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?

Couldn't believe that no-one called out the woman with the terrible 'dilemma' of whether or not to pay off her 13K mortgage. Diddums!

But LOADS of people have barn conversions in the country that could accommodate another family
But not many have given it up for a Ukrainian family

and we all know the effort and hoops she would have had to have gone through to get the family over

so if she’s wants to shoe horn it in to a conversation, no frickin way am I going to sneer that’s she’s humble bragging about having space big enough to accommodate a family forced to flee from their worn torn country when I’m doing sweet fuck all to help them. As the overwhelming majority are

Do you think that no-one should ever ask for any kind of financial advice, because acknowledging that you have some money is bragging?

So nobody can have a daughter they're proud of? Christ, when you read about a child being murdered by their own parents every other day then this sort of thing sounds lovely. It isn't bragging at all to say your child is loving and kind.

Wasn't she in the Investment section or Money Matters? Of course it's important to know what to do with money - far too many women on here are really ignorant of their finances. Being aware doesn't mean you're bragging.

Exactly @HollowTalk

When my son was looking at university courses I got told that it's easy for him, but it was so hard for this lady and her daughter...

"She's predicted all A*s so the choice is much harder"

Yeah. I feel your pain.

"Its just soooo embarrassing being IDed as a 35 year old! lol!" - common humble brag

Normally if this happens to me it's less that I have youthful skin and more that I'm in the middle of a massive acne breakout.

I was baffled by this one too. I had this conversation many times with other women in my younger days and I can assure you it was never a humble brag for any of us.

I had this conversation many times with other women in my younger days and I can assure you it was never a humble brag for any of us.

Yeah, I agree that the idea of bragging about being harassed is a bit odd. It's not something that people will envy, is it?

And it's not as if men are highly selective and choosy about who they harass - all it indicates is that you're visibly female. (And that the man is a complete arsehole.)

Feel free, all in the name of entertainment 😉

I think sometimes its the way things are said. The whole lemurgate sitch... was very flamboyant with the braggish laugh at full pelt, I think thats what shocked the keeper (who is a lemur expert and studied them in Madagascar) 😂

That graduate one is just cringe ....

I'm m just too good to choose 😂

"Or the threads here of ones complaining that they don't qualify for the 30 hours/tax free childcare because they earn over the threshold 😢

It's 100K NET, I think you'll be fine"

I wouldn't say that I was complaining with that thread, but definitely not bragging?! It was in the money section genuinely asking a question..... 🤷🏼‍♀️

Also not really the point but it's gross not net

sigh

You lot are all calling it humble bragging, its actually self-promotion.

Partly why I started this thread as I don't really understand what it means. There are some great explanations hidden though 👍🏻 (if only there was a lemur emoji- a skunk is the closest I can get) 😢 🦨

A friend once posted on FB to moan about how long it took to clear the leaves from their swimming pool.

Nice 😉

OP - you get that the lemur example still wasn't a humblebrag, right? No matter how braggy her laugh was.

It just a plain old boast.

Yeah I'm good with that now... thanks 😂

I'm ND and usually a bit slow to pick up on bragging but it was so clear even I could see it 😂

There was one on MN recently though (been deleted now) something like... its such a pain and just so hard to choose books for DSS because he has the reading age of a 14 year old but is 10 😢

I DEFINITELY wasn't referring to you, I wasn't aware of the thread running it's just a common one on here.

Also isn't it adjusted net income? Isn't that different to gross?

To add to that I had a friend (who's a CF first and a humble bragger second) jump in a conversation with another friend to openly boast that she and her husband easily make it over the threshold...she has no children 🥴

😂😂

And it would be my original Georgian chimney given personally to the Earl of Humblebrag by the Queen of Narnia as a commemorative gift! Why couldn’t the eagle have done that in one of my other five chimneys, further away from my Ming vases, which would have been so much more considerate to my housekeeper?

"I DEFINITELY wasn't referring to you, I wasn't aware of the thread running it's just a common one on here.

Also isn't it adjusted net income? Isn't that different to gross?

To add to that I had a friend (who's a CF first and a humble bragger second) jump in a conversation with another friend to openly boast that she and her husband easily make it over the threshold...she has no children 🥴"

Fair enough.. it's taxable income so not net as in it's the amount before tax but it is adjusted to not include pension contributions so not really gross either I guess...

On the plus side I very much do have a child so slightly better than your friend I guess 😂