Just about everything to do with how strongly they believe in a specific Religious sect OR how strongly they think all Religion is bullshit.
Not claiming any of them is right or wrong, just point out that going around talking about one's Religious or anti-Religion beliefs is a weird flex anchored on a feeling of personal superiority.
Anything showing off opulence. Having more money (or less control against impulse spending) doesn't make you better in any form. But it's a lifestyle that sells and rakes in tons of money for the vain and stupid
Branded anything!
The "see, I can afford branded stuff" flex of being better because having money for it right alongside the "easier to just walk around with 'I'm stupid' tatooed on my forehead" because of being dumb enough to spend 5x more money just for a label.
It's maybe the biggest poor/low-middle-class person's "look, I have money" flex there is.
(It's even more hilarious when one actually knows people from Old Money: those with lots of money and who were born into it actually wear simple but high quality stuff with no visible labels, whilst the ones trying to flaunt their wealth are either not wealthy at all or are Nouveau Riche and hence feel to need to flaunt their wealth whilst not being experienced enough at having lots of money to use it the way old wealth does)
Anything they didn’t actually do themselves, riding on someone’s coattails.
For example,
Memorial day just passed here, so people trying to attach some sort of personal worth to their grandfather’s service in WW2 or whatever war as if they’re owed something for it - or the “y’all would be speaking German if if weren’t for (the US, my grandpa)!” Stolen valor of a different kind.
Yea, if your identity is solely based on your heritage, instead of personal merit and accomplishments, you're a loser. Like people visiting about how they're 4th gen American, you look down on immigrants, meanwhile you on welfare...
Number of followers on social media has got to be one of the cringiest.
I'll add to that - how many friends they have (who won't bother to talk to or engage with you), how many views, how many likes .etc
"I am a volenteer firefigher" Dont brag about it constantly if you really do it out of good will.
Big and loud cars/bikes are also the thing or how often they go party and get drunk
How much then can drink or how wasted they've gotten over the weekend. Luckily nobody has done that around me since university, but that was pretty annoying.
Just as well as those who say how many blunts and bags of weed they've gone through. Yeah good to know you're shitting on your health and risking on getting yourself and others in trouble over your antics while under either influence.
How many hours they work.
Life is a game. Scored like golf. The number is "hours labouring".
"I worked 120 hours this week, buttercup"
Wow. I can't believe you volunteered what a giant fucking idiot you are.
If you gotta work 120 hours to survive, I feel sympathy. If you're flexing? Jeeze
Especially when they believe in the whole "hard work means I get promoted and it pays off".
No, it just means you've cemented yourself into being a good doggy for the company who is going to heavily rely on you until you quit or die on the job.
Any career.
Had a plumber once who spent the entire hour ranting about being a master plumber and how being a unionized tradesman is the only honorable profession and the water works guy is an idiot for not taking his word as gospel...
He was also like 160cm tall and bald, most insecure being I've ever observed walking this planet.
But that, "my job makes me better" vibe isn't unique to him. Seen it in doctors, lawyers, programmers, policemen, social workers, therapists...
Just got my Steam controller, and it's amazing how many friends I have who are just like: "Ew, I never use a controller. I played with a mouse and keyboard"
I play most games with mouse and keyboard. But there are games that just play better with controllers especially casual ones. Also good luck couch gaming with keyboards and mice. :)
Pfft, Wireless key and mouse on a tray (definitely comfortable to do) ;)
I'm not sure you could call it a "flex" but the number of people I meet who are almost proud of how bad they are at math is ridiculous. Short of having been diagnosed with dyscalculia, lacking basic mathematics skills as an adult should be on par with not knowing how to read.
It blows my mind how many other Americans I come across who lack basic understandings of fractions. We use the damn imperial system, which is a whole other issue for a different lemmy rant.
In my experience that's not at all a brag in Europe, quite the contrary.
Cannot stand this shit. I have two younger sisters, and my extended family loves to go on and on about how they're bad at math, or how they were not good at math in school because it's hard. Okay, but you don't have to seed it into their very impressionable minds that math is hard, because it really shouldn't be.
Fathers who claim they have never changed a diaper.
Yeah, as a father of four this always baffled me. As if changing a diaper makes you less of a man. WTF, it's literally your biological instinct to care for your offspring, all I'm hearing is people bragging about how they're an evolutionary dead end.
All I hear is they are a misogynistic lazy fuck…
Same with people who boast about never reading a book
Rich people. That's it. That's everything. If anything, I view excessive wealth as a form of mental illness.
Their vehicle.
Think of, for example, the obnoxious shitbag in his emotional support truck, or the BMW prick, and all the behaviors attributed thereto.
My neighbor gloats about how loud his electric vehicle is. He actually has a system to produce loud noise simulating a hemi engine in it. So fucking stupid
I’ve learned that EV owners are absolutely not immune to bouts of vehicular douchebaggery. But putting a vroom vroom box in your EV? That’s just a cry for help.
There’s a big open outdoor shopping mall area near me that for some reason they decided to allow people to drive in the interior streets instead of putting the garages on the edges of the area so people can park and just walk around. On Friday and Saturday evenings, idiots with pimped up cars and loud exhausts love to just drive the interior streets over and over to get maximum attention from shoppers walking around. It’s loud, obnoxious, and makes the place stink of car exhaust; not to mention a waste of gas.
I saw one of my old friends was proposed to in front of her now fiance's Dodge truck. He was wearing camo. She said yes!. Jesus Christ talk about lacking a personality.
‘I have an iPhone’
Or conversely: ‘I don’t have an iPhone’
Nobody cares what brand of rectangle you use.
The epic thing is supposed to be a flex? I thought it was about it sucking so much that not even free games can retain people.
I know people who brag about not knowing how to drive. Or my aunt who doesnt know how to pump gas.
I used to work with a guy who bragged that he had never mowed a lawn and neither would his son. I heard him repeat this years later, so it wasnt just some offhanded thing he said.
Where I come from, these are not things to brag about.
In general, people bragging about not knowing things. They think it makes them superior somehow to be deficient in knowledge
I don't know how to pump gas, and I blame myself for not leaving NJ enough.
But at least I quarantined myself well here.
How people have grown up and lived their entire lives in a small town. Aka proudly only being in one area of our very large world, and it shows with their views how narrow minded people can be.
< 50% of Americans have a passport. Even fewer have actually used it to travel outside of the country.
Not saying you have to take a lavish European getaway, but maybe instead of going to Disney World for the third time, go to minimum Canada or something and experience something different.
Only one of my trips outside the US was “lavish” and it really wasn’t. It was an all-inclusive week trip in Jamaica, in the middle of hurricane season to save money. It was very affordable. Totally great trip, though!
Other than that I walked across the border into Mexico for lunch (this was before a passport was needed), and went on a week-long camping trip, 2 days of which was in Canada.
My passport is lapsed now though because I can’t leave for more than 2 days without arranging to have someone take care of things for me, which I can’t really afford to do, so why bother.
Having XYZ mental illness/neurodivergence. Speaking as someone with both.
Yeah its not a brag at all... ive been suffering a miserable existence since before I can remember and on top of that most people think I should just snap out of it and be happy like its all my fault for not trying hard enough
Aaacktually my life is so much fucking effort to just exist let alone function and then on top of that deal with not fitting in, being misunderstood, all while being forced to contribute the very society that gave rise to me and excludes me
Neurotypicals using depression and anxiety like theyre moods... irksome. If you really suffered you would know its a curse.
They run Jellyfin and not Plex.
Heh, hi from !selfhosted@lemmy.world
The next thing you're going to tell us is that people don't love to hear about how you run Arch. I don't believe it! :D
I hate when people brag about being abused as children. They think they're better than today's kids because they couldn't get away with shit without being beaten.
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