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"Mate" this, "mate" that...

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  • #32
    The flying mouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭The flying mouse


    Where I work/socialise I surrounded by folks who say

    Mate,
    our kid,
    Friend,
    Lad,

    and a big auld Dubliner that says alrigh Buddy.

    and no I not in prison :-)


  • #33
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,808 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Brother, I prefer maté. K?

    Not your ornery onager



  • #34
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    Deleted User wrote: »
    What the fúck does that mean? Ah, a parody; you've heard of Little Englander (but clearly not its origins) and then slavishly misapplied it to Ireland (unintentionally failing to capitalise Little of course). Well done.

    So even my little Irelander phrase is aping the English?


    Point proven. lol


  • #35
    mansize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    I prefer mate to lad

    like preferring drowning to being knifed tbf...

    I think the person saying it is key also.


  • #36
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    in Canada its Buddy, in Scotland its Pal. In parts of Donegal its Sir


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Anyone calling you 'lad' or 'kid' is bound to be a full time Bantersaurus Rex. They're the ones to hang around with.


  • #38
    HellSquirrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭HellSquirrel


    degsie wrote: »
    China is also used in Scotland. Not sure where that one came from.

    Comes from "mate". Cockney rhyming slang, "china plate" = "mate". Odd that it filtered into Scotland, but I suppose culture is pretty miscible around the border.

    Anyone who calls you "friend" when addressing you is probably not your friend. They may also be carrying a knife.


  • #39
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    No more sure a sign that someone is a d!ckhead than them using 'kid' as a term of acknowledgement on a regular basis.


  • #40
    L'Enfer du Nord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭L'Enfer du Nord


    Lucy8080 wrote: »
    The word in Ireland is "horse".

    .
    Love the way Some Irish people refuse to adapt their English when abroad. I still remember the look a work college got when he said 'Thanks, horse' to a bar man in Amsterdam.


  • #41
    GreenFolder2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 710 ✭✭✭GreenFolder2


    I find certain people in Dublin use it as a way of kind of softening rubbish customer service or being patronising or even passive aggressive.

    Typically builders when they've just wrecked your house!


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  • #42
    Butters1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Butters1979


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Agree fully. Particularly irksome trend. I have the pleasure in taking the piss out of any Irish person who says "mate" in my presence. I used to be more polite and just raise my eyes up but fúck that when I can get a good rant out of Mr Vacuous "Wherever English fashions go I follow". Lost, uprooted traditionless souls. "British Isles", "high street" and referring to the island of Britain as "mainland Britain" (implying that there's a part of Ireland that is part of Britain) are the other three that I'll pull an Irish person up on.

    You're a national hero. I'd say people think your real sound too.


  • #43
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    theteal wrote: »
    I'm partial to a "chief" every once in a while.

    Can't stand that "lad" ballsology

    "Ah lads, stop the bus, it's fierce craic"

    Fcuk right off...


  • #44
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,086 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Deleted User wrote:
    Agree fully. Particularly irksome trend. I have the pleasure in taking the piss out of any Irish person who says "mate" in my presence. I used to be more polite and just raise my eyes up but fúck that when I can get a good rant out of Mr Vacuous "Wherever English fashions go I follow". Lost, uprooted traditionless souls. "British Isles", "high street" and referring to the island of Britain as "mainland Britain" (implying that there's a part of Ireland that is part of Britain) are the other three that I'll pull an Irish person up on.

    Correcting your friends diction and geography... You sound like mad bantz!


  • #45
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    L'Enfer du Nord wrote: »
    Love the way Some Irish people refuse to adapt their English when abroad. I still remember the look a work college got when he said 'Thanks, horse' to a bar man in Amsterdam.

    Same when I heard a chap say cheers Horse to an English girl. It didn't help that she wasn't very attractive either.


  • #46
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,295 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    U ok hun?


  • #47
    YouTookMyName
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,360 ✭✭✭YouTookMyName


    Mate, it's hard to explain mate, it just slips off at the end of a sentence mate, to reaffirm that you are indeed a mate. Mate.


  • #48
    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    HellSquirrel wrote: »
    Comes from "mate". Cockney rhyming slang, "china plate" = "mate". Odd that it filtered into Scotland, but I suppose culture is pretty miscible around the border.

    Anyone who calls you "friend" when addressing you is probably not your friend. They may also be carrying a knife.

    I order staff from china on ebay, they seem to be my friend.


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Jesus. wrote: »
    Same when I heard a chap say cheers Horse to an English girl. It didn't help that she wasn't very attractive either.

    Oh old chap, quite!! Little Irelander.


  • #50
    philstar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭philstar


    "it wasn't me either i'm just his mate he told me to stand here and watch the gate"

    *prize for the first person to name the song


  • #51
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Oh old chap, quite!! Little Irelander.

    Eh? Chap is English!


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  • #52
    Cast Iron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 226 ✭✭Cast Iron


    Well lads and lassies, has "banter" replaced "slagging"?


  • #53
    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    philstar wrote: »
    "it wasn't me either i'm just his mate he told me to stand here and watch the gate"

    *prize for the first person to name the song

    Shut up!


  • #54
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    philstar wrote: »
    "it wasn't me either i'm just his mate he told me to stand here and watch the gate"

    *prize for the first person to name the song

    It's Madness but I don't know the song title.


    I can't abide people saying 'mate'. The young man on the checkout in the supermarket a few weeks ago was 'hello mate' 'quiet today mate' 'there you go mate' 'your change mate'...I had to ask him to stop saying it. He was 20 something while I'm 70 something. It just sounded ridiculous.
    Nearly as bad as 'dude'.


  • #55
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    ^^

    What a cranky auld git!


  • #56
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Pal drives me cracked..very prevalent in limerick..and 'banter'..only seems to have caught on the last few years..I put it down to English football/ladish tv..


  • #57
    Boater123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 312 ✭✭Boater123


    L'Enfer du Nord wrote: »
    Love the way Some Irish people refuse to adapt their English when abroad. I still remember the look a work college got when he said 'Thanks, horse' to a bar man in Amsterdam.

    It was Amsterdam, maybe too much space cake and he/she genuinely thought they were looking at a horse??

    Alright Bud.


  • #58
    philstar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭philstar


    philstar wrote: »
    "it wasn't me either i'm just his mate he told me to stand here and watch the gate"

    *prize for the first person to name the song

    Diego Creamy Self-pity wrote: »
    It's Madness but I don't know the song title.
    SCOOP 64 wrote: »
    Shut up!

    well done to both of you, a weekend away in Aleppo for you both


  • #59
    HellSquirrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭HellSquirrel


    I will say chap, fella, guy, yer man, and whatever else happens to be the word that comes out when speaking or typing.

    I'm not so insecure about my nationality as to care whether the term is English, Irish or anything else in origins.


    fella - fellow, very English, old Norse originally.
    chap - English slang, from "chapman", meaning a buyer/customer.
    guy - British/American slang for a poorly dressed man, probably from the effigies of Guy Fawkes.
    pal - originally a Romany term from a Sanskrit word meaning brother.
    mate - Low German, so British slang before it got to Ireland.
    yer man - Hiberno-English slang, presumably the only one that's allowed by the Hiberno-English tribe that can't cope with English terms.

    I assume that writing in the English language to start with causes them internal pain too.


  • #60
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Jesus. wrote: »
    ^^

    What a cranky auld git!

    If you say so. But, deride all you like. You weren't there. It was cringeworthy.

    I'd rather be cranky than judgemental.


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  • #61
    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    philstar wrote: »
    well done to both of you, a weekend away in Aleppo for you both

    Lovely, i do have a sense of adventure.


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