To ask the most annoying/bizarre flex/boast you've heard?

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One that gets me is people boasting about how 'tiny' they are, but one that always makes me laugh is my MIL proudly mentioning on way more than one occasion how narrow SIL'a feet are like it's something really special 🤣🤣

I quite like my biggish boobs and my DH is just a nice guy who happens to like them too.

Not a brag just defending them 😂.

@ItsThePlayBusDingDing I'm honestly really sorry for the loss of your wee boy and I hope after going NC with your mum that your life has improved xx

“My son would miss me if I died”. I replied all our kids would miss us “yeh but he’d miss me more”. Wtf?

@AfricanAmericanFriday but there’s ‘small’ then there’s small. And the women usually moaning have only slightly larger than average sized boobs, so it’s definitely a stealth brag rather than genuine.

That's really not a boast. Work travel isn't fun!

Just to confirm I didn't mean @XenoBitch told a lie and I did think the brag funny too.

Red hair with freckles is an absolutely beautiful combination, really stunning...but I didn't think people with that colouring tend to tan easily. More likely to burn and need to be careful in the sun.

It's funny you say this, I was reading an anthology of folk horror stories and there's one in it from 1872 where they are describing a pretty young woman and point out how "small and shapely" her feet was, I thought it was so weird!!

1. Not everyone reads the same books on the GCSE syllabus (CITR was not on mine in the late 80s)
2. Even if your favourite book did happen to be on your GCSE syllabus, why should that mean you have never read anything since?

Small feet have long been considered a sign of feminine beauty. Foot binding, Cinderella, all that. All bollocks, of course, but not new.

Me, my feet are so small and delicate that it looks like I don't have any. I just boing along on pogo stick legs.

This may be what is know as "body checking". Part of anorexia is having people talk about your body or your eating habits.

Even the kinds of comments along the lines of "omfg she's so thin she just looks corpse like and DISGUSTING" feed the voice inside anorexics and they consider it positive feedback.

If she's struggling with a binge/purge eating disorder, comments about how very little she eats are likely serving this purpose.

It's very sad

I have stupidly disproportionately small feet too but sadly I wouldn't say mine are elegant, more stubby and chubby!

It may not be fun but it does denote a relatively successful career. You don’t get many call centre workers going to Paris for meetings 😂

The local mum who boasts that they have no gadgets in the house, she hates electronics, can’t think of anything worse than kids glued to a screen. And of course their house is full of books, the kids can’t get enough of them.
Well funnily enough when your kids comes to our house he knows his way around the x-box extremely well.

DH and I both work in academia with the requisite qualifications to do so. DH has a colleague (who is significantly older and more established than we are in their career) who constantly talks about having a PhD as if they are the only one If he were newly viva'd we could understand it, but we are all just like, 'yes we know -- it's a requirement of the job!'

DC1 had a medical condition (to do with the muscles in his stomach) which meant I was advised to give up breast feeding. MIL told me it was a shame I had such small breasts (I subsequently fed two further DC) like this was the reason I had to give up breast feeding. She also bragged she had so much milk supply she fed all the babies in special care. How to make a first time mum feel like absolute crap...

Oh my fucking God. People who don't watch telly. What prats.

My job is watching telly. Just tell them it's a popular art form for the masses like Mozart was in the 18th century before he died and opera got expensive,

People on wedding threads that tell you how ‘everyone commented on how amazing the food was’ or ‘people still talk about it years later’

they are hardly going to tell you the dry chicken was shit are they…and they probably only talk about it when you bring it up

This may be what is know as "body checking". Part of anorexia is having people talk about your body or your eating habits.

@CandlelightGlow I understand that but it's not my problem to solve

Competitive under eating is strange to me. Maybe cos I eat loads:..

Ummm.. I didn't say it was? My post wasn't supposed to be accusatory, just explanatory. Blimey.

I work with a lady who is only 5 foot tall and regularly commented on how, because she’s small and her face so young looking she gets asked for ID and people think she looks 15. She’s 37… she looks around that age. Obviously we are polite but she says it a lot and I’m always baffled. She also talks about how beautiful her daughter is and she’s just so stunning and striking, she’s so proud… her daughter is 9 and pretty but in the same sense that 9 year old girls are quite cute and smiley. She looks normal to me. The way she goes on about her Dd feels like she’s saying her Dd is prettier than mine and I wouldn’t understand how that feels… obviously I think my own dds are beautiful but I’m not a twat about it! She thinks the dance company owner puts her in the front because she’s so pretty… er, well dd3 is in the front of all her dances and I think that’s because she’s the shortest. It’s all just very odd.

It's a sign of disordered thinking around food. It's miserable and joyless. I have several in my family. I know it's not their fault but it's not mine either and I'm totally over them trying to ruin occasions for everyone with it.

To be fair, it's got better as they've all got older and people just kept ignoring them or not inviting them to events because they knew they'd ruin them.

That pile of Weetabix powder, though...

They certainly would talk about the dry chicken if you brought it up!😄

To be fair to her, sounds like she wouldn’t remember if not was true or not 😉