What Ridiculous Thing Do People Brag About? - AskReddit

so you're volunteering your time to a for-profit corporation and you're proud of that what ridiculous thing do people brag about for some reason how little time they have it's annoying how these types are bewildered about how people would have time to watch films or read books and make comments about how they could never find the time but then i'd see them on social media for eight plus hours my husband and i go camping and hiking a lot and we do a lot of little weekend trips so many people are like gosh i wish i had the time for that dude you just spent 30 hours this past weekend working on your island on animal crossing it's okay if that's how you prefer to spend your leisure time but something more active isn't exactly unachievable i don't have time to watch tv yes you do you just do other things which is fine but don't act like you don't have time the other version i like is hobby is such a waste of time proceeds to watch sports and news all day every day the i don't know anything about computers people i work in i.t and i have legitimately had to teach an adult how to use a mouse a store manager who needs to use the computer probably about 65 of his day don't brag about never updating your skills to keep up with your industry he only lasted a month before they fired him for being incompetent not taking vacation days especially if they don't own the company this one actually makes me angry so you're volunteering your time to a for profit corporation and you're proud of that and you look down on people who don't yeah beat yourself in the face please and punch yourself in the balls for contributing to america's f'ed up work culture while work is obviously important there is more to life and work and productivity it's so confusing to me as a brit everyone here always looks forward to their holidays and i get hounded by my workplace to make sure i've taken all my annual leave days i've never heard of someone purposefully not taking their holiday it's just bonkers to me and bragging about working like 90 plus hours a week just to get by but you're getting left over and burnout is just waiting for you i don't even own a tv it doesn't have the impact it used to since nowadays pretty much everyone has some kind of phone or computer you can use to watch tv or movies and you can get by without a tv it used to be such a pretentious thing to say like you don't have time to watch tv in between reading the encyclopedia and doing new york times crosswords i always internally roll my eyes at anyone that brags about their purse or whatever else that's covered in giant logos as my grandfather used to say why would you pay a company to give them free advertising the actual answer materialism american consumer culture and associating designer goods with social status totally down with someone buying designer clothes if that's what they enjoy but there are unionically people who think buying an lv bag or gucci shirt elevates their social status which is just sad to say the least being really busy people who pride themselves on being busy all the time in my experience seem to be over scheduling themselves in order to try to feel important i mean sure there are some genuinely busy people but most i've seen who are busy like a badge of honor are using it to overcompensate or detract from people finding out they're really not that successful my mother is this person and has always been and ever since i realized that i have noticed it so much more i pride myself on not being busy growing up with a parent who glorified busy it was always my life goal to have one job that wouldn't require me to work a ton of hours and would pay enough to support me and my kids so i became an engineer got a government job and kick back with hobbies and travel 100 of the time i'm not at work f busy growing up poor every election cycle we have to listen to every damn candidate brag about how bad they or their parents had it when they were young everyone's father was a lowly textile manufacturer or cleaned bathrooms at 83 different schools per day every person on that stage graduated high school went to a prestigious college and has lived a life of privilege mostly because their parents were financially stable gainfully employed and invested in their children's future there's nothing wrong with your parents being successful just for once i'd like to hear a candidate say i grew up upper middle class and went to an ivy league college i thank my parents for that opportunity because i know they worked hard to give the best to their family having kids the dumbest animals on the planet manage to do it i don't know why people talk themselves up like rocket scientists for doing this especially when they get smug about it like it makes them better than people without kids getting pregnant is literally as natural and low level of a human function as breathing or eating it's the least impressive thing you can do it basically just pervades to the world that you've considered your life to be over and you're ready to change trains and start heading towards boredom and eventually death this includes all of the modern celebration of pregnancy nearly nude big belly couple photos social media posts about how tired and short on time you are photos of annoying kids etc i'm at the age now where most of my social group has children so the kind of boasting on facebook and instagram is pure cringe people who constantly brag about not having or wanting children being extremely militantly anti-child is just as obnoxious as the people who shame others for not wanting children it's fine and should be socially acceptable to not want children but calling people who want them breeders is pretty cringe it's not cool or edgy to hate babies janet people who brag about how little sleep they got it's like congrats for shortening your lifespan jimmy i on the other hand slept 14 hours last night i went to bed right when i got home i had five different dreams two were lucid and i wrote them down in my dream journal i feel so relaxed and well rested that's crazy that you didn't get any sleep because i slept so much how they don't read there was a common attitude among my classmates that reading is for losers and nerds only i still meet adults who say crap like i never read a book if it's that good they'll make a movie about it anyway like are you bragging because you are limiting the options in which you can receive information for your worldview there is so much of this at my school that i don't even know how they pass english class women who brag on their husbands for babysitting their own kids to give them a break raise your expectations on what a good father is ladies for example here's one i saw on facebook wife i am so lucky name of husband has agreed to babysit our girls today he's a shrewd negotiator though he's getting some special attention from me tonight so i can get some time out of the house can't wait thanks name of husband first cringe second i know the husband he works part-time and usually when he's not working he's out with friends while his wife is home with their three-year the bar is set so low for some guys that occasionally watching their own children is cause for celebration i'm surprised men as a whole aren't offended by this like your entire gender is viewed as so selfish that they need to be bribed into following their human nature to care for their own young also the perception that they're so incompetent that they can't be trusted with their own young or to perform basic tasks it always boggles my mind how kids of rich parents flex their money like you didn't do anything to earn it you little the funny thing that i noticed is that the people who flaunt their parents wealth usually aren't the ultra wealthy i went to a private school where i was on financial aid so i was a lot poorer than most of the students a lot of the a-holes who flaunted all their expensive stuff and made fun of the poorer students had parents who usually earned around 100 to 300k so definitely affluent but there was the son of a billionaire in my class who always wore plain t-shirts and acted really nice he wanted to become a film director their appearance like it's somehow an achievement to be good-looking i mean dude those are your genes you did nothing to have the draw like have you asked two good-looking people to f each other was that your doing i think those people on a deeper level believe that that's all they have to offer their looks are their only sense of self-worth their only source of validation they cling to it like a life raft source sometimes i am this person people who brag about the deer they shot like wow you managed to kill a defenseless animal with a gun like half the people i know have killed a deer by accident while driving so it doesn't impress me when you seek one out and shoot it people seem oddly proud of how they're so bad at math i have a math degree and whenever it comes up i'll consistently get that response from people why are you so happy about not developing your numerical reasoning and why do you feel the need to be so vocal about your hatred for my passion since when is it appropriate to respond to a person's passion with disdain and flagrant disapproval when someone says they study astrology i don't say i hate astrology worst i'll say is astrology isn't my thing but i'll be happy to hear what you have to say about it how come math is different mental issues i've known people to literally fake mental problems cause they think it's cute or quirky or something it's not something people should want to have it ruins your life being miserable for every single second of your day and having to force yourself to do things isn't quirky it isn't fun and i want it to go away how much they don't need people it's desperate just be solitary and go the ones that brag don't seem that happy in themselves and with their own company either so clearly the whole solitude thing isn't working out very much those who are content with being on their own don't go on about it constantly they have nothing to prove my ex was like this constantly trying to make me feel inferior and immature forever needing help or support from anyone he had such disdain for most other people he prided himself on being an island while mooching off me for five years not paying bills not cleaning and not looking for work did the same thing to his next girlfriend too crashing on friends couches in between girlfriends and even just living rent-free with his roommate for a while and driving the van his more financially successful younger brother bought for him but he doesn't need anyone as a woman i absolutely cannot stand when a woman brags that she is a bad witch mostly because the only women that i've ever heard brag about that are usually super loud obnoxious and have really abrasive and unapproachable personalities i think it can be a wonderful thing to feel like a strong and confident woman but if you define being strong and confident by being rude and a bully then you're not a wad [ __ ] you're a bad person working 40 plus hours a week all their life and not taking a sick day well done you made someone else very rich my job releases a list of perfect attendance every year there's someone at my job who hasn't missed a day in 35 years and 10 plus people who haven't missed a day in 20 plus years it's wild to me no thanks i'll use my sick days how much money their parents have even worse when they brag but lie about it i know a guy that always goes down that avenue somehow when we talk i began being falsely interested and got the address of the house his parents sold right in the same conversation i pulled it up on zillow and it sold for 230 000 in a hot market it was nice but wasn't the way he described it nice he said zillow made a misprint yeah okay how badly they treat the opposite gender it's especially awful to hear husbands and wives casually insult each other you know the old ball and chain routine pisses me straight the heck off i can't think of many things that would hurt me more than to hear my hubby talk down about me specifically or about women in general the same goes for him it would break his heart couples should build each other up not tear each other down i work in an automotive shop environment people come in all the time with regular cars great they then proceed to spend about five minutes telling me how this is just their daily beater and how they have a really nice car at home as if it's supposed to make them look better or somehow downplay the regular car they're in right now i just want to scream at the top of my lungs that i don't care and would rather just take care of whatever they need now with their current car i don't care what other cars you have it means nothing to me stop bragging material wealth so you got a 3 000 square foot home a new three-quarters ton pickup in the driveway and a lake house in arkansas you have one million dollars in a 401k and you are only 50. hey i honestly think that is great i take my family on vacations and show my kids the world i don't have a new vehicle or two houses or a huge 401k i pissed away my money making memories with my kids i'm perfectly happy with my choice ignorance and mental baggage bad experiences or other issues the former is just plain weird to me like people being proud about not having touched a book in a decade or not understand how to do basic stuff on computers especially when they say it with disdain like they are above such things like the only reason i don't know is because i'm not a nerd i have a life also frustrating when they try to use their age as an excuse for lack of computer knowledge at least when they are still active in a job that uses computers because computers have pretty much been standard for like 20 years by now plenty of time to get used to them the latter i also just don't understand and i often wonder what exactly people hope to gain by sharing these things do they seek sympathy do they want to seem more special or interesting sometimes i'm really tempted to simply reply you say that like you are proud of it thanks for listening to radio tts hit the subscribe button and activate the notification bell to brag about being subscribed to this channel click the right box for the society lies to your playlist let us know in the comments what you think about these statements

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Length: 14min 27sec (867 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 21 2021