Do you mind being addressed with Aw Bless!

Me - I just stick to "Devon cream teas" have got to be done the Cornish way - scone, then jam, then clotted cream on top and was a distinct disappointment when I thought I'd cracked it finding one here a couple of times - but they'd put sultanas and I think some spices in there too. Not the same at all imo...

We visited friends recently and she had made a cream tea - as she and I had lived in Devon for years, we were eying one another to see if it was the Devon or Cornish way 😁
Plain scones, of course, and very good they were too.

It's a bit cringe but I do it a bit myself,oops!

Doesn't bother me at all. There are far, far worse things to be called and really, if there is no animosity, why not just let it be?

Obviously I let it be/ grin and bear it, but its patronising even if meant kindly.

Having said I hate someone saying it to me I was speaking to someone whose elderly mum was in hospital and said it myself .

No, as it shows I’m actually visible!

More than 25 years after leaving Glasgow I still miss the warmth of being addressed as "hen".

“Hen” that’s fine kindly meant familiar. “aw bless” patronising and not acceptable. Please don’t do this to anyone you don’t have the authority. . I haven’t been blessed since I went to church. It’s insensitive patronising and out of place.

It doesn't bother me. I must be unusual.

To answer OP, if I were, I probably would object, but I’m not - so I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it!

It doesn’t bother me at all. I often do daft things and people have said that. We live in a town where people on the Tesco checkout say love or darling to me. Some people take offence. I couldn’t care less what people say to me as long as they are kind. More important things in the world to worry about.

My dentist, a lovely man, calls me 'Mam'. I think he must have heard it somewhere and thinks it is the right thing to say. I am not bothered but I think it strange. I am another who does not like to be called 'Hun'. Other terms do not really bother me, sometimes it is just nice to have someone say something rather than being ignored.

A nurse once looked at my mothers’s four names and asked, ‘What shall I call you?’
She replied frostily, ‘You may call me Mrs Blank’.

Must admit, any other endearing terms I can live with but aw bless does boil my p**s. However, I shall note this response for future reference! Thanks.

Never been addressed with "Aw bless!" If I were I wouldn't care because its use is about the user not the person to whom it is said.

Why be picky about words? If a person is trying to be kind, then make the most of it.

One cannot be patronised unless one chooses to be so.

And if you think a person is being patronising, let them! It says more about them than about you.

Aw bless is my number one dislike. So horribly patronising. When Mum was in and out of hospital and care situations in her 90s, all of a sudden Aw bless would be trotted out by far too many people. Mum used to get so angry. She retained her mental faculties right to the end and had never been a quaint, cuddly old grey haired lady - nor did she want to be.

Aw bless ...If that is all you have to worry about think yourself lucky !!

Aw bless brings out the worst in me! It's so bl...y patronising. Must remember 'and bless you my child'.
Love is OK, well I am a Yorkshire lass but Darling sets my teeth on edge. Don't even like DH calling me it.

Oh - settle petals. 😀😀😀

I do use the expression but not as a form of address. Just a comment on something I think is nice.

Fidelity2

Aw bless ...If that is all you have to worry about think yourself lucky !!

Many of the people on here do have much to worry about.... this is a light hearted thread.

I don’t worry about it, but I don’t like it. I’m less bothered about ‘love’ or ‘sweetheart’, but ‘bless’ is condescending (and I don’t agree that one has to allow condescension - it is all in the intention, not the acceptance).

Unless it’s said when someone sneezes, as that is not an age-related thing. I remember many years ago being in M&S and a nun in front of me sneezed several times. I absentmindedly said ‘bless you’ and she grinned at me and said ‘that’s my line dear’😀.

You know what's going to happen now. The phrase has imprinted on my brain. Who will be first among us to use it in a Thread?

Maremia

You know what's going to happen now. The phrase has imprinted on my brain. Who will be first among us to use it in a Thread?

Not in a thread. But I did say it to someone yesterday. It just slipped out without my permission…