Should woman call blokes "mate".

[sufcintheprem]

I hate it when a woman calls me mate, It is basically telling me im not gonna get to fuc her, all very sad.

The irony of the term 'mate' implying she won't do exxactly that!

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

The irony of the term 'mate' implying she won't do exxactly that!

Another better example, Alanis neglected to mention then!

 

[osymandus]

Nothing wrong with it at all . Some people are weird i ask ya ???

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Right - Help me settle this office dispute.

I have just come off the phone to one of the companies that we put business through. Now I wont name them but lets jsut say its not the Bank of England,Ireland or Wales.

The person that I wanted was not there so I left a message. I had a bit of banter with the girl on the other end as you do to pass the day.

At the end of the conversation she said to me - Thank mate & Bye mate.

Now for my mind this is totally unacceptable. I dont think woman should ever call blokes mate. Its for my mind a male to male greeting.

Ben agrees but the girls in the office dont?

I also use to deal regularly with a Bank who wasn't the Bank of England, Ireland or Wales. The one consolation to having to be constantly on the phone to them was that the girls answering the number for the phones for Security for Advances had lovely sounding accents*. On a few occasions I found myself in a similar position to DtS of having a chat with them whilst waiting for the person I needed to speak to. I can't however remember if they called me mate, but there was one girl in particular who could have said anything she wanted to me in her soft non-English/Welsh/Irish accent without complaint from myself.



*To be fair, I was sharing my office at the time with a Brummie girl so any accent would have sounded good in comparison.

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Are we talking the Royal Bank of not England/Ireland/Wales or just the plain Bank of, here YB & DtS?

To be honest the amount of call-centres either of these organisations have around the UK these days you could be speaking to anybody from Ipswich to Inverness!

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

*To be fair, I was sharing my office at the time with a Brummie girl so any accent would have sounded good in comparison.

Certain Brummie accents (especially Stourbridge & Redditch) can be very very saucy on women, IMHO. Quite dirty and make you think they're really up for it & know just exactly what to do (especially when you hear them on the phone!)

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Are we talking the Royal Bank of not England/Ireland/Wales or just the plain Bank of, here YB & DtS?

To be honest the amount of call-centres either of these organisations have around the UK these days you could be speaking to anybody from Ipswich to Inverness!

I chose my words carefully, I expect Dave did as well.

I actually know that they were based in the capital, as not only was their direct dial that dialling code, but I wrote them enough letters.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Certain Brummie accents (especially Stourbridge & Redditch) can be very very saucy on women, IMHO. Quite dirty and make you think they're really up for it & know just exactly what to do (especially when you hear them on the phone!)

That's black country rather than brummie.

ps Rich, most of the secretaries were from Essex.

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

That's black country rather than brummie.

ps Rich, most of the secretaries were from Essex.

True, I guess it's like people from Essex being lumped in as Cockneys!
Takes me back to the "Which accent do you find saucy?" thread of a few months ago. I expressed a preference for Essex then too but as I said at the time, I guess it's because I'm starved of hearing it!

 

[Mr. Benedict]

True, I guess it's like people from Essex being lumped in as Cockneys!
Takes me back to the "Which accent do you find saucy?" thread of a few months ago. I expressed a preference for Essex then too but as I said at the time, I guess it's because I'm starved of hearing it!

I don't know how you cope north of the border. I went to Scotland for a couple of days a while back and I found the highland accents demonstrated in Inverness almost inpenetrable.... :p

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

I don't know how you cope north of the border. I went to Scotland for a couple of days a while back and I found the highland accents demonstrated in Inverness almost inpenetrable.... :p

Yep, different world up there, although it's like saying people from rural Cornwall speak differently to those of us from Essex!

 

[Mr. Benedict]

Yep, different world up there, although it's like saying people from rural Cornwall speak differently to those of us from Essex!

They did serve some tasty Haggis with neeps and tatties though :D

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

I have two female friends who are serious footy fans - the sort who can discuss Flavs v. Collis or the benefits of 3-5-2 over 4-4-2 until the cows come home. Both refer to me as "mate", and it sounds fine... I guess they are more in touch with their masculine side than a lot of birds I know.

It sounds wrong if any "girly" girls I know refer to me as mate, though... so, perhaps unsurprisingly, I've voted as a fence-sitter...

:D

 

[BoyWonder2]

Birds shouldn't call blokes mate. Just doesn't sound right.

I use mate all the time with the lads, but never with the ladies, and I don't expect them to call me mate.

 

[Vange Shrimper]

I call some of my male friends, mate. Personally, I can't see a problem with it.

 

[Southend_Lady]

I call some of my male friends, mate. Personally, I can't see a problem with it.

Yeah me neither, equal rights and all that, if we want to call you males mate then we will!!