[Closed] Dont call me Babe.

All this proves, beyond any doubt, is that some people have too much ****ing time on their hands, and too few real problems to worry about

[i]Just politely contacting my local bus company to let them know that I don't like it when their bus drivers use terms such as "love", "darling" and "babe". [/i]

Yes... I believe its referred too as 'moaning'

[i]All this proves, beyond any doubt, is that some people have too much ****ing time on their hands, and too few real problems to worry about[/i]

It's true. I mean, do they not have internet forums to fill with drivel? 🙂

[i]some people have too much ****ing time on their hands, and too few real problems to worry about[/i]

thank goodness. 90% of the threads on here would vanish if we all had less time and bigger problems...

grum - Member

TJ I'm as common as muck and proud of it. How's your po-face this morning?

Didn't we go through this in another thread? Where you were claiming to be a 'salt of the earth' 'common as muck' type but to turned out you had a totally normal middle class upbringing?

Hahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grandfather 1 - Labourer
Grandfather 2 - Gentleman's-Gentleman (ie a valet)
Father - Cooper for 42yrs

My salt of the earth credentials are beyond question, but thanks for asking.

EXACTLY! 😀

I'm a bit worried now. I through casual endearments like that around all the time. I hear lots too "my dear" is common, "buddy/bud" seem to be catching on now too.

"Hen" isn't as common as it used to be but as a specifically female term, maybe it us disappearing through fear of offence?

Well it's the Guardian, what do you expect. Written by ****s, read by ****s.

why dont people just stare at the other person until they speak then copy whatever they say:

😯
'erm, you ok mate?'
'sure am mate, have a snazzy day mate'

or

😯
'wot u starin at pal?!'
'nothing pal, have a bombastic afternoon pallypal'

or

😯
'dude, what?'
'duuuuuuuude'
'ahhh sweet'
'stoked to meet you dude'
'dude'

or

😯
😕
😯
'you ok sweetcheeks?'
'sure am wonderwilly'

Oh - working class through and through here.

working class folk everywhere talk like this.

I don't like being called mate, regardless of the speaker's social class.

I quite like the US practice where people call each other sir and ma'am regularly.

Druidh / McBoo - of working class descent maybe - working class now?

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Thoroughly middle-class here, so I tend to use 'you there' 🙂

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I was in ASDA the other day, absent-mindedly weighing up the relative merits of two near-identical chilled products, when three teenage girls resplendent in the local winter uniform of bikini and Uggs attempted to pass behind me. The lead fashionista went, "excuse me love," and I dutifully sidestepped aside to better facilitate their passage, thinking nothing of it.

As they went on their way, I could hear the other two chittering to her in an excitable pitch barely audible outside of the canine world, "Oh my god, you called him 'love', ZOMGeleventyone etc."

I'm sure I had a point when I started typing this, but I'm buggered if I can remember what it is now.

I'm going to start using "Blud" and "Bro", particularly on those I perceive as elder and better than me!

Grandfather 1 - Labourer
Grandfather 2 - Gentleman's-Gentleman (ie a valet)
Father - Cooper for 42yrs

My salt of the earth credentials are beyond question, but thanks for asking.

Think you're leaving out a few facts from the other thread, but whatever. It's funny isn't it, people used to aspire to be upper class. Now everyone is desperate to prove how working class they are (as they sit on the Internet all day, not working, talking about their expensive mountain bikes).

I'm sure I had a point when I started typing this, but I'm buggered if I can remember what it is now.

Who cares. What were the chilled goods?

pathetic

Now I could see her taking offence if the driver said 'pathetic' rather than 'cheers love' when she got on/off. But perhaps she would prefer that...?

Maybe people who don't want to be called by these terms shoudl wear a name badge at all times (Call me "Dave", "Madam", "Pet", "****wit") so that everyone they meet can greet them appropriately?

I quite like the US practice where people call each other sir and ma'am regularly.

Ideally they should stand and salute me too. 😉

Or just maybe the bus driver should have followed the common guidance for public service which is not to use these sorts of terms.

I was about to put one of these:

😀

next to this:

IHN - Member
Thoroughly middle-class here, so I tend to use 'you there'

but then I read this:

Cougar - Member

I was in ASDA the other day, absent-mindedly weighing up the relative merits of two near-identical chilled products, when three teenage girls resplendent in the local winter uniform of bikini and Uggs attempted to pass behind me. The lead fashionista went, "excuse me love," and I dutifully sidestepped aside to better facilitate their passage, thinking nothing of it.

As they went on their way, I could hear the other two chittering to her in an excitable pitch barely audible outside of the canine world, "Oh my god, you called him 'love', ZOMGeleventyone etc."

I'm sure I had a point when I started typing this, but I'm buggered if I can remember what it is now.

and I think that also deserves a 😀

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What were the chilled goods?

Ah, now we're getting to the nub of the matter. I think I was buying cooked chicken for my OH, which as a vegetarian is never a simple task. I never quite worked out why you can buy legs and thighs and they're different products. Do chickens have thighs on some other appendage than their legs?

Now everyone is desperate to prove how working class they are (as they sit on the Internet all day, not working, talking about their expensive mountain bikes).

😆

Could you quote us the exact paragraph and subsection please Uncle Jezza?

I'm a stickler for the that kind of thing. Standards must be maintained after all

The bus drivers should be on some sort of KPI based bonus scheme where the fewer complaints they get, the bigger the bonus.

And yeah, as well as 'salt of the earth' working class people, those terms are often use by, oh: mockney students, roided-up bouncers, ( 'YES MATE?'), actual sexists, middle class mountain bikers trying to prove how 'real' they are....

does anybody else do bad impressions of stereotypical accents when saying things like 'cheers love' 'owwwwight me owd muckahhh' and 'ello moi luvverrrr'?

Legs is the whole thing including the scaley but that would have been near their ankle.

Thighs is the bit twixt hip and knee.

hth.

I think I was buying cooked chicken for my OH, which as a vegetarian is never a simple task.

You were buying meat for a vegetarian? I can see how that would be tricky.

Now everyone is desperate to prove how working class they are

Lower-middle and proud.

I'm thinking of selling my bikes in favour of a sedan chair.

Does anyone object to using "My good man" when addressing others?

I should clarify,

When I say "I think I was buying cooked chicken," what I mean is that I can't really remember now, I'd have taken notes if I'd known there was going to be a test. I'm fairly confident that I was pretty certain what I was doing at the time, though I turned 40 this month so it's entirely possible that I was trying to differentiate between a can of mushy peas and a four-pack of kitchen roll.

ds - wot if it's a burd?

Grum: Think you're leaving out a few facts from the other thread, but whatever

Really? I'm all ears.

And it's [i]watevva[/i].

I should clarify

Nah. You have said enough, babe.

Now everyone is desperate to prove how working class they are

Nonsense. I'm so middle class I poo hummus.

@druidh, I'm not sexist.

Sorry, just for clarification.. when someone addresses me as 'love' does it mean they want to sleep with me or not?

Is there really a public sector directive TJ? That come via your controlers in Havana or straight from the Politburo in Moscow?

Legs is the whole thing including the scaley but that would have been near their ankle.

Thighs is the bit twixt hip and knee.

That would imply that 'legs' are a superset of 'thighs', but that's clearly not the case when you compare the two which, as previously discussed, I have. I guess "chicken ankles" wouldn't sell as well.

You were buying meat for a vegetarian?

I can see how that would be tricky also, but alas I fear that you misunderstand me for mild comic effect. What I mean is, being vegetarian [i]myself, [/i]I find buying meat for others difficult, on several levels.

(top shelf, bottom shelf, etc)

Depends if its me or McBoo I guess TSY

Is "working class" still a thing?

I thought these days we only had "middle class" and "unemployed class".

This is why I love the Army. You don't normally have a problem with this sort of thing as there is a simple way to know what to call people. It's called their rank. Except when they get to some ranks and have to be called something else, like Foreman or Sergeant Major.

Makes life a lot easier.