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Location: NJ | what is it about someone calling me 'dude' that just makes me nuts???
It just turns me off, always did always will. I have no clue why. but it sounds so damn derogatory and dated to me.
I guess usually those calling me dude are either way burned out or salesman trying to sell me something.
there was a song in the 80's called
don't call me dude, dude..... |
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Location: Le Havre (France) | Well, it doesn't disturb me when someone calls me Dude :rolleyes: :rolleyes: |
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Location: NJ | Irks me to no end, as well. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ..same here...as does when a "Salesperson/waiter" who asks me and my wife "Can I help you guys?".... last time I checked, my wife certainly isn't a "guy"! |
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| anything but "sir" |
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| Now I'm trying to remember if I called any of you Dude?
OK let me get this straight; I like Paypal, I don't like Dude. I like Paypal, I don't like Dude. I like Paypal I don't like Dude.......................
I got'ta do better I got'ta try harder!
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Location: Phoenix AZ | And there was this dude that refused to take paypal ...
Al - Why in the world would you even start a thread like this? You're just opening yourself up for all kinds of crap. Do you enjoy the pain? |
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Location: Omaha, NE | This just started in my house a few weeks ago. My daughters have taken to using "Dude" as an everpresent part of speech. eg:
"Dude, when are we going to have dinner?"
"Dude, I can't believe you said that!"
"Dude, no way I'm doing that."
etc, etc, etc.
I've found that the best way to break them of these habits is to have their dorky, nerdy dad adopt their speech manerisms. Nothing says "not cool" quite like having dad do it. It worked on "like" (eg, "like, I really like like that new like car. It is like the coolest! You like know what I like mean?") I'm hoping to crush 'dude' as well.
Cheers!
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | To me, it depends on who is saying it and how. If it's one of my amigos from snowboarding, in which case it's cool.
If it's said with a snear, from someone trying to run me over while I'm on my bike, then it's a put down, like you're an effette poser from a dude ranch.
There are Dudes, and then there're Dudes. |
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Location: Vermont USA | I have been called a lot of different things, some of which I can't say on this board. One reason I feel I should get a Mothers day card, after all I've been called a mother%$#^@*&&(^%. So with that in mind dude isn't so bad. But I do agree with Al there are some people who should not use the word Dude.
Dude - An Easterner or city person who vacations on a ranch in the West. A man who is very fancy or sharp in dress and demeanor.
Slang.
1. A man; a fellow.
2. dudes Persons of either sex |
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Location: Orange County, California | In the old west, it was also slang for gay cowboys...(it got lonely out there on the plains) :p |
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Location: Las Vegas | I'd rather someone call me "Dude" or "Man" or "Guy" than "Homey", that's for sure.
Why? Call me old-fashioned.
Yo.
Les
;)
What do you prefer to be called if someone doesn't know your name and would like to still show a casual friendly familiarity?
"Pardon me, Sir"
"Excuse me, fella"
"Hey Man"
"Hey Dude"
"Yo Homey"
"Hey you!"
Then there was the unique and highly original but still slightly patronizing:
"There he is!" said to you about you, of course. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | What do I know. I'm just a Gay Cowboy who sells equipment for a living. Dave |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I started counting whenever my daughters or their friends would say "like". Sometimes I'd get to 10 or so before they finished a sentence. They didn't correct their speech, but they did shut up around me. Paul, can I be a dude if I've never owned a pair of cowboy boots? I noticed the guy who got performer of the year last night on the CMA awards, didn't have a hat and had long hair and a British? accent. The cowboys I grew up with would have shaved my head if I tried to say I was "country" and had hair like that. |
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Location: GA USA | Guilty. In fact, in the presence of more than one dude, I may refer to them as "the dudesters union." |
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Location: NJ | Australian(accent). |
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Location: Vermont USA | can I be a dude if I've never owned a pair of cowboy boots? Only if you are wearing Rhinestone a jacket, with a cowboy hat. I'm so lonesome I could (nah)
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Location: North Texas | It was that Dell ad campaign that resurected the term. The proper use of the word goes something like this: "There was this surfer dude who had this bitchen, bad ass woody up at county line..." Back in the fifties, Dude was used all the time. Before that it was "Fella". In the sixties "Man", or the variation "Mone", was popular. Seventies was "Guy". Dude will fade out again. Then it'll come back. Some communities tend to make up names constantly. Can you dig it homeys? I guess "Dawg", or "Dog" is still in vogue, but that may be passe by now. I can't keep up, Vatos. Being called Dude does not bug as much as being called "sport". These expressions get old fast. |
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Location: south east Michigan | If your a "Lost" fan, you hear it all the time. |
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Location: GA USA | ...  |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Maybe we should settle this with a poll? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Dude, you are, like, so right on! |
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Location: Las Vegas | Not to mention the "Dude" series of ovation amps...
But I thought it was Bart Simspon who really resurrected the word "Dude" at the apotheosis of its popularity in the early 90's, and probably planted the dastardly seed among today's youth...
Now where's my darn cane...
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Location: Las Vegas | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | You guys are giving Al To Much Abuse.. Go to your rooms and play Guitar for an hour until you can play nicer! :rolleyes:
Lets see....play guitar for an hour..not much of a punishment is it? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Dudecycle is acceptable however. Used properly, of course. |
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Location: Southern California | Dude died, dude came back... Again. And again. And again. Dude's got a Lazarus complex. Dude's been a surfer, dude's been a gay cowboy, dude's been a dude. When dude has a 'tude, dude can be rude. Do I mind dude? Depends on my mood!
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Dudette? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I use "Dude" among close friends...
As a friend, I am admitting they are right about something, "Dude, yer right"
Less often, "Dude, yer wrong"
...In any case, "The Dude, abides" |
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Location: NJ | here it is
scatterbrain was the band and this is the tune
10. Don't Call Me Dude
Here's my story, sad but true
About a girl that I once knew.
She broke my heart, I became unglued,
It all started when she called me dude
Well today I leave the psycho ward
Cause my sentence did conclude:
I had killed a man with my bare hands
Because he called me dude
The jury said that I was insane.
Temporally insane - brain strain.
But now the doctors say I'm A.O.K.
So I start my new life today.
This story starts some years ago
As I vacationed by the sea.
In the California sunshine
Just me & my baby.
I was in love feeling sky high
When a big blonde lifeguard walked by.
He looked at her, she looked at him -
I knew it was good bye.
He took her by the hand, kicked sand in my face.
She looked & laughed & said, "Later Dude!"
They were gone without a trace
And the waves echoed her laughter
And her words...Yo Later Dude.
Later that night I was in such a bad mood
Sittin' in a bar drinkin' hard, getting stewed
Thinkin' 'bout that girl & how 'bout I'd been screwed
When some guy walks in sits next to me & says
What's up dude!
I heard the word dude & I became unglued.
Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch
And put my hands around his neck, and I squeezed...
Don't call me dude!
So that's how I got where I am
But this ain't where it ends.
The doctors said they cured me
I said good bye to my crazy friends.
I was smiling as I left that place
My life had been renewed.
The guard at the gate, he stamped my pass
And he said, "Yo Later Dude!"
Slowly I turned... |
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Location: North Texas | Cool tune Du...... Amigo |
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | Dude looks like a lady...
Ahem. Moving swiftly on.
I can sympathise - the one currently sweeping this particular Island is "Mate" (apparently a cockney-London-type spinoff). A piece of my composure is eroded every time I get called it by someone who isn't even a remote acquaintance.
"Listen, my unknown person who I've just bought this coat from. I'm not your mate, and we both know for a fact that this coat costs more than you or I earn in a 7-hour day. Please don't call me Mate - I'm not your mate, and I couldn't even tell you whether your wearing your own or someone else's name badge."
Even worse is "Sir" though. I'm not old enough to be Sir. In my mind, I'm barely old enough to be "Son"...
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Location: Midland, MI | I'd rather be called TheNameThatShallNotBeMentioned (TNTSNBM...er, dude) than any of:
Homey
Homeboy
Homeskillet
Homefries
Brutha
Bro (this one drives me crazy)
Brother
My Brotha
Crackah
Cracker
MoFo
MaFugly
Sport
I will admit to using the term 'Chief' in a smugly patronizing, subtly derogatory manner, especially with salesdroids. Example:
Salesdroid: Like, s'up, homefries, you gwon check out dat Lez Paul up der?
Me: Errrr, beg pardon?
Salesdroid: Yo' bro, s'ok, I kin get any ting down da wall you wan.
Me: Uh, riiiight. Thanks, I'm just killing time.
Salesdroid: S'ok, bro, I'm not pressurin' you no how, you dig, my brutha?
Me: I see on your badge that your name is 'Carlton.' What say you drop the east side affectation, Carlton, and if I need some help I'll come find you?
Salesdroid: Why crackah wan do me like dat? Yo, crazy MoFo don' know de sco. I's jes tryin' make some bank, he-uh.
Me: Ok, *Chief*, got it. Which way was the exit?
That fake 'gangsta' thing, especially when adopted by whitebread, middle class punks, irritates the hell out of me. Call me dude any day. And don't get me going on multiple, visible piercings, especially nose rings and those big freaking plugs they put in their ear lobes now... |
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Location: Vermont USA | I must say a simple four letter word has spun us all out of control. Maybe this word should be added to the seven words that can not be said on radio or t.v. I was reading in the book of Matthew and I saw the word Raca which means empty headed fool. So again it could be much worse.
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Location: New Hampsha | "I guess "Dawg", or "Dog" is still in vogue, but that may be passe by now." - Buckaroo
Geez, I hope not, dudes! |
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Location: GA USA | In addition to Dude, I regularly use Boss, Bossman and Homeslice, and adjectives like awesome, awesomniforous, and incredibalistic. Should I just stay away from Al? |
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Location: NJ | Most people DO . . |
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Location: North Texas | Cruster, I like your play. Will they be making the movie? I don't understand, either, why a middle class suburbanite wants to pretend he's from the projects, and master the eubonic dialects. Unfortunately, white folks are not allowed to embrace their own culture, so some of them might feel the need to adopt someone elses'. Did anyone see the Caucasian Music Awards on TV? Me neither. All we've got left is Riverdancing and Oktoberfest. Slim pickens my bruthas. ;) |
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Location: Evansville,IN | Call me anything you want, just don't call me late for dinner. :D :D |
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Location: Orange County, California | I sometimes like to use only the first letter of your name like they did in men in black. Sometimes it works better as "A Man" or "B Gurl" (intentionally mispelled). or I just might call you Freak..... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Buckaroo:
....white middle class suburbanite...are not allowed to embrace their own culture what's the difference betwen white middle class suburanites and yogurt?
....yogurt has an active culture. |
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Location: NJ | I use boss, probably because I watched too many prison movies. |
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Location: North Texas | Jeff, Funny! |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I'm typically backed into calling people "HEY! Quit throwin' sh*t at me or I'll knock your a$$ of that stool, alright?!?" but maybe I'm a little off target here.
And that probably wouldn't be the first or last time either. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Frankly, I've lost count |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Don't you have wood to scorch somewhere? |
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Location: Utah | "Dude" just somehow seems to lack respect, especially when used by a teenager or professional subordinate towards me. Other times it doesn't bug me, but it does make me wonder about the maturity of the person using it sometimes. |
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Location: Orange County, California | Originally posted by alpep:
I use boss, probably because I watched too many prison movies. Right Al... whatever you say.... :p :D :p |
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don't call me dude