3 November 2010
19:3578336I swear I will not be answerable for my actions if any nurse calls me any of the following: sweetie, dear, my love, sweetheart, darling, poppet.
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am very far from being any of these!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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3 November 2010
20:1778342i would be delighted if nurses address me with names that like that, i could not post on here what i get called.
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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3 November 2010
21:1478349Diana you know why it is.. because they cant remember your name!
3 November 2010
22:4078368Diana - them's my thoughts!! I remember my irritation when I bought a paper recently and got called "babe". Hello - middle aged professional woman carrying several stones extra! I am not, repeat not, "babe".
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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3 November 2010
22:4278369Thats sad Bern, dont do yourself down, of course you can be a babe....lets not be ageist, fattist or indeed any other pc ist that can be dreamed up.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
3 November 2010
22:4978371i remember a council "oop norf" stopping their staff addressing callers as "love".
when i used to ring people north of the watford gap i really liked the familiarity of the female persons that spoke thus.
i find that women addressing men as love is being friendly, however men calling women love as patronising.
i am not the slightest bit politically correct, just how i see it.
3 November 2010
22:5478374BarryW, the only Babe I could pretend to be like is the pig in the film!! But thanks anyway! I tell it like it is!
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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4 November 2010
01:0078395I'm often being spoken to with like appellatives, Diane! It's fantastic
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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4 November 2010
01:1978399Diana.
How can I possibly answer to your post until I have met you?
I'm sure that one day we will meet honey and you can give me a good slapping sweetie.
Stay well poppet, until we meet.
Ian...
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,903
4 November 2010
08:5178405I have to agree with Diana on this one.
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4 November 2010
09:2278409Its modern slang sadly
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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4 November 2010
11:0378418When I was young, a very friendly and well known character in Grimsby, a friend of my grandmother, never called anyone 'Mrs .. with their name... ' she always addressed them as 'Hello, Mrs Woman'.
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Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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4 November 2010
11:1078420now i must be losing the plot, as when i am ringing around my suppliers ordering supplies for the shop etc, I always say Hello Lovely ( to the Devon girls!) Hello Love ( to the up north girls) and I ALWAYS ALWAYS try to catch their name and call them it whenever i can!
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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4 November 2010
18:3578467Nice, Jenni, generally it pays to be friendly if done politely !
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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4 November 2010
18:5578472Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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4 November 2010
18:5778474ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
- Posts: 1,610
4 November 2010
18:5778475Now I'm depressed, during my recent stays in hospital I only ever got addressed as 'Mr Precious'. And they boosted the sedatives during the operation to shut me up.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
4 November 2010
18:5778476local legend is one, or was it leg end, i get confused sometimes.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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4 November 2010
19:0078477Well Keith we will see on SATURDAY, but it is your turn mate Again it was me last Saturday.
4 November 2010
19:1778484I do find that the people calling me young man now tend to be positively geriatric..........
