Honey
There are various terms of affection that I have for Moo. She may not thank me for ‘em later in life. After all, she is The Moo cos I started out calling her Mrs Monkey Moo, which turned into Monkey Moo, and eventually, without much surprise or a great deal of fanfare, into Moo. And – in point of actual fact – I don’t very often call her ‘Moo’ in real life, it is just a handy pseudonym to have online, like MoVo. Innit.
Currently, for The Moo, I am favouring the cutesy little epithet ‘chick’ or ‘chicken’, also sometimes ‘baby’ (obvious) and ‘gorgeous’ (also obvious), while if I am in a more cantankerous mood it can switch to the less salubrious ‘monster’, ‘little bugger’ or ‘you tiny enervating minxy-pants’. She doesn’t care. She doesn’t yet understand the complexities of the English language. I could call her WHATEVER I WANTED and she’d still either come over for a cuddle, or throw pasta at my face.
However, there is one thing I know I will never call her. Without a shadow of a doubt. Never in a gazillion years, ever ever EVER.
Honey.
And variations of.
I hate it.
Can’t stand it.
I’m sorry. I know it’s popular. I see it all the time, on Twitter, on Facebook. I hear people call each other it.
Honey. Hon. Hun. Hunnie. And, one time, even, honie. FFS.
PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF THE SWEET HOLY JEEZUS DON’T CALL ME HONEY (AND VARIATIONS OF).
I really detest it. I don’t know why. For some reason, makes my skin crawl. I imagine the person saying it, in my head, and they’re all sort of, dunno, insincere and patronising. And I know that’s NOT how most people mean it – but that’s just how it sounds/reads IN MY STUPID HEAD.
So – SORRY – but if you have ever called me ‘honey’ (and variations of) in the past, then I have inwardly boaked each time.
That is why I will not call Moo ‘honey’ (and variations of) for as long as I breathe.
And ‘hun’ is the absolute WORST. Ack! ‘Hun’! Do you know who the hun were? Like, Attila the Hun? And, slang for the Germans during the World Wars? AND, in these modern times, it is the name of the biggest website for free links to adult material i.e. pornographic dirty dirty icky stuff?? Hardly sweet’n'lovely, is it? No. NO.
Everything else is acceptable, though you might get some stern glares if you called me ‘babes’.
Am I the only one who hates ‘honey’? What do you hate being called, and why?
Holy crap iv called you both!! So sorry movo, i will try and remember not to call you these in the future *Holds head in shame* xx
LOL it’s FINE. You’re safe. Don’t sweat it
x
It is a bad habit of mine to call people hon (or Jon as my autocorrect likes to make it) please punch me if you see me do it again… I do also call people petal and sweetie… Really should re-evaluate what is proper protocol whilst communicating.
Awesome as always xxx
LOL there’ll be no punching, missus. It’s my problem, not yours! You can call me what you like
xxx
We have a friend who’s daughter is called Honey! I thought that was just a nickname till I asked OH! Need I say more.
Yikes! I mean, what a lovely name. Ahem.
I was usually called Anal. Because I’m Anna and half my family are from Bristol and Bristolians like to stick an ‘l’ on the end of every suitable word.
That is true. If you ever come back here we would HAVE to call you Anal.
I regard “honey” as term that American couples use in movies, and therefore totally cheesy and never to be taken seriously. Personally I prefer “sweet cheeks”…
I’ve been calling my younger brother “little moo” for the last decade or so. He is now in his 30s. For some reason he has not complained.
Cos he loves it.
Oh beehive yourself …
I am so with you on this one! I was at the market a couple of months ago and the lady serving me called me dear, love, sweetheart and hun all within one simple transaction involving brocolli. So yeah, none of the above.
It is acceptable to slap people in those circumstances.
I have a male friend who calls me, and most of my other female friends “dear”. I hate it, most of my friends do and we have told him so, yet he persists, claiming he’s doing it “ironically”.
Pisses me off. How do I make him stop?!!
Though he got his comeuppance when texting his girlfriend who asked “What are you doing today (assorted emoticons)” and he have an auto correct fail moment and replied “Nothing beyond seeing you dead.”
Also totally with you on “Hun” and the German connection… Don’t know the porn connection.. DM ME IMMEDIATELY!!! Babe/babes is also horrendous. My fuck buddy/sort of boyfriend but not calls me Monkey sometimes. *shakes head*. It’s what I call my daughter so very off putting from someone I’m doing.
Your friend? Punch him in the face every time he does it. He’ll soon learn.
The porn? Just put ‘the hun’ into google. It’s the first thing that comes up.
Monkey? Either you stop calling your daughter that, or your fb stops calling you that. Sexy names is not for sharing with da kidz. Innit.
I don’t mine honey so much as babe. Drives me bonkers.
Cheers babe! *shriek*
I was walking through a shop the other day and this salesman asks me “so what about you honey?” “seriously do I look like your honey?” I had to ask…did not wait to see hear his response. I hate when workmen need to call me “pet” when trying to sort out some problem for me…like am I supposed to bark or meow at them or something?
Jeezus! I think a salesman who called me ‘honey’ would get a slap!! How farking familiar of him, the cheeky git. ‘Pet’ is a bad one too. I might start insisting on being called ‘m’lady’
Awww hun, hugz all round. Turn that frown upside down.
I can’t type any more of that without being sick.
I also had a real-life friend (a woman) who insisted on calling me ‘chick’. I’m not saying that this term was particularly grating, but we are no longer friends. That’s all.
I shall call you Ma’am.
Yes, ma’am is acceptable and almost obligatory. In return, you will henceforth be known as Your Ladyship.
I’m right with you on this (not that anyone calls me honey) especially if it is ‘hun’ or ‘hunni’. I find that facebook comments that start with ‘hunni’ tend to end with ‘lol x’ EVEN IF THERE IS NOTHING FUNNY BEING SAID! Drives me mad.
Don’t even get me started on acronyms/emoticons. I know I use them frequently but in an IRONIC manner, which makes me clever and far superior to a majority of the population LOL xx
im with you on this, i dont like hun, never been called honey. OH sometimes calls me precious but he only does it cos it winds me up. My youngest (oscar) gets called baby, ozzy, osci, ozzman and eldest was often called pest but not in a horrid way, he was just mischievous! i dont mind being called dollface- i expect when the wrinkles appear it wont be used on me anymore!
‘Precious’ is a bit Lord of The Rings, innit? Make sure he doesn’t throw in a lava pit or summink.
I think I’ve always misunderstood the affectionate nick-name game. My beloved husband was always referred to as “shithead” or “pig-dog”. Now that I hate him and he’s married to someone else, I can’t find an appropriate non-lovey-dovey name, so I’m just sticking with what I called him when I wasn’t quite so enamoured by him…”wankstain”. Seems to fit really.
Honey will never be a name I could use on anyone.
Lucky you didn’t call him ‘love of my life, forever more’ really.
My brother called me “grandma” for ages when I was a teen because he thought I lectured him… Which was nice.
And you punched him, yeah? In the face? Yeah?
I do think it’s all a question of tone. Soz. I’ve been called Love and Duck and Sweetie and all manner of horribles and not minded at all because I could feel the affection behind the epithet. I’ve been called all those things and wanted to kill because it was patronising, demeaning etc. That’s why all this is so hard imho. Cathy x
I sometimes call people things in an ironic manner (dollface, sweetcheeks etc) and wonder if it can be construed as such, it’s just ‘honey’ that I CANNOT use in any way at all, sincerely or otherwise. Skin crawls, flesh creeps, bile rises, etc. Dunno why. Allergic to bees? X
You were a bee in a former life. This happens a lot. Shouldn’t be surprised if it brought you out in hives …
*falls about laughing*
Oh No! I call EVERYBODY hon! Oh how horribly ashamed I am now!
*swears to never ever call you it, ever!*
Its a terrible habit. I actually hear myself saying it and think ‘did that sound insincere?’ (I now know it doesn’t)
For anyone I have previously offended, it was sincere, I simply want to love everybody and was obsessed with X Men when I was younger and LOVED Rogue, who called everyone honey!
However saying this I hardly ever say it to my children. They are mainly Pickles, diddles, Moo!! (mine is missy moo!) wibble and other daft mummy terms (oh and their full christened names when I am less that happy with them!
Great post
You are forgiven. Make sure it does not happen again. I’m watching you.
(PS it’s fine. It’s my problem. You call people whatever you want to call them. OK?)
I dislike boys who call me “babe” *shudder* *swiftly moves along*
Thanks babe
*cyber-slap* :p
I am with you on hating honey but the worst is Hun and when a woman says it it really annoys me .
YES. Thank you!
I don’t like it either, sounds really insincere. And babes just makes me want to punch people in the mouth. Absurdly i miss living in the west country and being called ‘m’luvver’ a LOT though..go figure!
I like m’luvver, that’s local, it’s cool. But babes? Nah mate. Don’t do it
Hi hun, cheers hun!!! Aaargghh, I HATE it! Why can’t they say hi Julie? Totally in an agreement with you!
Huzzah!
Funny this! My G is often Boo, or Boo Boo since she has grown older (no logic, I know). I don’t mind honey at all, but dislike Hun or Hunnie. Whilst thinks like Missus, Bird or Babe would make me vocal about it, my most hated one is Doll! I’m not a fucking doll and I fucking hate to be called Doll! That’s all. bye honey, erm, I mean MoVo x
Thanks doll
X
Don’t like ‘babe’ or ‘babes’. Not too fussed about ‘hun’, although it bothers my teeny, petty brain that, as an abbreviation of ‘honey’, it is actually spelt wrong.
However, I used to live next door to a family who affectionately referred to their offspring as ‘ya little bitch’ or ‘ya muvva’s cunt’. So there’s a whole lot worse than ‘hun’, eh.
What charming people. But no, hun is the WORST
Honnnneeeeyyyy, look at you, with your sweet, sticky bee-product pants all in a honey-comb. I have definitely called you hon, I am sure. For, yay, verily I spake unto those I love the term of endearment that is the word Honey. I shall endeavour in future to call you Sugar Tits. You like that, don\’t you? You dirrrtttyyy little Honey Monster.
Names I don’t like? Nada. Call me anything you want to, babes.
OMFG, seeing as it’s YOU, that’s fine. I will endure. But FFS if I involuntarily slap you round the chops with my honeyed hands, DO NOT blame me. Maybe stick to sugar tits?
AH my favourite name moment was when I overheard a woman shouting her daughter’s name across a car park – the daughter was called Honey (oh dear) – but the woman, in strong northern accent was shouting ‘Onny, Onny come here!’. Why oh why choose a name that begins with a letter you then don’t pronounce! As for terms of endearment I trying to get as many embarrassing ones onto video for my boys – bubba bear, angel bear, monkles, scrumptious chubber etc just so they can relive the moments later in life. I HATE babe. Baby is ok, for a child, but babe is not for an adult. As an ex once said – you only call a girl babe so you don’t have to remember her name – charming!
Mahahahahah I LOVE the nicknames you give your boys. I shall delight in reminding them in case they ever forget.
I have probably called you all sorts, including ‘hun’ or ‘babes’…. Sorry.
It will probably happen again. Such is life.
It’s fine. I can cope *grinds teeth* Seeing as it’s you. Jelly bear.
I’ve been called worse
Frangipane x
LOL good nickname
X
I hate being called ‘John Terry.’ It’s never happened but I’m just saying it now so no-one ever does.
I shall not call you this thing ever. I prefer sweetcheeks. But you know that.
Thanks Geoff.
Cheers honey.
Whoops.
*glowers*
I dislike Hun as well… as and don’t even get me started on love bunny.
Mahahahahahaha why would someone call you ‘love bunny’?? That’s just wrong