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When someone says "Bless your heart," she doesn't necessarily mean that you are too stupid to live, right?

Date: 2013-12-28 07:35 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] brigantine
Weelllll, in our family it can simply mean that we're surprised: "Bless your heart, I hadn't thought of it that way."

Did your heart get blessed? (been there, done that. heh.)

Date: 2013-12-28 03:27 pm (UTC)
seascribble: the view of boba fett's codpiece and smoking blaster from if you were on the ground (Default)
From: [personal profile] seascribble
Here, 90% of the time it does mean that. But it's all in the tone! I'm sure somebody could say it and not mean that they think you're moron.

Date: 2013-12-28 03:44 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] petra
I am from sufficiently far north that I have occasionally said it without meaning it condescendingly, though in that case I generally stick with merely, "Oh, bless."

I have also been known to substitute "Well, gosh!" for the more traditionally nasty usage of "Bless your heart."

Date: 2013-12-28 03:45 pm (UTC)
melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)
From: [personal profile] melannen
Sometimes it means you're too stupid to live in a *good* way? (which is to say, that you're too *good* to live.)

Date: 2013-12-31 03:17 am (UTC)
ifreet: (CKR smile)
From: [personal profile] ifreet
It *can* be sincere, but not when said by me.

Date: 2014-01-02 03:25 am (UTC)
merielle: purple passiflora on a barbed wire fence (Default)
From: [personal profile] merielle
Sometimes I use it as a less profane way of saying, holy shit, the universe really kicked you square in the 'nads, huh?

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