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Humans have a natural tendency to want to impress others, gain their admiration and respect. This can lead to people showing off their achievements, things, or abilities in various ways. However, each of us might see differently what is “cool” and impressive and what is rather cringe and not worth showing off. It is important to understand what you can gloat over and receive a positive reaction, and what things may have a negative effect that can lead to other people forming a bad or completely wrong opinion about what kind of person you are. 

In this online group, one user asked the audience what are the things that people think is the “flex”, but in reality, they are very far from the list of things that you should show off about. However, here you can check out 38 of them, vote for things that you think are not worth “flexing” about and share your opinion in the comments section!

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#1

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered proclaiming you’re an „alpha male“. in fact, it makes you look like a complete idiot and everyone hates you.

jonsbryhill , emre keshavarz Report

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Doctor Strange
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The whole 'alpha' thing is based on debunked wolf behavior. The problem was that the wolves in question were not a pack, but held in captivity. So it was basically studying wolf prison behavior. REAL alpha wolves are the parents of the pack, the mothers and fathers. They're job is to make sure the pack is happy and fed and safe. So the guy with a waist pack full of snacks, making sure his friends and kids are all properly hydrated is the truest 'alpha male'.

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#2

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered "I haven't read a book since high school."

This is not a flex. Not being interested in reading, having issues with it or having had s****y teachers ruining it for you is one thing, but saying it like you're proud of it tells me a lot about the type of person you are. None of it is good.

Kissowa , Vincenzo Malagoli Report

#3

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered Driving around in a super-loud vehicle such as a low-riding Scion with glasspacks.

If you own one of these, you look like an a*****e and everyone hates you.

sev45day , Vincenzo Malagoli Report

#4

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered Being proud about being “brutally honest” when they’re just rude

Forsaken_Ambition_83 , Alex Green Report

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#5

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered A huge percentage of the political activism I see people out participating in is deeply immoral. Some people are out fighting for freedom, which is good, but a scary amount are out proudly trying to control other people's lives, which is bizarre and horrifying to me. Trying to impose your will onto others is not something to brag about.

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S Mi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Especially if the thing the other person is doing has nothing to do with you.

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#6

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered the "i never take a day off" types who live at work. how bad does your home life have to be?

kbyyru , Jari Sjölund Report

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LizzieBoredom
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No wife/husband, no kids, no dog/cat, no hobbies, no social life but congrats on your Perfect Attendance plaque.

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#7

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered Do you know who my dad, mom, or parents are?

No, no one cares.

rurouni318 , Noelle Otto Report

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Strings
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"No. But a test through 23 &Me might be a good place to start your search"

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#8

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered Teachers bragging how some high percentage of the class fails every year

riphitter , Pixabay Report

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#9

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered not wearing your seat belt,
not using sunscreen,
bragging about how many people you've slept with,
bragging about how little sleep you've got this night

altosuwulugares , d30visuals Report

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LizzieBoredom
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Hey, who's that sunburned, tired looking guy with the herpes sores yelling about "He doesn't have to keep his wheelchair in the crosswalk?"

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#10

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered These idiots that ride motorcycles/atv super fast and recklessly down city streets doing wheelies and swerving in and out of traffic.

TheSchoeMaker , FlorS Q Report

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S Mi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These terrify me. Good chance if I hit one, they die. They won't care; they are dead. I'd have to live with it.

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#11

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered CrossFit. As a nurse that has worked in orthopedic surgery, a lot of our surgical procedures are repairing injuries from CrossFit.

No-Independence-6842 , cottonbro studio Report

#12

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered Coming to work sick.

RonPolyp , Polina Tankilevitch Report

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Clay S.
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Except half the time it's on the toxic employer who pressures you to come in anyway and makes your life even more hell if you do stay home

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#13

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered Having a huge, expensive wedding when you're not a wealthy person

lazyluxe11 , Maria Lindsey Content Creator Report

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Weasel Wise
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I never understood this. Finances are often what causes conflict and divorce; why would you want to start a new chapter in your life with the person you love and immediately add a huge, unnecessary, debt?!?! And all for one day?! If I'm spending thousands of dollars on something, it better last for a few weeks and I better not spend any of that time in my own country.

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#14

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered When adults brag about high school sports achievements like that's their whole personality

Willing_Impression_5 , IMG_1979 Report

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Weasel Wise
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cuz it IS their personality and they didn't develop beyond that. And one can anticipate many other child like behaviors from someone like this

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#15

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered One upmanship. Good grief. People think making someone else look less than them makes them "cool". Um no, it makes you look INSECURE.

Melodic_Bear4259 , Nina Uhlikova Report

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Lauren W.
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've always found that those who are competitive about trauma are some of the most disturbing people to be around. It takes a very troubled person to be jealous of someone else's suffering.

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#16

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered People who describe themselves as “an empath” in the first few minutes of meeting them. Most just have a lot of unresolved trauma and talk incessantly about themselves.

Dry-Ad-2642 , Stanley Morales Report

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Annymoose
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Babe you're not an empath you grew up in an abusive household and built coping mechanisms to sense what other people were feeling as a protective measure for yourself

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#17

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered "I'm my own boss"
-MLM Participant

Skwerilleee , Ono Kosuki Report

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Libstak
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm an entrepreneur....I'm gonna needs to "borrow" a few grand next week until my cheque from that big deal I just made clears. Pfft

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#18

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered How many followers you have

TonyClifton323 , cottonbro studio Report

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Zaach
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone replied to me with "why should I listen to someone with only 10 followers?" - I responded "s**t, I have that many??"

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#19

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered Listing your job title as CEO of the business you own, when you are the sole employee

Own-Firefighter-2728 , fauxels Report

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Headless Roach
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

CEO | Entrepreneur | Influencer | Inspirer | Chief Visionary | Founder | Philanthropist | Life Coach | Speaker | ICO Advisor | Top 1% of Linkedin Profiles

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#20

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered "Oh, you work 40 hours a week? I remember my first *PART TIME* job!"



F**k. You.

poweredbyford87 , Prince Roy Report

#21

Basically all the “not like other girls”-girls

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#22

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered "Bruh I'm such an alcoholic I can drink X amount of alcohol"

Shadow948 , energepic.com Report

#23

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered How big their mortgage is. Dude, you’re just bragging about how crippling your debt is.

lilly_Litox , Karolina Grabowska Report

#24

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered My coworkers flexing their 900$ car payments for new cars they didn’t need to buy with high interest rates

Canijustgetawaffle , Pixabay Report

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V 2000
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i once met a guy who bought a camaro (new one), pretty sure doesn't know what priorities are, cause he's still paying rent on the room he lives (shared restroom), but... ...you know CAMARO

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#25

“We’re like family here”.

We’re coworkers who work for an organisation that pays us money on a contractual basis. Relationships will always have a limit. It’s not family. And if you feel like it is, you might want to protect yourself.

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Weasel Wise
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And I don't talk to my family cuz they're religious nutbags. So you're saying....

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#26

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered People who say they don’t read instructions.

vidvicious , Karolina Grabowska Report

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N Miller
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People who say they don't *need* instructions. They don't even acknowledge that the instructions are there to be read.

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#27

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered Being a “top earner” in an mlm

Yaseuk , Eduardo Francisco Vazquez Murillo Report

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Sonja
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I only once met a person who truly seemed to make a living from something she told me was an MLM. But then I researched the company and realised it wasn't an MLM. It was commissioned sales. She was a Sales-agent for them, doing footwork to canvass new customers and getting a commission if they'd buy. She didn't have to do anything those buying into MLMs have to do. No buying and then selling products. No recruiting new members. She gets her products for free together with some extras for presentation, she shows off the products, but the customers don't order from her, they order directly from the company or buy in their shops and just use her promo- code to get an initial discount, and she gets commission whenever they order, not just the first time. That's not MLM but she thought it's the same.

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#28

Does anyone think those dictatorship military displays that look like a circus act are a flex? If anyone does think that, I'm here to tell them those aren't the flex they think it is.

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#29

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered I work in healthcare. People who say ‘my daughter/ husband/ neighbours cat two doors down is a Doctor….’ I DGAF. Does that mean you’ve instilled their medical knowledge and experience through osmosis? I will treat you the same as every other patient, although the type of person who says stuff like this is usually the biggest obstacle to their treatment.

iriepuff , EVG Kowalievska Report

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LizzieBoredom
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've noticed Doctors aren't fond of the expression "I looked it up on the internet".

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#31

Gucci anything

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Libstak
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Brand flexing is lame. Tell me you are a sheep without telling me you are a sheep...or is that asleep, as in lack of conscious awareness that you are living life mesmerized by that next "shiny" thing all the time.

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#32

Saying you make more money than somebody in an argument.

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StrangeOne
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Always a pathetic attempt to win an argument. That, along with education and job position.

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#33

Bragging how you never took a sick day in your entire life and how anyone who does can’t handle themselves.

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#34

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered Riding around in a limousine.

I think it was David Spade who made the joke about it saying [roughly]: “whenever I see someone riding in a limo, I think ‘wow, you have $300.’”

Edit: u/Garfield-1-23-23 below actually found the clip. It was “$80.”

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David H
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandmother had a neighbor who has a son who made it rich, he had a driver take him in a Bentley to where he needed to go. When his father became too old to drive, he would send his second Bentley and his second driver to take his father around. This is a man who would never been seen in a limo.

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#35

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered How little you slept last night.

Chicken_Alphredo , Dương Nhân Report

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Headless Roach
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

An image of cat as a representation of lack of sleep is awesomly ironic

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#36

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered Couples that are miserable bragging how many years they have been together.

ZenoSalts , Anastasia Shuraeva Report

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Sonja
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jep. If your marriage is horrible, get divorced. Don't brag how long you've endured

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#37

Somebody Asked “What Is Just Not The ‘Flex’ That People Think It Is?” And 30 People Delivered Owning a Range Rover. I have one, it's nearly 10 years old, done 77k miles and drives like s**t

AlexCook123 , Erik Mclean Report

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Tracy Wallick
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to brag about the 1998 Toyota Camry I learned how to drive with and how to do basic maintenance/repair. Not because it was flashy or expensive or sporty, but because it was reliable AF, easy to maintain, needed very little repair work and because it was considered a 'grandma car', I was practically invisible to the cops. That was a great car.

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#38

Farting extra loud in the bathtub. Also wearing sunglasses and a tie in the bathtub. Also pretending rubber ducks have motors and they can swim real fast.

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