to ask if anyone EVER says 'How do you do?' in this day and age?

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Just curious as I've spotted a few people elsewhere on the web recently - all from outside the UK as far as I can tell - confidently asserting that in Britain we say 'How do you do?' when we meet a new person and that the correct response is to parrot 'How do you do?' back at them.

I'm in my mid-fifties and the words 'How do you do?' have never once crossed my lips (unless followed by something like 'long division' or 'without chocolate', that is.) I find it bemusing that people still think this is a British 'thing', but am I missing something (perhaps due to my class background)? Do people actually still say 'How do you do?' in some circles?

YABU = I've said it
YANBU = I've never said it

Never...I would feel ridiculous saying it.

I always think 'how do you do what?' so would never say it?

I was taught to say it by my dad (working class, northern, immigrant background) and I stick to it when being introduced. I also always announce myself on the phone. I can't stand it when people call me and ask if I'm me...I'm like " well, who is calling??"
Happy to be old fashioned!

DH says "how ya doin?"

@pickledandpuzzled I agree with @5128gap that ''how do you do'' adds nothing. I think what you're thinking of is that old tradition when introducing people to say ''geoffrey, this is pamela. Pamela won biggest courgette at the church fete. Pamela, Geoffrey has an allotment''.

I'm 53 and depending on the situation I will use it. My mum made us so it when we were little.

Fair enough - I wouldn't say it back because it sounds ridiculous! But it never comes up, because I am always the one saying it, and no one says it back to me in North America. When I lived in the US, I used to say it to people I was introduced to, and many of them got very flustered and answered "Errrr, I do fine!".

Rubbish

I’d say I’m working class and I’ve never said ‘alright’ in my life

52% of voters have literally said this? 🤯🤯🤯

I think we’re suffering from massive MN bias here!

I've been saying this in my head as I've read through the thread (whilst thinking of JN 😂).

Londoner here, don't say how do you do. What is the correct response? If someone were to say it to me (no one ever has)?

The correct response is 'How do you do'. Note absence of question mark to indicate absence of enquiring tone.

I use it a lot. Because the correct response back is “how do you do” i don’t have to listen to an actual update that I don’t give a stuff about. It’s much better for strangers

I still say it in formal situations, for example at work, or perhaps at a wedding or something. That’s what I saw my parents doing, what they told me to do and something that I think I’ll always do.
I’m definitely, definitely not posh.

Oh and I don’t care what the reply is. But nobody has ever said ‘how do you do what?’.

My gran used to. My partner says y'alright? And it drives my mum mad. I say, hi, how are YOU?