The typical bullshit midwestern work ethic "I just worked 30 billions hours of overtime this week!"
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I have a brother-in-law who picks up as much overtime as he can and brags about how little sleep he is able to get. My response is always: "that's not the flex you think it is, you exploited bastard!"
As a European, I thought that was a universal American thing.
Where I come from, the opposite attitude exists - you're supposed to enjoy life and take it easy.
As an Amercan who has worked AND enjoyed life, my employer over here was less than thrilled with the idea that my life didn't revolve around my job.
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Loud vehicles. What they think is cool is actually annoying everyone else.
There are folks around here who actually install speakers outside their vehicles. And they're the worst, cheapest sounding speakers in existence.
They're tearing down the street, blasting their shitty music out of shitty speakers, suffering from terminal main character syndrome and it's just sad (and very annoying).
A lot of them think it's cool specifically because it annoys other people. It's antisocial behavior.
Proud of the conditions of your birth. It's a subtle distinction, but imo the more reasonable emotion is thankfulness.
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Flexing that they have never read any books.
"My daddy told me books don't make a man"
Sure, but not reading doesn't make a man either.
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Nurses holding their pee and working 4-5x12hs a week. Hon you're in danger and gonna get real weird bladder problems.
As someone who is fairly physically active, flexes that risk people's health are especially irritating to me. Training to the point of injury or even through injury is not impressive; it's stupid.
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Bad/illegal driving. You contribute to an unreasonably high crash rate to be 2 minutes faster, good job.
One of my biggest arguments for trains is the attachment of ego and strong emotions behind the wheel
The thing that was drilled into me is to drive predictably. No sudden lane changes, stay in the fast lanes if you're going fast and slow lanes if you're going slow.
It drives me crazy to see people "swimming" in Interstate-speed traffic and I see people do it every day. It's just a matter of time until every single one of them wrecks, hopefully they don't hurt anyone else.
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I have a coworker who brags a lot about how much he drinks and how little he sleeps. Unsurprisingly, he's one of the worst at his job.
The wildest part was learning he was 6 years younger than me. I would have guessed he was 10 years older from how bad he looks.
who brags a lot about how much he drinks
It wasn't until I was aober and in counseling that I realized other people don't drink like it's a competition. I wasn't "good at drinking". I am an alcoholic (in long term recovery).
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I read a job listing recently bragging about the company's AI usage by saying "One of our engineers hasn't hand-written a single line of code in 18 months"
Like okay dude...
It translates to: "One of our engineer has been stealing code from others without attribution, consent and/or compensation, and did license laundering to it, for 18 months".
Never using their PTO at work.
Going into work sick too.
On a related note, as a parent I think school perfect attendance awards are perverse. Congratulations, we're rewarding a kid for being a disease vector and being sent to school miserable and snotty, or at best making other kids feel less-than because they received proper treatment and isolation. I would guess that the average perfect attendance kids costs the rest of the school at least half a dozen absences per year.
As an Asian American, "illness" is a myth that children invented as an excuse to get out of having to go to school. You have to go even if have fucking Covid, cuz you dont have it, you're just pretending in order to have an excuse to be lazy.
At least that's how my parents see it.
I mean I can see why there's a stereotype associated with Asians...
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“I just tell it like it is.”
Translation: you’re incredibly rude and hide behind “just being honest” so you don’t have to correct your problematic behavior
Those who proudly tout their "brutal honesty" are much more interested in the brutality than in the honesty.
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Anything related to their genetics (height, skin/hair/eye color, ... etc) or inheritance.
Show me something you did, not something you're born with.
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“I got 12 femtoseconds of sleep last night”
Okay, but like turn off your phone and go to bed, that’s super bad for you and you are intolerable because you’re grumpy from not sleeping
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“Oh I don’t understand politics” or “oh I don’t do politics” that’s embarrassing.
See also “I don’t see race”.
Ignorance isn’t a defense or a flex, that’s on you.
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That they don't read books.
I used, to be that guy. Every time I tried reading a book suggested by someone, it was boring for me.
Turns out books were just like movies and tv shows, I just needed to find books I enjoyed and not blindly following trends.
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Pretending you don't know how to use a computer or a smartphone nowadays. It's not the 70s/80s/90s anymore, you look stupid. Same with books as if they were boring devices for nerds.
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Had family that would refuse to drink water. Reasoning- "I don't drink what fish fuck in". They died from diabetes.
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