• 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.

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      1 year ago

      aussie accent also works, and then you can say basically anything because you just can’t be offended when someone sounds like steve irwin

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        1 year ago

        “Croikey! Here we have an average American Bloke. Look how enormous the bugger is. I’mma poke him with a stick!”

        “OH! HE’S ANGRY! HE’S ANGRY!”

        -Fluffy

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      “Fuck off, mate,” in an English accent, with the tone of the word “off” and “mate” said in a second and third tone respectively

      After trying a couple times in my head I think I get what you were after, but my initial thought was saying “fuck off, mate” in the style of the Duracell chime