the difference they both had this aw shit moment because from their own standpoints they were being polite and from the others’ standpoints they were being rude. After that they were fine, when he got a little too close she’d say ‘whoa man my bubble’ and he’d laugh and shake is head and step back.

Lots of non-white cultures have things like that, particularly since white America has serious problems with sexualizing ANY physical contact to the point we’re all touch starved. The normal speaking voice is at a higher volume or it’s more acceptable to show your emotions or gesture when you speak. None of this is WRONG, but when people star getting into ‘my culture is the only right culture’ then guess who comes out on top? It ain’t the little guy.

One of my labmates was from Poland, and she had a tendency to come off as kind of abrupt and brusk, verging on mean. In particular, when she was providing feedback on a presentation or paper she could come across as SUPER cutting. Which was not her intention! From the way she would explain it, we had a running joke in the lab, “it sounds nicer in Polish.”

And this is actually true; there are scientific articles comparing the cultural contexts for communication! It’s really neat.

So in (most parts of) America, we equate indirectness with politeness. “Excuse me, would it be possible for you to perhaps pass me that salt, if you don’t mind?” The more roundabout you are, the more we consider that a signal of social courtesy.

In Poland, not only is indirectness viewed as rudely wasting the listener’s time, but directness is viewed as communicating intimacy and friendliness. “Give me the salt.”

…It sounds nicer in Polish. :)

Omg I love this

The Effects of Capital, Labor, and Class on Local Etiquette Across International Boundaries
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runawaymarbles: conf3ttif4lling: the fact that this was written...

jeb124 — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:34:32 GMT

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the fact that this was written two years ago and it’s still relevant… what does that tell you?

I’ve been saying this for years but guys

Sandy Hook.

Sandy Hook was the Nightmare Scenario. It was the “that’s not realistic.” If I’d been arguing with someone who was anti gun control and I said “someone could take a gun and go into a school and kill thirty kindergartners in just a couple of minutes, how would you feel then,” they would have said I was exaggerating, that’s manipulative and unrealistic.

but that’s what happened.

and the thing is

if thirty dead, white, upper middle-class kindergartners in Connecticut aren’t going to motivate change on gun control

then they’re never going to change for queer people in Florida, and they’re not going to change for music fans in sin city, and they’re not going to change for college students in Washington and Oregon, and they’re not going to change and they’re not going to change.

A white man can buy 19 automatic weapons and no one is going to raise an eyebrow. And then afterwards they’ll send thoughts and prayers.
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usatodayopinion: — Colin Jost, in Best of Late

jeb124 — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 01:54:28 GMT

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#remember this was the first episode matt ever filmed as the doctor
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I thought I was done with this unpacking scenario, but nope.

THIS IS THE BEST POST IN THIS WHOLE WEBSITE
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when christian artists change the line in hallelujah from “maybe there’s a God above” to “I know that there’s a God above” >:c

#idk why i’m so unreasonably angry#maybe cuz it’s my fav line

it’s also because Leonard COHEN (!) was Jewish and this is a quintessentially Jewish line, and changing it to that level of Annoying Certainty is stripping it of its Jewish meaning and imbuing it with that particularly American smug evangelical Christian attitude that makes me tired, so very tired

THAT IS EXACTLY WHY

I don’t think I’ve heard any cover artist sing my favorite verses
You say I took the name in vain
I don’t even know the name
But if I did, well really, what’s it to you?
There’s a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn’t matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah
I did my best, it wasn’t much
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch
I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I’ll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

um woah

I will always hit the reblog button so hard for Hallelujah but ESPECIALLY mentions of the elusive final verses which are just about my favorite lyrics ever. Why do people always omit the best part of the song??

In Yiddish

In Hebrew

In Ladino
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So then, what is your opinion on the Actor for Elliot saying that Elliot used to be apart of a Star Gate team from the Stargate: SG1 series?

I love it. LOVE IT. It fixes literally the only flaw that I actually cared about in the show.

The thing that made my eye twitch a little bit in the first couple of seasons of Leverage was the hacking - the ‘I know he’s a Super Genius, but the hardware for what he’s doing with that flip phone literally cannot do what they’re doing’.

But if it’s in the Stargate universe, then of course some of that advanced tech has slipped unnoticed into the private sector. Boom! Suspension of disbelief now fully back in play.

(SG:1 was my main obsession for years - including a decade of playing in and running a Stargate online game (OCs). It was before I’d gotten back into any kind of online fandom, mind you, so I didn’t do fic, but nevertheless! My screen-correct gate team jacket - the style Daniel’s wearing in the top gif - is still my favourite piece of cosplay ever.)

It also means that Hardison, knowingly or unknowingly, has forced Eliot to sit through episodes of Wormhole X-Treme.

And that is everything to me.

Both. So very both. So Hardison absolutely did it accidentally to complain about the special effects/plot implausibility at some point. And then after the Gone Fishin’ Job and probably after the trio gets together, he FINALLY figures it out.Probably tries hacking the Mountain, too, now that I think about it. Given Hardison I’m not even placing odds either way.Anyway picture it: it’s been a year or two since Alec last inflicted Wormhole X-Treme on Eliot, who thought he was safe from That Goddamn Show. And then one TV night becomes one marathon session of That Goddamn Show and literally the only saving grace for his nerves is that Alec’s poker face is not, and his shit-eating grin keeps sneaking out.Usually, Eliot thinks, when he’s picturing Eliot doing the shit on the show.

I’m now convinced Sam Carter called up Eliot more than once and said “Spencer, could you please convince your boyfriend to stop trying to hack us? If he keeps this up it’s either we recruit him or jail and I don’t want to deal with your girlfriend and Vala getting into shit. Teal'c says hi, by the way.”

I accept this headcanon, and raise you

John Sheppard, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, and Rodney McKay on shore leave on earth, meeting up with John’s old Special Forces buddy from Afghanistan, Eliot, and bitching about the Wraith.

Let’s go steal a galaxy.

The crazy thing is: Parker probably knows about alien artifacts but doesn’t believe in aliens, so Stargate Command likely has her on their list of “thieves to use to acquire things who won’t ask questions.”

It’s raining on the day that Daniel who walks into the bar. He has an expression on his face that Eliot recognizes from most of their clients - he’s lost everything and has no idea what to do next. It terrifies Eliot more than he’d ever admit.Daniel’s already attracted the attention of Nathan, who’s walking towards him, ready to turn on the charm and promise him the world, but Eliot gets there first. Daniel looks at him, and it takes him a minute to realize who he’s looking at, but when he does, he sighs and takes off his glasses, wiping them on his shirt. Eliot tries not to notice the dark stain that is probably blood on his sleeve.“Eliot. Thank goodness. I was hoping I’d find someone who could help. I just…” His voice trails off and Eliot feels his stomach churning.“What happened?” he asks, not wanting to hear the answer, but knowing that he has to. He braces himself to hear the worst he can imagine.“The Stargate is gone,” Daniel explains, not even looking around to see if he could be overheard. “It just disappeared and everyone else vanished with it.”Eliot feels Hardison and Parker move to stand behind him, close enough that he can feel the heat from them both. Nathan is just watching them, trying to figure out what’s happening, and Sophie is watching Nathan. He keeps his attention on Daniel. “The team? Sam, Jack, Teal’c?”Daniel shakes his head and shrugs. “Gone. And I don’t know where they are.”Eliot doesn’t look at the rest of his team. He keeps his focus on Daniel. “We’ll find them,” he tries to reassure him. “We’ll find a way.”Finally Nathan speaks, addressing Eliot. “Is there anything you want to explain to the rest of us?”Eliot wonders how he tells his team that he used to work for a secret government organization that use ancient Egyptian technology from aliens to send them to other planets.He doesn’t have to. It’s Hardison that speaks. “I already know,” he tells Eliot. “I hacked them about a year ago.”Parker’s next, and she replies to Nathan’s question. “We’ll explain it to you later,” she says. “But right now, you just need to say the words.”Nathan does.“Let’s go steal ourselves a Stargate,” he says to no-one in particular. “Whatever the hell one of those is.”
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Feed a person vampire blood, you get a ghoul. Feed an animal vampire blood, you get a hellhound. Water a plant in vampire blood, you get a mandrake.
Fill up your car with vampire blood? Probably good things, let’s try it.

Is this how you get a Ghost Rider?
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Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.

This is so well put I am stunned
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If you ever think history impressive or grand, here’s a story for you:

Right after ww2, Jews were freed, but basically had no citizenship to speak of, and the allied forces weren’t that!helpful. So a group called the TTG was formed to help emigrate (read: smuggle) Jews from Central Europe, to Mediterranean ports, where they would take boats to Israel.

The TTG did this by piling the Jewish refugees into trucks bearing British insignia, their operatives dressing up as British soldiers, and just openly driving to port cities.

If they were ever stopped by actual military forces, they would say they were a part of a covert supply missing, under special orders from Major Tuches. They would stress that the contents of the trucks was super secret and to not be disturbed under any circumstances. They saved over 300,000 Jews like this.

If that sounds reasonable to you, here’s the thing: TTG stands for Tilhas Teezee Gesheften, and the operatives named one Major Tuches as their commanding officer whenever they needed to.

Or, to translate that into English, the event that saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees was called Operation Kiss My Ass led by Major Asshole.

THIS IS LEGIT

@tikkunolamorgtfo
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they’re not nearly as sneaky as they think they are
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“I just feel so dead inside…”

“Dead inside, you say? I know something that might just work”

reanimate my will to live

Wake me up inside
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There’s a bit in that article about how the show is going to explain why Spock never mentioned having a sister and like… Spock never mentioned that his parents were a Federation ambassador and his wife who were visiting his place of work until they were literally there and he knew Kirk for over twenty years before he saw fit to tell him he had a brother. I don’t think this needs much explanation: Spock has a sister he never told us about, say n’more. That’s his style, that is totally in keeping with what we know about how he goes about his business. I have no trouble believing this.

Don’t forget he also didn’t tell anyone he had a wife until he was in a situation in which he would literally die if he didn’t contact her
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tshifty:there is not a single logical argument against having stricter gun laws and I swear to god..

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there is not a single logical argument against having stricter gun laws and I swear to god if yall bitch one more time about “it’s my second amendment right” ill scream bc that amendment was written before machine guns were even dreamed of so frankly if you wanna walk around with a fucking musket and gun powder then feel free but for fuck’s sake don’t pretend like the founding fathers were saying “yes jim I think you should walk around with a gun capable of killings hundreds of people in a few minutes that sounds fantastic”
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It was the first famous walk and talk. John just keeps going, and the camera keeps following him. I remember they did it endlessly, and they finally got it. It arrives, and you only realize when he goes through the door and he sees Mrs. Landingham, and the camera pulls back, and you realize they’re in the Oval Office. And it was like, “This is a different White House. This is a sacred place. You don’t use that language in here.” And I thought, “I’m the guy that works there!” I was so thrilled, so thrilled. – Martin Sheen
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Where There’s Tears, There’s Hope.

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A really, really late entry for Twelve Days of Twelve:
Day 8: Favourite Character Development

Tomorrow is promised to no one.

Here is the problem with adventures and promises: they get you killed. And yet every day the Doctor sets out to prove the universe wrong on that one. He is the hoper of far-flung hopes, the dreamer of improbable dreams, the scientist who has never stopped believing in fairy tales, the optimist who is certain that if he does everything right, if he saves enough lives he can trick the universe into granting him favours.

Eleven has never learnt how to say goodbye, and Twelve does everything he can not to have to.

Clara dies on Trap Street and he doesn’t think twice about the sacrifices it would take to cheat time and death for her sake. Being a Time Lord he knows the rules. But being the Doctor he thinks he’s above them. He stands at the end of time, at the brink of a dying universe, and still refuses to accept that sometimes summer ends, even though he has a time machine.

Me does her best to make him understand that there are times he just needs to let people go.

So he does, under his own conditions.

Clara doesn’t get him to take it back, to regret the consequences of his actions. Yes, he’ll forget her, he’ll never see her again, but she’ll be out there, alive, having her own adventures, and it’s enough.

He accepts that never taking River to the Singing Towers of Derilium is not the secret cheat code of the universe, so he gets a new haircut, a new suit and cries as they listen to the towers and it might break his hearts but he still sets her free.

He loses Missy and Bill on a battlefield, in a war neither of them were meant to fight. And it’s not sad, nor beautiful, just the right thing to do so he does it hoping it won’t take long till it’s all over.

Twelve becomes the Doctor who learns how to lose people.

Except he does not.

He never ceases believing that one day he’d find his impossible girl and no memory wipe can stop him from recognising her straight away.

He sends River to her death, but not without a backup plan to save her.

And when he is dying on a space ship that’s trying to survive a cybermen invasion and a black hole, when he’s alone and finally seeing that tomorrow is truly not promised to no one, it’s then that the universe proves that it’s just as big, as vast and as ridiculous as the Doctor has always known. That sometimes, very rarely impossible things do happen, i’s then that it grants him his miracle.

Because where there’s tears there’s hope. And he’s the Doctor who, no matter the odds, will never stop hoping.
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trektags: trek-eu: Bones McCoy is a gift from god #of course...

jeb124 — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 01:41:40 GMT

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Bones McCoy is a gift from god

#of course he’s the biggest romantic idealist optimist on the ship #of course he is #and he can’t bear to kill a fish #watch them flop around on the ground trying to breathe #like leonard in space (tags via spikeface)
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