+29 Insulting "friends" means that the insult giver have no life goals and would be abandoned by everyone if they weren't pulling others down, amirite?

by Anonymous 4 months ago

The insults are how I show i care. If you can't insult your friends in the most heinous way possible, are you really friends?

by Successful-Big 4 months ago

Better questions are: If you want to insult the people that trust you, in the most heinous ways, are you really their friend? If they tolerate it, do they really have a healthy self-esteem?

by Anonymous 4 months ago

Insulting and making fun of friends is the backbone of British humour, if you take it personally and can't give it back you're going to be very lonely.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

Yes same here in Denmark, one of the most important things I have learned, is that not being able to take a joke is a very bad thing, as long as it's good hearted jokes, that aren't meant to hurt, then I don't see how it's a problem, if people never made good hearted jokes about/at me, then I would feel left out.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

A person with a healthy self-esteem will rather be alone than in the wrong company.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

A sign of healthy self-esteem, is the ability to take a joke

by larkinivory 4 months ago

I think you are confused as to what it means to have a healthy self-esteem. If you have a healthy self-esteem, then you can accept your shortcomings and failures. Which, in turn, allows you to laugh at them with friends. If one of your friends bringing up something that you failed at or do poorly in a humorous makes you not want to be around them, then you don't have a healthy self-esteem.

by wisokyelissa 4 months ago

No so much a hot take as it is a large amount of copium

by derrickdaughert 4 months ago

Copium overdose

by Confident_Range_392 4 months ago

What?

by Imaginary-Use 4 months ago

How is some friendly insults and jokes a bad thing? In a lot of cultures this is seen as a friendly thing, if people at my job never made any friendly jokes about/to me, then I would feel like I was left out

by Anonymous 4 months ago

And that is the company when someone with a healthy self-esteem wants to be left out.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

Why? I really don't see how making some goofy jokes is a bad thing, if we are all laughing together about it then what's the problem? As long as they laugh with you and not at you then isn't it fine?

by Anonymous 4 months ago

You sound like someone with no friends. If I'm not telling you insults to your face, in clear good fun, then I don't trust you and we have no relationship.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

LOL "a real friend is uplifting" If I quipped that while hanging out with my friends, they would (rightfully) end my existence via verbal assault. What's with the "working class people that have nothing going on in their lives" bit? There's some weird, stinky darkness lying just under the surface of this. It's kind of like listening to the banter that goes on at an "artisan" coffee shop.

by HumbleDifference 4 months ago

OP uses "working class" as an insult, he just doesn't realize it

by Tania67 4 months ago

Lmao

by Simonissharon 4 months ago

No offense, but this sounds like the most insufferable person. I mean there's definitely a time and a place to do it. But if you can't rib your friends, or take it, you're basically a stranger. Loving or caring about someone means giving them different boundaries, and you are free to dictate those, to each their own, but what you're suggesting sounds boring as hell.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

Dude, that's how Britain works. I make fun of my friends as a sign of friendship

by larkinivory 4 months ago

"She is the one I trust to tell me her honest, straight to my face, opinion." Well, in some cultures everyone is straightforward about their opinion. (Central Europe) I bet most of those "honest opinions" are that something won't work or that you are bad at something. A friend should remind you of your potential.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

I'm German 😂 And you would lose that bet. But hey, as I said, either you are young or you just lack some experience/ open mindness for other reasons. I bet you didn't travel much in your life and have a single friend groupe/ cricle.

by ExpertDiscussion4906 4 months ago

lol you would not survive in a Somali household. Your outstanding feature or behavior became your nickname

by wiegandclaire 4 months ago