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ain't your buddy, pal! (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Alaskans and Hawaiians are incapable of forming bonds of friendship.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Washington and idaho as well apprently.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I knew I liked Seattle for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

... either you enjoy having no friends...

... or you enjoy superficial performative 'relationships' that are all actually adversarial social status jockeying?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (9 children)

It was a joke. I tend to be introverted, and I love the Seattle vibe.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (6 children)

https://qz.com/316906/the-dude-map-how-american-men-refer-to-their-bros

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So the map is more accurately titled "How American Twitter users refer..."

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"White american male twitter users", according to the last paragraph

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I was wondering why a certain word wasn't showing up...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I could have not clicked that video. But I did. And I regret it.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People in Washington don't refer to each others.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

I thought America was mostly NTSC

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

nice maps, homes!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Seattle Freeze is REAL

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

what happened to man... as in hey man.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (5 children)

no bro’s in california?
whoever made this hasn’t been to anything out west

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bruh

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As a Washingtonian, as usual, I’m glad to barely be represented on a heat map of something.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I’m not your bro, pal.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Dude.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm not a dude, buddy.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Northeast US left off because they just say "Yo asshole"

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Anybody use the word fucker as a term of endearment? "What's up, fucker?"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ah, you must be from the North East.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I love that New England doesn't show a preference for any of the choices. My theory: Boston throws off the curve with "asshole" and "fucker" and the data scientists didn't want to cover cursing.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So there's PAL, where's NTSC, and SÉCAM?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Eastern Pennsylvania apparently has no word for Bros.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

It's just a nod and a quickly whispered "Go Birds."

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't forget "guy" and "chief".

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Hypothesis: you can go to the Great lakes region and just make random noises and people will be like "hey, what's up?”.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not your pal, guy!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

People in Georgia and Washington State apparently don't have friends.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Liv3 WA, can confirm.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Or Florida.

But actually it checks out for WA

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Speaking of brotymology, what's a gender neutral version of bro/man?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Suggests that in Georgia, Americans don't refer to their friends

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Where is sexy-(square)pants? Man-in-tights? Curly-cock? Dick-broom?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

What's that enormous hole in dude?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Damn, no representation for "babe", "bbgrl", etc? I use those a lot.

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