ResearchBuzz: FirehoseZDNet: Being rude to ChatGPT changes you – and maybe even your relationships. “From Alexa to ChatGPT, our interactions with AI are reshaping communication norms. Here’s why how we talk to machines can affect real human relationships.” And THIS is why I always say please and thank you to chatbots.
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/06/zdnet-being-rude-to-chatgpt-changes-you-and-maybe-even-your-relationships/
WIST QuotationsA quotation from Judith Martin
Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (2014-12-19)
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"Miss Manners," syndicated column (2014-12-19) - Martin, Judith | WIST Quotations
Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up. Collected in Minding Miss Manners: In an Era of Fake Etiquette (2020), though with a slight rephrasing: The only alternative to honesty is not dishonesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue…
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Don't confuse straight-forward #honesty with #rudeness just like I don't confuse #lies with southern #hospitality!
The Real Reason Americans Think Germans Are Rude
Sharing the best of humanity with the world, one story at a time.Woman learns a valuable lesson after guy ends their date and apologizes to the waitstaff
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WIST Quotations Has Moved!A quotation from Thomas Fuller
When thou art in the Company of Ladies behave civilly, and shew good Breeding. They will easily pardon a Man’s Want of Sense, but rarely his Want of Manners.Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2214 (1727)
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Swede’s PhotographsGood morning. 🦆🦆🦆
12 October 2025
I received a very negative and rude response to one of my morning posts—either earlier today or perhaps last night. The comment was crude, as someone wrote, and I quote: “I don't need to hear about your lavish bootlicking.” At first, I was at a loss, thinking, “What the heck?” So I pulled up the post they were evidently referencing.
It quickly became clear that the person was upset because I had written about attending my nephew’s Basic Peace Officer Course, celebrating his achievement in becoming a Deputy Sheriff. If you read it, you know the one I mean. The person who left the comment was someone who followed me. And because I don’t need that kind of negativity or crudeness in my life, I unfollowed and blocked them—forevermore, as Poe might say.
Let’s try to unpack that response, though it’s difficult. Why would someone react that way? Do they truly believe our society would be better off without law enforcement? Who would respond to accidents, robberies, or worse? Should I not be proud of a nephew who sees public service as something worthy to undertake?
What exactly stirred that person’s animus? It’s hard to say, especially since they also seemed to take issue with the fact that I spent 30 years serving in the military. I didn’t get far with that line of thought. Like I said—it’s difficult to unpack, especially when it comes out of the blue.
Perhaps the individual simply didn’t want to read about it. That I can understand—except for the crude language. That part’s a head-scratcher, especially since no one is forced to read anything here. Or maybe it was just a bad day. Those happen.
“Don’t let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out.” — Robert Tew
The police are the public and the public are the police.” — Robert Peel
“Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously.” — Prentis Hemphill
A quotation from Judith Martin
Q. Is it ever acceptable to be rude?A. No. Now, that doesn’t mean you have to let people walk all over you. Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did; even I wouldn’t subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.
Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Interview (2011-08), “Q and A with Miss Manners,” by Arcynta Ali Childs, Smithsonian magazine
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A quotation from Robert Heinlein
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot. […] This symptom is especially serious in that an individual displaying it never thinks of it as a sign of ill health but as proof of his/her strength.Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Friday, ch. 23 [Boss] (1983)
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Paul HouleCursing Out Loud. Pets in Stores. Which Public Behaviors Do You Find Rude?
https://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/which-public-behaviors-do-you-find-rude/
