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Like it was a youngish crowd and some bloke i'd never met before goes and 'dudettes' also???I always thought it was a uni-sex word 'dudes'.Please correct me if i'm wrong.TYIA

According to Wikipedia it's just slang for an individual here.

You're not wrong, but possibly slightly cringy.

Dudes is very Bill and Ted.

Would you mind if i said 'thanks dude' to you then Robin ?

I hate that word. My housemate walks in saying that Every. Sodding. Day. Hate it.

I think it's unisex though?

It makes me think of early 90s and strange air guitar antics!

Thanks Beaver

lol Robin

It was in a chat room on line btw

I say Lads. With a thick Irish accent. Seems to cover all sorts.

HTH

YAWBU to use 'dudettes'!

TSC used to call everyone 'dude' on here.

BottomWeekly will you say that to a room full of both sexes?

LRD what does YAWBU mean please? TYIA

'You would be unreasonable'.

But I don't mean it entirely seriously!

I think 'dudettes' sounds funny. And you could argue it is less feminist to take a term that isn't gender-specific and make up a secondary term that is obviously feminine to supplement it.

<nods wisely>

I was thinking of TSC when I read the op.
Where is she?
I liked her.

Dudes? I can only say that word if I put on a California, skater, stoner voice.

She got banned for things she shouldn't have got banned for, basically.

Not that I'm partisan.

It was an online chat room. Who cares?

Technically you didn't walk into A room of people either...

Thanks LRD i ended up in a bit of a barney with this bloke .I apologised because i thought i must be in the wrong i say 'sorry ladys good evening to you aswell'(whatever) then i go 'How's it going' and then he goes 'How's what going?' .I left the room WAs he being unreasonable or was i being unreasonable? We have since gone on to have a massive fight on line about this today.Your thoughts please?

He's an arse.

fair call Fakebook

I tend to just use peeps when I'm saying hello or goodbye to family and friends. Xx

Thanks VivaLeBeaver .that's made me feel better , been feeling shyte about it most of the day

I think that bloke sounds like a pedant of twatty proportions and you should tell him to fuck right off

This is the second thread I have seen this evening where the sadly-missed TSC has been mentioned

I think life is too short! He sounds bizarre.

I say dude all the time, I like it. Male or female, everyone is a dude. Dude.

lol nicki very 1990

he was bizarre LRD and very angry

Dudes means men or boys in my book. As does guys (kids TV presenters please note)

hey picnicbasketcase high five dude

Yes, I say guys. Unisex.

Tell the bloke he's an arse, a rude arse. Then tell him to fuck right off. It's him not you.

Good god, do people really say "dude"?

And (even worse) "dudette"???

Mmm. I avoid guys as I think of it being gendered.

Guess it is all up for debate.

I know originally 'GUYS' i always thought was a male word and has become a uni-sex word like 'DUDES' has imo. I wonder what Charlie Brown or Beavis and Butthead would have made of it all.

'Shaggy' from Scooby do used to say it and i think he used to say it to the girls I think they were called 'Thelma and Louise'.

Thanks for all your kind words and support i appreciate it

I consider guys to be better than girls. Someone at work who is my senior in job terms but only about 5yo than me refers to me and my counterpart as "the girls". It gets on my tits. I've a fairly senior job though not as senior as hers. Makes me feel like a 16yo YTS trainee.

Velma and daphne?

Thelma and daphne

Dudes unisex though slightly cringey
As is guys

Vella

Duck it. Velma sodding phone

Thanks VivaLeBeaver nice one

What about the rhyming 'Hi Guys' ? Surely thats has a nice ring to it and is a 'cool' thing to say .It seems to send out a message of youthfulness .I expect you wouldn't say it to a bunch of grannies and grandads nor 'dudes'

My dog is called Dude and he is a sock eating little bastard ( well not little cos he is a Dogue De Bordeaux so already 8 stone at 10 month old

Everyone thinks its hysterical that we called one of our dogs Dude, but as we have a Shabba, Spooks, Narca, Chullo, Hussey the tart & one called Hooker, Dude is a pretty normal name to us

my next dog will be called OY

Maybe it's a regional thing but round this way a dude is male!

You should have been pulled up for using the incorrect greeting. The correct form is clearly, 'Yo dudes!'.

vivalebeaver i can totally relate to that being called 'the girls' would drive me round the bend i supposed you could start saying alright 'girl' to her when she talks to you like that or is that a bit nonchalant maybe but is infact mirroring what she is saying. It was bit like me growing up as the youngest son i was always referred to as a 'little brother' by my elder brother and i jsut hated it being called 'little' in the same way you hate being called 'the girls' .It used to bug me

ArbitraryUsername , well spotted

Online chat room
Alright numpties
Wassup muppets
Yo dudinis
Howdy suckers

All fine

He was a twat. Greet people how you want, as long as its appropriate and with friendly intent

Dude is for everybody here, but suits guys more imho.

Thanks for that BarbecuedBillygoats.I was trying to be friendly , like i am here much appreciated.

Dude, I use for male and female, same as I do with Guys. I would never use Dudette, that is just totally wrong Dude!

and sing ... "Dude (looks like a lady)!"

You know when someone's angry at you online, here's what you do.

You ignore them. you carry on a conversation with those around them and you don't respond to their posts. You be light, you be jolly and you give NO indication that you can even see their posts.

They get so wound up they are chewing their keyboard and there's nothing they can do

It is very childish but immensely satisfying.

Out HT (female) calls us "Lads". There's one male member of staff.

Use lads here too. For my approaching their seventies Irish aunts in particular

Dudes and guys are unisex these days IMO.