"Polite" things that are actually impolite

[ZPG_Zealot]

@Left_Hand_of_Dorkness

While Vinyl Turnip’s response to you was great, I think you misunderstood him. He wrote

So he’s saying he’s confused by people who insist on “you’re welcome” (instead of being fine with “no problem” or “no worries” or “sure thing” or whatever other totally innocuous idiomatic response someone gives to “thanks”). That’s fine–he’s being more relaxed than the sourpusses.

Similarly, he congratulates people for getting engaged or married, a fine thing to do. If someone gets all weird about receiving congratulations, they can fuck right the hell off.

He’s cool with people unless they cop an attitude about social niceties, in other words. That’s a perfectly cromulent way to go through life. Did you read him as saying he’d cop the attitude?

Weddings are the kind of high events in life that deserve good taste and at least respectful behavior. Saying “Congratulations” to a bride is neither. If someone cannot conduct themselves at a wedding without insulting the participants, they should simply not attend the wedding or comment on it.