Personally I don't mind any of the terms but I understand why others take issue also. I guess 'love' and such are tame compared to the other things you are called when working in bars (which I have done like..all of my adult life) which may scew my opinion somewhat.

women call men boy all the time in a demeaning way and and many other little put down words and as usual nothing ever gets said about it, because only men can be sexist just as only white people can be racist ........pathetic double standards in our increasingly insane society

In the workplace I don't agree with these terms from either sex.

For the most part it's political correctness gone mad. (again) It's not offensive, it's fairly harmless and it's just the way people speak not a deliberate form of belittling. I've heard as many women say love and babe for instance as I have men. Just file it in stupid **** people who have nothing better to do with their time choose to take offence over.

people use all sorts of terms of endearments, men and women in equal measure, love, pet, chuck, etc anyone who gets complains or gets offended by this harmless nonsense should have the biggest pants pull in history then forced to wear the skidmark pants for a year

I use the term 'Love' to EVERYONE - men, women, children. It is instinctive and never meant to be offensive, patronising, or insulting.

My use of the term stems from THREE factors:

1) I am Yorkshire born and bred.
2) I am a naturally very open and friendly person (in REAL life).
3) I grew up in a very, very, different era.

All three factors are relevant, but probably NONE so as much as the third.

The world has moved on dramatically from the simple 50's when I was a mere toddler.

It has moved on progressively faster and faster with each passing decade, and as usually happens, the greater the speed, the more likelyhood of things being forgotten or lost along the way;

Major things like courtesy, selflessness, community spirit, and minor things, such as CHEERINESS and FRIENDLINESS.

Whatever happened to people?

We are becoming a nation of inward looking, selfish and miserable twats.

When I was a lad... And Old Shep was a pup - NO, that's an Elvis number. :hee:

When I was a lad the sound of the milkman and postman, and even people just passing, WHISTLING CHEERFULLY or calling out melodic chirpy greetings, such as ''MORNIN' LOVE' brightened our drab old terrace streets.

Where is that jolliness, that happiness, that chirpy friendliness now?

I will continue to smile and greet strangers in passing, and continue to call people love, and if anyone does not like that fact, then they go and insert their PC. where the 'Sun Don't Shine'.

...oh....I'm going to take that as a term of endearment because you're a Yorkshireman, Kirk..:laugh:..

:laugh: Did the wide eyed Hera think that she was included as she looked down from Olympus as Achilles cursed mere mortals?

No - of course not.

And neither were you - MY Goddess - in my thoughts when I wrote that line.

YOU are above the frailties and flaws which tarnish we ordinary mortals.

(Did THAT just get me out of trouble Princess? :hee:) :kiss:

...no I can be a really miserable and selfish whatsitcalled thing..:laugh:.../I was just teasing you, Kirk..:love:......my father in law was a Yorkshireman as well....

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The world is full of miserable bastards now who think it makes them popular or cool to be offended/a victim.This is mainly from the so called 'Millenials'.Not all of them by any means but there are a percentage who have spent most of their teens learning about a warped view of real life from crap they've read on the internet.It started out with people who won't stand up for themselves in real life vented the things that piss them off online and turned into mass movements of leftist 'social justice' stupidity.They don't realise that they have absolutely no right to not be offended in real life.There's no report button when somebody says something you don't like,You can't get them banned for opposing opinions.Just because somebody doesn't like a term of phrase and part of a language which has been used for centuries does'nt mean that they have the right to ban it in the work place or anywhere else.Women call me 'love' and many more things everyday.I take it as a term of endearment.I don't go and file sexual harassment report.:laugh:

To add to that.I think these 'i'm offended' by words things come about because women of today have no more to moan about than men do and SOME women(i.e modern feminists) know that there's no need for feminism in the civilised western democracies anymore but are clinging onto it dearly for nostalgic reasons because they 'want to feel part of something'.What they need to do is direct it where it is needed in the countries where women truly are oppressed.When pathetic 'issues' like common terms such as 'love' or 'sweetheart' are the subject of their anger then this tells us that they have no more real causes to fight for.

I'll be honest if i found out someone didn't like being called love I'd probably call them love.

A Saudi Arabian woman would piss her pants laughing at so called causes like this by western feminists.She would give her right arm to have first world problems like this.

Kirk, you cannot be a proper Yorkshireman if you do not use the word 'duck' constantly :hmph:

I discovered this after a few m onths of being confused by being called duck both by my mums boyfriend, and then by a few people from yorkshire when Iw as working in a bar. Women too. ALWAYS duck.

That's Nottinghamshire/parts of South Yorkshire

We don't say duck in Rotherham but I've heard it in Chesterfield and Mansfield outside of my county.

:laugh: Nah den old pal, dat's Sheffield for di, and parts er Nottingham as Paul sez.

Bur ah do use 'duck' nah an agean, when am in't company er't olderend - if the from them parts.

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Bloody dee dars :fan:

They only say 'duck' in Rotherham, Barnsley and Leeds, when someone has thrown a beer bottle at you. :laugh:

:laugh: THAT is exactly what we call them. :laugh:

I used to work with a lad from Mansfield and he'd say "Y'arrate duck"

Too reyt. Mind you they're too slow in Barnsley from the amount of inbreeding so I dunno if they'd get down quick enough. :hehe:

Oh god it's like scraping your nails down a chalk board. Summat I've always wanted to do but not been brave enough is when someone says 'alright duck?' Is to just start quacking back at them.

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'Any brother of yours is a brother of mine and dunt thar forgerit'

So you haven't listened to the broadcast or understood the point of the survey at all then?

It has nothing to do with what is said in the street.