To find unnecessary boasting vulgar and cringe worthy?

[poshsinglemum]

It also depends on what people boast about.

I don't have so much of a problem with people boasting about their kids as they are all wonderful and I can take it with a big pinch of salt.

I have a friend, however, who is always boasting about how massive her house is. I know- I have been there lots. I don't need her to tell me. Mabe I am a bit bitter because my house is so tiny. I genuinely didn't feel bad about having a ssmaller house than her but when I spoke to her on the phone the other day she kept going on about her ''massive'' house (again)and how lucky she was.
Not only do I now feel inferior but I have decided that people who boast in order to make me feel small are indeed being vulgar.

So there!

All boasting boasting is very annoying, though I sometimes wonder if the boasters actually realise they are doing it. DH has a new-ish colleague who everyone has noticed is doing this.
Most of it gets laughed off, but it is now starting to get on his nerves. Because she manages to bring the amount of money her and her DH spend into every office conversation.

The one that really p*ed DH off was when she said that her salary (which is same as DH) is just her 'pocket money'

FGS, our family have to LIVE on that as do most of the other employees there. So if she DOES know what she's saying, that makes her quite an unfeeling person, or she genuinely doesn't realise she's doing it.

Oh no, I disagree, veiled posting is the best of all. Because then I can say some complete understatement (or even an outright lie) about my own comparable situation, just so I can watch for the glint of smuggery in their eyes as they make the mental comparison and conclude that they are better off.

If I don't see the glint, they weren't intending to boast and I can forgive. But if it was a deliberate veiled boast because I see that glint, I get to feel smug that I've caught them out .