“Sets Timers Instead Of Alarms”: 30 People Share Hilarious And Sometimes Cringe “Beige Flags”
We've seen people on the internet talking about red and green flags in romantic relationships, but lately, there has been a lot of fuss about another color.
TikToker Caito (@itscaito) coined the term "beige flag" in one of her videos from a year ago, where she explained that it's a sign that someone's really, really boring to date.
@itscaito beige is the new red and in other news dating apps are a wasteland 🚩 #hinge #redflags #datingredflags #hingedating ♬ original sound - Caito
However, since then, folks have evolved it, making the beige flag something in between the red and green ones. Now, this sign is understood to be more like a personal quirk that catches your attention, a mannerism that makes you pause and think, "Hmmm... that's a bit odd" without fully understanding if it's good or bad.
(For reference, think of when Anatoly Dyatlov in HBO's Chernobyl heard the radiation reading and said: "3.6 [Roentgen] — not great, not terrible.")
So to give you a better understanding of the latest online dating slang, we compiled some of the most popular beige flags that we've seen.
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How do you carry on a conversation with him ? I have so many questions.
Asking all the questions on people who do this is amazing, because they answer. Not sure if always honest or true.
I loved how he finds it endearing instead of annoying.
As someone with high-functioning autism, this sounds like it might be Autism Spectrum Disorder. Many High Functioning Autistic people have trouble with chatting and casual conversation. The fact he has to google topics for conversation hints he might be having trouble with casual social skills and is making an effort to compensate. Likewise, the fact he asks intimate questions in a room full of people suggests he has trouble understanding social propriety and boundaries, another thing difficult for people with autism.
Put him in front of a mirror and tell him that he is cute and a keeper, because he is actually listening to you. My one, I could tell him 200 times how a watch is beautiful and he would still show up on valentines or birthdays with something else but the watch.
I've often said that it's as selfish to refuse to receive as it is to refuse to give, because in refusing to receive we are denying other people the opportunity to be generous and we are refusing to be grateful to other, instead insisting they always be indebted to us. Generosity sometimes means allowing others to be generous too.
When my children went through this phase I'd pretend to not know what they wanted until they spoke properly. (And, yes, they were fully able to articulate clearly.)
I don't understand why that would make the waiter embarrassed - he'll either have an actual favorite that he'll recommend, if not then he'll pick something at random from the menu (or something expensive)... or maybe the manager said "hey, we've got too much fish, so push the fish!" and recommend that. Not sure where the discomfort would come from unless the waiter was so unfamiliar with the menu that he couldnt think of a single dish to recommend.
Maybe he thinks it’s a beige flag that you call yourself a scheduled girly.
This is me, and this is apparently very common in people who have ADHD (not saying she does). I hate having notifications hanging over me, so I open the message, and if I'm in the right mood I'll respond. But sometimes I think "I'll get back to it later" and then totally forget the message ever existed until the next time I think to text that person.
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Im prob gonna get downvoted into oblivion for saying this but some people are reading wayyy too much into this
Yep. A few are real "flags" but to call quirky behavior a flag is just silly. My husband and I were together for 35 years, and we both had our odd little things. If one was bothered we would do the chu sound and move on.
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Wish the text was on a plain background, it’s kind of hard to read off people’s foreheads
Speaking as a person on the ASD spectrum, a number of these might be cases of undiagnosed high-functioning autism spectrum disorder.
Aw, come on Pandas. No need to downvote similarly !
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Yep. A few are real "flags" but to call quirky behavior a flag is just silly. My husband and I were together for 35 years, and we both had our odd little things. If one was bothered we would do the chu sound and move on.
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Speaking as a person on the ASD spectrum, a number of these might be cases of undiagnosed high-functioning autism spectrum disorder.
Aw, come on Pandas. No need to downvote similarly !
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