Use of 'yourself'

I've heard it too, and it irritates me almost as much as when, in a group, we're referred to as "you guys"

I find it irritating as well. The use of 'myself' instead of me. Always seems like an attempt to be more grammatically correct whilst achieving the opposite.

I actually quite like "you guys"

I wonder if age makes a difference here, given that we Gransnetters cover a huge age-range.

Perhaps we should conduct a straw poll on here to find out. But that would mean revealing our ages, which many might prefer not to do!

I don't mind though. I am 60.

I'm 62, don't like being called a "guy" or a girl.

Ali08

BigBertha1

Waiting staff seem to say ' you guys' a lot which irritates me.

I love Mrs. Slocombe's ' I am unanimous in that'.

My DiL works in a chain of hotel restaurants and they were told last year to stop saying 'guys'. I can't remember what they were told to say, but 'guys' is out!!

I wish others would follow suit!

Might add that I wish supermarket workers would not be told to say, ‘Thank you for waiting,’ when you don’t exactly have much choice, unless you want to dump your shopping, go home, and come back later.

‘Sorry to keep you waiting,’ would be IMO far more appropriate.
Though now I come to think of it, I haven’t heard it lately.
Has there been a general management re-think?

I think it’s ‘ polite ‘ talk. We wouldn’t normally speak like that. I notice it a lot in environments where I’m a customer.

I remember years ago...hearing someone say, ( I forget the context), “ It’s not me, myself.....it’s just me”

What my mum used to call BBC English!