He's even sorrier that he got caught.

"Since his arrest, Troccoli said, Ahmed has “woken up” and believes that his actions were contrary to his Muslim religion."

I wonder if he could site the sections of his religious doctrine that his actions were contrary to.

It's wonderful he apologized. So nice to hear about a young person with good manners. And they say that kids these days are messed up...

I'm writing the chapter, "The Apology," for my next book (a modern book on manners -- NOT etiquette), and this might make it in under bullshit apologies.

Anybody know of others to include? I have a particularly great one starting the chapter, but any others would be welcomed. I'm talking about the kind of apology that is not a real apology (where you understand what you did wrong, feel remorse, make amends, etc), but a way out of a sticky situation, etc.

Two things that really irk me: when people say "I'm sorry, but..." or "I love you, but..."

I have a hard time apologising. Ive nearly died half a dozen times, I had a temp of 105 an a toddler, I flipped a motercycle straight up and over at 45MPH, I got hit by a truck doing 25 walking thru a parking lot, nearly froze to death, and then there was that time I fell of a cliff.

So I reached a point in my life where I realised how short it really is and stopped wasting my time tiptoeing around other peopl sensibilites.

Dont get me wrong I'm not the type of asshole who talks on the phone at the movies or a funeral, I'm the type of asshole who will answer yes to do I look fat in this dress, I'm the guy who says that the dumbest thing I've ever heard when someone says the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

I'd rather spend my time reading a bad book the pointlessly stroking the ego of someone who is only freinds with me beacuse they like my toys or cable package then beacuse they like the person I am.

Occasionally I can be a complete and total asshole, and I'll apologise for that. But most people today seem to want pologies for not having the same opinion or not telling them they are doing something wrong/stupid/dangerious in a diplomatic enough manner

Ofcourse maybe its just me

Just about any political apology qualifies. But the one that always comes to mind is Bill's.

The biggest most bullshittiest (is that a word?) apology ever is when someone who has totally destroyed you emotionally, and knows it, and when you call them on it, says "I'm sorry you feel that way, but..."

Because number one, no you're NOT sorry because if you cared one iota about how I feel, you wouldn't have done what you did to me, and number two, there are NO "buts" about it! You CANNOT justify what you did to me, you KNOW it, and trying to put it back on ME is a bullshit, coward's way out. PERIOD.

(not that this has ever happened to me, of course, but, you know, I've seen it happen to others...)

(Yeah, it's happened to me. You knew it. I admit it. I'm a stuke.)

o.O

Lujlp reminds me of that joke-

A man's on his death bed, his wife by his side. He says to her: "All those years you were with me, when I got hit in that parking lot, when I flipped my motorcycle, that time I nearly froze to death, and especially the time when I fell off that cliff. It suddenly occurs to me- you're bad luck!"

When I don't think I did anything wrong and the one who thinks I did has more power than me, I usually say, "I'm sorry you think I did any thing wrong." It's a bogus apology. And we both know it.