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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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bus drivers are being told not to use any terms of endearment
does it bother you if someone uses such terms when adressing you?
i use sayings such as treacle or hunny and lovey and many more all the time and have no issue with others that do |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"babe and hunny make me hurl....
especially when I read it on here mixed in with a pile of smoozing....
but each to their own tho  "
fairy snuff 
i must make your keyboard look horendous daily then the ammount i use um  |
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By *iewMan
over a year ago
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"babe and hunny make me hurl....
especially when I read it on here mixed in with a pile of smoozing....
but each to their own tho
fairy snuff
i must make your keyboard look horendous daily then the ammount i use um "
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I sometimes find myself saying to shop keepers "thanks me duck" ffs I hate the term so why have I started using it 
Neither of us like terms like babe or honey unless we are talking to each other.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"treacle is my most used term i just love that word for some reason no idea why
that i dont mind as i know you x"
so does that mean terms of endearment are cool from friends but a no no from strangers as i can't deny i do use them with total strangers too like i would say "excuse my please lovey" or when recieving change i would say "cheers hun"
am i offending strangers unwittingly?
i hope not as i won't change i am who i am like it or lump it  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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coming from the black country, i call pretty much every female i come into contact ith 'babb'.
took Em a while to get used to it thinking i was calling them babe lol.
just a saying really, means nothing but better than being called fella or bloke or summat.
much kinder and nicer to hear i feel. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I hate being called babe, a revolting term strictly for loving couples. I don't mind honey, treacle or lovey or anything else just not babe or love. To be honest though it's the way it's said, a patronising type way that annoys me more. Not quite sure given my thoughts on the use if babe, why a bus man would use the term but its daft telling them off for it  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Really opening myself up here but i hate the term craigybaby but i certainly dont lose me rag or sleep over it and i wouldnt not answer to it or be offended either can see the point xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"i'm a bugger for this
i do have to watch my p's and q's around people i don't know
being northern of course much of this is overuse of the word 'luv' "
Tend to use 'luv' with women, & 'mate' with men. Never had anyone make a fuss though |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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have to admit hate the word love...makes me cringe ...shopkeepers who go that be 24.99 love....god i cringe major time and have been known to reply "sorry im not your love"...yes can be a snotty.com madam ,but i work with the public owned my own salon and never ever have called anyone love etc to me wuldnt be professional...but thats me everyones different..  |
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"bus drivers are being told not to use any terms of endearment
does it bother you if someone uses such terms when adressing you?
i use sayings such as treacle or hunny and lovey and many more all the time and have no issue with others that do"
they are dialect words round here, hinny and pet, and i love it when my brummie friends call me babs , think there is no problem with them. |
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"bus drivers are being told not to use any terms of endearment
does it bother you if someone uses such terms when adressing you?
i use sayings such as treacle or hunny and lovey and many more all the time and have no issue with others that do"
Affectionate terms such as those I have no problem with, in fact it's quite nice.
What I don't like is feeling patronised, and being called 'mate' by guys I don't know, who are young enough to be my kids, has that effect. Incredibly I was even called 'young man' last year by a hotelier (I'm in my 40s!). I should be flattered but I wasn't; maybe I'm over-sensitive but I feel those to whom you are the customer should be respectful and not behave like they have known you for years - unless you invite that kind of familiarity. It should be your choice, they shouldn't assume.
No problems with 'love' or 'chuck' etc. But I can see that if I were a woman I might feel differently, more like the feelings I described above perhaps. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The only things I dont like being called are Mate except when m x husband use to call me it because I was infact his mate and the other 1 is Bird , normal answer to that is I dont have feathers so I am not a bird . |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"bus drivers are being told not to use any terms of endearment
does it bother you if someone uses such terms when adressing you?
i use sayings such as treacle or hunny and lovey and many more all the time and have no issue with others that do"
only thing i dont like is mush its just someting the chavs round here call each other, it really gets my back up if some chavvy kid calls me mush lol
Other than that nah things like love and hun, babe dont bother me |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"bus drivers are being told not to use any terms of endearment
does it bother you if someone uses such terms when adressing you?
i use sayings such as treacle or hunny and lovey and many more all the time and have no issue with others that do
only thing i dont like is mush its just someting the chavs round here call each other, it really gets my back up if some chavvy kid calls me mush lol
Other than that nah things like love and hun, babe dont bother me"
ok guv. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My son is a doorman (bouncer) and he was told a couple of years back that door and bar staff were not to address any female customer with a term of endearment as it is now classed as sexual harassment |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Been a Yorkshire lass i call everyone love, but once i moved to Cannock i used to get some funny looks when i called people love, everyone says bab down here, which i found strange as i was used to bab been a crude word for poo in Yorkshire 
Needless to say i have adopted the term and its even funnier when i go back to Yorkshire, forget where i am and call people bab, the looks i get are priceless
Kat x x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was thinking this post was about the sweet little Pig babe .. john has this funny saying right now Babe 1 is holly the lab i am ba be too , lolol he say your a babe too i say so your calling me a dog now , lololol x |
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Bus drivers around here call everyone "me duck" - first time just after I'd settled here I though the bus driver was gay and fancied me! In my home county of Devon everyone is "my 'andsome" and where Rose came from in London everyone was called "cock" (short for cock sparrow she thinks). My dad was a geordie and called everyone "pet".
Long may it all continue, that's one of the joys of our native English culture, even though the government tries to convince us that we haven't got one and everyone else's is better! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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when i was younger i'd die of embarrassment if someone called out babe or darlin, but now i would love a builder or a postie to brighten my day and say "alright babe/gorgeous", it's just friendly banter |
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