And I thought "bro" was cringey. I use "bro".

Literally nobody here (I've surveyed every single Irish person) uses that word. Though some may say "brother". But never bro.

Bud, dude, boss.. all in my vocab.

Only knackers (pikeys/gypsies/travellers/itinerants) call you boss. It's really annoying, as it's almost a derogatory term. "You want to buy this, boss? Only ten quid, boss!"

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We even use bro in German. I do cringe a bit every time, but use it myself.

Asians use that here as well as boss.

Anyone who calls anyone, other than their employer, boss, ought to be shot.

Assumptions again. Who would of thought the dude with a collection of Hitler pictures to use for his avatar would be triggered by a harmless word because, just like many other words that you aren't getting upset about, it could be used to imply inferiority? Especially as often as you call people ***gots. That slur has literally no context issue and is flat out used to degrade gay people but you use it more than mindfulness uses gifs yet this is where you think it goes too far? **** out of here with this stupid ass ****. Is youngster or kid now hateful because it's used to condescend younger people? Like damn, IDK maybe you're right. Maybe I should be worried about the guy who called Sally honey while working the drive through and not the dude who was actively showing his appreciation of Nazi music. That chauvinist pig. And you're actually gonna pretend that you don't say **** that has never been degrading to women at all. Nah, this is just stupid.

^ Ah yes! That under-examined phenomenon, the ability to be self-cringing, is one of the characteristics that distinguishes the human species from other animals.
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...and, although I wouldn't put it so bluntly, I think Luccem has a point. Words like "honey" from an old guy to a young girl may be unthinkingly patronising, but they are said with good intention aren't they? Their message is, "Let's be friendly instead of formal" which is a well-intended gesture, especially given that the specific circumstance Batlord is talking about is "customer to service employee." The convention, which is probably enshrined in the employer's rule book, is that the employee must show deference to the customer, so when the customer says, "honey" isn't he saying, "Let's forget that old-fashioned subservience stuff and adopt a friendlier style" ?

@ Batlord: May I suggest that you see past the irritating words like "honey" and give credit to the friendly intention behind them. Then you'd be able to move on and entertain us all by ranting about something more worthy of your undoubted powers of invective.