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.

I call everyone Darling. It is profoundly annoying, I'm quite sure. It has become habit, through hanging out with small children. I like doing it.

ok hands up I call everybody darling too. Not because I have worked/hung out with small children but darling of the prada variety. Intensely annoying I'm sure but hey.

But is it darlin', darrrlin' or daaaaaaaahling?

I very much fear it's the latter.

Glad to know I'm not alone.

I don't dear/darling/hun/love people.

Even though I do like some of them.

Unless I'm being sarcastic, of course.

But I hate it when complete strangers call me anything like that. Apart from lovely older ladies/gentlemen do it. I feel they have earned the right to do it. :o

phew

The thing that drives me mad online is when people write 'hun' as a term of endearment. Unless I'm missing some major leap of logic here, what they mean is 'hon', short for 'honey'. A 'Hun' is one of a rather nasty-sounding gang of nomadic triibesmen who invaded Europe in 3 or 400 AD under Atilla the Hun. Or I can think of a couple of other modern usages, none of them remotely complimentary.

some of us aren't loved-up enough to care about a stray u tbh hun.

I call people 'Lovey' or 'Darling' as a matter of course. I feel there is no hope for me *

In a working class way, not a theatre* way.

** I don't even pronounce it thee-eter

'My lovely' makes me think of a witch pretending to be friendly, just before she chops you up and puts you in the stew pot.

'Come here my lovely and sit by me'. Chop, chop, chop...

:o @ Totem channelling the Wicked Witch of the East West (?)

Oh no, that was My Pretty...

"My duck" is popular in the Midlands, somewhat disconcerting the first few times...

I also call people Sweetie.

I should probably explain that in addition to being afflicted with two children I am a journalist