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
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.
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.
Their sexual orientation/preferences.
Buying an expensive car that you didn’t build and don’t know how it works.
Nurses holding their pee and working 4-5x12hs a week. Hon you’re in danger and gonna get real weird bladder problems.
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.
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!!
Loud vehicles. What they think is cool is actually annoying everyone else.
A lot of them think it’s cool specifically because it annoys other people. It’s antisocial behavior.
“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.
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).
“I’m a quick thinker”, “I think fast”, “I act before thinking”, and similar.
What the person is actually saying is that they’re OK being a dead weight and a burden to the others, due to their poorly thought actions, because they’re too lazy to think properly on things.
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.
Making as much noise as possible at every fucking place and every fucking time. Even worse if you are a motorcyclist or a driver of a car, bus, or truck. Or when you’re putting music non stop all day long, even late at night.
That and bragging about using AI. Like, seriously? Are bragging about destroying the world, displacing workers from their labor and stealing other people’s works without attribution, consent, or compensation. Fucking bastard.
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”.
