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fossilesque @mander.xyz

6h ago

ain't your buddy, pal!

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Alaskans and Hawaiians are incapable of forming bonds of friendship.
- Washington and idaho as well apprently.
  
  I am from Seattle.
  Anecdotally:
  This is correct.
  People are absurdly transactional, performative and superficial about relationships and also very anti social compared to basically anywhere else I've ever been in the US.
- Same

Interesting. Can we have have at least a tiny bit of info how this data came to be?
Not just this one, but all the infographs, maps etc. Always leave entirely open if someone just guessed the data for the lulz.
This makes me a litte sad sometimes
- https://qz.com/316906/the-dude-map-how-american-men-refer-to-their-bros
  
  So the map is more accurately titled "How American Twitter users refer..."
  
  Thanks! I think it would be a great rule of thumb for lemmy to always include sauce and especially the sidefacts about the data that relativize it. (See other replies)
  Less shiny maybe, but more real :)

I thought America was mostly NTSC

Seattle Freeze is REAL

I’m not your bro, pal.
- Dude.
  
  I'm not a dude, buddy.
- somehow, south park CO has almost no color on any of these maps
- you broke my heart, man

nice maps, homes!

what happened to man... as in hey man.
- I don't know, my man.
- Can't afford the ticket. . . . BACK TO SUFFRAGETTE CITY
- Hey man (nice shot) - they are back, with their last album August 2023.

I don't know why but "fella" sounds old fashioned to me.

The large amounts of no-bro-zones scares me.

Eastern Pennsylvania apparently has no word for Bros.
- It's just a nod and a quickly whispered "Go Birds."

People in Georgia and Washington State apparently don't have friends.
- Liv3 WA, can confirm.
- Or Florida.
  But actually it checks out for WA
  
  Florida has a few bros.
  
  I was thinking the north west was looking pretty bare too. Some in Montana, but that’s all.

Speaking of brotymology, what's a gender neutral version of bro/man?
- I use "fam".
- they are kinda a gender neutral.
  Bro is fairly commonly used as gender neutral word.
  Man (as in my man) does not have an equivalent (my person does not havve the ring) - but originally, man was the gender neutral term for persons, and we user mer (as in mermaid) / were (as in werewolf) for males. that is how man was used. But that very well could also be due to bias in writing and archiving of stuff, I don not know much about this.
- I'm old, but my even older inlaws refer to each other affectionately as "person."
  People say "dude" is neutral, but you don't often see it used when all the dudes are women, and the existence of "dudette" also implies it's not.
  "Friend" maybe but could sound sarcastic.
  Come to think of it, all these terms are ripe for sarcastic use. In fact, I'd like to see the map of antibrotymology. Which of the above is used the way Wolverine uses "Bub"?
- Cuz is acceptable
- Sib (as in sibling) is my preferred one.
- man is short for human
  
  Hu-man from Earth

I'm apparently in the "Pal" region and it's not a word I use often to refer to people, nor have I heard it used often by others either.
We use "Dude" pretty often, but looking at the map you'd think this is a dude desert.
- Further down the article this screen’s taken from, they show the raw data they got for “dude”, and its usage is pretty much everywhere.

West coast here. There’s also “man” and “guys.” I use those way more than “dude” lol

I was upset that Kentucky didn't have much coverage, but then I realized that "Hosscat" wasn't one of the choices.

Mid Atlantic region just doesn’t like anyone.
- We do not. So that is accurate!

Been ‘dude’ for me as long as I’ve been alive.

The only thing this proves is that us here in the PNW truly do have less friends than the rest of our country men.
- but it's made up for with the greater PNW polycule
- I'm surprised it hasn't shifted to dude with the Californians moving in.

Chief…

My buddy in Atlanta would like a word.
- Which word?
  "Stud?"
  "My man?"
  "Cuz?"
  
  You know that I'm crazy 'bout dem cupcakes, cousin!
- They have a word, you just can't say it

So, we're no longer using 'stud?'
- Only for bros with benefits.

Breh.

Fella 4 life

What's that enormous hole in dude?
- Dallas, which checks out.

bruh

My Dude!

I'm super curious about that hole in Texas for "dude."

Georgians have no friends.

I'm not your fella, pal

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