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Listen, it's mean to brag a small astir worldly you're arrogant of! Like we've astir apt each boasted astatine immoderate constituent astir things similar thing large that happened, oregon a accomplishment acceptable we have. But each present and then, idiosyncratic volition driblet a 'flex' that makes you tilt your caput and think, Wait… was that expected to impressment me? Like, they're saying it with implicit confidence, but it's little of a brag and much of a bizarre overshare.
Recently, redditor Reasonable_Buddy1293 wanted to perceive astir those not-so-great brags erstwhile they asked: What’s the weirdest flex you’ve ever heard idiosyncratic accidental with a consecutive face?
The thread got implicit 1.6K responses. Below are the apical and champion weridest flexes radical person heard:
1. "A manager of a antithetic section from maine prided herself connected being brainsick engaged each the time. She proudly told maine she hasn’t listened to euphony successful 15 years due to the fact that she doesn’t person time. I asked if she has a vigor successful her car, and she said she turns it off. I asked what astir successful supermarkets wherever they play inheritance music, and she said she tunes it retired and ignores it. This speech was astir 12 years ago, and I’m inactive truthful confused."
2. "'I don’t usage my PTO,' soooo you’re moving for escaped basically? Weird flex, but OK. (We get X magnitude of days disconnected that don’t rotation implicit oregon wage out.)"
"It’s 1 happening to prevention your PTO if it rolls over, but to conscionable fto it expire is wild. Some radical are mode excessively devoted to the companies they enactment for."
3. "My neighbors crossed the street. A mom, her daughter, and 2 grandkids. She was pissed due to the fact that the schoolhouse was sending the constabulary due to the fact that her granddaughters were missing excessively galore days. 'I didn't decorativeness precocious school, and neither did my daughter, and we turned retired fine!' No, you didn't. You person 4 radical successful a two-bedroom location that's falling apart, and nary car among the 4 of you. She was ranting astir this portion I was giving her a thrust crossed town, due to the fact that we are bully radical and would occasionally assistance them."
4. "A kid told maine the Grand Wizard eats Thanksgiving meal astatine his house."
5. "My BIL is astir 60 and doesn't devour fruits oregon vegetables, and helium thinks it's comic that his kids and present grandkids are the same."
"I knew idiosyncratic who was arrogant that helium never, ever ate caller nutrient (fruits and veggies). He’d really prime them retired of nutrient astatine restaurants."
6. "I had a brag who would telephone my handwriting disfigured and chickenhearted scratch. She thought she had the 'authority' to accidental it due to the fact that she won an grant for her handwriting, which she bragged astir about erstwhile a week. Eventually, I learned that the grant she won was from people 3.................... Girly was successful her 70s!"
7. "A feline hitting connected maine astatine a barroom successful Los Angeles asked maine what I did. Told him I was a second-year instrumentality pupil astatine UC Berkeley Law. He guffawed successful my look and said, 'I was conscionable successful a nationalist PEDIGREE commercial.' Pedigree arsenic successful canine food."
"That’s a existent faux pas. Us planetary Meow Mix commercialized stars are much humble than to bring it up truthful boldly."
8. "My relative erstwhile bragged that helium had ne'er utilized sunscreen successful his life. Said it with full pridefulness similar helium was invincible, portion peeling similar a lobster connected vacation. lmao."
9. "'I don’t portion water.'"
"I had a diligent archer maine that if God wanted her to portion water, helium would person made it sensation better."
10. "When I worked and lived successful South Korea, I came crossed a feline from the US who proudly claimed that helium had been surviving determination for implicit 5 years and said, 'I've ne'er tried Korean food, not adjacent once.' Sir, wherefore did you adjacent take to travel to Korea? Meanwhile, I ate Korean nutrient regularly and discovered marque caller favourites – immoderate of which I inactive question retired astatine Korean restaurants present successful Canada."
12. "Guy successful beforehand of maine got stopped astatine customs and said precise loudly and precise dilatory to the agent: 'I americium an planetary businessman!' This was 20 years ago, and I deliberation of it weekly. No existent planetary businessman has ever described themselves that way."
13. "My ex-boss said helium doesn't adjacent cognize the sanction of his lad oregon however aged helium precisely is. He's married, and his lad and woman unrecorded successful the aforesaid house. He's conscionable a dick."
"It’s not imaginable not to cognize the sanction of your ain child. What made him deliberation it was thing to prevarication and brag about? It’s truthful weird."
14. "'I don't read!' The feline really thought this made him cool. I followed the question with: 'Not adjacent mag articles?' This was close earlier smartphones wholly took over. I was successful shock. Still am. He made it dependable similar helium goes retired of his mode to debar reading. Like helium likes to beryllium willfully ignorant of each things that provender the brain. Maybe I'm a snob, but I can't get down that. At the precise least, possibly work a shampoo vessel erstwhile you poop!"
15. "'I worked 80 hours past week' —A feline astatine my salaried job."
"My aged brag bragged astir moving 100 hours a week with a toddler and a babe astatine home. She was nuts."
16. "'I smoked done each 5 of my pregnancies and my kids turned retired fine.' My brag to maine erstwhile I was pregnant, and explaining wherefore I didn't privation to beryllium connected the dock and fume anymore."
17. "'I don't bash thing astir the house. My woman does it all.' I've met your wife, dude. She's miserable and hates her life."
18. And lastly, "I've said this before, and it was popular, truthful I'll accidental it again. Anyone who bragged astir not getting bully grades."
You tin work the archetypal thread connected Reddit.
Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.
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