To hate being called "my lovely" by people who

[mrsmaltesers]

absolutely would not in a million years think of me as "lovely"

I find it so false and cheesy and just bloody awful and it realllllly gets kn my tits when i am blatently not a "lovely" person at all.

It would be like calling heidi klum "hello my fatty".

That was a stupid example but i am in a very unreasonable and non-lovely mood.

yanbu I detest it too, along with 'sweetheart' 'love' 'hun' et al. Especially from people I've never met, I really don't like over familiarity at all. I detest work emails that involve 'hun', smiley faces or kisses. ITS WORK PEOPLE! NOT A TEENAGE LOVE IN!

People just do that to be polite.
Obviously the work situation is different.
Most people I have ever met do this and it's a form of greeting and it's pleasant to do it in my humble opinion.

I can think of worse things to be called.

Pmsl! Agree. All that hun bollocks gets right on my tits

Depends where you are I suppose.

Here (Cornwall) it is used everywhere as a greeting and a goodbye and often several times in between. Varies with the age of the speaker to some extent.

You curmudgeon. Why are you 'obviously' unlovely btw? You can't be that bad surely?

Hmmmmm .... I suppose it dependsd who is saykng it. But when its someone i don't like it is false with a big fat F.

Perhaps I should ask to be called "hello, my over-sensitive bad mooded old cow". At least there would be no falseness

I dislike it because I find it false too.

I do however enjoy the word 'curmudgeon'.

Agree with Pendeen. In Devon the older generation address everyone as my lover (moi luverrrrr) and I have a great fondness for it. I think its rather sweet. But when younger people call you Hun or whatever, I feel it is false and a little patronising so I guess it depends on who is doing it!

I don't mind hearing it but I can't stand reading it on forums for some reason

It can read as quite patronising even if it's not meant to.

Yes, I can see that it would depend who was saying it. A really good friend of mine calls me 'hun' in texts and speech, which does make me clench a bit, but it's meant in a genuinely affectionate way.

It's better than 'alright cuntface'

Yes, if it was a nice old person who called me it because they didn't know me/my name i wouldn't mind

This is really a rant about my bil's wife who is fulll of shit and calls people ot when she wants them to change all their plans for her at short notice ....

Grr, growl, moan, etc.

I really like being called love or duck because it means I'm back North of Birmingham.

Ah, the truth is revealed. You curmudgeonly drip-feeder!

Would be LOL if someone called me cuntface. I am not that hairy, surely.

The guy at the coop the other day called the guy in front of me 'matey' and 'pal' and least 10 times in one small till exchange. I find it immensely irritating when someone I dont know does that to me. That being said I really like visiting Stoke where they call you 'duck'. Something about that is just cute!

Depends on whether your a hobbit.

Damn. YOU'RE not YOUR

Damn again. It's not hobbits that are 'my lovelies' is it, it's flying monkies. Are you a flying monkey?

"People just do that to be polite."

What's wrong with first names?

" What's wrong with first names? "

If they don't know your first name?

alreet cockers!!

kladkakka. Have not seen hobbit films so not understanding the flying monkey thing either ... My lovely.

Flying monkeys are your pretties, not your lovelies.
HTH.