r/MaliciousCompliance

When I was at the army, I was drill seargent and trained some new recruits. I was fair and not like one of these douchebags. I did everything I ordered them to do with them together, to show them how to lead. I liked it that way and my squad also liked, that I get dirty with them. So my standing in the company was quiet good and I was appreciated.

After a couple of months, I had to switch company and a pretty young and fresh 2nd lieutenant was my new leader. He was kinda same age as me, but was full of discipline and wanted to spread his knowledge.

What you need to know, we all salute each other, but the other formalities where just needed and required, when there were some official things to do.

But not for this guy. He ordered me to be "like a real soldier, and salute every time I enter the room where he is and speak with him, how I it should be and be more respectful."

Cue malicious compliance. Every. F## time I entered the room where he was, I put on all the military manners I got (and I have a lot of them) saluted him and spoke only highly official with him. Only shorts reports, yes sir, no sir, as you wish sir. And I continued this for days and weeks. Every other officer looked at him like "dude, are you serious, that you want it like that?". And he became more and more embarrassed. He even told me, "please, don't say "yes sir" no more, because we both know this means "go f## yourself"." I just responded with "yes sir, anything else sir?" And we both knew, that I would continue this behavior.

At the end, when I left there, all but him thanked me for what I did and we all had a big laugh about this. But I think, he did not appreciate his order, and will think twice in the future. For me, it was just him and I liked to show, that I got respect and maners. It was a very funny time !

A UK resident, who used to be an elected member of the European Parliament, was recently told she needed planning permission to fly the EU flag from her property. she was given a long list of what rules mean a flag can/cannot be flown freely. (Oi, you got a licence for that flag?)

One of the rules were of the UK was a member of that union or body, permission is not needed.

She has now informed her local council enforcing the flag rules that she is flying the Council of Europe flag, of which UK is a member and therefore no permission is needed.

That flag? Identical to the EU flag.

BBC News - Former MEP will continue flying European flag after feedback

Edit: correction

I grew up in an okay town that has since become a bit…snobbier. I was driving down my old street last year and i saw my old neighbor, Andrea, sitting on her front porch, so i stopped in to say hi.

Turning into the driveway, i noticed a regulation sized soccer goal in her next door neighbor’s small front yard….which is VERY out of sync with the rest of the neighborhood. It made me laugh a little. After a quick catch up, i learned a couple of things: she’s the last of my old neighbors who still lives on the street and the neighborhood has become very “keeping up with the jones’ “ with the exception of her next door neighbor. I asked about the soccer goal, and here is the story:

The neighbor has a young daughter who loves soccer. She would spend hours in the front yard kicking goals into a small goal anchored in the front yard with tent spikes. Apparently, another neighbor (they don’t know who, but they suspect the people directly across the street) complained to the township because of the “semi-permanent structure” in the front yard. The neighbor got upset….obviously, it was basically a toy in the front yard! Cops came to their house, they got a warning. Then they thought it would be ok as long as they took it down when they weren’t home, but nope. Cops were called again and they were fined WHILE the daughter was using it! The fine said something about having a semi-permanent (because of the tent stakes) structure.

Cue malicious compliance: they weren’t allowed to have a semi-permanent structure, but they COULD have a permanent structure! So, they went, got a permit from the township, dug the holes, filled it with concrete, and built a regulation sized goal and hung the permit on one of the poles! Now the mystery neighbor has to look at that goal every day