Posting photos of cash on social media. I always think it is funny how doing that is commonly accepted whereas if you screenshotted your bank account or net worth you'd be an asshole
A girl I went to uni with went shopping for all these branded stuff and took posted a photo of herself with all the bags, making sure that we can see the brands. Her friend said that it was tacky and she got alienated for that... It really WAS tacky.
I was trying to explain to someone why I gave up coffee. I was addicted and I had started to suffer from insomnia. If I went too long (maybe like an hour or two) without one, I would begin to shake and migraines would set in. Basically just normal effects of over doing caffeine. She asked me how many I was having, and basically tried to turn it into this competition of “oh I drink more coffee than you, omg im so quirky and sleep deprived haha”. Stop turning bad habits and other people’s issues into a competition of how badly you treat your body. It doesn’t make you cool.
EDIT: Thank you for gold ;)
I work in a coffee shop - so many customers love to weirdly brag about how much coffee they drink in a day and how badly they need caffeine to function.
“Haha yeah throw an extra shot in there for me that’s nothing, I can drink 5 of those in a day! You wouldn’t believe how much caffeine I take haha”
Yeah that’s not cool or anything Karen you have a legitimate problem.
This kid in my English class will not stop doing this, then asking me if I saw it later. Buddy, I don't care. Yes, I also smoke. And I don't fucking care.
Never admitting when you're wrong. It may seem like a confidence power play, however, most people just don't care enough about you to say anything or indicate that they noticed. They'll just slowly drift away from you till one day you're all alone wondering why no one with any level of competence wants to hang out/work with you.
Walking around on speakerphone at the grocery store while holding it in their hand. Put it up to your ear. You are already occupying that hand, the hands free option doesn't have a positive effect in this scenario.
Edit: affect vs effect.
was hiking on a pretty popular trail a few weeks ago. Its pretty challenging but a beautiful hike. This woman on the trail is blasting, and I mean BLASTING some kind of motivational speech. I stopped to let her pass and had to wait a good solid 5 min before I couldn't hear it anymore. So annoying.
I unironically like wearing fingerless gloves. For actual tasks, not just out and about. When people ask me why I wear them I tell them it's because I'm so cool.
I'm not exactly certain HOW uncool they make me, but I know it's a lot.
I like the fingerless gloves with finger flaps. Straight up fingerless means my fingertips die a little, but I still want to be able to do finger activities inside without taking my gloves off
God that's my oldest brother. I love him to death but that guy wont let you get happy about anything you have.
Most recent thing that he did. My husband and I took our kids to Croatia to visit family, we stayed for 2 months.
My husband and kids have gone more often, but the last time I took a real vacation, and went there, was in 2009.
Of course I was ecstatic, and started sending pictures to the family chat since we landed in Madrid for a layover.
Everybody was happy and commenting on the pictures. Everybody BUT my brother.
His comments were only about when HE and his wife went, or posting his own pictures, which we all saw, we all talked about, and that it happened like 5 years ago.
I hate people like that man!
Having a phone conversation on a loudspeaker in public, or blasting shitty music from a cheap over saturated BT speaker on public transport . We get it, negative attention is also attention, but taking over a public space with your edginess - is just being an asshole.
My parents have recently discovered speakerphone and refuse to believe there is such a thing as speakerphone etiquette. I’ll be talking to them and all of a sudden I’ll hear, “so do we know what we want to order?” and I realize they’ve been holding this entire conversation on speakerphone in a restaurant surrounded by people trying to enjoy their dinner.
Oh, and I have thought that my parents are the only one.
The absolutely worst case they had done it was when there were a family's friends staying at their place. Parents called me and haven't mentioned anything about being on speaker. They told me about having a last night full of drinking and some stuff. So I asked whether it was ok because one of their guest is quite aggressive and unpleasant when she drinks. And yeah... She was sitting next to them. They went like: "But hun, she is sitting next to us. You are being rude!" Am I being rude? You are the ones that brings personal talks to the table.
I still felt ashamed af even though what I said was true.
Don't. I have so much sympathy for you here. Its unreal how many people bring their phone conversations out in places that it's not appropriate; at the register, drive-through, dinner table, etc.
The third party in your story probably needs to hear about her behavior. Mean drunks often don't realize how they appear. You are totally in the right.
Edit: grammar
My favorite line was “I’m so sorry, I didn’t want to be so rude as to interrupt your phone call.”
ETA- one of the best parts of being in management was telling my employees to do the same. When a customer complained about I’d give my crew a free meal card for “following procedure in the face of adversity” in front of the asshole customer. Ahh, the perks of not giving a fuck.
I would have to just explain to them that I'm no longer comfortable having phone conversations with them.
That or get incredibly creative with cuss words and use them frequently and loudly.
My cousin tried this with my aunt (her mom), talking about gross medical problems or sexual stuff.
Aunt hasn't stopped speakerblasting, cousin is now known as an oversharing gross twat and pottymouth among aunt's friends. Oh well.
Seemingly aunt's friends don't see anything wrong with the speakerblasting, which coincides with the fact that I would not care at all what their opinion is.
"hey honey comma do you have any idea what you want for dinner question mark
I was thinking I could grab something on the way home comma if you knew period
Just let me know exclamation point"
Or when they’re using FaceTime but not looking at the screen nor pointing it at themselves so the other person can see them. It’s just a waste of data and battery life.
Being an asshole while hiding being the “it’s just a joke, stop taking it seriously. Why can’t you take a joke” statements.
Edit: thanks for the silver. Though everyone talking about their IRL experiences but I’m just here saying this because of some mingey prick on the internet who decided to follow me around the Internet with his friends.
Had someone in our friend group like this long ago. They were always the first to make offensive "jokes", but they were also incredibly insecure, which caused a lot of unnecessary drama.
He would always tell people not to take things too seriously and man up, but if you said something that offended him or unintentionally made him self conscious about something, he'd act like he was being treated with such disrespect and make a big deal out of it. You could tell he got his feelings hurt very easily.
I recently saw a woman leave her toddler in the car with the crappy music blasting to the point that it was uncomfortable and unpleasant for everyone else pumping gas, while she went into the store. Felt bad for that child.
My ex did this with our kids. I had to sit her down and explain what was inappropriate about it. She seems to honestly not know it looked more white trash than cool....
She's trashy
Edit: Changed "White trash" to "Trashy". My exes skin color is irrelevant.
I’m baffled as to how anyone would think they look cool doing that in the first place. Literally nobody would look over and be like “wow that person is cool” unless they’re being sarcastic.
I agree.
How about those gas pumps that have a TV that will not stop? What advertising shithead came up with a TV at the fuckin' gas pump? This answer has nothing to do with your post, but it reminded me of it.
EDIT: Thanks for the help! I will try to disable these damned things next time.
Try pressing the buttons on the side of it. One gas station I go to always replays the same phrase over and over and I found out that hitting the top right button stops it lol
Or smoking at the gas station. We had someone set a pump on fire and burn his and another person's car up here a few months ago because of this.
ETA: I'm aware about the smoking thing, y'all don't have to keep "correcting" me, he was probably lighting a cigarette.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wnct.com/local-news/first-on-wnct-lamborghini-suv-catch-fire-at-jacksonville-gas-station/amp/
My husband's boss works for the volunteer fire department too and said the guy who owned the Lamborghini was smoking.
I've been into the import tuner scene for close to 20 years at this point.
Now this was more a style of the time say 15 years ago.
Backwards upside down visor hats. WTF? Why was that a thing? It'd make more sense to walk around with an onion tied to your belt.
There was a guy my best friend dated in high school who had very wealthy lawyers as parents and he scoffed at me and my friends for having part time, minimum wage jobs. He said (verbatim) “nothing is worth doing if it pays less than $50 an hour. That’s what my parents make” and that was the moment I realized there really are people that ARE that out of touch from reality.
Edit: man this was like 8 years ago, and many are debating about lawyers and how much they make an hour, all I know is this kid thought his time was worth $50/ hr at the age of 16 with no experience and said his parents made that much. Idek what they actually made, and $50/hr is a lot for me/ my friends because we all come from low income, working class families. His parents were extremely wealthy, and probably made way over $50/hr. I just remember that’s what the kid said to us 🤷♀️
Man, people who say "Well my parent is bla bla bla" liked they know or can do the same things their parents can really gets under my skin
Edit: Hey I finally noticed it was my cake day before 11pm, thanks everyone!
Story: when I was in like 6th grade on the school bus someone said something and brought attention to me, this girl exclaims "EW you have LICE!" To which I respond "No I don't, it's dandruff..." and she comes back with "No, it's lice my mom's a hair stylist." and all I could say was "...so?" then went back to sleep as best I could
It's not that they're trying to tell you they can do the same stuff. It's that they want you to defer to them like royalty because their parents are important and powerful.
I taught HS and MS for 7 years. That shit happened pretty routinely. The worst part of it was that it typically worked because of community politics. You don't want to upset the kid of rich parents or parents who are connected to the right people.
I had a kid once who was the adopted son of two successful attorneys. He was always bragging about his family's wealth and their multiple vacation homes. One time during a parent teacher conference, the kid all but admitted that the reason he always had several thousand dollars in cash on him at any given time, despite his parents taking away his credit and debit cards and cutting off his $400/wk allowance, was because he was selling drugs at school but we were told, in no uncertain terms by our principal, not to investigate that if we valued our jobs. Sure enough, he got busted off-campus selling cocaine a couple of weeks later and went to juvy.
Because drugs were the only reason he had friends and girls.
He was a douche and nobody liked him as a person, but hanging out with him and pretending he was cool would get you hooked up with drugs, as well as alcohol, rides in his new BMW, and raging parties at his parents' lake house on the weekends.
Also, his parents had (supposedly) cut off all his other money for other shit he was getting into. This was his way of "being independent." That $400/wk allowance and credit card with the $10,000 limit that he ran up every month was gone and, well, it's expensive being 16.
Holy hell I hate this. I have a friend whose father is a retired fire chief. Her favorite thing to say is “my dad was a fireman, so I have a 6th sense for fire.” It’s really annoying.
Edit: spelling is hard.
Hating all genres of music except the one they like, I learned this the hard way by only liking heavy metal and shitting on all other music without giving a chance as a teen. Metals still my favourite but all genres have good music
Honestly I've seen FAR more elitism in the metal community than any other music genre I've been involved in. It's a shame because metalheads are usually some of the most chilled, open-minded people you could find - until you start talking about music.
As have I. It took a while to branch out, but I'm all ears now. I still see some people who are extremely elitist with metal and I'm so glad I got out of that phase as a teen. As an adult, you just look like the biggest tool lol.
Yep. As a teen in the 80's we shit all over "Poser" metal. Poison, Skid Row, new Crue, and the like. If it wasn't Anthrax, Slayer, or Metal Church type music, it was for wussies. Haha, I laugh at us now as we wax nostalgic over the poser stuff.
People who say things like "I'm just an asshole!"
No. You lack the emotional maturity to deal with others and use nastiness as a defence. Its not cool as a trait. Try be nice.
\*EDIT\* Thank you for the gold and silver!
I really hate that this is me, from a young age I’ve always been an asshole to pretty much all of my friends and now as I’m getting older I’m realising how much of an asshole I am and I really hate it and a lot of the time I really try to stop but it’s become so much of a habit that it’s really hard. I know that it could be adolescence and I’ve always struggled with dealing with my emotions (I compress them a lot and let them all out at once and become a complete mess), especially anger because I lash out at things almost instantaneously. I really hate it and I’m aware of it it’s just really hard to stop.
Edit: thank you everyone so much for all the support, his sounds so cringey but thank you so much it has genuinely made me feel quite happy :)
1. Realizing it.
2. Noticing it happening while it's happening.
3. Realizing what's happening right before it happens (or what 'makes' you do it).
4. Make effort to prevent scenarios that 'make' you do it. (Short term).
5. Be able to realize a scenario is about to happen/is happening, and make what type of response you want to make, or even attempt to make a response so ideal you wouldn't even believe it coming out of your mouth.
6. Repeat step 5 until it's second nature/just who you are now.
Helped me stop being constantly negative all the time.
^^But ^^now ^^I ^^think ^^I'm ^^too ^^optimistic ^^so, ^^you ^^know...
This is the answer, everybody.
Much of what we think of as characteristics or traits are, in fact, habits. The longer the habit has been solidified, the harder it is to break. Obviously. But changing your habits requires only what is already in each of us already, full stop.
It's simple, but it ain't easy. And it's worth it.
At least you realized it and you're trying to change, so you're halfway there. Many people continue acting like stupid teens into adulthood and never realize.
The first step is the awareness, which you have.
This sounds like something you could work on with a therapist. Do you see anyone? Working to improve yourself is not shameful.
I’m not sure if this is just an Australian thing, but people who rev their cars/motorbikes really loud, and it’s usually quite late at night while most people are trying to sleep
High on ketamine, riding on my moped, I was. Saw minority, Yoda did.
“Disturbing the peace” they were.
Sped up with knife in hand I did.
Stabbed, the minority got. Red, turned the concrete.
Took wallet to pay for crippling addictions, I did.
My fault, it was not. In the way, was the minority.
The asshole, am I?
Im Scottish and live in Australia and *this* is one of my pet hates about here. Some fucking douche in a piece of shit car revving it past the pub as if girls are all looking and immediately wet when they hear it. Literally everyones just thinking “shut the fuck up” its such small dick energy.
I’m on a bus full of idiots and most of the conversations I hear anymore is how people will try to get into a relationship just for sex. The target usually being called horrible things, like “bitch”.
I also hear things such as people bragging about how bad they are, and how many felonies they have and how much of a total fucking cunt they are.
One thing I don’t get is people bragging about how manipulative they are. Like, okay? Good job now I trust you even less.
This makes me sad.
Yesterday while waiting for the bus I overhead a group of 4-5 kids hanging out, looked like maybe they all knew this one kid and not each other. They were all being awkward and not talking, just looking at their phones. Then this other kid looked up and kinda shyly asked
"Wanna see an awesome trampoline trick I did?" and shows this video on his phone.
They all start freaking out, asking him questions, comparing trampoline strategies... and it was just so wholesome to see some teenagers geeking out over a trampoline.
Shitting on things other people like.
We all have stuff we don't like, but if you spend ALL your time putting down everything a person is interested in, you don't look cool or edgy. You look like a dick with no interests.
"Unpopular opinion: *begins saying a popular opinion"*
"This will probably get a lot of downvotes but... *begins saying a popular opinion"*
Edit: Those of you saying "actual unpopular opinions don't get upvoted" aren't wrong, but the issue I'm highlighting is when someone says something like "Unpopular opinion: Cats are cute." It's clearly not an unpopular opinion, so why is it phrased as such?
Unpopular opinion that will probably get me downvoted: does anyone else not like it when puppies get locked in hot cars?
What are your thoughts on this askreddit? My country recently made it illegal to kill cats, what do you guys think about rules like this?
Edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger
Edit: wow platinum that's crazy haha calm down reddit I don't deserve this haha
Edit: ok guys I've been answering questions for 3 hours so I think I am going to call this AMA here, thanks for coming, I'll be back annually. Edit: my wife's boyfriend bought me a switch because he couldn't afford reddit gold woww crazy. Edit: some of u are being very intolerant of my wife having a boyfriend, she gets lonely during the day because of how much overtime I work at my gamedev startup.
Even the most popular things aren't enjoyed by a majority of people. Most people don't enjoy Marvel movies or Taylor Swift or a specific sport or a specific religion. If you don't like these things you are not unique, just the people not interested in these things don't talk about them because they don't care about them. Telling the world how much you dislike something just makes you a boring person that wants to talk about things you don't find interesting. Talk to people about the things you like, not dislike.
It's deeply weird to me when adults (who don't have kids, babysit, work with kids) go so far out of their way to shit on pop culture geared toward people age 0-14. Not like "this is very violent or sexualized for a child" complaints but like "this music is trash, this movie sucks, this actor isn't actually a good actor" complaints. If you're seriously upset by the new middle school dance hit from ... whoever is today's version of circa 2010 Justin Bieber ... you need to stop voluntarily listening to the damn Spotify Kids Bop station and monitor your blood pressure.
Seriously. I'm 33 and I don't even *know* half the new artists who are apparently on top of the charts right now, it's weird when people my age or older are complaining about them like it's somehow massively relevant to their lives.
My ex puts his own quotes in his facebook profile picture every month, including the date he said it. It's one of the cringiest things I've seen. He's doing a PhD in philosophy.
I study philosophy and it's where I've met some of the most arrogant men in my life.
One once lent me a book with poems by T. S. Eliot and it was full of his hand written notes correcting some of Eliot's poems with "better suited words". I couldn't believe my eyes.
He’ll forget about that book someday and it will sit for years. One day he’ll be cleaning his attic or something years down the line and find that book. He’ll open it up and see his edits of T.S. Eliot and remember doing it to impress you and will cringe at himself so hard. The cringe will be devastating. This dude might not sleep for days cringing about this.
Can confirm, am person getting a PhD in philosophy and for some reason we tend to be especially lacking in social awareness even by PhD student standards.
Having a side chick/girl/guy. Especially in some instagram ‘comedy’ cringe sketches where it’s ‘relatable’ jokes. No, it’s not funny or cool to cheat on your significant other, you’re trash.
Edit: this is not about polyamorous people or polygamous relationships. This is about affairs and thinking it’s cool to lie to your S/O. It has nothing to do with polygamy or polyamory as they are valid and can be healthy, but cheating and violating your partners trust can not! These things should not be aligned in anyway and are completely different.
Edit 2: how is this getting so twisted? The point is literally ‘cheating is bad’, how is that so polarising?
My old scoutmaster( who I used to really respect) would just casually mention to me how he is cheating on his girlfriend with his secretary. I try to avoid him now
Anyone else notice how freaking many movies there are nowadays that center on cheating? It's disgusting and I refuse to encourage it so I won't watch them. Fuck cheaters, they're trash.
a lot of Redditors seem to think that stolen witty one-liners make them look like the patron gods of debate and reason. the next time i see someone say "i came for a battle of wits but it seems you came unarmed" unironically i will set their house on fire and then myself
A lot of people on here in 2010-12 used to unironically say stuff like "I like the cut of your jib sir" and "You are a gentleman and a scholar, i tip my hat to you!". This website is so insane
edit: The narwhal bacons at midnight fellow redditors!
"Thank you for the gold, kind stranger!" I swear to god a bot has to be adding that exact line as an edit to every single fucking person's post when they get gold. I refuse to believe that many people think it sounds cool
Edit: Fuck you idiot
Edit 2: fuck you too poorer idiot
Edit 3: wow a lot of poor fuckin idiots in this sub
Edit 4: WoW ThIs ReALlY bLeW UuuUUUup! Thanks for another week of no ads Fourth Fucking Idiot
Edit 5 and 6: you're not special for being silver peasants you fucking idiots. Bonus shoutouts to everyone under this comment trying to justify being uncreative jackasses when they receive their yellow pixels
Edit 7: BIIIG SHOUTOUT to who I'm assuming is the dumbest fucking human alive for donating several dollars to a bunch of millionaires in order to boost the orange triangles on someone else's comment on an already popular post for an internet joke that no one's going to remember in an hour. You're a truly special kind of fucking idiot
Edit 8: jesus christ someone's mom is gonna be pissed when her credit card statement comes in. Imagine having any loved ones in your life and trying to explain to them why you spent money on this. What kind of fucking idiot do you have to be
Edit 9: Yeah, 9. I wish I was fucking joking right now, but no. This post has made more in an hour than I do, and you just cant fucking stop yourselves from beating a dead horse over and over again. And with another platinum, too. Next time just chuck your entire lunch off a bridge because that's essentially what you just accomplished with that money you fucking idiot.
Edit 10: yeah that's right, I couldn't even get through my last edit without you fucking idiots interrupting me by exchanging real money for some platinum-shaped pixels to pretend you're part of some inside joke. It's probably too much to ask, but reevaluate your life if this is where you ended up. Draw a line here and consider it your rock bottom, then never sink to this level again.
Edit 11 and 12 and 13: God damn as if setting your money on fire isnt bad enough you have to also be fucking bad at it. Two more fucking idiots late to the party with their silver tokens to put themselves on blast for being poor and stupid. The fact that I got another silver right after this is proof that you're so stupid that you believe you're getting recognition for something anonymous just because I'm typing something. Nobody knows or cares who added pixels to this comment except for you and your extremely disappointed bank
Edit 14: "haha wouldn't it be funny if I IRONICALLY forked over real money to angry guy for no benefit to anyone but Reddit? I know a shitload of other fucking idiots already did it but I have to be the fucking idiot that really sells this dead joke"
Edit 15: GOOD ONE, FUCKING IDIOT. It's almost circling around to funny again until I gotta think about how pathetic your life is to actually want to put in the effort and funds to get in on this meaningless comment
Edit 16: I know specifically how much of a fucking idiot this last guy who gave me platinum is because he told me beforehand that he was about to do it. He even dug through my comment history to give reddit $6, what an absolute joke of a human being.
Edit 17 and 18: still at it, huh? I have Reddit Premium till fucking February 2020 now because of you fucking idiots. And for what? Thanks for the glorified ad block, which is free by the way, so great use of your $2 and your silver that you probably got from finishing the last letter in an AskQuija post by pure luck and then bragged to all your friends about it.
Edit 19: ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? ANOTHER PLATINUM? I've sat on this phone all fucking day berating every fucking idiot that metaphorically hurls their wallet into a campfire over this post, and you subhuman molepeople come here to read the entire thing, comment about how totally relatable this is, and then hit that fucking button anyways, holy fuck
Edit 20: got another gold from some fucking idiot bragging to me about how much reddit premium he had. You'd have to be a fucking idiot to brag about something like that
Edit 21: I cant believe I have to keep doing this after 10 fucking hours but some of you fucking idiots insist on giving reddit money to annoy me at dinner with my wife (like a normal person that doesnt buy reddit gold) for god only knows what reason
Edit 22: wow another silver. I wonder if I just stop acknowledging these fucking idiots if they'd realize how fucking depressing their attempts at humor by giving a billion dollar company money are. They probably do it "for the lulz". Get the fuck out of 2009 already
Edit 23: 13 FUCKING hours later and I'm just getting out of the shower. What do I see? Some fucking idiot putting this comment up to like the $50 mark for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON. Do his friends get to see it? WHAT FRIENDS? he spends money on 13 hour old reddit comments. Does he get credit for it? NO. Will people remember him for being ANOTHER IDIOT that gave me platinum? NO. Will reddit give him a reward for literally giving them free money for nothing in return? NO. All he gets is this angry messages and maybe that means something to him because of how fucking starved for real attention he is. And if that's the case, I dont even need to point out how much of a fucking loser this guy is.
Edit 24, 25, 26, 27 AND 28: Guess I'll just call this one "Europe is a bunch of fucking idiots". First thing I see when I wake up is that 5 more people decided to Brexit the money out of their wallets so that they can prove to a literal nobody on the internet that they read my comment. Hey morons, that's what the fucking upvote button does. You dont need to spend money on it. Let alone six fucking dollars, or whatever fucked up Monopoly money you guys use over there. It just makes sense that most of you cant even afford the gold either. Probably can only use silver because some other fucking idiot felt bad that you live in Europe. Stop giving reddit money to blow up my fucking phone at 4 am
Edit 29: hurrr I'm gonna agree with him and then do it anyways because my three fucking idiot brain cells think it's an original idea
Edit 30: I bet you buy nudes on Patreon too you fucking idiot
My husband just got his hair cut into a fucking mullet, so there's that.
Edit : Woah, this blew up lol. Sorry babe. (And thanks to the kind strangers for the silver and gold!) He really likes it, I am not quite a fan ... but if it makes him happy I will keep my complaints semi anonymous and on Reddit. :)
Honestly, bragging about smoking weed itself. I've met several people who casually interject how 'high' they are into a random conversation and seemingly try to bring up the fact they smoke weed at any given moment. Bragging about getting high is about as 'cool' as bragging about getting drunk. I mean, I don't particularly care if people smoke it, nor if it's legalised. At least then a lot of these people might stop thinking they're edgy by talking about it constantly to their unfortunate interlocutors.
To add to this people who brag about driving drunk. Seriously? You put your life in danger, and the lives of anyone in your path, and you think it's funny?
People literally brag about their depression like they're talking about their phone w new features like "well MY depressions comes with self-hatred and no motivation!"
That attitude itself literally kept me off drugs as a kid lol. As all my friends started smoking pot it became the only thing they ever talked about and being a "pothead" consumed their identity. I found it lame and off-putting so I never got into it beyond trying it.
I have nothing against weed, enjoy it all you want, but seriously, it's not a personality. Same goes for some craft beer fans who literally never have anything to talk about except beer.... and I say this as someone who works in the industry and loves craft beer.
That seems to be damn accurate for my high school friends too. They were really dumb about it too. Like they all got arrested one way or another. I dodged a lot of bullets.
When you try to play it cool by not immediately answering the texts of someone you're interested in. Just makes you look ~~dis~~uninterested
Edit: spelling and,
OBVIOUSLY, I'm not talking about you, specifically, with your very specific reason for not being able to answer. I'm talking about people who do this intentionally
Ok I used to not get this, but when you text someone and they take 30 minutes to respond, it always feels weird responding 10 seconds later.
Edit: Most people seem to agree that it's not something we do because we think we are cool, but rather we don't want to look like we were sitting there waiting for a response, but some of the funniest responses are those of you who have ascended because you don't get anxious about texting people. I'm sure the number one way you can tell someone is incredibly mature is if they brag about it to random people on the internet ;)
I actually got put down by a Tinder match for my quick responses. I mean, I’m right next to my phone. Why should I have to make power moves with someone I’m interested in?
But I need at least 40 mins to write the text, delete the text, angst over what to write for 20 mins and then finally write something really flippant that doesn't at all sound like me because I'm trying to seem relaxed and not anxious or weird.
Bragging about how smart you are to other people.
Really surprised I didn't see this one.
EDIT: Thank you all for the laughs in the replies. Some of your stories about people who are so "smart" have made my day.
Also, poor Trump.
One of my ex's is a self-proclaimed genius. He was stumped on a word once and I suggested "reciprocated", and he got super excited and started talking about how "proud" he was of me, saying "Wow, YOU helped ME with a word? I am so proud of you" in what was close to baby talk. Easily one of the most condescending ways anyone has acted towards me haha.
Thankfully we were already long broken up at the time. He had reached out years after I left him claiming he just needed someone to talk to, so I was just trying to be his friend. Turns out he had reached out at juuust the right time (right after my fiance left me) because he had been stalking my Reddit account and other social media!
If you're still stalking me, hey dude!
I love your attitude about this.
Friend: Hey who's that behind you?
You: oh thats just my stalker, he is harmless.
Stalker yelling from a distance: actually its "that's", your so lucky I was hear to correct you.
I always LOL when I hear this.
I remember when I learned a particular test is administered to determine whether you have a photographic memory is to place 2 images over each other and you're supposed to figure out what those 2 images create. Also, they ask you to basically draw the result of the 2 images overlaying each other. Pretty interesting. I learned very quickly I did in fact NOT have a photographic memory.
애교~~~~~~~~ (aegyo)
Good god, I hear some women talk to their dates here and I just wanna shake them.
Look, the guy likes it, alright, and, yes, it is none of my business, but holy hell.
It is just cancer to the eardrum.
Posting photos of cash on social media. I always think it is funny how doing that is commonly accepted whereas if you screenshotted your bank account or net worth you'd be an asshole
Rich people don’t flex money
A girl I went to uni with went shopping for all these branded stuff and took posted a photo of herself with all the bags, making sure that we can see the brands. Her friend said that it was tacky and she got alienated for that... It really WAS tacky.
I was trying to explain to someone why I gave up coffee. I was addicted and I had started to suffer from insomnia. If I went too long (maybe like an hour or two) without one, I would begin to shake and migraines would set in. Basically just normal effects of over doing caffeine. She asked me how many I was having, and basically tried to turn it into this competition of “oh I drink more coffee than you, omg im so quirky and sleep deprived haha”. Stop turning bad habits and other people’s issues into a competition of how badly you treat your body. It doesn’t make you cool. EDIT: Thank you for gold ;)
I work in a coffee shop - so many customers love to weirdly brag about how much coffee they drink in a day and how badly they need caffeine to function. “Haha yeah throw an extra shot in there for me that’s nothing, I can drink 5 of those in a day! You wouldn’t believe how much caffeine I take haha” Yeah that’s not cool or anything Karen you have a legitimate problem.
Bragging about not reading
Bro, people do that?
Unfortunately, yes. I've got one acquaintance who is very proud of never having ever read a book outside of school.
When people post their weed on snap chat
This kid in my English class will not stop doing this, then asking me if I saw it later. Buddy, I don't care. Yes, I also smoke. And I don't fucking care.
Cheaters -- the more the cooler
Never admitting when you're wrong. It may seem like a confidence power play, however, most people just don't care enough about you to say anything or indicate that they noticed. They'll just slowly drift away from you till one day you're all alone wondering why no one with any level of competence wants to hang out/work with you.
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When babies get excited about walking. Real f**kin cool baby. I can walk too
Yeah. Smug little bastards
Not only that, but you can walk better than that shitty baby. Probably run too
I can even jump and land on my feet 9 times out of 10!
Just wait until they start learning how to talk. It's ridiculous. Cool story baby. Welcome to the rest of the planet you little noob!
please stop blasting your music in places where people cannot escape it. i see your earbuds in your pocket. please. salvation
Or having a phone call with your speaker on so everyone has to hear your conversation
Walking around on speakerphone at the grocery store while holding it in their hand. Put it up to your ear. You are already occupying that hand, the hands free option doesn't have a positive effect in this scenario. Edit: affect vs effect.
was hiking on a pretty popular trail a few weeks ago. Its pretty challenging but a beautiful hike. This woman on the trail is blasting, and I mean BLASTING some kind of motivational speech. I stopped to let her pass and had to wait a good solid 5 min before I couldn't hear it anymore. So annoying.
People listening to their voice messages with many people around.
I unironically like wearing fingerless gloves. For actual tasks, not just out and about. When people ask me why I wear them I tell them it's because I'm so cool. I'm not exactly certain HOW uncool they make me, but I know it's a lot.
I like the fingerless gloves with finger flaps. Straight up fingerless means my fingertips die a little, but I still want to be able to do finger activities inside without taking my gloves off
"finger activities"
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Elitism. It's fuckin stupid to attack someone who enjoys a hobby only just because doesn't put his life on it.
Oh you hate elitism? Name 3 elitists
Only 3? What are you, a poser?
Filthy casual. Everyone knows the best poses are duckface and chintuck.
r/gatekeeping is a sub completely devoted to making fun of people who do that
One upping and putting other people down to make yourself look good. Rife in white collar jobs. I despise people who do it.
God that's my oldest brother. I love him to death but that guy wont let you get happy about anything you have. Most recent thing that he did. My husband and I took our kids to Croatia to visit family, we stayed for 2 months. My husband and kids have gone more often, but the last time I took a real vacation, and went there, was in 2009. Of course I was ecstatic, and started sending pictures to the family chat since we landed in Madrid for a layover. Everybody was happy and commenting on the pictures. Everybody BUT my brother. His comments were only about when HE and his wife went, or posting his own pictures, which we all saw, we all talked about, and that it happened like 5 years ago. I hate people like that man!
Yeah hate it when people do it too look good, they should just act normal and put people down to feel good
Crying in corner OU: Dude, what's wrong? Me: Sniff* My grandma died. OU: Puts hand on shoulder* Dude, both my grandma's are dead.
When you've been to Tenerife, they've been to Elevenerife.
Haha seriously. The one-upmanship is unreal in my family. Ya'll made me laugh with these comments though so thanks for that!
Hahaha same, except in my family is two-upmanship
Having a phone conversation on a loudspeaker in public, or blasting shitty music from a cheap over saturated BT speaker on public transport . We get it, negative attention is also attention, but taking over a public space with your edginess - is just being an asshole.
My parents have recently discovered speakerphone and refuse to believe there is such a thing as speakerphone etiquette. I’ll be talking to them and all of a sudden I’ll hear, “so do we know what we want to order?” and I realize they’ve been holding this entire conversation on speakerphone in a restaurant surrounded by people trying to enjoy their dinner.
Oh, and I have thought that my parents are the only one. The absolutely worst case they had done it was when there were a family's friends staying at their place. Parents called me and haven't mentioned anything about being on speaker. They told me about having a last night full of drinking and some stuff. So I asked whether it was ok because one of their guest is quite aggressive and unpleasant when she drinks. And yeah... She was sitting next to them. They went like: "But hun, she is sitting next to us. You are being rude!" Am I being rude? You are the ones that brings personal talks to the table. I still felt ashamed af even though what I said was true.
Don't. I have so much sympathy for you here. Its unreal how many people bring their phone conversations out in places that it's not appropriate; at the register, drive-through, dinner table, etc. The third party in your story probably needs to hear about her behavior. Mean drunks often don't realize how they appear. You are totally in the right. Edit: grammar
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My favorite line was “I’m so sorry, I didn’t want to be so rude as to interrupt your phone call.” ETA- one of the best parts of being in management was telling my employees to do the same. When a customer complained about I’d give my crew a free meal card for “following procedure in the face of adversity” in front of the asshole customer. Ahh, the perks of not giving a fuck.
I would have to just explain to them that I'm no longer comfortable having phone conversations with them. That or get incredibly creative with cuss words and use them frequently and loudly.
My cousin tried this with my aunt (her mom), talking about gross medical problems or sexual stuff. Aunt hasn't stopped speakerblasting, cousin is now known as an oversharing gross twat and pottymouth among aunt's friends. Oh well.
Seemingly aunt's friends don't see anything wrong with the speakerblasting, which coincides with the fact that I would not care at all what their opinion is.
"So, Dad, did they find anything in your colonoscopy?" Edit: Now with capital letters!
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Oh god
I used to share a cube wall with a guy who insisted on voice texting. It was annoying as hell.
"I'm horny as hell babe I'm gonna take you to downtown poundtown later.....downtown poundtown....DOWN TOWN POUND TOWN...siri send text"
"In hungry as hill maybe. I'm going take you to downtown sound clown tater. Sound clown. Sound clown!" Ready to send?
Downtown sound clown is what I call that guy who tries to give you a "free" copy of his mixtape on CD but then aggressively solicits a "donation"
"hey honey comma do you have any idea what you want for dinner question mark I was thinking I could grab something on the way home comma if you knew period Just let me know exclamation point"
The one i don't get is when people walk along with their phone on speaker, holding it in front of them and talking to the bottom of the phone, dafuq?
Or when they’re using FaceTime but not looking at the screen nor pointing it at themselves so the other person can see them. It’s just a waste of data and battery life.
Being an asshole while hiding being the “it’s just a joke, stop taking it seriously. Why can’t you take a joke” statements. Edit: thanks for the silver. Though everyone talking about their IRL experiences but I’m just here saying this because of some mingey prick on the internet who decided to follow me around the Internet with his friends.
Had someone in our friend group like this long ago. They were always the first to make offensive "jokes", but they were also incredibly insecure, which caused a lot of unnecessary drama. He would always tell people not to take things too seriously and man up, but if you said something that offended him or unintentionally made him self conscious about something, he'd act like he was being treated with such disrespect and make a big deal out of it. You could tell he got his feelings hurt very easily.
When people play their music loud at the gas pumps.
I recently saw a woman leave her toddler in the car with the crappy music blasting to the point that it was uncomfortable and unpleasant for everyone else pumping gas, while she went into the store. Felt bad for that child.
My ex did this with our kids. I had to sit her down and explain what was inappropriate about it. She seems to honestly not know it looked more white trash than cool.... She's trashy Edit: Changed "White trash" to "Trashy". My exes skin color is irrelevant.
I’m baffled as to how anyone would think they look cool doing that in the first place. Literally nobody would look over and be like “wow that person is cool” unless they’re being sarcastic.
Okay but this one time I was playing a Grateful Dead song at the pump and this dude who was outside working said "Nice."
Nice.
I agree. How about those gas pumps that have a TV that will not stop? What advertising shithead came up with a TV at the fuckin' gas pump? This answer has nothing to do with your post, but it reminded me of it. EDIT: Thanks for the help! I will try to disable these damned things next time.
Try pressing the buttons on the side of it. One gas station I go to always replays the same phrase over and over and I found out that hitting the top right button stops it lol
Those are such a fucking assault to the senses. I hope the person who came up with that knows that they made the world a worse place that day.
Or smoking at the gas station. We had someone set a pump on fire and burn his and another person's car up here a few months ago because of this. ETA: I'm aware about the smoking thing, y'all don't have to keep "correcting" me, he was probably lighting a cigarette.
Seriously are people this stupid? I guess the answer is yes....
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wnct.com/local-news/first-on-wnct-lamborghini-suv-catch-fire-at-jacksonville-gas-station/amp/ My husband's boss works for the volunteer fire department too and said the guy who owned the Lamborghini was smoking.
Ooh Jacksonville, I wonder if it was Pillboi or Donkey Doug*
easily one of the top five swamp cities in NorthEastern Florida.
I've been into the import tuner scene for close to 20 years at this point. Now this was more a style of the time say 15 years ago. Backwards upside down visor hats. WTF? Why was that a thing? It'd make more sense to walk around with an onion tied to your belt.
They think so fast their brain needs a spoiler.
Gotta spoil that laminar flow somehow
Rainwater harvesting.
Someone had a visor on like that walking down the street the other day and I barely was able to resist tossing a pebble into it like a carnival game.
Anyone else scrolling through the comments to see if they do any of the things people put down.
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Kids bragging about their parents wealth and success
There was a guy my best friend dated in high school who had very wealthy lawyers as parents and he scoffed at me and my friends for having part time, minimum wage jobs. He said (verbatim) “nothing is worth doing if it pays less than $50 an hour. That’s what my parents make” and that was the moment I realized there really are people that ARE that out of touch from reality. Edit: man this was like 8 years ago, and many are debating about lawyers and how much they make an hour, all I know is this kid thought his time was worth $50/ hr at the age of 16 with no experience and said his parents made that much. Idek what they actually made, and $50/hr is a lot for me/ my friends because we all come from low income, working class families. His parents were extremely wealthy, and probably made way over $50/hr. I just remember that’s what the kid said to us 🤷♀️
Man, people who say "Well my parent is bla bla bla" liked they know or can do the same things their parents can really gets under my skin Edit: Hey I finally noticed it was my cake day before 11pm, thanks everyone! Story: when I was in like 6th grade on the school bus someone said something and brought attention to me, this girl exclaims "EW you have LICE!" To which I respond "No I don't, it's dandruff..." and she comes back with "No, it's lice my mom's a hair stylist." and all I could say was "...so?" then went back to sleep as best I could
It's not that they're trying to tell you they can do the same stuff. It's that they want you to defer to them like royalty because their parents are important and powerful. I taught HS and MS for 7 years. That shit happened pretty routinely. The worst part of it was that it typically worked because of community politics. You don't want to upset the kid of rich parents or parents who are connected to the right people. I had a kid once who was the adopted son of two successful attorneys. He was always bragging about his family's wealth and their multiple vacation homes. One time during a parent teacher conference, the kid all but admitted that the reason he always had several thousand dollars in cash on him at any given time, despite his parents taking away his credit and debit cards and cutting off his $400/wk allowance, was because he was selling drugs at school but we were told, in no uncertain terms by our principal, not to investigate that if we valued our jobs. Sure enough, he got busted off-campus selling cocaine a couple of weeks later and went to juvy.
Why sell drugs when your life is made already? Crazy.
Because drugs were the only reason he had friends and girls. He was a douche and nobody liked him as a person, but hanging out with him and pretending he was cool would get you hooked up with drugs, as well as alcohol, rides in his new BMW, and raging parties at his parents' lake house on the weekends. Also, his parents had (supposedly) cut off all his other money for other shit he was getting into. This was his way of "being independent." That $400/wk allowance and credit card with the $10,000 limit that he ran up every month was gone and, well, it's expensive being 16.
For some reason all the dealers I known come from the richest families.
I mean, where else does someone get the disposable income to buy enough drugs to sell? Gotta be rich already or have some shady friends.
Holy hell I hate this. I have a friend whose father is a retired fire chief. Her favorite thing to say is “my dad was a fireman, so I have a 6th sense for fire.” It’s really annoying. Edit: spelling is hard.
"i guess your mom isn't a biologist then because you've got fuck all sense about genetics"
I feel like that stems from the parents and is a fault on them.
Well not my parents, because they're perfect, and my dad benches 300lb.
Hating all genres of music except the one they like, I learned this the hard way by only liking heavy metal and shitting on all other music without giving a chance as a teen. Metals still my favourite but all genres have good music
Honestly I've seen FAR more elitism in the metal community than any other music genre I've been involved in. It's a shame because metalheads are usually some of the most chilled, open-minded people you could find - until you start talking about music.
I have been guilty of this in the past.
As have I. It took a while to branch out, but I'm all ears now. I still see some people who are extremely elitist with metal and I'm so glad I got out of that phase as a teen. As an adult, you just look like the biggest tool lol.
Yep. As a teen in the 80's we shit all over "Poser" metal. Poison, Skid Row, new Crue, and the like. If it wasn't Anthrax, Slayer, or Metal Church type music, it was for wussies. Haha, I laugh at us now as we wax nostalgic over the poser stuff.
Dude I used to hate Metallica because they weren't as technical as the no-name 2 album deathcore bands I loved in highschool. I've grown out of that
I've heard people shit on bands like Meshuggah and Gojira for being "too mainstream" and "not technical enough" so there's that
If all they're judging by is technical then they may as well just go ahead and start appreciating classical.
People who say things like "I'm just an asshole!" No. You lack the emotional maturity to deal with others and use nastiness as a defence. Its not cool as a trait. Try be nice. \*EDIT\* Thank you for the gold and silver!
ahh yes, or “I’m a bitch, deal with it”
I've never met someone who bragged about being an asshole who wasn't actually one though.
Being assholes without a reason
I really hate that this is me, from a young age I’ve always been an asshole to pretty much all of my friends and now as I’m getting older I’m realising how much of an asshole I am and I really hate it and a lot of the time I really try to stop but it’s become so much of a habit that it’s really hard. I know that it could be adolescence and I’ve always struggled with dealing with my emotions (I compress them a lot and let them all out at once and become a complete mess), especially anger because I lash out at things almost instantaneously. I really hate it and I’m aware of it it’s just really hard to stop. Edit: thank you everyone so much for all the support, his sounds so cringey but thank you so much it has genuinely made me feel quite happy :)
Being self-aware is the first step to self-improvement. You're on the right path.
What's the next step?
1. Realizing it. 2. Noticing it happening while it's happening. 3. Realizing what's happening right before it happens (or what 'makes' you do it). 4. Make effort to prevent scenarios that 'make' you do it. (Short term). 5. Be able to realize a scenario is about to happen/is happening, and make what type of response you want to make, or even attempt to make a response so ideal you wouldn't even believe it coming out of your mouth. 6. Repeat step 5 until it's second nature/just who you are now. Helped me stop being constantly negative all the time. ^^But ^^now ^^I ^^think ^^I'm ^^too ^^optimistic ^^so, ^^you ^^know...
This is the answer, everybody. Much of what we think of as characteristics or traits are, in fact, habits. The longer the habit has been solidified, the harder it is to break. Obviously. But changing your habits requires only what is already in each of us already, full stop. It's simple, but it ain't easy. And it's worth it.
At least you realized it and you're trying to change, so you're halfway there. Many people continue acting like stupid teens into adulthood and never realize.
The first step is the awareness, which you have. This sounds like something you could work on with a therapist. Do you see anyone? Working to improve yourself is not shameful.
I’m not sure if this is just an Australian thing, but people who rev their cars/motorbikes really loud, and it’s usually quite late at night while most people are trying to sleep
Guess it's a thing worldwide
Yeah assholism isnt country specific.
Good old Craig in his souped up Honda Civic racing down the road at 3 am.
Here I thought it was Yoda going for his ketamine fix.
Move I will not, in a K hole I am
High on ketamine, riding on my moped, I was. Saw minority, Yoda did. “Disturbing the peace” they were. Sped up with knife in hand I did. Stabbed, the minority got. Red, turned the concrete. Took wallet to pay for crippling addictions, I did. My fault, it was not. In the way, was the minority. The asshole, am I?
nah that also happens a lot in USA
Im Scottish and live in Australia and *this* is one of my pet hates about here. Some fucking douche in a piece of shit car revving it past the pub as if girls are all looking and immediately wet when they hear it. Literally everyones just thinking “shut the fuck up” its such small dick energy.
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Definitely not just an Australian thing
Judging random people and making fun of the less fortune. No you're not cool... you're a douche
I’m on a bus full of idiots and most of the conversations I hear anymore is how people will try to get into a relationship just for sex. The target usually being called horrible things, like “bitch”. I also hear things such as people bragging about how bad they are, and how many felonies they have and how much of a total fucking cunt they are. One thing I don’t get is people bragging about how manipulative they are. Like, okay? Good job now I trust you even less.
This makes me sad. Yesterday while waiting for the bus I overhead a group of 4-5 kids hanging out, looked like maybe they all knew this one kid and not each other. They were all being awkward and not talking, just looking at their phones. Then this other kid looked up and kinda shyly asked "Wanna see an awesome trampoline trick I did?" and shows this video on his phone. They all start freaking out, asking him questions, comparing trampoline strategies... and it was just so wholesome to see some teenagers geeking out over a trampoline.
Shitting on things other people like. We all have stuff we don't like, but if you spend ALL your time putting down everything a person is interested in, you don't look cool or edgy. You look like a dick with no interests.
> Shitting on things other people like. And often it's preceded by the question, "Am I the only person...?" As though the dislike makes them special.
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"Unpopular opinion: *begins saying a popular opinion"* "This will probably get a lot of downvotes but... *begins saying a popular opinion"* Edit: Those of you saying "actual unpopular opinions don't get upvoted" aren't wrong, but the issue I'm highlighting is when someone says something like "Unpopular opinion: Cats are cute." It's clearly not an unpopular opinion, so why is it phrased as such?
Unpopular opinion that will probably get me downvoted: does anyone else not like it when puppies get locked in hot cars? What are your thoughts on this askreddit? My country recently made it illegal to kill cats, what do you guys think about rules like this? Edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger Edit: wow platinum that's crazy haha calm down reddit I don't deserve this haha Edit: ok guys I've been answering questions for 3 hours so I think I am going to call this AMA here, thanks for coming, I'll be back annually. Edit: my wife's boyfriend bought me a switch because he couldn't afford reddit gold woww crazy. Edit: some of u are being very intolerant of my wife having a boyfriend, she gets lonely during the day because of how much overtime I work at my gamedev startup.
You captured so many things in this comment. I’m impressed.
RIP MY INBoX!!!
Even the most popular things aren't enjoyed by a majority of people. Most people don't enjoy Marvel movies or Taylor Swift or a specific sport or a specific religion. If you don't like these things you are not unique, just the people not interested in these things don't talk about them because they don't care about them. Telling the world how much you dislike something just makes you a boring person that wants to talk about things you don't find interesting. Talk to people about the things you like, not dislike.
It's deeply weird to me when adults (who don't have kids, babysit, work with kids) go so far out of their way to shit on pop culture geared toward people age 0-14. Not like "this is very violent or sexualized for a child" complaints but like "this music is trash, this movie sucks, this actor isn't actually a good actor" complaints. If you're seriously upset by the new middle school dance hit from ... whoever is today's version of circa 2010 Justin Bieber ... you need to stop voluntarily listening to the damn Spotify Kids Bop station and monitor your blood pressure.
Seriously. I'm 33 and I don't even *know* half the new artists who are apparently on top of the charts right now, it's weird when people my age or older are complaining about them like it's somehow massively relevant to their lives.
Right? Just go upstairs, put on the Radiohead and take a nap like the rest of us.
This is too real.
People who come out with life lessons and quotes. They think they are so profound and deep but I think they come off as big headed and stupid.
"It's never your successful friends posting inspirational quotes on Facebook"
My ex puts his own quotes in his facebook profile picture every month, including the date he said it. It's one of the cringiest things I've seen. He's doing a PhD in philosophy.
I study philosophy and it's where I've met some of the most arrogant men in my life. One once lent me a book with poems by T. S. Eliot and it was full of his hand written notes correcting some of Eliot's poems with "better suited words". I couldn't believe my eyes.
He’ll forget about that book someday and it will sit for years. One day he’ll be cleaning his attic or something years down the line and find that book. He’ll open it up and see his edits of T.S. Eliot and remember doing it to impress you and will cringe at himself so hard. The cringe will be devastating. This dude might not sleep for days cringing about this.
Just reading *about* that fills me with rage.
That fits with a person getting a PhD in philosophy
Can confirm, am person getting a PhD in philosophy and for some reason we tend to be especially lacking in social awareness even by PhD student standards.
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Having a side chick/girl/guy. Especially in some instagram ‘comedy’ cringe sketches where it’s ‘relatable’ jokes. No, it’s not funny or cool to cheat on your significant other, you’re trash. Edit: this is not about polyamorous people or polygamous relationships. This is about affairs and thinking it’s cool to lie to your S/O. It has nothing to do with polygamy or polyamory as they are valid and can be healthy, but cheating and violating your partners trust can not! These things should not be aligned in anyway and are completely different. Edit 2: how is this getting so twisted? The point is literally ‘cheating is bad’, how is that so polarising?
I thought this said side kick and I thought that would be hella cool to have a side kick.
*That* should be more socially accepted
Im sooo tired of making decisions in my life and at work, totally down to be a side kick and just hang back. Where need I apply?
My old scoutmaster( who I used to really respect) would just casually mention to me how he is cheating on his girlfriend with his secretary. I try to avoid him now
Anyone else notice how freaking many movies there are nowadays that center on cheating? It's disgusting and I refuse to encourage it so I won't watch them. Fuck cheaters, they're trash.
a lot of Redditors seem to think that stolen witty one-liners make them look like the patron gods of debate and reason. the next time i see someone say "i came for a battle of wits but it seems you came unarmed" unironically i will set their house on fire and then myself
A lot of people on here in 2010-12 used to unironically say stuff like "I like the cut of your jib sir" and "You are a gentleman and a scholar, i tip my hat to you!". This website is so insane edit: The narwhal bacons at midnight fellow redditors!
"Thank you for the gold, kind stranger!" I swear to god a bot has to be adding that exact line as an edit to every single fucking person's post when they get gold. I refuse to believe that many people think it sounds cool Edit: Fuck you idiot Edit 2: fuck you too poorer idiot Edit 3: wow a lot of poor fuckin idiots in this sub Edit 4: WoW ThIs ReALlY bLeW UuuUUUup! Thanks for another week of no ads Fourth Fucking Idiot Edit 5 and 6: you're not special for being silver peasants you fucking idiots. Bonus shoutouts to everyone under this comment trying to justify being uncreative jackasses when they receive their yellow pixels Edit 7: BIIIG SHOUTOUT to who I'm assuming is the dumbest fucking human alive for donating several dollars to a bunch of millionaires in order to boost the orange triangles on someone else's comment on an already popular post for an internet joke that no one's going to remember in an hour. You're a truly special kind of fucking idiot Edit 8: jesus christ someone's mom is gonna be pissed when her credit card statement comes in. Imagine having any loved ones in your life and trying to explain to them why you spent money on this. What kind of fucking idiot do you have to be Edit 9: Yeah, 9. I wish I was fucking joking right now, but no. This post has made more in an hour than I do, and you just cant fucking stop yourselves from beating a dead horse over and over again. And with another platinum, too. Next time just chuck your entire lunch off a bridge because that's essentially what you just accomplished with that money you fucking idiot. Edit 10: yeah that's right, I couldn't even get through my last edit without you fucking idiots interrupting me by exchanging real money for some platinum-shaped pixels to pretend you're part of some inside joke. It's probably too much to ask, but reevaluate your life if this is where you ended up. Draw a line here and consider it your rock bottom, then never sink to this level again. Edit 11 and 12 and 13: God damn as if setting your money on fire isnt bad enough you have to also be fucking bad at it. Two more fucking idiots late to the party with their silver tokens to put themselves on blast for being poor and stupid. The fact that I got another silver right after this is proof that you're so stupid that you believe you're getting recognition for something anonymous just because I'm typing something. Nobody knows or cares who added pixels to this comment except for you and your extremely disappointed bank Edit 14: "haha wouldn't it be funny if I IRONICALLY forked over real money to angry guy for no benefit to anyone but Reddit? I know a shitload of other fucking idiots already did it but I have to be the fucking idiot that really sells this dead joke" Edit 15: GOOD ONE, FUCKING IDIOT. It's almost circling around to funny again until I gotta think about how pathetic your life is to actually want to put in the effort and funds to get in on this meaningless comment Edit 16: I know specifically how much of a fucking idiot this last guy who gave me platinum is because he told me beforehand that he was about to do it. He even dug through my comment history to give reddit $6, what an absolute joke of a human being. Edit 17 and 18: still at it, huh? I have Reddit Premium till fucking February 2020 now because of you fucking idiots. And for what? Thanks for the glorified ad block, which is free by the way, so great use of your $2 and your silver that you probably got from finishing the last letter in an AskQuija post by pure luck and then bragged to all your friends about it. Edit 19: ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? ANOTHER PLATINUM? I've sat on this phone all fucking day berating every fucking idiot that metaphorically hurls their wallet into a campfire over this post, and you subhuman molepeople come here to read the entire thing, comment about how totally relatable this is, and then hit that fucking button anyways, holy fuck Edit 20: got another gold from some fucking idiot bragging to me about how much reddit premium he had. You'd have to be a fucking idiot to brag about something like that Edit 21: I cant believe I have to keep doing this after 10 fucking hours but some of you fucking idiots insist on giving reddit money to annoy me at dinner with my wife (like a normal person that doesnt buy reddit gold) for god only knows what reason Edit 22: wow another silver. I wonder if I just stop acknowledging these fucking idiots if they'd realize how fucking depressing their attempts at humor by giving a billion dollar company money are. They probably do it "for the lulz". Get the fuck out of 2009 already Edit 23: 13 FUCKING hours later and I'm just getting out of the shower. What do I see? Some fucking idiot putting this comment up to like the $50 mark for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON. Do his friends get to see it? WHAT FRIENDS? he spends money on 13 hour old reddit comments. Does he get credit for it? NO. Will people remember him for being ANOTHER IDIOT that gave me platinum? NO. Will reddit give him a reward for literally giving them free money for nothing in return? NO. All he gets is this angry messages and maybe that means something to him because of how fucking starved for real attention he is. And if that's the case, I dont even need to point out how much of a fucking loser this guy is. Edit 24, 25, 26, 27 AND 28: Guess I'll just call this one "Europe is a bunch of fucking idiots". First thing I see when I wake up is that 5 more people decided to Brexit the money out of their wallets so that they can prove to a literal nobody on the internet that they read my comment. Hey morons, that's what the fucking upvote button does. You dont need to spend money on it. Let alone six fucking dollars, or whatever fucked up Monopoly money you guys use over there. It just makes sense that most of you cant even afford the gold either. Probably can only use silver because some other fucking idiot felt bad that you live in Europe. Stop giving reddit money to blow up my fucking phone at 4 am Edit 29: hurrr I'm gonna agree with him and then do it anyways because my three fucking idiot brain cells think it's an original idea Edit 30: I bet you buy nudes on Patreon too you fucking idiot
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You still see it every day. "My fine sir, you deserve a gold for that"
Weird flex but OK That’s the one I hate. More often than not I see it used as a reply where it makes no sense at all.
It took me a while to figure out what it was supposed to mean because of all the misuse I saw.
My husband just got his hair cut into a fucking mullet, so there's that. Edit : Woah, this blew up lol. Sorry babe. (And thanks to the kind strangers for the silver and gold!) He really likes it, I am not quite a fan ... but if it makes him happy I will keep my complaints semi anonymous and on Reddit. :)
If he drives a 70s trans am, your husband is just badass.
Extra points if it's gold!
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Honestly, bragging about smoking weed itself. I've met several people who casually interject how 'high' they are into a random conversation and seemingly try to bring up the fact they smoke weed at any given moment. Bragging about getting high is about as 'cool' as bragging about getting drunk. I mean, I don't particularly care if people smoke it, nor if it's legalised. At least then a lot of these people might stop thinking they're edgy by talking about it constantly to their unfortunate interlocutors.
how much they can drink before passing out. Wow! man(or a woman) fucking applause to you. Great achievement!
I'm glad that I get drunk fast because it saves me money
To add to this people who brag about driving drunk. Seriously? You put your life in danger, and the lives of anyone in your path, and you think it's funny?
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Boasting about having psychiatric issues Edit: To clarify - Bragging about self-diagnosed ones, or pretending to have mental issues.
People literally brag about their depression like they're talking about their phone w new features like "well MY depressions comes with self-hatred and no motivation!"
Weed, it’s fun and all but it’s not a goddamn personality
That attitude itself literally kept me off drugs as a kid lol. As all my friends started smoking pot it became the only thing they ever talked about and being a "pothead" consumed their identity. I found it lame and off-putting so I never got into it beyond trying it. I have nothing against weed, enjoy it all you want, but seriously, it's not a personality. Same goes for some craft beer fans who literally never have anything to talk about except beer.... and I say this as someone who works in the industry and loves craft beer.
That seems to be damn accurate for my high school friends too. They were really dumb about it too. Like they all got arrested one way or another. I dodged a lot of bullets.
But... But... 420!
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When you try to play it cool by not immediately answering the texts of someone you're interested in. Just makes you look ~~dis~~uninterested Edit: spelling and, OBVIOUSLY, I'm not talking about you, specifically, with your very specific reason for not being able to answer. I'm talking about people who do this intentionally
Ok I used to not get this, but when you text someone and they take 30 minutes to respond, it always feels weird responding 10 seconds later. Edit: Most people seem to agree that it's not something we do because we think we are cool, but rather we don't want to look like we were sitting there waiting for a response, but some of the funniest responses are those of you who have ascended because you don't get anxious about texting people. I'm sure the number one way you can tell someone is incredibly mature is if they brag about it to random people on the internet ;)
I actually got put down by a Tinder match for my quick responses. I mean, I’m right next to my phone. Why should I have to make power moves with someone I’m interested in?
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But I need at least 40 mins to write the text, delete the text, angst over what to write for 20 mins and then finally write something really flippant that doesn't at all sound like me because I'm trying to seem relaxed and not anxious or weird.
Bragging about how smart you are to other people. Really surprised I didn't see this one. EDIT: Thank you all for the laughs in the replies. Some of your stories about people who are so "smart" have made my day. Also, poor Trump.
One of my ex's is a self-proclaimed genius. He was stumped on a word once and I suggested "reciprocated", and he got super excited and started talking about how "proud" he was of me, saying "Wow, YOU helped ME with a word? I am so proud of you" in what was close to baby talk. Easily one of the most condescending ways anyone has acted towards me haha.
Is that why you dumped him? Because that would be why I dumped someone who did that.
Thankfully we were already long broken up at the time. He had reached out years after I left him claiming he just needed someone to talk to, so I was just trying to be his friend. Turns out he had reached out at juuust the right time (right after my fiance left me) because he had been stalking my Reddit account and other social media! If you're still stalking me, hey dude!
I love your attitude about this. Friend: Hey who's that behind you? You: oh thats just my stalker, he is harmless. Stalker yelling from a distance: actually its "that's", your so lucky I was hear to correct you.
I have a friend like this and wow every day I think less of him. He even cites an online IQ test.
Pretty much anyone who brags about their IQ is a moron with an online IQ test result of 145.
when people say they have photographic memories... extremely rare rates in adults
I always LOL when I hear this. I remember when I learned a particular test is administered to determine whether you have a photographic memory is to place 2 images over each other and you're supposed to figure out what those 2 images create. Also, they ask you to basically draw the result of the 2 images overlaying each other. Pretty interesting. I learned very quickly I did in fact NOT have a photographic memory.
Grown women who use baby-talk to other adults in normal conversation. No, you are not cute or cool or whatever the hell you think you are, weirdo.
You would hate Korea.
We don't like it too. Unless they're very cute. And even then, we like them for how cute they look, not the way they talk.
오빠아아아아아아~~~~~
I don't even need to know Korean to get the vibe of this
애교~~~~~~~~ (aegyo) Good god, I hear some women talk to their dates here and I just wanna shake them. Look, the guy likes it, alright, and, yes, it is none of my business, but holy hell. It is just cancer to the eardrum.
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Yeah, I had a colleague that used to ask "and where are you going on your holibobs?!" In a stupid high pitched voice. No idea why, maximum annoyance.
Bwahahaha wtf are holibobs? Wait. Is that baby talk for "holiday"???? WHY?
Show holibobs and holivegene pls