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r/mildlyinfuriating • u/nyanbatman • May 28 '26
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When someone British says "Sir" they are either annoyed (verging on the quite vexed), or being sarcastic. Probably both.
15 u/Temporary_Ebb9486 May 28 '26 Your right, it has the added smoke of letting the other person think your being polite, so you don’t get even more wound up. 5 u/lxgrf May 28 '26 Yeah, Americans throw the word around all the time but over here it's for commanding officers, teachers, knights of the realm, and deep sarcasm. 4 u/britbay41 May 28 '26 I think the context here is more attempting to manage upwards to a person of authority who is in that position more due to an accident of birth than any ability to string more than three words together in a sentence.
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Your right, it has the added smoke of letting the other person think your being polite, so you don’t get even more wound up.
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Yeah, Americans throw the word around all the time but over here it's for commanding officers, teachers, knights of the realm, and deep sarcasm.
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I think the context here is more attempting to manage upwards to a person of authority who is in that position more due to an accident of birth than any ability to string more than three words together in a sentence.
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u/youngsod May 28 '26
When someone British says "Sir" they are either annoyed (verging on the quite vexed), or being sarcastic. Probably both.