[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

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.

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'.

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.

[jaxie]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

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.

Does that really matter? It's a daft thing for people to get upset over, at work or at home. It's a pattern of speech that has been used for generations by both male and females, not some sort of sexist slight. Any woman who takes issue with that at work seriously needs to get over herself.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by jaxie

Does that really matter? It's a daft thing for people to get upset over, at work or at home. It's a pattern of speech that has been used for generations by both male and females, not some sort of sexist slight. Any woman who takes issue with that at work seriously needs to get over herself.

Yet another commonsense and truthful post Jax.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by jaxie

Does that really matter? It's a daft thing for people to get upset over, at work or at home. It's a pattern of speech that has been used for generations by both male and females, not some sort of sexist slight. Any woman who takes issue with that at work seriously needs to get over herself.

Yes it matters as it keeps the discussion in context, but I should be used to people flying off on tangents by now

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

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.

Yes, I did listen to it, AND understood what was meant to be the 'point' of the survey, but because I personally consider the survey point-less, I did not bother to comment directly upon it.

Instead, I gave my personal views on the subject - and judging by the number of responses on here to my personal views in comparison to the number of direct responses to the 'survey' broadcast, I would hazard a guess that no one else felt that there was any point to the survey either.

It is just so much piffle dreamt up by someone with nothing better to do for the delectation of similarly disposed people - to give them something to get excited about.

In my own personal opinion of course.