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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!
Jeff |
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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...
Les |
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Location: Las Vegas | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
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Les
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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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don't call me dude
