The origin of the phrase “pack it up boys we’ve made a social blunder” is so funny because it’s about as far from a social blunder as you can imagine

I mean yeah technically it was “asking if a guy was single and it turned out he was a recent widower”

but the context in which they asked if he was single? was, “his young relative took a video of him sitting at a computer and posted it on TikTok with no context except to say that he had been reading about cement on Wikipedia for hours”

I very much doubt the expected outcome of this was anything except mockery

The people who suggested this made him attractive were treating him with vastly more kindness than his own flesh and blood family

Not their fault his flesh and blood had also neglected to mention his recent bereavement when posting him for laughs

They were not the ones who fucked up socially here

And i guess accepting the blame for that was just another example of their superhumanly enormous amount of tact

Should we aspire to this? Idk it’s probably out of most of our league