# I Pit "Good ON You"....(yuck) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 21, 2013, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959 "2013-01-21T23:38:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/21 "2013-01-22T02:55:25Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#): > > Veggie. > > (sits back and waits for the howls of anguish). 😃 > **[I Hate the Word "Veggies"](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=603161)** > > It’s fucking baby talk, and I suspect it’s used by people who can’t pronounce the word “vegetables”. All the people who can’t pronounce nuclear might as well get on board with nukie while they’re at it. “Veggies” pegs you as childish, ignorant, or... ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/22 "2013-01-22T03:02:59Z")
I, for one, appreciate you **bobot** , for starting this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/23 "2013-01-22T03:29:14Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > I, for one, appreciate you **bobot** , for starting this thread. So you’re saying, “Good on you, **bobot** ”? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/24 "2013-01-22T03:59:11Z")
My bad. _Ugggggh._ Where did _that_ one come from? I first heard that from my students\* (the ones that were trying to be thuggier than their Wonder Bread upbringing). Usually used to excuse douchebag behavior… Although I probably hate “Good on ya!” and that quarry thing even more. \*ETA: Those were the same kids that’d say things like “Don’t hate the play-ah.” And call you “Dawg.” Yo, whassup, dawg? Good on ya, homie! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/25 "2013-01-22T05:03:04Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > (I know that New Yorkers say “stand on line” instead of “stand in line.” Even after living in NYC for three years, my ears never adjusted to it.) There’s no reason why they (your ears) should (adjust). New Yorkers are wrong. Sometimes, I suspect that they’re aware of it, and do it just to piss me off. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/26 "2013-01-22T09:27:02Z")
> [@tellyworth](#): > > It’s common here, yes. “Good for you” sounds sarcastic and patronising to me. I agree. “Good for you” sounds very much like it’s conveying “That’s nice and you can get fucked all the same” at worst and “Well isn’t that nice? I don’t actually care” at best. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/27 "2013-01-22T09:28:08Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > There’s no reason why they (your ears) should (adjust). New Yorkers are wrong. > > Sometimes, I suspect that they’re aware of it, and do it just to piss me off. Just like American’s stubborn refusal to use the word “Queue”, I suspect. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/28 "2013-01-22T09:51:30Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > “Good on you” is just Britspeak. Or at least Aussie speak, in which case I usually hear it as “Good on ya.” Hear it all the time over here. Inflection and circumstance are very important. Depending on tone “good on ya” can mean anything from “well done” to “you’re a useless crotch-nugget who is waste of good oxygen”. ---
**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/29 "2013-01-22T10:29:31Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > Inflection and circumstance are very important. Mate. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/30 "2013-01-22T12:00:32Z")
Just re-re-reiterating what others have said in this thread. ‘Good for you’ is a tainted blessing, most often said with a sarcastic sneer and probably a stuck up finger as well. ‘Good onya’ (followed up with WELL DONE!!) is more the generic accolade that one gives when some friend or acquaintance has either won the lottery, or has done really well in their scholastic exams recently. That being said, ‘good ONya’ can also be a disparaging comment in Ozspeak, onya often followed with an inflected _‘mate’_. It means you’re a fucking loser…you have just met with the utmost disapproval of your peers. You might have been bragging about evading the breathalyzer or giving your girlfriend a punch, but whatever the incident, it means that you will never hold your place in that social hierarchy again. Language is a subtle bastard here in Australia. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/31 "2013-01-22T12:05:21Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > It’s all good. It is what it is. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/32 "2013-01-22T13:37:02Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > It is what it is. Had a huge, black friend in college who’d respond to “Hi!” with “Ever’thang is ever’thang…” And he was zen/funk enough to pull it off. **“It’s all good…”** is my peeve. A _lot_ of my college students and 30-something friends say this. Usually when something bad has happened: “Oh, I just ate the last piece of pizza before you got any!” _“'S’all good, man…”_ But, wouldn’t it be _better_ with a piece of pizza? I have pointed out to these friends: “War, famine, flu epidemic… it’s _ **not** _ all good. But I’m glad you don’t mind not getting any pizza.” ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/33 "2013-01-22T13:44:29Z")
I hear you. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/34 "2013-01-22T17:45:24Z")
I pit all idioms. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/35 "2013-01-22T17:48:29Z")
Fair play to you, OP. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/36 "2013-01-22T17:50:52Z")
Here’s some good on you, **bobot.** Don’t you dare wipe it off. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/37 "2013-01-22T17:54:24Z")
Maybe we can dialog about it later? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/38 "2013-01-22T17:58:33Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > How dare they not say: _Good on ye_. Languages should never change. Shouldn’t that be Good on _thou_? > [@tellyworth](#): > > It’s common here, yes. “Good for you” sounds sarcastic and patronising to me. It’s supposed to sound that way. Unless it’s used on someone age 8 or younger, it’s an insult. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/39 "2013-01-22T18:11:32Z")
> [@tellyworth](#): > > It’s common here, yes. “Good for you” sounds sarcastic and patronising to me. Have some Wheaties. They’re good for you. stupid git 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/40 "2013-01-22T18:59:47Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > [I Hate the Word "Veggies" - The BBQ Pit - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=603161) Exactly! And that’s only one of the threads that have multiple whiny posts about the word veggie (or any other word with the audacity to end in “ie”). 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959.md?page=3)