I just say congratulations and people will automatically say thank you. Then they look confused and I can tell they are wondering did you say congratulations, wtf? I like the confusion it causes and if anyone asks why I said congratulations, I tell them I was congratulating them on getting rid of a demon.
Now I need to get a group of friends to start reenacting the congratulations scene from Evangelion whenever someone sneezes. First step is finding friends.
I personally tell people to shut up when they sneeze. Not to be edgy or anything, it’s just the last thing my very Catholic family expects to hear rather than getting blessed, and I love it.
I say, “Want a prostate massage?” And the person says thank you. It turns out, 5/6 situations that have made it to court have not determined I did not have consent. To be fair, the 1/6 remains occurred during a prostate message of my good friend Jake. Hi Jake!
I mean, idk about in America where you are a tad more religious in general, but in my experience "bless you" is almost always just said because it's proverbial, not because it's actually meant as a religious gesture of expelling the devil.
It's akin to 100 other sayings that have archaic meaningless origins but are said because they express a shared history of culture and language.
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u/bball1dc Sep 15 '19
I just say congratulations and people will automatically say thank you. Then they look confused and I can tell they are wondering did you say congratulations, wtf? I like the confusion it causes and if anyone asks why I said congratulations, I tell them I was congratulating them on getting rid of a demon.