Have never called her 'Sis'. Have called her 'Natures Condom Advertisement'.

Folks without siblings think it’s like a built in best friend, which it is, but it’s one forged in blood, insults, and lies

Exactly - All best friends are forged from blood, insults, and lies, and siblings are no exception.
It's like if you went up to a best mate like, "Hey, Best Friend"
- There is only one man who can pull that off
- I made my best friend playing backyard football after he intentionally beamed me in the balls.
Idk it’s less a best friend and more a really long built trauma bond in my experience
- Reading through all these comments I'm sorry we all went through this with our siblings but I'm glad I'm not the only one, I feel a little less broken & alienated. But what a tragic waste of such a close relative and strong relationship bond, for it all to be nothing but trauma and anger and fighting.
I dunno - none of my brothers are really my best friend level now we're adults. we're friends, we enjoy time together, but not my best friend, not the person I go to with fears and worries, hopes and dreams.
but absolutely best "grabs a shovel and a car when I say I have a body to bury" emergency backup. the brother who doesn't respond for 2 weeks to a social invite ("hey, sorry I missed your message about last week") is always there when I say I have an emergency.

"Hey"

"The fuck you want?"

This is the way

"Sup asshole."

"Hey. Wait, are you wearing my shirt??"

And then whoever was wearing the stolen item fled the scene.

Woop woop woop (V) (°,,,,°) (V)
- The claws can't flee like they used to.

We call each other bro. The sister is also a bro

I'm a dude. He's a dude. She's a dude. Cause we're all dudes. Yeah!
- Dude is a gender neutral term. It knows no age limit or maximum. It rejects no profession, it passes no judgement, but embraces all. It is all encompassing. Everyone that wishes to be a dude need not do anything other than reach insides themselves and embrace their dudeness. For we are all dudes.
- Duuude
- Context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV61t021SxQ
  Apparently encoded on a potato.

Back when we lived together:

[noncommital grunt]
[noncommital grunt but with a girl's voice]

Now that we live far apart:

"You good?"
"Yea."
[positive grunt]
[positive grunt but with a girl's voice]

Is first grunt genderless?
- I'm going to put this one in my "likely aliens, so definitely aliens" list.
- Yes. I'm AMAB but like playing around with gender.
- Something something "the fundamental source of women's oppression is its [femininity's] historical and social construction as the quintessential [other]"

Usually some derogatory term. Sometimes I go out of the way to find something in another language or old English.

It's not about saying hello. It's about mind games.

"Hey, you flippy bint!"
"I... Uhh, hi?"

I’ve called a lot of people bro, but never my brother lmao

I've had to tell my daughter not to call me 'bro.' Not putting up with that.
- Would you prefer bruncle?
- My husband had the same talk with me.
- Why do you hate fun?
me and my wife call each other bro all the time
- More than anything I think my wife and I call each other bitch lmao.
I call my brothers bruh, bro, guy, buddy, pal. But bro is 90% of the time.

We just use names

I like name-adjacent nonsense words. Basically the kind of made-up-on-the-spot lazy single-use nicknames you might use for a pet. Like I’m pretending I forgot your name but I’m pretty sure there’s a B in it somewhere, so you’re Bubba today.

My Dad tries to encourage us to call our step-sibling Bro, and it ends up feeling weird because of exactly this - siblings just don't talk like this.

I think you might not want to know what kind of porn your dad watches.
- Bro...
- Given how prevalent it is, it can be hard to avoid. I'm not into it but sometimes I'm like "OK, I'm tired of trying to find something that fits my description and isn't incest/incest-adjacent. I'll just try to ignore that aspect."
  I never specifically look for it but so much comes up with seemingly any search.
- Remind me not to get stuck anywhere with my Dad or step-sibling around
- I laughed, but still downvoted you.

I like to think of an older sister calling her little brother, whore. That seems fitting and hilarious, as I imagine a little boy responding only in fortnite dances.

for me it's either a curt exchange of mutually understood grunts, or

"DEAREST SIBLING, how wonderful to see you! How are--"
"fucking stop."

It's amazing how little effort it takes to piss off a sibling. You know exactly what buttons to push. Other times it's like they've built up a tolerance to your bullshit so it doesn't work. One time I farted in my brothers face four times while he was playing on his Nintendo DS and he only acknowledged me because of the amount of farts. "How the hell can you fart that many times in a row?!"

As someone with brothers, how do we greet each other? With violence.

I think I've called everyone bro except for my actual brother.

As my family is Vietnamese, not only do I adress my own elder siblings "brother" and "sister", I even adress people like that that aren't my actual siblings at all. Unless they're older, in which case they're "uncle" and "aunt".

Although, I also grew up without my siblings around and am more removed in aged from them than they are from each other, so there is kind of a distance that a lot of siblings don't have.

I call her sis and she calls me little bro ¯(ツ)/¯

my brother does in fact fall me bro bro, and i regularly call him bro

this gives Folgers incest ad vibes

I say Hello Sister. I also say hello mother or father too. My family is weird though.

Greeting, paternal figure.
Is that only when you're at Camp Grenada?
I do the same thing. My family's not weird though, just me.

Fucking I wish, me and my brother stopped talking after we fought so much as kids and now that we're adults every time we meet it's like awkward conversation trying to rekindle something that was never there

Sorry to hear that. Must have been some pretty bad fights. Me and my brother (I am one year older) fought a lot when we was kids but eventually we grew out of it
Me and my siblings also fought a lot as kids, but as adults we're closer than ever. Some people grow distant and some people grow closer with time, nothing you can do about it.
- Yeah, its not like we're not wanting to be make up, we just don’t seem to be wired that way

It always annoys me that people call each other by name in movies.

Yeah, it's so you know who the characters are, but who actually does that in real life?

Imagine you'reblind and a new scene starts, and you dont know what characters are on set. You dont know who walks in halfway through the scene.
Helps a lot announcing every character in this way.
I do lol
Lots of people in lots of cultures do... In fact, I call both of my siblings by name, and that's the usual way of greeting hierarchically equal or inferior members of family in my culture.
Pretty normal where I live tbh. Kids use each other's names for each other 99% of the time. It would be ultra weird to use "brother/sister" in daily speech. That's how it's written in shitty books and TV novellas over here tbh...
My fam call by name all the time. In fact most of the time we miscall the name and bug each other over it. Sometimes we even flip through all the names before landing on the right one when addressing each other
Urdr-krist-bri-malomar(made up names for obvious reasons)
Then we bug our mom by going by each others names.
Occasionally we even call each others names backwards or add accents and hyphens to them.
- I've called my kids by our pets' names on occasion...
I call my friends by name all the time. One of them walks into wherever we're gathering, and I'll call out Nick and give my boy a hug for example.
What do you call them if not their name? 🤔

Noob where's my controller

I call my sister "lil sis" even tho she is way older than me, maybe I am just stupid 💀

Or a hentai protagonist
- Game is game 😭
- This is what I call my BIL

I've called her a "black sticky same gender substance" as a greeting more than once

We are out there!

I call my youngest sister 'lil sis'. But then she mangled saying 'big brother' one day and it came out as 'big bug' and that was way into adulthood. It used to always be 'big brother' until that one fateful day.

That's pretty much how some Asians call their siblings

I think a lot of this weird writing comes from anime and manga where they translate it like this from Japanese
Yeah, in Korea, if you are a boy and have an older sister, you have to call her "nuna". Your older brother "hyeong". If you are a girl, your older sister is "onni" and your older brother is "oppa" (which also carries the unfortunate sexual connotation like calling someone "daddy" in English.) Thankfully at least all younger siblings are "dongsaeng"s. No wonder shit gets translated like this.
Ahh yeah, you also have to use these terms with your friends that are older and younger than you. If any Korean tells you someone is their sister or brother and it seems unlikely, it's because they mean that they are their older or younger friends, but the only person that Koreans actually call "friend" (chingu) are people the same age as them.
- I've always struggled explaining this to people. I was taken aback for a long time in that one of the first questions upon meeting someone new was how old I was. I didn't understand that it's embedded within the language to establish this.
  I read an interesting linguistics essay once that asserted nobody is fluent in Korean because the vocabulary changes as you age. I don't agree with the thesis, but found it intriguing nonetheless.
  (Also, I was there in the nineties. I've heard that agashi has since become a word one doesn't want to use. When and how did that happen?)
It's like title and first name, right? Like the way English speakers will say "uncle John" you would call your grandmother "grandma $firstname"?
- Pretty much just the title. You wouldn't use the name of an elder or superior.
  Edit: I'm speaking directly of Korean. I think your comment was related to Asia in general and I didn't follow the response lines correctly.

"The fuck are you doing here‽"

I call my sister 'sis' because it's gender affirming for her.

Chicken Wing is the preferred nickname both ways between myself and my younger brother. No clue how it started exactly.

For us it's Gollum. Girls and boys alike. Everyone is Gollum.

I call my older brother shinny piece of shit and my sister I just say something that the same level of mean as: wasup toothless (she has teeth so it's not really an insult but it's meant to be)

When I was five or so, my older sister invented the word "cosweb", convinced gullible-little-me it was the worst thing ever, and called me that for (what felt like at the time) months. She eventually just stopped. I didn't figure it out until I was in grade six or something.

Oddly, I've started calling my sister's sis and brother's bro rather recently. 'It saves time on texts' is my reasoning.

I think it might be laziness mixed with too much fan translated manga / manhwa with a dash of IDGAF.

"Rather Recently" is a weird nickname, especially if you gave it to yourself, but I respect your hermaphroditic energy.

If there is a preamble of any kind, it's "Dude" followed by a story of some kind. But usually it's just like... Stream of consciousness. Like. A text will be "so, this thing happened." Or we send memes. That's it. Sometimes we say "hey".

Depending on the specific sibling dynamic, the following is also acceptable:

"Hey dickweed!"

"Fuck off. Alright what do you want?"

My sister once got my attention from a distance by shouting "HEY, DIPSHIT!"

I don't see any problem with hey sis and hey bro, feels like a pretty weak meme.

there's no problem with it per se, it's just that it never happens outside the imagination of writers who don't care
- My sister calls me bro. I then refer to her as sis.
  Lone data point, but it happens.

It's never too late to reevaluate and remove abusive relationships from your life. Whether old friends, mates from school, parents or siblings, absolutely no one is entitled to your time and emotional energy. By giving yourself some distance, you may realize contacts maintained out of social obligation or fear of loneliness were actually anchors preventing you from seeking your own happiness.
Nothing wrong with continuing them as is or returning to them after some time to find clarity, either. But it is worth remembering, all of this is entirely under your control.

Duuude