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Jay Rayner's New Web Site

MiguelCardoso — Sat, 22 May 2004 20:11:09 -0800

Sorry Is The New Screw You: Whatever happened to "Never explain, never apologize"? Apparently, it went the way of Mrs Thatcher's state banquets...

By: stonerose

stonerose — Sat, 22 May 2004 20:34:59 -0800

I hope that story of Maggie Thatcher eating boogers is true. I'm sorry.

By: carter

carter — Sat, 22 May 2004 23:03:09 -0800

Hmm, I usually think of 'apologist' as being a pejorative term. Anyway, a lot of these seemed either not to be apologies, or to be aimed at making the apologiser rather than the apologisee feel better. Or, is that the point, and I have completely missed what this is about?

By: specialk420

specialk420 — Sun, 23 May 2004 00:09:44 -0800

yay for oats for doing what he felt he needed to do... we need more peeps like him to step up to the plate this fall. wanna make a little extra change catering next fall cardoso?

By: geronimo_rex

geronimo_rex — Sun, 23 May 2004 05:23:42 -0800

The U.S. government is jumping into the apology space.

By: Stoatfarm

Stoatfarm — Sun, 23 May 2004 10:39:25 -0800

The apology formally died when "I'm sorry" got replaced by "I'm sorry you feel that way" (trans.: "I'm not the least bit sorry at all. You, however, have some sort of problem.")

They were one of the death knells of actual "service" in the service economy, as in: "Oh, you're upset over getting lousy service? Well, I'm very sorry you feel that way. Have a nice day!"

By: asparagus_berlin

asparagus_berlin — Sun, 23 May 2004 13:18:13 -0800

Lordy I agree with this. My girlfriend and I even have a joke about this change. Long ago, after one of us pulled something, the other called bullshit and the first said they were "sorry". When the second person was still upset the first said "I SAID I was SORRY!", as if a) that got them off the hook, or b) screw you and c) quit making me feel bad for f' ing UP!! (It wasn't a big event per se, but has turned into this joke when we see this kind of "sorry/screw you" attitude and just as this post points out, its seems to be everywhere.) feh.

By: kaibutsu

kaibutsu — Sun, 23 May 2004 20:19:13 -0800

In other news, I've heard that black is the new black.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Sun, 23 May 2004 22:45:15 -0800

Huh? "Sorry is the New Screw You" is a cute phrase, at least as trendy as all the "Puke Green is the New Black" cliches - but where exactly are you feeling the hostiity in these apologies? Obviously some of them are premature and full of bitterness, but "screw you" hardly sounds like a fair encapsulation of the site's mission or content. Way to accentuate the negative, Miguel.

By: mcgraw

mcgraw — Mon, 24 May 2004 08:12:43 -0800

I read that "good morning" is the new "outta my way, jackoff."

By: Down10

Down10 — Mon, 24 May 2004 12:55:53 -0800

Me, I'm annoyed that "sorry" is the new "excuse me". As in: "'Excuse me' before I bump into you" has been replaced by *BUMP* "...Oh, sorry." (but not really)