Pluggers by Rick McKee for March 06, 2015

No, the current terminology is “No worries!” Much better.

Is the youngster employed at Ned Flanders’ Leftorium store which sells items for left-handed people?

It — Pluggerism — shows up that soon???

“No Worries” Is that coming back again?

The terms “whatever”, “no problem”, and “no worries” are offensive to me. They imply my concerns are not important or somehow dismissive for the listener to utter a thoughtful answer.

Clams have hands?!

‘No problem’ – I was better at it than you so I feel better about me.‘Whatever’ – Don’t bother me again.‘No worries’ – See #1

well, the correct response to ‘gracias’ is‘de nada’“De nada” means (literally) that there’s nothing to be thankful about.It’s semantically similar to “not at all”, but it can also be correctly translated to “You’re welcome”.meaning, ‘no problem’ may not be what you grew up hearing in response to ‘thank you’ is not quite as disrespectful as you might think…..

and, for what it’s worth, the exact same form of words (“of nothing”) is used in French (de rien) and Catalan (de res).‘whatever’ , on the other hand, DOES have an air of arrogance to it.

Swell…

Adult pluggers on the other hand talk in oddly specific exposition which is completely unnecessary and would sound awkward in normal conversation. I mean seriously. Who goes into a store and says to the cashier “Thank you for helping me find Toy Story 3 for Blu-Ray” when a simple “thank you” is good enough

Thank goodness pluggers have stopped saying groovy, out of sight and far out. Each generation has had its code of slang. Some sticks, some slides into oblivion.

Years ago, a Canadian friend of mine called me out on not saying ’You’re welcome" in response to “Thank you.”“Proves you are from south of the border,” he said.

Young people like that are refreshing.

I tend to respond with “No problem, that’s what I’m here for. Glad I could help”.

I respond with No Problem because it usually isn’t one. If it would have been a problem, I wouldn’t have done it. For me, it means that I did it with pleasure, it didn’t put me out and am more than willing to do it again., Saying your welcome means I did it, but that doesn’t mean I will do it again. No problem means I will do it again as many times as you need the help.

After hipsters, we’ll have “plugsters.”