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Mate

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  • #32
    rolliepoley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,871 ✭✭✭rolliepoley


    Laneyh wrote: »
    'Whats the story'

    Three little bears.

    :p


  • #33
    FizzleSticks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭FizzleSticks


    This post has been deleted.


  • #34
    checkyabadself
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 471 ✭✭checkyabadself


    Alright lad.


  • #35
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    I don't mind the word mate. I'd use it myself often enough. Don't like it being used towards girls though, that just sounds weird.

    Bradley Walsh, on 'The Chase' (ITV), calls old women 'mate'. It always makes me cringe. 'Alwoight Daphne, let's do this, mate'. Eurgh


  • #36
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    "Mate" is bad enough but "cheers" really does my head in.


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  • #37
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Sound, scan.

    Ultrasound?


  • #38
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    Nope, most annoying looperbrit expression is "Will you be having any (insert item) at all today?"

    Just feck off and die. WTF are "bread products" or "beverages"???????????????AHHHHHHHHH>... WHAT DOES "AT ALL" mean?????


  • #39
    TheBza
    Closed Accounts Posts: 709 ✭✭✭TheBza


    Edit: Piss off mate!


  • #40
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,833 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Will yez calm it down there bud .


  • #41
    OnTheCouch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 526 ✭✭✭OnTheCouch


    Specialun wrote: »
    I dial into the UK every day and they overuse the word,its kinda annoying at times

    All i hear is "alright mate".sometimes i feel like going" im not your mate ,this is my first time peaking to you"

    Anybody else find it annoying

    Believe it or not, many English people despise the word as well. They generally associate it with someone common or who has not had the benefit of a good education. These reasons in themselves are ridiculous, given how prevalent the usage is, but there are clearly certain groups/individuals in society there that genuinely would get quite annoyed if you addressed them using the word.


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  • #42
    Red About Town
    Closed Accounts Posts: 257 ✭✭Red About Town


    Nothing worse than an Irish person saying 'dude'.


  • #43
    RikkFlair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,124 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    cantdecide wrote: »
    I couldn't agree more, brother.

    Desmond from Lost? :)


  • #44
    Surveyor11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭Surveyor11


    'Butty', now that one really gets on my wick


  • #45
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    ok boss


  • #46
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Most of my inlaws are based in Essex, *shudders at the thought*. Thankfully my husband never really did the whole innit mate thing but his family do. Before I moved to Essex I had heard all the Essex girl jokes but I hadn't realised that it was all true. Oh dear God how I hated living in Essex. It's where good taste goes to die.


  • #47
    Bajingo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 889 ✭✭✭Bajingo


    An English guy called me a chap yesterday, I've never been referred to as a chap before, it was strange.


  • #48
    Cushie Butterfield
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭Cushie Butterfield


    Bajingo wrote: »
    An English guy called me a chap yesterday, I've never been referred to as a chap before, it was strange.
    Are you sure he didn't say chav? :eek:


  • #49
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Bajingo wrote: »
    An English guy called me a chap yesterday, I've never been referred to as a chap before, it was strange.
    I refer to all males, human and animals, as chaps. Must've spent too much time in England. Still I think it sounds nicer to refer to someone as a chap rather than a lad.


  • #50
    Pulsating Star
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Pulsating Star


    I think it's well handy in that there's no need to remember everyone's names.


  • #51
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Having spent time in London where its "alright geezer" this and "fackin cant" that its like a breath of fresh air to be greeted with a "hows she cuttin"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjW00TTE2EI


    watch this,youll know what I mean.


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  • #52
    northernpower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 198 ✭✭northernpower


    HORSEBOX! craic with ya?


  • #53
    Meangadh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    I don't know anyone who says mate in Ireland. Doesn't bother me when English or Australian people say it though, it's part of the vernacular and all that.


  • #54
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Red About Town wrote: »
    Nothing worse than an Irish person saying 'dude'.

    Irish people saying 'ass' is worse.


  • #55
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    it's a compliment being called mate....the guy sees you as one of the Tribe/Herd whatever rather than an interloper/stranger/threat


  • #56
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Meangadh wrote: »
    I don't know anyone who says mate in Ireland. Doesn't bother me when English or Australian people say it though, it's part of the vernacular and all that.
    I work in a call center and Dublin working class fellas say it with depressing regularity.It's used to an extent in the area around Dublin as well,Meath,Kildare Drogheda etc but outside of that you never hear anyone say it.I don't think I've ever heard anyone from Munster or the West of Ireland say it.


  • #57
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    A fella I know from Yorkshire says 'fella' a lot.

    There's a few in Ireland that call me Ted. My name isn't Ted.


  • #58
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Conall Cernach wrote: »
    "Mate" is bad enough but "cheers" really does my head in.

    Alright mate = hello = staareee bud
    cheers = thank you = ta bud
    Cheers mate = goodbye = talk ta ya bud

    Does that help?


  • #59
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    gramar wrote: »
    A fella I know from Yorkshire says 'fella' a lot.

    There's a few in Ireland that call me Ted. My name isn't Ted.

    It comes from "right so ted"

    It doesn't matter what your name is.


  • #60
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    I use mate all the time. My friends said it's more prevalent since I was in Oz for a year but I don't think it's a particularly Aussie or British thing. Plenty of Irish people use it. If I was trying to get passed you or bumped into you I'd probably say "sorry mate". Better than "Sorry horse" or "Sorry bud" which is pure Irish.


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  • #61
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,971 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    To be fair, It probably annoys the English when we say the word "ye"


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