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If you’re extremely proud of an accomplishment, by all means, post about it on social media and inform your friends so they can celebrate you. But there is a time and a place for bragging, and if you feel the impulse to boast about how rarely you change your child’s diaper, you might want to think long and hard before sharing that information.

Redditors have recently been calling out the most ridiculous and obnoxious things people brag about, so we’ve gathered some of their thoughts below. We’ll warn you right now that you might find this list infuriating, so good luck scrolling through and be sure to upvote the things that really aren’t the flexes people think they are!

#1

Being willfully unvaccinated because they “do their own research” and “don’t follow the sheep.” Yeah, congrats for being gullible and easily manipulated by online b******t.

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#2

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About Dads who brag that they never changed a diaper. Cool, bro. What an unhelpful loser.

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

If you haven't changed a diaper, you're not a Dad. You're a divorce waiting to happen.

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#3

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About Being an "alpha"

Sorry homeboys, if you feel the need to announce it, you ain't it... and you know that.

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#4

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About I can't stand it when people brag about how they never take sick days and just "man up" and work through it. Aye, cheers, mate, for passing your s**t around the office.

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

Sadly most folks I know can't afford to miss the work! It isn't something to brag about tho

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#5

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About My brother and his girlfriend constantly tell me I drive like a grandma. Then they tell me how they regularly go way over the speed limit, take mountain pass turns super fast, and punch it through yellow lights. Idk when it became cool to drive like an a*****e

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

There’s too many deaths that happen because of breaking traffic rules, and plus it’s not cool

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#6

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About Hours of work. We shouldnt be glorifying getting overworked.

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#7

When a man says he lasts for hours in bed. No girl wants to be pounded for hours.

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#8

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About Guys who say things like “I have never hit a woman” like they’re heroes. It’s basic human decency why would you have pride in that

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#9

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About Look at this picture of me next to this animal I just shot.

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

Hunting to control population (and to eat the animals!) is fine by me. But hunting an elephant or a tiger for "sport"... no. they are almost extinct..

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#10

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About Spending tens and thousands of dollars on designer clothes. Most people who show off designer aren’t as rich as they look they just throw their whole paycheck on clothes in reality they’re just showing off how bad they are with money

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

Meanwhile, the non-designer clothes often end up being more comfortable and last longer.

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#11

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About Never having read a book / not having read a book since they left school.

That's just **not** an achievement - at all. It's not hard to do - and there is no good in not doing it. I wouldn't say people who read are necessarily more educated, but apart from the chance to educate you it is simply another hobby. I've never seen anyone brag "Oh I haven't visited a theater since school" or "I haven't done archery since we had it in school!". It's just nothing to brag about.

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Stephanie Did It
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"I'm not a reader." You know, there are classes for adults that never learned, let's get you signed up! "Wait"

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#12

Their ethnicity. Nobody really had a choice you were just born

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

Or nationality. You have precisely 0 influence over who is ruling the piece of land you get born onto.

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#13

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About 1. How little sleep they got.

2. How late they stayed at work.

3. How much they drank.

4. How many people they've f****d.

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#14

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About Guys who brag about being “built different”. Sure dude. You have a beard, a “full sleeve” tattoo, and a pickup truck. You’re **so** different.

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#15

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About Internet fame.

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

"Influencer" being arrested: - You don't know who I am? I have 100,000 instagram followers - Well, be sure to tell your fellow inmates. They will be happy to learn it.

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#16

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About Intelligence. The dumber they are, the more they brag.

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

Some highly intelligent people are also very insecure. ADD, bad home life, bullied. They talk up the only good thing in their lives

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#17

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About Getting away with a crime.

There was a mass murder in the Chicago suburbs that went unsolved for 9 years, until one of the two perps told a new girlfriend about it and turned them in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%27s_Chicken_massacre

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#18

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About Anyone who brags about something they didn’t earn.

- nice home but live with parents. Don’t brag. You did nothing to own / deserve it.
- high paying job in family business. Don’t brag. You did nothing to own / deserve it.
- “things” like clothing, jewelry, watches, cars etc that were gifted by parents / family. Don’t brag. You did nothing to own / deserve.

Too many coddled kids who piggyback their parents hard work via deflected ownership.

Winning the lucky sperm lottery is no reason to brag.

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

Hmm high paying job in a family business doesn't preclude someone working hard to earn it. Sure they have a leg up, but there are plenty of people who studied hard and then worked their way up just like anyone else.

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#19

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About How drunk or high they get

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#20

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About Being uneducated

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

Ah yes, the good old "But Steve Jobs / Bill Gates dropped out of college and became super rich and successful." This is true, but consider the numbers - there are 7 billion people on this planet, but only ONE Steve Jobs / Bill Gates. The odds of you becoming the next one are very, very, very low.

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#21

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About Anything to do with hustle culture... Wow you got s****y sleep under your desk?? I was comfortable in my bed haha, a strange flex.

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

I wish they'd normalise having a midday nap at work. One of the people I worked with had a doctor's note about taking a nap during work due to some condition. He used to work the morning have a quick lunch then take a nap and be refreshed for the afternoon. Was so jealous.

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#22

To be vegan.

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

At the same time, in popular culture such as movies and series, it is accepted to make jokes about vegans and their "tasteless" food and thus spread a negative image through "humor". I've never force-fed my ideology, but someone always has to criticize my choices and brag about being a class A carnivore. Just thank you Jeff for telling me how you love steak and hate salad eaters. And now I wanted to eat my "pathetic" office lunch in peace.

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#23

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About how much they "trigger" other people

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

Usually a way to conceal how much they get "triggered" by everything.

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#24

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About A guy at work bragged about getting a BMW. Ik for a fact he makes less than I do and it would financially irresponsible for me to get that car.

Have fun being broke all the time.

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#25

How great an athlete they were in highschool….while 40+ waiting in line for cigarettes at the local gas station

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Mr.Li
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The only one who can do this and gets away is Al Bundy. He scored 4 Touchdowns in 1 game. Since that he is known as Polk High Football Wonderstar Al Bundy.

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#26

That they don’t know things. I’m shocked how many people are proud not to know simple math we are all taught.

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#27

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About The only time I care if you lack sleep is if you’re heading to Brooklyn.

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#28

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About Taking care of their kids with no one’s help.

You are supposed to.

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

you aren't actually. communities are supposed to help people raise kids... like, the nuclear family is bs and put so much work on two people when historically children are raised by way more people than that... that's kind of humanity's whole survival strategy is community....

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#29

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About Sometime over the last decade or so, people started using the term "body count" for their cumulative number of lifetime sex partners

Unless you're doing it with all of them concurrently, I am not impressed.

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

it's f#cking weird that people call it this. 'body count' did you murder them? if so why are you proud of this? why are you synonymising something as nice as sex with murder??? it's just a bad vibe all around.

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#30

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About Money. Why is having money something to brag about? And if you do brag about it, it’s a surefire tell that you are a superficial, self-centered person I’d like to avoid.

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

The three subjects you aren't supposed to discuss in polite company are: politics, religion and money. One of my pet hates is listening to someone go on about how much they made this month, quarter, year, as if that somehow makes them better than you if you aren't as rich.

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#31

Their idiotic baby names,along with the nicknames!!

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#32

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About How spicy their food tolerance is.

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James016
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am proud to announce that I am a Lemon and Herb guy on the Nando's scale.

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#34

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About How much money they waste

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#35

Anything that they did nothing themselves to obtain.

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#36

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About Liking a thing before someone else. Good for you, a*****e.

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

I was once told off for not having liked Muse as long as a colleauge, apparently she was a better/stronger fan because she was older than me and therefore claimed to have liked them much longer, making my liking their music insignificant and annoying. I've got a news for you... they have millions of fans and you are just a speck or a blip in the universe. 😅

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#37

My boomer mother likes to brag about how incredibly loyal she was to my dad, who she was married to for nearly 40 years until he passed away. He was more often than not cold and disrespectful to her. His *own mother* would often tell him to be nicer to her. I remember witnessing her breaking down and crying in front of us because of how he would treat her.

And she wonders why I’ve had s****y relationships with men throughout the years.

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

This is probably how your mother justifies to herself that she accepted being mistreated and abused by her husband for so many years; at least she was the better person, and kept her morals. I wouldn't get annoyed with this, I'd feel very sorry for her. Buy your mum some flowers and take her out for a meal. Fix somehing around the house. Be kind to her. She has to live with what she allowed herself to be put through. At least she inadvertently taught you how it should NOT be.

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#38

I once knew a woman who bragged about her PHD. You couldn't have a five minute conversation without her bringing it up. She was from a well to do family and didn't have to work.

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

at a previous job i worked in a call centre and a lady i spoke to that called one day brought up the fact that she was a lawyer like every few minutes

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#39

35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About Not being a fan of popular things

"I've never seen an episode of Game of Thrones and I never will"

Ooooh, you're so interesting and special !!!

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Michael P (Perthaussieguy)
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I must admit, I fall into that category. I've never watched an episode of 'Kardashians' and I never will. Stupid? perhaps, but I don't want to waste my time with it.

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#40

Family money. Especially in college. Yah bro, that yacht you’re showing off is *totally* yours.

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

In college I learned to become friends with the rich kids. Got to go on some amazing holidays.

#41

how much they drink. these are usually the same people who freak out about weed. "ohh i drank like 8 beers last night" but loses their mind when they learn you smoked weed at one point or another.

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

Here in the Slavic part of the Europe, beer isn't really considered "booze". People would usually brag about how many vodkas they drank ;)

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#42

How smart their grandchild is even though they have not started kindergarten yet.

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

I can at least understand that. They love their grandchild and are proud of them :)

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35 People Call Out The Stupidest Things They’ve Ever Heard People Brag About A local restaurant manager brags about their wine. ‘They don’t sell this to individuals. It’s so good, it is only for restaurants’. AKA: It’s is ‘so good’, it costs them $4 a bottle and you will have sulfate headaches before you finish your meal.

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One comments Be SECOND who writes 'First! '

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#44

Who they have sex with.

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#45

How they are related to Genghis Khan

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

Based on stories of how much of his DNA is in the population, so are 1,120,000,000 other people.

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

Well I’m related to Octavian IV, the great ruler of the Pacific Ocean!

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

Quite a few people are, as it turns out. Talk about having balls of steel.

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

Owners of harems and serial rapists (and he was both) usually have many descendents.

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

I'm related to my mom! Huh, you're speechless now aren't you.

Mike Price
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You only have to go back to about the 1300s for the number of your possible ancestors to be greater than the population of the whole planet at that time. So we're all related, one way or another, to Genghiis Khan. And Julius Caesar. And Boadicea. And Tutankhamant. And . . . .

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

They are more likely to boast that they're descended from Confucius. That's more meaningful, but not much more.

Chris D'Asta
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'll bet it's already been said, but a lot of people have Ghengis' bloodline. He raped everything in his path. Historical fact. Why boast about that when you can go on about how you have Neanderthal DNA?

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

But i am related to him, i swear… Together with almost all asian/ eurasian persons on this earth 🫣.

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

I would imagine most people are, man was rumoured to have fathered half the known world. I read somewhere that worldwide one in about 200 men could be descendants. One of them turned up a while ago to knock down Arthur Dent's house

HistoryLover(she/her)
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why? I normally DON’T mention I’m related to a historical figure who has done bad things because I don’t want people to judge me. This is so stupid.

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

We call them Genghis C*nts. A real conversation stopper when you meet one

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#46

How they aren’t on social media/hate social media

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#47

How much it costs to maintain a pool. 🙄🙄

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