Hilarious FB stealth boasts

[lovelyjubilly]

'I feel so guilty! I have taken my children out doing fun activities every day of the summer holidays so far for the past 3 weeks and today we are having a day at home. I feel so bad that they're going to be bored! Anyone else feeling guilty about having a day at home?'

Any other gems?

He just communicated it ha

Yes with telepathy aparently

There's a sub reddit called 'That Happened' full of these. I love it.

@Mumshotel After my friends put up a photo of the BA first class toilet I was sorely tempted to take the piss (pun intended) and take a photo of the bogs on EasyJet when I flew with them a few months later!

If you think about this deeply enough (which I have because I find it such annoying, sad behaviour)
Most posting done on Facebook is pre planned for the desired reaction that you want or need.
I say most as I have a few friends that do post a lot. One lives in Abroad now and it’s all mundane type stuff but good to keep in contact with her close family and friends. The other posts all the time about family stuff but is from a huge extended family so it’s a way they share together and any other likes are probably not needed.

However most points are based around the need to show others that they don’t have a weakness in areas that they do.

Shitty Dads that get shit at home for not doing enough put photos of that one off #daddysdayout

People from poor backgrounds or an inferiority complex around money go for the luxury goods boasts and photos.

People in shitty relationships that make them feel insecure or who are in fear that they are not no.1 go for the #myworld type posts.

Girls getting messed around by men or are desperate to be noticed go for the constant tagging out and about plus numerous selfies.

Its so easy to flip it and see the truth!

Tagging out all the time - sits lonley on the sofa for the rest of the time.

Mum taking photos everywhere and making memories- feels guilty because she’s not coping and probably isn’t giving them the attention they need the other 90% of the time.

I can read Facebook like a book! Of course I have my own insecurities and problems but If there was just one person who worked them out via Facebook that would be too many. The shame!

@mmmbeans Is your DH's friend Prince William?

I only have one friend who does this and it's mostly tied up with her congratulating her husband on being wonderful

#daddydaughtertime
#besthusbandever
#soproudofmyhusband

Etc ad Infinitum.

I happen to know in reality that he is emotionally and verbally Abusive to her, spends almost no time with their DC and she is very insecure. It's a front as I expect a lot of these are.

Ha you should have done #bugetturds #crampedshit #lovemylife #blessed

Yes, fb friend obviously v proud of her daughters exam results, has posted,
So proud of DD, (insert name of very prestigious uni) is very lucky to get you.

I have someone in my family who did this on FB Except when people ask what her DD got she will say “she did very well, I’m so proud” and refuse to answer the direct question. Then others will congratulate her DD on the post and say what their own DC got and family member will say something like “they can all be proud no matter what they got, it’s not the grades that matter”. I even asked her directly on the phone “what did DD get in her A levels?” And she said “she got what she needed” and then started ranting about people bragging on FB about how their DCs did and how it was tasteless etc.

Years ago I knew somehow who proudly announced that they'd got a 2:1 and someone else commented "yeah but it wasn't a first, was it?"

I cannot believe soneone would post #myhusbandisbetterthanyourhusband

I posted that my husband was the best husband when he'd brought me home a Nutella Krispy Kreme. I totally stand by it

I put a lot of our doings on FB because I am a single parent of two with additional needs and I have too often been deeply patronised in a "oh poor yooooooou, how do you manage you poor thing?" kind of way . I like to show that actually we manage pretty bloody well thanks!

That said, I have had a migraine the past three days and we've stayed in and kept the curtains closed all day, while I flopped about on the sofa.. I apologised in my frail, pain filled voice to my poor children for how bored they must be and got "honestly Mum don't worry, we love days like this where you don't make us go out."

Oh. 😕

I am on Twitter but never tweet. I just occasionally follow people or check out something that is happening in the news, heavy rains causing flooding, for example.

Does anyone ever do a search #fannyadmin? And if they did, would you want those people following you?

One twitter account I used to follow was Humblebrag. It was filled with stuff like this. I don't think it's active anymore
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Many of the examples here are out and out boasting, it's the stealth boasts that are funny though. So to continue my earlier example "oh woe is me, the engine lights come on you don't expect this from a NEW AUDI, I'm going to have to take my NEW AUDI in to garage after the school run what a pain, at least the dealership are good because it's a NEW AUDI.." now if they'd just put the word 'car' in the status instead of the words new Audi multiple times, that would just be common or garden moan about your car. It is Mentioning the perceived status symbol brand so often, disguised as a moan that makes a 'stealth boast' IMO.

And I don't mind people being proud of things, it's the shoehorning it in trying to pretend the status is about something else that's funny.

To contrast one of my friends is a beautician, she started life in a rented windowless beauty room, and has recently got her own premises/business and bought a...new Audi (as it happens) for herself. She couldn't be prouder and posted a video of her getting the keys (with glass of fizz) at dealership, ecstatic. And well she should be, she's worked until 7pm 7days a week and made many sacrifices to get where she is and should be proud.

So to summarise it's not the being proud of something I'm laughing it, it's the trying to highlight it a way that looks like you're talking about something else, usually pretending it's a negative thing.

These are hilarious I don't have anyone like this sadly (or not sadly!) Do you think it tends to be wealthier people?

CookPassBabtridge not really always the wealthy people, I have a couple of family members like this and I know they are trying to keep up with the Jones, but are secretly in debt to their eyeballs

But I must admit, I’m always amazed at how much disposable income these families seem to have, as a day out anywhere with dc costs ££££, & they’re out all the time.

We take our son for a day out every weekend and sometimes both days because we have an NT membership and memberships to various places. We take a packed lunch and so it costs very little. Most parents that I know do similar

I have a friend who uses the # mykidsarebetterthanyours. That’s the one that I really don’t like, they’re kids ffs (and as it happens, at their chosen sport at least, my kid is better than hers but I don’t put that!)

That's awful, Trialsmum

Years ago I knew somehow who proudly announced that they'd got a 2:1 and someone else commented "yeah but it wasn't a first, was it?"

how do we feel about posting exam results? My eldest got four A* in her A levels and I posted on Facebook about it. She’s suffered with dreadful anxiety, so it was a huge achievement and it was a fast way to tell (brag!) family around the country/world about it quickly, rather than messaging people individually. I couldn’t help myself. I was dead dead proud. The same day, a couple of people posted memes saying that it doesn’t matter if you fail all your exams etc. One friend posted such a meme and wrote: I’d much rather see this sort of thing today than hearing parents brag about results and I was a tad

I post my that I'm proud of my DDs results.
No stealth boasting needed.

Boasting that you're not someone who stealth boasts is stealth boasting. And rather narcissistic since, if you're genuinely not a stealth boaster, this thread is not about you...in spite of stealthy attempts to make it so.