# The Day My Brother Stood Beside Me.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-my-brother-stood-beside-me/429674>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 11, 2007, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-my-brother-stood-beside-me/429674 "2007-12-11T23:22:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-my-brother-stood-beside-me/429674/21 "2007-12-13T04:45:23Z")

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Loved the post. Especially this:

[QUOTE=Scumpup]  
I walked out there, located said assholes, and gave them to know that their classmate had better make it home all safe and sound or **their immediate future was going to be complex and turbulent**.  
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Outstanding turn of a phrase.

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-my-brother-stood-beside-me/429674/22 "2007-12-13T12:05:28Z")

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[QUOTE=muldoonthief]  
I’ve found that it’s age dependent. If they’re both still in their 20’s, then yes, violence is essentially required. In their 30’s it’s optional, anything after that, a reasonable exchange of insults and retelling of wuss-behavior stories from each other’s past is perfectly acceptable. Even guys know that two 50 year old brothers wrestling is just kind of sad.  
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I think after 35, some kind of beer ritual is involved.

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-my-brother-stood-beside-me/429674/23 "2007-12-13T17:06:49Z")

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I thought back to try to remember an occasion when my 2-years-older brother stood up for me. Nope. He never did, the jerk.

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-my-brother-stood-beside-me/429674/24 "2007-12-13T17:31:55Z")

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Ivlad’s sisters have four kids between them, two boys and two girls, all about a year apart in age, so they’re all in the 9-10 range now.

They’ve grown up together, they’re very close…we call them The Babies, because they were all babies together.

So, you can imagine, when they were about 3-4, when one of my nieces was getting picked on at a park, not one, not two, but _three_ tots came charging up to get in the bullier’s face.

I don’t think he knew what hit him. 😃

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**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-my-brother-stood-beside-me/429674/25 "2007-12-13T17:40:38Z")

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[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn]  
Great story!

You have remembered the face of your father. 😃  
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Say true. 😉

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