A Word of Love

[TLFisher]

Originally Posted by countmeworthy

She always tells me about all 'these ones' as part of the LC lingo. It really plucks my last nerve OBW.

I've always thought of the phrase "these ones" as a reviling phrase. It's a way of referring to a person or person's whose name you don't want to utter. In other words someone you want to consider as unmentionable, you refer to in singular "that one" or in plural "these ones".
Personally I consider the phrase demeaning and disrespectful.