that's name calling in your neck of the woods...really??
whew...that's just saying howdy in rural eastern religious NC...
and you should see how friends greet each other...
Although it's likely news to you, "mate," in Texas, we have this marvelously endearing, borderline-obsessive quality of being appropriately respectful of one another. However, in the rare event that we do discover someone who cannot or does not understand our respectful ways (nearly exclusively non-natives), we simply ship them to NC.
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