ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

The footballers and particularly cricketers are VERY fond of saying "obviously".

Well, obviously.

I invented a word once.

ensardination.

The process that occurs when two people attempt sleep in a cheap motel bed with dodgy springs.

To be ensardinated. To roll together despite an opposite intention.

To be packed in like sardines.

Mal

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I once knew a country cop who, regardless of who he was speaking to, said "mate" about every fifth word. Now THAT was annoying.

Yeah, Mate well some of us can't help it Eh. So mate you obviously have no concern for my feelings Ay !


Bob

Zondrae beat me to the punch. "Mate." I can't stand that word at all. To my ear, it has been completely ruined since old Henry's day. It now sounds harsh and exclusive. It excludes women. It excludes all cultures other than white Anglo-Saxons. Much of the time it's used ironically and aggressively. People who quite clearly don't like each other at all still refer to each other as 'mates'.

Give me 'buddy' any day. I know it's American, but at least it denotes genuine affection. Anything but 'mate'!

Hi Stephen from the way you write of (buddy) in its American ism way to me does not smack of friend ship Eg like a car driver yelling out to a pedestrian hey buddy get out of the bbbbb road.

Where at mate and it is not gender spercific as you imply it is just what it means Eg soul mate, your old mate, or friend, it may just be a referral word used to denote somebody it is used in the country and it is not a word used in cultured circles but at least it is AUSTRALIAN

Bill Williams

Well, that's the beauty of humanity eh, William? We're all different. Those words may sound that way to you, but they don't to me.

My wife is my mate. My mate is my mate. We are all mates.

I mate you mate we mate.

mate mate mate mate.

I called a bloke mate back in the eighties and he rounded on me saying "I'm not your mate!" I said "No. Not anybodies really." He became a polly at which he was a spectacular failure. When he really needed mates he didn't have any.

The moral of the story is: A bloke or a sheila needs his or her mates.

Yer old mate

Mal

Dear oh Dear, our old mate Manfred will be upset.