Have admit that I use it quite a lot, including to people I don't know that well. Had the boiler serviced yesterday by someone I see once a year. As he left I just said "cheers mate, see you in 12 months".
Just rolled the tongue without thinking.
Hope he wasn't upset. Might call him later and apologise if it embarrassed or annoyed him.
Mate
- kancutlawns
- Posts: 40000
- Posts: 51540
- Joined: Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:37 pm
Re: Mate
See, your use of mate is reasonable. It’s not ostentatious, matey or pretentious as it could be but more as a friendly suffix and to show appreciation. I guess it’s more how it’s used and the tone that it’s said with.Zambo wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 11:12 am Have admit that I use it quite a lot, including to people I don't know that well. Had the boiler serviced yesterday by someone I see once a year. As he left I just said "cheers mate, see you in 12 months".
Just rolled the tongue without thinking.
Hope he wasn't upset. Might call him later and apologise if it embarrassed or annoyed him.
- Zambo
- Registered user
- Posts: 26050
- Joined: Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:18 am
- Location: VAR office
Re: Mate
kancutlawns wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 11:19 amSee, your use of mate is reasonable. It’s not ostentatious, matey or pretentious as it could be but more as a friendly suffix and to show appreciation. I guess it’s more how it’s used and the tone that it’s said with.Zambo wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 11:12 am Have admit that I use it quite a lot, including to people I don't know that well. Had the boiler serviced yesterday by someone I see once a year. As he left I just said "cheers mate, see you in 12 months".
Just rolled the tongue without thinking.
Hope he wasn't upset. Might call him later and apologise if it embarrassed or annoyed him.
When your heart is blue, there is nothing you can do. Keep Right On
- JimmyDee
- Registered user
- Posts: 8001
- Joined: Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:12 pm
- Location: Maidstone
Re: Mate
It sets my teeth on edge when Adam "The Catman" Caterall calls boxers he's never met "Meht", assuming an intimacy that only exists in his head. I'm fine when people say it to me. What else are they supposed to say?
"Hey, you, fellow!"
"Hey, you, fellow!"
"You don't have a world-view by just saying you hate Trump" - Norm Macdonald
"It seems as if every time I turn the station on at the moment this fucking mouth breather is polluting the airwaves with untrammeled bollocks." - MGA99
"It seems as if every time I turn the station on at the moment this fucking mouth breather is polluting the airwaves with untrammeled bollocks." - MGA99
- Sid Pervcat
- Registered user
- Posts: 26975
- Joined: Thu Aug 05, 2010 7:43 am
- Location: Turbo Island
Re: Mate
Odd thing to cream ones pantaloons over tbh, calling someone mate.
Hardly the end of days.
Hardly the end of days.
05.02.2024
- kancutlawns
- Posts: 40000
- Posts: 51540
- Joined: Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:37 pm
Re: Mate
It’s about what’s appropriate with the tone. Would you expect King Charles III to address some lowly surf on the way to the bog as “pip pip my mate. Would one care to relocate one’s arse before he gets a bloody good kicking away from the vestry as one needs to park one’s plums on the disc shaped orifice to clear one’s bowels?”
I do prefer being called sir, darling or boss, to be fair. It gives seniority, respect and reverence then some cunt calling me a common old mate.
I do prefer being called sir, darling or boss, to be fair. It gives seniority, respect and reverence then some cunt calling me a common old mate.
- The Ghost of Alex Higgins
- No longer the Bridesmaid
- Posts: 39771
- Joined: Mon Sep 06, 2010 1:35 pm
- Location: Cunt
- Contact:
- Sid Pervcat
- Registered user
- Posts: 26975
- Joined: Thu Aug 05, 2010 7:43 am
- Location: Turbo Island
Re: Mate
You ain't wrong brahThe Ghost of Alex Higgins wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 6:57 pm Fucking hell, moon meriodation doing my swede
05.02.2024
- kancutlawns
- Posts: 40000
- Posts: 51540
- Joined: Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:37 pm
- kancutlawns
- Posts: 40000
- Posts: 51540
- Joined: Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:37 pm
Re: Mate
It's not 'moon meridation' thicko, it's having an opinion you don't like. If you don't like it then go and run into a busy road with your eyes closed if its all to much for you to bear.The Ghost of Alex Higgins wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 6:57 pm Fucking hell, moon meriodation doing my swede
- Sid Pervcat
- Registered user
- Posts: 26975
- Joined: Thu Aug 05, 2010 7:43 am
- Location: Turbo Island
- Sid Pervcat
- Registered user
- Posts: 26975
- Joined: Thu Aug 05, 2010 7:43 am
- Location: Turbo Island