You all are ridiculous. I wanna call a bitch a girl u call her a girl I wanna call a black dude a boy I call him a dude I wanna call my mother dawn I call her dawn.

I can say whatever I want. When I say something you will know if it insulting or not. I do not need Putin and the pc police walking around telling me what I am allowed to say and whether or not my language is inflammatory.

If I ask my black buddy hey where are all your
Boys at. It's fine, if I say boy you crazy as shit it's also fine.

If I call a 21 yo female a girl it is certainly fine.

Don't try to place your own twisted bullshit meaning on words in ways that no one else finds insulting. Nowhere is chick an insulting way to refer to a woman it is an ageless word and is essentially the female form of dude.

And get the fucking sticks out of your asses it's downright pathetic.

...so am I still the most obtuse, or...

Holy fuck are you so craved for attention that I need to respond to everything you post within seconds?

...what? Please tell me you realize that last comment was referencing centurion's post.

No I love you PE

"But when you're blatantly being a hypocrite and not owning up to it when called on it, and actually doubling down on it?"

The conversation had already shifted from pee & rape jokes to a discussion on gender terms. There was no need to 'call out' Draugnar as his raunchy juvenile nonsense was irrelevant to what everybody else was talking about. But you're just looking for stuff at this point and don't really care. I must respond to every ridiculous comment made within a thread else I'm a 'hypocrite'. Because that's my job. Just like it's your job to defend every offensive schmuck on here. Every single one.

'Holy fuck.' :This liberation from offensive phrases is so embracing.



Douche bags. Why don't all these people who don't agree with me realise they are wrong!?!?!

I wish the PC police were given billy clubs. I'd name mine the "Peacemaker", in honor of the Chicago PD.

"I wish the PC police were given billy clubs."

Yes, that's what we need to be free!

Why are we legitimaely engaging in any sort of debate with an individual with such a long rod stuck up his ass hes bothered by "pee" jokes like,

"I cry when I pee"

Well, 'cunts' having, among other things, the quality of being used, more often than not, to insult women instead of men, I figured you might have something to say to that.

But no matter. You're right, that's our job, let's not kid ourselves into thinking we have any other reason to be on this rock. Yin and yang, babe.

I guess since I ain't touchin' centurion's post with this ~5 foot pool cue next to the desk that I'm doing a lousy job at my job at that!

I'm not bothered. Continue your attempts at humor. Webdip is to humor what post-modernism is to art.

"I'm not bothered."

Lol. Yes. 3 whole pages of not bothered.

Because I was talking to myself, and the discussion was all about pee.

"Because I was talking to myself"

At least we're coming back to answering the title question of this thread. :)

Man, I try to get you shits to.stop the arguing and come afyer me and you are too fucking douchey to do that. :-D

Wow.. I don't think girl is that insulting. Though if you wanna get around the whole girl/women thing why don't you say Miss?

Here's my questions for you men... guys of a certain age don't want to be sir, but what is the polite term to use?

guy
dude
bro
'man' (not "I work with a man" but "I know what you mean, man")

Can't really say dude to customers. Upper management thinks it's rude. The traditional word is Master but fuck that. Not calling any guy master.

Oh, you will. You will.

I don't think so but if that thought makes it easier for you to sleep at night whatever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPOb3DlB7WA

No, I'm just joking with you Celtic, don't go all Putin33 on me :)

rofl I wouldn't .. I'm not that far to the left. Though really I do get male customers who complain about me calling them sir. I didn't know that it was that bad of a term for younger guys. Now women are easy.. everyone gets called Miss. Can't offend anyone to young and old ladies find it a compliment and tip us more.

You can just leave off honoriffics entirely and go with "Hi, how can I help you?" or a variant. The local McDonald's started using "How may I serve you?" which makes me think they've started calling someone Master, but hey, their lifestyle, their choice.

I've thought about it, but it seems so impersonal (not that sir or miss is anymore personal really).

+1 SD, that's pretty much how I roll at my job (95% of the customers involved are college students). Use that as a default answer and let the customer set the level of [in]formality from there

Flirt with the guys. Instead of sir, call them sweety or hun like a waitress at a greasy spoon.

I get called sir, I have pretty much ever since I started buying things on my own.

Just keep calling them sir. There's not really much else proper to say if they're a customer. Whenever I'm serving someone I call them sir, because there's nothing else to call them. Sir and ma'am.

Now, I do live in Texas, but I experience this everywhere I go.

But yes, if you don't like it, try to avoid it. However sometimes you have to get someone's attention without knowing their name. In that situation you have two choices:

Formal - "sir!" "ma'am, excuse me"
Informal - "Hey you!" "Hey kid!" etc

When you are addressing customers you kind of have to use formal no matter what. When you're just talking to a stranger you use formal if they appear to be socially superior, older, richer, or more educated or something. You can only really use informal if you yourself are in a powerful position compared to the stranger, which is rare unless they're a kid.

Even then you can try to avoid using the informal address by just saying: "Hey there! Hey, excuse me!" Failing that you can get another stranger to help you get there attention. The person who notices you, you look at him or her and say, "can you help me get his/her attention? *points*"

I dunno.

It does depend where you work though I guess. If all your customers are college kids and you're one yourself you could get away with "hey how's it goin man" right off the bat.

I love thinking about this social shit. You realize you know it without having to even think about it. Human beings are amazing creatures.