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Hatred towards the word MATE

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    #32
    owlwink
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭owlwink


    stovelid wrote: »
    I say it sometimes. It's just a social nicety. You know - that arcane custom where you attempt to be courteous and friendly to strangers, even if you don't know them?

    If you were actually brave enough to go around answering I'm not your mate to people, you'd get the response that you deserve.

    :o


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    #33
    zillmere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 101 ✭✭zillmere


    I would advise you to never go to Australia if it bothers you that much. I say it all the time when I am home but I don't often say it to Irish people because it is not used here but I will use it if is is said to me first.

    If you did go to Australia, I doubt that it would take long for people to start calling you something more apt than mate.


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    #34
    owlwink
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭owlwink


    zillmere wrote: »
    I would advise you to never go to Australia if it bothers you that much. I say it all the time when I am home but I don't often say it to Irish people because it is not used here but I will use it if is is said to me first.

    If you did go to Australia, I doubt that it would take long for people to start calling you something more apt than mate.

    You obviously didnt read through the post.

    This was talked about alreadyand I said it was more the Irish use of the word. The Australian and English versions have already been discussed and it was highlighted by myself and others that they are different.


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    #35
    Dragan
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    orestes wrote: »
    I'm not your mate, friend

    I'm not your friend, pal.


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    #36
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    owlwink wrote: »
    :o

    Didn't mean that to sound threatening btw. Just meant you'd surely get a bad reaction from some people if you actually said I'm not your mate to them.

    owlwink wrote: »
    This was talked about alreadyand I said it was more the Irish use of the word. The Australian and English versions have already been discussed and it was highlighted by myself and others that they are different.

    Any Irish person I know uses it in the same way. Is there a different way?

    For me, it's just a harmless way of being nice in certain situations. For example, if you see somebody in a queue at football that you don't know to talk to, you just say alright mate.

    Surely anything that bucks the trend of being rude or offhand to strangers is to be welcomed?


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    #37
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,576 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    owlwink wrote: »
    A recent thing I have noticed is people seem to be using the word MATE alot more. Personally it really frustrates me when I hear it being used in its new context. There is something really arrogant and annoying about its use.

    Can anyone shed some light on the words new uses and any experiences with it... Thanks

    I agree with you totally.
    I hate it,especially as it's use is becoming more prevalent now, and tends to be used by persons who(in my case anyway) are the polar opposite to what I would socially associate with, much less befriend.

    If some randomer refers to me as 'mate' I will always respond by referring to him as 'pal' or 'bud' or 'boss'


    Thanks for dah mate
    No worries Pal
    See ya mate
    Right Bud.

    Try it, you may like it.


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    #38
    owlwink
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭owlwink


    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    I agree with you totally.
    I hate it,especially as it's use is becoming more prevalent now, and tends to be used by persons who(in my case anyway) are the polar opposite to what I would socially associate with, much less befriend.

    If some randomer refers to me as 'mate' I will always respond by referring to him as 'pal' or 'bud' or 'boss'


    Thanks for dah mate
    No worries Pal
    See ya mate
    Right Bud.

    Try it, you may like it.

    nice one pal...:D


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    #39
    Jumpy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    Keep away from Australia. If you dont like that word you wont be too happy there.


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    #40
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,576 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    I never mind it in Australia,seems a lot more genuine from them tbh.

    Over here it seems to have a kind of a threat to it.


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    #41
    allabouteve
    Closed Accounts Posts: 844 ✭✭✭allabouteve


    latchyco wrote: »
    Australians always greet complete stangers with ' G'day mate ' to .

    True, we're walking cliches.
    owlwink wrote: »
    I think using the word 'mate' singularly is still different though. Extra words add extra meanings.

    Aussies do that too. I think the influence of Australian soap operas is at work in making 'mate' more commonly used here.


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    #42
    owlwink
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭owlwink


    allabouteve wrote: »
    True, we're walking cliches.



    Aussies do that too. I think the influence of Australian soap operas is at work in making 'mate' more commonly used here.

    Or like mentioned earlier in the post is it more an English influence?


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    #43
    allabouteve
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    owlwink wrote: »
    Or like mentioned earlier in the post is it more an English influence?

    Combination of both, I reckon. Irish TV schedules are littered with UK and Aussie soaps and its used ad nauseum in both.


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