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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.
Yes, not every talk is a conversation! Maybe I just want to vent and not to hear.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backchannel_(linguistics)
"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.
I bring you: broof
contributes confusion to the conversation
Shortened form of brohoof
Is that a brony thing?
Which in turn was a nickname for Ooferson Bruholomew.
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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.
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Yikes.
Wow
Showing empathy is a valuable contribution.
Not only that, but acknowledging you heard the one speaking in a quick, unobstrusive, uninterrupting way.
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Me when the next generation comes up with slang and I don't like it:
Big oof
Ok, boomer
Me being equally useless with "oof bruh".
Equally useless? More like twice as useless, you mean!
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The way yanks use bro or bruh is like glass in my ear. Its so boorish and stupid sounding.
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.
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."
Thankfully 67 was squashed fast. Banned in the house, even his friends have stopped doing it here.
That’s crazy, wow
Bruh
Woof
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.
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Ugh
Oof
☝️This
bros never heard about phatic expressions💀
Sheesh
Same
me too thanks.
...dude.
Dude..
Damn.
Shit.
That is whack.
I probably didn't want to have the conversation in the first place, now you want me to contribute to it too?
Broof.
Mood.
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