the lords name
I'm not religious
Wut? If you're not religious, why are you using the phrase "the lords name"?
this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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Not religious but that only sounds like glorifying God instead of vain to me. It's thanking God for what we have, no?
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It’s not uncommon for some sects to write G-d instead of God as a handy workaround, and even then “God” is already a euphemism for the Tetragrammaton rather than His actual name. So in that vein using “G” on its own is probably safe.
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When I was in the third grade (in Tennessee), I said “Oh my god,” and a girl said she’d tell the teacher I said a swear word. I didn’t understand and pushed back. She explained the “lord’s name in vain,” and that just wasn’t a thing in our house. I got pretty offended. I’m still offended at that stupid shit.
Fuck god, hail satan, gimme a beer.
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I always assumed it stood for "thank goodness it's fridays" honestly.
Other people have already given more useful answers, but this thread is the first time I've learned that it's "Thank God" rather than "Thank Goodness". It was only an occasional presence in my life when I was a child, my grandmother would sometimes take me and my siblings there. Both her and my mother were faaaaiiiirly devout Catholics and raised us as such, and they called it "Thank Goodness It's Friday" when they had cause to use the long version
Taking the lord's name in vain isn't swearing or saying thank God, it's doing stuff "in the name of the Lord." Ergo, most so-called Christians in the US take the Lord's name in vain on a daily basis.
Do they actually say what "TGI" stands for? Is there some legal document that says its full name is "Thank God It's Friday's"? Maybe it actually stands for "The Grumpy Intestine Friday's".
They spell it out under their FAQ but I doubt that's legally binding
Oooo, good find! Busted.
TGI Fridays stands for Thank God it’s Friday!
Lol, they can't even decide if "Friday(s)" is singular or plural.
It's singular, but (strangely) possessive. Like, O'Malley's implies O'Malley's Bar, this would be the restaurant that belongs to TGIF.
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Not an answer to your question but in looking it up this killed me....
"In 1965, Alan Stillman opened the first TGI Fridays restaurant in Manhattan. He lived on 63rd Street between First and York Avenues,[11] in a neighborhood with many airline stewardesses, fashion models, secretaries, and other young, single people on the East Side of Manhattan near the Queensboro Bridge. He hoped that opening a bar would help him meet women."
Imagine being like "I need to meet women, I'll open a business." Lol
He paid $5000, or $50k in today's money in Manhattan. JFC... I can't even imagine what that would actually cost today.
Imagine being like "I need to meet women, I'll open a business." Lol
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supply side jesus has different rules
Why are none of them mad about this?
Because most people are colossal hypocrites.
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Because religion is a set of rules for hypocrites to bind people they don’t like and suggestions for behavior for themselves which can be discarded, as they are only superstitions, not actual laws.