Tact is lost on you.I find using polite phrases to be the ultimate sign of disrespect.
I you don't really wish me a "merry christmas", for example, then don't say it. Saying "merry christmas" when you really don't give a crap about how their christmas is - I can't think of anything more disrespectful than that. I much prefer honesty.
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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