Poll

[titusnowl]

[Poll #1045552]

See, that's a thing the Saint and his Halos do, all calling each other names, and I do it myself, but Justin doesn't and I have a hard time remembering that he doesn't really appreciate being called an ass even if it IS a term of endearment to me.

Comments

[wicked-socks.livejournal.com]

With some people I do use such endearments, but it's not something I would have started without them, as it was those friends desensitized me to it. When I was a kid I even uncomfortable with a friend jokingly saying shut up, let alone calling a friend bitch or ass, and I certainly never did. It felt mean and disrespectful and certainly nothing I would say to someone I liked. But despite my kneejerk reaction I knew that wasn't how they meant it (and that the views of my mother were sometimes far from casual American society, plus my dad used insult endearments with his cousins), so I trained myself out of it. Now I can use it with other people who I know use it, but I'm very (probably way over) careful with who I use it with. But once I've started using it with someone them I'm totally okay. I feel like I could have expressed this in fewer sentences.

[chikkiboo.livejournal.com]

I, myself, tend to be overly formal with people at times; but once I am familiar and comfortable enough to stop using the 19th century etiquette I learned as a child and start using Pickwickian ribbing, I know that a person is actually my friend. Still, even amongst those who are very much my friends, there are some I'm more likely to use that style with than others.

Oddity: I don't call female friends bitch. I will call male friends bitch, and anyone of any gender ass, and jokes about what so and so did with such and such's mom and the infamous Saint jokes about "what happened to your face? I forgot, you were born like that" are thrown about with wild abandon, but I don't like to call girls bitches unless I really actually mean that they are bitches.

[zabbers.livejournal.com]

There should be a choice between the first and the second--yes, but only sometimes. Or did you do that on purpose, you meanie.

[zabbers.livejournal.com]

With THIS icon, not that one.

[zabbers.livejournal.com]

It's HARD not to use insults as terms of endearment on Justin! Heaven knows why. Possibly because you do it.

[chikkiboo.livejournal.com]

My two most common names for him are "dork" and "sugarbee."

[3weasel.livejournal.com]

That in itself is rather insulting.





Y'damn Chink.

[chikkiboo.livejournal.com]

shut yo cracka mouth