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The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

ThesFlishThngs

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Has 'guys' been mentioned already? More and more it annoys me to be addressed (sometimes by sales people but mostly by servers in restaurants) as "guys" or "you guys". Maybe my husband is a guy, but I'm not.
"Hey guys, what's up?"
"Can I bring you guys a drink?"

Maybe it's supposed to evoke a feeling of casual friendliness and familiarity, but it rubs me the wrong way.
 

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ThesFlishThngs said:
Maybe my husband is a guy, but I'm not.

Exactly! It's the same as being addressed as "man" or "dude". Try again, bucko.

I abhor "yo". One day, some fresh little punk coming up to me with a huge grin and exclaiming "YO!" will awaken my murderous inner potential.
 

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Some of Miss Manners' readers who are professors and instructors are unhappy because their students call them by their first name. :confused: It never occurred to me to call my professors anything but Mr., Ms. or Dr.
 

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Marc Chevalier said:
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"Yo!" is as annoying now as "yoo hoo!" was back then.


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Yeah, but there'll never be a delicious chocolate drink called "Yo!"
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Paisley said:
Some of Miss Manners' readers who are professors and instructors are unhappy because their students call them by their first name. :confused: It never occurred to me to call my professors anything but Mr., Ms. or Dr.

Me either, its disrespectful. In high school and college for me, it was Sir or Miss, and Dr. if they were PhD. One girl I knew got suspended for insistently calling a Physics teacher "Gary."

Marc Chevalier said:
But the future might yield a high power/energy drink named "Yo!" :eusa_doh:

Perish the thought!
 
Paisley said:
Some of Miss Manners' readers who are professors and instructors are unhappy because their students call them by their first name. :confused: It never occurred to me to call my professors anything but Mr., Ms. or Dr.


You have hit on one of my pet peeves. Students should not call teachers by their first names but nowadays there are teachers who encourage this! :eusa_doh: My son's preschool teacher wants to be called by her first name. It drives me nuts! Fortunately, her assistant wants to be called Mr. Duke. :D I think their profession brings that upon themselves when they do that. As a parent you are stuck if that is what they want but I can say that he should put a Miss or Mrs. in front of that first name. ;)
Next on the list are children who call adults by their first name. I prefer to be called Mr. as I am not their friend or their peer. :rolleyes: You see so many people wanting to be called by their first name now. I even have been told about parents that their children call them by their first name over mother or father. :rolleyes: :eusa_doh: The respect just goes out the window. :mad:
 

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jamespowers said:
You see so many people wanting to be called by their first name now. I even have been told about parents that their children call them by their first name over mother or father. :rolleyes: :eusa_doh: The respect just goes out the window. :mad:

Ever since I could speak, I never called a friend's parent by their first name unless expressly asked to, usually after getting to know them very well!

Children calling their parents by their names blows my mind. They sound like work colleagues :confused: My parents would have given me a good tongue-lashing if I had dared to call them Lorraine or Frank.
 

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Strangely, my father wants everybody--even small children--to call him Bud. Publicly, he's extremely egalitarian. Privately, not so much. [huh]
 
Paisley said:
Strangely, my father wants everybody--even small children--to call him Bud. Publicly, he's extremely egalitarian. Privately, not so much. [huh]


lol lol lol lol I am just the opposite. I want to be thought of as a curmudgeon so people leave me alone unless I go out of my way to talk to them. ;) :p
I guess I am like my father in that way. My friends were scared to death of my father. :p
 

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