Mate > Fam

Started by Oldboy, Mar 29, 2015, in Life Add to Reading List

  1. Oldboy
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    Mar 29, 2015
    please lets start using mate when we want to friendly call someone..if you dont feel british enough to pull it off...use brah

    i feel the education system failed us each time someone use "fam"
     
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  2. Deadpool
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    Mar 29, 2015
    aight fam i got you from now on
     
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  3. VMO2
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    nah I use m8 or fam, fam
     
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  4. Peter Parker
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    Peter Parker your boy

    Mar 29, 2015
    Gr8 thread, m8. I rel8, str8 appreci8, and congratul8. I r8 this thread an 8/8, no h8

    But yeah, "mate" is good, I'm using "dude" more though
     
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  5. Lil Wayne
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    i'd use n----- but I don't feel black enough to pull it off.
     
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  6. Oldboy
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    its ok you can use whatever you want
     
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  7. asvdawg
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    mate is just weird to me, the only place i use it is on here tbh.
    fam is fkin r-----ed so i just say bro, bruh or dude
     
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  8. Trackz
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    Trackz BARCODE

    Mar 29, 2015
    I've been deployed with some cool aussies, they got me using mate a lot more now lol.
     
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  9. Oldboy
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    mate is what i use in real life...i can use n----- too but i feel weird about it sometime
     
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  10. Trackz
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    Trackz BARCODE

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    Speaking of mate, ya'll can keep that vegemite s---. I don't know how ya'll like that stuff.
     
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  11. VMO2
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    yh I know m8

    yh I use mate in real life and online, but fam only on the internet
     
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  12. asvdawg
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    ya i cant picture myself saying mate in real life.. In canada i have never heard anyone say mate in real life. sometimes I use n----- actually, but not a lot
     
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  13. Oldboy
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    racist
     
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  14. asvdawg
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    I obviously ask for permission to use it first :waynedown:
     
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  15. Oldboy
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    is it ok if i call you "n-----" man ?
     
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    Mar 29, 2015
    bot has passed the torch over to koolo
     
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  17. MrFantastic
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    I totally agree. I'm from the states and I use mate on the casual.
     
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  18. pHiLLip fARkLe
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    :nosir:... no.
     
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  19. cdbleb
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    Have never heard anyone use mate, other than here, SL, Dumb & Dumber, and Crocodile Dundee (And probably the Rone vs 360 battle, but I don't remember). Like I said in another thread, over here your "mate" is the person you're f---ing. Otherwise it's viewed as an Australian term.
     
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  20. CODEiNE DEMON
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    Itt people coping with being unable to say n-----
     
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