“With all due respect…”
When someone says this it means what they are about to say contains no respect for the person they are saying it about. Why do we use things like this in communication? Its fucking confusing.
Ricky Bobby knows how it works:
Mr. Dennit: Ricky, your little obscene gesture is going to cost you 100 points. Do you know how much that costs us in sponsorship dollars?
Ricky: With all due respect, Mr. Dennit, I had no idea you’d gotten experimental surgery to have your balls removed.
Mr. Dennit: What did you just say to me?
Ricky: What? I said it with all due respect!
Mr. Dennit: Just because you say that doesn’t mean you get to say whatever you want to say to me! Ricky: It sure as hell does!
Mr. Dennit: No, it doesn’t—
Ricky: It’s in the Geneva Conventions, look it up!
