Of course, the swashbucklers will say: "But matey, this is the land of pirates and scalawags — risk is just part of the sword fight.
One day, someone will make an intelligent, subversive and enjoyable pirate-themed TV show, but arrrr, mateys, this isn't it.
No offence, matey, but you look like a dosser".
They were matey but, she said, platonic companions until he died in 1988.
His language isn't matey but it hits a relaxed, intimate note, a directness that never lapses into the demotic".
His stand-up is typically matey but caustic, ranging across subjects from family to hometowns and football to politics (there is a bit of ranting), but it's in the storytelling that it really shines.
Speaking to Absolute Radio, he said: "I know this sounds really matey but usually when he plays here, I get up on stage and do a tune with him because he is a mad Rats fan".
Drew knows people have criticised the staff for being "too matey" but says: "Kids coming through that door at the start of Year 7 are with you for five years.
His reputation as one of rock's nicest guys is not without merit, yet he is also savvy and single-minded, and when he agrees to the photographer's request for photographs with a guitar it's with a matey but firm: "Just don't tell me how to hold it".
His conversation can be rambunctious and matey, but he has a gentle manner, with none of the menace that fuelled the role for which he is now most admired: the late-18th-century brothel-keeper and bar-owner Al Swearengen in the pungent HBO western series Deadwood.
