Do you mind terms of endearment from people you don't know..?
 

..if someone you don't know addresses you with a term of endearment...mate, dear, babe, hun, sweetheart..whatever they may say....do you mind..?...or would you rather they didn't..?..

hhhmmmm, I don't know, depends on who it was, how they say it, what the situation is, lots of factors really. I suppose generally speaking though It doesn't bother me

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Nah, I keep my little 'codenames' to my close-friends.

I do call literally everybody bub though, I might need to stop with that one.

Just pluck up the courage and call me the name you so obviously want to, Ammi.

You may find it liberating.

No, it doesn't bother me at all.

Nah, it's sweet. :)

Nah doesn't bother me, I quite often address people I don't know as "mate" as well

I'm fine with it.

i like it :)

I generally don't mind...it beats being called an awful name but I couldn't call someone I don't know "love" or something.....

I use it all the time at work with my patients. Love for the women mate for the men

^ lol now you mention it, strangers calling me "love" I don't really like :laugh:

I have no problem with it in real life, on forums it depends on the context they are used :suspect: as some posters use them to try and patronise.

Your patients :shocked:, what kind of patients do you see?

..my worst one is 'dear'..it's too close to 'old dear' for my liking.....

haha, yeah, see that's where my depends thing comes in, if it were a 90 year old man or woman saying that to me, it wouldn't bother me but it probably would in other situations

..alright nuisance...yeah, that felt ok....

..then there's the other extrme of 'hun' or 'babe'..and I wonder if they're trying to tell me I'm thick....

There is a girl who works in my local shop who calls everyone love - she is like 12 so it sounds so weird......

It would annoy me if a 12 year old started calling me love :laugh:

Ok, maybe upon reflection, I'm not overly keen on strangers using terms of endearment with me :laugh:

where I used to live people used "cock" as a term of endearement.....as in "you all right cock?" arrrggghh now that one annoyed me - when I first moved there I didn't know whether to hug them or punch them in the face :joker:

Nah, it doesn't bother me at all.. unless its used in a derogatory way, like "haw darlin, get your tits oot"

Yeah, it would be alot better if they just said "Get your tits oot" :laugh:

Yeah, and said please at least! :laugh:

LOL..yeah you see..you're starting to get my point....

..I don't mind it when I know people..I don't even need to know them that well..but I'm not keen on it if it's a total stranger who I've never ever spoken to before....I would never use a familiar term with someone I didn't know...

A lady in the supermarket I go to always calls me this odd one,'sweet peach',I quite like it but never further engage as to why.
She only does it with me,no one else I am with when anyone is shopping there with me.

I don't mind when people I don't know use nice terms though.

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Yeah, I don't really even use terms of endearments myself, except with Gav and the kids and my nephews

Think you're in there Joey

Depends, sometimes people use them in a patronising way.

:joker:Hope not, maybe I shouldn't smile next time she says it. :joker:

..is it a greengrocers shop Joey...?..maybe she talks to her fruit and you're getting a bit confused....

..I call most of the children at school either sweetheart, darling or my love...but that's because I don't remember their names....

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I can understand someone calling you sweet peach Joey as you are sweet:hugesmile:I always get called flower or petal by my nan,which is ok unless it is infront of my friends:joker::blush:my hubby calls me 'Pansy Potter' which I find quite funny:joker:

No. it's a supermarket, she is usually on the checkout.:joker:

Ages 35 upwards to a hundred although the youngest we had was a 27 year woman.

The patients i call love and mate tend to be over 60 as they seem to like it more than a youngish woman

not really although someone i used to work with used to call me and a mate pigeons and i hate pigeons lol