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Do you call your Dad 'sir'?

Gelfin said:
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Most of my friends with whom I went to grade school tend to use sir when speaking to each other or most anyone in or above our age demographic. We were a pretty isolated bunch, so I think for the most part we took up being polite as a barrier against teeing off the few people who could stand us.
 
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My dad is a teacher and he happens to be one of mine at school. That's when I have to say 'sir'. It is one of his rules, there is no way I can call him dad or daddy in front of other students.And I can't exactly call him Mr.------- ( I'm not giving out my surname sorry ^-^) cus that would be weird,it just doesn't sound right. Anyway, people who call their fathers 'sir' don't feel embarrassed, remember its nice and respectful and the people who are totally againsnt it are pretty much the ones who have no respect for authority.
 
Jhwi90 said:
Anyway, people who call their fathers 'sir' don't feel embarrassed, remember its nice and respectful and the people who are totally againsnt it are pretty much the ones who have no respect for authority.
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You couldn't be further from the truth.
I don't call my dad that because as well as him being a father, he's a friend. There was discipline in my childhood and I respect the hell out of my dad for everything he's done so far in his life, I wish I could be half the man he is really. But he's dad, or pops, and if anyone calls him by his shortened first name I quickly add on the ending :eek:.
He's a college tutor so people call him by his first name. In the UK at least the formal methods are dropped once you hit college. Even at university we were told to call tutors, lecturers all by their first name.
 
raggedjimmi said:
In the UK at least the formal methods are dropped once you hit college. Even at university we were told to call tutors, lecturers all by their first name.
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Not my experience I was only calling tutors by their first name in my masters year and the same thing happened at the Universities of my friends.
 
I just call my Dad "Dad" and have my whole life. Same with my Mom. As a teacher I will have students call me "Sir" from time to time, but generally most refer to me as Mr. P______. I have been called "Dad" by a student or two on accident which is sort of funny.
 
I'm sorry but I won't appolagize for what I stated earlier, I believe I am not further from the truth, I'm very close to it actually. It is your opinion and your entitled to it, and it isnt at all affecting me. I find it quite humerous really.
Fair enough I'm not saying everyone should start calling their dads 'sir', that is a bit crazy, but it very much seems to me the people who are agaisnt it and poke fun of people like me claiming it is weird and is a 'southern american/military' thing are the ones who dont have much respect for anybody. There are a number of people on here who do make fun of it, and it is wrong, because it is encouraging others to make fun of authority. To use the word 'sir' may sound peculiar to some, but there is a little thing called keeping that little bit of rubbish in your head to your self, and not laughing at people who try to respect authority and yes, show that respect by addressing their fathers as 'sir' because it is respect, and it shouldnt be made fun of and sneered at.
We are all entitled to having an opinion, within reason, but to tell me that I couldnt be further from the truth is ridiculous.
I don't care what you think of me or the response you may give me let alone anybody else who would like to fill me in on what they think of my words to be honest because I know I'm being truthful and am in the right, I just thought I should let you know how wrong you are.
Thank you, and hopefully you have learnt something. Take care:)
 
Jhwi90 said:
I'm sorry but I won't appolagize for what I stated earlier, I believe I am not further from the truth, I'm very close to it actually. It is your opinion and your entitled to it, and it isnt at all affecting me. I find it quite humerous really.
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Nope you read that completely wrong, do you understand that when I quote something and then reply to it means I'm only responding to that quoted passage? Your specific opinion here-
Anyway, people who call their fathers 'sir' don't feel embarrassed, remember its nice and respectful and the people who are totally againsnt it are pretty much the ones who have no respect for authority.
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Is total utter BS. As I said I have more respect for my father than you can possibly imagine. He was brought up in poverty, married young (19), became a marathon runner and travelled the world doing so, worked insanely hard at his job and did so well my mother didn't need to work and brought us up in a big house built just for us, and has funded the initial parts of career and university education, always stuck beside my mother and never once abandoned his kids even when they really ***ked up.
And if you think I honestly don't respect him for not calling him sir with only knowing fractions of my life.
Authority in general I have respect for. I graduated from school 7 years ago now but I still call my teachers, even knowing their full names, sir or miss. I just don't see why sir has any connection to respect and if it annoys someone that I don't use it, then I lose respect for them. It's self correcting like that.

Thank you, and hopefully you have learnt something. Take care:)
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God almighty! Where do you get off on this?
 
Nope, he's simply "dad".

However, mum is now called "mother" as she winds me up and I find it an excellent term to annoy her with. When I was younger it was "mum".


At university (UK) we had first-name relationships with our tutors, even extending to nicknames. For my Masters, again, everything is first names.
 
I kinda of switch between what him sir is usually for when im in some sort of trouble being usually after yes or no. My dad is military and we are from the south of US. But when im trying to get his attention i call him whatever gets his attention going from dad, hugh, baldie :D and so on...
 
I was always under the impression that it was a very American thing to do. In the UK it would sound very strange. I wouldn't even call a cop Sir in Britain. I would expect him to call me Sir though. The police are there to serve us, not the other way around which is how I often feel in the US with power crazy country cops.
 
No, never called my dad "sir" and my kid's wouldn't think of calling me "sir" except as a joke.
That said, I've gotten used to being called sir at nice hotels and restaurants and shops. Sadly I don't think my father did, and he was much more worthy.

Never knew what to call my in-laws until the kids were born, and now I've defaulted to Nana and Papa, the kid's names for them. Makes life easier, if not easy.
My brother-in-law called my parents Mom and Dad and really meant it.

The one time I did call someone "Sir" half seriously? I interviewed Sir Jackie Stewart, the race car driver who has been knighted and is regularly referred to as Sir Jackie.
 
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