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While some things people do are genuinely impressive, many others are not; but that doesn’t stop the latter group from bragging nevertheless. Be it the minuscule number of hours they slept or the number of social media followers they have, such “achievements” might not be the flexes they think they are.

These and many other examples were shared by members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community, after the user ‘LeatherFruitPF’ started a discussion about it. They asked the netizens about things that aren’t the flexes people believe they are, and the redditors had plenty to share. Scroll down to find their answers on the list below and see for yourself what’s simply not worth bragging about.

#1

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Being proud about being uneducated. Bragging about having never read a book. "Went to the school of hard knocks" type of s**t annoys me. I have no problem with someone who isn't educated. But if you're flexing about it, you're a moron.

Alarming-Complaint47 , Wallace Chuck/pexels Report

#2

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Being proud about being “brutally honest” when they’re just rude.

AdventurousCoach6654 , Liza Summer/pexels Report

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LeighAnne Brown-Pedersen
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A great wise saying..Does this need to be said. Does this need to be said right now. Does this need to be said by you.

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#3

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard
Declaring yourself an alpha male. I guess that means something in your little subculture, but to the rest of us, that's just head-scratchingly silly.

TrooperJohn , emre keshavarz/pexels Report

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JoyfulZebra
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Especially since the thing this is based on (alpha wolves) is nonexistent in nature.

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#4

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Men bragging that they've never changed one of their kids' diapers in their lifetime. Basically you've just outed yourself as a s****y, uninvolved parent and a s****y partner.

AdSouth5657 , Karolina Grabowska/pexels Report

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Libstak
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or the no way am I attending the birth...aside for the one known to be squeamish at the sight of blood, they're forgiven but the ones flexing that it is women's place, no place for a man...screw you.

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#6

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Not just having a big or expensive car, but a loud one.

Nobody is impressed.

ArmchairCritic1 , Khunkorn Laowisit/pexels Report

#7

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard The ceo of the company I work for was just featured on the cover of a magazine talking about how great their company culture is.


One of his points was how the company set up a program to annually nominate a coworker who can’t afford Christmas where their other employees donate to them. He used this to brag about our amazing culture


To me this reads as, we pay our employee so poorly that on an yearly basis we have so many employees who can’t afford Christmas we have to nominate who needs help the most and then we guilt trip our other grossly underpaid employees to compensate for it.


So basically any company that brags about culture due to their employees helping out other employees when it comes to financial stresses most likely cause by poor pay. I would say “donating” PTO falls into this category as well. 

notgraceful11199 , Dinielle De Veyra/pexels Report

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Libstak
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was a time in the 80s and 90s when many companies had family Christmas party days that included a roast meal or BBQ and every employees child getting a gift from Santa....now, it's just how do I screw another penny out of my underpaid staff by Scrooge McScrooge and his executive evil minions.

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#8

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Working yourself to the point of having absolutely no time for yourself.

Work ethic is good, strong work ethic is great. Living to work is not great.

hurricane1985 , Andrea Piacquadio/pexels Report

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sbj
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not good for your health and leads to burn out which means you are away from work for a long time sick instead of taking those vacations as you need them

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#9

Westerners moving to Dubai and flaunting their new lavish lifestyle. You’re basically validating the use of slaves to build that dystopic s**thole.

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Libstak
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8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is one seriously non sustainable locale for a civilisation to be, every bleeping drop of life giving water needs to be either shipped in or created via desalinisation plants, the soil is barren so all soil needs importing to grow anything, the temperature is so hot huge amounts of electricity, solar power, whatever is needed to stay cool enough to survive...good luck if there is an emp strike, the power grid fails, the desalination plant fails, all 2 or 3 highways and routes in and out are bombed or blockaded, you all dead in under a month, bye byes.

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#10

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Not taking Sick days.

Emergency-Village191 , Edward Jenner/pexels Report

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Pink kitty
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've had co-workers that come to work with a runny nose, constant coughing and the need to go to another room to make vomiting noises brag about how they never take days off. Thanks for spreading your germs around work. Just stay home asshat!

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#11

Being disrespectful to the disabled or weird kids as a joke.

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Rhodri Terrell
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of my brothers are disabled and in a wheelchair. One of my friends thought that because he was my friend he was allowed to bully him for being in a wheelchair. Jokes on him, my brother is now into wheelchair racing and my friend got kicked out for being to rude to everyone. He literally pulled out the Uno reverse real quick.

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#12

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Literally anything you have to try flexing. The most genuinely impressive things by nature do not require you to rub them in peoples faces.

Dune1008 , Vanessa Garcia/pexels Report

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#13

Anything you had zero choice in. Your sex, skin color, nationality, sexual orientation.

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#14

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Bragging about not wearing sunscreen. Enjoy your premature aging and wrinkles, dumb**s!

truthhurts2222222 , Andrea Piacquadio/pexels Report

#15

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Not doing something. Like not watching a popular show, not drinking coffee, etc etc. the amount of people who say these things as if they want a f*****g medal for it is astounding.

tellevee , Roman Israel Terron Flores/pexels Report

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then again, the amount of people who go on about watching things like GoT is also annoying

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#16

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Boasting about how much something they’re wearing costs even though you know they can’t afford it.

Niamhmrn , EVG Kowalievska/pexels Report

#17

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard "I'm a nice person unless you p**s me off. Then I go crazy" or something similar

If you're only nice when you're calm, you're not nice.

Big-Crow4152 , Anastasiya Gepp/pexels Report

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#18

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard All their ex’s are crazy.

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#19

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Fighting in bars. Honestly, being the type to square up with anyone over anything that you could just as easily walk away from.

ronerychiver , Crypto Crow/pexels Report

#20

"I tell it like it is."

No you're just a b***h.

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#21

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Number of followers you have on social media.

GeddesPrime , Pixabay/pexels Report

#22

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Showing up to work or class when you're deathly ill.

Voyager5555 , Edward Jenner/pexels Report

#23

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Driving around in a $50,000 new car while not being able to cover a $1000 emergency.

Stellers90 , cottonbro studio/pexels Report

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DennyS (denzoren)
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Right?!!? I never understood buying a new or expensive car but if something goes wrong I can't afford to fix it.

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#24

Perfect attendance in school.

As an adult, as I've noticed kids with stuff like health issues, family issues, etc. where they have no choice but to miss school, I've come to realize that perfect attendance isn't a flex. It's just having luck in life circumstances.

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BTDubs
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Heck I was home educated and even I don't have perfect attendance. The dentist is only open at school hours after all...

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#25

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Calling themselves “entrepreneurs.” Dude, I know you’re in an MLM.

DizzyLead , Vlada Karpovich/pexels Report

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Vinny DaPooh
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In my 20s, I liked a friend of a friend. She invited me to a small house party she was throwing. Thought I might have a chance to take a shot. Turned out to be an MLM pitch party. Said I forgot something and had to go to the car real quick. Wonder if she's still waiting for me to come back or not.

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#26

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Having an expensive, usually large designer/ purebred dog, or a wolf hybrid. But especially having a husky.

All it shows me is the 90% chance you didn't do the research OR, that you gaslit yourself into thinking you'd seriously go running that much.

Sincerely,

The neighbor that catches several f*****g bored, escaped huskies per year in my suburb.

A husky is a WORKING dog that, in its ideal life, would be RUNNING 50-100 miles a day *while* pulling heavy cargo-- and if you don't find a way to simulate that, well. This is a dog that is going to *find* a way to simulate that. Usually by eating your house, and or yeeting itself over your adorable little fence and chasing everything that moves.

I love dogs, but I hate most husky owners.

AdultDisappointment , ROMAN ODINTSOV/pexels Report

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ManBlob
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8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, dog owners are the problem like every time, no matter what dog in question.

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#27

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Your lack of sleep. You're doing significant damage to your brain and self.

Eli1026 , Valeria Ushakova/pexels Report

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James016
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whenever I mention my lack of sleep, I am complaining, not bragging. Waking up at 4am is no fun.

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#28

Bagging a cheater.

If he cheated *with* you, he will cheat *on* you!

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DennyS (denzoren)
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bagging a cheater? Like catching them or starting to date them? I agree...neither is really a brag.

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#29

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Wearing designer with huge logos.

No-Information-8893 , Godisable Jacob/pexels Report

#30

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard How much of a drinker they are.

ThatOneNinja , ELEVATE/pexels Report

#31

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Being a nihilist who complains about how meaningless life is and how awful all human beings are, and how the world will be so much better when we all die.

Newsflash to every redditor: It doesn’t make you smarter or more enlightened than everyone else. It’s just sad behavior tbh.

anon , Keira Burton/pexels Report

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Alexandra
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you feel that way, you feel that way. But stop complaining when others are around! Don't drag them into your bottomless pit of despair.

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#32

Gym selfies to announce you go to the gym.

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copycontentbylola
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And then not actually working out or wasting everyone else's time posing on equipment whilst people are actually trying to meet their fitness goals or exercise out their frustrations (me, always me)

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#33

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Working 80 hours a week, getting little to no sleep.

Lietenantdan , Marcus Aurelius/pexels Report

#34

Doing your charity “over there” and for all the world to see.

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#35

Boasting/bragging about lots of money or material things.

Move in silence.. why does everyone care so much about image?

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#36

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard "I've had Covid 4 times already".

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CanadianDimes
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’ve had Covid twice. Both times at Christmas. Two years in a row. 0/10 would not recommend.

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#37

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Mom's who post videos of themselves with tons of kids while looking like s**t themselves thinking they're saints for "sacrificing" themselves to raise their kids.

MissDryCunt , Ketut Subiyanto/pexels Report

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Tabitha
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Their children are also the worst nightmares to be around too, so all that “sacrificing” is pure horseshit they’re peddling.

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#38

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Flashing large amounts of cash. It's just makes it look like that's all the money you have, and you are too poor to have a bank account.

Griffin880 , Lukas /pexels Report

#39

Leaving tags on clothes/hats/shoes. Just looks like you’re planning to return it.

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#40

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard Replying to someone on twitter and mocking them for having no followers.

PMBSteve , Antonius Ferret/pexels Report

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WindySwede
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or just anything trolling/mocking? Go se a therapist!

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#41

Driving a big a*s truck.

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Sue User
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unless you need it for work ( electrician, carpenter) or have property. I was going to say farmer, but i am not a farmer but need big truck for gravel, wood, etc.

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#43

Oversharing the honeymoon phase of a relationship on social media.

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Nina
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

May have to do with the rose-tinted glasses of "everything is beautiful I want to share my joy"

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#44

Actually flexing.

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#45

Lifts and mods to vehicles. Especially trucks. It's like the person's entire personality is their lifted truck with it's knobby off rust tires "I could never afford" that will never leave it's safe space that is the pavement.

It's always people who "need" XYZ for their truck, but they're never gonna use XYZ. My truck is a work truck, and people tell me it'd look so much better with a lift. Well I disagree because I can just barely reach into my bed comfortably to get to my tools, and then they tell me I just "need" bed or box steps... It's amazing they never see through their own stupidity.

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#46

How hot of a person you “pull” to cheat on your spouse/partner.

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#47

Having a work calendar booked wall-to-wall with meetings. It’s usually an executive or upper management type.

Being on calls all day is not good for you or the company. If you’re in charge you can decide which meetings are worth your attendance. Also should be delegating more.

Finally, not leaving anyone else a chance to ever book a meeting with you is just an a-hole move.

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Tabitha
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Funny how so many of the suits have calendars with wall-to-wall meetings booked on them, but they never seem to be doing anything constructive—-or anything resembling actual work—-while they’re on company property.

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#48

Body count.

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James016
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I saw a reel where some kid was asking an elderly man his body count. Old guy says 3. Kid asks if that's all. Old man says yes, he killed 3 people...

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#49

40 Flexes That Instead Of Impressing People, Make Them Cringe, Hard “I only got 4 hours of sleep”
“Oh yeah well I got 2”.

Just-ThatOneGuy1123 , Ketut Subiyanto/pexels Report

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green penguin / isabelle
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

weakling! I haven't slept in 2 days! by the way, does anybody know why everything is all gray and fuzzy?

Stardust she/her
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Loser. I haven’t slept in 10 years so I’m better than you. Unrelated but why do people run away screaming “ghost!” whenever they see me? /s

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Jon Steensen
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

well it just goes to show that you cannot plan properly. I used to pull all nighters at the end of every semester, but that was primarily to catch up with all the falling behind that my lazy bum did the rest of the time. Slacking off and then panicing right at the end, though quite common, isn't really the best tactic, and it should be considered an example to be followed.

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#50

How many times they went to jail and how big their car payments are.

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#51

Being a member of MENSA.

It's really, really not hard to get in, and it's really, really not something that *anyone* outside of MENSA actually cares about.

Edit: for all the edgelords asking if I was dumped by a MENSA member, if I failed to get in, etc... no, the context is I'm a psych and worked in assessment for years so saw plenty of MENSA advocates (and mostly they did not have superior-level IQs).

Also ETA: 🤣 TIL it's an insult in Spanish, gracias ustedes!

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Alfred Wessex
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This person could use a little Mensa I think. I could barely follow that.

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#52

Bragging about "side hustling" on your off time for extra cash.

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#53

As a noob Reddit user, I still don't get the karma thing.

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Libstak
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do to others only as you would have them do to you. As you do to others so shall it be done to you. Also, live by the sword, die by the sword. What goes around, comes around....it all just means be kind.

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#54

Knowing a celebrity.

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#55

Buying $640/month over 8-9 years cars.

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