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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.
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#1
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.
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#2
Being proud about being “brutally honest” when they’re just rude.
LeighAnne Brown-Pedersen 10 months ago
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.
#3
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.
JoyfulZebra 10 months ago
Especially since the thing this is based on (alpha wolves) is nonexistent in nature.
#4
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.
#6
Not just having a big or expensive car, but a loud one.
Nobody is impressed.
#7
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.
Libstak 10 months ago
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.
#8
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.
#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.
Libstak 10 months ago (edited)
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.
#10
Not taking Sick days.
Pink kitty 10 months ago
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!
#11
Being disrespectful to the disabled or weird kids as a joke.
Rhodri Terrell 10 months ago
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.
#12
Literally anything you have to try flexing. The most genuinely impressive things by nature do not require you to rub them in peoples faces.
#13
Anything you had zero choice in. Your sex, skin color, nationality, sexual orientation.
#14
Bragging about not wearing sunscreen. Enjoy your premature aging and wrinkles, dumb**s!
#15
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.
10 months ago
Then again, the amount of people who go on about watching things like GoT is also annoying
Alexandra 10 months ago
I think it's more the way you say it. I don't have facebook and sometimes it comes up in a conversation. When it does, I just say I don't have it. I don't say it in a way people might interpret as boasting or as implying those who do have facebook are a sandwich short of a picnic. I just mention it, that's all.
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Jon Steensen 10 months ago
I don't drink coffee but I ascribe it to not really having grown up. I don't like the taste of it, and hence I don't see the point in continuing to drink it just because that is what everyone else does. However I don't really see that as flex, just a matter of personal taste.
LiuLiu 10 months ago
or the people who insist you have coffee when you have politely declined and they keep asking and give you a hard time for not liking coffee or even the smell of it - yes, we do exist
Kare Deter 10 months ago
The only time I ever talk about how I don't watch this or that or TV in general is when someone tries to drag me into a conversation about some show that *EVERYONE* is talking about.
TheDarkestRaven 10 months ago
Why is not drinking coffee suddenly ‘cringey’? What if someone doesn’t like it, or they have a heart condition?
Bored Trash Panda 10 months ago
I love coffee and drink it like it's water and also joke sometimes that my veins are probably more coffee then blood at this point (again, joking) but would never give someone c**p or calling it "cringey" for not drinking coffee. I didn't even know that was a thing now. What happened to "everyone has their own preferences and tastes"?
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actaeon cross 10 months ago
I like telling people I don't watch popular shows because it's fun to watch the hardcore fans trip over it (at least for a minute or two)
Soleil SanMao 10 months ago
When someone offers me a drink, I simply say, No Thank you. But they persist so then I say, I don't drink. When I say that, I get all kinds of comments. OOOOOh that's good. Or you must be a goody 2-shoes. I don't say it to get compliments. It's not good or bad. I just don't.
Hans Georg 10 months ago
I stopped watching "popular" show because they cannot meet the hype. Also, I do not like the taste of coffee. Maybe I drank the wrong coffee. But I do not brag about it. I also do not drink. And yeah, I am also no fun.
Jessica SpeLangm 10 months ago
While I'm really happy about the younger generation not getting blitzed drunk, I really don't care about you NOT drinking. I enjoy it. You do you, but I don't need to hear about it ad nauseum.
Wren 10 months ago
I don't do things like that because I don't want to, dont like it, and I do not brag about it or anything. People, nothing to brag about, you end up not being able to have a conversation with anyone because you don't have any of the same interests as most people. It sucks. Do not recommend.
marianne eliza 10 months ago
I'm proud I refuse to watch any "reality" show, or murder show. There's enough of that c**p in the real world without subjecting myself to more for "fun????".
KatSaidWhat 10 months ago
"I hate commercial music my band sold out". Wait, you want them to be obscure and unsuccessful?
John George 10 months ago
There are a lot of popular shows I am not sorry I miss. But I don't expect everyone to share my priorites.
René Sauer 10 months ago
Well, the reverse is just the same. Like, people who think their favorite show is the best show ever and ridicule people who don´t watch it. Or folks sitting at the bar from friday evening to sunday evening laughing about people not drinking booze. Or manual morons looking down on people who prefer to drive automatic.
Brandt Hambrick 10 months ago
Any time someone makes a “I’m better because I…(do or don’t do something )” statement.
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Captain McSmoot 10 months ago (edited)
It's sad when someone's identity, whether fully or partially, is wrapped up in what they DON'T do. Geez! Do something. Be interesting. Be interested. Literally do something with this life you've been given.
Annemarie van der Westhuysen 10 months ago
Especially when it's things that the rest of us do to get by, or that make life somewhat bearable. Great! So you're better than the rest of us weak-willed plebs.
PaperinoVB 10 months ago
I think I know what you mean. I don't know anything about the Kardashians, but i usually don't go bragging around about it - only this time, I swear O:-)
#16
Boasting about how much something they’re wearing costs even though you know they can’t afford it.
#17
"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.
#19
Fighting in bars. Honestly, being the type to square up with anyone over anything that you could just as easily walk away from.
#20
"I tell it like it is."
No you're just a b***h.
#21
Number of followers you have on social media.
Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 10 months ago
I don't follow anyone now. All the restraining orders were a pain.
#22
Showing up to work or class when you're deathly ill.
#23
Driving around in a $50,000 new car while not being able to cover a $1000 emergency.
DennyS (denzoren) 10 months ago
Right?!!? I never understood buying a new or expensive car but if something goes wrong I can't afford to fix it.
#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.
#25
Calling themselves “entrepreneurs.” Dude, I know you’re in an MLM.
Vinny DaPooh 10 months ago
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.
#26
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.
#27
Your lack of sleep. You're doing significant damage to your brain and self.
#28
Bagging a cheater.
If he cheated *with* you, he will cheat *on* you!
DennyS (denzoren) 10 months ago
Bagging a cheater? Like catching them or starting to date them? I agree...neither is really a brag.
#29
Wearing designer with huge logos.
#31
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.
#32
Gym selfies to announce you go to the gym.
copycontentbylola 10 months ago
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)
#35
Boasting/bragging about lots of money or material things.
Move in silence.. why does everyone care so much about image?
#36
"I've had Covid 4 times already".
CanadianDimes 10 months ago
I’ve had Covid twice. Both times at Christmas. Two years in a row. 0/10 would not recommend.
#37
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.
#38
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.
#39
Leaving tags on clothes/hats/shoes. Just looks like you’re planning to return it.
#40
Replying to someone on twitter and mocking them for having no followers.
What do you think ?
Lydsylou (she/her) 10 months ago
Bragging about a mental illness that you 'self diagnosed'. Like all those people who go tell you they have OCD because they like to organise stuff or brag about supposedly having depression or anxiety when those are actually serious disorders that they probably don't bave
Alyx Sharma 10 months ago
Here's the thing. I self diagnosed as ADHD because I was looking at some memes went "hmm" and then (and this is the crucial bit) I did my research and self diagnosed. Then I went to my mom and my doctor and got diagnosed (with a bonus diagnosis from my therapist). Self diagnosing is a thing, because someone's gotta notice you're a little different and you know yourself best. But bragging about self dxing is usually a dead sure way to tell that they're probably faking.
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Coolwhip 10 months ago
People who flex about not having kids while bashing people who do have kids, Women who flex about being a housewife and not having to do anything, people who flex about their job and how much money they make.
SomeoneTookMySweetRoll 10 months ago
The worst part about the “No kids flex” is the “I get to do whatever I want because I don’t have kids” people. The best come back I’ve ever heard to that: “I spend all day playing running around with my kids outdoors when it’s nice playing with legos indoors when it rains, and eating Mac and cheese and chicken fingers with someone who appreciates it as much as I do. I would still do all those things if I didn’t have kids.”
Load More Replies... Daya Meyer 10 months ago (edited)
A friend of mine is very, very interested in money. No, not to earn and hoard it, he spends money he got and sometimes money he doesn't have. But the price is always important to him so he can judge if something was expensive. So you can say: " Look at my new sweater / car / haircut / fill this gap." and the first thing he would ask is: " How much did you pay?" That is annoying and ridicoulous.
Alexandra Nara 10 months ago
just don't flex at all just to make you feel superior- I admire true devotion in arts , sports or living a vision, it don't need to be advertised that loudly. Flexing give me the vibes of doing / being something just to be seen. That's a personality issue you have to work on
DrBronxx 10 months ago
There are a few people in my life who think a certain way about me, but it's mostly because if I said my true opinions, it would just cause problems for myself. It's not even serious opinions, but the people I'm around would just take them the wrong way. It's a situation I would like to be rid of, but can't.
The Original Bruno 10 months ago (edited)
Adopting the exact same political positions as the world's wealthiest, greediest corporations, H.R. departments and all the minions of the Harvey Weinsteins and Hugh Hefners of the world while you congratulate yourself for being so brave and free-thinking.
Lydsylou (she/her) 10 months ago
Bragging about a mental illness that you 'self diagnosed'. Like all those people who go tell you they have OCD because they like to organise stuff or brag about supposedly having depression or anxiety when those are actually serious disorders that they probably don't bave
Alyx Sharma 10 months ago
Here's the thing. I self diagnosed as ADHD because I was looking at some memes went "hmm" and then (and this is the crucial bit) I did my research and self diagnosed. Then I went to my mom and my doctor and got diagnosed (with a bonus diagnosis from my therapist). Self diagnosing is a thing, because someone's gotta notice you're a little different and you know yourself best. But bragging about self dxing is usually a dead sure way to tell that they're probably faking.
Load More Replies... Coolwhip 10 months ago
People who flex about not having kids while bashing people who do have kids, Women who flex about being a housewife and not having to do anything, people who flex about their job and how much money they make.
SomeoneTookMySweetRoll 10 months ago
The worst part about the “No kids flex” is the “I get to do whatever I want because I don’t have kids” people. The best come back I’ve ever heard to that: “I spend all day playing running around with my kids outdoors when it’s nice playing with legos indoors when it rains, and eating Mac and cheese and chicken fingers with someone who appreciates it as much as I do. I would still do all those things if I didn’t have kids.”
Load More Replies... Daya Meyer 10 months ago (edited)
A friend of mine is very, very interested in money. No, not to earn and hoard it, he spends money he got and sometimes money he doesn't have. But the price is always important to him so he can judge if something was expensive. So you can say: " Look at my new sweater / car / haircut / fill this gap." and the first thing he would ask is: " How much did you pay?" That is annoying and ridicoulous.
Alexandra Nara 10 months ago
just don't flex at all just to make you feel superior- I admire true devotion in arts , sports or living a vision, it don't need to be advertised that loudly. Flexing give me the vibes of doing / being something just to be seen. That's a personality issue you have to work on
DrBronxx 10 months ago
There are a few people in my life who think a certain way about me, but it's mostly because if I said my true opinions, it would just cause problems for myself. It's not even serious opinions, but the people I'm around would just take them the wrong way. It's a situation I would like to be rid of, but can't.
The Original Bruno 10 months ago (edited)
Adopting the exact same political positions as the world's wealthiest, greediest corporations, H.R. departments and all the minions of the Harvey Weinsteins and Hugh Hefners of the world while you congratulate yourself for being so brave and free-thinking.
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