# You're proud of \*that\*?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 13, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851 "2008-06-13T20:22:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851/41 "2008-06-14T06:17:26Z")
[QUOTE=Cicero] I had a friend who was extremely proud of his capacity to break wind in lifts at will. Now that is something to be proud of. [/QUOTE] The real challenge is to do it in a revolving door. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851/42 "2008-06-14T06:27:25Z")
I’m proud of the fact I can… OOF! Sorry. I just fell. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851/43 "2008-06-14T07:21:36Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] I don’t know about actual superiority, but it is usually a good indicator of a superior _attitude_. 😃 [/QUOTE] Eh–all the people I know IRL who don’t have a TV are, in fact, kind of superior people, and not much attitude at all. There don’t seem to be many of them, though. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851/44 "2008-06-14T07:24:25Z")
[QUOTE=FairyChatMom] I gotta agree - poo pride is a bit out there… _\_ OK, one of my own, tho I generally don’t make a big deal about it. In my first engineering job, I never ever wore a dress or a skirt to work. Of course, the job involved a lot of climbing in and on airplanes, working with the guys in the machine shops, the welding shop, and the plating facility, so it wasn’t exactly a dressing-up place, but even when I knew I’d be at my desk all day, I kept my pants on. 😃 Besides, I hate having to wear dresses. [/QUOTE] I haven’t worn a dress or skirt since 1981. I guess I’m proud about that to a degree. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2008, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851/45 "2008-06-14T07:31:53Z")
[QUOTE=dwyr] I haven’t worn a dress or skirt since 1981. I guess I’m proud about that to a degree. [/QUOTE] May I ask why? Usually I equate being proud with having accomplished something. I’m honestly confused about what is being accomplished except that you didn’t wear something you obviously don’t want to wear. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851/46 "2008-06-14T07:51:31Z")
[QUOTE=FairyChatMom] I remember that verbiage from Crest - I think it was recited on their TV commercials, too. Then one day, I heard another toothpaste use the same phrase and I thought it was pretty crummy of them to steal from Crest! [/QUOTE] My brother was proud of that fact when we were kids. I’m pretty proud of the fact that I wore shorts for an entire year every day. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Them](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Them](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Them)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851/47 "2008-06-14T07:57:50Z")
I’m proud that I’ve done so much ridiculous/illegal crap, that I can tell the truth and nobody believes me. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851/48 "2008-06-14T08:25:24Z")
[QUOTE=Sleeps With Butterflies] Usually I equate being proud with having accomplished something. I’m honestly confused about what is being accomplished except that you didn’t wear something you obviously don’t want to wear. [/QUOTE] Same to people who are proud of never having watched X program, or read X book, or listened to X singer… You’re proud of doing something millions of people have done without putting any effort into it. For example: I’ve never read The DaVinci Code either, because the entire premise annoys me. I don’t consider this a mark in my favour, OR against the people who have read it. Chances are, you’re into something I consider as stupid as I do that book. Chances are something I’m into looks as ludicrous to you. ‘I didn’t do something I think I would not have enjoyed’ is NOT an accomplishment, unless people were actively shoving the book into your hands and demanding you read it. ---
**Author:** ![Moglet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Moglet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moglet)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851/49 "2008-06-14T09:07:08Z")
[QUOTE=Tengu] Same to people who are proud of never having watched X program, or read X book, or listened to X singer… … ‘I didn’t do something I think I would not have enjoyed’ is NOT an accomplishment, unless people were actively shoving the book into your hands and demanding you read it. [/QUOTE] Well, exactly. We’re talking about stuff that other people wouldn’t find to be proudworthy. You’re proud of _that_?? ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851/50 "2008-06-14T09:23:18Z")
[QUOTE=dwyr] I haven’t worn a dress or skirt since 1981. I guess I’m proud about that to a degree. [/QUOTE] I think we should all give **dwyr** a round of applause for managing to kick the transvestitism habit and keeping it kicked for all these years. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851/51 "2008-06-14T10:17:24Z")
[QUOTE=Sleeps With Butterflies] I’m honestly confused about what is being accomplished except that you didn’t wear something you obviously don’t want to wear. [/QUOTE] In my case, it’s about opposing expectations. I was working in the south and people \*seemed \* to expect women to be all girly and want to be prettified. That could have been my own skewed interpretation based upon a small sampling - I didn’t say logic was involved. Similarly, when I was in college, one year I got rid of all my jeans. I refused to clad my legs in denim because everyone was doing it. Sheep! They were all sheep, placidly caving into pressure to conform and wear jeans. Anyway, the pride, such as it is, comes from bucking the system. “I showed _Them_!” Even if \*They \* neither knew nor cared. Yeah, I know, it’s stupid. Still, it’s part of my charm… 😃 And I do occasionally don a dress, sometimes voluntarily. And after that one stupid year, jeans came back into my wardrobe. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851/52 "2008-06-14T11:09:49Z")
[QUOTE=FairyChatMom] Can you top that? [/QUOTE] Well, I don’t know if this “tops” it, per se, but we have a fluourescent light in the ceiling of our kitchen that was on 24/7 for 10 years _without having to change the bulbs._ Takes too long for the ballast to warm up, and it’s kind of hard for me to reach, so we just leave it on. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851/53 "2008-06-14T11:29:42Z")
My husband’s brother married into a family where hitting an old lady in the head with a puck is not only okay, but something to take pride in and brag about. :rolleyes: And where they duct-tape possibly gangrenous wounds instead of seeing the doctor. Do I win? ---
**Author:** ![Vihaga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Vihaga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vihaga)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851/54 "2008-06-14T12:01:44Z")
[QUOTE=Hilarity N. Suze] Eh–all the people I know IRL who don’t have a TV are, in fact, kind of superior people, and not much attitude at all. There don’t seem to be many of them, though. [/QUOTE] I need to find this non-TV owning crowd of people who _aren’t_ insufferable. I have to admit, I’m skeptical about its existence. Mine is when people brag about petty meanness. People I went to school with would brag about being meaner to and harder on students than the other teaching assistants, as an example. I’ve heard people boast about screwing other people out of parking spaces, cutting lines, scamming stores; it’s not just wrong, it’s _tiny_ wrongness. (Not that I think you should brag about being an evil overlord, either.) ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851/55 "2008-06-14T13:44:44Z")
I’ve heard mothers brag about the fact that their sons have “never touched a dishcloth” or even “never entered the kitchen”. Do they expect to be congratulated for raising parasites and unleashing them on us poor unsuspecting women? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![BlackNGold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@BlackNGold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackNGold)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851/56 "2008-06-14T14:06:07Z")
[QUOTE=Faruiza] … my mother said something about having the back of the Crest (toothpaste) tube memorized… “Crest has been shown to be an effective decay preventive dentifrice when used in a concientiously applied program of oral hygeine and regular professional care.” -Council on Dental Theraputics, American Dental Association [/QUOTE] It probably says something that you have this memorized and I have these: The Budweiser Pledge “This is the famous Budweiser beer…” The Rolling Rock Bottle “From the glass-lined tanks of old Latrobe…” Even though neither was my preferred brand for any period of time. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851/57 "2008-06-14T15:21:55Z")
[QUOTE=Vihaga] Mine is when people brag about petty meanness. [/QUOTE] I worked with a man ages ago who used to like telling stories that began “Before I became a Christian…” wherein he described such activities as passing closely beside a bicyclist along the road and either smacking him or flinging something into the spokes. It wasn’t as if he was confessing - he was laughing about it! yeah, ha ha so funny. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851/58 "2008-06-14T17:19:40Z")
[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady] I work with a guy who is proud of the fact that he shot a dog that had come into his yard. He was “protecting his children”. Since it was midnight, said children were in the house asleep. So this unprintable unmentionable is off firing a pistol in a residential neighborhood for the fun of shooting a dog who is not doing a damed bit of harm. I already didn’t care much for this guy. I really dislike him now. [/QUOTE] I’ve met way too many people who are proud of “protecting their family” by cutting the heads off of snakes with a shovel. Not snakes that were doing anything wrong or even were venomous, but were just snakes being snakes. Most of them live near some sort of nature preserve or wildlife area, which is what makes it sad. :mad: What makes it worse is that these people move there to “be closer to nature.” Fucktards. I’m also amazed at people who are proud of having a house so big that they cannot afford to put up artwork on the walls or at least have a bookshelf with books on it somewhere. I can’t imagine living in a house where either issue is present, and I am vaguely disturbed when seeing houses like this on television. Most of the people I knew in college made at least a modest attempt at decorating their spaces, even when we were in the dorms. Blank walls everywhere = disturbed people in my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851/59 "2008-06-14T17:28:48Z")
[QUOTE=Lissla Lissar] My husband’s brother married into a family where hitting an old lady in the head with a puck is not only okay, but something to take pride in and brag about. :rolleyes: And where they duct-tape possibly gangrenous wounds instead of seeing the doctor. Do I win? [/QUOTE] What was the occasion for the hockey puck? Do they belong to a senior citizen’s hockey league or something? I am not proud enough of my own feces to brag or anything, but I have cleared out my share of toilets. And I felt the urge to shake the hand of my daughter’s friend based on her last production. I would not have believed a sixteen-year-old girl had that kind of capacity. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Mrs\_Johnson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Johnson)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851/60 "2008-06-14T17:36:02Z")
I’m proud of never watching Desperate Housewives or Sex and The City. I’m also proud that I’ve never so much as touched a cigarette. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-proud-of-that/452851.md?page=4)