The realisation you're getting old

[DRM]

My Muslim neighbours call older men who they don't know 'Uncle'. They've started to do it to me!

Yes it's very common, and I feel your pain having been referred to in the same way at a Muslim owned business in Bradford, at least it's better than "That silly old bu##er"

 

[Mike Ayling]

Yes it's very common, and I feel your pain having been referred to in the same way at a Muslim owned business in Bradford, at least it's better than "That silly old bu##er"

Happens in Australian First Nations people, Uncle and Aunty used as terms of respect.

 

[DRM]

Happens in Australian First Nations people, Uncle and Aunty used as terms of respect.

I believe it's also used in the Chinese community too

 

[Webbo2]

Happens in Australian First Nations people, Uncle and Aunty used as terms of respect.

Where as with White Anglosaxons someone who is called an uncle or aunty who is not related to the family is usually someone a bit. Well you know.🫣

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Where as with White Anglosaxons someone who is called an uncle or aunty who is not related to the family is usually someone a bit. Well you know.🫣

Seems wrong to me

When I was growing up any close friend of my Mum and Dad who I saw often - like the parents of kids I played with a lot - were normally referred to as Aunt and Uncle

nothing dodgy - just normal for everyone I knew

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Seems wrong to me

When I was growing up any close friend of my Mum and Dad who I saw often - like the parents of kids I played with a lot - were normally referred to as Aunt and Uncle

nothing dodgy - just normal for everyone I knew

Yes, was the same when I was a young kid.

Totally normal.

 

[postman]

When use can use those special seats on a bus,with the blue badge and a walking stick.

 

[Chris S]

Where as with White Anglosaxons someone who is called an uncle or aunty who is not related to the family is usually someone a bit. Well you know.🫣

Were you thinking of Pike addressing his mum's 'lodger' as Uncle Arthur in Dad's Army?

 

[PhotoNic69]

When the amount of Physio exercises, fitness regimes, daily medical needs and appointments outstrips the number of available hours in a day.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

When the amount of Physio exercises, fitness regimes, daily medical needs and appointments outstrips the number of available hours in a day.

Yup - I have thought that

SOme people seem to think that your average person can get up early for a 2 hours run
then eat a hearty breakfast
then do a hour of exercise at the gym
before going to work
then coming home and doing a couple more hours of exercise before dinner
and then have an early night

I can only presume most of these do not have a normal job and certainly do not have kids

 

[Alex321]

Where as with White Anglosaxons someone who is called an uncle or aunty who is not related to the family is usually someone a bit. Well you know.🫣

No, I don't know. What are you on about?

If they were good friends of may parents, then we normally called them Aunt and Uncle when I was a kid (1960s-70s).

I've never known any other context among British people - but as noted above,among many Asians, it is just used to refer to older people.

 

[Webbo2]

Were you thinking of Pike addressing his mum's 'lodger' as Uncle Arthur in Dad's Army?

Yes that sort of thing.

 

[DRM]

Were you thinking of Pike addressing his mum's 'lodger' as Uncle Arthur in Dad's Army?

The in joke of course being the insinuation that Uncle Arthur, was actually Pike's Dad

 

[Punkawallah]

The in joke of course being the insinuation that Uncle Arthur, was actually Pike's Dad

I didn’t know Wilson moonlighted as the Wilmington-on-Sea milkman?

 

[Gwylan]

The in joke of course being the insinuation that Uncle Arthur, was actually Pike's Dad

Think a DNA test is required