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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To “What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?” Posted In This Online Group
Pride is a feeling that can be both constructive and destructive. Healthy pride often inspires positive behavior, however, the unhealthy aspect of it can make one arrogant and self-centered. Appreciating one's own growth and achievement is definitely a self-esteem booster, but overindulgence and comparison may lead to unpleasant consequences.
Usually, people's upbringing and surroundings are huge factors that affect what they feel proud of. For instance, some pandas are proud of sharing their bamboo because they are taught to value kindness more, while other pandas are probably proud of cunningly acquiring bamboo because they value cleverness more.
Whatever the case is, pride is just another feeling and it can arise in the strangest scenarios for a variety of reasons! Recently, a Redditor asked a question, “What are people stupidly proud of?” The viral thread received lots of responses revealing the strangest and most ridiculous reasons why people feel proud of themselves.
Bored Panda has compiled some of the most interesting answers from the thread, scroll below to read them all, and let us know what you feel about people who just love bragging about their trivial achievements. Lastly, keep celebrating your achievements pandas, and be proud of the good things you do!
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My dad, a father of 7, brags that he's never changed a diaper. Like, congratulations on being no help?
Fake mental illnesses. Depression/anxiety/OCD are not cute and quirky, they’re debilitating af to people who actually suffer them
Yes, and I'm going to take a lot of abuse for this comment and possibly be kicked off BP, but right now being gay, trans, whatever is a lot more popular than not. As with other areas (mental health for example) those who try to fit in with the 'in group' are detrimental to those who really do belong.
Not reading books. Actually boasting about it.
Edit: So far, the most tragic comments have been those defending TV watching as "taking just as much effort as reading".
The book is always better than the movie. The book is the entire story, as seen through the eyes of the author and interpreted by your brain. A movie is the writer’s and director’s reworking of the author’s story, to make it fit in a time slot and appeal to a range of audiences by cutting whole characters and storylines, framing for the modern perspective. and adding gratuitous nudity.
Teachers being proud that their classes are hard and their students are always failing.
Some courses are actually very difficult. It doesn't mean that the teachers are proud of students failing. It looks like this post is from a former student who was over their head.
Load More Replies...Yes! Your job is literally TO TEACH. If the majority of your class fails the problem is YOU (the teacher)
C'mon, you know that's not a true statement. How many of us have slept through a class, pretended to read the book, skipped the homework, etc? The teachers were there teaching, right? But even the most badass teacher in the world can't make someone learn who chooses not to.
Load More Replies...Actually, having taught for a zillion years and been privy to a zillion work/faculty room conversations, you'll hardly ever here teachers talk like this. You WILL hear how great their classes are doing. This comes at a time when teachers are considered failures if every student isn't successful in your class. Nobody admits that some of their kids just aren't getting it. To do so would just feed the current assumption that any failure on the part of the student is just a failure of the teacher. The times they have changed!
The only time I have ever heard a teacher talking about a failing student, is to get advice on how to turn it around. Years working in schools - never met a single teacher who is proud kids are doing badly.
Load More Replies...Imagine this: You're a manager at a company with 35 employees under you. They're expected to do 40 pieces per day. A few do 40-45. Some do 30-40. Then there's those who don't show up at least once a week; and when they do they get very little done and disrupt and cause problems. Now imagine that you weren't able to fire ANYONE. Worse yet, they want to tie your pay directly to your employees' performance. That's what it's like being a teacher.
As a teacher, I tried to be a magician, the unusual kind who showed the audience how the tricks worked. A teacher should demand the impossible of their students - and then show them how to achieve it.
If your students are all failing your class isn't hard, you're a bad teacher
I don't think so. I taught in a (high)school where kids did nothing - stayed on their phones, slept, walked out of class, didn't turn in any assignments threw stuff in class, told teachers to go to hell, threatened to report teachers for things that did not happen, etc. There were no repercussions for any of this behavior. I believe they were afraid of the trouble the students could make for them. They were quick to complain if racism where there was none, of picking on them because they were disadvantaged, and in every case the class would stick up for each other. All it takes is a bunch of kids to say you were sexually inappropriate with them and you are ruined. It wasn't worth the risk of reporting any behavior. How to counselors
Load More Replies...I don't think this happens... Most teachers know that a class they teach where students always fail is a bad reflection on themselves. This is a meme statement from STUDENTS who always fail because they don't put in the effort and think that they should pass everything no matter what "because they pay the teachers salary".
Except this happens. I had a math teacher in high school who bragged on the first day about being able to fail a whole class. She was a horrible horrible teacher, she made me think I was useless at math (I was an A student before her... I got more A's after her). Some teachers are horrible people.
Load More Replies...Decided to give public school a try after K-9th in a private school. I took 3 core classes in the counselors office because I’d already met the curriculum requirements or done the specific lessons of what they could offer me as a tenth grader. I was placed on year 11 AP English where they listened to books on LP records in lieu of reading. Books I had read in 8th grade. Teacher challenged all 3 of my choices for specific literature “I-research” (whatever that means) because they were too advanced, inappropriate or didn’t meet her subjective requirements. One was the influence of a poets life on society. Dr. Suess was my choice. Automatic F. The Bible was my choice for a boo of “reference” and she averred it was non-fiction. Our adversarial relationship left me with only PE & electives taught by teachers instead of independent in counselors office. I admit I was a little s**t, but I only lasted 1/2 year in public education. The real issue was their ability to teach to my needs/requirements.
I had an asshat of a lecturer who was like this. Fortunately he died recently so no more damaged students.
I’m a teacher. The only time I’ve heard of teachers bragging about how many fail their classes was once in college. The professor took great (misguided) pride in “weeding out” the freshman who shouldn’t be in college, according to her. I have, however, heard hundreds of students brag & laugh about how many middle or high school classes they’re failing. 🤦🏼♀️
My nursing school changed the requirements for us to pass as we took our national scholastic testing. Over half our class failed. Us non-traditional students did not have the guttural reaction of the younger ones. I was the one who spoke up. So, we did 4 years of school & now half of us have failed. That's fine. It proves that this college failed to provide a proper education & we will be notifying the State Board of Nursing & the school's accreditation authority. Suddenly there was much back tracking. They had us retake the testing a week with us forming our own study groups. We went to the company site that wrote the test & they had almost all of the answers. We all passed then.
This isnt stupid - in order to learn from one's mistakes, one needs to be told one is making a mistake. If no one fails, no one is learning anything. eg if "2+2is 5" is close enough to have a pass grade- all you have done is reinforce the mistake. Be auto suspicious of 100% pass rates - it usually means that the college thinks that their league position is more important than showing whether students actually learnt anything.
I had a professor who first day of class told us it was impossible to get an A in his class. I came the closest ever with a B+ and a recommendation to be an editor (was hired on that recommendation as he had never given one before and was the ultimate Grammar Nazi).
Having been a teacher for 18 years, I can honestly say that I have never met another teacher who was proud that students were always failing their classes. However I think there are many teachers who recognize that in most classes there are those who seem to be the "volunteers " for failure. They don't show up for class. They don't drop the course. They never send an email to explain the situation. They came 2-4 times during the semester, and that's enough to consider them legitimately enrolled. These are the blessed individuals who make it easier to pass virtually every other student that kept a chair warm on a daily basis.
Consider yourself lucky you haven't met those teachers. I've met a few as a student, and it boggles me how they stay teaching when everyone and their dogs RUN away after hearing their name. This is at college level tho, before that at high school I only met a couple teachers who would say in the face of a student that they should "not try to be anything in life because they were going to fail anyway." And while these target students didn't have the best grades and would engage in talking during class, they were far, FAR from the nightmare students I hear about out there. They didn't deserve such comments.
Load More Replies...In 6th grade I had a teacher who gave me an assignment that took me 7 hours to do. I had a few mental breakdowns because of his class
Making a class hard so that students are always failing is just bad teaching/teacher.
Had an instructor at school. I switched classes over a problem with classmates. So I wasn’t there just in time. This group was used to pulling A’s. Their first test? The highest score was apparently a 34. And the head instructor “had a talk” and apparently this instructor treated them poorly but passed them. I onLy ended back with them for the final class. With a different instructor. But still.
Any teacher who is proud of failing their students should look at their teaching techniques. Perhaps it is thay who are failing to teach and not the student failing to learn.
That's absurd! If a student makes no effort to learn the material then it's the student's own fault that they fail. It's just like the old saying 'You get out of it what you put into it.'
Load More Replies...That their dog weighs so much but really it's an obese sausage with legs who can't even take three steps without running out of breath.
Willful ignorance. Example: pride in not knowing how to do basic math.
How sensitive people don't get along with them because they're "not afraid to openly speak their mind."
(aka they are a**holes who always have to share their questionable opinions very loudly)
People who are proud of being "brutally honest" only care about the "brutal" not the "honest". Its perfectly possible to be honest without being a jerk.
"I haven't missed a day of work in years."
This usually means you went into the office while really sick, at least a couple of times.
Skin color. You fell out of your mother like that. It's not a personal achievement.
I think for the African American community it is a little bit different. It is only recently that we have started outwardly taking pride in being black because for the longest time in society we were told we are not good enough, smart enough or capable enough just because of the color of our skin. When you get told that for 100's of years, most in the community start to internalize this. So we are basically trying to undo a lot of generational trauma by being loud and proud about being black and uplifting ourselves. We are not saying we are better than anyone per se, but we are trying to uplift ourselves because in the past no one else would. I hope that makes sense 😊
Drunk driving.
They say it like it makes them a super cooool dude. Wait until you hit and kill a child and then see how cool you think you are. Bellends.
Holding or Acquiring Believes or Opinions based on a single thing about yourself,
to say you will or won't do something because it's the (Alabama Way). Supporting everything America does because you're American. Supporting EVERYTHING a political party does because they're your political party. Supporting everything a woman does because you're a feminist.
The vroom vroom sound their car makes at red lights. Like dude. Cook it. You're in a Mazda.
Not knowing something.
I have a coworker who, whenever they saw me replacing the paper towels, would loudly and proudly declare they have never done that in the five years they worked there, and that they didn’t even know how. I certain he thought it was some amazing “look how smart I am” moment in his head, but all I could think of was, “I’d be embarrassed to not know something so basic, and certainly not proud to be that lazy.”
being cruel.
My ex actually said, "Yeah, I saw this guy in a pub yesterday who tried talking to us so I basically burned his stupid shirt for an hour lol," which is one of the main reasons I broke up with him.
Brand Loyalty,
If you're not getting paid to exclusively use Apple, Samsung, Sony, Nintendo, Nike, Adidas, Chanel then why are you going so a hard for them?
Long commute times and working hours.
Yes. You're not hard working, you're just sad, and everyone's counting down the days till your mental breakdown.
Teens who think that are gangsters.
We had a family friend who, at 15, decided she wanted to join a gang. After her 'initiation," she was so badly mangled that she had to have a closed casket funeral. Gangs are not cool or fun, kids.
1. Not reading books.
2. Not listening to experts.
Not so sure about this one. This flex could land you in a presidency.
How bad they have it. I’ve seen people borderline brag about how much trauma they’ve been through like it’s some kind of contest.
I think we've all seen that FB post where OP says that they can never make their mom's recipes the way she does, and a commenter spends 3 paragraphs wingeing about how OP's post was hurtful and offensive because their (commenter's) mother was an alchoholic and a drug addict and blah blah blah...case in point.
Their political views.
It's not just one side doing this c**p either. It's just as annoying to be berated and talked down to by a "woke" person as it is a "MAGA" person. You're both being annoying, and taking pride in it. Just stop, f**k.
I see a lot of stuff like this and I usually agree. Having grown up in the south and being surrounded by far-right beliefs as a liberal I know some very good people that are conservative. But I find it different with "MAGA" to support Trump you have to disconnect yourself from reality in some regard, be hateful, or just ignorant. Now I'm not saying that Biden is good or even most democrats. They still act with self interest, but as the alt-right seems to take over the typically conservative, it's no longer just a differing of opinion on what's best, it's actively working against LITERAL NAZIS running for office and seating in Congress.
How much of an a*****e they can be
It's amazing to me how many people wear their assholishness as a giant badge of honor.
Their "roots" in a country that their great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather was from.
“I’m proud of myself, I haven’t cheated in a while”
Me: “it’s been 2 months and I’m not f*****g proud of you”
Those IQ tests people share but they dont know how to read their results. Had some guy just so proud that he was in the top 90%
Unearned wealth.
Genetic assignments.
Their place of origin.
What’s so wrong about being proud of your origins? I swear most of the posts here are just insecure people.
Wealth
Nationality
The ability to consume stuff like alcohol
Their sexual activity (no matter if being a virgin or being sexually very active)
Lack of sleep
How much hours they get exploited/work
Every room of the apartment of a woman I once dated was decorated with photographs. They were all of her. A big red flag, but I noticed too late.
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Addition: People (esp. Boomers) who are proud they played outside, drank from a garden hose etc. Yes of course this is better for kids than sitting in front of a cellphone at the age of 4. But your generation has embraced and used all technical improvements too (which is fine). If cellphones had been invented earlier, you surely wouldn#t have said, "no, father, I'd rather climb up this tree." You're not better because you didn't even have the choice. You were just born earlier.
From one born at the end of that generation - It is not so much bragging, but fondly remembering and maybe feeling that way has benefits "you" are missing out on. It has been proven that being outside has definite benefits in the long run. It needs to be a mixture of new and old. Unpopular opinion - the just in case clause - we need to be able to do "things" without technology because the next war will probably be cyber ( better than nuke imho).
Load More Replies...can i brag that i have the cutest and best cats ever and i love them and they are so sweet to me! that's what i'm proud of!
For me, it's people bragging about all the stupid animals they own. So you have cats; keep them at home, keep them to yourself and your cat-loving friends, and don't bother the rest of the population with the endless "cutesy" pics and videos of the ........... felines doing their normal things.
Load More Replies...People wearing bragging about how they're vegan, thinking theyre higher than you, WE GET IT
It annoys me when people are proud of the fact that they refuse to use medicine or go the doctor.
Or worse they brag about not taking their child to a doctor or getting them potentially life saving vaccines...
Load More Replies...I'd say women who are proud of not knowing how to cook or clean (which EVERY adult needs to know) and also people who are like "I never go outside if I can help it sunlight is my enemy" like no, sunlight and fresh air are good for you.
Using family time as an excuse to show up late and leave early every single day. How is your time more valuable than mine and why do I have to pick up your slack a*s when you make 50% more money then me....
Another one: being disabled. People feel the need to mention it, even when it has no bearing on the situation. "I'm disabled"...it's like a badge of honor.
Addition: People (esp. Boomers) who are proud they played outside, drank from a garden hose etc. Yes of course this is better for kids than sitting in front of a cellphone at the age of 4. But your generation has embraced and used all technical improvements too (which is fine). If cellphones had been invented earlier, you surely wouldn#t have said, "no, father, I'd rather climb up this tree." You're not better because you didn't even have the choice. You were just born earlier.
From one born at the end of that generation - It is not so much bragging, but fondly remembering and maybe feeling that way has benefits "you" are missing out on. It has been proven that being outside has definite benefits in the long run. It needs to be a mixture of new and old. Unpopular opinion - the just in case clause - we need to be able to do "things" without technology because the next war will probably be cyber ( better than nuke imho).
Load More Replies...can i brag that i have the cutest and best cats ever and i love them and they are so sweet to me! that's what i'm proud of!
For me, it's people bragging about all the stupid animals they own. So you have cats; keep them at home, keep them to yourself and your cat-loving friends, and don't bother the rest of the population with the endless "cutesy" pics and videos of the ........... felines doing their normal things.
Load More Replies...People wearing bragging about how they're vegan, thinking theyre higher than you, WE GET IT
It annoys me when people are proud of the fact that they refuse to use medicine or go the doctor.
Or worse they brag about not taking their child to a doctor or getting them potentially life saving vaccines...
Load More Replies...I'd say women who are proud of not knowing how to cook or clean (which EVERY adult needs to know) and also people who are like "I never go outside if I can help it sunlight is my enemy" like no, sunlight and fresh air are good for you.
Using family time as an excuse to show up late and leave early every single day. How is your time more valuable than mine and why do I have to pick up your slack a*s when you make 50% more money then me....
Another one: being disabled. People feel the need to mention it, even when it has no bearing on the situation. "I'm disabled"...it's like a badge of honor.