Bragging rights
Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2024 3:26 pm
This is about an interesting but generally unexplored aspect of concultures: what (type of person, actitivy) pairs allow you to say that "My favourite (type of person or people) can/has done (activity) to an objectively greater degree than your (type of person or people) so clearly I am a superior person than/have larger gonads than/deserve more respect than/and so on you"?
Here are some examples from contemporary and recent popular culture:
Here are some examples from contemporary and recent popular culture:
- Sporting team: has won (trophy) more times
- Guitarist: can play faster
- Actor/actress/film: has been nomimated for more awards
- Baseball player: has scored more home runs
- Phoneme: is stable in more enviroments
- Programming language: allows me to write faster, cleaner, and more obviously intelligible code
- Guru: can meditate longer without needing to eat, drink, or sleep
- Charioteer: has won more races
- Gladiator: "interfecit" more opponents
- Prosleytiser: has converted more unbelievers
- Legendary figure: has performed more impossible acts