Anytime I hear that phrase it always sends me into fits of laughter. Where I’m from/raised it was mostly used as “poor idiot”. Something about it just cracks me up 😂
@@13BGunBunny and wretched are the ones that create misery. Another word for it is *wicked. Revilers, as with all wicked, are self-condemning by their actions.
I don't think it's funny at all. Reviling never is. If they meant the phrase with empathy, compassion, heart and tender care, that would be fine, but reviling is never fine.
Ordinary Mo hun, a lot of us live in the south. I used it today to express sympathy. You’re either speaking from a place of ignorance or from a place of bitterness... either way, goodness me, bless your heart.
It's intended to be covert, dishonest, designed to be the biggest insult without the outsider's knowledge. They're very cultish, clannish, snobby, having a closed social system. The approval of one's clan or circle holds them in conformity, being a type of bondage to play along with their bad behaviors, a type of peer pressure. This is what has allowed bigotry to function. If it weren't skin-tone, it would be something else, anything. Anything outside of their group-bigotry (field of approval), will be covertly cursed by them. I had pondered moving to the South for the land's natural beauty, but remembering their very ill ways, it won't be considered. They think they're polite, but they're bigots, huge hypocrites, very campish. If they had genuine ethics, they'd be ashamed of themselves.
CA Catr seriously... judge much? In your post I have seen nothing but snobbery as well as bigotry based on something that you obviously know very little about. My dearly departed Mommy used to use that phrase and it was used to express nothing but love and or sympathy. Most of the time it was love that was being expressed due to the fact older generations did not express their emotions as we do today. Oh perhaps due to the fact that you are passing judgement on an entire population of people is ok...as long as your venomous hatred is focused only on the South. Does that make it ok? Your views are the definition of hypocrisy.
Susan Burris *southern belle's And this term is only applicable to women, as it is derived from the French word "belle", which is a feminine adjective meaning "beauty/beautiful".
Susan Burris. Yes and no. It's the most nuanced of all southern phrases and sometimes it's actually sincere. A grandparent genuinely touched by something sweet their grandchild has said might use it. Then its full of love . We definitely use it affectionately just as often as not. It can also be used to express sympathy and support--like when a perfect stranger offered me info on a great place to get better headscarves during my cancer treatment. The "bless your heart" was offered in kindness. Yes, it can and often does mean "you've screwed that turkey up past any hope of edibility, but good effort you clueless wonder" or "for the love of god, dress your age, aunt Sue. Yoga pants and a crop top don't make you look sexy in the least." And it can mean "I know you bought your 'homemade' pecan pie at Kroger. You're not fooling anyone."
Mark OnTheBlueRidge because that’s all they know how can they just drop something they’ve done they’re whole lives. You are very misinformed on “ghetto culture” because not all of it is horrible and vile like you play it out to be. They do have an education and they did speak English. Slang isn’t only spoken in the ghetto. You should be talking to people on fortnite, vine, and other social media who really don’t speak English either a lot of what they say is new age slang.
Mark OnTheBlueRidge You can slyly call me stupid and say I’m justifying it all you want, but I’m really not. If that’s all they know and what they are taught how are they supposed to know it’s wrong. The answer to that is it’s not. The violence there is wrong, but the area that they live isn’t because the ghetto is a place that you are stereotyping. Not everyone there speaks in slang. Not everyone there is violent. Not everyone there is stupid. The vast majority of them are kind people who want to get out of the projects but don’t have the money and or resources to do so. Yes I know what new age slang is it’s what basically every Teenager uses. You’re basically calling me dumb by saying I don’t. Just because some people there have accents *aka* the way they’re voice sounds/the way they talk. (Had to put the definition because I’m sure you don’t know what that is). People there know right from wrong, but it’s very easy to get caught in the wrong. (Drive by’s, gang violence, drug violence) when they don’t even want to. It’s very easy for you to stereotype the projects and say it’s all this and all that. It’s easy for you to say “just leave and change your entire lifestyle because that’s *so* easy” when it’s not. You probably have never even been there, so get back to me when you go to the ghetto and see what it’s really about. (People can be so ignorant these days)
Ice Lugosi aww bless his heart. He doesn’t know how to use that phrase after watching an entire video explaining what it means and how people use it.😂😂
I agree. My grandma used to say it, but when she said it, bertone was not patronizing or annoyed or disdainful, or sarcastic. She said it in a positive way.
This is pretty accurate, except there are many positive and sympathetic meanings behind it too. It's not always negative, making it out like that will just make people think southerners are rude for no reason.
Exactly!! My friend was suffering terribly with allergies. Bless her heart. Then told me some bad news. Again, bless their heart!! I’d say I use it equally as sympathetic and if someone is just pitiful.
Thannkk you! I am getting tired of southern comedians just using it as a negative way. Lol I just recent watched where they said that. I had to google bc I knew I wasn’t going crazy for when I had thought for sure bless your heart was also used as a good way. My great aunt use to use it all the time and I was pretty sure it was mostly in a good way. Lol I could tell when it was in a negative way to.
It's also used when you feel bad for someone or a pitiful animal or if a lot of back luck happens to you. I dont say it though, but it's been said to me . 😆 from Tennessee.
It has so many meanings. I hear it all the time when I give someone a nice gift ("Well, bless your heart! You shouldn't have!") or when a little kid falls down or gets disappointed ("Aw, he dropped his popsicle, bless his heart.") OR after some gossip ("This is her third marriage, bless her heart.").
I've been "bless your hearted" and knew exactly what happened so I out-niced them back. "Oh thank you. Isn't that the sweetest thing? Y'all are so nice to me I think I'll cry...bless your heart". BAM!
got a thank you card from a really good friend that had "Bless Your Heart" on the front. Apparently I say it more than I realized. 😂😂😂 yep it's a southern thing alright. BTW Mathew McConaughey didn't come up with "alright, alright, alright!" that's a southern thing too.
It can also be meant in a nice way. Most people don’t actually know that. Lol a lot of southern comedian had made it out to be just a bad thing. Just look out on how people say it. If it’s sarcastic then it’s bad.
Well..... I grew up down South. My Granny used this expression all the time, BUT ONLY as an expression of GRATITUDE. She explained it as a way of saying "Thank you for your kindness". That was the definition I grew up with. That's what it means to me. I hate to see it twisted into sarcastic insults. Just my opinion.
My friend up in New York is still amazed to this day that I can differentiate "Bless your heart" when he tells it to me, if its either an insult or a compliment. "Bless your heart." Fuck you. "Bless your heart." Oh thank you.
In a time of real trouble or sadness it's a true term of endearment and caring. Otherwise, it's the nicest shade to throw someone who is just so "Special!" It's also intensely satisfying to the person throwing the shade!!
In my experience as a life long Texan, I mainly see it used in a positive way such as to show sympathy or gratitude. It also can have more sarcastic meanings as with many things. But so long as you know that it can go both ways and pay attention to the context of the situation (including facial expressions and tone of voice) it shouldn't be too difficult to figure out what the speaker means. ☺️ Also it might just be my personal experience but it's even more rare for me to see people say it in a negative way to someone's face? When I've heard others say it negatively it is usually when I'm listening to people gossip and then someone will say "oh bless his/her heart!" Of course there's all sorts of people in the world and things can vary from my experience for sure. 🤔 I just don't want people to only assume it's a negative thing for someone to say this to them. They might be wishing you well! 🤠
@@Oioioi998 Yeah I've only heard it used in a negative way maybe once or twice irl. 99.9% of my experience with it has been used in a positive way. And I feel that so long as you has the ability to pick up on things like sarcasm that you can easily understand when it's being used negatively. 🤷
Yeah I am a South Carolinian and said it to my Dutch grandma ? She was living in South Carolina at that point and all I remember was the room was so silent the watch on her wrist was afraid to tick even . I didn’t know what it meant at that point.
Wow, in one day I stumbled onto two hilarious channels of two distinctly different parts of the US. Zebra corner, Boston and this southerner based one. Thanks to both channels for making isolation more enjoyable.
I’m from the South (of England) and I use it with a straight face and just a hint of Sarcasm at work a lot. Other expressions used are “I hope none of your Tupperware Lids fit anymore
iamareesescup withpeanutbutter I thought the same thing until someone told me otherwise. But then today I have read the comments and see that bless your heart isn't always an insult.
The first video I watched in this channel I didn’t find it funny but then I started loving them. I don’t live in the south but I could tell I would fit in pretty good lol 😆
I think its use is regional after reading through the comments. Some parts of the South it is strictly an insult. In other areas like Texas, it can convey empathy or be an insult. When we were kids my grandmother lived in Texas but grew up in Oklahoma and her parents came from Arkansas. Sometimes when we were complaining of being bored or other petty things, she would say "Oh bless your heart!) in a really exadurated voice of sympathy, like a joking way of saying, "you'll live you poor thing, now go play outside." It's hilarious looking back on it now and realizing she was combining two variations of the ultimate Southern slang.
My favorite sports team (a top 10 college team) currently has only 2 healthy starters. They lost both competitions this weekend. Many people left rude comments on the teams social media posts. I started arguing with some of them, but decided to instead reply with "bless your heart", and tonight I shared with my followers that I meant that in the most southern way possible.
Grew up in the west, heard it Everywhere… San Francisco, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Boise, Phoenix , Missoula . From people that had never been near the south . Once a Filipino lady used it on me! It may have been a southern thing at one time …. But not now. Our older German next door neighbor in Northern California said it about an annoying neighbor & I couldn’t stop laughing … never expected it in a heavy German accent. Heard it last week in our new state ( Oregon) from a younger guy with the coquille tribe… the saying now belongs to the world . Since most old southern traditions developed from either scots/irish or French traditions I’m thinking it may have begun in a religious house ( priests or nuns) that Had to be seen as nice .. but were human and they needed another way to express their true emotions without getting in trouble.
My step mothers nieghbor said bless your heart to me today. I gave her the stink eye. I know its a polite insult from when I used to run into walls as a kid and my grandma would turn away from her soap opera, sigh, and say bless your heart. It means dumbass around here.
We have something like this in my country too, “wee lamb” or “bless their wee cotton-ny socks”. It is completely tone based and can be real shady or very sweet.
Alabama southerner here... I suppose it can mean many things but I've most often heard the phrase "bless your heart" used in a kind way: A child with a scraped knee, an adult who's lost something dear to them. You'd really have to push someone's buttons to hear it said in a negative way.
my moms whole side of the family is southern so literally every time we go up to see our grandma in Tennessee i always walk into a wall for some reason and she ALWAYS says, "bless your heart."
My husband had the same diagnosis. We had not planned on having kids back then, so we found out about his condition only after 5-6 years of marriage. Accidentally, cz I offered him to undergo a check-up just out of curiosity. That was shocking. Because it was still not the right time for us to have a baby. But somehow we were obliged to start treatments. And after two years, we have a beautiful baby. Planned and unplanned at the same time. God bless his little heart
Bless your heart can either be the shadiest or nicest things a Southerner can say to you
It’s all in the way it’s said as well as the situation. It’s not derogatory every time it’s said.
Donna & Bob Odom exactly, that’s what I meant.
True I’m from texas
True - in Texas it can express sympathy or be like an "oh wow aren't you a hot mess" depending on context.
I’m from SC. It’s generally shade or fuck you. Rarely is it nice.
"Bless his/her/its/your heart" is also used to express sympathy.
Counting The Mad that's what I thought.
Rarely
@@joeydalton4115 not where I'm from.
It used to mean that, but the line between pity and being condescending is very blurred so it can easily be used to be an insult.
Yup, but also this video.
Anytime I hear that phrase it always sends me into fits of laughter. Where I’m from/raised it was mostly used as “poor idiot”. Something about it just cracks me up 😂
It's used as ridicule, as reviling. Some people can think ridicule is funny, just as they think insults are funny.
Really
@@cacatr4495
Wretched are the ones that delight in the misery of others.
@@13BGunBunny
and wretched are the ones that create misery. Another word for it is *wicked. Revilers, as with all wicked, are self-condemning by their actions.
I don't think it's funny at all. Reviling never is. If they meant the phrase with empathy, compassion, heart and tender care, that would be fine, but reviling is never fine.
Bless your heart isn't always an insult. It's also used to show sympathy. When a young gets hurt someone will say bless his heart to show sympathy.
In a Southern context it's an insult.
Ordinary Mo hun, a lot of us live in the south. I used it today to express sympathy. You’re either speaking from a place of ignorance or from a place of bitterness... either way, goodness me, bless your heart.
Yep. I don't say it in a cynical way. I'm from the South. I'm surprised there are people who say it is a form of an insult.
It's the biggest insult and some don't even know it.
CA Catr I know right this is the impression I get as well.
It's intended to be covert, dishonest, designed to be the biggest insult without the outsider's knowledge. They're very cultish, clannish, snobby, having a closed social system. The approval of one's clan or circle holds them in conformity, being a type of bondage to play along with their bad behaviors, a type of peer pressure. This is what has allowed bigotry to function. If it weren't skin-tone, it would be something else, anything. Anything outside of their group-bigotry (field of approval), will be covertly cursed by them. I had pondered moving to the South for the land's natural beauty, but remembering their very ill ways, it won't be considered. They think they're polite, but they're bigots, huge hypocrites, very campish. If they had genuine ethics, they'd be ashamed of themselves.
CA Catr Preach
Kevin Madzima no, no, bless YOUR heart, honey 😘
CA Catr seriously... judge much? In your post I have seen nothing but snobbery as well as bigotry based on something that you obviously know very little about. My dearly departed Mommy used to use that phrase and it was used to express nothing but love and or sympathy. Most of the time it was love that was being expressed due to the fact older generations did not express their emotions as we do today. Oh perhaps due to the fact that you are passing judgement on an entire population of people is ok...as long as your venomous hatred is focused only on the South. Does that make it ok? Your views are the definition of hypocrisy.
Yep..bless your heart is a south bells way of politely insulting you.
Susan Burris *southern belle's And this term is only applicable to women, as it is derived from the French word "belle", which is a feminine adjective meaning "beauty/beautiful".
Margarita Kulyapina bless your heart
Susan Burris. Yes and no. It's the most nuanced of all southern phrases and sometimes it's actually sincere. A grandparent genuinely touched by something sweet their grandchild has said might use it. Then its full of love . We definitely use it affectionately just as often as not. It can also be used to express sympathy and support--like when a perfect stranger offered me info on a great place to get better headscarves during my cancer treatment. The "bless your heart" was offered in kindness. Yes, it can and often does mean "you've screwed that turkey up past any hope of edibility, but good effort you clueless wonder" or "for the love of god, dress your age, aunt Sue. Yoga pants and a crop top don't make you look sexy in the least." And it can mean "I know you bought your 'homemade' pecan pie at Kroger. You're not fooling anyone."
Actually, it depends on the situation. It can be used to show sympathy and such. Have a great day/night.
Teri Lefevers it could mean “that’s so cute” or something along those lines but it never means good night.
Oh please do one on “ just saying”,
Mark OnTheBlueRidge Why does I have to be "ghetto"? You could simply say it's an illiterate saying.
Mark OnTheBlueRidge you have a miss representation of the ghetto. More than half of the people there don’t want to be there.
Mark OnTheBlueRidge because that’s all they know how can they just drop something they’ve done they’re whole lives. You are very misinformed on “ghetto culture” because not all of it is horrible and vile like you play it out to be. They do have an education and they did speak English. Slang isn’t only spoken in the ghetto. You should be talking to people on fortnite, vine, and other social media who really don’t speak English either a lot of what they say is new age slang.
Mark OnTheBlueRidge You can slyly call me stupid and say I’m justifying it all you want, but I’m really not. If that’s all they know and what they are taught how are they supposed to know it’s wrong. The answer to that is it’s not. The violence there is wrong, but the area that they live isn’t because the ghetto is a place that you are stereotyping.
Not everyone there speaks in slang. Not everyone there is violent. Not everyone there is stupid. The vast majority of them are kind people who want to get out of the projects but don’t have the money and or resources to do so.
Yes I know what new age slang is it’s what basically every Teenager uses. You’re basically calling me dumb by saying I don’t. Just because some people there have accents *aka* the way they’re voice sounds/the way they talk. (Had to put the definition because I’m sure you don’t know what that is).
People there know right from wrong, but it’s very easy to get caught in the wrong. (Drive by’s, gang violence, drug violence) when they don’t even want to. It’s very easy for you to stereotype the projects and say it’s all this and all that. It’s easy for you to say “just leave and change your entire lifestyle because that’s *so* easy” when it’s not. You probably have never even been there, so get back to me when you go to the ghetto and see what it’s really about. (People can be so ignorant these days)
Ice Lugosi aww bless his heart. He doesn’t know how to use that phrase after watching an entire video explaining what it means and how people use it.😂😂
Bless your heart means whatever the blesser wants it to mean
Omg it's so true bless your heart can mean anything and everything it's all in the tone of voice
I agree. My grandma used to say it, but when she said it, bertone was not patronizing or annoyed or disdainful, or sarcastic. She said it in a positive way.
Not to mention the application.
I was born and raised in the south. I say it a lot and so sores everyone I know. But, not once was it used as an insult....
Almost every time I hear it it is when someone feels sorry for another person.
Yep. I hear ya. ❤❤❤
This is pretty accurate, except there are many positive and sympathetic meanings behind it too. It's not always negative, making it out like that will just make people think southerners are rude for no reason.
Randa Edwards that's what I thought.
True it can go with both meanings.
Exactly!! My friend was suffering terribly with allergies. Bless her heart. Then told me some bad news. Again, bless their heart!! I’d say I use it equally as sympathetic and if someone is just pitiful.
Thannkk you! I am getting tired of southern comedians just using it as a negative way. Lol I just recent watched where they said that. I had to google bc I knew I wasn’t going crazy for when I had thought for sure bless your heart was also used as a good way. My great aunt use to use it all the time and I was pretty sure it was mostly in a good way. Lol I could tell when it was in a negative way to.
Did you watch the whole video?
It's also used when you feel bad for someone or a pitiful animal or if a lot of back luck happens to you. I dont say it though, but it's been said to me . 😆 from Tennessee.
same in the midwest!
@@Dobviews Hey fellow Tennessean! Thank you for the kind words. That was very uplifting. Take care of yourself as well. Many blessings to you.
It has so many meanings. I hear it all the time when I give someone a nice gift ("Well, bless your heart! You shouldn't have!") or when a little kid falls down or gets disappointed ("Aw, he dropped his popsicle, bless his heart.") OR after some gossip ("This is her third marriage, bless her heart.").
I've been "bless your hearted" and knew exactly what happened so I out-niced them back. "Oh thank you. Isn't that the sweetest thing? Y'all are so nice to me I think I'll cry...bless your heart".
BAM!
apply cold to burned area
Aw, bless your heart
Seems like “right back atcha” is the best response, covers every use-case.😂
Literally every single one of those!
It's very all-purpose.
Kinda like Uff da doncha know?
got a thank you card from a really good friend that had "Bless Your Heart" on the front. Apparently I say it more than I realized. 😂😂😂 yep it's a southern thing alright. BTW Mathew McConaughey didn't come up with "alright, alright, alright!" that's a southern thing too.
You know it's real when your grandmother is literally in this... no joke she actually is 😂😂
Bless your heart!
you too
If you vote down on this video, bless your heart!
Blake Downs n
bless your heart AKA you fuckin' idiots, lol....., too scottish???
LOL!!!!!!!
People who downvoted must have had their senses of humor removed by surgery, God bless ‘em.
@@aaronjones6439
I think that it's appropriate. :-)
It can mean anything from the most heart breaking sympathy to the most devastating insult. And I've used both
Uh oh, my southern family has said this too me throughout time and I just thought they were being nice! Lol!!!
M Spears I thought that too, until recently. Bless my ignorant heart!
It can also be meant in a nice way. Most people don’t actually know that. Lol a lot of southern comedian had made it out to be just a bad thing. Just look out on how people say it. If it’s sarcastic then it’s bad.
@@londonl.3069 Exactly. I grew up in Houston, TX and sometimes say it to people; never in a bad way.
This is one of my all time favorite phrases. It's perfect.
its is so insulting but yet so sympathetic
Well.....
I grew up down South. My Granny used this expression all the time, BUT ONLY as an expression of GRATITUDE.
She explained it as a way of saying "Thank you for your kindness".
That was the definition I grew up with.
That's what it means to me. I hate to see it twisted into sarcastic insults.
Just my opinion.
s mc until recently I have been thinking it was just a term of endearment. So if is has a good meaning as well, I am happy to hear that.
Same here. My family liked to add "little" into it when talking to kids. "Bless your little heart."
women should say it expressing care n concern for someone and show love never use it to be nasty or hateful in a nice way
My gramma grew up in Kentucky and she says this all the time
Madison Lynn your grammar lol
@@nguyeneric4576 bro her grammar it's fine
We don´t consider Kentucky the South.
Oh, oh.
I am a Northerner who went to school down south, and I think my heart was blessed more than once!!
My friend up in New York is still amazed to this day that I can differentiate "Bless your heart" when he tells it to me, if its either an insult or a compliment.
"Bless your heart."
Fuck you.
"Bless your heart."
Oh thank you.
I say bless your heart when someone's been through something bad to express sympathy.
My Southern Lady Mother taught me that a joke ceases to be a joke when it is at someone else’s expense
In a time of real trouble or sadness it's a true term of endearment and caring. Otherwise, it's the nicest shade to throw someone who is just so "Special!" It's also intensely satisfying to the person throwing the shade!!
In my experience as a life long Texan, I mainly see it used in a positive way such as to show sympathy or gratitude. It also can have more sarcastic meanings as with many things. But so long as you know that it can go both ways and pay attention to the context of the situation (including facial expressions and tone of voice) it shouldn't be too difficult to figure out what the speaker means. ☺️ Also it might just be my personal experience but it's even more rare for me to see people say it in a negative way to someone's face? When I've heard others say it negatively it is usually when I'm listening to people gossip and then someone will say "oh bless his/her heart!" Of course there's all sorts of people in the world and things can vary from my experience for sure. 🤔 I just don't want people to only assume it's a negative thing for someone to say this to them. They might be wishing you well! 🤠
I always use to say gratitude. I hope it didnt offended anyone 😅
@@Oioioi998 Yeah I've only heard it used in a negative way maybe once or twice irl. 99.9% of my experience with it has been used in a positive way. And I feel that so long as you has the ability to pick up on things like sarcasm that you can easily understand when it's being used negatively. 🤷
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Yeah I am a South Carolinian and said it to my Dutch grandma ? She was living in South Carolina at that point and all I remember was the room was so silent the watch on her wrist was afraid to tick even . I didn’t know what it meant at that point.
I’m just going to assume I’m being insulted, I cannot decipher this stuff…
Every time I heard "Bless your heart" I always getting confused whether they're being nice or being salty towards me.
These ladies in this video are so adorable!!!! 💖💖💖💖
That last bless your heart meant something else.
I always thought it meant “well, they tried”
I'm fixin to.
Infinite A.i.isdeath I like fixin to as well. I wasn't born in the South but my family moved here in 1978. I always loved the Southern accent.
Love this one..
I've never heard it used in a negative way. More of a kind way of feeling sorry for someone for various reasons.
Me, too. Also as a term of affection. It's all in a person's tone and body language.
Wow, in one day I stumbled onto two hilarious channels of two distinctly different parts of the US. Zebra corner, Boston and this southerner based one. Thanks to both channels for making isolation more enjoyable.
The reactions I get when I say “bless your heart sweetie” are priceless.
That is awesome. I can think whatever I want as along as I say "Bless your heart."
I love these videos.
My favorite phrase!
It seems to be a dishonest phrase.
I’m from the South (of England) and I use it with a straight face and just a hint of Sarcasm at work a lot. Other expressions used are
“I hope none of your Tupperware Lids fit anymore
My husband thought it was something sweet when a lady from Tennessee told him bless your heart. I Just about died laughing.
iamareesescup withpeanutbutter I thought the same thing until someone told me otherwise. But then today I have read the comments and see that bless your heart isn't always an insult.
@@forestgreenorgangeekclaire8629 It's not. I have NEVER used this term as an insult.
My sensei was southern and he taught me a move that he lovingly called the bless your heart for self defense
YES! Yes to all of this! There are so many phrases for “Bless your heart”
Bless your heauourt.
(I love this channel)
Don’t forget the sympathy one with the head tilt and/or gentle touch.
Absolutely great!
Thank you. my grandma lives on
Happily rtransplanted Yankee here. Thank you for these videos!
The first video I watched in this channel I didn’t find it funny but then I started loving them. I don’t live in the south but I could tell I would fit in pretty good lol 😆
I love it! I may live in Iowa, but I'm adding this to my arsenal.
This was very helpful! I just moved to Alabama and I'm still learning
There's also the your kidding me one.
My Me-Maw said that all the time. She was from Raleigh-Durham 😁😁😁😁
Truly!
Right up there with, "ain't you so precious?". 🤣
Aww, bless your heart
(I like your channel, keep em coming)
So true...
I think its use is regional after reading through the comments. Some parts of the South it is strictly an insult. In other areas like Texas, it can convey empathy or be an insult. When we were kids my grandmother lived in Texas but grew up in Oklahoma and her parents came from Arkansas. Sometimes when we were complaining of being bored or other petty things, she would say "Oh bless your heart!) in a really exadurated voice of sympathy, like a joking way of saying, "you'll live you poor thing, now go play outside." It's hilarious looking back on it now and realizing she was combining two variations of the ultimate Southern slang.
If you don't know now... Bless your heart.
Imma start using it. Bless my heart.
My favorite sports team (a top 10 college team) currently has only 2 healthy starters. They lost both competitions this weekend. Many people left rude comments on the teams social media posts. I started arguing with some of them, but decided to instead reply with "bless your heart", and tonight I shared with my followers that I meant that in the most southern way possible.
Bless your heart!
I've always used Bless Your Heart in a positive way. Bless your heart yall!
Hmmmmm....I should have done some research before I married my Southern woman...this channel explains a lot!
very true
Do u know in 80 plus and have said that my whole life with out even thinking...and this is soo true
Thanks!!! 😁😁
This also explains a lot.
Grew up in the west, heard it Everywhere… San Francisco, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Boise, Phoenix , Missoula . From people that had never been near the south . Once a Filipino lady used it on me! It may have been a southern thing at one time …. But not now. Our older German next door neighbor in Northern California said it about an annoying neighbor & I couldn’t stop laughing … never expected it in a heavy German accent. Heard it last week in our new state ( Oregon) from a younger guy with the coquille tribe… the saying now belongs to the world .
Since most old southern traditions developed from either scots/irish or French traditions I’m thinking it may have begun in a religious house ( priests or nuns) that Had to be seen as nice .. but were human and they needed another way to express their true emotions without getting in trouble.
My step mothers nieghbor said bless your heart to me today. I gave her the stink eye. I know its a polite insult from when I used to run into walls as a kid and my grandma would turn away from her soap opera, sigh, and say bless your heart. It means dumbass around here.
Love it!
I send this to my non southern friends to show them what I mean when I say this lol.
These are so so so so so so true
Me and my mom love this video
I'm a Northerner moving to the South and use this expression as a compliment. What have I done?
We have something like this in my country too, “wee lamb” or “bless their wee cotton-ny socks”.
It is completely tone based and can be real shady or very sweet.
Ads alone almost made me miss this golden
That's funny and sooo true
Exactly!
So true!
Bless their heart...has a meaning of many things. The BLESS depends on where YOUR HEART is.
I said this to my brother I was like "bless your heart.... and you wont know if I mean it in a nice or mean way😎😗😐"
As an Aussie can I adopt this saying? I am from South Australia If that helps.
Sure proud South Carolinian here also known as a Sandlapper y'all
Yeah that about sums it up
Alabama southerner here... I suppose it can mean many things but I've most often heard the phrase "bless your heart" used in a kind way: A child with a scraped knee, an adult who's lost something dear to them. You'd really have to push someone's buttons to hear it said in a negative way.
I am showing my grandma this :)
My pastor has done a sermon on southern sayings and he started with bless your heart
It's all in the tone
That’s so true y’all
This is so true
my moms whole side of the family is southern so literally every time we go up to see our grandma in Tennessee i always walk into a wall for some reason and she ALWAYS says, "bless your heart."
That is SPOT ON!
My grandma uses that a lot
Hey Kentucky- BLESS YOUR HEART.
This reminds me of the "Isn't that Nice" saying.
My husband had the same diagnosis. We had not planned on having kids back then, so we found out about his condition only after 5-6 years of marriage. Accidentally, cz I offered him to undergo a check-up just out of curiosity. That was shocking. Because it was still not the right time for us to have a baby. But somehow we were obliged to start treatments. And after two years, we have a beautiful baby. Planned and unplanned at the same time. God bless his little heart
Honestly tho, its so true