If you’d roast someone else for doing it, you don’t get a pass for doing it yourself.

Most people run two standards without ever noticing the second one. Your version arrives with the circumstances attached, so it feels like an exception, while theirs arrives bare and gets the full judgement. The inconsistency is invisible from the inside, because you never see the two cases side by side.

Catch one this week: something you have mocked somebody for and then done yourself. Either stop doing it or stop mocking it, because keeping both is what costs you credibility. If you gave somebody a hard time about it lately, saying so evens things up quickly.