# Do people brag more on the Dope than in real life? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 13, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-brag-more-on-the-dope-than-in-real-life/567478 "2011-01-13T17:24:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-brag-more-on-the-dope-than-in-real-life/567478/41 "2011-01-14T11:31:05Z")
Oh yeah. I don’t want to give examples (hey, that would be bragging) but what **pdts** describes absolutely works for Spain. Nothing like being able to shut up a braggart with a bigger and easily-provable acomplishment. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-brag-more-on-the-dope-than-in-real-life/567478/42 "2011-01-14T13:43:04Z")
> [@put\_down\_the\_sabre](#): > > …First, you get to smugly listen when an American is going on about themselves. It’s quite nice to think “what a fool, he’s going on about Cornell like it’s impressive, little does he know I went to Harvard”… This is why I feel embarrassed and weird around folks that brag too much (occasional honest bragging is fine…“Hey! My kid just won the chess competition! I’m so proud!”). I often feel like, as you are standing here going on and on about your high IQ, it is very possible that others’ IQ in the room trump yours. And they have the good sense not to keep ‘innocently’ wedging that number into conversations that have nothing to do with IQs. Cringe-worthy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-brag-more-on-the-dope-than-in-real-life/567478.md?page=2)