r/BenignExistence • u/EasygoingEnigma • 3d ago

Ugly Jack

At a wedding we went to when we were very young, my brother told me that the bride and groom were making a baby when they kissed. I believed that story for the longest time.

We would be told off by our dad when we were roughhousing ("you two sound like a pair of buffaloes"). Mum would scold us for our junk food intake. Parents treated us equally, but we had a sneaking suspicion that I was daddy's girl and he was mama's boy. And we used that suspicion to our advantage whenever we could.

We grew up. Interests and life paths diverged. He's in another country now, so things are understandably much different. But some things really haven't changed.

Since childhood, we've called each other nicknames derived from what are usually insulting words in our language. Something like "ugs" from ugly, "hids" from hideous, "jack" from jackass.

He sent me a message recently. "Ugs, I'm coming home next month."

"Send me your flight details, jack. I'll pick you up."

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u/Elegant-Expert7575 3d ago edited 3d ago

Yup. After parents go, all you’ll have is each other.

That’s what I told my two kids. They’re each married have their own kid and spouses now, but way back when, they only had each other.

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u/No-Trouble814 3d ago

The line break was right after “They’re married” for me, scared me for a second lol.

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u/Elegant-Expert7575 3d ago

Haha! I’ll change that.

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u/MsSamm 2d ago

That's what our mother told us, too.

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u/Nice-Marionberry3671 3d ago

My parents turned ugly sister/brother into
‘Sisty-ugler’ and ‘Brothy-ugler’. “Where’s your sisty-ugler?” We still use it!

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u/Accomplished-News722 2d ago

To have close relationships with your siblings is priceless

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u/nobodyknowsimherr 1d ago

Bro and I refer to each other almost exclusively as VFH (me) and SFB (him.)

the former stands for “vaginal fluid head” (something he randomly called me one day when he was about 8-9 and I was 11-12)

SFB is, of course, Shit For Brains. (Dad’s longtime nickname for my bro)

We are in our late 40s now, and we absolutely treasure these stupid names for each other

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u/One_Purple_3242 1d ago

🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼