Crikey! We Ozzies are under the pump over the use of "mate"... Well I was talking to my shiela Shazza and she reckons that you'se all are grouse when ya reckon we Ozzies are the only blokes on this blessed planet that use the word "mate".

I use it all the time, coz I cant remember nobodies names anymore on account of all the beers I've had whilst watching the cricket on the box with me feet up on the esky, drinking some tinnies.

I reckon we Ozzies get a bum wrap coz of that show "Home And Away" in which that tosser Alf goes on half cocked all the time with the "strewth" and "crikey"... no way do I talk like that!

So, come on you blokes, give us Ozzies a fair crack of the whip, and dont come the raw prawn with us!

/hey Shazza, pass us another tinnie will ya! And turn up the tele, Richie Benaud's on!