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

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Alaskans and Hawaiians are incapable of forming bonds of friendship.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Washington and idaho as well apprently.

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

I knew I liked Seattle for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago (9 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

People in Washington don't refer to each others.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Exclusively as comrade (not pictured)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago

I thought America was mostly NTSC

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Bruh

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

nice maps, homes!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

Seattle Freeze is REAL

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

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

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

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

I’m not your bro, pal.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Dude.

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

I'm not a dude, buddy.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah, you must be from the North East.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Eastern Pennsylvania apparently has no word for Bros.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks 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] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Liv3 WA, can confirm.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Or Florida.

But actually it checks out for WA

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not your pal, guy!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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