Why do people...

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

...think its cute or even cool to call you "babes", "sweets" , "love" etc when they don't even know you?

you forgot to add "duck". "ay up duck" is the standard one I grew up hearing all the time. "u're rite duck?" is t'other

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

you forgot to add "duck". "ay up duck" is the standard one I grew up hearing all the time. "u're rite duck?" is t'other

Awright Hen!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

...think its cute or even cool to call you "babes", "sweets" , "love" etc when they don't even know you?

I was surprised when I first moved to Sheffield and the man at the newspaper stand (remember them?) called me ''love.'' It took me a while to get used to men calling men love. Mind you, when I first moved to London and strangers called me ''mate,'' there was this little voice inside me that screamed ''You're not my mate, I don't even know you."

Oh, and there's another one: why did people wait till I was 50 before they started calling me ''young man?''

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Awright Son!



I'm not your son...... as far as I'm aware anyway!

 

[hoopdriver]

Likewise when they say "It's good to know you" when they have met you for the very first time.for all they know I might be an axe killer sizing them up...

 

[Dan B]

why did people wait till I was 50 before they started calling me ''young man?''

There's no need to feel down

 

[hoopdriver]

There's no need to feel down

Right! Much better than having sweet young things calling you 'sir'' and giving up their seats on the bus...

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

Right! Much better than having sweet young things calling you 'sir'' and giving up their seats on the bus...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Right! Much better than having sweet young things calling you 'sir'' and giving up their seats on the bus...

Hasn't happened yet! My day will come.

Oh, why do we say ''on the back foot'' to mean defensive when back foot shots are the most attacking shots in cricket?

And why do we take ''backpedalling'' to mean going backwards when my bike just keeps on coasting along?

And why are ''downhill'' and ''over the hill'' negative? I feel very positive once I'm over the hill.

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

Hasn't happened yet! My day will come.

Oh, why do we say ''on the back foot'' to mean defensive when back foot shots are the most attacking shots in cricket?

And why do we take ''backpedalling'' to mean going backwards when my bike just keeps on coasting along?

And why are ''downhill'' and ''over the hill'' negative? I feel very positive once I'm over the hill.

+1

 

[Dan B]

Oh, why do we say ''on the back foot'' to mean defensive when back foot shots are the most attacking shots in cricket?

Maybe it's from fencing?

And why do we take ''backpedalling'' to mean going backwards when my bike just keeps on coasting along?

Yours might. Mine doesn't

 

[srw]

There's no need to feel down

There's a place you can go when you're short of your dough.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Yours might. Mine doesn't

Fair enough, but if I backpedalled on a fixed wheel bike I'd just fall off.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Why do people in the North of England.... and Wales, say 'Floor' when they mean the ground??

A floor is inside or part of something like a viewing platform/Balcony, whereas the ground is.... OUTSIDE!!

 

[hoopdriver]

Fair enough, but if I backpedalled on a fixed wheel bike I'd just fall off.

A retreat of sorts, I suppose. You would be, after all, quitting your position on your bicycle saddle...