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

[phonemouse]

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 agree with PP’s who find “I don’t take pills or any medication” people irritating. Then moan about their headache/backache, etc. I know a couple of those and they seem proud of their decisions to endure unnecessary pain!

Absolutely. So many of these are just fairly normal conversation/small talk. This is why I almost never reveal anything or say anything about myself to other people. Too many of them are nutters that are dying to twist and misinterpret a self-deprecating comment as a brag. 😂

When I come across someone that does genuinely try to boast a lot I usually find them really amusing. Sometimes if they’ve forgotten to do it for a while I’ll subtly prompt them to see what else they come up with. 😁

I used to work with a man who bought ( on credit ) a brand new jaguar car.
Now most people would say something like they've had to park in the next street, or they had to park the car in the bottom car park.
With him it was ' I had to park the Jag in the next street ' or ' I drove the Jag to blah and it purred down the motorway ' etc.
He had to insert ' the jag ' into everything.
How we laughed when it was repossessed from the car park at work because he'd failed his repayments 😂

I'm afraid I top you both with 11lb 15oz!

I don't do it all the time but the fact that I'm short is brought up more than you'd think. I'm also shrinking due to osteoporosis, so there's that mention too. So, yeah. I may well be odd but this isn't part of my oddness.

Brother often boasts about how late he stays up 'marking' and lesson planning i.e till.3.30am?? Wtf

He's been saying the same thing for twenty years, has he not improved at this job for twenty years??? Like it's a good thing to stay up all hours

What’s wrong with being tiny? Sizeist

Nothing wrong with being any size. Tall, short or regular, it doesn't matter. If everybody looked the same it would be a bloody boring.

I can't abide the alabaster/porcelain brigade either. As well as the 'DD has the most gorgeous, stunning copper ringlets' people. As nice as her hair may be, it is ginger and curly. Nothing wrong with that at all but FFS...

The giveaway is surely that these topics are apparently coming up naturally in conversation all the time.

Can’t recall ever having a conversation about the size of my wrist, or anyone else’s, at any time ever. Unsure how one’s height or weight could be coming up constantly in conversation either.

Narrow / small / dainty feet are pretty. So what if your MIL is proud? It’s her Mum privilege.

I do not understand the “I’m tiny” one at all as a boast?!
I’m 5ft and if I’ve ever said “I’m tiny” it with an eyeroll or embarassed because I’m reminding someone I can’t reach something or see something because I’m SHORT! 😂

What have I just read 😳

This was a grown man whose mum would take a dump while he was in the bath?!? Jesus Christ 😧

I was going away on a girls weekend and had bought a LOVELY one piece swimsuit. One of the girls had got wind of this and came up to me and said “oh I hope you haven’t gone for a one piece because you feel insecure about yourself next to me!”

Amazing, no mate, funnily enough!

My former friend boasting that she and her husband never argue and the kids would be shocked if they raised their voices. My husband and I were arguing all the time at that point.

some women are so weirdly competitive about everything. She was also competitive about how thick her hair was (mine’s much thicker and she was amazed this was the case)

My mother in law does this also, like it's some moral failing to watch TV. Ditto with certain foods 'oh that's far too sweet for me' said in a superior manner.

Oh god yes this! It usually starts with look how tiny your baby is compared to mine! (They do this even when my son is exactly the same size if not bigger then theirs, it's really bizarre and makes it v awkward as I have no idea how to respond).

The posters who honestly believe they look 10 or even 20 years younger than they actually are.

I have a relative who does this and the whole tiny thing. I couldn't fit in children's clothes from about 12 onwards and I have a large frame with huge wrists and very wide feet! 😄 i might start bragging about my huge wrists.

People who don’t read and are strangely proud of this fact and like to interrupt me reading (eg on the train / waiting for a bus) to tell me this. Thanks for that, now I don’t have the time to read either…

My mother (completely NC for 18 happy years and counting) is a huge narc and will naturally boast at every opportunity.

She also boasted all the time how she didn't need makeup and how she looked naturally beautiful and how women "who pile it on with a trough are just gilding the lily" etc.

Well, I don't know what kind of mirror she had, but she had purple bags under her eyes to match those Quality Street chocolates, and a lifelong habit of 20-a-day had left her with a dull, grey-tinged complexion by the time she was 40! Naturally, I never once dared to point those things out...

I had terrible hormonal skin problems from the minute I hit puberty until only a few years ago - instead of doing anything to actually help me when I was a greasy, spotty teen, she delighted in informing me on countless occasions of how she "never got spots" and how clear and naturally matte her skin was when she was my age. 🙄

Exactly.

Sometimes a factual statement might be seen as a boast by someone who either wouldn't volunteer similar information about themselves publicly or, you know, might be a bit insecure?

The number of people here who got huffy because a commenter (was it OP?) described themselves as "tiny" was strange to say the least! Some people are shorter or thinner than others, it's just how things are!

Competitive Mum I knew weaved into any conversation, no matter what subject, that she and her "super-bright" 3 year old were on the Suzuki Method violin programme.

(Where the parent learns an instrument alongside the child, leading by example).

"I practise by constant repetition"

"Don't you just..."
<me, silently>

@LittleLentils
Must be hard having a conversation with anyone considering any topic/preference/observation is seen as bragging

Fair point.
But in my example above, that wretched woman banged on about her accelerated violin practice so frequently that it truly became impossible to discuss any other topics!

I can't stand the I work 80 hrs a week and never take a break people. It's like congratulations on having no life and abandoning your family. Well done 👏👏