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What are some weird flexes that people are proud of, but shouldn't be? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
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Driving off someone from being online, as a troll, because it gives you a thrill.

This is an awfully specific flex, but it is a flex nonetheless, that people do feel to boast about. Because it's just another form of a power-trip. Congratulations, you've driven away someone who could've been a contributory member of a community to make yourself feel better by orchestrating lies, performing witch hunts and huddling with your troll buddies in ways to figure out how to process this.

There's nothing prideful about this to flex over.

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[–] 21 points 3 days ago (1 child)

As someone who is fairly physically active, flexes that risk people's health are especially irritating to me. Training to the point of injury or even through injury is not impressive; it's stupid.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago

    Similarly when people use momentum to lift weights they can't actually lift. Like swinging a dumbbell into a curl. Best case you're getting a similar workout to a lighter weight, just with a weight you can't actually control if something goes wrong. Worst case you're just bending your elbow while holding a weight that isn't really doing anything for you at all.

    Actually no, worst case is something interrupts your momentum partway through the "curl" but you try to power through it anyways because you don't even realize that you can't actually curl that weight and something along your arm gives, then you drop the weight on your foot (or maybe on the kid that ran by and interrupted your momentum).

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