# I Pit "Good ON You"....(yuck) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 21, 2013, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959 "2013-01-21T23:38:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/41 "2013-01-23T01:30:07Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > Inflection and circumstance are very important. Depending on tone “good on ya” can mean anything from “well done” to “you’re a useless crotch-nugget who is waste of good oxygen”. > [@tellyworth](#): > > Mate. Yes, I always suspect that “mate” is used to insult this poor, telemarketing Yank. It probably is. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/42 "2013-01-23T02:34:26Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Yes, I always suspect that “mate” is used to insult this poor, telemarketing Yank. It probably is. I feel your pain. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/43 "2013-01-23T02:41:11Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > That being said, ‘good ONya’ can also be a disparaging comment in Ozspeak, onya often followed with an inflected _‘mate’_. It means you’re a fucking loser…you have just met with the utmost disapproval of your peers. You might have been bragging about evading the breathalyzer or giving your girlfriend a punch, but whatever the incident, it means that you will never hold your place in that social hierarchy again. Love ya work. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/44 "2013-01-23T08:26:18Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Yes, I always suspect that “mate” is used to insult this poor, telemarketing Yank. It probably is. It’s an important and popular fact that unless you’re from Australia, New Zealand, the UK or South Africa, you should not attempt to use the word “Mate” as a colloquial idiom in conversation, as its uses are many and varied by syntax and context. Hale & Pace have a very funny routine on exactly that topic, FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/45 "2013-01-23T08:35:03Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > It’s an important and popular fact that unless you’re from Australia, New Zealand, the UK or South Africa, you should not attempt to use the word “Mate” as a colloquial idiom in conversation, as its uses are many and varied by syntax and context. Same with _bastard_, ya Kiwi bastard. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/46 "2013-01-23T09:25:18Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Shouldn’t that be Good on _thou_? Thou art mistaken: it should be “Good on thee.” ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/47 "2013-01-23T09:48:07Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Thou art mistaken: it should be “Good on thee.” And just when you thought Grammar Nazism couldn’t get any more nazzied! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/48 "2013-01-23T10:30:53Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Same with _bastard_, ya Kiwi bastard. 😃 😃 I was about to follow that up with witty and erudite mention of the The Most Verboten Word Here (That Begins With The Letter C) And Why It’s Actually A Term Of Endearment In Some Contexts… buuuuut I figured the subtleties and surrealist metaphor counterpointing might be lost to an audience unfamiliar with the wider social context. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/49 "2013-01-23T11:06:08Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Language is a subtle bastard here in Australia. 😃 Ah, Australia, subtlest culture in the world! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/50 "2013-01-23T11:20:44Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > 😃 > > I was about to follow that up with witty and erudite mention of the The Most Verboten Word Here (That Begins With The Letter C) And Why It’s Actually A Term Of Endearment In Some Contexts… buuuuut I figured the subtleties and surrealist metaphor counterpointing might be lost to an audience unfamiliar with the wider social context. 😉 I know an Englishman, a rather strapping specimen of British manhood whom his female Thai office staff often swoon over. They told him one day he looked like a count, picking out some form of royalty that they thought must be appropriate. But he said the funny thing was their pronunciation of “count” came perilously close to the way that C-word you mention is pronounced using his accent. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/51 "2013-01-23T11:22:59Z")
“Good on you” does vaguely bug me coming from Americans. It would be like an American saying “mate” for friend, but I never hear them do that. It doesn’t bug me at all coming from the Brits and the Aussies, but it just sounds fake coming from my people. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/52 "2013-01-23T15:02:52Z")
Have a tinny of the amber fluid. That’ll put you right.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/53 "2013-01-23T19:51:58Z")
> [@Blackberry](#): > > “Good on you” does vaguely bug me coming from Americans. It would be like an American saying “mate” for friend, but I never hear them do that. It doesn’t bug me at all coming from the Brits and the Aussies, but it just sounds fake coming from my people. Bloke, are you coming out with the mates tonight? ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/54 "2013-01-23T22:00:49Z")
> [@Blackberry](#): > > “Good on you” does vaguely bug me coming from Americans. It would be like an American saying “mate” for friend, but I never hear them do that. I do it all the time. It’s essentially my favorite pronoun now. ---
**Author:** ![InsomniaMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ad7895/32.png) [@InsomniaMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InsomniaMama)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/55 "2013-01-23T22:59:18Z")
Much like idiot Americans using “Cheers” for thanks. Shut up you stupid cow. Just stick with something local. Thank god that coworker got fired. It was “cheers” this and “cheers” that, verbally and in email. Oh, yes, you spent a little time in jolly old England, did ya? I’m in Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/56 "2013-01-24T03:53:54Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > [I Hate the Word "Veggies" - The BBQ Pit - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=603161) > [@CanvasShoes](#): > > Exactly! And that’s only one of the threads that have multiple whiny posts about the word veggie (or any other word with the audacity to end in “ie”). Even _ **pie** _? ETA: Lately I’ve taken to using “Ta” for “thank you.” Am I being Pitted here, too? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/57 "2013-01-24T04:46:54Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Lately I’ve taken to using “Ta” for “thank you.” Am I being Pitted here, too? No, you deserve your own thread for that. As did I, back when I watched too much Tigger, and started saying “TTFN (Ta Ta For Now)!” ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/58 "2013-01-26T02:02:03Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > I agree. “Good for you” sounds very much like it’s conveying “That’s nice and you can get fucked all the same” at worst and “Well isn’t that nice? I don’t actually care” at best. right, all those proper southern ladies who say “Isn’t that nice?” really want to say “Well, fuuuuck you”. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/59 "2013-01-26T02:10:29Z")
I’m Californian through and through, but I say “G’day.” Both Paul Hogan and Slim Dusty said I could. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959/60 "2013-01-27T00:05:49Z")
> [@Mach Tuck](#): > > I believe it’s an Australian expression. An Aussie friend of mine used to say it all the time, and I think one of the sharks in Finding Nemo said it too. We do. I might change my expression of congratulation to “Fuck you.” Not sure how well it’ll be received, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-good-on-you-yuck/647959.md?page=4)