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“I acknowledge that I could interject my own thoughts here, but choose not to. Please continue with that topic, I am interested.”
Of course, doesn’t work as well in online forums.
cool
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Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Winter_Oven@piefed.social 1 day ago
I bring you: broof
contributes confusion to the conversation
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Shortened form of brohoof
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Which in turn was a nickname for Ooferson Bruholomew.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 day ago
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waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Boof: To abuse any licit or illicit substance via insertion into one’s rectum.
Broof: To abuse any licit or illicit substance via insertion into your bro’s rectum.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Isn’t that when Kavanaugh sticks a beer bong up his ass?
Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sort of the sound of a confused dog
ulterno@programming.dev 1 day ago
Oouh!
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
Yikes.
SoupBrick@pawb.social 1 day ago
Me when the next generation comes up with slang and I don’t like it:
angrystego@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Showing empathy is a valuable contribution.
daychilde@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not only that, but acknowledging you heard the one speaking in a quick, unobstrusive, uninterrupting way.
Phunter@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Okay, but if someone does a little “gasp of surprise” at nearly every piece of information/news during a conversation, is it then socially allowed to throw them out of the nearest window?
spongeborgcubepants@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ok, boomer
Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Big oof
itkovian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Me being equally useless with “oof bruh”.
blx@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Equally useless? More like twice as useless, you mean!
TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 day ago
Teach me your ways, master
itkovian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s easy. But you had to have been dropped on your head when you were a baby
Yosmonkol@piefed.social 1 day ago
You just reinvented the midwestern “uff da”. It sounds almost the same and can be used the same way.
mrtuttle@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
this brightened my day.
Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
The way yanks use bro or bruh is like glass in my ear. Its so boorish and stupid sounding.
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 14 hours ago
Sadly my 8 year old son has brought the term bruh home from school. I ask him not to use it but he does anyway.
Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The trick is to use it ALL. THE. TIME.
“Hey, bruh, good day at school? Brrrah brrrah 67 skibidi its your turn to clean the toilet.”
MoonRaven@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Bruh
zebidiah@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Woof
SkyeLight@piefed.social 1 day ago
In my college Sociology class, my professor ran us through a couple situations, then ran them back for us. Gender-wise, women tended to make small interjections, nod their heads, etc, as the conversation went among, to indicate that they were listening. Which apparently leads into two “classic” complaints between M/F partners.
Men tended to think that women were “always changing their minds”, because the men interpreted the women’s nods and interjections as agreement instead of “I’m listening to you”.
And women tended to think that men “weren’t listening to them” because men never provided this feedback.
Zangoose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Gender-wise, women tended to make small interjections, nod their heads, etc, as the conversation went among, to indicate that they were listening
Wait this isn’t something everyone does?
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
That’s crazy, wow
Apeman42@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I probably didn’t want to have the conversation in the first place, now you want me to contribute to it too?
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Ugh
renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
bros never heard about phatic expressions💀
Bruhh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oof
swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
☝️This
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Ding ding ding!
Ghostie@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Sheesh
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
…dude.
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 9 hours ago
snick
“Oh shit! Sorry pall!”
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Broof.
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Wat
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dude…
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Damn.
Shit.
That is whack.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Mood.
SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Oof acknowledges someone’s feelings, and bruh expresses empathy. These sentiments are important and often overlooked. You don’t have to always launch into your own story. Simply acknowledging and empathizing is a powerful way to build social bonds.
Also brevity is the soul of wit, so oof and bruh might qualify as the greatest things anyone has ever said in history.
texture@lemmy.world 1 day ago
nice to see a reasonable take on this
CluckN@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Bruh
ulterno@programming.dev 1 day ago
Oof
MissJinx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes, not every talk is a conversation! Maybe I just want to vent and not to hear.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
In an in person conversation, that’s definitely true. Not so much online though.
CidVicious@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Does bruh express empathy? I’ve always read bruh as “bruh what are you doing” in a lot of contexts. But I can’t really say it’s something I use much.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Context is key. It can express empathy, or disappointment, or awe.
Context is always key.
WhiteRabbit_33@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think it depends on how you pronounce it and context. I’m used to hearing a shorter bruh with a look attached to it as a question for “what are you doing?” vs a longer bruh like “bruuuuuuh” as empathizing like “that’s rough”.