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Why do people boast and brag...
« on: August 03, 2012, 05:51:04 AM »
...about being able to speak English? It isn't a very difficult language, which is also proven by the fact that about half the population of the planet can speak understandable English to some degree.

You can boast and brag about being able to speak Old Greek and Latin and even French and German (though in that case you should at least be able to quote French or German authors and philosophers correctly), but boasting and bragging about English is just stupid.  :thumbdn:

Give more examples of stupid things that people feel "pride" about.

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Re: Why do people boast and brag...
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2012, 06:55:33 AM »
Neurotypicality, towards spesh people.

I find boasting pretty pathetic usually. There are things worth feeling pride over, and that do give some boasting rights, achievements. When people just go all out to make themselves feel like the big man to others, thats just wierd and stupid.


What else....

Islam. I've noticed that many of the very dirtiest pakis boast about how 'good' a muslim they are, and how islamic they are. As if its some sort of achievement to wank themselves off over allah, sort of as if they feel somehow special about being another one of the god knows how many billion muslims there are on the face of the earth there are. Other religions are guilty of the same, but islamites seem particularly prone to this particular sickness. It strikes me as strange, when religious people boast of how much more religious they think themselves to be compared to others of the same (or different) religions.

Hey everybody! look at me, look how much I believe in my personal favourite fairytale. Not sure if I find hardcore atheist boasting more, or less pathetic, or pathetic to the same degree as religiomania, but I find it pretty stupid.
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Re: Why do people boast and brag...
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2012, 07:23:54 AM »
Being LGBT. Who cares if you are gay, yes there are some places that discriminate against you and that but on the whole you're pretty much accepted. Loads of people have come out now, yes it used to be a big thing to be gay but now it's so normal. So what if you're a guy who likes guys - does it make you better than a straight person? No. Does it make you unusual? No. Are you really any different than a straight person? No.

People who go on and on about their sexuality make me wish I was straight. It's embarrassing to be associated with them. Surely there's more to their personalities than who they want to sleep with?

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Re: Why do people boast and brag...
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2012, 09:41:59 AM »
I can speak passable English and that makes me awesome.  I even have a degree in it.

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Re: Why do people boast and brag...
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2012, 09:50:17 AM »
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Re: Why do people boast and brag...
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2012, 05:35:40 PM »
I can speak passable English and that makes me awesome.  I even have a degree in it.

  I speak awesome English but I don't have a degree in it.  I suck.  :bigcry:
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Re: Why do people boast and brag...
« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2012, 09:30:39 PM »


I talk English gooder than you.

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Re: Why do people boast and brag...
« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2012, 02:50:18 AM »
I writes English good.
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Re: Why do people boast and brag...
« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2012, 02:51:38 AM »
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Re: Why do people boast and brag...
« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2012, 02:52:21 AM »
I'm also very handsome. :zoinks:
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Re: Why do people boast and brag...
« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2012, 02:52:43 AM »
 :agreed:

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Re: Why do people boast and brag...
« Reply #11 on: August 05, 2012, 10:37:30 PM »
Me English good speak.

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Re: Why do people boast and brag...
« Reply #12 on: August 05, 2012, 11:00:32 PM »
People bragging about their kids over stupid things. Like bragging about their newborns walking or taking their first step when all they are doing is holding their legs on the table and the muscle spasms is making them take steps and the parent moves them across the table or bragging about their child saying their first word when it was just a jibberish word and not a real word. I have seen so many silly brags on Babycenter by parents and to me that is not even a step they took nor a first word they spoke. Some people have made fun of those parents about it in some snarky threads by posting their exaggerating stories they would make up as a joke. I have also seen parents brag about their newborns smiling and I know that is not even a smile, that is just muscle spasms so it makes them smile.

Really, I do not understand the pride in this stuff that is so normal and not even a mildstone.



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Re: Why do people boast and brag...
« Reply #13 on: August 06, 2012, 07:43:33 AM »
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I have also seen parents brag about their newborns smiling and I know that is not even a smile, that is just muscle spasms so it makes them smile.

My daughter smiled a lot when she was just a few days old.  Even the doctors and nurses at the hospital noticed how much she smiled.

So there.  :smarty:


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Re: Why do people boast and brag...
« Reply #14 on: August 06, 2012, 10:16:42 AM »
Really, I do not understand the pride in this stuff that is so normal and not even a mildstone.

I don't think any of us are surprised that you don't take pride in your child.  I wonder if the people raising him do.  I hope so.