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.
Rich people. That's it. That's everything. If anything, I view excessive wealth as a form of mental illness.
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.
lots of people i meet brag they don't read either dude.
usually after they see that I'm reading a book or if I tell them I like to read. they seem to find this very offensive and upsetting.
i notice this especially with like, tech and medical workers? I also met quite a few english teachers who flexed how they don't read and think reading is dumb.
Acing cognitive tests.
Man, woman, person, camera, TV
I definitely qualify for Mensa, but I've never applied because only losers brag about their IQ score, and only idiots are impressed by it. I'm seriously considering it now though, just to pull out my card when right wing idiots call me stupid for being a leftist.
‘I have an iPhone’
Or conversely: ‘I don’t have an iPhone’
Nobody cares what brand of rectangle you use.
Reminds me of the console wars, when one kid would tout the power of their console, while the other would tout how it had better games.
you don't, but they do.
i have an iphone and an android. it freaks most people out because you have to be ONE OR THE OTHER.
freaks them out even more when I tell them I'm bisexual.
I get your point but in my experience android works well with other android. Apple works well with other apple. Mixing them and everything seems barely useable. Like using a android phone to control an Apple TV.
@MutantTailThing @Soulifix like, yes, but every time I saw someone use a Windows Phone I felt very judgemental
Fathers who claim they have never changed a diaper.
Same with people who boast about never reading a book
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…
Their vehicle.
Think of, for example, the obnoxious shitbag in his emotional support truck, or the BMW prick, and all the behaviors attributed thereto.
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 could understand it if it’s a project they work on, eg restoring it from a junkyard. For some people, their car is not just a utility they use to get around; similar to how much of my life revolves around a computer I built.
But yeah, that’s not many people. Quite a few bought theirs out of a yard.
what if your pride and joy is base level hatchback with a manual transmission?
or are you just talking about people who see autos as status symbols of their wealth and 'success' despite the the fact their car is objectively a moneypit POS, like a Jeep.
Whoa, I ran a used 5-speed for about a decade and totally douched out on how much I was not paying for my car.
Having XYZ mental illness/neurodivergence. Speaking as someone with both.
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.
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.
A counter point to the passport thing is the size of the us. You can travel the same distance as Spain to Finland to Ukraine without a passport. Go to la, ny, boston, Dallas, Miami and Seattle and tell me they have the same culture.
The difference between Finland and Spain is greater than the difference between Seattle and Miami.
Anyway, a passport is not required in either case.
As someone else already tried that argument, I'll say the same thing. We do have the same culture. Sure there are minor differences, but we all celebrate thanksgiving, christmas, there's always a Target nearby and there's always an auto mile. It's all the same. Nowhere in the US, except I would consider Hawaii as a maybe, do you actually experience fully a different culture, to be in complete culture shock, where things you know as concrete and rigid are thrown out the window.
Your false assumption is they have the choice of not doing that.
I grew up in such a place. Very few people made it out, physically or culturally. They are like black holes, and honestly, a lot of people who try to get out, get punished, harassed, and bullied into going back to those places.
I got out of my small town, but even to this day, 30 years after I have gone, people still use that fact about my life to harass me, bully me, and dismiss me as a terrible person who they should not have any respect for because they grew up in a sophisticated urban/liberal area. It's INSANE. I have had dozens of people in my life scream insults, tell me I should have just died/been born, and how I 'stole' my education/job from someone MORE DESERVING than myself. To this day people find out where I grew up and they just totally refuse to socialize with me anymore because of their incredibly hostility/bias towards those of us who grew up in small conservative minded towns.
I think you might have a bias in there as well then, because I got out of my small town, and I agree that very few make it out physically or culturally, and they are like black holes.
However I was never punished, or harassed. I had people make fun of me, question me, give me weird faces as to why I would want to leave, but never anything extreme like you're saying. I think you may represent the other extreme side.
Yeah, I do. I went to Harvard. There is a intense hatred of working-class small town people in places like that and the social class that dominates it.
The 'liberal/worldly' perspective is it's own intensely insular and smug/superior bias that sees anyone who can't afford to go on international vacations as inherently inferior and stupid to those who do.
I think the problem is that you went to Harvard. I get what you’re saying, but the non-elite don’t really care. We can’t afford international vacations and yacht clubs either. Don’t get me wrong, liberalism is its own disease, but you met it on a whole other level.
My beef with rural people has nothing to do with them being poor, and everything to do with their ongoing fascist temper tantrum.
I think rural culture should be generally marginalized and mocked until it stops doing fascism. Pretty simple tbh.
I mean within America we have a huge diversity of locations/cultures/biomes/travel destinations.
So we don't NEED to leave America to see different things. I've visited Hawaii, Washington, New York, Florida, California, and several others. From fishing, to seeing the redwoods, to a swamp tour, to the beaches of Hawaii.
I would like to see Europe but that's expensive.
They run Jellyfin and not Plex.
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