“I don’t like to brag, but–”
We all know humility is a great quality to have, but there is a time and place for celebrating our accomplishments as well. Earn your PhD? You deserve to be proud of that. Beat a life-threatening illness? I wouldn’t blame you for telling everyone you know. Complete an ultramarathon? That’s something worth posting on Facebook about. But if you get less than 5 hours of sleep every night, can drink an entire bottle of tequila by yourself or think all of your exes are “toxic and crazy”, you might want to keep those things to yourself…
One curious Reddit user recently asked people to share things others brag about that signal red flags, and readers did not hold back in the replies. So below, we’ve gathered a list of some of those qualities and “accomplishments” people should stop being so proud of to remind you pandas which boasts to look out for. Keep reading to also find an interview we were lucky enough to receive from Viktor Sander, a counselor at SocialSelf.
Be sure to upvote the responses you strongly agree with, and let us know in the comments any other brags that would send you running out the door. Then if you’d like to read another Bored Panda article discussing red flags to look out for, look no further than right here!
#1
The people who instantly have a solution for everything.
Fat? Eat less. Addicted? Quit. Depressed? Smile more. Broke? Get a better job. Tired? Sleep more.
There is nuance to the issues of society. Major red flag if you’re in your 20’s or older and can’t critically think.
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#2
They boast about how many drinks they can hold “and still drive home without a problem.”
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#3
When a professor brags about how many people have failed their class
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#4
“Owning” or “Triggering” people: “I’m so difficult to get along with that I was able to annoy someone into an outburt with only a brief interraction.” really isn’t the flex some people think it is.
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#5
How crazy all their exes are
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#6
“I don’t have a filter.”
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#7
How much they work and how little they sleep. That’s an unbalanced person and they’re unlikely to have an idea of “success” that includes other people.
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#8
Men who can’t talk to women like they’re human beings and refer to them as “females”
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#9
Being “brutally honest” or “having no filter.” This usually signals a severe lack of tact.
Source: Me. I was this guy in my early 20s and have since chilled out.
#10
How much they “don’t care what other people think.”
If you have to constantly tell others and yourself “I don’t care,” you *totally* do, you just wish you didn’t.
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#11
Their “alpha” status. Their high standards.
#12
Scoring four touchdowns in a single game for Polk High School in Chicago during the 1966 City Championship
#13
I have a coworker who is kind of like the first one. She is generally a one-upper, and she has had a really hard life. But you can’t talk about yourself for more than 30 seconds before she has a story about either how awesome she is, or how much harder than you she’s had it. It’s exhausting.
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#14
“I am (such a) a nice person”.
If you have to point it out, it’s probably not true.
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#15
Bragging about not knowing things.
Also, bragging about how little they sleep.
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#16
Ah, the person at my job who bought up all the toilet paper during the pandemic so they could sell it to coworkers at an inflated price.
They can keep their Mercedes. I’d rather not be a monster.
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#17
How quickly they cut people out of their lives.
Sometimes it can be a good thing to cut people out of your life. There are definitely people who are toxic to you and you are better off without their influence or presence. But it should almost always be bittersweet to actually do this.
People who actually brag about this usually are people who refuse to accept personal fault, or to work on themselves at all.
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#18
Being “good at manipulation.” Nuh-uh rule one of manipulation is to seem trustworthy
#19
Their luxurious material possessions and lavish lifestyle despite using debt and not having the money to support such a lifestyle.
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#20
How much they identify with The Joker, Tommy Shelby, Tyler Durden, Jordan Belfort, or a number of other characters like that.
#21
Firing their employees. It can be necessary to do so, but when you brag about it (so real *bragging*, not just telling), it sounds like you love executing power over weaker people and hurting them.
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#22
Owning dangerous pet
Owning a lot of guns
Being racist or anti gay
Being rich
Being promiscuous
#23
How “in the know” they are. At some point, it just becomes you turning into a conspiracy nut
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