Girls, do you prefer men to call you 'babe' or 'darling'?
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Girls, do you prefer men to call you 'babe' or 'darling'?Alright, babe?
Alright, darling?
For me, the darling one seems something a dirty working class man would say on a building site, every time a piece of skirt walked past him and his lads as they each ogled at The Sun during theit lunchbreak.
However, if I am familiar with someone, I always say "alright, babe?". Some of my friends call me babe too. It doesn't have to mean that you're dating.
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Re: Girls, do you prefer men to call you 'babe' or 'darling'?I use their name, and if I don't know it I'll avoid calling them anything and probably just say "excuse me...". Calling people babe, hun, pal, bledrin is something I'm never going to do. "Mate" is probably the only thing I can manage.
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Re: Girls, do you prefer men to call you 'babe' or 'darling'?Well, if it's a friend, neither. If it's a boyfriend, I don't know, kind of becomes not-so-odd for either.
Regardless though, it could be worst, just don't start going up to women and saying things like "Wagwan geeza, mi name's Joey, i'm from essex ye rudebwoiii n' i'm ****ing reem, son
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Re: Girls, do you prefer men to call you 'babe' or 'darling'?Neither, because my uncle calls me both since it's so ingrained in his vocabulary. I'll make my him a cup of tea and his automatic response is 'cheers babe' or when he sees me he'll say: "You alright darling?"
He's the only person I don't mind saying it because I'm used to it from him.Last edited by KJane; 19-04-2012 at 14:29. -
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Re: Girls, do you prefer men to call you 'babe' or 'darling'?Alright Luv? - for old women
Alright sexy? - too flirtatious and desperate
Alright darling? - too working class
Alright babe? friendly and sincere
Alright girl? Too impersonal -
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Re: Girls, do you prefer men to call you 'babe' or 'darling'?Neither, really - I'd rather just be called by my name. Fair enough if you do like being called either but it makes me cringe. In the early stages of our relationship my boyfriend called me "babe" once and I immediately told him never to do that again
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Re: Girls, do you prefer men to call you 'babe' or 'darling'?I only allow close friends to call me darling, since we're joking. I only allow it as a joke since it's pointlessly mushy.
Babe is a horridly unpleasant word to call anyone, I hate the sound and I hate the connotations.
Sweetheart etc. also annoys me, more common from women than men that I've found. Please just ask my name. I have one.
'Dear' is okay assuming you don't know their name, it's like, 'dear so and so', a little less intimate without being patronising.
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