Yes, I always suspect that “mate” is used to insult this poor, telemarketing Yank. It probably is.
I feel your pain.
Love ya work.
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.
Same with bastard, ya Kiwi bastard. 
Thou art mistaken: it should be “Good on thee.”
And just when you thought Grammar Nazism couldn’t get any more nazzied!
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. 
Ah, Australia, subtlest culture in the world!
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.
“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.
Have a tinny of the amber fluid. That’ll put you right.
Bloke, are you coming out with the mates tonight?
I do it all the time. It’s essentially my favorite pronoun now.
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.
Even pie?
ETA: 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)!”
right, all those proper southern ladies who say “Isn’t that nice?” really want to say “Well, fuuuuck you”.
I’m Californian through and through, but I say “G’day.”
Both Paul Hogan and Slim Dusty said I could.
We do. I might change my expression of congratulation to “Fuck you.” Not sure how well it’ll be received, though.