Pet Peeves

[Eoin McLove]

I'm funny with the word mate. I can't bring myself to say it, even though everyone uses it in Aus, all the time. I have no problem being called mate, particularly by Aussies or Brits, but it jars a bit coming from Irish people. It doesn't bother me, it just seems a bit... unnatural maybe? I did accidentally say it recently and it was like an out of body experience 

Same as Irish lads saying "bro", just sounds retarded

Again, I don't mind it but can't bring myself to say it. Then again, I say dude all the time so...

[TurnTheAirBlue]

'Bro' drives me fucking nuts! You hear young lads saying it all the time these days. They all sound like fucking yanks the way they talk. Jake Paul and his cunt sister Logan have a lot to answer for! 'Awesome' annoys the fuck out of me as well, what happened to 'deadly'?

[Pentagrimes]

I'm funny with the word mate. I can't bring myself to say it, even though everyone uses it in Aus, all the time. I have no problem being called mate, particularly by Aussies or Brits, but it jars a bit coming from Irish people. It doesn't bother me, it just seems a bit... unnatural maybe? I did accidentally say it recently and it was like an out of body experience 

Same as Irish lads saying "bro", just sounds retarded

YES

Also, I've said it before but the phrase "reach out", which some of my coworkers throw around, boils my piss.

You're not asking for a huge emotional outpouring for help, you;re asking some lad to give you a file number.

[Ducky]

"Bro" seems to be the domain of the young lads. Went in for a haircut a year ago to a spot that has a good reputation... decent chop, but all the other clients were young and the chats with the barbers was all "bro, bro, bro".

I also balked when I tapped my bankcard to pay, your man says "old school bro, a bankcard"

[open face surgery]

The Irish bro thing is cuntish. Just makes them seem retarded.

[Bürggermeister]

Bro is total fucking cringe. Dude is grand, oddly enough, it goes back to the very early 90's here and is somehow, just barely, acceptable. Bro just reeks pf famileee-ah, which is cunty.

[Carnage]

My 11 year-old nephew uses 'bro' with his friends a lot, usually when he's on the X Box. I presume they're picking it up from Youtube videos, particularly game play-throughs. Annoying but hopefully he'll grow out of it in time.

Any adult using it should be killed, however.

[101_North]

I've a friend that has been calling everyone Squire since our school days - well over 30 years now! I was indifferent to it for years but it's starting to get on my tits as we approach 50 🫣

[mickO)))]

Every video I see now is bro this or bro that very annoying but no different to people saying 'well man' or 'well lad' etc. from the previous generation that was equally as annoying.

[Mooncat]

Every video I see now is bro this or bro that very annoying but no different to people saying 'well man' or 'well lad' etc. from the previous generation that was equally as annoying.

Some people are def equally annoyed at those too. I remember getting a taxi once in Belfast years ago with my friend who was all man this and man that (I talk that way a bit too), and after he got dropped off the taxi guy turned to me and said, 'he was doing my fucking head in, that man shit, I was about to lose my temper'. It was the first time it had ever even occurred to me somebody could get so upset over something I found so innocuous. The bro thing is super cringe to me too, especially given it's a bandwagon thing that ALL the young fellas are saying, but I guess it really is no different to dude or man. That guy that says squire though def needs to grab his fedora and fuck off home 

Edit: funnily enough I could never bring myself to say mate either, even though it's super common in the north. Something about it that's very smick-like up there though.

[Eoin McLove]

My 6 year old son says bro the odd time and he's picking it up from youtube videos. It's actually fucking hilarious when he calls me and, particularly my wife,  bro.  I piss myself when he uses it. Then he pisses himself. So I'm softening on bro 

[Mooncat]

I did go through a phase of calling my mum 'mate' when I was younger just to wind her up, so I get the appeal 

[Eoin McLove]

Nice 

[The Great Cull]

My young fella is always talking about Bro either being cooked or bro dominating when he's online playing fortnite with his mates (oh jesus I just used mate  ). He doesn't actually do it offline though thankfully.

One that boils my piss however is the increasing number of people who like to refer to maths in the singular. "I was looking at the math" 

[Emphyrio]

Coming from the school of "man" and "dude" I certainly can't complain about any terms. Bro is grand, mate is grand too, but obviously sounds weird out of a non-Aussie. I can't abide "lad" though, as that was a term for a  penis, in Limerick 20 years ago. Plus the 2 Jonnies are all about "lad" but that's likely kept under the table in the studio. Gowls.