How do the leaves grow so fast?
Lots of males brag about stupid risks they have taken, particularly driving over the speed limit and driving drunk. I know a fair number of female routine speeders and tailgaters but they don’t seem to brag about it.
Lots of people brag about how terrible they are at math. Unfortunately, with much justification.
We have an executive who refers to knowing that 0.85 X 1.15 < 1 as “advanced math” that people can’t be expected to know.
He’s a FINANCE executive!
Don’t think it’s a regional thing so much, but I’ve encountered lots of folks who seem to take pride in having a bad temper.
Bad health.
Many people like to brag about the number and severity of their medical problems.
Tom: I’ve got diabetes and an infected ingrown toenail.
Dick: Oh, that’s nothing, I’ve got dropsy, walking corpse syndrome, and I’m a bed-wetter!
Harry: Pshaw, you guys have it easy, I’ve got paranoid schizophrenia, severe acne, locked-in syndrome, and a candirú penis burrowing fish swam up my urethra—backwards!
A lot of places like to claim that their state bird is the mosquito.
Competitive bragging like that reminds me of the “Four Yorkshiremen” sketch.
The problem with the weather in Syracuse is if you go by the Old Farmer’s Almanac weather prediction, they divide the country into regional zones. Syracuse is right smack in the middle of three of them. So anything can happen. (Most of Florida, in comparison, the southern peninsula part, is covered by just one zone.) But climate change has made things even more difficult. Syracuse used to be the snowiest. Last year we were way low for snowfall. This year, Buffalo to the west has already been totally buried under snow and we’re had just a smattering.
I love this sketch. Lol.
Yup. Very true. Buffalo has been getting slammed a lot lately, while we here in Syracuse have had low snowfall for the past couple of years.
O.k. that’s Marty Feldman on the right. Who’s the guy on the left?
Tim Brooke-Taylor.
The one that always surprises me is when people bragging about overworking.
“I worked 10-16 hours a day for the past 2 years. I worked even when I was sick, and didn’t take a single day’s vacation!”
How is that something to be proud of? I don’t get it. Heck sometimes people brag about this over a lifetime. I’ve seen people be like “I worked 30 years for the same company. I worked when I was sick. I worked at least 10 hour a day. Usually more.”
My thought is “Dude, work to live, don’t live to work.”
I work in the electrical field. Some people love to brag about the times when they’ve been shocked.
This should be the End-Of-Thread. Bragging about bad things is the same thing as boasting about how tough you are, because you happen to live in region, have [y] upbringing or whatever.
There is a lot of social media content that boils down to: My dog is badly trained, ain’t it cute.
No, it is not
Did he? Did he try to eat your dinner from the table and smash a plate in the process? Did he look all guilty about it? You’re a bad owner then aren’t you. Train your dog.
I live in Indianapolis. My brother lives in LA. The first time I visited him there, and drove a rental car, I couldn’t believe how easy it was to drive there, and how pleasant other drivers were compared to Indianapolis, where everyone seems to be pretending they’re Michael Andretti.
I never pull out on a green arrow here without checking carefully that someone isn’t running the red in the other direction.
I don’t think we have a reputation for bragging about our horrible traffic is, though.
We brag about how many potholes we hit on the way to work.
A friend in high school would always brag about “how high he was” after smoking a joint. Yea… shut the fuck up.
The waiter serving the drinks is also very interesting. That’s Barry Cryer, a genius writer how was basically a fixture in British comedy since the 1960s. He wrote for everyone, contributed countless one-liners to the ‘News Review’ programs, and was one of the founding members of I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue.
He also had a No 1 hit in Finland with Purple People Eater.
I think it’s less outright bragging, per se, as one-upmanship…“you think your traffic is bad?”