My heart has been blessed so many times, and by SO MANY and have blessed enough hearts to make the Pope and Jimmy Swaggart swoon..... But I am subscribed already, so bless your lil pea pickin' heart.....
Matt, this has nothing to do with this video, which is great btw, but we (Texas) have given y'all Dr. Pepper, Blue Bell, Buc-ees, etc... why the hell can't we some Bojangles here in Texas?
Hey Matt, what happened to, "Aren't you just precious?" You listed a few that are kind of similar, but southern expressions have very subtle yet different meanings.
I'm a Plumbing Contractor and yesterday I waited 29 minutes for a sweet southern lady to write me a check. She would write a word or two then stop to tell me about retirement, weather, past surgeries, deceased husband, her pastor's mistakes and how this generation of youth will end the world. Just a normal day in the South
Bless your heart (in the best possible way) because you might have been the only person she talked to yesterday!❤️ As we say in the south: Your momma raised you right!
I can SO relate! I had a "needed to be signed for" delivery to a truly rural (members of Grange) family on my rural route years ago. I'm waiting for Mrs. Edwards to just sign the slip, and she keeps stopping to complain about the "flood control" plans of the local government, that her daughters hadn't come by to help with preparations for Daddy's birthday celebration, etc. etc. Bless their hearts! People like that don't exist anymore!
That last one about "this generation of youth" reminded me it's exactly what my sainted granny said about my generation. 😂 In point of fact, I do b'leeve that EVERY generation of youth in the South was going to end the world. 🤣
As a Southerner, bless your heart can truly be an expression of sympathy, an expression of trying to soften something derogatory we just said or a true FU. It all depends on the context and how it's said.
Alternatively, nodding silence can also mean, "I literally cannot think of a single nice thing to say about you right now, and this is what Jesus would do if he were here."
I now live in East TN. I moved down from CT about 8 yrs ago, just 45mins outside of New York city. In that part of the world, most people are pretty direct, myself included. We're not mean, we just call em like we see em. In my first year living and working down here in TN, I heard through the grape vine that people thought that I was rude. It caught me by surprise, because I'd never been told I was rude before! Up north, most people thought I was very cordial and a straight shooter. I've tried to change my communication method to suit the south, but honestly, I'll always be a straight shooter and never will I beat around the bush. It's not in my nature. People down here that know me have learned that what comes out of my mouth is the truth and have learned to respect me for it. I mean what I say, and I say what I mean. Flowers and sugar just leads to a lot of misunderstandings.
That’s how we do things ‘round here. Us Southerners…we really truly are the nicest people you’ll ever meet, but just be sure to know when we’re sugarcoating things. Cause we do it more often than we should. I guess it’s cause we hate to hurt people’s feelings.
"Well, it's about that time" hint, hint, hint. If they didn't take the hint, Daddy would say, "Well, let's go to bed so these people can go home now." All guests bring joy: some when they arrive, and some when they leave!
Reminds of a show (forget which one) where a woman's husband or boyfriend was scared of meeting her dad, saying the dad was going to yell at him. She tells him that as long as her dad is yelling it's fine. It's if her dad *stops* yelling that he needs to be scared.
That reminds me of a time my Great Granny sighed this huge ol sigh, then stood there in silence looking at Great Papa. He real quick shut up and went out to his shop, we didn't see or hear from that man until supper time!
If only my relatives understood that kind of talk -- and grandma was from Texas. She had zero excuse not to heed such words. But being a narcissist, she didn't care two hoots. 🙄
Yes, that meant mom was about to loose control of the can of whoop ass. She was praying for the mental strength to make the whoopen less than lethal. Running would make it worse. It gave her time to think of something diabolical.
My Granny used to say "Lord, give patience, 'cause iff'n you give me strength some of these people gonna get hurt." We're Brits but I like to think she'd fit in well in the South.
My daughter says I can tell people to go to hell in such a way that they might think they’d enjoy the trip. My favorite Southern thing I catch myself saying is “babies are SO SWEET.” I say that when the babies are ugly because even ugly babies are sweet, y’all.
Shhh . . . I don’t want all those mamas whose babies I pronounced “so precious” to know their poor baby is homely. It’s tactful, but honest because all babies *are* precious. I feel I can be honest about this because my own mama declared me the ugliest newborn. “A spider monkey” was the description she gave. I was 7lb 12oz and 22.5” so she’s not wrong.
Southerner here, and while I was still pregnant with my little girl, my aunt confided in me that whenever she sees a baby and she says, "It's so little," that's her way of avoiding saying, "I'm sorry, but your baby does NOT look cute."
I say "he/she just perfect, good job"" even when they look a monkey & my Daughter is side eyeing me like "damn liar". Who is gonna say a baby is ugly? they're all perfect in their Mamas eyes
@hylianarcher4531 my sister always says "gee it has alot of hair" then she said it to me and quickly backtracked but I let her off coz my daughter was just so cute with 4 inches of luxurious baby hair
Matt, stop giving away all of our secrets! Now I’m going to have to come up with new “nice” responses! Seriously, this was spot on and hilarious 😅 Well except for the bless your heart-i feel like that needs three different translations😂
I've always figured that "Bless your heart" was just shorthand for/the start of the phrase, kinda like "If wishes were fishes [we'd walk on the sea]" or "pot meet kettle" (pot calling the kettle black) only it's "[God] bless your heart [because you ain't got NOTHIN' else going for ya]" which could mean God gave you good heart because he skipped you in the brain department or the world just isn't working out for you right now. Or when said with clenched teeth, "I'm trying to remind myself NOT to stop your heart right now because it is all you have. And it is not nice to take from those with the least"
@@AviDragonLady Yeah, I got told "common sense ain't" a lot since there was no denying I was book smart (I got in trouble for reading instead of sitting quietly doing nothing at least 3 times between 3rd and 8th grade.) But I decided to treat "polite society" as a game or code so I know what's expected while watching the little dance others tend to ignore since they just "know" it.
My mother used to say FAAAANNNTASTIC! Usually when one of the neighbors was telling some sort of story about what they did sometime in the past. And I was like 16 before my father said to me, "you know that when your mother says that she means 'bullshit', right?"
I told my friend from NYC, one has to know the whole conversation before you understand the context of anything a Southerner says. She said we were too complicated. 😂
@Naturesong56 lol. As I told her everything happens in real time. Just take "bless your heart" for example. How many ways can that be taken - but most now only know one. It's really an all purpose saying. That's why I told her it's the whole conversation that matters.
We had some young, mid 20s- friends over for dinner. As the evening wore on, coffee, dessert, playing cards, talking, we were getting tired. We kept making hints that it was time for them to go home, but they weren't getting it. Finally, around 2am, we stood up, said we were headed to bed, and they should lock the door when they left.
When you’re raised to be polite in any circumstance, you quickly figure out how to say polite things without actually saying a lie, because lies bitechu when you’re talking behind them their backs. 😂😂
In the South we were taught that one can not have a civilization without being CIVIL to each other. But I am old and I know things have changed since I was raised. We could not use first names of our elders unless it was prefixed with Mr. or Mrs. (Miss).
@@random2829 you must have missed the point of the video. Southerners absolutely do get ugly with each other. Just because someone says "bless your heart" doesn't mean it's not understood by all to actually be "F you". We all know it means that, and we all know it's ugly. I'm not sure how that falls under "civilized" lol
@@VirginiaBronsonno bless your heart is not always meant to be a hidden insult. I am a born and raised Southerner and I really do mean it in a positive way when I say it. And why is everyone being so hateful to random 2839? We are here to laugh and smile not attack each other.
@@marlamitchell4348yes! Came here to say that as well. Bless your/his/her heart can absolutely be expressed in sympathy for someone's rough situation.
For anybody not Southern, you can get the idea from the internet that "bless your heart" is always an insult. It is not. "Bless" is essentially the polite f-word: it can be use extremely positively as well as negatively, and is often used as an intensifier. Your spouse saying, "I want to f- your brains out right now" is certainly not negative (assuming it is said to you). "Bless your heart" can mean, "I love and support you" just as much as anything else. It is context and speaker dependent. My mother used to say, "God Bless America" instead of "God D--n it." "Oh, bless!" can be "my heart goes out to them" and also, "we need to get the heck out of here! NOW!" Like the f-word, it is amazingly flexible and useful. God bless y'all!
As transported New Yorker, I can say I found out quick that "Bless your heart" has many meanings and is situational. Meaning depends on who's offering the heart blessing. They could range from everything from an "aww" to 'Oh just screw you" to a flat out with intent "F you" Gotta love Southern slang stuffs
I came from the lower Midwest as a tiny child and learned Southern with enough of an outsider's view that I figure that "Bless your Heart" is just the part said out loud, the silent part is "Becasue you ain't got nothing else going for you." This works in everything from "sorry things aren't going your way" to "you got a good heart but you don't have the sense that God gave a squirrel" to a self reminder that you are supposed to love your enemies, even when you want them to F off.
As a woodworker and remodeler in the deep South, I can firmly say that half of the time people hire my services not for the work that I do, but to have my ear while discussing everything from the gout in their feet, their children, the weather, what and where they ate for their last 17 meals, and perhaps the design of the project, reasons why they hate a particular color, how their current car is way less reliable than the last one they had, and even where the lint under their refrigerator came from (true fact). All why I'm standing there waiting on a check so I can get to my next appointment to repeat the same cycle. There are times when being bilingual is an advantage... such as only speaking English in a Spanish speaking home (hardly ever works) or vice versa (this one works most of the time!)
Why would you END a phone call? The only thing me and mama end a call for is when I need to deal with the kids or she needs to get going on food for Daddy. One day I won't be able to call her anymore and when that day comes I don't want to be left thinking of having cut her off when I could still talk to her!
The bathroom excuse indeed doesn't work with my younger sister, but she is sensitive enough to know when I'm talked out. She ends the call herself. (She probably does say "I'm gonna let you go", too.)
My grandmother used to say "he looks like he has a healthy appetite" about fat people. Except family. She told me i needed to push myself away from the dinner table more. 😂
From NYS and lived down south for 12 very long years. Traffic is heavy in NYS causing delays, down south, it only takes 1 car in front of you to slow you down and ruin your commute. 😂
Being from Texas, I love your videos! They crack me up because they are so true! The "bless your heart" and "Lord, give me strength" are things I say on the regular! Thanks for the laughs!!
I can hardly breathe after watching this twice. Oh my, that was so funny holy cow. Also can we talk for a minute about how in Things Southerners Never Say, Matt talks about only having one koozie, and then proceed to prove that's a damn lie by having a GIANT BASKET OF KOOZIES at his bartop. I love it so much XD
😂😂😂😂 I knew that's what it meant! Im from CA, & went to Oklahoma. I showed granny my Slipknot collection and she "Bless your heart, take them to your uncle Cooter. He like satan music."
The first time mamaw gave me a full "bless your heart" was when she found out I didn't know that Bologna salad was supposed to be eaten in a sandwich, instead of on a plate like a regular salad. I had just plopped a helping onto my plate, and started eating it with a spoon... Edit: Spelling
Never heard of that in my part of the south. Our choices are deviled egg salad, ham salad, or tuna salad. Oh, and my Grandma used to make West Indies salad.
@@BravoSeven potato candy is mashed potato mixed with a ton of powdered sugar, rolled up with crunchy peanut butter. It is amazing, but terrible for you.
@@BravoSeven Illinois isn't the Deep South. Potato candy is mashed potatoes with sugar, vanilla and some other stuff the 'chef' wants to waste. Baloney or ham salad is one of the two meats chopped into half inch cubes or ground to the consistency of potted meat or somewhere in between then mixed with chopped hard boiled eggs, sweet pickle relish and Miracle Whip if your lucky. It is served as a sandwich or with sliced tomatoes on a bed of iceberg lettuce crackers on the side. W. Indie is chopped raw onions and lump crab usually layered in a serving dish and seasoned vinaigrette. Not my jam. To be transparent about the bologna salad I prefer Troyer's Trail Balogna. It's a lightly smoked ring sausage. From Ohio. First cut a 3"-4" section and then slice it length wise into two equally sized pieces. Grill this a few minutes on a low heat, put it on a warm burger bun with Swiss cheese, German mustard, a dash of hot sauce and choose your other condiments. It's a great bologna salad.
From across the pond in Northern Ireland and I can relate to this. I always seem to get caught by people who'll keep you talking about half an hour before they let you get on with your job. I've started using "well the boss might be round today so I'd better go look busy". Doesn't work so well when the latest rambler is actually your new area supervisor...
Wow, well that’s pretty direct. Southern hospitality is a thing, but hosts/hostesses get tired too and some people just don’t know when to go home! Bless their hearts 😏
As someone who used at least three or more of these in the last ten minutes to escape a conversation with a neighbor ... including but not limited to: I don't know if there's anything else you can do about that + (silence, shrugging) + well, let me let you go ... yep, can confirm.
"Well, (pause) that'd be one way of thinking about it/going about it.... here's another' Daddy's gentle way of teling his firecracker daughters that they might could do things differently next time. Knowing full well that one of us would certainly do it again. Six daughters brought lots of 'Well....' moments as he prepared himself for the next oh dear lord pray for this child event.
True story; born and raised in a suburb of Detroit. I moved to Nashville in the mid to late 90s. Dated a man from exact same background once in Nashville. We'd go to the store and get in line behind folks who were aquainted and or knew the person in front of us and would wait roughly seven minutes for those folks to finish a conversation as the line grew longer and longer behind us. The man I dated coined the phrase "How's your mama syndrome". I still laugh about it today. That said, I was raised to have good manners and have worked in the service industry. I'm always kind to the folks who take care of me. I make eye contact, am polite, thank them and say have a good day. It doesn't take seven minutes.
That stare and sigh about did me in! In fact, my husband had to tell me NOT to do that to him the other day but trust me, he heartily deserved it. Generally he does not get on my last nerve. The others, most times I truly mean it when I say I will pray for them. You will have me looking at things the other way now.
I was half waiting for Matt to break the beer bottle in half as a weapon before he said "Im about to kill someone" i KNEW that was coming. This is so accurate. I cackled. 😂
Dude, I'm just laughing my butt off over here. This is so freaking accurate. The only slight difference I know of is when, in reference to the bad food, you said, "Mmm, that's interesting." My mom always uses the word "different." She's so stuck with eating her one or two things always, that God forbid she ever try something else. But my wife and I figured out long ago, if we offer her something she hasn't had before and she says, "It's different," the translation is, "I don't like it because it isn't one of the two things I always eat." Well done sir.
SOOOO FUNNY. ONE OF YOUR BEST! WHOOOO HOOO. YAAAA. Anyone watching this even know what that funny "video/recorder" rewind sound is? That says it all. Lots of support for you Matt.
My mom always said that just because someone complements you on something or says something seemingly nice about your appearance doesn’t mean they’re telling you the truth…they’re more than likely lying straight through their teeth. This video is proof!
Just found out about this channel and I can NOT stop laughing. I've only had a few Southern friends (from Bama, NC, and Texas), but you absolutely nailed their personalities and expressions perfectly! Great videos and channel. Well done sir! 😎👍
I’m a teenager, and when I tell you my Dad sat outside a Kent’s catfish the other night and talked for an hour and 37 minutes about church drama, I ain’t lying. 🙃
I didn't even realize that the apple not falling far from the tree is such a Southern way of insulting someone and their family. My mother's side says that a lot about other people in private.
My mother used to tell me, "Act like you know how to act!" and I never knew if it meant, "You know how to act: do that;" or, "Pretend you know!!" I do know that she spent a lot of time teaching me, so presumably the former. But if, to paraphrase Matt, she thought I was as smart as my daddy, I'm sure option two would have been just about acceptable. She kept me, anyway....
Okay, so after 58 years on this planet, in the south mind you, I have learned of the existence of bologna salad. I admit that Atlanta isn't super southern, but this is one of those reminders!
Same here - I’m not sure how I feel about bologna salad because honestly, it sounds disgusting to me 🤢 Sorry if you like it. BUT who knows? Maybe I’d like it, if I’d tried it. (IDK, maybe it’s kinda like eating potted meat or Spam?!) If you give me a fried bologney sandwich🥪 I’m all for that! “Different strokes for different folks” saying rings true yet AGAIN!✌️
I was bred & raised in the South. Once was married to someone from the Midwest who fortunately was a quick study so would translate to friends. One of the things he’d tell them was the madder I got, the heavier my accent & if it reached a point you couldn’t understand….RUN!! Another was if you got home to a smile & spotless house just kneel down & beg for forgiveness because you was about to meet your maker. There was more but those seemed to be his favorites 😅
Subscribe or bless your heart
My heart has been blessed so many times, and by SO MANY and have blessed enough hearts to make the Pope and Jimmy Swaggart swoon.....
But I am subscribed already, so bless your lil pea pickin' heart.....
Or the double whammy, "I love him to death, bless his heart, but...."
Matt, this has nothing to do with this video, which is great btw, but we (Texas) have given y'all Dr. Pepper, Blue Bell, Buc-ees, etc... why the hell can't we some Bojangles here in Texas?
Hey Matt, what happened to, "Aren't you just precious?" You listed a few that are kind of similar, but southern expressions have very subtle yet different meanings.
He seems like a loving guy
I'm a Plumbing Contractor and yesterday I waited 29 minutes for a sweet southern lady to write me a check. She would write a word or two then stop to tell me about retirement, weather, past surgeries, deceased husband, her pastor's mistakes and how this generation of youth will end the world. Just a normal day in the South
Bless your heart (in the best possible way) because you might have been the only person she talked to yesterday!❤️ As we say in the south: Your momma raised you right!
@@taustin6524 thank you
I can SO relate! I had a "needed to be signed for" delivery to a truly rural (members of Grange) family on my rural route years ago. I'm waiting for Mrs. Edwards to just sign the slip, and she keeps stopping to complain about the "flood control" plans of the local government, that her daughters hadn't come by to help with preparations for Daddy's birthday celebration, etc. etc. Bless their hearts! People like that don't exist anymore!
That last one about "this generation of youth" reminded me it's exactly what my sainted granny said about my generation. 😂 In point of fact, I do b'leeve that EVERY generation of youth in the South was going to end the world. 🤣
Sir, you should have BLESSED HER HEART as soon as she stopped writing the first time.
You are way too nice. 🤔
As a Southerner, bless your heart can truly be an expression of sympathy, an expression of trying to soften something derogatory we just said or a true FU. It all depends on the context and how it's said.
Yes, for me it's almost always an expression of sympathy.
Or just a secret code phrase for: "You're the biggest dumbass I've ever seen and I have no idea how you even graduated middle school."
Yeeep
Tone is everything for an accurate, well placed "Bless yer heart".
@@beckyowens2586 Yup, I have heard a bless your heart for quite a few things. Occasionally, an actual sign of sympathy.
Alternatively, nodding silence can also mean, "I literally cannot think of a single nice thing to say about you right now, and this is what Jesus would do if he were here."
Love this! 💯
@@antoinettejohnson6251 Apropós of nothing, I adore the smile in your pfp. ^_^ Bright and wonderful!
So true!
If you can't say something nice, it's best just not to say anything at all.
@@courtneybrown516 Some folks' parents didn't teach them this and it shows
Being from north and now living in the south, I've learned that Southerners are MASTERS at "putting a lil sugar on it"!
But they by sure as heck mean it when they say they need you to cut it out. As my husband puts it, "hand of steel in a silk velvet glove"
I now live in East TN. I moved down from CT about 8 yrs ago, just 45mins outside of New York city. In that part of the world, most people are pretty direct, myself included. We're not mean, we just call em like we see em. In my first year living and working down here in TN, I heard through the grape vine that people thought that I was rude. It caught me by surprise, because I'd never been told I was rude before! Up north, most people thought I was very cordial and a straight shooter. I've tried to change my communication method to suit the south, but honestly, I'll always be a straight shooter and never will I beat around the bush. It's not in my nature. People down here that know me have learned that what comes out of my mouth is the truth and have learned to respect me for it. I mean what I say, and I say what I mean. Flowers and sugar just leads to a lot of misunderstandings.
😂😂😂 you got that right!
That’s how we do things ‘round here. Us Southerners…we really truly are the nicest people you’ll ever meet, but just be sure to know when we’re sugarcoating things. Cause we do it more often than we should. I guess it’s cause we hate to hurt people’s feelings.
I call it northern southern manners. 😜
"Well, it's about that time" hint, hint, hint. If they didn't take the hint, Daddy would say, "Well, let's go to bed so these people can go home now." All guests bring joy: some when they arrive, and some when they leave!
How many times were they still there the next morning 😂
My grandpa said this too! "Well Mama, we'd better go to bed so these nice people can go home."
Amen!
I knew it was gonna be good when Matt went silent. If Southerners go silent you better run. Then came the “you’re about to meet Jesus”😂
My Kentucky Grandmother in law was always silent if I came visiting without my husband. It didn't take me long before I never visited without him.😅
Reminds of a show (forget which one) where a woman's husband or boyfriend was scared of meeting her dad, saying the dad was going to yell at him. She tells him that as long as her dad is yelling it's fine. It's if her dad *stops* yelling that he needs to be scared.
@@Pseudowolf Was it Big Bang Theory?
That reminds me of a time my Great Granny sighed this huge ol sigh, then stood there in silence looking at Great Papa. He real quick shut up and went out to his shop, we didn't see or hear from that man until supper time!
Yep Run for the Hills!
I laughed my head off at, "well well well, it's about that time. " Daddy said that all the time when he was ready for company to leave😂
Honestly, the Midwest (or at least Minnesota) has something strikingly similar. It's more of a "Well, I 'spose."
Same, that one was my favorite because growing up I heard it so often from my elders. I always knew that meant they were done talking.
Mine would get out the vacuum cleaner. For real. My mom would DIE.
If only my relatives understood that kind of talk -- and grandma was from Texas. She had zero excuse not to heed such words. But being a narcissist, she didn't care two hoots. 🙄
I say GTFO, I am not known for my graces, and people leave. Yay!
My 3 boys know when they hear me say "Lord, give me strength" they better run 🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️💨 😂
Yes, that meant mom was about to loose control of the can of whoop ass.
She was praying for the mental strength to make the whoopen less than lethal.
Running would make it worse. It gave her time to think of something diabolical.
My Granny used to say "Lord, give patience, 'cause iff'n you give me strength some of these people gonna get hurt."
We're Brits but I like to think she'd fit in well in the South.
@@warrenpuckett4203 oh yeah, that was my mom too. I guess I'm a little more of a softie than her 😂
@@Korrihor I love that! I'm gonna have to use it from now on 😂
Your Granny sounds like she'd fit right in 😊
Can we take a moment to appreciate that Matt has entire island in his kitchen dedicated to dog treats? Those are some lucky canines!
He even had Glandex. Stuff is essential.
And the Charlie treat jar!
Yeah, Matt, could you do a video with your dog(s)? 🐶🐕🦮🐕🦺
And greenies! Those are some high quality treats! Them puppers are spoiled
And his liquor shelf!
I have been told by my family that I'm the most polite rude person on the planet. Translation....I'm a true southerner.
🎉well done.
That is because others in the world do not know how to translate our language so they just think we are the most sweat and hospital people around.
Until you turn 80, then you just start saying the translations. Grandma gets them told!
I moved away and that's what I miss most. We all did it, no matter the state and it was fun too. We all loved each other no matter what.
@@HikaruRainI'm a northerner with a southern sister in law (Oklahoma). She has taught me a few things.
The heavy sigh: if you say one more thing I promise you will meet Jesus today. Great stuff, Matt!
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I just played this for my husband. I paused it before the translation to see what he'd say. He got it right every time. Almost verbatim 😂
My daughter says I can tell people to go to hell in such a way that they might think they’d enjoy the trip. My favorite Southern thing I catch myself saying is “babies are SO SWEET.” I say that when the babies are ugly because even ugly babies are sweet, y’all.
Newborns are UGLY
N I love them to death 👶
Shhh . . .
I don’t want all those mamas whose babies I pronounced “so precious” to know their poor baby is homely.
It’s tactful, but honest because all babies *are* precious.
I feel I can be honest about this because my own mama declared me the ugliest newborn. “A spider monkey” was the description she gave. I was 7lb 12oz and 22.5” so she’s not wrong.
Southerner here, and while I was still pregnant with my little girl, my aunt confided in me that whenever she sees a baby and she says, "It's so little," that's her way of avoiding saying, "I'm sorry, but your baby does NOT look cute."
I say "he/she just perfect, good job"" even when they look a monkey & my Daughter is side eyeing me like "damn liar". Who is gonna say a baby is ugly? they're all perfect in their Mamas eyes
@hylianarcher4531 my sister always says "gee it has alot of hair" then she said it to me and quickly backtracked but I let her off coz my daughter was just so cute with 4 inches of luxurious baby hair
Matt, stop giving away all of our secrets! Now I’m going to have to come up with new “nice” responses! Seriously, this was spot on and hilarious 😅 Well except for the bless your heart-i feel like that needs three different translations😂
This is the reply I was looking for...I don't want people to know what I really mean.
I've always figured that "Bless your heart" was just shorthand for/the start of the phrase, kinda like "If wishes were fishes [we'd walk on the sea]" or "pot meet kettle" (pot calling the kettle black) only it's "[God] bless your heart [because you ain't got NOTHIN' else going for ya]" which could mean God gave you good heart because he skipped you in the brain department or the world just isn't working out for you right now. Or when said with clenched teeth, "I'm trying to remind myself NOT to stop your heart right now because it is all you have. And it is not nice to take from those with the least"
@@AviDragonLady Yeah, I got told "common sense ain't" a lot since there was no denying I was book smart (I got in trouble for reading instead of sitting quietly doing nothing at least 3 times between 3rd and 8th grade.) But I decided to treat "polite society" as a game or code so I know what's expected while watching the little dance others tend to ignore since they just "know" it.
Ain’t that the truth. 😂
AWWW! (Short and Simple)
There's also, "Lord love 'em" which is bless your heart while gossiping
Lord love ‘em, they can’t help it if they’re stupid…..
My mother used to say FAAAANNNTASTIC! Usually when one of the neighbors was telling some sort of story about what they did sometime in the past. And I was like 16 before my father said to me, "you know that when your mother says that she means 'bullshit', right?"
To be fair, “bless your heart” can go SOOOOO many different ways 😂
But "bless your little pea pickin heart" says only ONE thing .....
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When I see a new Matt video I click without asking questions. Lol
Always!
Looking forward to the 2023 SEC.
And click the thumbs up. It's gonna be good.
Me too. 😂😂🎉🎉
A new Matt video is like a new Doritos or Kit Kat flavor. It just goes in the cart, no questions asked.
Ditto 😂😂😂
I told my friend from NYC, one has to know the whole conversation before you understand the context of anything a Southerner says. She said we were too complicated. 😂
Yeah, but knowing the whole conversation can take an eternity in Southern speak!
@Naturesong56 lol. As I told her everything happens in real time. Just take "bless your heart" for example. How many ways can that be taken - but most now only know one. It's really an all purpose saying. That's why I told her it's the whole conversation that matters.
My dad used to say, “Honey, let’s go to bed so these folks can go home.”
That one took me back to my childhood!
😂😂😂😂... my yankee friends are now going to completely understand my wife.
Nah, they won't get it. Bless their hearts.
We had some young, mid 20s- friends over for dinner. As the evening wore on, coffee, dessert, playing cards, talking, we were getting tired. We kept making hints that it was time for them to go home, but they weren't getting it. Finally, around 2am, we stood up, said we were headed to bed, and they should lock the door when they left.
Ur not 20s?
@@YeshuaKingMessiah Yeshua knows how old I am.
I’m as old as my nose and a little older than my teeth. Beyond that is nobody’s business.
@@llamasugar5478 You got that right.
@@llamasugar5478 haha! So cute.
When you’re raised to be polite in any circumstance, you quickly figure out how to say polite things without actually saying a lie, because lies bitechu when you’re talking behind them their backs.
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I love how diplomatic Southernisms can get. The irony runs so, so very deep.
In the South we were taught that one can not have a civilization without being CIVIL to each other. But I am old and I know things have changed since I was raised. We could not use first names of our elders unless it was prefixed with Mr. or Mrs. (Miss).
@@random2829 you must have missed the point of the video. Southerners absolutely do get ugly with each other. Just because someone says "bless your heart" doesn't mean it's not understood by all to actually be "F you". We all know it means that, and we all know it's ugly. I'm not sure how that falls under "civilized" lol
Just because you're not in a good mood doesn't mean you can't be polite....ish.
@@VirginiaBronsonno bless your heart is not always meant to be a hidden insult. I am a born and raised Southerner and I really do mean it in a positive way when I say it. And why is everyone being so hateful to random 2839? We are here to laugh and smile not attack each other.
@@marlamitchell4348yes! Came here to say that as well. Bless your/his/her heart can absolutely be expressed in sympathy for someone's rough situation.
I am currently interning in Tel Aviv, and the amount of times I have had to explain southern phrases makes me heavily relate to this video. 😂
Congrats on your internship in Tel Aviv - that’s not easy. Hope it works out well for you, and leads to the success you’re aiming for! 🫡👍
you could do a whole video on just the different meanings of "bless your heart"
For anybody not Southern, you can get the idea from the internet that "bless your heart" is always an insult. It is not. "Bless" is essentially the polite f-word: it can be use extremely positively as well as negatively, and is often used as an intensifier. Your spouse saying, "I want to f- your brains out right now" is certainly not negative (assuming it is said to you). "Bless your heart" can mean, "I love and support you" just as much as anything else. It is context and speaker dependent. My mother used to say, "God Bless America" instead of "God D--n it." "Oh, bless!" can be "my heart goes out to them" and also, "we need to get the heck out of here! NOW!"
Like the f-word, it is amazingly flexible and useful. God bless y'all!
Haha! I say "GOD....blessAmerica" in place of gd.
Bless your heart.
I say "God bless America" in the same fashion. When driving I will say, "Well, don't let me get in your way" meaning "move it you jerk!".
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😂 My grandpa was known for saying "Y'all are welcome to stay but im going to bed." Which meant it's time for yall to git!
I've heard and said that 🙂
As transported New Yorker, I can say I found out quick that "Bless your heart" has many meanings and is situational. Meaning depends on who's offering the heart blessing. They could range from everything from an "aww" to 'Oh just screw you" to a flat out with intent "F you" Gotta love Southern slang stuffs
I came from the lower Midwest as a tiny child and learned Southern with enough of an outsider's view that I figure that "Bless your Heart" is just the part said out loud, the silent part is "Becasue you ain't got nothing else going for you." This works in everything from "sorry things aren't going your way" to "you got a good heart but you don't have the sense that God gave a squirrel" to a self reminder that you are supposed to love your enemies, even when you want them to F off.
@@mwater_moon2865 I love that last bit so much!
I feel like a southerner's "bless your heart." is about as versatile as a Hawiian's "aloha" It can mean a bunch of things depending on the context.
Oh, absolutely. You're not wrong!
As a woodworker and remodeler in the deep South, I can firmly say that half of the time people hire my services not for the work that I do, but to have my ear while discussing everything from the gout in their feet, their children, the weather, what and where they ate for their last 17 meals, and perhaps the design of the project, reasons why they hate a particular color, how their current car is way less reliable than the last one they had, and even where the lint under their refrigerator came from (true fact). All why I'm standing there waiting on a check so I can get to my next appointment to repeat the same cycle. There are times when being bilingual is an advantage... such as only speaking English in a Spanish speaking home (hardly ever works) or vice versa (this one works most of the time!)
As a Southern born and raised female, I approve of this message. Bless ya'lls heart ❤❤❤
Are you saying that southern hospitality is just a bunch of lies? Bless my heart!
Yes. It's polite insults.
If a southern woman is getting increasingly polite and formal with you, you're in hot water.
Well I’m saving this to watch after every family get-together. I’m not alone! 😂 Matt, seriously you’re my favorite TH-camr.
Matt, your channel is growing exponentially! You made the right decision my friend. Never met cha but I'm damn proud.
Truth! 😆 You need to do one on the many ways southerners try to politely end a phone call. The gotta use the bathroom excuse doesn't work.
Just do what I do when my mom won't let the phone call end. "momma, I love you, but I will hang up on you."
Why would you END a phone call? The only thing me and mama end a call for is when I need to deal with the kids or she needs to get going on food for Daddy. One day I won't be able to call her anymore and when that day comes I don't want to be left thinking of having cut her off when I could still talk to her!
The bathroom excuse indeed doesn't work with my younger sister, but she is sensitive enough to know when I'm talked out. She ends the call herself. (She probably does say "I'm gonna let you go", too.)
@@PalmettoParatrooper - if you dare… I am impressed. I could NEVER hang up on my momma and live with it!You more gutsy than me!
I heard my beautiful sweet grandfather say on more than one occasion - well I'm going to go up to bed so y'all can go home.
My grandmother used to say "he looks like he has a healthy appetite" about fat people. Except family. She told me i needed to push myself away from the dinner table more. 😂
I was wondering when “bless your heart” was coming…. It kinda ties in with all these “pleasantries” 🤣🤣
Great work as always Matt!!! FJB!!!
From NYS and lived down south for 12 very long years. Traffic is heavy in NYS causing delays, down south, it only takes 1 car in front of you to slow you down and ruin your commute. 😂
Being from Texas, I love your videos! They crack me up because they are so true! The "bless your heart" and "Lord, give me strength" are things I say on the regular! Thanks for the laughs!!
Now Matt, you know “bless you’re heart” isn’t necessarily insincere. Or condescending. Sometimes. On occasion
I don't know if in the first, but I always click your videos asap when they are uploaded. You rep is southerns just right. And you're hilarious.
Really appreciate that incredibly authentic cicada buzzing sound in the background of the porch shots.
Oh, good that you mentioned that. I thought it was my tinnitus flaring up again...
Bless your heart for always making me laugh so hard. 😂 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 😂
I can hardly breathe after watching this twice. Oh my, that was so funny holy cow. Also can we talk for a minute about how in Things Southerners Never Say, Matt talks about only having one koozie, and then proceed to prove that's a damn lie by having a GIANT BASKET OF KOOZIES at his bartop. I love it so much XD
Stop giving away our secrets!! 😂
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😂😂😂😂 I knew that's what it meant! Im from CA, & went to Oklahoma. I showed granny my Slipknot collection and she "Bless your heart, take them to your uncle Cooter. He like satan music."
The first time mamaw gave me a full "bless your heart" was when she found out I didn't know that Bologna salad was supposed to be eaten in a sandwich, instead of on a plate like a regular salad. I had just plopped a helping onto my plate, and started eating it with a spoon...
Edit: Spelling
Bologna salad is a foul and unholy sludge. Bless your heart for eating that.
@@dee-taylor agreed, at least there was Potato Candy for dessert.
Never heard of that in my part of the south. Our choices are deviled egg salad, ham salad, or tuna salad. Oh, and my Grandma used to make West Indies salad.
@@BravoSeven potato candy is mashed potato mixed with a ton of powdered sugar, rolled up with crunchy peanut butter. It is amazing, but terrible for you.
@@BravoSeven Illinois isn't the Deep South. Potato candy is mashed potatoes with sugar, vanilla and some other stuff the 'chef' wants to waste. Baloney or ham salad is one of the two meats chopped into half inch cubes or ground to the consistency of potted meat or somewhere in between then mixed with chopped hard boiled eggs, sweet pickle relish and Miracle Whip if your lucky. It is served as a sandwich or with sliced tomatoes on a bed of iceberg lettuce crackers on the side. W. Indie is chopped raw onions and lump crab usually layered in a serving dish and seasoned vinaigrette. Not my jam.
To be transparent about the bologna salad I prefer Troyer's Trail Balogna. It's a lightly smoked ring sausage. From Ohio. First cut a 3"-4" section and then slice it length wise into two equally sized pieces. Grill this a few minutes on a low heat, put it on a warm burger bun with Swiss cheese, German mustard, a dash of hot sauce and choose your other condiments. It's a great bologna salad.
From across the pond in Northern Ireland and I can relate to this. I always seem to get caught by people who'll keep you talking about half an hour before they let you get on with your job. I've started using "well the boss might be round today so I'd better go look busy". Doesn't work so well when the latest rambler is actually your new area supervisor...
As a southerner this is facts 💯
My sweet father used to tell visitors when he got tired of them or wanted to watch baseball..."Thanks for coming by, come on back next week."
Wow, well that’s pretty direct. Southern hospitality is a thing, but hosts/hostesses get tired too and some people just don’t know when to go home! Bless their hearts 😏
Have Mercy! = What the f***?!
That's a bunch of hewie. = That's some bull s***!
As someone who used at least three or more of these in the last ten minutes to escape a conversation with a neighbor ... including but not limited to: I don't know if there's anything else you can do about that + (silence, shrugging) + well, let me let you go ... yep, can confirm.
They are the kings and queens of passive aggression, lol
Let’s be honest we all just wanted to hear “bless your heart”
I take orders in a restaurant. Whenever I know a customer is lying to me I say "Wow! Isn't that amazing?!"
As a Bama boy...., yup! Right on the money! I use the "bless your heart" line all the time.
"Well, (pause) that'd be one way of thinking about it/going about it.... here's another'
Daddy's gentle way of teling his firecracker daughters that they might could do things differently next time.
Knowing full well that one of us would certainly do it again. Six daughters brought lots of 'Well....' moments as he prepared himself for the next oh dear lord pray for this child event.
True story; born and raised in a suburb of Detroit. I moved to Nashville in the mid to late 90s. Dated a man from exact same background once in Nashville. We'd go to the store and get in line behind folks who were aquainted and or knew the person in front of us and would wait roughly seven minutes for those folks to finish a conversation as the line grew longer and longer behind us. The man I dated coined the phrase "How's your mama syndrome". I still laugh about it today.
That said, I was raised to have good manners and have worked in the service industry. I'm always kind to the folks who take care of me. I make eye contact, am polite, thank them and say have a good day. It doesn't take seven minutes.
That stare and sigh about did me in! In fact, my husband had to tell me NOT to do that to him the other day but trust me, he heartily deserved it. Generally he does not get on my last nerve. The others, most times I truly mean it when I say I will pray for them. You will have me looking at things the other way now.
My elderly mother told me Bless Your Heart the other day and I screamed back, you bless your own heart, I was so annoyed. 😂
I was half waiting for Matt to break the beer bottle in half as a weapon before he said "Im about to kill someone" i KNEW that was coming. This is so accurate. I cackled. 😂
Dude, I'm just laughing my butt off over here. This is so freaking accurate.
The only slight difference I know of is when, in reference to the bad food, you said, "Mmm, that's interesting."
My mom always uses the word "different." She's so stuck with eating her one or two things always, that God forbid she ever try something else.
But my wife and I figured out long ago, if we offer her something she hasn't had before and she says, "It's different," the translation is, "I don't like it because it isn't one of the two things I always eat."
Well done sir.
I came here for “bless your heart”…and you did not disappoint 😂
SOOOO FUNNY. ONE OF YOUR BEST! WHOOOO HOOO. YAAAA. Anyone watching this even know what that funny "video/recorder" rewind sound is? That says it all. Lots of support for you Matt.
My granny would say something out of pocket, then follow up with “bless your heart.” 😂
The scary part is that while this is satirical humor, it's truth! 🙌🏻
Bless your heart, Matt. You really didn’t have to go to all this trouble! Translation: Dang it, Matt!! You don’t gotta tell everything you know!😉
Thank you so much, Matt for giving me a smile. And time to remember my mama, who was a true Southern belle
"somebody should take your oven away from you" hahaha Matt cracks me up! Thank you!
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My mom always said that just because someone complements you on something or says something seemingly nice about your appearance doesn’t mean they’re telling you the truth…they’re more than likely lying straight through their teeth. This video is proof!
"Lord, give me the strength." I never realized it was a strength multiplier not a defensive upgrade.
Just found out about this channel and I can NOT stop laughing.
I've only had a few Southern friends (from Bama, NC, and Texas), but you absolutely nailed their personalities and expressions perfectly!
Great videos and channel.
Well done sir! 😎👍
Just realized how the cicadas in the background on the screen porch segments add realism to the sketch .
Just as I read this, my local cicadas are having such a party, I can hear them over the AC.
In the military they call that stepping on a person’s boots and not messing up the shine.
Bless your heart is said in genuine concern or caring, but comes in handy at other times, too!
As always so spot on
Bless your heart
Friend, this is verbatim of midwest polite.
I've never been further south than Toledo Ohio, and nailed all of these.
Bless your heart...bragging about going to Toledo.
See I DO belong in the South coz if I have to say one more nice thing I don’t mean I’m fixin’ to explode 🤯😆Brilliant video, thank you Matt ♥️👍
Bonus points for incorporating “fixin’” into the sentence. 😎
Fittin actually
“I’m fittin to”
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I’m fixin’ to laugh cuz I used to have to explain to my in laws that it means I’m getting ready to…. Bless their hearts.
Kept waiting for the bless your heart - you didn't disappoint!
I’m a teenager, and when I tell you my Dad sat outside a Kent’s catfish the other night and talked for an hour and 37 minutes about church drama, I ain’t lying. 🙃
I didn't even realize that the apple not falling far from the tree is such a Southern way of insulting someone and their family. My mother's side says that a lot about other people in private.
Now you get it. Lol
Laughing and smiling inside like crazy. I've heard many of these from grandmothers and aunts over the years.
Heard some real classics while waiting for the, Bless your heart 😂😂😂
These were right on target!!! I say "bless your heart for so many things"
"That don't cut no mustard." - my dad's favorite Southern saying.
I think my Grandma missed the hospitality part of southern hospitality. She didnt come with that filter 😂
Yea...I don't have one of those either lol
My mother used to tell me, "Act like you know how to act!" and I never knew if it meant, "You know how to act: do that;" or, "Pretend you know!!" I do know that she spent a lot of time teaching me, so presumably the former. But if, to paraphrase Matt, she thought I was as smart as my daddy, I'm sure option two would have been just about acceptable.
She kept me, anyway....
@TheMojothom my grandma's was..." act like ya know something " 🤣🤣🤣
@@rayjohnson2387 😂😂😂
Thank you for the translation! You blessed me today so I will pray for you.
This was one of the best ones yet!
I literally laughed out loud more than once.......particularly on that last one! Well played!
I’m laughing hysterically but dang Matt the outsiders are gonna know our secret language!
WAR DAMN EAGLE 🦅
❤ ya
Roll Tide!
War Eagle!!
Bless your heart, love it Matt
You got me with the bless your heart followed by f***k you! 😂😂😂
Okay, so after 58 years on this planet, in the south mind you, I have learned of the existence of bologna salad. I admit that Atlanta isn't super southern, but this is one of those reminders!
My Yankee aunt (from Maine) used to make it, too. I'm not sure it's entirely southern.
My mom called sandwich spread.
Same here - I’m not sure how I feel about bologna salad because honestly, it sounds disgusting to me 🤢 Sorry if you like it. BUT who knows? Maybe I’d like it, if I’d tried it. (IDK, maybe it’s kinda like eating potted meat or Spam?!) If you give me a fried bologney sandwich🥪 I’m all for that! “Different strokes for different folks” saying rings true yet AGAIN!✌️
You are hilarious. Love what you do.
I was bred & raised in the South. Once was married to someone from the Midwest who fortunately was a quick study so would translate to friends. One of the things he’d tell them was the madder I got, the heavier my accent & if it reached a point you couldn’t understand….RUN!!
Another was if you got home to a smile & spotless house just kneel down & beg for forgiveness because you was about to meet your maker.
There was more but those seemed to be his favorites 😅
Good collection. Last one was the best!
This is truly Southern Gold. Roll tide.
Roll Tide.
Go Dawgs!
As usual, Matt is hilarious and not to be missed!!