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“Please?”

“Thank you.”

“You’re welcome!”

These are all examples of the good manners that we learn from a young age. Polite behaviors such as these help us function in regular society when we’re dealing with people so we don’t come off as ungrateful jackwagons. If you’re extremely online as I and many in the parlance of our times are, you probably know that Online in general and Twitter in particular has a system of manners all its own. One of these manners, as any experienced Twitter user knows, is that they must reply with one word when somebody tweets the number “69”:

Nice.