While some things people do are genuinely impressive, many others are not; but that doesn’t stop the latter group from bragging nevertheless. Be it the minuscule number of hours they slept or the number of social media followers they have, such “achievements” might not be the flexes they think they are.
These and many other examples were shared by members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community, after the user ‘LeatherFruitPF’ started a discussion about it. They asked the netizens about things that aren’t the flexes people believe they are, and the redditors had plenty to share. Scroll down to find their answers on the list below and see for yourself what’s simply not worth bragging about.
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Being proud about being uneducated. Bragging about having never read a book. "Went to the school of hard knocks" type of s**t annoys me. I have no problem with someone who isn't educated. But if you're flexing about it, you're a moron.
Being proud about being “brutally honest” when they’re just rude.
A great wise saying..Does this need to be said. Does this need to be said right now. Does this need to be said by you.
Declaring yourself an alpha male. I guess that means something in your little subculture, but to the rest of us, that's just head-scratchingly silly.
Especially since the thing this is based on (alpha wolves) is nonexistent in nature.
Men bragging that they've never changed one of their kids' diapers in their lifetime. Basically you've just outed yourself as a s****y, uninvolved parent and a s****y partner.
Being an influencer.
Not just having a big or expensive car, but a loud one.
Nobody is impressed.
The ceo of the company I work for was just featured on the cover of a magazine talking about how great their company culture is.
One of his points was how the company set up a program to annually nominate a coworker who can’t afford Christmas where their other employees donate to them. He used this to brag about our amazing culture
To me this reads as, we pay our employee so poorly that on an yearly basis we have so many employees who can’t afford Christmas we have to nominate who needs help the most and then we guilt trip our other grossly underpaid employees to compensate for it.
So basically any company that brags about culture due to their employees helping out other employees when it comes to financial stresses most likely cause by poor pay. I would say “donating” PTO falls into this category as well.
There was a time in the 80s and 90s when many companies had family Christmas party days that included a roast meal or BBQ and every employees child getting a gift from Santa....now, it's just how do I screw another penny out of my underpaid staff by Scrooge McScrooge and his executive evil minions.
Working yourself to the point of having absolutely no time for yourself.
Work ethic is good, strong work ethic is great. Living to work is not great.
Westerners moving to Dubai and flaunting their new lavish lifestyle. You’re basically validating the use of slaves to build that dystopic s**thole.
That is one seriously non sustainable locale for a civilisation to be, every bleeping drop of life giving water needs to be either shipped in or created via desalinisation plants, the soil is barren so all soil needs importing to grow anything, the temperature is so hot huge amounts of electricity, solar power, whatever is needed to stay cool enough to survive...good luck if there is an emp strike, the power grid fails, the desalination plant fails, all 2 or 3 highways and routes in and out are bombed or blockaded, you all dead in under a month, bye byes.
Not taking Sick days.
I've had co-workers that come to work with a runny nose, constant coughing and the need to go to another room to make vomiting noises brag about how they never take days off. Thanks for spreading your germs around work. Just stay home asshat!
Being disrespectful to the disabled or weird kids as a joke.
One of my brothers are disabled and in a wheelchair. One of my friends thought that because he was my friend he was allowed to bully him for being in a wheelchair. Jokes on him, my brother is now into wheelchair racing and my friend got kicked out for being to rude to everyone. He literally pulled out the Uno reverse real quick.
Literally anything you have to try flexing. The most genuinely impressive things by nature do not require you to rub them in peoples faces.
Anything you had zero choice in. Your sex, skin color, nationality, sexual orientation.
Unfortunately certain parts of most cultures force a choice on those with differences from the norm (usually "be closeted and safe or be out and be able to find happiness", and use that "choice" as justification for discrimination.
Yeah, I'm proud to be Dutch! What did I do to achieve that? Absolutely nothing! It's just so senseless to be proud of such a thing..
Exactly. I'm happy to be italian (often, not always), but I'm not proud of it, I was simply born here.
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Hard disagree here. It's okay to be proud of who you are. Unless you're an arsehole, of course. Also being proud of who you are doesn't mean you're better than anyone who doesn't share those traits.
Being an arsehole is a choice, being white or jewish or gay is not. So, I don't agree with being proud of being white. Or black, same thing. That's what the OP says. Be proud of whatever part of your culture, say the sabbath meal --- again, culture is a choice so be proud of it. Haircolor or shoesize is not.
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I think on this one that regarding gay people and pride, there's a good reason because before they had to hide it so as not to get bullied, bashed up, put in jail or murders by the state. So to say I'm gay and proud is a reflex to past grievances.
Persecution of gay and especially trans people is still a HUGE thing in the US and Republican legislators are introducing hundreds of anti-lgbt laws every year. So Pride is about mutual support and the refusal to be eradicated
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Well s**t. I guess it's totally my fault for being born a white female in Scotland. I'm sorry guys.
This is a hard thing my son is going through right now. He's 6 y/o. And he's trying to say every innate quality he has makes him better than others. He's tall, so tall people are better. He's a boy, so boy's are better. His hair has gold highlights so gold highlights are better. No son, we're all made different. Everyone is equally good. No one is better or worse bc of any of these things. It's a weird way to try to gather self-esteem but I can see how it happens.
I absolutely LOVE that you included sexual orientation in that list <3 More people need to understand IT IS NOT A CHOICE.
But according to him pride flags p**s him off
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Bragging about not wearing sunscreen. Enjoy your premature aging and wrinkles, dumb**s!
Not doing something. Like not watching a popular show, not drinking coffee, etc etc. the amount of people who say these things as if they want a f*****g medal for it is astounding.
Then again, the amount of people who go on about watching things like GoT is also annoying
Boasting about how much something they’re wearing costs even though you know they can’t afford it.
"I'm a nice person unless you p**s me off. Then I go crazy" or something similar
If you're only nice when you're calm, you're not nice.
Fighting in bars. Honestly, being the type to square up with anyone over anything that you could just as easily walk away from.
Number of followers you have on social media.
I don't follow anyone now. All the restraining orders were a pain.
Showing up to work or class when you're deathly ill.
Driving around in a $50,000 new car while not being able to cover a $1000 emergency.
Right?!!? I never understood buying a new or expensive car but if something goes wrong I can't afford to fix it.
Perfect attendance in school.
As an adult, as I've noticed kids with stuff like health issues, family issues, etc. where they have no choice but to miss school, I've come to realize that perfect attendance isn't a flex. It's just having luck in life circumstances.
Calling themselves “entrepreneurs.” Dude, I know you’re in an MLM.
In my 20s, I liked a friend of a friend. She invited me to a small house party she was throwing. Thought I might have a chance to take a shot. Turned out to be an MLM pitch party. Said I forgot something and had to go to the car real quick. Wonder if she's still waiting for me to come back or not.
Having an expensive, usually large designer/ purebred dog, or a wolf hybrid. But especially having a husky.
All it shows me is the 90% chance you didn't do the research OR, that you gaslit yourself into thinking you'd seriously go running that much.
Sincerely,
The neighbor that catches several f*****g bored, escaped huskies per year in my suburb.
A husky is a WORKING dog that, in its ideal life, would be RUNNING 50-100 miles a day *while* pulling heavy cargo-- and if you don't find a way to simulate that, well. This is a dog that is going to *find* a way to simulate that. Usually by eating your house, and or yeeting itself over your adorable little fence and chasing everything that moves.
I love dogs, but I hate most husky owners.
Your lack of sleep. You're doing significant damage to your brain and self.
Bagging a cheater.
If he cheated *with* you, he will cheat *on* you!
Bagging a cheater? Like catching them or starting to date them? I agree...neither is really a brag.
Wearing designer with huge logos.
Being a nihilist who complains about how meaningless life is and how awful all human beings are, and how the world will be so much better when we all die.
Newsflash to every redditor: It doesn’t make you smarter or more enlightened than everyone else. It’s just sad behavior tbh.
Gym selfies to announce you go to the gym.
And then not actually working out or wasting everyone else's time posing on equipment whilst people are actually trying to meet their fitness goals or exercise out their frustrations (me, always me)
Boasting/bragging about lots of money or material things.
Move in silence.. why does everyone care so much about image?
"I've had Covid 4 times already".
I’ve had Covid twice. Both times at Christmas. Two years in a row. 0/10 would not recommend.
Mom's who post videos of themselves with tons of kids while looking like s**t themselves thinking they're saints for "sacrificing" themselves to raise their kids.
Flashing large amounts of cash. It's just makes it look like that's all the money you have, and you are too poor to have a bank account.
Leaving tags on clothes/hats/shoes. Just looks like you’re planning to return it.
Oversharing the honeymoon phase of a relationship on social media.
Actually flexing.
"Flex this"(I know he's not saying that, but for today he is) dcaa7b5318...30c715.jpg 
Lifts and mods to vehicles. Especially trucks. It's like the person's entire personality is their lifted truck with it's knobby off rust tires "I could never afford" that will never leave it's safe space that is the pavement.
It's always people who "need" XYZ for their truck, but they're never gonna use XYZ. My truck is a work truck, and people tell me it'd look so much better with a lift. Well I disagree because I can just barely reach into my bed comfortably to get to my tools, and then they tell me I just "need" bed or box steps... It's amazing they never see through their own stupidity.
How hot of a person you “pull” to cheat on your spouse/partner.
Having a work calendar booked wall-to-wall with meetings. It’s usually an executive or upper management type.
Being on calls all day is not good for you or the company. If you’re in charge you can decide which meetings are worth your attendance. Also should be delegating more.
Finally, not leaving anyone else a chance to ever book a meeting with you is just an a-hole move.
“I only got 4 hours of sleep”
“Oh yeah well I got 2”.
weakling! I haven't slept in 2 days! by the way, does anybody know why everything is all gray and fuzzy?
How many times they went to jail and how big their car payments are.
Being a member of MENSA.
It's really, really not hard to get in, and it's really, really not something that *anyone* outside of MENSA actually cares about.
Edit: for all the edgelords asking if I was dumped by a MENSA member, if I failed to get in, etc... no, the context is I'm a psych and worked in assessment for years so saw plenty of MENSA advocates (and mostly they did not have superior-level IQs).
Also ETA: 🤣 TIL it's an insult in Spanish, gracias ustedes!
This person could use a little Mensa I think. I could barely follow that.
Bragging about "side hustling" on your off time for extra cash.
As a noob Reddit user, I still don't get the karma thing.
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Bragging about a mental illness that you 'self diagnosed'. Like all those people who go tell you they have OCD because they like to organise stuff or brag about supposedly having depression or anxiety when those are actually serious disorders that they probably don't bave
I am 100% guilty of focusing on the silly internet points. I don't flex it at all, but I get kind of unreasonably happy when I get more than 10 hearts on a post on the WoF Fandom Wiki.
Same. When I find out that I have a lot of likes on bored panda, I get estatic! (Did I use that right?)
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People who flex about not having kids while bashing people who do have kids, Women who flex about being a housewife and not having to do anything, people who flex about their job and how much money they make.
The worst part about the “No kids flex” is the “I get to do whatever I want because I don’t have kids” people. The best come back I’ve ever heard to that: “I spend all day playing running around with my kids outdoors when it’s nice playing with legos indoors when it rains, and eating Mac and cheese and chicken fingers with someone who appreciates it as much as I do. I would still do all those things if I didn’t have kids.”
Load More Replies... A friend of mine is very, very interested in money. No, not to earn and hoard it, he spends money he got and sometimes money he doesn't have. But the price is always important to him so he can judge if something was expensive. So you can say: " Look at my new sweater / car / haircut / fill this gap." and the first thing he would ask is: " How much did you pay?" That is annoying and ridicoulous.
just don't flex at all just to make you feel superior- I admire true devotion in arts , sports or living a vision, it don't need to be advertised that loudly. Flexing give me the vibes of doing / being something just to be seen. That's a personality issue you have to work on
There are a few people in my life who think a certain way about me, but it's mostly because if I said my true opinions, it would just cause problems for myself. It's not even serious opinions, but the people I'm around would just take them the wrong way. It's a situation I would like to be rid of, but can't.
Adopting the exact same political positions as the world's wealthiest, greediest corporations, H.R. departments and all the minions of the Harvey Weinsteins and Hugh Hefners of the world while you congratulate yourself for being so brave and free-thinking.
Bragging about a mental illness that you 'self diagnosed'. Like all those people who go tell you they have OCD because they like to organise stuff or brag about supposedly having depression or anxiety when those are actually serious disorders that they probably don't bave
I am 100% guilty of focusing on the silly internet points. I don't flex it at all, but I get kind of unreasonably happy when I get more than 10 hearts on a post on the WoF Fandom Wiki.
Same. When I find out that I have a lot of likes on bored panda, I get estatic! (Did I use that right?)
Load More Replies... People who flex about not having kids while bashing people who do have kids, Women who flex about being a housewife and not having to do anything, people who flex about their job and how much money they make.
The worst part about the “No kids flex” is the “I get to do whatever I want because I don’t have kids” people. The best come back I’ve ever heard to that: “I spend all day playing running around with my kids outdoors when it’s nice playing with legos indoors when it rains, and eating Mac and cheese and chicken fingers with someone who appreciates it as much as I do. I would still do all those things if I didn’t have kids.”
Load More Replies... A friend of mine is very, very interested in money. No, not to earn and hoard it, he spends money he got and sometimes money he doesn't have. But the price is always important to him so he can judge if something was expensive. So you can say: " Look at my new sweater / car / haircut / fill this gap." and the first thing he would ask is: " How much did you pay?" That is annoying and ridicoulous.
just don't flex at all just to make you feel superior- I admire true devotion in arts , sports or living a vision, it don't need to be advertised that loudly. Flexing give me the vibes of doing / being something just to be seen. That's a personality issue you have to work on
There are a few people in my life who think a certain way about me, but it's mostly because if I said my true opinions, it would just cause problems for myself. It's not even serious opinions, but the people I'm around would just take them the wrong way. It's a situation I would like to be rid of, but can't.
Adopting the exact same political positions as the world's wealthiest, greediest corporations, H.R. departments and all the minions of the Harvey Weinsteins and Hugh Hefners of the world while you congratulate yourself for being so brave and free-thinking.
