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Originally Posted by 33girl
Bless their hearts.  |
That is the official Southern excuse to talk about any & every body... period. We say "And that poor Amy... bless her heart... she just can't help that she sleeps with anything coming and going & her poor husband is the sweetest thang" (this type of thing usually heard whispered in an appropriately louder than whisper tone at church, in which said whisperer has had personal intimate knowledge of said "poor" husband).
See - you just gotta know how to use it the right way, and you are clearly not gossiping - more like, trying to help the poor girl in question by making her business known to women who maybe need to put a tighter leash on their own husbands
And for the record - valkyrie, I love you & would pray that you NOT punch me in the face - but I do use two terms for referring to Northerners... one is not offensive at all - Yankee - as in a recent conversation I had in Chicago in which another Southern sister asked me why they did not put ice in her coke at the restaurant... I replied "because they are Yankees and they don't put ice in their drinks like we do" - thus, a completely neutral statement on my part with no offense intended (and the Yankee sisters sitting with us took no offense).
Now - if I want to offend you, then you are a damn Yankee - usually reserved only for people who push my buttons enough to warrant the term
Of course I am also the one that sat in a graduate research class & debated why Florida is a state of southern direction, but is absolutely NOT a Southern state.
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