Some people have a different definition, some of them even have a much less savory one that puts it almost level with lying to protect people's feelings. It seems like most people consider it separate from basic courtesy, whether they think it should be or not.

: "'As I told the Rookie then, If you ever fall for a woman, make sure
: she’s got balls.'
: Ah, hell, you know what I mean.
: Words to live by.”

: Personally I'm not all too glad to be uncomfortable to this degree in a
: universe I enjoy so much, not when it kinda mocks myself and other people
: like me at a subatomic level. We all knew what Buck meant by this in Halo
: 3: ODST and with the summary of that narrative in this book being long
: enough already, this was just so... ugh.

I'm not following. I don't know who's old enough to read the book or play ODST that wouldn't have understood it after thinking for a minute, unless they weren't familiar with English idioms, but he said something that would make most people do a double take or go "wait, what?", and he didn't mean literally what he said which slows things down slightly, and then he tried to clarify, except he forgot to actually clarify, which I think actually fits with his character. What made you uncomfortable about it?