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[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 136 points 2 years ago (2 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 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There is only one man who can pull that off

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years 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 108 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Hey"

"The fuck you want?"

[–] SecretSauces@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

This is the way

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 82 points 2 years 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 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Woop woop woop (V) (°,,,,°) (V)

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[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Back when we lived together:

[noncommital grunt]
[noncommital grunt but with a girl's voice]

Now that we live far apart:

"You good?"
"Yea."
[positive grunt]
[positive grunt but with a girl's voice]

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Is first grunt genderless?

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[–] UtMan1988@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years 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 26 points 2 years ago

"Hey, you flippy bint!"

"I... Uhh, hi?"

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] willis936@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] cannibalia@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 years ago

My husband had the same talk with me.

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years 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 31 points 2 years 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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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

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

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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?!"

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Metatronz@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years 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.

[–] Tylith@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

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

Siblingless propaganda

[–] jcdenton@lemy.lol 12 points 2 years ago
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[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] damnfinecoffee@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

this gives Folgers incest ad vibes

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years 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 2 years 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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[–] Lols@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

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

[–] LeafOnTheWind@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Greeting, paternal figure.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 13 points 2 years 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 2 years 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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[–] Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 years ago

Noob where's my controller

[–] Zenjal@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

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

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years 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.

[–] EternalNicodemus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

"The fuck are you doing here‽"

[–] dasgoat@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I call my sister 'sis' because it's gender affirming for her.

[–] Something_Complex@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I call my older brother shinny piece of shit and my sister I just say something that the same level of mean as: wasup toothless (she has teeth so it's not really an insult but it's meant to be)

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (7 children)

That's pretty much how some Asians call their siblings

[–] 1on@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years 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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