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Northeast US left off because they just say “Yo asshole”
It’s how real america emotes
Anybody use the word fucker as a term of endearment? “What’s up, fucker?”
Ah, you must be from the North East.
Or south Florida
I’m an anomaly. I’ve lived almost everywhere.
We prefer “What’s up fuckface?”
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.
Masshole.
New England always on top, in our own way; confusing to those who aren’t from around here.
Suggests that in Georgia, Americans don’t refer to their friends
Having male friends in Georgia is too homoerotic for their sensibilities.
Anything goes in Michigan.
The last two aren’t really used here.
Guess I’m not your pal, fella.
The top three are used in California.
I mainly stick with Dude and Buddy (Buddy being my go to for strangers “Thanks Buddy”)
In my office a few years back I started ironically calling people “Homie” and that overtime morphed into a gender neutral term of endearment we all used for each other.
I really wonder where “Homie” fits into this
I love that Ohio is purple in all of these
In Florida I mainly hear the top 3.
Bottom 2 would probably get an odd look.
That’s really interesting I never thought that something as simple as “bro” would be different in different statesColorado markedly absent as most people polled were likely from elsewhere and as such brought their own vernacular
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.
I knew I liked Seattle for a reason.
… either you enjoy having no friends…
… or you enjoy superficial performative ‘relationships’ that are all actually adversarial social status jockeying?
It was a joke. I tend to be introverted, and I love the Seattle vibe.
I do not understand how your joke works.
If you genuienly enjoy antisociality as a norm, because you tend to be introverted, then you just like Seattle because of that.
You would then not be joking, in the sense of sarcastically saying you enjoy something you don’t actually enjoy.
‘I knew I liked Seattle for a reason’ is then just the same as saying ‘Yup, I’m also anti social and I love it here’.
The ‘joke’ isn’t that you actually don’t like Seattle’s social norms and were being sarcastic, because you just said you’re introverted.
I honestly do not understand how this is a joke.
Is… just using the pithy/vague phrasing… in and of itself… the joke?
Well if it wasn’t funny before, it certainly is now after this dissertation…
I think you’re over analyzing some random throwaway line. It was immediately apparent to me that the commenter was being facetious.
Maybe joke was the wrong wording, but you are really digging deep for a throw-away line on an internet thread. I will try to explain since you took the time to write the essay.
One person says a line to talk down about something. “Seattle seems unfriendly.”
I say I agree, but I actually like the thing they don’t like. “I knew I liked Seattle”
That’s essentially it. I like the aspect of Seattle the other person didn’t. At best, other people like minded to me would read it and blow some air out their nose in agreement.
This sounds a lot like Miami.
Looks like Miami also does not have any specific vernacular for ‘friend’ on these maps, so… maybe if you just overlay all these maps and find all the deadzones, you’ve found the areas of antisociality?
Howzit, braddah?!
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
So the map is more accurately titled “How American Twitter users refer…”
“White american male twitter users”, according to the last paragraph
I could have not clicked that video. But I did. And I regret it.
Oh dear God…
I now need eye bleach, for my ears? 🌽
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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 :)
Haha, I do quick dumps. Maybe when I have more time, but in the meantime you guys usually pull through digging around, and you usually find some extra cool stuff too. :)
So basically you’re doing the “don’t ask, just say something on the Internet to issue a challenge” method of learning stuff?
Sometimes, sometimes I am curious to know more too, sometimes I know things are right, sometimes I know they are wrong but it makes for good conversation… I pick from the meme firehose (feeds) ones I know will make for interesting threads. It is a vibe. It does not take me long to get the memes, so it is a fun passive thing. I do this for fun too. :) It is also why I insist that we use “meme” in the Dawkins sense (see sidebar).
Sometimes its a fine line between infographs and memes. Sometimes it isn’t
People in Washington don’t refer to each others.
Exclusively as comrade (not pictured)
I thought America was mostly NTSC
nice maps, homes!
Seattle Freeze is REAL
