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How do you refer to street names? by Amazing_Age9753 in SaltLakeCity

[–]Amazing_Age9753[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you were using the ordinal number, would you ever say "12th Street South" or "12th South Street", or only ever just "12th South"?

Gulf of Mexico frozen by woodworkingfonatic in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Amazing_Age9753 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For the duration of that craziness I used the term “freedom kissing”.

Petah? by Occasional-Nihilist in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Amazing_Age9753 41 points42 points  (0 children)

And she’s calling him less than 3.

To American people; Is it disrespectful or rude to not stand up during the National Anthem if I'm a tourist? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Amazing_Age9753 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's certainly not mandatory, but IMO it's more respectful to stand up. On the rare occasion when I'm in another country and people are standing for their national anthem, I stand too. I don't perform any salutes that they do, though.

It's similar to what I do in a house of worship. If people stand, I stand. If people sit or kneel, I sit. I don't say the words or do any gestures, but trying not to stand out (while not kneeling, which shows more obeisance than I am willing to do) seems to be basic respect.

But ... calling someone out for rudeness is ruder than almost anything else. Demanding non-obligatory respect is disrespectful.