What’s a boring flex?

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untakenu@reddit

"I barely even feel the heat"

Cool. It's like the yanks who insist 30º is "winter weather"

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Mrslinkydragon@reddit

to them it is because they use outdated °F

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untakenu@reddit

You'd hope, but I've had two Americans tell me that even 30ºc is "cold"

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Mrslinkydragon@reddit

Maybe to someone from florida to california its cold but its still hot!

I find it hilarious when british weather humbles people from hot countries 🤣

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Username___5@reddit

How could anyone call that cold. Its even that hot america most of the time anyways

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Ha! Had a friend who had been away backpacking for about three weeks and proudly mentioned in an email (this was pre-social media) that they just didn’t notice the heat anymore. Apart from being a crap flex it’s also utter bollocks. I’ve lived in very hot countries and the locals absolutely do notice the heat - that’s why they have aircon.

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Disastrous_Mine_9518@reddit

Having the expensive holiday you're going on being your only topic of interest.

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Silmarillien@reddit

Some people make this their whole personality for some reason. Travelling in general.

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Better_Builder_3504@reddit

Yeah travel can be a huge source of intensely boring flexes.

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Double_Double7407@reddit

How little your wedding cost or how un-showy it was. "Oh, we just went to the registry office and went to the pub and ate crisps. I wore an old band t-shirt" - well done for being boring/ tight I suppose.

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Admirable-Ask-3017@reddit

ye but they'll remember that day with fonder memories than a 200 person 20k charade

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Double_Double7407@reddit

How the fuck do you know? Some people like having a big do and getting dressed up - it's nice!

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Admirable-Ask-3017@reddit

cost is inversely proportional to genuine joy for weddings

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chillinoodle@reddit

You're right. I'm so glad I didn't pay for a photographer, food, and a venue that could hold more than 10 guests. It really made the day joyous.

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Admirable-Ask-3017@reddit

how many of those guests didnt you want to be there

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Double_Double7407@reddit

Congratulations on being able to say this so confidently after attending everyone's wedding.

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chillinoodle@reddit

Yeah these do my head in, and you see it with all luxuries. "I only driver bangers, cars just go A to B" "Why eat at a fancy restaurant when I can just have lbeans on toast"

It's like a reverse brag and makes no sense.

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pip_goes_pop@reddit

The car subs are awful for this. Anyone even thinking about getting a car from the last 5 years gets all the “bangernomics” bores slate them.

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Double_Double7407@reddit

Car/ driving subs are full of the world's worst nerds

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Double_Double7407@reddit

Joyless pricks - this place is full of them.

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VelvetDreamers@reddit

In a similar vein, “Oh, my ring is a sapphire/ruby/emerald etc, I would NEVER like anything as simple and basic as a diamond!”

You can be against prohibitively expensive engagement rings and denounce unethical mining without disparaging another person’s taste with how virtuous and special you are.

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changhyun@reddit

Oh those people are the worst, and I say that as someone who loves a pretty ruby/emerald/whatever. You'd think they were the first person to ever have a non-diamond engagement ring, acting like it's such a unique and original idea.

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Better_Builder_3504@reddit

If they are using it as a flex I agree. But the opposite is also boring - people going on about how extravagant their wedding was.

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Immorals1@reddit

Doing weddings cheaper can be quite interesting/useful conversations (I work in hospitality so biased) , but yeah people just cheaping out and bragging about it grinds my gears

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tinglybiscuits@reddit

This one drives me crazy, I joined a wedding group as I’m planning my wedding and it just feels like a race to the bottom!

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Think-Ladder7925@reddit

Half of this sub triggered.

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Ravnak@reddit

The area I live in is on the edge of a nice area.

Everyone who lives deeper in insists we dont live in their area.

Its the most pointless and boring flex.

(And theyre wrong. We're covered by the councillors for the same area, because we live in that area).

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Maximum-Particular28@reddit

I grew up in Croydon and have had people telling me all my life I am not from London. Always people in the nicer parts of zone 3 who aren't originally from there.

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NickTM@reddit

This is so real. Some tosser from Stockport moves down to London and tells anyone who isn't shelling out 1.7k a month for a flatshare in Kennington they're not really from London.

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Tankmass@reddit

Mate this gets so fucking boring. People living in zone 3 looking down on people in zone 4, people in zone 4 acting like they’re better than people living in zone 5.

People living in Hackney looking down on people living in West London when they actually grew up in High Wycombe

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DesignFar6251@reddit

Lol, people do this near me. There's a pretty nice village next to one with a bad reputation (I still think it's pretty decent though tbf), but certain people from the worse one often claim they are from "upper-(nice village)".

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123twiglets@reddit

"west didsbury" covers about half of south Manchester now

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St2Crank@reddit

And “didsbury” covers the other half.

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Ok_Chipmunk_7066@reddit

Mate, you're in Fallowfield.

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xmastreee@reddit

I know someone who lived in Great Chesterford. That's in Essex but when asked she would say it's near Cambridge.

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riverscreeks@reddit

20 minute drive to Cambridge. I think it’s the most well known place nearby. If you’re from SE you might know saffron Walden

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uka94@reddit

It is near Cambridge, and no one knows where Great Chesterford is. That just sounds efficient

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Important_Ruin@reddit

Sounds like me/where I grew up.

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Danielharris1260@reddit

To add onto something similar there’s a nice suburb where I live that’s in a different council to the main city council and some people from there love to bring up they’re of the “horrid” city and they’re own community despite the fact they’re a 15 min bus form the city centre and vast majority of the jobs and economy is related to being next to a big city. Their council plays into it too new housing estates can’t use street when naming roads because street is apparently too city like.

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Honey-Badger@reddit

You also see the inverse with people claiming that they're from the rough parts (and this makes them a better person) and others claiming that they're actually from the rough parts and others are from the gentrified parts

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Defiant_Put_7542@reddit

Being working class.

Your granddad being a coal miner doesn't mean you are culturally disallowed from trying hard in your GCSEs.

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Better_Builder_3504@reddit

Also, your grandfather did a really tough job. Fair play to him. You don’t inherit his toughness when you’ve not done that same tough job.

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Defiant_Put_7542@reddit

Indeed. I've noticed that people who are proud to belong to a social class they think of as uniquely hardworking, are not necessarily working very hard themselves.

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MrHlk2020@reddit

What temperature you turn the heating on at.

" It's 5⁰ in my house and I've still not put the heating on"

Well you're a nob head then mate!

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LeTrolleur@reddit

I hate this with a passion, the stat is set to 19°C during the daytime and whenever the house hits 18.5°C the heating comes on, year round.

People that act like it's a flex to live in a cold home even though they can afford to heat it are idiots.

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MrHlk2020@reddit

16 throughout the day and 18 for a couple of hours before we get up and go to bed. Doesn't cost a fortune, haven't sold any kidneys yet. Absolutely no need to sit in a room at 10 degrees.

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LeTrolleur@reddit

I'd recommend having a Google regarding temperatures below which serious health effects can develop over time, there are a number of reputable sources that provide evidence to show that anything 17 and below can have negative health effects.

Each to their own of course, and I encourage you to do your own research as I'm not an expert either, we used to set ours at 16 but after starting a family I took a bit more of an interest in terms of what is considered safe by health professionals.

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MrHlk2020@reddit

You're right. The NHS and the WHO recommend 18, but I don't care what Roger Daltrey says, I'm sticking to 16.

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LeTrolleur@reddit

Heyooooo, get a load of this guy and his jokes 😂

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MrHlk2020@reddit

Honestly, it's the booze.

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Paul_my_Dickov@reddit

You're probably damaging your house as well.

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cloud__19@reddit

This absolutely. When it starts getting a bit chilly this sub is absolutely full of people bragging about how their heating doesn't go on until all the windows are covered in ice or something, drives me mad. Or the ones who have a specific date it goes on regardless of temperature. Unless you really can't afford it, just put the bloody heating on, nobody's handing out prizes for the last one to fold.

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MrHlk2020@reddit

Yes, the " I had Wim Hof round for tea last night, but he left because the house was too cold" brigade.

Legends.

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MrHlk2020@reddit

Exactly. And these are probably the people who complain about damp and mould.

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rocketscientology@reddit

They’re definitely the ones who come
on here and say “British housing stock is terrible, it’s not built to handle the cold!” mate maybe it would be if you utilised your house’s heating infrastructure.

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RecentTwo544@reddit

I always think if you have enough income to get a mortgage on a house, but don't put the heating on to save money, that should be classed as a mental illness.

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MrHlk2020@reddit

That's what's happening, the straight jackets are keeping them warm!

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donkeymonkey00@reddit

Frozen solid jackets.

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mdmnl@reddit

I simply like to see my breath.

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cloud__19@reddit

I like to cut chunks out of mine to save for later.

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MrHlk2020@reddit

Tough guy, hey.

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You_who_@reddit

Never taking a sick day.

It bugs me when people at work rip the arse out of sick leave. At the same time, nobody is never ill and you are legally entitled to it - so use it.

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Better_Builder_3504@reddit

I’ve known people who claim they never take painkillers whenever they’ve seen someone else taking them. On one occasion I saw one of these people take a paracetamol for a headache. I kindly pointed out that they had previously said they never take pain killers. They responded: “No, I only take them when it’s REALLY bad.”

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Ok_Net4562@reddit

Walking round the office for a few mins in your running/ cycling gear so everyone know you just did a big excercise

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Better_Builder_3504@reddit

Is that the same people who, when seeing you eating some fruit, put on a really disgusted face before loudly saying “you’re eating ALL that fruit? SO MUCH SUGAR!!!”

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Dear_General1657@reddit

Ah. We had one of these. He didn’t realise that we could smell when he’s been exercising and didn’t need to flex his Lycra.

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Dazzling_One_4335@reddit

Here in Scotland we like to bang on about how good our tap water is.

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Better_Builder_3504@reddit

I started a bit of a discussion about that not long ago… https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/s/WqoMySpECZ

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Nice_Back_9977@reddit

We're obnoxious about that in Manchester too, it comes from either the Lake District or the Peak District.

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Johhnymaddog316@reddit

"Mate you're from Streatham? That's not proper London". Twat.

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Better_Builder_3504@reddit

Have you ever come across the concept of the “plastic scouser”? Similar idea, also taken very seriously by some.

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Johhnymaddog316@reddit

Kind of heard of it not sure what it means. I assume it's somebody from the outskirts of Liverpool who claims to be a Scouser?

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stauer88@reddit

Especially if they are from the Wirral.

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progboy@reddit

What about Birkenhead?

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stauer88@reddit

Definitely in the Wirral, definitely not a Scouser.

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Username___5@reddit

That is in the wirral, so theyre probably part of the discrimination as well

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ambluebabadeebadadi@reddit

My scouse mate gets so heated over people from the Wirral claiming to be from Liverpool.

The only reason I’ve even bloody heard of the Wirral at all is because of scousers whinging. I don’t get why it’s so offensive to just say you’re from the nearest city, especially when you’re less than half an hour from the centre

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stauer88@reddit

Because there is a whole bloody river between us and them. It's like saying I'm from Wales because I can see Anglesey across the sea.

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Evening-Web-3038@reddit

I think it's broader in definition in that, yes, it can be used in the same way you'd use "wool" to describe someone from the outskirts/the Wirral but it can also refer to people who support LFC/EFC and who have no ties with the area. So some random Californian who posts on the LFC subreddit about how they have supported them for 5 years now despite attending just one game when they holidayed here for a week = a plastic scouser, but not a wool.

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Better_Builder_3504@reddit

Correct.

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LostToInertia@reddit

"Anything thats outside of Zone 3 is not London" - Someone who lived in Surrey their whole life until they graduated with their 2:1 in Business Degree and moved to Dalston off mommy and daddies money

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Better_Builder_3504@reddit

There is something really weird that happens to some people when they first move to London. Like suddenly becoming extremely tribal about north vs south London. It really doesn’t matter.

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Better_Builder_3504@reddit

Declaring very loudly that you HATE Dan Brown / Harry Potter books. My god, you are SUCH an intellectual heavy-weight.

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iffyClyro@reddit

A doctor once commented on my outstanding cardiovascular health.

I occasionally bring that up to seem really cool.

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Better_Builder_3504@reddit

I had the opposite. An ultrasound scan report described my testicles as “unremarkable”. Never been so offended in my life.

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letsgetmarriedlol@reddit

I apparently have superb kidney function which feels even less impressive

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leyland_gaunt@reddit

Yeah while having an ultrasound the lady scanning me commented that my hard organs were in fine shape. I’ve brought that up at parties on the odd occasion.

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spynie55@reddit

I met some guys from Newcastle in a pub in London once who were going on and on about how much more northern than anyone else they were.

I'm from Inverness.

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Username___5@reddit

There's no such thing as being more northern. You're either in the north or not

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Wait-Whos-Joe@reddit

For some reason, theres always someone who brags about how little sleep they got

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Better_Builder_3504@reddit

People doing a fake apology before declaring they are in fact a craft beer/wine/whiskey/coffee/watch etc “snob”. You are supposed to be impressed by how much of a connoisseur they are.

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amzlrr@reddit

I know someone who is a “sorry but I’m a coffee snob” and he’s insufferable, just have some gold blend like the rest of us and grow up

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Alexthemessiah@reddit

Eh I wouldn't be a prick about it and call myself a snob, but absolutely no thank you.

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Better_Builder_3504@reddit

I think the Gold Blend comment was a tad sarcastic.

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DB-DanCooper@reddit

It genuinely feels a little odd to think of Manchester as the North when you've had to drive hours in a southerly direction to reach it. It still makes sense on a map though. Unlike Peterborough being more northern than Birmingham. That one surprised me and feels 'off.'

I think people from the North East may feel that the region is generally forgotten about and that the rest of the country seems to think the North ends at Manchester because those are the sorts of areas that recieve more news and attention. They may have a chip on their shoulder as a result.

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Puzzled-Job9556@reddit

People who make drugs or illness their personality

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eriometer@reddit

They always seem desperate to tell you they are high/when they were high/when they will be getting high. and always in super mundane circumstances.

We know about the first time because you are an insufferable, smelly bore even without telling us about bringing in the washing while baked.

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Think-Ladder7925@reddit

Anything to do with Yorkshire.

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Double_Double7407@reddit

100% this one - "Ooh - it has to be YORKSHIRE TEA!" - piss off; it's tea.

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eriometer@reddit

I tried Yorkshire Tea recently, expecting to be transported to heaven by choruses of angels. It was distinctly average and I haven't bothered again. Don't get why people make it their personality either.

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Double_Double7407@reddit

Baffling! It's tea - it tastes like 90% of other tea

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Mrslinkydragon@reddit

i cant stand Yorkshire tea! its SO astringent and bitter!

Get yourself some dragonwell green loose leaf tea or some Colombian black loose leaf tea! way better than whatever they use for yorkshire tea!

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BattleApprehensive75@reddit

It may be the best selling brand in the UK, but it's not from Yorkshire, it's from India, Sri Lanka, and Kenya

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Incognito-DeVito@reddit

Yup. Just got back from Slam Dunk Leeds, the "Yorkshire! Yorkshire!" chants are fucking tiresome.

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Think-Ladder7925@reddit

How was it? Favourite performance?

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Psychological-Fox97@reddit

From Yorkshire, grew up in Leeds, I agree.

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Logical_Bake_3108@reddit

Well of course we had it tough... We used to have to get up outta shoebox, in middle of night, and lick the road clean with our tongues. We had a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked at mill for 24 hours a day for a penny a year, When we got home, our dad would slice us in two with bread-knife.

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Agitated_Nature_5977@reddit

As a Scot...I find it funny when the English talk about being Northern. We are the true wildings over the wall, the free people. You northerners with your mayors are just the same as those lanasters down in kingslondon.

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RudeEntry8219@reddit

I'm from Newcastle and am a great lover of Scotland; my grandad was from Glasgow, and I've been to most parts (including Stewarton.) and I know a bit of Gaelic. But don't forget your most northerly county is called "The Southern Lands". We're all someone's Southerners.

And, paradoxically, I love the romance of Southern Europe, probably because, when I was a kid, there was as much chance of me going there as going to Mars.

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Agitated_Nature_5977@reddit

It was a boring flex, not to be taken seriously!

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dkb1391@reddit

You have done the boring flex

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Agitated_Nature_5977@reddit

That was the point of the post?

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CarminaBananas@reddit

As a polar bear, I find it funny when the Scottish talk about being Northern. We are the true wildings over the sea, the free.

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Harrry-Otter@reddit

People highlighting they never have time to do anything because they need to look after their kids/dogs/whatever

Like, you chose this friend.

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imissbrendanfraser@reddit

You might be getting ‘flex’ mixed up with ‘complain’ there

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dkb1391@reddit

That's not a flex though, just a standard moan

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escapingfromelba@reddit

And their fours a night of media streaming.

Competitive busyness boasting or who can be the most tired has spread like a plague.

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Bethurz@reddit

My manager when I was about 19 would always go on about my nails as I did a lot of nail art at the time.

She would never have time to do all that you see...but would ask me constantly if I'd seen xyz on telly last night.

Make it make sense Christine!

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PM-me-your-cuppa-tea@reddit

And their fours a night of media streaming

What does this mean?

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donkeymonkey00@reddit

Hours* probably.

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escapingfromelba@reddit

Hours.

I have fat fingers.

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Cheese-n-Opinion@reddit

I'm taking an active stand against this.

I love telling people 'I had a wonderful 8 hours sleep last night, feel really good for it'. Really flusters some people, they're not used to it.

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escapingfromelba@reddit

Bravo, it's a good idea.

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lifetypo10@reddit

I feel the same when I (a single woman with no children) say I'm tired and someone will pipe up "wait until you have kids, then you'll know what tired really is"

Cool, I don't have kids and don't plan on it, so can I still call myself tired?

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Dear_General1657@reddit

I used to work with a woman who always complained that she was working late into the evening and working weekends just to catch up. There were 8 of us in the team and we all did the same job.

No one else has to work extra hours to catch up. In fact, most days I’d struggle for things to do all day.

I often wondered what it was that she was doing that I wasn’t.

I was only young then. Now I’m older I’ve many more people who are the same as her. They have the same amount of time as everyone but are unable to use it effectively.

I guess these days she’s be on pills for ADD or something.

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TapeDeckSlick@reddit

How many hours you work

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redwinesupernova03@reddit

opposite of a flex tbh

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MountainMuffin1980@reddit

Yeah that ones actually a bit sad to me in most cases.

I knew a guy with 2 young kids who boasted about doing 70+ hour weeks and like, he never saw them. I think if I was single, or my kids were much older and I was trying to get a business off the ground, sure. But just as an average week, and when my kids are growing up. Nah. Also these same guys will boast about working every weekend and never taking holidays.

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Logical_Bake_3108@reddit

It's even worse if he doesn't own or run the company he works for. Missing your kids growing up for someone else? Doesn't seem like the best idea to me.

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MountainMuffin1980@reddit

Exactly the guy in my example didn't! Literally busting a gut for a company that doesn't care for his work life balance at all and he's not even building a legacy business for him and his family. Shite

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Logical_Bake_3108@reddit

In that case it's definitely not a flex. You could really annoy him and say something like "sounds like you need to be more efficient with your time if work is taking that long" 😅

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peppermint_aero@reddit

How few hours you sleep also

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toady89@reddit

Neither of those are flexes in my opinion.

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AdOk9572@reddit

Oh this one boils my blood. As a chronic illness patient, healthy folk flexing about how little sleep they need. "Oh check me and my health privilege, I only get 2 hours a night and can still work 20 hours a day!"

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Sophyska@reddit

Merging both together to get the apparent flex of how early you get up

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peppermint_aero@reddit

And how late you worked the previous night

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-TheHumorousOne-@reddit

Hustle culture YT vids talking about how we waste 8 hours a day sleeping. Yes mate, we totally trust the one vid you made where you start your 'graft' at 6 am everyday and finish at midnight to be exactly your daily routine.

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SilyLavage@reddit

Working your contracted hours and sleeping 8 hours a night is wonderful

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Technical-Meat-9135@reddit

I had a friend who worked for Royal Mail and used to brag about how their sorting office was one of the busiest in the UK

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amzlrr@reddit

Having a glass of wine every evening

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pip_goes_pop@reddit

Who on earth “flexes” about that?

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Double_Double7407@reddit

Absolutely no-one ever; but some people here love looking down on anyone who likes a drink

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amzlrr@reddit

It’s more common than you’d think, every single office job I’ve worked in had many people who bragged about how much wine they managed to drink the night before without having a sore head

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Dear_General1657@reddit

The slippery wine slope.

I used to attend AA meetings (I concluded that I wasn’t actually an alcoholic after hearing some of the harrowing tales).

Anyway, the stories generally started the same: Just a glass of wine after work to unwind. Then two. Then a bottle. Then two. Then move onto spirits for convenience and cost. And of course, you’ve got to have a drink on the weekend - It’s the weekend. Pisshead.

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amzlrr@reddit

Yep absolutely, that’s all that rings in my head when people say that they’ll have a glass (or a bottle har har har 🍷!) after a long day

I’m sober curious and very very rarely drink due to my addictive personality and troubles with drink many moons ago, just not worth it

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BeardedBaldMan@reddit

How much you drank.

It's acceptable in a teenager, sad in a student and pathetic at any other point

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pip_goes_pop@reddit

Yeah things have changed now I’m older (40s) - the boring flexes are now those who go on about how they don’t drink anymore.

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BeardedBaldMan@reddit

Or the ex smokers who make a big fuss about how they can't believe they ever smoked and would never want a cigarette.

That might be jealousy though as I gave up nearly fifteen years ago and routinely would like a cigarette

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pip_goes_pop@reddit

Ha yes I’m an ex-smoker too. I’m going through a shit time at the moment and more than once I’ve been so tempted to buy a pack.

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EveningGlum3084@reddit

People who pretend they’re drunk after a sip of wine are the fucking worst

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BeardedBaldMan@reddit

I had a friend who is lovely but she was terrible for that, especially as she'd be telling everyone what a lightweight she was and later would be loudly saying "One glass of wine affects me so much, I hope no one takes advantage of my state" while pointedly staring at the object of her affection.

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lilphoenixgirl95@reddit

That is extremely creepy

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thebaronharkkonen@reddit

Meh. Sounds fun enough to me

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EveningGlum3084@reddit

Well done, you managed to sound creepier

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BeardedBaldMan@reddit

In hindsight it is, at the time we just thought of it as a bit of a social quirk.

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Gone_For_Lunch@reddit

Thanks!

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Present-March-6089@reddit

Damn, a word that I actually have to look up.

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TH1CCARUS@reddit

That was the real boring flex in their comment.

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Dear_General1657@reddit

Haha. In the north east, a standard Monday morning office conversation usually involves people comparing how drunk they got on the 3 preceding nights.

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snapmyhands@reddit

To be fair, most of us are just fed up of everything that Westminster does for the benefit of 'the North' ending up somewhere that still requires a three-hour journey south.

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Proper_Emu_2296@reddit (OP)

What is everything that Westminster does for the north?! Cancelling HS2? lol

Devolved nations traditionally receive higher levels of public investment and London receives huge levels of private investment.

Leaving the rest of us with….. I’ll wait 🤷‍♀️

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Fluid-Depth2327@reddit

People who flex their cars especially the loud exhaust.

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B239@reddit

Some of the "boring flexes" people are mentioning here are just them complaining about people having a hobby or talking about their lives. Not everything has to be labelled a flex and be judged negatively, even if it is a bit annoying sometimes...

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dkb1391@reddit

Yep, this post seems to have been misunderstood a lot

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Larnievc@reddit

Height

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Desperate_Cook_7338@reddit

Black pill brutal truth

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GreyFox_1337@reddit

Paid off my mortgage. Have a 6 figure stocks portfolio. Only mid 30s. All boring but fucking worth it.

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1Cats1@reddit

People who retire early because they’ve “worked so hard” but really they had a massive inheritance

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Quirky-Respond93@reddit

Yeah like the rest of us haven’t worked hard!

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Electrical_Trade377@reddit

i apparently live in the only place in the UK that has a london postcode whilst not actually being in london (it’s firmly in essex), but it has two different london boroughs to each side of it & hertfordshire down the road

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mordhoshogh@reddit

I live in that part of the world (although not from here) and I think they're just pissed off because they just missed out on being Scottish.

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Calm-Passenger7334@reddit

Nobody cares about Scotland.

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cloud__19@reddit

You say that but here you are commenting. If you really didn't care you'd have scrolled past.

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Calm-Passenger7334@reddit

ok

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cloud__19@reddit

God what a humourless prat you are.

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cloud__19@reddit

Underneath that gruff exterior you love us really, I can tell.

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yolo_snail@reddit

Nah.

The Scottish hate being part of the UK, until you mention that the true north starts at the North Yorkshire border (the north side, to be clear!), then suddenly they want to be included and insist that only the Scottish are northerners!

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ayeayefitlike@reddit

As a Scot who lived a long time in England I never understood why weren’t included in the north/south debate when clearly more northern than all of them - especially when the halfway point both distance and time wise for me travelling to my parents’ house was Newcastle!

But it’s because of the implicit ‘England’ after northern/southern. To Scots, when it’s not said we don’t hear it, and are irritated we’re not included. The English folk hear it implicitly and get ratty we don’t understand why we’re clearly not included.

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RBisoldandtired@reddit

You can’t say north of the UK and mean York when Scotland is still in the UK and is the actual north of the UK.

Also, even as an Indy supporter myself, polls suggest it’s still only about 40-49% of scots support independence atm.

But keep voting reform down south and I’m sure that figure will rise

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True_Necessary_4910@reddit

Damn, you got me.

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Fickle_Acanthaceae17@reddit

Jewellery

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PootMcGroot@reddit

People claiming the main city in Yorkshire isn't in the north is wild talk that should have people calling in emergency psychiatric care.

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WhalingSmithers00@reddit

Which is the main city in Yorkshire? York or Leeds?

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PootMcGroot@reddit

In 2026, and the last few hundred years, Leeds by a wide margin. York is a (lovely) but relatively small provincial town.

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Skyremmer102@reddit

Personally, what kind of car you have. I find cars boring and I just dgaf.

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theped26@reddit

I don’t own a TV licence.

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BattleApprehensive75@reddit

But I don't, haven't had one for 20 years+

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teamonkfish89@reddit

"Actually, Big Ben is the name of the bell, not the tower"

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Sirlacker@reddit

If anyone asks I live in the nicer area, even though the nicer area technically starts two streets over. All the houses on the border are the same though. You'd never know unless you were specifically looking at where the border between these places were.

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Jj8rh@reddit

I had a compliment on my cervix from the smear lady

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GrandDuty3792@reddit

Discovering a musical artist first, who then gets very poplar, you then boast you knew them before everyone else; and begin to dislike them vocally to show you’re different

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tobotic@reddit

Though that can be because the way a lot of musicians become popular is abandoning what made them interesting and unique and moving towards a more mainstream generic style.

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GrandDuty3792@reddit

Very true

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splizzyhoestar@reddit

gatekeepers on their way to keep underground artists underground (said artist is living off pennies)

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R2-Scotia@reddit

It's a bit offensive to everyone else to call somewhere halfway up England "The North" when the centroid of the UK is in Northumberland

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Proper_Emu_2296@reddit (OP)

This is another one, Scottish people flexing about how the north can’t be to the south of them. The concept of this region as the north clearly relates to England and pre-dates the union by about 1700 years, as in Northumbria (north of the Humber), the Harrying of the North by the Normans, etc.

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RBisoldandtired@reddit

You’re replying to a comment that’s says the UK. Not England.

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Proper_Emu_2296@reddit (OP)

Yes but when people say “the North” they don’t mean ‘the north UK’, there is clearly an unspoken ‘the North [of England]’ and it’s disingenuous to suggest otherwise

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R2-Scotia@reddit

Because you're English, not British.

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XihuanNi-6784@reddit

Why not both?

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R2-Scotia@reddit

OP says the term applies unspokenly to England and England alone.

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Proper_Emu_2296@reddit (OP)

🙌 it’s almost like context exists

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R2-Scotia@reddit

The flex is that the UK is fake and the people of England know it as well as we do

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JustAnotherFEDev@reddit

When I worked in Scotland (Grangemouth) my manager transferred me "Doon Sooth" as they needed extra blokes. Do you know where "Doon Sooth" was? Pembroke.

Anything down south to him meant south of Scotland.

Hopefully folk know what Northern England and south of Scotland are, though...

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R2-Scotia@reddit

Down south does indeed mean outside our borders

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JustAnotherFEDev@reddit

It was the first time I'd heard it, and as someone who lives in Northern England, down south usually meant London, Essex, Kent, etc. I thought I was hopping on a fast train to London, when he said down south, it came as a bit of a shock when I discovered it was Pembroke and about 4 trains and 12 hours or whatever it was 😂

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Rydeeee@reddit

I’m from Nottingham. Was a southerner when I went to uni in Leeds and am very much a northerner where I live in Kent. I have no fucking idea.

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Interceptor@reddit

I'm from Weymouth. Anywhere past Dorchester is the North as far as I'm concerned.

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LayinThaSmackdown@reddit

hahah same.

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Dangerous_Bed2566@reddit

Lol.my cornish husband thought Nottingham was northern. My scottish cousins laughed themselves silly at our wedding

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orange_lighthouse@reddit

Midlands

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Rydeeee@reddit

East. Watch yo mouf.

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Dear_General1657@reddit

The centre of the landmass of the United Kingdom is in Northumberland but England is one domain within that land mass. If we’re talking landmass then Edinburgh isn’t even in the north.

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Logical_Bake_3108@reddit

Maybe they just mean the north of England specifically. Like we're north to all of England in Scotland but then a person from Inverness will say I'm from the south.

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NoCold3997@reddit

I've got money ..ffs it's only money calm down.

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WeakSnow9457@reddit

I drove 180 miles in exactly 3 hours, without having to move from the middle lane 💪

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dinkidoo7693@reddit

People checking in the same pub/cafe and “bragging” about their drink of choice, like they don’t do it nearly every day

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LostToInertia@reddit

When people flex how little they spend on groceries a week. "Wow, I only spend £30 a week on groceries, how do you manage to spend £x!" they always conveniently leave out all the takeaways and eating out lunches they get of their £30 figure

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1Cats1@reddit

Posting how far you run - no one cares, like no one.

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Dedward5@reddit

Not liking some fairly basic stuff because “it’s posh”

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Qabbalah@reddit

Packing light.

Going on a 2 week holiday with only hand luggage isn't impressive, you're just making things awkward for yourself for no reason.

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Dolphin_Spotter@reddit

I just buy new clothes and throw the old ones away.

/s, just in case

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AlrightTrig@reddit

Not no reason. Price of check in is a joke. I don’t brag about it though.

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tobotic@reddit

It's also just more pleasant going through train stations, airports, etc without lugging around a bunch of suitcases.

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rositree@reddit

Surely the reason is to save on the extra luggage fees if flying budget airlines and/or not have to faff with luggage drop-off or carry loads of stuff to and from the airport?

I tend to find I max out at around 12kg whether I'm packing for a weekend, 2 weeks or 6 months without particularly trying so don't find it awkward but probably depends on the type of holiday.

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Bleperite@reddit

Lol, my knees after lugging a 22.5kg case around the Tokyo subway would disagree!

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CCalamity-@reddit

"Im such a Hufflepuff/Slitherin" "I'm such a Monica" "I'm such a Cassie/Maddy"

Just tell me you have no personality of your own and save us all some time.

I'd much prefer, "Hi I'm (y/n) and I like pineapple on pizza!" Much more interesting and a better conversation starter.

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ElvishMystical@reddit

All these rate my plate subs or rate my Meal Deal.

So yeah, you bought a sandwich and a drink from a supermarket. What the fuck do you want? A medal?

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Darkwaxer@reddit

Measuring between Berwick and Brighton, Leeds is about 25 miles further north than the halfway point, Manchester less so. They are northern cities but I wouldn’t say you were in the North if you were to visit them.

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Defiant_Put_7542@reddit

Measure from The Lizard, Brighton isn't the most southerly point

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Dear_General1657@reddit

I’ve met southerners who think Birmingham is a “northern city”.

I mean, obviously they’re idiots but still.

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Disastrous_Mine_9518@reddit

The Midlands is culturally more similar to the north than the south. Birmingham is obviously a Midlands city but has more similarities with smaller cities like Manchester and Leeds than with larger ones like London.

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Tastetherainbow_2016@reddit

When boomers say “We knuckled down and worked hard for everything we’ve got!” -you bought your gaff on right to buy for like 10p in 1985. Shut up you smug cunts.

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magical_matey@reddit

How early you wake up

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Carrotxox@reddit

“experts” in their hobby but in a non helpful way.

wow it’s amazing that you’ve been sewing for 30 years and therefore are so much better than i am. I was -6 years old so of course i don’t have the same level of experience as you.

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Annual-Cookie1866@reddit

I am a paramedic. A boring ‘flex’ is when you turn up at someone’s house and the relative/carer/friend tells you all about *their* medical history whilst you’re trying to deal with the patient.

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signalstonoise88@reddit

There’s a parallel to this for teachers in that I’ve lost count how many parents want to talk about their own educational successes/failures when we’re there to talk about their kid.

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Front_Society1353@reddit

Basically if you sound funny and you dont sound like a farmer your Northern

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The_39th_Step@reddit

When people from other parts of England chirp about how much worse the weather is in Manchester. I grew up in the South and moved to Manchester when I was 19. People would have you think Manchester is a constant power shower compared to the rest of the country. It’s slightly rainier and greyer but my memories growing up in Wiltshire and Berkshire were playing football in the driving rain. It’s grey and dark everywhere in winter.

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OrangeBeast01@reddit

People who drone on about all the things wrong with them.

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AshamedNetwork777@reddit

Like its the only thing that makes them interesting and they truly believe people give a fuck

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cat5crochet5femme@reddit

As if it is part of their identity.

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changhyun@reddit

How much spicy food you eat. Particularly the really weird people who act like your tolerance for hot food and how racist you are/aren't are somehow linked. You're not more progressive just because you ordered the curry with the three star spice rating on the menu.

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cjswilcox@reddit

I picked my mate up from the station the other day and he pointed to the small change in the centre console in my car and said ‘that’s quite the flex’. Took me a minute to work out what the hell he was talking about because he was being deadly serious 😂

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Nervous_Difficulty_6@reddit

‘I worked over the weekend’, or, ‘I was up until 11pm last night working’.

Congrats, I was either asleep or enjoying my weekend.

(This applies for Monday-Friday folk)

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