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to smirk when my sister's fiance calls her darling?

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NoBiggy · 24/04/2007 00:51

She's middle class all of a sudden. Keep thinking of Richard Briers and Felicity Kendall.

Go on, tell me to grow up.

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chocolattegirl · 24/04/2007 13:40

I don't have a nickname for my dp. He calls me cat. Probably as my favourite occupation is sleeping .

laudaud · 24/04/2007 13:06

my Dh calls me honey and recently DD (2 in June) has starting shouting honey at me - funny and embarassing at the same time.

UtterPigsty · 24/04/2007 13:03

dh cals me sweetheart

i think - once a year or thereabouts.

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NoBiggy · 24/04/2007 13:02

I do. When it's said in that indulgent pat-on-the-bottom-oh-you've-warmed-my-slippers way.

You're maybe thinking something else by the phrase, but I know what I mean, and I'm struggling to convey it. Reggie and Elizabeth Perrin. Bit like that.

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expatinscotland · 24/04/2007 12:58

Pigsty prefers 'hun'.

littlelapin · 24/04/2007 12:58

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expatinscotland · 24/04/2007 12:58

Well, everyone knows you're a chav, anyhow, Pigsty .

UtterPigsty · 24/04/2007 12:57

i hate darlign as a term tbh

expatinscotland · 24/04/2007 12:57

Then I take it NoB has never been to my home state .

In which case it would be 'darlin' instead of darling, anyhow.

Judy1234 · 24/04/2007 12:55

"She's middle class all of a sudden". That was in the olriginal post so presumably NoB thinks it is middle class to use "darling"

littlelapin · 24/04/2007 12:49

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mytwopenceworth · 24/04/2007 12:46

i can't remember in the best part of a decade together, my dh ever calling me by name! he usually calls me Gorgeousness.

he's clearly deluded, but that's beside the point.

perhaps he just can't remember my name and it's become more and more difficult to ask me as the years have gone by!

MamaG · 24/04/2007 12:43

When DD was in year 1, DH wen tot collect her and she called "hi darling" across the classroom

her teacher rofld

MamaG · 24/04/2007 12:43

did you have your paw up too?

TeeCee · 24/04/2007 12:43

I don't think there is anything wrong with calling each other darling or babe either for that matter.

Dp calls me babe and I like it.
In fact we use darlin and babe so much that DD1 now shouts up the stairs 'babe' to me! LOL!

littlelapin · 24/04/2007 12:42

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MamaG · 24/04/2007 12:39

agog at rabbit getting bitey

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NoBiggy · 24/04/2007 12:34

It's just so outside my experience - my parents and grandparents refer to each other by their names, my dp's parents...well actually they don't speak to each other, so by default no darlings going on there. BIL and SIL, B and SIL names again.

It's not like my actor friends calling everyone darling, they'll freely admit it's because they can never remember who everyone is. It's not gushing, it just sounds twee.

And it grates, but I should get over it. Agreed.

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littlelapin · 24/04/2007 11:05

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chocolattegirl · 24/04/2007 11:03

The ones obsessed by class now are the ones whose ancestors either shagged their way into it or who bought titles etc.

They're no classier than the rest of us and probably less classy than most.

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easywriter · 24/04/2007 10:59

I thought those obsessed by class are the one's with all the cash who haven't been taught to share properly!

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BonnieDarko · 24/04/2007 10:56

Also, I call dd 'duck'. Wtf? Where did that come from?