# The stealth-bragging thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488 "2010-07-21T17:24:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/1 "2010-07-21T17:24:43Z")
Recently I’ve been accused of “stealth-bragging” in another [thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12710482&posted=1#post12710482) So I propose a fun little game here: post something, preferably a short paragraph or few sentences, that seems innocent enough but in reality is an attempt to impress people. Here we go: “You know, I never realized what a burden it would be to have three lovers simultaneously. It’s really, really hard to keep pace with all of them, and even though the sex is incredible, it tends to take a toll after a while.” ---
**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:** [July 21, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/2 "2010-07-21T17:43:23Z")
For the love of all that’s holy, I beseech you to change the title. SNEAK-BRAGGING! I’ve worked hard for that catch-phrase, and I won’t let DragonAsh bastardize it. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/3 "2010-07-21T18:09:33Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > For the love of all that’s holy, I beseech you to change the title. SNEAK-BRAGGING! > > I’ve worked hard for that catch-phrase, and I won’t let DragonAsh bastardize it. Unfortunately the window has closed for editing the title, it’s up to a Mod to do so. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/4 "2010-07-21T18:17:19Z")
In that case, I’m mad at you. So I will point out that your OP is SNEAK-bragging because it is linking to a thread that is really you sneak-bragging about how many women are after you and making out with you. It’s really hard for me to have to always be perceptive and smart enough to notice such things, because it alienates me from my fellow posters. ---
**Author:** ![klintypooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3da27b/32.png) [@klintypooh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/klintypooh)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/5 "2010-07-21T18:25:41Z")
I like the idea of this thread, I’ll post something witty later, I need to collect the Porsche first though. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/6 "2010-07-21T18:32:14Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > It’s really hard for me to have to always be perceptive and smart enough to notice such things, because it alienates me from my fellow posters. I can definitely sympathize with you, and it’s especially hard for me to do so with all of the distractions I endure, having all of these women pursuing me. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/7 "2010-07-21T19:28:38Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > For the love of all that’s holy, I beseech you to change the title. SNEAK-BRAGGING! Well, perhaps **Cuckoorex** defense was playing the same little translation game that I play. You know, when you take a phrase, translate into one language you know, then translate _that_ phrase into another language…etc etc… Sometimes things don’t always translate perfectly, and I found that if you run “Sneak-Bragging” through the nine languages I speak fluently, it comes out the other end as “Stealth-Bragging”. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/8 "2010-07-21T19:50:44Z")
I’ll respond when I get home from work - this company is going to go under if I don’t focus on my work right now. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/9 "2010-07-21T19:52:42Z")
Excuse the typos - my view of the screen was obscured as I was licking my eyebrows. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/10 "2010-07-21T19:52:49Z")
**Nzinga** is being robbed by the very existence of this thread. Mods, do what is right and change the title to SNEAK bragging. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/11 "2010-07-21T20:09:45Z")
Yeah, help **Nzinga** out. Sometimes it’s hard for women who don’t have DD breasts and a 24" waist to get what they want. I feel bad for those women. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/12 "2010-07-21T20:10:48Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Excuse the typos - my view of the screen was obscured as I was licking my eyebrows. That’s hilarious. Thanks for the support, Sleeps. I was sooo excited about my new board phrase catching on. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/13 "2010-07-21T20:32:21Z")
I’d change the thread title — if I could only find the time! I’ve got my country’s 500th birthday to plan, my wife to murder, and Guider to blame for it. I’m swamped! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/14 "2010-07-21T20:46:46Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > “You know, I never realized what a burden it would be to have three lovers simultaneously. It’s really, really hard to keep pace with all of them, and even though the sex is incredible, it tends to take a toll after a while.” You’ll find ways to manage it. You just adjust after a while. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/15 "2010-07-21T20:50:25Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > You’ll find ways to manage it. You just adjust after a while. Man, these posts are getting subtle. It is getting so that only the sharpest posters will really catch the bragging in these posts. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/16 "2010-07-21T21:02:58Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Man, these posts are getting subtle. It is getting so that only the sharpest posters will really catch the bragging in these posts. That’s what you think. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/17 "2010-07-21T21:31:33Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Yeah, help **Nzinga** out. Sometimes it’s hard for women who don’t have DD breasts and a 24" waist to get what they want. I feel bad for those women. Ya, both my girlfriends feel bad for them too. Maybe you guys could start a support group, my bedroom is available. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/18 "2010-07-21T21:40:11Z")
Boy, it sure is hot and humid lately. The other weekend (when I was playing a hundred hymns from memory to raise money for our church’s new organ) I could hardly keep my fingers from sticking to the keys. Most unpleasant. And every word of it true, too. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/19 "2010-07-21T21:49:38Z")
My organ frequently gets sticky, too. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/20 "2010-07-21T22:11:12Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > Ya, both my girlfriends feel bad for them too. Maybe you guys could start a support group . . . Can I join the Hawt Ladies’ support group, too? It’s tough in this world for us hawtties. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488.md?page=2)