Can we stop with the "Bro" talk?
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Re: Can we stop with the "Bro" talk?
I started hating the "bro" thing back on Smallville when Aquaman kept calling Clark "brah". Although I may have been hating it before that. But that pretty much cemented my hate. Two minutes, every day.
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I am pretty sure that the issue isn't the use of the word "bro" or "brah" in casual daily usage - but rather the use of the term "Bro" to describe a particular class of douche canoe male, who may or may not use the word bro or brah all the time.killbot737 wrote:I started hating the "bro" thing back on Smallville when Aquaman kept calling Clark "brah". Although I may have been hating it before that. But that pretty much cemented my hate. Two minutes, every day.
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True, but it almost certainly sprung from the usage killbot is referencing.
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douche...canoe.
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hepcat wrote:douche...canoe.
i am learning so many things thanks to this thread!
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It's like the ABC Afterschool Special of Filthy Insults!
"I'm just a $@$% Bill, yes I'm only a $#%@ Bill...and I'm sitting here on mother@$#@ capital hill"
"I'm just a $@$% Bill, yes I'm only a $#%@ Bill...and I'm sitting here on mother@$#@ capital hill"
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As performed by Senator Kid Rock.hepcat wrote:It's like the ABC Afterschool Special of Filthy Insults!
"I'm just a $@$% Bill, yes I'm only a $#%@ Bill...and I'm sitting here on mother@$#@ capital hill"
I'm just going to assume that "capital hill" is deliberate take on the relationship between wealth and politcal power.
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You are too kind. Seriously.Max Peck wrote:As performed by Senator Kid Rock.hepcat wrote:It's like the ABC Afterschool Special of Filthy Insults!
"I'm just a $@$% Bill, yes I'm only a $#%@ Bill...and I'm sitting here on mother@$#@ capital hill"
I'm just going to assume that "capital hill" is deliberate take on the relationship between wealth and politcal power.
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Just to be clear.
You mad bro?
You mad bro?
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Re: Can we stop with the "Bro" talk?
Can we at least refer to this thread henceforth as the bro-dega?
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Hey pal, the last thing you want is people spell checking your every post for typos.coopasonic wrote:You are too kind. Seriously.Max Peck wrote:As performed by Senator Kid Rock.hepcat wrote:It's like the ABC Afterschool Special of Filthy Insults!
"I'm just a $@$% Bill, yes I'm only a $#%@ Bill...and I'm sitting here on mother@$#@ capital hill"
I'm just going to assume that "capital hill" is deliberate take on the relationship between wealth and politcal power.
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Nope. This is the Bro-ha-ha thread.Zaxxon wrote:Can we at least refer to this thread henceforth as the bro-dega?
It's almost as if people are the problem.
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That's, like, just your bro-pinion, man.Isgrimnur wrote:Nope. This is the Bro-ha-ha thread.Zaxxon wrote:Can we at least refer to this thread henceforth as the bro-dega?
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Much A-Bro about Nothing.Zaxxon wrote:That's, like, just your bro-pinion, man.Isgrimnur wrote:Nope. This is the Bro-ha-ha thread.Zaxxon wrote:Can we at least refer to this thread henceforth as the bro-dega?
It's almost as if people are the problem.
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A very apro-bros comment.Isgrimnur wrote:Much A-Bro about Nothing.Zaxxon wrote:That's, like, just your bro-pinion, man.Isgrimnur wrote:Nope. This is the Bro-ha-ha thread.Zaxxon wrote:Can we at least refer to this thread henceforth as the bro-dega?
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Re: Can we stop with the "Bro" talk?
I think it's fair to say that we've bro-ken this thread at this point.
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For those of us on Black Pearl:ImLawBoy wrote:
It's almost as if people are the problem.
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I'm gonna have to take a bro-mide after reading this.Zaxxon wrote:I think it's fair to say that we've bro-ken this thread at this point.
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ok, that one gets aEnough wrote:A very apro-bros comment.Isgrimnur wrote:Much A-Bro about Nothing.Zaxxon wrote:That's, like, just your bro-pinion, man.Isgrimnur wrote:Nope. This is the Bro-ha-ha thread.Zaxxon wrote:Can we at least refer to this thread henceforth as the bro-dega?
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See, this thread was worthy of the bandwidth after all!hepcat wrote:douche...canoe.
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[Also, for what it's worth, sorry if I came across as "lashing out angrily" at you. Not my intent. But I am still struggling to figure out what a 12 syllable word is that rhymes with borborygmi.]
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Re: Can we stop with the "Bro" talk?
I'm with you!Carpet_pissr wrote:I never got the "Bernie Bro" moniker, actually. My cultural image of "Bro" and "Bernie Sanders supporter" are at odds for whatever reason.
I don't care about bro as a generic gender term. I might even like it in a way as a brief fad if it hadn't initial meant a very specific kind of young frat boy idiot to me.
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Oh, I saw a ton of Bernie Bros during the campaign.Madmarcus wrote:I'm with you!Carpet_pissr wrote:I never got the "Bernie Bro" moniker, actually. My cultural image of "Bro" and "Bernie Sanders supporter" are at odds for whatever reason.
I don't care about bro as a generic gender term. I might even like it in a way as a brief fad if it hadn't initial meant a very specific kind of young frat boy idiot to me.
Think mansplainer, not frat boy: the kind of liberal male arguing that "REAL feminism/REAL equality" somehow means ignoring gender and race issues entirely.
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It's worth quite a bit. Thank you.Kurth wrote:See, this thread was worthy of the bandwidth after all!hepcat wrote:douche...canoe.
i am learning so many things thanks to this thread!
[Also, for what it's worth, sorry if I came across as "lashing out angrily" at you. Not my intent. But I am still struggling to figure out what a 12 syllable word is that rhymes with borborygmi.]
If it helps, the word I was thinking of had no vowels.
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bipolar-psychopathic-Aboriginie?Kurth wrote: I am still struggling to figure out what a 12 syllable word is that rhymes with borborygmi.
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Sorry, the frat boy usage has been cemented in my mind. I understand what you mean when you say Bernie Bro and it has great alliteration to recommend it but it feels like calling Deadheads Juggelos just because they have a very vague connection.Holman wrote: Think mansplainer, not frat boy: the kind of liberal male arguing that "REAL feminism/REAL equality" somehow means ignoring gender and race issues entirely.
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Third, I'm getting crotchety in my old age, and I like it.
getting? Bro, you've been past that for a while
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But "bro" is evolving off-campus. A "Bernie bro" was a thing in 2016 as much as a "Tech bro" is a thing now.Madmarcus wrote:Sorry, the frat boy usage has been cemented in my mind. I understand what you mean when you say Bernie Bro and it has great alliteration to recommend it but it feels like calling Deadheads Juggelos just because they have a very vague connection.Holman wrote: Think mansplainer, not frat boy: the kind of liberal male arguing that "REAL feminism/REAL equality" somehow means ignoring gender and race issues entirely.
Maybe a good definition of "____ bro" would be "casually (incl. unconsciously) male supremacist in the ____ field."
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Maybe they can rebrand as Bernouts in order to dump that bro baggage.Madmarcus wrote:Sorry, the frat boy usage has been cemented in my mind. I understand what you mean when you say Bernie Bro and it has great alliteration to recommend it but it feels like calling Deadheads Juggelos just because they have a very vague connection.Holman wrote: Think mansplainer, not frat boy: the kind of liberal male arguing that "REAL feminism/REAL equality" somehow means ignoring gender and race issues entirely.
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I have yet to fully embrace it, is all I'm saying.naednek wrote:GreenGoo wrote:
Third, I'm getting crotchety in my old age, and I like it.
getting? Bro, you've been past that for a while
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That's a scary thought
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You are welcome.GreenGoo wrote:We have a number of role models on the forums that i aspire to.
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