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CriedWhenBrucieLeft said:
Yeh, but informally it's simply good manners (altho' bordering on slightly old fashioned) to refer to a man (particularly if you are working in the service industry) as "Sir". It's still pretty common in the UK, is not?
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Have you been visiting very upmarket hotels or shopping in Harrods, Cried? :p I've honestly only ever heard it (outside school, police, military) in a bespoke gentlemen's outfitters shop.
 
Not often, no. And yes, I tend to think of 'sir' these days as more typical of American customer service, along with asking how people are and saying 'have a nice day'.
 
Brigantium said:
Not often, no. And yes, I tend to think of 'sir' these days as more typical of American customer service, along with asking how people are and saying 'have a nice day'.
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For the most part, that is correct. But I get an occasional "sir" from someone younger in a non customer service setting.
 
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Led Zeppelin has finally confessed to being "exceptionally talented", but only when forced to by the latest copyright lawsuit.

“Answering paragraph 11 of the First Amended Complaint, including the First Amended Complaint’s footnote 1, Defendants admit that Led Zeppelin has been called one of the greatest bands in history and its members were and are exceptionally talented, but otherwise deny each and every allegation contained in paragraph 11 of the First Amended Complaint.”
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So some girl from my uni might get suspension for "plagiarizing" an essay. Stuff that was "plagiarized" was properly quoted and referenced in the footnotes, but they don't wanna hear any of it :facepalm: They have that program that checks that stuff but it doesn't seem to recognize quoted text... they don't care.

I'll sound like a conspiratard, but I really think that each year they try to come up with new ways to fuck students over.
 
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