Humble bragging

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I have only come across this term on MN but i think I wintessed it first hand... whats it all about?

Family in lemur enclosure at zoo talking to keeper.

Keeper "you can get a little closer if you want"

Woman "we don't need too thanks we honey mooned in Madagascar so we have seen so many lemurs up close"

Keeper "oh okay, bet that was great"

Woman "it was amaaaazing... we could hear them all around our cabin at night aaaaahahahahhaha" (not sure why this was funny- but apparently it was hilarious)

Don't get me wrong I wasn't jealous in the slightest... nothing i would be creeped out by more than animals at night...

It just felt like one up man ship at its finest. I mean why go in there if you only want to belittle the experience

Whats the worst humble brag you have witnessed?

That's not humble bragging. Humble bragging is 'I don't see myself as attractive, but so many people tell me I'm beautiful, they must be blind'

you see I would see the bigger picture in this scenario rather than it being a humble brag

“Olivia is 8 today. She is such a thoughtful, loving, kind little girl, we are so proud of her”. Makes you hope they have the teenager from hell 5 or 6 years down the line.

'Grumble-brag' is brilliant!

Oh we had a corker on fb few weeks ago. A woman taking a selfie of herself handing a sausage roll to a homeless man

Lots of the examples given are not humblebrags.

A humblebrag is where you make a supposedly self-deprecating comment, or complain about something you have to put up with, but the real purpose of the comment is to boast.

Outright boasting or showing off, with no self-deprecation, is not humblebragging.

This is a stealth boast it itself, showing you know what a governess cart is 😂 I had to Google it. My oh my, how some people live

None of these are humblebrags.

That's just a brag.

A humble brag would be

“Olivia's best friend Waynetta is 8 today. We were mortified when Olivia asked Waynetta's mummy if Waynetta's birthday cake was home made with free range eggs, because Olivia never eats shop bought cake"

To be fair I thought this was going to end with him pulling out a stack of £50s

I don't get this one? What's wrong with him asking if he can pay cash? How is that any kind of brag?

Obviously she would tell you how overwhelmed Father Christmas was with the cleanliness of her chimney and the magnificence of her Christmas decorations that he lost sphincter control.

Why is "humble bragging" so bad and yet all this overt sneering is not?

This thread has taught me two things:

• Lots of people don't know what 'humblebrag' means
• Lots of people see boasting when there isn't any (e.g. "I'm downsizing, what should I do with my capital?" is not a brag, it's asking for practical advice because the person is probably intending to live on that money for the rest of their lives. "Can I pay in cash?" is not a brag in a restaurant, it's a genuine question.)

I don't get this one? What's wrong with him asking if he can pay cash? How is that any kind of brag?

Exactly - using cash to pay for a meal rather than a bank card is simply a matter of personal choice. Only someone with an enormous chip on their shoulder would view it as a brag.

If it happened to me I would know I was back in New Mexico!

Five pages and counting of people failing to demonstrate the oxymoronic existence of "humble" bragging. WOW. You can claim anything here...

Someone proclaiming how bloody tiring it is having to totally dust the whole house every time they go there (holiday home they've bought but don't rent out to anyone, use about 6 weeks per year and leave it empty for the rest of the year).

I thought humble bragging had to have a self-deprecating element to eg.
Like: "The vanity sizing at La Snobby Cow Boutique is ridiculous! Even I can get into a 6!".

"to it"

Feel free to make a thread asking people to give you examples of overt sneering. I like to talk about things I find annoying.

Years ago I saw a singer live who was doing a lot of talking between songs, including slagging off other artists, but at one point he was talking about how he was soooo humbled to have received [name of award] for all his good work... I always wondered if that constituted a humblebrag or not.

This would constitute humble bragging (reference to Cotswold barn conversion big enough to house two families) and also virtue signalling!

Humble brags sound kind of fun - I can't believe I've never heard of them before, but I'm soo stupid when it comes to stuff like this. I've had to take a break from social media as the modelling agency that scouted me keep sending me to tropical beaches with NO internet access, but I worry that it means I'm completely out of touch!!!

It happens on mumsnet all the time. Some posters can't resist showing off how much money they have, how large their houses and gardens are or how clever their DC are.

I am happy to brag about DD's achievements and open about it, but I would preface them by saying how proud I am as she has been through a lot to get where she is today.