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 🤣🤣

Someone telling me they knew ‘flex’ was a word from listening to ‘getting jiggy with it’ in 1997.

I thought it came from muscle flexing.

I'm retired now, but used to run my own business. I met a friend of mine for a quick coffee one day, and she introduced me to another friend of hers. When I said that I had to get back to work, her friend said "Oh that's a shame. My husband earns enough so that I don't have to work." 🙄

My friend told me last night "oh I don't buy hardback books" in a gloaty smug way. As if they're inferior.

I immediately thought of this thread 😂

Problem is though, I don't get it. Lol!

She might mean they're more expensive so she's saving money?

Yes, totally reasonable. Did she actually say she didn't buy softback/paperback? That would make more sense as a boast.

@Gwenhwyfar she only buys paperback and refuses to buy hardbacks. Even if it's a 50p second-hand book from a charity shop.

Still don't get it 😂

Well, I'm kind of the same. Paperbacks are cheaper and easier to stuff into a handbag. I'll only buy a hardback if there's no other option.

It's probably been said on the thread already so apologies in advance, but competitive undereating. Specifically, not actually undereating but claiming a teeny tiny appetite. Such as my SIL, who on every occasion, will claim to have such a small appetite that she couldn't possibly have a starter, can't possibly eat an entire main course etc etc. Literally every family occasion if we're eating out. But then eats as much as everyone else. Why? Who cares?? Obviously me because I'm posting about it now but anyhow.....

@Newname221 I work in a healthcare setting and regularly see babies if all ages, and yes, I have seen babies that young that are being massively over fed and are overweight as a result. It's not 'fat shaming' it's a health issue.

Actually a chubby baby (the Michelin man!) is a sign of good health. Children under the age of 2-3 get most of their energy from fat and it is essential for brain development. It’s a slim, skinny baby that’s a worrying and unnatural sight.
Even toddlers should have a good amount of subcutaneous fat.
Are you sure you work in healthcare?

At three weeks old? Lol no. I notice you say that you work in a healthcare setting, not that you are a healthcare professional.

Id be interested to see a healthcare professional weigh in if three week old babies can be so overweight their health is at risk, purely due to overfeeding of formula.

They definitely clean a doctors surgery/are a receptionist or similar.

All babies should be fed on demand.

My babies are both slender (extremely so - ny son in particular is on the 98th centile for height and the 9th for weight) so I’m not at all defensive about this, but @MarvellousMonsters ia flat out wrong.

My MIL shouts very loudly about only having a salad, and how she couldn't possibly manage anything, and then eats all of the chips off her husband's plate, and my husband's, and the children's.

Then she does the same with their desserts. My FIL refuses to sit next to her in restaurants for this reason.

She is a normal, fine weight, maybe slightly overweight.

She did this even when I was in the grip of severe anorexia and permanently blue with a BMI of 15.

@Bamboux this is exactly what SIL is like, and similarly whilst not necessarily overweight, is definitely not slim. So bizarre, I just can't fathom the motivation behind it. Sorry to hear that you were so unwell and hope that you are better now, it really is specularly insensitive of your MIL to carry on like that in those circumstances 💐.

Thank you. I really appreciate that. I am a lot better now, not fully recovered but a normal weight, but it really fucking stung when I was trying my best not to let my kids realise that I was purging everything i ever ate, and she would be telling my (4 year old) daughter that "Granny is being naughty and having some of your chocolate cake", "Granny will get a fat tummy if she has another biscuit" or whatever.

Some of my MIL's other high points during the worst of my ED was drawing everyone's attention to the fact that I had weighed myself (at 6am, downstairs) by saying she had heard the scales beeping and asking if it was "good or bad news?", and telling me I would never get back into my pre-pregnancy clothes when I was 2 weeks post-partum (of course that kicked off an even more severe restriction cycle).

One that I was only involved with from the side lines:

A friend whose dd was struggling with maths phoned me up and asked if I could help because her dd had had a homework question she couldn't understand. Her dd had asked the teacher for clarification and been told not to be so stupid and "of course" she could do it and if she didn't she'd get a detention.
Her dd was quite upset.

So she brought the question round and straight away I could see the problem. it didn't actually make mathematical sense. To do it using the logic of the particular maths subject there was a contradiction. You could do it using basic number work in some ways, but it then meant (due to the contradiction) there were actually two possible solutions if you used two different ways of solving it.

So I spent some time explaining this to the dd, who understood it and wrote a very good homework piece showing the two solutions and explaining why it didn't work.

Apparently the teacher wasn't impressed. I heard from the TA later that she made quite a fuss and ended up stating that "no parent would know more than me about maths-I did my teacher training with maths."
TA thought this was quite funny. She suggested I sent a reply signing it with my degree-a masters in maths. 🤣

Sorry, poor formatting on my post! The friends were saying 'the midwife said I had gold top milk!' Not the MW saying it to me🙂

Thank you! Sorry, I didn't write my post very clearly - the friends were saying 'the midwife said I had gold top milk!' It wasnt the MW saying it to me 🙂
Anyway, DS ended up nice and fat once we cracked BFing!

My late MiL used to say she was surprised that I didn't have flat feet considering how heavy i was (am) 🫠

This has reminded me of the time dh and I were in a pub and a random man began talking to us. He told us that he was a widow, fair enough, then spent the next 20 minutes telling us that she weighed 7.5 stone on their wedding day.

I used to work with a woman who started bringing old family photos to work when she realised she was married to my mother's cousin.
One day she brought in her wedding photos and announced "I weighed eight stone then"(she was very overweight when I met her).

Not knowing how to react I just nodded,she shook the photo at me and demanded that I 'say something' so nineteen year old me blurted out "You don't weigh eight stone now do you"?

My mil is very nice. I get on well with her and like her a lot. However, she does centre her daughter and those grandkids over her sons (inc dh) and those grandkids. SIL is same ages as me give or take a couple months - 48.

We don't see them often but DH speaks to her quite frequently. Yesterday they were chatting and MIL kindly asked how I was doing so dh decided to update her on my perimenopause as you do. He then got very aggrieved because she kept saying how SIL had hers 'ages ago' and 'flew through it' (she absolutely didn't poor thing).

DH then had an argument with her about boasting about his sisters abilities to menopause better than me! He was most offended

That was a weird story to come home to

I'm howling at this! Was quite happily being faintly amused at most of these posts but then totally visualised the screamings that followed the poke. Love it. Absolutely love it.

Oooh you fucker!!!

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