More OZschwitz idiots: Northern NSW Local Health District seek to ban terms of endearment such as "mate", "darling" and "love"

'MATE, this is Straya, this is Straya … let's stick with 'mate'," protested one talkback caller to 2GB's Chris Smith. A cabbie rang in to say his customers loved it when he called them "sweetheart" and "love". On Twitter someone blamed the hippies - "Mate and love banned on the hippie north coast," tweeted @traindriverrev.

More OZschwitz idiots: Northern NSW Local Health District seek to ban terms of endearment such as "mate", "darling" and "love" 1art353lynneandcarmel30

The revelation yesterday that the Northern NSW Local Health District had sent out a memo to health workers in the area advising a more judicious use of terms of endearment such as "mate", "darling" and "love" has unleashed a stonking great storm of patriotic protest across the airwaves, through cyberspace and around the nation's water-coolers.

They might as well have clubbed a koala, or shoved a surf-lifesaving nipper off her surfboard; it was un-Australian, that's what it was.

John Howard wanted to enshrine mateship in his preamble to the constitution. Perhaps he should have pushed a bit harder, and taken steps to get the words "mate", "darling" and "luv" in there too - as in, "how are ya today, luv?" - because those of us who throw our "mates" and our "darlins" around are feeling a bit assailed. If a nurse in Lismore can't inquire after a patient in a kindly manner, what's the country coming to?

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/i-said-luv-i-said-pet-i-said-mate-how-dare-you-talk-to-me-like-that-20121211-2b7wv.html#ixzz2EorIE9Yp

More OZschwitz idiots: Northern NSW Local Health District seek to ban terms of endearment such as "mate", "darling" and "love"

More OZschwitz idiots: Northern NSW Local Health District seek to ban terms of endearment such as "mate", "darling" and "love"

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