'Mate' rant

[funmonkee]

Not aimed at anyone in particular, but I just hate the 'mate' added to the end of just about everything these days...

"how are you, mate"
"Thanks very much, mate"
"fook off, mate"...
on...
and on...

Is it just me or is absolutely everyone using 'mate' ...


It's G-h-e-y stop it

Rant over
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[michael j]

Sorry mate
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[pwntifex]

I hate 'dude' more. You're not a californian surfer from 1978.
It's just a figure of speech, get over it.
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[JonB]

I use dude far too often.

I hate the way people use mate so casually though. I only add it to the end of the sentence if they actually are a mate. lol
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[benjami]

I hate 'ghey' more.

People stop that, i'll stop this, mate.

[LeeR]

Well personally I like "mate", where I come from it's a term of affection and recognition, if people don't use it well that's when I get worried. But I get really scared when they call me "pal", as in, "now listen here pal", or "oi, pal shift it!" and so on...
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[st3v3]

I use mate in real life, dude online (McGays fault) and it's all casual speech. Doesn't mean anything bad it's just another casual communication.


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[ram_doom]

I use "blu".

"Alright blu?" or "I'm good blu, you?"

I blame it on some old geezer I once knew...
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[Timmeh]

I say dude about 50 times a day.

My other generic male greeting is 'alright son'

I don't tend to say 'mate' that often.

Give me karma, I am cool.
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[kitty kat]

the assistant manager at my last place of work used to call all the customers mate. I hated it, if a shop assistant calls me mate I usually tell them I am not their mate! Mind you doesn't help having short hair & usually wearing bike gear, if someone sees me from the back I can easily be mistaken for male, then I get really cross and tell them I am not male & not their mate!!
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[trevoriv]

It's alreet, folk round here will call you cock if you're a bloke or luv if you're a bird.

ie "S'up, cock" or "You alreet, luv"
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[Ariel Badger]

Blud or Cuz is the polite form of address here.
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[fenton]

Hmmmm as a greeting i say "how do" but i do over use the word "dude"

[V2]

Calm down mate!

[Jamie.]

I've got a mate that uses it about every 4th word, When I say to him 'Stop saying mate all the time' He doesn't even realise he's doing it so much

[pwntifex]

[Rhys]

One of my mates always says 'shag' at the end, we start saying it to him over using it but he hasnt cottoned onto us taking the P!

"Alright Shag!"

"What you upto shag?!"

He'll also say 'Ay' / 'A' alot, when we're at football and he's shouting stuff to the team he'll be like "COME ON KINGSWAY A" its Kingsway... we dont have 2 teams, like an A and a B team!!!

But yeah shag, quite often hear mate overused, mate.
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[fenton]

Yeah dude i might just do that, god mate you really are a pal sometimes
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Dude

Bro

Sexy

Squid (thanks to a certain bcf member.)

And other random crap.
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