• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I used to have a button that read: “Is There A Polite Way to Say: ‘Fuck You’?”

    I have since found that the way to do this is to say “Fuck off, mate,” in an English accent, with the tone of the word “off” and “mate” said in a second and third tone respectively. You should end the word “mate” in a fricative tonal shift down to indicate directive rather than query.

    This is considered a polite way to tell someone to go away, in much of the US anyway.