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Post by Stammerhead on Dec 1, 2023 14:11:17 GMT
I don’t mind “mate” when it’s done as part of a greeting. I personally dislike being called “sir”. I don't care either way, except when it comes to money. I have done a bit of buying and selling and know from experience that when it come to the spoondollies, a certain level of formality is expected. The Nigerian con artists know this, so should our home grown versions. I always get the feeling that the person calling me “sir” knows they’re better than me.
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Post by mowlick on Dec 1, 2023 14:17:52 GMT
I don't care either way, except when it comes to money. I have done a bit of buying and selling and know from experience that when it come to the spoondollies, a certain level of formality is expected. The Nigerian con artists know this, so should our home grown versions. I always get the feeling that the person calling me “sir” knows they’re better than me. In the army, the NCOs would tell the officer cadets that they would call them sir and the cadets would call them sir, but that the difference was that the cadets had better fucking well mean it.
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Post by petrolino on Dec 2, 2023 2:15:48 GMT
It’s usually “pal” in Scotland. Sounds a bit menacing when some stranger calls you that! Ach yu wee shite, pass us the bucky, pal!
When I lived in the midlands, I was sometimes called "duck". Living in the north, sometimes "love". In the south, it's been mostly "mate", sometimes "buddy", but I know a couple of truly horrible, selfish people who call everybody "mate", incessantly even (they write it in to their computerised messages), and always in the phoniest of ways.
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Post by Power Ranger on Dec 2, 2023 8:10:27 GMT
I use mate and pal and dude and man. ‘Matey’ is probably to be used to a toddler like Harry Skywalker. I also use ‘sir’ to people I don’t know like cashiers but there’s always someone who says ‘you don’t need to call me sir’ and I’m like, ‘ok, asshole’. Actually I don’t say asshole, but I use sir because I have standards, not because I think you’re important.
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Post by Power Ranger on Dec 2, 2023 8:15:16 GMT
Cant stand mate personally. Just the acoustics of it really. However, no different to the variations (buddy, pal, friend, whatever else) which I dont have a problem with ha Is a cool teen I didn’t like ‘mate’. Then when I encountered other status-obsessed cultures I started to appreciate the equality of our culture and terms like ‘mate’ reflect that.
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Post by Power Ranger on Dec 2, 2023 8:18:06 GMT
Ach yu wee shite, pass us the bucky, pal!
When I lived in the midlands, I was sometimes called "duck". Living in the north, sometimes "love". In the south, it's been mostly "mate", sometimes "buddy", but I know a couple of truly horrible, selfish people who call everybody "mate", incessantly even (they write it in to their computerised messages), and always in the phoniest of ways.
Is ‘darlin’ uncouth? I call hookers ‘darlin’ and women I’m friends with ‘dear’. Just kidding about the hookers part LOL
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Post by Power Ranger on Dec 2, 2023 8:20:20 GMT
"Mate" is good for me. Don't care for the variations. I suppose I'm most familiar with my nickname or "Dad". Ok Dad.
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Dec 2, 2023 11:10:45 GMT
I like to be called to dinner.
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Dec 2, 2023 11:12:11 GMT
I don’t mind “mate” when it’s done as part of a greeting. I personally dislike being called “sir”. Other way round for me. You'd love the South. We always use "sir" and "ma'am" when addressing our elders.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Dec 2, 2023 11:16:30 GMT
Other way round for me. You'd love the South. We always use "sir" and "ma'am" when addressing our elders. I'm younger than you. Ma'am.
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Dec 2, 2023 11:27:48 GMT
You'd love the South. We always use "sir" and "ma'am" when addressing our elders. I'm younger than you. Ma'am. There are folks younger than me in the South, Sir Man.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Dec 2, 2023 11:41:18 GMT
I'm younger than you. Ma'am. There are folks younger than me in the South, Sir Man. Very good. Mi'lady.
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Post by yggdrasil on Dec 2, 2023 12:06:07 GMT
where I grew up every bloke was "mate" if you didn't know his name and every woman "Love". Just general terms,no one thought twice about it. One day I got told off for holding a door for a woman though and calling her love so I guess the world changes, still the norm round here though.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Dec 2, 2023 12:08:53 GMT
where I grew up every bloke was "mate" if you didn't know his name and every woman "Love". Just general terms,no one thought twice about it. One day I got told off for holding a door for a woman though and calling her love so I guess the world changes, still the norm round here though. Thanks, love.
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Post by yggdrasil on Dec 2, 2023 12:11:02 GMT
where I grew up every bloke was "mate" if you didn't know his name and every woman "Love". Just general terms,no one thought twice about it. One day I got told off for holding a door for a woman though and calling her love so I guess the world changes, still the norm round here though. Thanks, love.
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