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[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 151 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Folks without siblings think it’s like a built in best friend, which it is, but it’s one forged in blood, insults, and lies

[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Exactly - All best friends are forged from blood, insults, and lies, and siblings are no exception.

It's like if you went up to a best mate like, "Hey, Best Friend"

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is only one man who can pull that off

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Idk it’s less a best friend and more a really long built trauma bond in my experience

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 121 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Hey"

"The fuck you want?"

[–] SecretSauces@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 94 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Sup asshole."

"Hey. Wait, are you wearing my shirt??"

And then whoever was wearing the stolen item fled the scene.

[–] hansl@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Woop woop woop (V) (°,,,,°) (V)

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[–] frogfruit@sh.itjust.works 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We call each other bro. The sister is also a bro

[–] ensignrick@startrek.website 63 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm a dude. He's a dude. She's a dude. Cause we're all dudes. Yeah!

[–] Lemonparty@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude is a gender neutral term. It knows no age limit or maximum. It rejects no profession, it passes no judgement, but embraces all. It is all encompassing. Everyone that wishes to be a dude need not do anything other than reach insides themselves and embrace their dudeness. For we are all dudes.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was gonna ask if you fucked dudes. But then I saw your user name, so never mind. Anyone out of the loop can just Google it.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sour about your elected officials? Vote Lemon Party!

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[–] UtMan1988@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Usually some derogatory term. Sometimes I go out of the way to find something in another language or old English.

It's not about saying hello. It's about mind games.

[–] UtMan1988@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

"Hey, you flippy bint!"

"I... Uhh, hi?"

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I’ve called a lot of people bro, but never my brother lmao

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've had to tell my daughter not to call me 'bro.' Not putting up with that.

[–] willis936@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Damage@feddit.it 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I like name-adjacent nonsense words. Basically the kind of made-up-on-the-spot lazy single-use nicknames you might use for a pet. Like I’m pretending I forgot your name but I’m pretty sure there’s a B in it somewhere, so you’re Bubba today.

[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago (11 children)

My Dad tries to encourage us to call our step-sibling Bro, and it ends up feeling weird because of exactly this - siblings just don't talk like this.

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[–] Metatronz@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

I like to think of an older sister calling her little brother, whore. That seems fitting and hilarious, as I imagine a little boy responding only in fortnite dances.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

for me it's either a curt exchange of mutually understood grunts, or

"DEAREST SIBLING, how wonderful to see you! How are--"
"fucking stop."

[–] Algaroth@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's amazing how little effort it takes to piss off a sibling. You know exactly what buttons to push. Other times it's like they've built up a tolerance to your bullshit so it doesn't work. One time I farted in my brothers face four times while he was playing on his Nintendo DS and he only acknowledged me because of the amount of farts. "How the hell can you fart that many times in a row?!"

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

As someone with brothers, how do we greet each other? With violence.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

I think I've called everyone bro except for my actual brother.

[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As my family is Vietnamese, not only do I adress my own elder siblings "brother" and "sister", I even adress people like that that aren't my actual siblings at all. Unless they're older, in which case they're "uncle" and "aunt".

Although, I also grew up without my siblings around and am more removed in aged from them than they are from each other, so there is kind of a distance that a lot of siblings don't have.

[–] Tylith@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I call her sis and she calls me little bro ¯\(ツ)

Siblingless propaganda

[–] jcdenton@lemy.lol 14 points 1 year ago
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[–] Lols@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

my brother does in fact fall me bro bro, and i regularly call him bro

[–] damnfinecoffee@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

this gives Folgers incest ad vibes

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Fucking I wish, me and my brother stopped talking after we fought so much as kids and now that we're adults every time we meet it's like awkward conversation trying to rekindle something that was never there

[–] DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Sorry to hear that. Must have been some pretty bad fights. Me and my brother (I am one year older) fought a lot when we was kids but eventually we grew out of it

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 16 points 1 year ago (9 children)

It always annoys me that people call each other by name in movies.

Yeah, it's so you know who the characters are, but who actually does that in real life?

[–] Retoffelnoster@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Imagine you'reblind and a new scene starts, and you dont know what characters are on set. You dont know who walks in halfway through the scene.

Helps a lot announcing every character in this way.

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[–] LeafOnTheWind@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I say Hello Sister. I also say hello mother or father too. My family is weird though.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Greeting, paternal figure.

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[–] Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago

Noob where's my controller

[–] EternalNicodemus@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I call my sister "lil sis" even tho she is way older than me, maybe I am just stupid 💀

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[–] Zenjal@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I've called her a "black sticky same gender substance" as a greeting more than once

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

We are out there!

I call my youngest sister 'lil sis'. But then she mangled saying 'big brother' one day and it came out as 'big bug' and that was way into adulthood. It used to always be 'big brother' until that one fateful day.

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

That's pretty much how some Asians call their siblings

[–] 1on@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I think a lot of this weird writing comes from anime and manga where they translate it like this from Japanese

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[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

"The fuck are you doing here‽"

[–] theletterw@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chicken Wing is the preferred nickname both ways between myself and my younger brother. No clue how it started exactly.

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