Driving off someone from being online, as a troll, because it gives you a thrill.
This is an awfully specific flex, but it is a flex nonetheless, that people do feel to boast about. Because it’s just another form of a power-trip. Congratulations, you’ve driven away someone who could’ve been a contributory member of a community to make yourself feel better by orchestrating lies, performing witch hunts and huddling with your troll buddies in ways to figure out how to process this.
There’s nothing prideful about this to flex over.
Proud of the conditions of your birth. It’s a subtle distinction, but imo the more reasonable emotion is thankfulness.
Thankful to be white? Sounds sus
Agreed, I don’t like the sound of that. It implies there’s something preferable about lacking melamine.
You can be thankful to be born to a loving family where you don’t have to struggle for respect.
And hopefully it motivates you to spread that privilege to people who don’t get to have that as easily as you do.
The typical bullshit midwestern work ethic “I just worked 30 billions hours of overtime this week!”
I have a brother-in-law who picks up as much overtime as he can and brags about how little sleep he is able to get. My response is always: “that’s not the flex you think it is, you exploited bastard!”
As a European, I thought that was a universal American thing.
Where I come from, the opposite attitude exists - you’re supposed to enjoy life and take it easy.
As an Amercan who has worked AND enjoyed life, my employer over here was less than thrilled with the idea that my life didn’t revolve around my job.
Not entirely the USA, and older generations tended to embody it more.
Loud vehicles. What they think is cool is actually annoying everyone else.
There are folks around here who actually install speakers outside their vehicles. And they’re the worst, cheapest sounding speakers in existence.
They’re tearing down the street, blasting their shitty music out of shitty speakers, suffering from terminal main character syndrome and it’s just sad (and very annoying).
A lot of them think it’s cool specifically because it annoys other people. It’s antisocial behavior.
Nurses holding their pee and working 4-5x12hs a week. Hon you’re in danger and gonna get real weird bladder problems.
I have a coworker who brags a lot about how much he drinks and how little he sleeps. Unsurprisingly, he’s one of the worst at his job.
The wildest part was learning he was 6 years younger than me. I would have guessed he was 10 years older from how bad he looks.
who brags a lot about how much he drinks
It wasn’t until I was aober and in counseling that I realized other people don’t drink like it’s a competition. I wasn’t “good at drinking”. I am an alcoholic (in long term recovery).
I told you that in strictest confidence…
My age, not the other things. I’m proud as hell about the booze and insomnia!!
As someone who is fairly physically active, flexes that risk people’s health are especially irritating to me. Training to the point of injury or even through injury is not impressive; it’s stupid.
Similarly when people use momentum to lift weights they can’t actually lift. Like swinging a dumbbell into a curl. Best case you’re getting a similar workout to a lighter weight, just with a weight you can’t actually control if something goes wrong. Worst case you’re just bending your elbow while holding a weight that isn’t really doing anything for you at all.
Actually no, worst case is something interrupts your momentum partway through the “curl” but you try to power through it anyways because you don’t even realize that you can’t actually curl that weight and something along your arm gives, then you drop the weight on your foot (or maybe on the kid that ran by and interrupted your momentum).
Bad/illegal driving. You contribute to an unreasonably high crash rate to be 2 minutes faster, good job.
One of my biggest arguments for trains is the attachment of ego and strong emotions behind the wheel
The thing that was drilled into me is to drive predictably. No sudden lane changes, stay in the fast lanes if you’re going fast and slow lanes if you’re going slow.
It drives me crazy to see people “swimming” in Interstate-speed traffic and I see people do it every day. It’s just a matter of time until every single one of them wrecks, hopefully they don’t hurt anyone else.
Open Highway, driving a little over the limit is fine so long as it’s predictable.
City or residential? Fuck no.
Eh. If there’s no children, it isn’t a problem. You just lose your license faster.
Eh, that’s the problem. You don’t know there’s no children until it’s too late. Also, why only children? When did adults become fair game to run over?
If they haven’t learned to walk safely in 16+ years, they deserve to be run over. I won’t run over people, but if someone does, I won’t cry about it.
Weird flex.
I read a job listing recently bragging about the company’s AI usage by saying “One of our engineers hasn’t hand-written a single line of code in 18 months”
Like okay dude…
It translates to: “One of our engineer has been stealing code from others without attribution, consent and/or compensation, and did license laundering to it, for 18 months”.
The people who are proud about being self reliant and not needing anybody, when it’s just masking for their loneliness
A lot of people who are super self-reliant grew up in households where their needs weren’t met, so they learned from a very young age that anything that they wanted they had to do themselves. It’s usually a trauma response.
I came here to say “Flexing their trauma response” as being something to be weirdly proud of. Learning healthier responses is more the actual flex… I think, I hope.
“I just tell it like it is.”
Translation: you’re incredibly rude and hide behind “just being honest” so you don’t have to correct your problematic behavior
Those who proudly tout their “brutal honesty” are much more interested in the brutality than in the honesty.
“I am just being blunt”
Translation: I’m actually an asshole that hides behind mental health issues to justify my shitty behavior and attitude.
Flexing that they have never read any books.
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Lol I did that as an infant!
Anything related to their genetics (height, skin/hair/eye color, … etc) or inheritance.
Show me something you did, not something you’re born with.
mmmm. I mean most times I see this its in the way I might do it. Conversation is about something that seems bad and you say somewhere that your lucky because your X which is not like the bad thing. too short, too tall, fair skinned, etc.
Choosing to run Plex or Jellyfin or Emby or whatever else over something else.
Choose whatever you want and enjoy your media. Stop trying to convince others to join you, it’s unnecessary.
Oh my God don’t scare me, I thought my think was on BDS or something.
Never using their PTO at work.
Going into work sick too.
I was a department manager who shared office space with another department. One of the guys from the other department came in bragging that he had been throwing up all morning but was able to come into work. I told him he either needed to sit somewhere else or go home because I’m not risking my health or the health of my colleagues/associates because of his dumbassery. He eventually went home after I gave him a verbal dressing down that his manager backed me up on.
So selfish to come into work sick like that!
On a related note, as a parent I think school perfect attendance awards are perverse. Congratulations, we’re rewarding a kid for being a disease vector and being sent to school miserable and snotty, or at best making other kids feel less-than because they received proper treatment and isolation. I would guess that the average perfect attendance kids costs the rest of the school at least half a dozen absences per year.
As an Asian American, “illness” is a myth that children invented as an excuse to get out of having to go to school. You have to go even if have fucking Covid, cuz you dont have it, you’re just pretending in order to have an excuse to be lazy.
At least that’s how my parents see it.
I mean I can see why there’s a stereotype associated with Asians…
As a kid I also hated the perfect attendance award because
- My mom was really into it and made me go to school when i was sick
- I was always the only one who was awarded it and the other kids already thought i was weird
- Not as great a reason, but my best friend in elementary school told me that sometimes his parents gave him a day off school so he could do something fun with them :/
Number 3 is perfectly reasonable and healthy. If it’s not interfering with their education or progress, time off is a good thing now and then. And especially in a household where both parents work full-time that time together was likely way more valuable for the kids development than whatever he would’ve gotten from one day of classes.
Wow. Yes. Some of my favorite memories are when my Dad would turn what could have been a half hour away from school into a half day, to spend more time together away from school and work.
The awards are an effect of a perverse funding system that funds schools based on attendance. The schools are forced to choose between classes full of sick kids or not having the funds to teach the healthy ones.
That gets other people sick and is counter productive too. You end being sicker for longer, it’s a loss for you and the company. It’s just dumb.
One of the contracts I worked wouldn’t pay out holidays if I missed more than a day in the prior 2 months or some such. So in protest I vowed to come in to work no matter how sick I was. Even brought a change of clothes in case I’d need it.
Then of course I didn’t get sick again until after the contract ended.
My friend working retail figured out that if he came to work obviously disgustingly sick, they’d send him home.
What I didnt realize is that if you did it that way, it didn’t count as “calling out sick”.
When I actually did call out sick a few times because i had a cold, my sick days got brought up at my performance review, which affected the tiny incremental raises we got. I said should i do it like <emoloyee> and bring my germs to work? And they said don’t try to be like <employee>, he’s always figuring out the loopholes.
Buying an expensive car that you didn’t build and don’t know how it works.
