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yea... I speak fluent Italian
Why do we say "bless you" when someone sneezes?
yea... I speak fluent Italian
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I don't say it and when I get called out on it I question the hell out of the person. If they pull that it's common courtesy or just manners and beingpolite I then ask how come we don't say anything when a person coughs? or when a person passes gas? Those are both involuntary like sneezing but sneezinggets this special treatment
I remember some fairytale scare tactic about your soul trying to escape through your nose and the magical words of "GOD bless you" sealing your soulback in your body
I remember some fairytale scare tactic about your soul trying to escape through your nose and the magical words of "GOD bless you" sealing your soulback in your body
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Yup... your spirit transform into saliva & boogers.
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somebody hit this fool with some stoneface gif's cause I don't even want to bother
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he's right. i know both , they're real similar...obviously.
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Because I dont wanna die
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Yup, that is where saying "Bless You" after you sneeze originally came from.
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Yeah, I've always been told that your heart skips a beat.
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i only say it to women
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Its the polite thing to do.
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Whenever stuff like this come up I think of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'. I be on some Larry David +#!+
...I wanna know the reasoning behind everything before I go throwing around godbless you's and all that common courtesy behavior. Are you dying?...no?...are you at least sick?...no? you'll be fine
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I don't. I don't understand why anyone would.
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i always bought this argument ever since Milhouse said it on the Simpsons.
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i dont say bless you anymore. instead i say swine flu
ok my bad that %$%$ is wack.
ok my bad that %$%$ is wack.
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"Origin. Ancient man believed that his breath was also his soul or "essence of life." When God made man, he "breathed into his nostrils thebreath of life." A rapid departure of that breath--a sneeze--is the same as expelling life from one's body. Also, it leaves a vacuum in the head whichevil spirits can enter. Roman citizens feared sneezing when a plague hit their city during the reign of Pope Gregory the Great. Since they regarded the sneezeas a sure sign of approaching sickness, Pope Gregory in situated the use of the phrase "God bless you" to shield sneezers from any ill effects."
[emoji]169[/emoji] 1975 - 1981 by David Wallechinsky & Irving Wallace
Reproduced with permission from "The People's Almanac" series of books.
[emoji]169[/emoji] 1975 - 1981 by David Wallechinsky & Irving Wallace
Reproduced with permission from "The People's Almanac" series of books.
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I think that it originated back during the plague. Sneezing was a sign that you had it or something. Kind of explains itself.
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i always wonder
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i heard if you sneeze without closing your eyes, your eyeballs can fall out
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