to wish that people wouldn't say "cheers" when they mean "thankyou" ?

[vienna1981]

This usage aspect has always got up my nose. I just think it's lazy and vaguely disrespectful when "thankyou" is just as easy to say and has a more polite ring to it.

Sorry if this is a massive irrelevance folks. It's been one of those weeks at work. I'm tired and struggling for a subject .

Anothers 'cheers' bod here, I like it.

DH says 'cheers' to taxi drivers and builders. It comes out 'chiz'.

It's not condescending. It's his attempt to be a man of the people even though he wears a suit and has manicures.

His need to be liked is quite endearing really.

You know it's not obligatory to post right?

What winds me up is people not saying anything, especially shop keepers, so a cheers is more than enough.

Oh, and....chill the fuck out.

oh I went to m&s for my industrial wedding underwear Toss it worked!

I use cheers/thanks interchangeably. Who cares??!!

Arf @ Limited.

My XDH does that too, but mainly to tradespeople.
He gets all intimidated by the tool belts and hi vis so turns into Del Boy.
He also says 'sorted' a lot and develops an odd manly stance.

He's a 45yo Welsh lovey.

I use cheers all the time
My bad

YANBU.
it's 'thank you' not 'cheers'.
i knew a guy who did this all the time.
i never, ever once heard him say the words 'please' or 'thank you' in all the years i knew him.
he was a little bit thoughtless and ignorant too, now that i think about it.

I promise to spell "thankyou" as "thank you" from now on. This phone makes me do it anyway .

I say "Cheers" when buying something in a pub or market but "Thank You" when buying something in a shop and I didn't realise I did this until just now.

I also use "Cheers" as a way of saying "Bye". I do say "Bye" too just not at the same time. Friends I say, "Laters".

If I've got a drink I usually say "Chin-Chin" no idea why.

i can't help feeling irritated by having 'cheers' said to me meaning thaks, but on the other hand I even have a problem when I'm expected to use it when clinking glasses with others! Can anyone explain (without being rude!)?

I always say this, I just think it's a friendlier way of saying thank you

I say cheers, I think it sounds friendly and jolly.

Sometimes say cheers.

I am in London. I hear it often.

See when it's a face to face conversation I think cheers is almost friendlier than thank you, which sounds rather formal.

However, cheers should never be in the written form. This irritates me greatly.

Yes, I'm irrational.

I say "cheers" for thanks all the time.

However

Sorry if this is a massive irrelevance folks. It's been one of those weeks at work. I'm tired and struggling for a subject

It sucks when you're strapped for something totally inoffensive to take umbrage at, doesn't it?

From the urban dictionary:

A word used by Britons on any occasion, covering any meaning from 'thanks', 'hello', 'no problem', to 'an alien just raped your chinchilla in the left corner of my blue garden shed'. Usually followed by the term 'mate', which is also 100% devoid of semantic content and meaning. This phenomenon is taken by some continental scholars as strong evidence that all Britons are telepathic.

A very common word, mostly used in the United Kingdom, with 4 different meanings:

1. thanks!

1. ya r welcome!

1. bye

1. before drinking anything with ya homies

Apart from that it confuses Americans who only use it when drinking.

Get over it, love.