What’s the most embarrassing schoolboy mentality you’ve seen from an adult?

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What’s the most embarrassing schoolboy mentality you’ve seen from an adult?

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  1. forrestfaun Avatar

    Musk when he gets trolled while gaming.

  2. shaidyn Avatar

    I worked with a guy who was early 20s, quite young, and obviously used to being a pecking order fighter. Always trying to one up people.

    He’d make fun of me at the office for things like my socks, or my tea tins. Anything that wasn’t strictly “sports captain, prom king popular” style.

    To be fair, he could take back what he dished out, and I learned to banter with him.

    That said, I wish he could have just minded his own business.

  3. Few_Feed_1610 Avatar

    Michaël Cuisance at one point 

  4. poetiq Avatar

    The real question is, does sending dic pics count as school boy mentality? Cause by the time it’s legal for you to have dic pics on the internet you’re no longer considered a school boy.

  5. RoseWould Avatar

    James Corden and Patrick Stewart getting in a shouting match on stage at some kind of award show

  6. JimmDunn Avatar

    when bosses make each person say what they are doing in a weekly meeting.

    those meetings are completely unproductive and only there to stroke the boss’ ego. they do that because that’s what business looks like to them when they were a kid.

  7. algawe Avatar

    Seeing supposed adults talking about “body count” out here.

  8. goodgodtonywhy Avatar

    If I don’t put myself out there, when I choose my actions it’ll be like I’m a soldier with all the glory (but I kinda need their help with the jam in the printer cuz I’m afraid to break it).

  9. Tough_Stretch Avatar

    Stephen Miller is always yelling a mixture of obvious bullshit and servile praise directed at Trump despite the fact that he’s not in the room, and all in a tone of voice that says “My daddy can totally beat up your daddy.” He does this shit whenever he’s on TV regardless of what they’re talking about and usually also while purposefully sidestepping what they actually asked him.

    It’s always some variation of the interviewer asking him, say, what is being done about people deported by mistake or something like that and he flips his shit and starts yelling, “ARE YOU SAYING EMPEROR TRUMP DOESN’T HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO RULE WITH AN IRON FIST AND THAT YOU’RE IN FAVOR OF HUNTER BIDEN BEING A CANNIBAL AND EATING CHILDREN AND ALSO YOU WANT TO FREE EVERY CRIMINAL AND GIVE THEM SEX CHANGE OPERATIONS ON THE TAX PAYER’S DIME BECAUSE YOU HATE AMERICA?!!!!”

    No, Stephen, you Dollar Store Nosferatu-looking doorknob. They asked you about the shitty job your administration is doing and not about how much you salivate fantasizing about Trump’s dick and nobody ever said no immigrant should ever be deported under any circumstances.

  10. josephine_giovanna Avatar

    When guys say they are the “alpha” or think they are. Those ones are not. It’s the one in the back observing that really claims that title.

  11. Appropriate_Cod_5446 Avatar

    Being mean to a woman will make her like you.

  12. skyhiker14 Avatar

    Guy at the gym still blast music in his car loud enough to be able to hear from 100 yards away with the windows up.

    Also sets up a portable speaker instead of headphones.

    Put him in his 30s

  13. Ba_Dum_Ba_Dum Avatar

    You’re kidding right? White House tariff bs is pretty HS. “Don’t retaliate. I’ll make it worse”

  14. MindlessResident821 Avatar

    Just this morning I had a run in with the Catering manager (loose term) when he told me I had to give him a cupboard rather than racking on the project I am working on and I said well, its too late in the day to be demanding this as we finish the project next week and everything has been built and decorated.

    His response was ”Oh I wont turn the coffee machines on then” just like a petulant child and I just walked away shaking my head!!

    Not even a hello, how are you? Can I have a minute to talk to you? Just came up to me and started to demand things!! What a dick!!!

  15. notade50 Avatar

    “I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. … Grab ‘em by the pussy. You can do anything.”

    Edit: https://youtu.be/fYqKx1GuZGg?si=hFeT5HOKz_JOS-x5

  16. gecko_sticky Avatar

    People trashing movie theaters as a joke. While some of them we people are actual children, alot of them look to be dudes in their early to mid 20s. Usually most people get past their loud and destructive equals funny phase by 16 or 17 but apparently that isn’t the case for many people

  17. Western-Chard-9822 Avatar

    When grown adults still act like getting the boss’ approval is a personality trait.

    Worked with a guy who would remind the boss every time someone took a 6minute break instead of 5. Bro thought he was employee of the month.

  18. murrayky1990 Avatar

    The modern Republican party

  19. RipAgile1088 Avatar

    Worked at 2 township level jobs. Basically a bunch of “jocks” that stayed local after graduation.  Same with women, typical “mean girl ” mentality still. Grown adults though. 

    Seems like most of that kind of crowd when I went to high school.had somewhat “important” in the community parents, so it makes sense the ones that stayed local got those kind of jobs.

  20. OpticalInfusion Avatar

    have you watched the news in the last 6 months?

  21. southcentralLAguy Avatar

    Worked with a guy who was in his 40s. Got upset because our boss didn’t tell him happy birthday.

  22. V3gasMan Avatar

    The Cheeto in chief

  23. admiralfilgbo Avatar

    there’s always that one office colleague who is perennially at the front of the line when there’s free work pizza, who then houses two slices just to be at the front of the line for seconds.

    dude, there’s gonna be at least a couple of cold slices sitting there untouched at the end of the day. you’ll get your five slices no matter what. try slowing down and actually tasting your food, maybe even learn how to enjoy it.

  24. Pheehelm Avatar

    Rewriting someone’s talking points in alternating caps or an exaggerated hick accent and thinking it’s a devastating rebuttal. It’s just the textual version of repeating what someone says in a funny voice. It isn’t an argument, it’s what a playground bully does when he’s out of material.

  25. Throwaway589414689 Avatar

    50 something year old father of 2 young daughters and step father to a 22 year old. Was asked by his wife to save photos/videos from her damaged cellphone. Wife keeps pestering him over and over demanding that the data transfer goes faster. Tensions keep rising until he boils over and chucks the cellphone through the TV. Data couldn’t be saved from the cellphone and they needed a brand new TV.

    Boy am I glad he didn’t become my father in law.

  26. IronRakkasan11 Avatar

    Given the international and national implications, our very own Velveeta Voldemort is taking the cake with his petulance man-baby bullying

  27. RadioSupply Avatar

    When fully grown men are revolted by menstruation.

  28. unusual_math Avatar

    Classic Dunning-Kruger: getting in over your head because of overconfidence and ignorance, only to realize too late that you are completely out of your depth.

    It is like when someone assumes that cutesy dot-com CEO tricks, which might work in small, flat startups with a narrow focus and limited expertise, can somehow be applied to the federal government. That government includes three million employees, dozens of independent agencies, rigid hierarchies, complex supervisory structures, designated lines of authority, siloed information, and a vast range of complex and varied areas of responsibility.

  29. mazon-jar Avatar

    Someone at work being mad that I brought snacks for myself and not enough to share with everyone. He was in his 40s.

  30. whitedogsuk Avatar

    Had a BBQ for some work colleagues. One man decided to turn it into a teenager “smash the house up party” After putting tinfoil into the microwave that started a fire, I promptly asked him in his face “What the F**K are you doing?”

  31. whitedogsuk Avatar

    When I was a teen I walked out of a BlockBuster video store, and came face to face with a policeman who decided to bite my head off for my bad parking. In front of us was a badly parked fugly purple ‘boy racer’ car. He got his ticket book out, but put it away when I walked off and a young lady got in and moved it.

  32. EaseAcceptable5529 Avatar

    Idk if this applies but seeing a semi overweight 40+ year old man cause a scene by being a dick at a restaurant and seeing him trying to do some tiktok fortnite dance in the parking lot and fall down all red and out of breath. You ain’t 15 anymore there Dale, work on them manners.

  33. jaysornotandhawks Avatar

    Guys being in constant competition with each other (over virtually everything) and feeling the need to be “alpha”.

  34. IBetANickel Avatar

    When I used to run a lot I mentioned to a coworker that I ran 5km almost daily. He refused to believe me. Showed me his abs (for whatever reason). And challenged me to a race. We were about the same age – mid ’30s.

  35. Appropriate_Swan_233 Avatar

    Middle aged, divorced people acting like the dating scene for them is like it was in high school.