No Offense?

[nik0tine]

(i.e. If the man said, "You're a filthy nigger", you'd think he was a racist).

No offense, but I still like Kramer.

[Madame Adequate]

Over here in England, we have something even more annoying. When an insult gets thrown around, someone will say "Just joking!" afterwards. My stock response is "If I punched you, and then said that, would it be okay?"

As for "No offense", sometimes it's useful and valid to use, such as pointing something out that needs to be pointed out. On the other hand it can be used as above, where it becomes inane and possibly even MORE offensive.

[Sergeant Hartman]

No offense but I'm about to offend you.

The other one I like is 'I'm not being funny...'

[Peegee]

I never say it. However if I were to ever say it, it would be in a mocking tone.

[Craig]

"No offense" is short for "I don't want to offend you, but I have to be honest." I can dig it.

[The Mog Ninja]

yeah what they said

[Chloe.]

I always say that.

[Old Manus]

Offence*

[Owen Macwere]

I don't use it and don't like when people use it with me, cause I am stright forward and would just spite what I think of at your face. Get away from me now.

[Psychotic]

No offence, but this thread is dumb. 24 posts in and nobody had said it. I am a lucky man.

I don't care if someone says no offence or not. If I think it's offensive (which isn't very likely, not much bothers me), I'll be offended.

[Resha]

smurf, i HATE it when peiple say thst to me. "No offence, man, no ofeence but you blah blah is ...is ..." go thell. if you want tocritizise, then say, "to be honest...", becaus rhrnem I'LL REPSETC YOU. you'r being honegst!!! and I'll like that. Honest y is good. =)n hhaha. But "no offence.." and people ahways sayit in a whinging gehingin way, and I ahet them for it.

[Quindiana Jones]

I said "no offence" once. My neighbour said "I hear you lot are planning on building a wall separating our properties."


For those who don't understand...and those who do but just like highlighting SPOILERS anyway for whatever reasonNo offence = No, a fence.

Seriousness aside, I say it all the time. Sometimes people just need to be told that they're too big to fit through that gap, because otherwise they waste everyone's time.

[Anaisa]

I never say no offense. Reason being, anyone I like would know I like them, so they'd know if I said anything that did offend them, I wasn't intending to. They'd also know I'd never insult anybody underhandedly. If I was intending to insult them, I'd be very blatant about it. I understand why some people say no offense though. Instead of toning down what they're saying so it sounds less offensive, they'll just say no offense instead.

[krissy]

No off fence.

I'm a cat.

[Yamaneko]

sup krissy?