Is it rude to call someone " BOY"?

• Catknight

  11 Apr 08, 13:15

  I found that some people like to call other boys though they are adults especially the indians, is this a rude remark or some cultural connotations?

   

• newcomer

  11 Apr 08, 13:16

  probably culture. tambi = boy

• Catknight

  11 Apr 08, 13:18

  It may spark off as something racial if the person don't understand...kinds of freak me out ..so many foreigners here and most come from single racial environment..

  Who you calling boy!! then fight liao

• FireIce

  11 Apr 08, 13:19

  ppl always call me 美女 leh.
  me ok with it.

• 4794

  11 Apr 08, 13:22

  self praise is an international disgrace

• newcomer

  11 Apr 08, 13:26

  i'd be happy if u call me boy

• natural_boy

  11 Apr 08, 13:51

  i happy to when ppl call me boy or ah di..

• caleb_chiang

  11 Apr 08, 13:54

  it depends on who's calling... if the person calling you is way older than you then it's okay lor...

• gunner77

  11 Apr 08, 13:55

  i will give the person a stone cold stunner if he call me boy

• Deino

  11 Apr 08, 13:58

  depends on their tone

   

• pigsticker

  11 Apr 08, 14:00

  damn... my ex-colleagues still calling me boi lei

• Deino

  11 Apr 08, 14:06

  normally i'd other men bro....

• JJxJJ

  11 Apr 08, 14:10

  some use it as a nickname

• babychicken

  11 Apr 08, 14:22

  i like to be called "boy", makes me feel young...

• EarlNeo

  11 Apr 08, 14:28

  no leh.. ppl call me boi boi... i hear liao oso sibeh happy leh....

  Unless u like ppl to call u unker....

• wonderamazement

  11 Apr 08, 14:45

  Better than "oi"

• angel7030

  11 Apr 08, 18:17

  Originally posted by 4794:

  self praise is an international disgrace

  hahahahaha!!!!

• angel7030

  11 Apr 08, 18:19

  ya, calling boi is rude, especially in term of Xiao Di di meaning their di di very small.

• elementalangel

  11 Apr 08, 18:21

  ok wad.. boy nia... its usually the old men hu call u boy.. imagine old man call u bro.. wad u feel?
  
  the rest callls u bro i tink..

• gasband

  11 Apr 08, 19:00

  It would be offensive if you are a girl.

• Maith

  11 Apr 08, 19:43

  then u wan them call ah pek?

• playboy_1985

  11 Apr 08, 20:48

  those uncle auntie also call me ah boy

• cApitaland

  11 Apr 08, 20:52

  Originally posted by EarlNeo:

  no leh.. ppl call me boi boi... i hear liao oso sibeh happy leh....

  Unless u like ppl to call u unker....

  hihi unker neo~!

• Manager433

  11 Apr 08, 21:44

  Very rude to call someone ah boy ( if that person is actually much older than you are ). Its very insulting.

   

  I once told a lady foodstall seller ( who call me ah boy ) tat I'm old enough to make her stomach big big in front of many customers. I'm actually older than her coz last time when I'm still serving my NSF, she still wearing a secondary sch uniform and help out in her parents's foodstall. After tat each time she saw me buying food from them, she call me as Mr.

   

   

• jonchao72

  11 Apr 08, 23:11

  Originally posted by Catknight:

  I found that some people like to call other boys though they are adults especially the indians, is this a rude remark or some cultural connotations?

   

  dun wan call 'boy' then call 'girl' la...

  see how they react