If those kinds of endearments came out of my T's mouth I would probably laugh out loud. It would be SO out of character for him.

That said, I live in Texas, and those kinds of endearments are pretty normal in this neck of the woods. I'm guilty of them myself. They generally don't bother me because it's just part of the local colloquial verbiage around here. I probably don't even notice them most of the time I hear them because it is just so common.