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It’s the the “bro” in ”weird flex, bro”, which is US English slang meaning “that’s an impressive display of strength which I also find to be bizarrely convolute
by gorgoiler 6y ago
It’s the the “bro” in ”weird flex, bro”, which is US English slang meaning “that’s an impressive display of strength which I also find to be bizarrely convoluted”.
- derefr 6y ago“Flex” in that slang term isn’t precisely a “display of strength” but rather “a display of one-upmanship[1]” in any form. A weird flex is specifically one-upmanship in a form where nobody else was really competing over it in the first place. It’s “weird” because you’re trying so hard to out-compete others in a category where nobody else is trying to compete at all, and where, therefore, a category where it’s very easy to “win.” Most Guinness World Records are weird flexes: not hard-fought limits of discovered human ability, but rather something one person decided to prove they could do that nobody else has really even cared to challenge them about since. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-upmanship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-upmanship
- FearNotDaniel 6y agoAh, makes sense now, thanks for the explanation. I must have missed the comma first time round, and thus thought that "bro" was the thing being flexed.