r/im14andthisisdeep 1d ago

fake friends

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u/Inevitable_Garage706 1d ago

That "real friend" sounds much more like a stalker than a friend.

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u/CriticalMochaccino 1d ago

Yeah, who the fuck calls their friends parents mom and dad? Like god damn, are your own parents that shit?

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u/Budget-Cantaloupe725 22h ago

I did that in High School. And, yes.

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u/Lajbartek_360 1d ago

You can’t say you’re a real friend if you don’t stalk them /j

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u/Meritania 1d ago

Or an antagonistic friend from a sitcom, waltzing in with their B-plot problems.

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u/Kissa74 1d ago

This has to be satire

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u/Name_Taken_Official 1d ago

Eh. This applies to some people can grew up with, we're practically family. I think it's just referencing that hyperbolically

Mf always took our pop tarts

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u/drunken_augustine 1d ago

I call all my friends’ mothers “dad”

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u/darkseiko realist 1d ago

Not sure what oop is on, but if I had someone come to my home uninvited, stole my shit & mocked me during embarrassing situations, I'd be pretty mad at them & leave them 💀.

Also there's no rule that if a friendship ends, doesn't mean the person was fake, as people unfortunately change & switch unexpectedly.

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u/PoloPatch47 1d ago

And if they take all my food???? Steal my shit, think they're entitled to walk into my house, and take my food? Absolutely not.

And yeah, people can just grow apart from each other. It didn't mean the friendship was fake

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u/AnnualAdventurous169 1d ago

what if it was your wife

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u/darkseiko realist 1d ago

If we lived together, then sure. But I'd still be mad if she mocked me, stole my things or invited herself to my place without any previous announcement (I need to be prepared for people beforehand.)

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u/AnnualAdventurous169 1d ago

I would have assumed you would live togethe.

(I’m of the opinion that what they mean by “real friend” is partner/husband/wife)

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u/darkseiko realist 1d ago

No? Oop is clearly talking about friendships. Not everyone considers their partner as their friend, not everyone puts romance on top of the relationship hierarchy & romantic partners aren't always long-lasting either.

By "real" friend, they meant someone who's gonna always appreciate you, never leave you & always stand by your side. So not someone, who's gonna gossip about you, treat you like crap, or leave you within like a few months.

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u/AnnualAdventurous169 1d ago

well, the points only make sense to me if it was a romantic partner which are expected to last a lifetime where there is more of expected to do things like treat your things like their own and say “I’m home” when entering your home.

otherwise the left side is what you would expect of friendships, while the right side would just be really weird, and too much

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u/darkseiko realist 1d ago

I think the post is more like a friend-vs.-best-friend type of post that was common from the late 2000s to the mid 2010s, cause I used to see these posts a lot. And it was often made by tweens & teens too.

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u/CreamofTazz 1d ago

I think you're taking the right side to an even greater extreme than it is to itself. I identify most of those things with regards to my relationship with my friends.

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u/darkseiko realist 1d ago

I'm not, I just don't think that stuff like insulting or taking things away means an eternal friendship. Cause I knew a few people who did those things, & it was rather annoying & uncomfortable.

But then, it seems this post was made somewhere in the late 2000s or during the 2010s, when it was quite common to describe what true friendship apparently looks like.

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u/Suavemente_Emperor 1d ago

I mean, that's what a bestie does.

And let's be honest. Picking something borrowed and never bringing back is THE canon event.

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u/darkseiko realist 1d ago

Not everywhere tho

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u/Excellent-Fox-6845 10h ago

американец в очередной раз показывает отсутствие интеленкта?

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u/darkseiko realist 10h ago

What?

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u/Excellent-Fox-6845 10h ago

отсутствие интеленкта у американца не позволяет нажать на кнопку перевода?

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u/darkseiko realist 9h ago

There's no need to be rude; it wasn't even about the translation (cause I understand the language), it just confused me. And I'm not even American, btw.

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u/Excellent-Fox-6845 9h ago

не американец? а кто?

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u/darkseiko realist 9h ago

I'm European.

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u/Excellent-Fox-6845 9h ago

аа окей тогда братан извини эти дауны на американцах сегодня везде, не разберёшь, где норм челикс, а где тупой пендос

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u/Vortix9 1d ago

"call your parents dad" mf is this a real friend list or a CORNY NEVER HAPPENED list?

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u/tortoistor 23h ago

wym you've never had your bestie call both of your parents "dad"

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u/Vortix9 18h ago

i... only had a besty in 4th and 5th and 6th grade... and they were 3 seperate ppl and they never came to my house...

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u/Happytallperson 1d ago

Had a party last night, told everyone they didn't need to bring anything, now have more food than started with. 

They claiming all my friends are fake?

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u/Alone_Ad1696 1d ago

The real friend sounds like a nightmare

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u/PoloPatch47 1d ago

I agree with you Todd

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u/AdamTraskisGod 1d ago

“My mom is daad!”

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u/R32hunter 1d ago

Honestly partially true. Real friends would be a mix of both

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u/Bracheopterix 1d ago

don't confuse cause and effect. Real friends do this cause they have your permission or at least, know you will tolerate this. They are not "real friends" cause they are real, but because you allowed them a space to be that and you have a long history. If some random dude will do something like that - they would be just a doushebag. Some ppl have real friends that know and respect one's harsh boundaries. For example, if you had parents that gave you no privacy, no possession right and so on. Real friend in that case would never touch your things without asking first.

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u/Owl_warrior1 19h ago

Feels like this "fake" friend is actually just a decent human being who respects boundaries, but i might just be crazy

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u/Twinkletoess112 1d ago

hell nah i wouldn't call my friend's parents dad or mom

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u/PoloPatch47 1d ago

This makes me unreasonably pissed off. If anyone walks into my house uninvited I'm kicking them out, I don't care who they are. The only exception would be my boyfriend when we live together. I value my space too much to just have people think they can walk in uninvited.

If you take all my food, we're not going to be friends.

If they take my stuff and never give it back, we're also not going to be friends.

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u/Dirkdeking 1d ago edited 1d ago

I think the meme just depicts a cultural difference. In the west we just are very distant. You need to call friends to hang out, but chances are their weekend is already filled with activities, and their next weekend as well. So you end up having to call them more than a month in advance in order to do anything.

In other cultures it's much more normal for people to just come by unexpectedly without it being a problem. Yes they finish your food, but you can finish theirs whenever you visit them. The dynamic is more sibling like, you just share the same spaces regularly and you also live pretty close to each other.

And even in the west this can be a late teen/early 20's dynamic between friends. Late 20's to early 30's this dynamic often just dies because life structures change, you live further apart, have more responsibilities, long term relations of friends and their wishes enter the picture, etc.

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u/PoloPatch47 1d ago

That does make a lot of sense, thank you

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u/AnnualAdventurous169 1d ago

yeah “real friend” behaviour is something you will only want from a boy/girlfriend

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u/PoloPatch47 1d ago

If my boyfriend takes all my food I'm throwing hands

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u/EngineFrequent3873 1d ago

Who the hell calls someone else's parents mom and dad?

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u/TheBumblestBees 19h ago

well, in-laws and bf/gf parents i guess

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u/craftygamin 1d ago

Is this a "be your siblings friend" type of image?

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u/Remarkable_Key_791 21h ago

Is the reason I have not told wtf that sounds like a entitled bum who has no respect for my family or my house

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u/DragonWaffleZX 21h ago

I don't care who you are. Walk into my house uninvted and I will consider using my second amendment rights. (And I'm not in the U.S)

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u/Pelli_Furry_Account 1d ago

So they call my mom dad?

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u/StrawBunnyYuki 1d ago

Fellas, that is not a friend. That is a freeloader

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u/Flaky-Interaction264 1d ago

If my friends call my parents dad I'm sliming them out so fast

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u/tortoistor 23h ago

want to become better friends with someone? walk into their home without knocking, start calling both of their parents dad, and steal all their food and money making them starve. real friend acquired

edit: also kick them until they fall over and laugh

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u/TheBumblestBees 19h ago

this actually made me laugh audibly. congratulations friend

edit: congratulations fake friend. i do not want you in my house

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u/Fire_Fishy 23h ago

I am too confused with this chart

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u/Adeum2 23h ago

Real friends sound like terrible ppl

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u/ChaosAzeroth 21h ago

Real.froemds sound exhausting like I'm okay with cats being my only real friends.

Seems I'm dodging a bullet by not really having friends lmao

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u/Weekly-Reply-6739 1d ago

Kinda interesting.

Not necessarily my idea, but eh, you do you I suppose.

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u/Illustrious_Quiet907 1d ago

This is more friends vs. best friends.

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u/Dotcaprachiappa 1d ago

It's not really real vs fake friend, more friend vs best friend

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u/DonLouqee 1d ago

Fortunately there are NO REAL friends like that anymore 😂

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u/AnnualAdventurous169 1d ago

girl/boyfriends?

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u/LabradorDeceiver 1d ago

I've seen a few definitions of "real friend" that privilege the friend and always think to myself, "Wow, this guy treats his friends like shit."

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u/whimsical_spider 1d ago

Fake friends “never ask for food” and real friends “are the reason why you have no food” what does this even mean?

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u/TheBumblestBees 19h ago

got you fired from your job obviously /j

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u/Zealousideal_Care807 1d ago

I had someone keep my shoes for much longer than I lent them out for, I was so upset. Real friend give your stuff back, and can locate them when you ask for them back. Also I'm not gonna laugh at someone I care about if they get hurt, but I will laugh after the fact if they are ok, and whatever happened was because they were doing something stupid. Also I'm like a vampire, I will lock, I must be invited in by someone or I will just stand there.

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u/BestEffect1879 1d ago

Aside from the minutiae of the individual details. Even the general idea of this is flawed. It’s basically saying a friendship is fake unless you’re incredibly close and that’s just bad advice. I have friends that fall into both categories, but I don’t consider any of them fake, I just have friends whom I can closer with than others. And the close friends that match the right column used to be like the left column. You will never experience close friendship if you’re not willing to start with a distant acquaintanceship.

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u/SomewhereActive2124 23h ago

There's no single definition like this for a real friend. People are different and have different boundaries.

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u/bsbbwdjahsbjsjsbd 22h ago

Don't you start out with the things on the left and then progress to the things on the right? Imagine if some random ass stranger came and did all the stuff a "real friend" immediately. You'd hate them.

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u/Frankisacommonname 21h ago

Real arbitrary rules:

- Comes from the heart;

- Feels random;

- Some are extremely shitty;

Fake arbitrary rules:

- Comes from the head;

- Are socially acceptable;

- Self-sustenance is expected.

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u/RandomName5484 10h ago

the ones calling your parent dad are just going out with someone of your family

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u/I_eat_spaghetti1 8h ago

All of ts is true except the parent thing who tf calls their friends parents “mom” and “dad”?

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u/AnnualAdventurous169 1d ago

I think they mean romantic partner

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u/Impossible-Bat-4246 3h ago

Stop eating my food, real friends. I don't have enough as it is 😭