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Strangers calling you 'my friend'?

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  • #62
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,051 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    Nykay wrote: »
    What do you think of strangers saying this to you? It could be something like "how are you my friend?" or "no problem my friend". I know it's not really Irish people who say it. I heard it said to me by a barber last I think.

    When I hear it being said it kind of annoys me, because the person saying it thinks that it makes you feel good. But I think it's kind of deceptive. I just think to myself "we've never met before; if you want to be nice to me, you really don't have to pretend to be my friend".

    Would you prefer "Boss" ?


  • #63
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    image.jpeg.0adea066cecb128d3ec7094e1c5141d9.jpeg

    It's the same here, I get a lot of "bud", "mate" etc


  • #64
    Alejandro68
    Closed Accounts Posts: 412 ✭✭Alejandro68


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    Waiters working in restaurants where you aren't expected to sit at a bench with complete strangers or use a roll of kitchen towel to wipe your hands as you eat. If you've made a reservation then I've no issues with being referred to by my first name. It's this overly familiar mate/folks/guys that I have an issue with. It gets the meal off to a very bad start.

    Waitstaff are there to greet you in whatever manner they think is friendly. Take your order and insure your dining experience is favourable. Not kiss your ass or bow down to you because you are there. We have all seen your type and we get a good laugh in the end.


  • #65
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,991 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Niner leprauchan wrote: »
    Jesus Christ!

    You won't leave a tip because a waiter didn't grovel? And then pull them up on it because they dared not recognize your knighthood?

    I have news for you, your food is regularly spat in.

    While I don’t agree with it, it’s a better “reason” than the misers, on here, give for not tipping.

    The same stinges won’t give to charity because they think the charities have a “vested interest” in perpetuating issues like homelessness or cancer.

    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be” - A. Dumbledore

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #66
    Limpy
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Limpy


    I was in Tenerife years ago and an African lad selling sun glasses said "hello my Friend". I wasn't in Tenerife before, only Lanzarote and Grand Canaria so I was puzzled. Was I so drunk I forgot who i made friends with in the clubs? He even said I'l give you a special price my friend. I didn't want to hurt his feelings by saying I didn't know him so I bought the glasses for the special friend price of €100, rays bans they were. It pays to make friend's so don't forget them.


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  • #67
    John Frank Wilson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 105 ✭✭John Frank Wilson


    So I'm the only one who is friends with his jumper? Yeah right!!

    Bullsh*t!


  • #68
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,982 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I hate when you go to a more causal restaurant in Ireland or the UK and the waiter/waitress calls you 'mate' or tells you to 'come this way folks'. It's far too relaxed for its own good, and I will often pull them up on it, or simply not leave a tip. Sir and Madam is the only way a waiter/waitress should refer to a customer.


    Do you understand the meaning of the term casual ?


  • #69
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,506 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    While I don’t agree with it, it’s a better “reason” than the misers, on here, give for not tipping.

    The same stinges won’t give to charity because they think the charities have a “vested interest” in perpetuating issues like homelessness or cancer.

    So if you arent first your last?


  • #70
    AdrianBalboa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 475 ✭✭AdrianBalboa


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I hate when you go to a more causal restaurant in Ireland or the UK and the waiter/waitress calls you 'mate' or tells you to 'come this way folks'. It's far too relaxed for its own good, and I will often pull them up on it, or simply not leave a tip. Sir and Madam is the only way a waiter/waitress should refer to a customer.

    I hate as well. Gel in their hair, slapping the menu on their other hand when they greet you. Chewing gum. I had my husband call the restaurant up complaining the next day once after our waiter called me by an abbreviated version of my first name.


  • #71
    jenneyk19
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 54 ✭✭jenneyk19


    better than bollox


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  • #72
    feelings
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭feelings


    Creepiest one i've heard... princess. like ffs. creep tastic.


  • #73
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,801 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    feelings wrote: »
    Creepiest one i've heard... princess. like ffs. creep tastic.

    Cockney innit? I like ffs creep tastic, not something I could have read 30 years ago.


  • #74
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,506 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    AdrianBalboa wrote: »
    I hate as well. Gel in their hair, slapping the menu on their other hand when they greet you. Chewing gum. I had my husband call the restaurant up complaining the next day once after our waiter called me by an abbreviated version of my first name.

    Waiting until the next day and calling is cowardly.

    Having your husband do it, the 21st century want to know when your calling by


  • #75
    AdrianBalboa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 475 ✭✭AdrianBalboa


    Niner leprauchan wrote: »
    Waiting until the next day and calling is cowardly.

    Having your husband do it, the 21st century want to know when your calling by

    If I do it myself I’m a “shrill hysterical Karen” and if I get my husband to do it I’m a coward.

    I can’t win with you men!


  • #76
    littlevillage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,541 ✭✭✭littlevillage


    AdrianBalboa wrote: »
    I can’t win with you men!

    Why do you feel you have to win against men?


  • #77
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    feelings wrote: »
    Creepiest one i've heard... princess. like ffs. creep tastic.

    I use it all the time, along with,

    Sweetheart
    Angel
    Gorgeous
    Miss Moneypenny ( as in .. " well hello miss Moneypenny " )
    Thanks love
    Babe
    Sexy ( Hi Ya Sexy )
    Schweet Thing
    Darling

    No complaints so far, it all depends on delivery.


  • #78
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,506 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    AdrianBalboa wrote: »
    If I do it myself I’m a “shrill hysterical Karen” and if I get my husband to do it I’m a coward.

    I can’t win with you men!

    Try not being a complainer about minor issues like humans being human and not kissing your ass. Boom, victory


  • #79
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,506 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    I use it all the time, along with,

    Sweetheart
    Angel
    Gorgeous
    Miss Moneypenny ( as in .. " well hello miss Moneypenny " )
    Thanks love
    Babe
    Sexy ( Hi Ya Sexy )
    Schweet Thing
    Darling

    No complaints so far, it all depends on delivery.

    Continue being you, Suger tits:D


  • #80
    gogo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭gogo


    Had a post on here taken up wrong and got a reply which referred to me as cupcake.... possible the most passive aggressive term...

    Know a lad in town that calls everyone brother.. always makes my skin crawl a little, he calls everyone brother, regardless if he knows then or not... ah, ya live in the back arse of nowhere, not the Bronx


  • #81
    gogo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭gogo


    Niner leprauchan wrote: »
    Continue being you, Suger tits:D

    Personal favourite from Cell Block H: ‘alrite vinegar tits


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  • #82
    feelings
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭feelings


    How about creep.com or #creep4life
    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Cockney innit? I like ffs creep tastic, not something I could have read 30 years ago.


  • #83
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Awight Dawling.


  • #84
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 13,475 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    Awww muffin!

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



  • #85
    COVID
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 666 ✭✭✭COVID


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    I use it all the time, along with,

    Sweetheart
    Angel
    Gorgeous
    Miss Moneypenny ( as in .. " well hello miss Moneypenny " )
    Thanks love
    Babe
    Sexy ( Hi Ya Sexy )
    Sweet Thing
    Darling

    No complaints so far, it all depends on delivery.

    Yeah, but that's only when you're talking to your mother, she's hardly going to give out to a doting son for trying to be sweet.


  • #86
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    COVID wrote: »
    Yeah, but that's only when you're talking to your mother, she's hardly going to give out to a doting son for trying to be sweet.

    Oi , keep mie phackin mudda out ov vis .... awight ?


  • #87
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,543 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Try getting on a bus in Leeds - the drivers typically call everyone "Love" (well the certainly did when I lived there a few decades ago)


  • #88
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Beasty wrote: »
    Try getting on a bus in Leeds - the drivers typically call everyone "Love" (well the certainly did when I lived there a few decades ago)

    In Chester it is " Petal" and " Flower"... In Liverpool, " Chuck" …


  • #89
    COVID
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 666 ✭✭✭COVID


    Graces7 wrote: »
    In Chester it is " Petal" and " Flower"... In Liverpool, " Chuck" …

    In Nottingham and Derby it's 'Duck'!


  • #90
    riclad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    In Australia or the UK, alot of men call everyone mate

    I think hello darling comes from showbusiness eg it's
    easy to call everyone darling than to try and remember
    everyone's name when you might meet new people everyday


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  • #91
    SineadSpears
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,600 ✭✭✭SineadSpears


    Try as a Dub, meeting someone from Cork who refers to you as 'girl' when you are a fully grown woman & have never met someone from Cork before:pac:

    ....…

    2026: 'This is where something better begins' (←well that plan ain't working out too well)



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