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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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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group My dad, a father of 7, brags that he's never changed a diaper. Like, congratulations on being no help?

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group Fake mental illnesses. Depression/anxiety/OCD are not cute and quirky, they’re debilitating af to people who actually suffer them

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Kim Contreras
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group 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".

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Kathryn Baylis
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group Teachers being proud that their classes are hard and their students are always failing.

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#5

30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group 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.

whiskybidnus , Mr TGT Report

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group Willful ignorance. Example: pride in not knowing how to do basic math.

stupidlyugly , frankieleon Report

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group 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)

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Doctor Strange
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group "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.

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Nathaniel
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Spreading viruses and making others ill. It is not good. It is pathetic.

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#9

Skin color. You fell out of your mother like that. It's not a personal achievement.

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Nicki
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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 😊

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group 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.

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Nathaniel
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

you have no defence if you are drunk driving. Grow up, you are pathetic.

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group 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.

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group The vroom vroom sound their car makes at red lights. Like dude. Cook it. You're in a Mazda.

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Lene
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I sometimes make the vroom vroom sounds.... but entirely by accident. I get a bit scared when the car goes VRROOOOOOOMMMM! when all I expected was a mini-vroom.

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group 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.”

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group 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.

AnyCurrency6027 , Les Chatfield Report

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group 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?

SpareAd2794 , Patrik Hamberg Report

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Whitefox
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Blind brand loyalty based on popularity is one thing.. Brand Loyalty based on a good product that delivers what it promises and more is not a bad thing.

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group Long commute times and working hours.

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Mohammad Ammar
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes. You're not hard working, you're just sad, and everyone's counting down the days till your mental breakdown.

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group Being religious

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Nathaniel
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This partially incorrect. Being religious is a bizarre thing to be proud of unless you are part of the right religion, like me, we are just trying to help all you heathens from burning in Hell for eternity.

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group Teens who think that are gangsters.

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Stephanie Did It
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group 1. Not reading books.
2. Not listening to experts.

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Jaden Alexander
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not so sure about this one. This flex could land you in a presidency.

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group 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.

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foofoofloofy
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group 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.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Nicki
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would have to agree...this is not politics as usual...the MAGAts live in a different reality. I love reading about history and this whole situation here is really worrying to me because I am seeing terrifying similarities of terrible things that happened in the past... 😥

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Michael Largey
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't think your terminology is as even-handed as you might believe. "MAGA" is freely self-adopted. "woke" is a disparaging terms invented by that side's opponents.

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censorshipsucks
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not really. Woke started out as a self-assigned term meaning "awake" from a sleep of racism/white privilege. It became a term of contempt by its overuse and overapplication to anything that was left-of-center.

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Powerful Katrinka
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No. The "both sides do it" argument doesn't apply when one side is actively pursuing fascism.

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David Martin
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of my favorite things I've ever heard someone say was "Your political view point is like a p***s; If you have one you're proud of, that's nice, just don't shove it down my throat"

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Paul Z.
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Trump = not political. He is a scam, a fraud, a crook, a criminal. His beliefs don't count at all...

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DumYum
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please look at the platform each political parties is pushing. There is a party whose objectives are hurtful to the USA.

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Katrin Krueger
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If it's expressed as a personal opinion (and if you take responsibility for supporting a side that serves you, because why else would you?), we're fine discussing opposites. I'd love to hear your views and input. But how can you be proud of this stuff "just because"?

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Fickle_Pickle
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Late to the party but here’s what I got to say: religion and politics are two things I do NOT want to engage in/discuss/post on social media.

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Herkfixer
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also annoying, people saying "I don't like either side, (and not that I've qualified my statement) but THAT OTHER SIDE is wayyyy worse and will be the end of the free world... " Just admit that your side is amazing and anyone who doesn't think your way deserves to be subjugated...

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Ralph Watkins
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Try being a moderate Independent. I catch hell from both sides. You know, you can't be critical of one side without supporting the other side. Both sides of our political types are wrought with fascism. It's about power & control, not which axis one leans. If I had to toss myself into a harder category I would be a conservative Democrat. I like real, actual liberals. If you are a neo-liberal & call yourself a liberal, you really aren't. You fall into a type of fascism just on the other side of the coin from Trumpsters. Trump people look to up to Heaven & can't wait for Jesus to get off his throne & let Trump have it.

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Timmy Pillinger
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have what I call the Tolpuddle test (named for an 18th C show trial in England ) : you work out which side of your country's politics is the problem by looking at who has run show trials.

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Wysteria_Rose
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's when people make it their entire personality and only topic of conversation that it's bad. I've met plenty on both sides and in the middle who can actually talk about regular things and you would never know which way they vote (it's no one else's business anyway).

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MJ
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I relate to this, we're all individual people not clones of our chosen political parties.

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El Dee
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You'll catch more flies with honey than vinegar. So if you disagree with someone, fine. If you want them to change their mind don't so it by berating them, it won't work..

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Jasmine Hufflepuff Henderson
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you. Both sides are corrupt, both sides are idiotic, both sides take things way too far, and both sides lie. I don't care what side you're on, but all the fights and insults is ridiculous. If you disagree with either side you're immediately either a republican or democrat, no I just don't agree with what is going on. Not every republican is going to agree with every single thing the republicans are doing and same goes for democrats.

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Liberal Disease
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ALL politicians - I feel worldwide - are corrupt! ALL!!! The government is NOT your friend! They want your money, control, and power...oh, and all the resources - including yours!!

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Eric S.
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Coming from someone whose handle is "liberal disease" I would take this post with a grain of salt the size of Siberia.

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Unnamed Hooman
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Politics in general can suck. If you’re interested in it, and you have or would want to have a career in it, be my guest! But when it comes to this, I think everyone’s dumb.

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KimB
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm with you...can we just fire the lot and start over? With people who haven't made being a politician a career? Or were born with a silver spoon in their mouths and a block of gold in their a**e? : D

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Brian Luna
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Either side only cares about a vote.... They're not here to help you. Just to help themselves.

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Matthew Fox
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The "vote blue no matter who" crowd were just as scary as the MAGAts. People, there are more than the 2 parties who pretend to be different.

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group How much of an a*****e they can be

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Jaden Alexander
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's amazing to me how many people wear their assholishness as a giant badge of honor.

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Their "roots" in a country that their great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather was from.

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El Dee
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeh, this is utter bull. Be interested in it but it's NOT your whole identity..

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group Working 60+ hours a week

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Nathaniel
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you need to work these hours due to poverty and low earning jobs I feel for you. If it is you hustling and working non stop like the morons on the linkedin page earlier, you need to step back and take a look at your priorities.

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How much alcohol they can drink.

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Chich
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This should have faded away by the time you turn 20 - if it was a thing at all. Anyone btagging about this later in life is just pathetic.

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group “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”

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group 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%

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Guess what, I had an IQ test today." "And?" "Thankfully it was negative."

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group Unearned wealth.

Genetic assignments.

Their place of origin.

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Chloe Drury
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What’s so wrong about being proud of your origins? I swear most of the posts here are just insecure people.

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30 Of The Most Interesting Answers To "What Are People Stupidly Proud Of?" Posted In This Online Group 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

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Michael Largey
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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