The Demise of the Polite Society: Et Tu WSJ?

[Sam Gamgee]

A move like that doesn’t surprise me. They are merely bowing to the zeitgeist. But communication will only get harder as all this nonsense goes on, and at some point it will become almost impossible to say/print anything without someone getting “butt-hurt” (I love that term for some reason) because their new terminology was left out.

I’m honestly amazed that anyone still pays attention to the WSJ, NY Times, et al. I’ve not read a newspaper in over 20 years but still manage to keep up with “what’s going on.”

 

[mingc]

In East London you would use these terms...

"I might almost call it poetic if poetry weren't the last refuge of the bearded cricket hating sodomite." Haha, makes me want to meet a bearded cricket hating sodomite!

Why are the chappies with pipes pretending to be Valley Girls?

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

"I might almost call it poetic if poetry weren't the last refuge of the bearded cricket hating sodomite." Haha, makes me want to meet a bearded cricket hating sodomite!

Why are the chappies with pipes pretending to be Valley Girls?

They’re supposed to be talking like east end London Wazzocks.

 

[jpberg]

The Journal has been dead to me since they narrowed the paper.

 

[mingc]

east end London Wazzocks.

I've no idea what that means!

 

[anotherbob]

I find the decline in politeness thing a bit funny. So many of the youngsters I run into are way more polite then we were at their age. Though in the circle of people I went to high school it seems like the people who complain about kids today and we weren't like that, just happen to be the ones of us that made people our current age say that about us when we were kids. Nothing like seeing someone that was always an a hole to adults when a teen complain about teens not saying their thank yous.

 

[condorlover1]

I've no idea what that means!

It means an annoying person!

 

[Briar Lee]

In recent years, I’ve discovered I was raised up to be “woke”, but I always thought I was being polite.

Osceola was as much a rebel stronghold during the Great Rebellion as Humansville was an outpost of loyalty to the United States and the flag.

About 1965 the Osceola city council was threatened with a desegregation lawsuit if they didn’t allow people of all colors to swim in the city pool.

They closed the pool.

I can remember my mother crying and accusing my father of cowardice for allowing such bigotry and hatred to continue.

When he protested there was nothing he could do, she replied:

Your father and his friends would have burned Osceola to the ground, over that!

Daddy meekly replied his grandfather had in fact help burn Osceola to the ground, but the lesson didn’t last.

I was just a little kid, but I wondered why nobody seemed to care until they kept us white children from swimming.

The next election the people of Osceola swept out the old council and reopened the pool.

All people are born the same children of God.

The trouble comes trying to label and separate them, you know?

 

[condorlover1]

@Briar Lee: Are you talking about the 'War of Northern Aggression' or the chaos caused by the British tourists of 1812 or the one before that when you lot decided you didn't fancy being British anymore because of compulsory clay pipe smoking and odd red colored uniforms?

 

[The Clay King]

@Briar Lee: Are you talking about the 'War of Northern Aggression' or the chaos caused by the British tourists of 1812 or the one before that when you lot decided you didn't fancy being British anymore because of compulsory clay pipe smoking and odd red colored uniforms?

@condorlover1 I know you're talking about me there I'd wear the clothes in your avatar!

 

[woodsroad]

Given current events and trends in society I can see why they are dropping the use of Mr., Ms. and so forth. I think that their explanation of why they are doing it is tiptoeing around the true issue which is that a segment of society is constantly on the lookout for things to be offended by. Formal honorifics are an easy target for that group...

BINGO

 

[mingc]

@Briar Lee: Are you talking about the 'War of Northern Aggression' or the chaos caused by the British tourists of 1812 or the one before that when you lot decided you didn't fancy being British anymore because of compulsory clay pipe smoking and odd red colored uniforms?

Down with compulsory clay pipe smoking (not that there's anything wrong with clay pipes mind you) and the opposite-of-camouflage red unforms!

 

[woodsroad]

It's virtue signaling coupled with showmanship. But it has zero effect on my life. I find faux outrage over things that really don't impact anyone anywhere in any meaningful way to be tiresome and counterproductive. But thats just one mans opinion, which is of little interest to others.

Had they just stopped, and not made a grand gesture I doubt anyone would have been the wiser.

I would have noticed. I always saw the use of honorifics (sounds like a band name, doesn't it?) to be an oasis of civility and respect in a society teetering on the edge of total meltdown.

No, We Didn’t Call Him ‘Mr. Loaf.’ (Mostly.) (Published 2022)

After the rock singer Meat Loaf died Thursday, one small question — trivial, really — surfaced again. Did The Times really call him “Mr. Loaf” in its pages?

www.nytimes.com

 

[woodsroad]

When men stopped wearing ties, tucking in their shirts, and keeping a pair of leather shoes polished and shined, the world just went to hell.

Honestly, once men stopped wearing buckles on their shoes, it was all over.

 

[woodsroad]

Well it is the only way to denote who's in charge...

I thought that the latex onesie and whip was a pretty good hint as to who's in charge.

 

[JackOrion]

As long as the ‘opinion’ pages still get to set their own policies……..

 

[AJL67]

Stopped at WSJ in the URL.

 

[woodsroad]

I find the decline in politeness thing a bit funny. So many of the youngsters I run into are way more polite then we were at their age. Though in the circle of people I went to high school it seems like the people who complain about kids today and we weren't like that, just happen to be the ones of us that made people our current age say that about us when we were kids. Nothing like seeing someone that was always an a hole to adults when a teen complain about teens not saying their thank yous.

The kids today may appear to be more polite, but that is only because they have been raised to believe that everything is OK, opinions are facts and not to be questioned, and people that disagree with you are hateful.

 

[jpmcwjr]

I'd rather stick with Mr., Mrs., and Miss than add my personal pronouns to anything.

John (he, him)

 

[Navy Chief]

I'd rather stick with Mr., Mrs., and Miss than add my personal pronouns to anything.

John (he, him)

This 100%.

I am sick and tired of seeing peoples personal pronoun choices in their professional email signature blocks and on resumes... Send me a resume with your personal pronouns on it and I can tell you what I will be doing with it, it has very little to do with taking it seriously.