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
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”
There is only one man who can pull that off
Sauce?
Aoi Todo from Jujutsu Kaisen
I made my best friend playing backyard football after he intentionally beamed me in the balls.
Idk it’s less a best friend and more a really long built trauma bond in my experience
Reading through all these comments I’m sorry we all went through this with our siblings but I’m glad I’m not the only one, I feel a little less broken & alienated. But what a tragic waste of such a close relative and strong relationship bond, for it all to be nothing but trauma and anger and fighting.
Yeah I don’t want to downplay how much I love her. She’s one of the coolest people I know and I’m so proud to get to be her big sister, but yeah the crux of our relationship is that nobody else can really relate to my childhood and early adulthood. Nobody else grew up with our parents and that’s huge
I dunno - none of my brothers are really my best friend level now we’re adults. we’re friends, we enjoy time together, but not my best friend, not the person I go to with fears and worries, hopes and dreams.
but absolutely best “grabs a shovel and a car when I say I have a body to bury” emergency backup. the brother who doesn’t respond for 2 weeks to a social invite (“hey, sorry I missed your message about last week”) is always there when I say I have an emergency.
“Hey”
“The fuck you want?”
This is the way
“Sup asshole.”
“Hey. Wait, are you wearing my shirt??”
And then whoever was wearing the stolen item fled the scene.
Woop woop woop (V) (°,°) (V)
The claws can’t flee like they used to.
We call each other bro. The sister is also a bro
I’m a dude. He’s a dude. She’s a dude. Cause we’re all dudes. Yeah!
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.
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.
Sour about your elected officials? Vote Lemon Party!
I’ve seen fliers to that effect all over Calgary
Duuude
Context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV61t021SxQ
Apparently encoded on a potato.
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]Is first grunt genderless?
Something something “the fundamental source of women’s oppression is its [femininity’s] historical and social construction as the quintessential [other]”
Yes. I’m AMAB but like playing around with gender.
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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.
“Hey, you flippy bint!”
“I… Uhh, hi?”
I’ve called a lot of people bro, but never my brother lmao
I’ve had to tell my daughter not to call me ‘bro.’ Not putting up with that.
Would you prefer bruncle?
To paraphrase Captain Janeway, “protocol with your friends aside, I don’t like being addressed as bro. Pop is acceptable in a crunch but I prefer Dad.”
My husband had the same talk with me.
me and my wife call each other bro all the time
More than anything I think my wife and I call each other removed lmao.
I call my brothers bruh, bro, guy, buddy, pal. But bro is 90% of the time.
We just use names
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.
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.
I think you might not want to know what kind of porn your dad watches.
Bro…
Step-bro…
Given how prevalent it is, it can be hard to avoid. I’m not into it but sometimes I’m like “OK, I’m tired of trying to find something that fits my description and isn’t incest/incest-adjacent. I’ll just try to ignore that aspect.”
I never specifically look for it but so much comes up with seemingly any search.
Do you then, as a parent and step-parent, instruct your children and step-children to refer to each other in more closely related familial ways?
I do not, but I’m not sure that’s relevant. You’re just trying to come up with a correlation based on essentially nothing. You only know this one thing about them.
It is because the context for their original joke was my Dad trying to make us use more familial terms, so they’re bouncing that joke back onto you. Was quite funny if you ask me
Remind me not to get stuck anywhere with my Dad or step-sibling around
I laughed, but still downvoted you.
Same.
I like to think of an older sister calling her little brother, removed. That seems fitting and hilarious, as I imagine a little boy responding only in fortnite dances.
for me it’s either a curt exchange of mutually understood grunts, or
“DEAREST SIBLING, how wonderful to see you! How are–”
“fucking stop.”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?!”
As someone with brothers, how do we greet each other? With violence.
I think I’ve called everyone bro except for my actual brother.
I call her sis and she calls me little bro ¯\(ツ)/¯
Siblingless propaganda
False
… Nice.
Me too! There’s dozens of us!
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.
