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“How Crazy All Their Exes Are”: 23 Things People Boast About Without Realizing It’s A Major Red Flag About Them
Article created by: Ieva Pečiulytė
“I don’t like to brag, but–”We all know humility is a great quality to have, but there is a time and place for celebrating our accomplishments as well. Earn your PhD? You deserve to be proud of that. Beat a life-threatening illness? I wouldn’t blame you for telling everyone you know. Complete an ultramarathon? That’s something worth posting on Facebook about. But if you get less than 5 hours of sleep every night, can drink an entire bottle of tequila by yourself or think all of your exes are “toxic and crazy”, you might want to keep those things to yourself…
One curious Reddit user recently asked people to share things others brag about that signal red flags, and readers did not hold back in the replies. So below, we’ve gathered a list of some of those qualities and "accomplishments" people should stop being so proud of to remind you pandas which boasts to look out for. Keep reading to also find an interview we were lucky enough to receive from Viktor Sander, a counselor at SocialSelf.
Be sure to upvote the responses you strongly agree with, and let us know in the comments any other brags that would send you running out the door. Then if you’d like to read another Bored Panda article discussing red flags to look out for, look no further than right here!
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#1
When a professor brags about how many people have failed their class
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#2
Bragging about not knowing things.
Also, bragging about how little they sleep.
#3
The people who instantly have a solution for everything.
Fat? Eat less. Addicted? Quit. Depressed? Smile more. Broke? Get a better job. Tired? Sleep more.
There is nuance to the issues of society. Major red flag if you're in your 20's or older and can't critically think.
#5
"Owning" or "Triggering" people: "I'm so difficult to get along with that I was able to annoy someone into an outburt with only a brief interraction." really isn't the flex some people think it is.
#6
How crazy all their exes are
#7
“I don’t have a filter.”
#8
How much they work and how little they sleep. That's an unbalanced person and they're unlikely to have an idea of "success" that includes other people.
Bacon Tentacles 6 months ago
The less you sleep, the shittier your work gets. Definitely not someone you want to hire.
#9
Men who can't talk to women like they're human beings and refer to them as "females"
Bacon Tentacles 6 months ago
Be sure to quiz them on their Rules of Acquisition knowledge. Because clearly they are Ferengi.
#10
Being "brutally honest" or "having no filter." This usually signals a severe lack of tact. Source: Me. I was this guy in my early 20s and have since chilled out.
#11
How much they “don’t care what other people think.”
If you have to constantly tell others and yourself “I don’t care,” you *totally* do, you just wish you didn’t.
#12
Their "alpha" status. Their high standards.
Bacon Tentacles 6 months ago
I know this is a tired old joke at this point, but as someone who writes software for a living, Alphas are really bad.
#13
Scoring four touchdowns in a single game for Polk High School in Chicago during the 1966 City Championship
#14
I have a coworker who is kind of like the first one. She is generally a one-upper, and she has had a really hard life. But you can't talk about yourself for more than 30 seconds before she has a story about either how awesome she is, or how much harder than you she's had it. It's exhausting.
Bacon Tentacles 6 months ago
"Topper." Had a guy I used to work with like that. In his defense, he had Asperger's.
#15
"I am (such a) a nice person".
If you have to point it out, it's probably not true.
Bacon Tentacles 6 months ago
"Yeah, if you tell it to yourself enough times, you might actually start to believe it. Nah."
#16
Ah, the person at my job who bought up all the toilet paper during the pandemic so they could sell it to coworkers at an inflated price.
They can keep their Mercedes. I'd rather not be a monster.
#17
How quickly they cut people out of their lives.
Sometimes it can be a good thing to cut people out of your life. There are definitely people who are toxic to you and you are better off without their influence or presence. But it should almost always be bittersweet to actually do this.
People who actually brag about this usually are people who refuse to accept personal fault, or to work on themselves at all.
#19
Their luxurious material possessions and lavish lifestyle despite using debt and not having the money to support such a lifestyle.
#20
How much they identify with The Joker, Tommy Shelby, Tyler Durden, Jordan Belfort, or a number of other characters like that.
#21
Firing their employees. It can be necessary to do so, but when you brag about it (so real *bragging*, not just telling), it sounds like you love executing power over weaker people and hurting them.
Bacon Tentacles 6 months ago
This is bad enough, but I think that the CEO who fires people and then makes a video of themself crying because they "had to do it, because the shareholders come first" (while maintaining their annual bonus is even worse.
#22
Owning dangerous pet Owning a lot of guns Being racist or anti gay Being rich Being promiscuous
#23
How "in the know" they are. At some point, it just becomes you turning into a conspiracy nut
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