what do you call people

[Code Monkey]

reading one of the other threads on the run at the moment, and the comment about being called mate, along with pal, buddy etc.

what is your most hated common phrase to be called and what do you find yourself slipping into and calling people when just chatting in general.

i have to admit i do call people mate on the odd time, more than often though i slip into what other people are using around me.

[zippee]

I use mate all the time, seems to be a bit of a universal name for all blokes.
Embarrassed to say however, that I often (and totally unintentionally) use the word darling when talikng to women. Must be my Essex roots coming through.

[dern]

Code Monkey said:

reading one of the other threads on the run at the moment, and the comment about being called mate, along with pal, buddy etc.

Mate, dude.

Code Monkey said:

what is your most hated common phrase to be called

Chap.

Code Monkey said:

and what do you find yourself slipping into and calling people when just chatting in general.

I always find myself adopting a really shit version of their accent especially after a few beers which is embarrassing.

[agent006]

You

[mrmaggit]

We have a customer who we don't have to ask his name, as every other syllable is "mate". Still I suppose that's better than f*** or other expletives that some use.

[Stamp]

Alwight Muckers, just looking at this thread dude, and I think me and the chums know best. Cheers matey!!

[406]

Allwhite Geez?

[tombaron]

I used to never say 'mate' but always noticed when others said it. I thought it quite shallow to use it all the time.

However, a few months ago i met a very down to earth fellow who says 'mate' a lot, but only when he means it. In his words 'If like you ill call you mate, if i think you're a w*nker, ill call you w*anker'!

Lately ive found myself calling all my mates 'mate' but i stop short of the w*nker bit!

[Tank Slapper]

Being called mate doesn't bother me in the slightest, but then I did grow up in east London.

What I do find intensely annoying is when people over use my name, repeating it every other sentence or so.

Thanks, but I know who I am, we've established that you know who I am so lets just get on with the conversation.

[Ahonen]

dern said:

Code Monkey said: what is your most hated common phrase to be called Chap.

Oh yes, this one really winds me up. It used to be a just a Brummie (Allroit chap?) or a Terry Thomas sort of thing (I say chaps...) - both of which are fine - but now loads of people seem to say it.

I much prefer being called mate - it's also the one I use most.

dern said:

Code Monkey said: and what do you find yourself slipping into and calling people when just chatting in general. I always find myself adopting a really shit version of their accent especially after a few beers which is embarrassing.

Slightly different for me, but because I lived in Lancashire for a while, had a Yorkshire girlfriend for 5 years and have a fair few Northern mates, bits of Northern sayings creep in whenever I'm with anyone from north of Leicester.

>> Edited by Ahonen on Tuesday 25th October 20:13

[hedders]

Tank Slapper said:

What I do find intensely annoying is when people over use my name, repeating it every other sentence or so. Thanks, but I know who I am, we've established that you know who I am so lets just get on with the conversation.

I feel like I am being condescended to when people over use my name, that is probably not actually happening but it really bothers me.

[Size Nine Elm]

hedders said:

I feel like I am being condescended to when people over use my name, that is probably not actually happening but it really bothers me.

Ditto. I know my name, you know my name, you don't have to interject it into every second sentence.

[DanBoy]

Friends are usually either mate or an abbreviation of their first name (for example, Stefan is Stef etc).

I have a habit of calling delivery drivers c*ntface when I'm work. Luckily they don't seem to dislike it.

I tend to refer to everybody else as either Remus, Romulus, or - if I really dislike somebody - BArry Bethel.

>> Edited by DanBoy on Tuesday 25th October 21:11

[DennisTheMenace]

406 said:

Allwhite Geez?

Is'nt that raceist?

[vixpy1]

I call most women Babe..


Some i call 'Soon to be naked babe'


And for the special ones i use the most flattering term of endearment...

Minger!

[simpo two]

Tank Slapper said:

What I do find intensely annoying is when people over use my name, repeating it every other sentence or so.

That's a New Labour fluffy interview technique, using the interviewer's first name to win hearts and minds and seem sincere.

My pet hate is 'Well done, you'. Why 'you' on the end? 'Well done' will suffice.

[DennisTheMenace]

simpo two said:

Tank Slapper said: What I do find intensely annoying is when people over use my name, repeating it every other sentence or so. That's a New Labour fluffy interview technique, using the interviewer's first name to win hearts and minds and seem sincere. My pet hate is 'Well done, you'. Why 'you' on the end? 'Well done' will suffice.

they might be from somerset ?
Ive worked on my own and been my own boss to tolerate all the "team building" crap , you either get on with people and work well or you dont , some little prat trying to build a "team spirt" is likey to get sod all coperation from me , but i am a miserable bastard these days

[Liszt]

What I can't stand is some spotty twelve year old oik at the counter in Forboys saying "cheers, mate" while delivering my change. I am not your mate. I am old enough to be your father, goddammit. Show some goddam manners!!

and relax

[JMGS4]

Young fella me lad
or
you spotty useless oik!!!

John the GOM

[Kinky]

I hate the phrase 'mate' being used by strangers ....

I'm not your mate and hopefully/probably never will be.

I bought a car from a SERIOUSLY dodgy geezer - the likes of which you'd cross the road to avoid (he looked like Robert Carlyle in the Bond 'World is not enough' movie).

Every other word was 'mate' and there's cat-in-hells chance I ever would be.



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