Driving off someone from being online, as a troll, because it gives you a thrill.

This is an awfully specific flex, but it is a flex nonetheless, that people do feel to boast about. Because it’s just another form of a power-trip. Congratulations, you’ve driven away someone who could’ve been a contributory member of a community to make yourself feel better by orchestrating lies, performing witch hunts and huddling with your troll buddies in ways to figure out how to process this.

There’s nothing prideful about this to flex over.

      • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
        38·
        6 days ago

        On a related note, as a parent I think school perfect attendance awards are perverse. Congratulations, we’re rewarding a kid for being a disease vector and being sent to school miserable and snotty, or at best making other kids feel less-than because they received proper treatment and isolation. I would guess that the average perfect attendance kids costs the rest of the school at least half a dozen absences per year.

        • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          21·
          5 days ago

          As a kid I also hated the perfect attendance award because

          1. My mom was really into it and made me go to school when i was sick
          2. I was always the only one who was awarded it and the other kids already thought i was weird
          3. Not as great a reason, but my best friend in elementary school told me that sometimes his parents gave him a day off school so he could do something fun with them :/
      • Grimy@lemmy.world
        18·
        6 days ago

        That gets other people sick and is counter productive too. You end being sicker for longer, it’s a loss for you and the company. It’s just dumb.

        • davidgro@lemmy.world
          8·
          6 days ago

          One of the contracts I worked wouldn’t pay out holidays if I missed more than a day in the prior 2 months or some such. So in protest I vowed to come in to work no matter how sick I was. Even brought a change of clothes in case I’d need it.

          Then of course I didn’t get sick again until after the contract ended.

          • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            6·
            5 days ago

            My friend working retail figured out that if he came to work obviously disgustingly sick, they’d send him home.

            What I didnt realize is that if you did it that way, it didn’t count as “calling out sick”.

            When I actually did call out sick a few times because i had a cold, my sick days got brought up at my performance review, which affected the tiny incremental raises we got. I said should i do it like <emoloyee> and bring my germs to work? And they said don’t try to be like <employee>, he’s always figuring out the loopholes.

  • aburrito@sh.itjust.works
    604·
    6 days ago

    “Oh I don’t understand politics” or “oh I don’t do politics” that’s embarrassing.

    See also “I don’t see race”.

    Ignorance isn’t a defense or a flex, that’s on you.

    • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      6 days ago

      I say “I don’t do politics”, but that’s because I don’t feel like discussing politics with the person I’m saying it to.

      If you’re in my inner circle or are paying attention to my online posts, you know my political stances very well.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      5 days ago

      One notable exception I’ve encountered; Liberal women will say that on their dating profile. Dated hot and heavy a few years back, in a very red county. “I don’t talk politics” was code for “Keep your MAGA shit to yourself.”

      On the phone with a potential date, laughed and said, “Well, I’m kind of a redneck.”

      “…just how redneck?”

      “I fucking loathe Donald Trump if that’s what you’re asking.”

      “Oh! Whew. Just had to ask.”

      She was a really neat woman, but it didn’t work out for long.

      • aburrito@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        5 days ago

        Race isn’t real the same way money isn’t. Try saying “money isn’t real” to a homeless person and see how that works out

  • CombatWombat@feddit.onlineEnglish
    50·
    6 days ago

    “I got 12 femtoseconds of sleep last night”

    Okay, but like turn off your phone and go to bed, that’s super bad for you and you are intolerable because you’re grumpy from not sleeping

    • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
      181·
      6 days ago

      It’s literally misery Olympics with my mom about sleep. I can’t mention anything about sleep without her cutting me off trying to 1-up me.

      Me: I got called and had to remote in for work last night, didn’t get to bed until after 4a…

      Mom: Welcome to my world I was awake until after 5 and maybe got only 2 hours of sleep so I sat up in bed with my iPad on full brightness reading

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      5 days ago

      I’ll only mention that at work so people know why I’m stupid and irritable and I precede it with an apology.

  • one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish
    401·
    6 days ago

    Pretending you don’t know how to use a computer or a smartphone nowadays. It’s not the 70s/80s/90s anymore, you look stupid. Same with books as if they were boring devices for nerds.

    • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
      4·
      5 days ago

      I got that outcome from MB a couple of times and happened across an entire INTJ web forum. It was a hive of insufferable incel twats. Next time I did business person astrology I got a different result.

      • EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.appEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        I don’t understand the strong drive people have to be put into a box in general. I get how getting a result that says only 2% of the population share it and that can make you feel unique and rare, but it’s still really stripping away a lot of the complexity of being human, no?

        I remember getting ENTJ as a young teenager that completely bought that this was real and valid and being low key kinda hurt and trying not to show it.

  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
    22·
    5 days ago

    This one drives me crazy:

    “I am TOP contributer of the community support!” … for a multi biliion dollar company

    That is nothing to be proud of. That just means the vendor sucks and you are free labor.

  • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
    271·
    6 days ago

    Waking up extremely eary, something like 4 a.m.

    Either that is your regular sleep cycle or you trained yourself to fight your regular sleep schedule. That isn’t impressive any more than staying up until 4 a.m. is impressive.

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      Overall I agree, but it can depend. If you put in a bunch of work to build, design, or restore a car then that’s worthy of bragging. But if you’re just some jagoff who simply bought a mustang, then it’s just weird to brag about

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 days ago

        Hah, I bought a car that will leave your rustang in the dust! More power, but enough tr toon control that I won’t put it in the ditch

        … for example

  • aburrito@sh.itjust.works
    193·
    6 days ago

    If they don’t like cats, and the reason they give is “they’re mean”. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

  • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    5 days ago

    “fluent in sarcasm”

    No, you’re an emotionally stunted and terrified human that cannot engage in a genuine way

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      5 days ago

      My all-time favorite GunTuber, Paul Harrell, was a household name among gun enthusiasts. Anyone serious about the topic was well versed on Paul’s videos and reputation, a “household” name so to speak.

      His presentations were fascinating as they were done in the classic teaching format, no hype, no braggadocio, no opinions, no politics. Sprinkle some dry humor in as well! He presented topics as scientifically as he was able, and made any imperfect comparisons clear.

      Paul didn’t hit 1M subscribers until he was nearly dead, only because we all “chipped in” after his cancer diagnosis. He never once asked us to “Like and subscribe!”, because he didn’t give a shit. He was there to educate.

      His last video was simply titled, “I’m dead.” I’m getting weepy again. Here’s the sort of man he was:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-gZuFcEu0E

      Notice he doesn’t cut the video once. He practised every presentation until he could give it without interruption. That’s a level of dedication to his audience I have not seen since. Paul cared about what he was doing, and he respected us, his viewers.

      Anyway, we followers weren’t fake.

      • mangaskahn@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 days ago

        Someone new has taken over the channel. I haven’t watched any of the new videos yet, kind of feels a little disrespectful to me that they would continue his channel instead of starting their own, but I guess if they keep the same quality and feel, it could work out well.