About huns?

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I'm fully prepared to be told that I am VU/a snob/a fucking cunting bastard etc.

Fully prepared.

But more and more and more since the recent DM shite I've noticed 'hun'ing creeping into over half the threads I click on.

It makes my teeth itch. I always want to say something but I don't want to be that arsehole.

I don't know why it annoys me. I'm not a snob so it's not that. It's just so bloody twee.

princess, love and treacle are horrid. I'm ok with hun. hate babez.

and shite is horrid. why not just say shit.

err ok maxe

Basically it's working class people isn't it. I'm sure it's not all working class people, but all the one who Hun etc are working class. So you don't like the working classes, but luckily for you, prejudice/discrimination against the working classes is totally legal and above board.

There may be a class element to it but it is more about the faux sentimentality that a pp described. A falseness that grates. My sister, love her though I do, is a hun and there's nothing to cure it.
MN, for me, is somewhere that is a bit more considered and genuine and viperish than Other Places.

Ps sister is thoroughly middle class!

I get annoyed by "L.O" instead of DS or DD. Don't know why...the term is just as valid....it's just it's not the one people use most on here so WHY use it? CONFORM DAMN YOU!

Hun & its ilk are beyond the pale. They deserve to be joined by starting a sentence with "so" & the awful shorthand that is prevalent here, along the lines of "did not answer as was busy"...

I am working class. I don't use Hun.

dylan keep digging that hole, nice of you to tell me to piss off though. Don't think I will.
Hun is used as a negative term (in Scotland and NI particularly) for protestants or those perceived to be, usually Rangers fans. So yeah it's sectarian & I stand by calling you a bigot.
"Well deserved reputation for violence and disorder" Nice of you to tar all Rangers supporters with the same brush . There are idiot fans with every team. Lumping them all together & blaming them all for the actions of some is just bullshit.

Basically it's working class people isn't it. I'm sure it's not all working class people, but all the one who Hun etc are working class. So you don't like the working classes, but luckily for you, prejudice/discrimination against the working classes is totally legal and above board

Well that's bollocks.

I've met people from across the social spectrum who hun.

But you've just reminded me what else is pissing me off here at the moment; the professionally offended who will do any amount of mental gymnastics to be able to call discrimination etc. So well done

Since it's all getting a shade tense round here, I will lighten the mood fuel the fire by sharing my ear worm of "don't let's be beastly to the Hun" by the sainted Mr Coward before I go off to bed w hubby, Dcats and LOs
Night hunz xxx

There may well be an element of class with some people who use Hun. But I think there is more to my irritation than that, because I don't dislike other wc terms of endearment, such as 'alright my duck, love, or dear'.

Saying are you OK Hun? or calling someone My Lovely, can create the feeling of an unequal power balance in the conversation. It verges on being patronising, when someone is vulnerable, it's a sort of 'mother hen' type phrase.

On an anonymous online forum it can also be used to create a clique on a specific thread, I think the people who slip a Hun into their comment are trying subconsciously to make them seem like the queen bee bestowing bountiful compassion on the poor OP.

Im totally with you there Silver, Im working class and dislike "hun". If a bloke on site says to me "Hi Hun" I ignore him.

Somehow its insincere and dismissive, have no idea why I think this but I do.

I don't view hun as a WC signifier, as stated by pp I find it more a type of faux compassion that is not class related.

Had a RL conversation with the 'd'ex-p recently, trying to figure out who a text from unknown number was from. We both sniggered at "should have guessed from the hun" - the person we know that does it was likely raised MC, she does it to sugarcoat outrageous requests. "Lenor for letters" is exactly right.

Lol

Eh max, what's wrong with shite?
Needs to be said with a Glaswegian accent though.

I'm very much WC, and I certainly do not say "Hun".

Sil is a barrister who does.

Not a class thing. Just a language thing.

YANBU

Hun
Babe
Hubby
LOL
PMSL
Eeeek

All make me vomit in my mouth!

I detest hun and I'm on full range of every benefit going and scummy WC toilet class

The problem with hun is that it signifies a kind of shallow, thoughtless, false sympathy (to me). The equivalent of a RL facial expression of overly widened eyes and plaintive brow. I bet you could make a good Hun emoji.

Nothing to do with working class or not, in my thankfully quite limited experience of hunners.

Hun is used as a negative term (in Scotland and NI particularly) for protestants or those perceived to be, usually Rangers fans.

That's weasel words. It is an (admittedly pejorative) word for a Rangers fan, no more, no less. It isn't on a par with fenian which is also a sectarian term of abuse for a Catholic.

"Well deserved reputation for violence and disorder" Nice of you to tar all Rangers supporters with the same brush hmm. There are idiot fans with every team. Lumping them all together & blaming them all for the actions of some is just bullshit

I have no love for either half of the old firm and their 17th century sectarian pantomime (two cheeks of the same arse as far as I am concerned and they day they fuck off to play in England can't come soon enough if the English leagues are daft enough to let them in).

But the behaviour of Rangers fans is demonstrably worse and research at the University of Loughborough shows that they have the worst hooligan problem in Britain

Yes of course there is a hooligan element attached to every club, but Rangers have a long history of playing the downtrodden victim card ad the club hierarchy always have a ready excuse. When they went on the rampage in Manchester in 2008 it was rogue elements who attached themselves to the club, when there was violence in Romania in 2009 it was English hooligans infiltrating the Rangers support and the Rangers fans were only responding to provocation at Hamden last month when they fought Hibs fans on the pitich. It is always some else's fault and the line coming out of Ibrox is always that they are the wronged party.

Years ago my friend lived in Ibrox. So many Huns on match days! Most of them were perfectly nice, but I did learn the words to a few sectarian songs, belted out from the stands on Saturday afternoons. Never heard it used to refer to all protestants though.

I quite like the term as a diminutive of honey, mainly because another friend uses it and I associate it with her. I also like shite, but preferably enunciated at length: shiiiiiiite.

Hubby makes me feel physically sick.