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Ninji

a guide to greetings:

"hi guys": excludes non-guys
"ladies and gentlemen": excludes non-binary people, and men who aren't gentle
"hey folks": a bit too predictable
"hello fortnite gamers": surprising and equally offensive to everyone, the ideal choice

48 comments
Riley

@Ninji what about hello every'nyan! ?

codl dead hands

@Ninji im still keeping "hi everypony" in the back of my head for the occasion when I need to make an unforgettable entrance

Alpha, Teacup Kaiju

@codl @Ninji have a friend who will show up and go "what the buck is up everypony" and it gets me EVERY time.

jackson

@Ninji

"hi": to who
"hello": to who
"hey": to who
"bye": ok goodbye

Mallard, Gryphon

@Ninji especially effective when you are trying to save John Wick from the tilted towers

Charlotte 🦝 θΔ

@Ninji [barking at the audience]: power move, everyone knows you’re doggy now

Evelyn fra denne andre øya

@Ninji@wuffs.org simply greet people with "everypony", some people will cheer, most will cry

OliverUv

@Ninji I always appreciated agadmator (pop chess youtuber) with his very forceful "Hello everyone".

Advanced Persistent Teapot

@Ninji having grown up near Newcastle, I'm sticking with the versatile "oi youse lot"

Cats Who Draw

@Ninji funny, I was just thinking about this!!

Tsunderdog

@Ninji GDQ has been using "cool cats and gamers" which is surprisingly appropriate

Willow :trans_flag:

@Ninji@wuffs.org My preference will always be:

Hey, gays!

Works in all occasions.

catte_salad clone (da_667)

@ex_raritas @Ninji Fastest way to piss everyone is to just call them all Gopniks. The people would be offended because nobody squats in adidas track suits. Actual gopniks would be offended because nobody squats or wears adidas track suits.

IAG

@Ninji "hey all, Scott here": all means all, and this works especially well if your name is Scott

Butterflyweed

@Ninji@wuffs.org "Greetings friends, enemies, and horrified observers!"

Lance

@Ninji I sometimes go with, "Hello, humans!"

If anyone is offended, they're likely not a human, and probably can't verbalize their displeasure.

Bjornsdottirs

@analogfusion @Ninji let's not be exclusionarf of therianthropes?

Duali

@Ninji here in the Netherlands we say "beste reizigers"

Verskarton

@Ninji “Hey Bitches and Bro’s and non-binary hoes!”

Holir_

@Ninji Just walk into the room. 'Where we dropping, fam?!'. Slightly to loud & slightly to aggressively.

Maggie Maybe

@Ninji “guys” at a group of people has been gender neutral for at least a decade.
Just like “dude” is gender neutral.
Come on.

Truffles

@maggiemaybe weird how if someone says “that dude has had sex with those guys” ya don’t think ‘bisexual woman’.

katve

@Truffles @maggiemaybe
saying that guys and dudes are gender-neutral is like saying man and mankind are

language just defaults to masculinity for *reasons*

Truffles

@katve @maggiemaybe homo (person) + humus (earth) = humanus (person of the earth) became human, became man. ‘Mankind’ and ‘humanity’ are usually the same idea.

‘Guys’ comes from Guy Fawkes, a male person, as a tongue in cheek reference in America, or to mean poorly dressed people in England, from the ‘guys’ burned on bonfire night.
‘Dude’ comes from Yankee DOODle and refers to a dandy (an unusually well dressed male).

Edelruth In The Wrong Timeline

@Ninji

Maybe I'm an outlier, but "Hi guys" has always meant "Hi all humans that I am greeting", to me.

It's never been a gendered term in my social group.

Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

@Ninji or just drop the nuclear bomb: "hey all, I wanna talk about Amway!"

Ninji

on one hand, my dopamine receptors enjoy the fact that this post has done Numbers

on the other hand, it would be nice to have less Reply Guys (or should I say, Reply Gamers)

Slips

@Ninji@wuffs.org this is /uj but i've always just used some variation of tzag when greeting people. of course that presumes that i'm greeting people who are utter turbodorks like me and know what tzag means but i digress

steeph 🎆 ٩(˘◡˘)۶

@Ninji Why do you people greet? That hides all the social awkwardness _and_ even draws attention to you. That seems a stupid thing to do intentionally.

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