generally
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOrvdvczpEA
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
improv
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
People who comment on the food I am eating, or have just ordered. microwaving.. A truly irrational pet peeve.
"ooh, that smells nice..."
DO YOU WANT SOME?????
― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
there is *a lot* of bad live theatre though, so yeah
painfully true. but i do tend to be irrationally embarrassed by people ~acting~ in a live setting, regardless of the quality of performance/ production. the closer they are to me physically, the more embarrassed i get.
― Still S.M.D.H. ft. (will), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
improv comedy or improv anything?
― passion it person (La Lechera), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
comedy i guess? i'm not sure what other kinds of improv i'd run into
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
omg hahaaaa, mooks knows what i'm talking aboutthat clip is practically canadianxps
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://youtu.be/vDggoBZ2A48
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
though the wayne gretzky ones of the 80s/90s were prob worse and more ubiquitous...
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
Everything I say and everything I do.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
irish politics
― bill paxman (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man. When I correct someone, or answer a question earnestly, and then immediately realise they were only joking. I guess it's rational to feel some embarrassment about that, but probably not rational to feel so much shame I just want to leave work straight away, get the train home, run upstairs to a cupboard, turn out the light and hide under every bit of linen I can find.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
stop correcting ppl, it's ama awful habit, even when they're wrong. get home.
― bill paxman (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
*points out typo*
*kills self*
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
witnessing people bragging
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
good one
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
I probably embarrass people when I temporarily bond with sales people (usually at the cosmetics counter).
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
empty shops/restaurants that are clearly struggling for business
I end up never even going into these places since I know that if I go in and start browsing I will feel obligated to buy something because I feel bad about their business not doing well.
I don't really feel embarrassed or anything though, this is just expensive sympathy.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
I feel embarrassed about being a semi-regular small spender in probably not failing local businesses - like the local corner shop you only ever buy emergency toilet roll or teabags in because you do your regular shopping elsewhere. This is related to the embarrassment about whether or not to cultivate a nodding acquaintance with the people you only ever see on the way to or from work. It feels a stupid basis for an acquaintance so I never do, but then when you walk past them every day for months and years... i walk past a guy setting up a jerk chicken stand in the park every morning and i want to break this awful cycle of studied aloofness but i don't know how, and if i do i'll probably feel no less stupid in nodding to him every morning.
― ledge, Monday, 10 December 2012 10:59 (eleven years ago) link
people pronouncing things wrong. my favourite is when people ask for the beer "bombardier" (pronounced in the ww2 spiffing way) and say "bombard-e-ay" in the french way, just a perfect failure. (i definitely pronounce things wrong myself, obv, sometimes, and then get even more embarrassed)― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 16:47 (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 16:47 (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'd probably be guilty of saying Bomard-i-ay cos I'm an idiot. I also can't stop myself saying "Kraftverk" and "Volksvagen" (who else does this? NOBODY!) and yet shudder when people like Stephen Fry don't pronounce the final "T" in 'restaurant' or insist on saying "gar-arge" when referring to music.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Monday, 10 December 2012 11:07 (eleven years ago) link
My wife reading ilx over my shoulder
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Monday, 10 December 2012 11:11 (eleven years ago) link
How about creating a nodding acquaintance with people you see in work? I keep trying but at a guess I'm well south of 50% success rate. And it's not even just people you pass daily in the corridor, at the printer, etc - even some of the people I've worked fairly closely with for several days retreat into non-acquaintance mode as soon as the project is done. I feel embarrassed to be part of this.
It's not just me btw, I've checked - it appears simply to not be how it is done.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 10 December 2012 11:13 (eleven years ago) link
I think I'd say Kraftverk, but also Volkswagen - not sure it comes up much tbh.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 10 December 2012 11:15 (eleven years ago) link
anyway, it's folksvagen
― let's hear it for the women (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 December 2012 11:18 (eleven years ago) link
play it safe and say folkwaggon imo
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Monday, 10 December 2012 11:21 (eleven years ago) link
or 'b*ngbus'
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 10 December 2012 11:23 (eleven years ago) link
People who comment on the food I am eating, or have just ordered. microwaving.. A truly irrational pet peeve."ooh, that smells nice..."DO YOU WANT SOME?????― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:05 (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:05 (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"mmmmm, looks good, what did you go for?""it's a new thing, it's called a sandwich, now fuck off okay?"
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Monday, 10 December 2012 11:26 (eleven years ago) link
People sitting too close at 'communal eating' tables. However, if you are this person and you want me to budge over while I'm actually chewing, you can fuck off.
Commenting on the food of strangers: this is only OK in busy Chinese restaurants, where you see a group of diners with something good and you want to make damned sure you order that thing.
― rihanna, will you ever win? (suzy), Monday, 10 December 2012 11:41 (eleven years ago) link
this whole area is a nightmare. do i say hi to someone i work with each time they pass me in a corridor? do i say hi to people i work with occasionally or whom i know? offices are the worst.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Monday, 10 December 2012 11:43 (eleven years ago) link
Thoughts when I don't nod to someone in the corridor: "c'mon i'm only passing them in the corridor, this isn't reunion with a long lost relative ffs". Thoughts when someone doesn't nod to me: "arrogant fucker".
― ledge, Monday, 10 December 2012 11:47 (eleven years ago) link
the haunted look which is exchanged goes to the heart of our problems as humans
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Monday, 10 December 2012 11:55 (eleven years ago) link
Plus long corridors create embarrassments of their own; at what point do you start your acknowledgement?
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 10 December 2012 11:55 (eleven years ago) link
oh god yeah "did they see me nod and mouth 'hello' back there? can't tell. maybe do it again. oh god now they think i'm mental."
― let's hear it for the women (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 December 2012 11:57 (eleven years ago) link
doors are a nightmare too. three double doors in a row to get to the bathroom, having to say "thanks" PAUSE "thanks" PAUSE "thanks" when you don't even want to or "notatttall" PAUSE "nottattall" PAUSE "nottattall" like little steam engine.
then once every hundred times a "these doors huh?", "who are you telling?!"
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Monday, 10 December 2012 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
still it's worth remembering that the only people who don't feel this way in these situations are the rude
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Monday, 10 December 2012 12:00 (eleven years ago) link
At my work no fucker acknowledges a held-open door; have occasionally even been glowered at as recipient passes through. Details are obviously all stored for the day of the revolution.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 10 December 2012 12:06 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg5MJyEHKGo
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Monday, 10 December 2012 12:18 (eleven years ago) link
and do you look at them all the way, or do you deliberately look elsewhere even though there's nowhere else to look, or? tbh i just turn around and run away.
― Shane Richie Junior (Merdeyeux), Monday, 10 December 2012 12:23 (eleven years ago) link
I rarely get to do it, but running fast down a corridor is an excellent thing to do. I dunno why, maybe the air currents and echoes are all different, but it's so different to doing it in an open space.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 10 December 2012 12:27 (eleven years ago) link
Why not do it all the time, clutching a sheaf of papers to look busy and important, then it'll be ok to blank your cow orkers. Can't eyebrow flash! Late for meeting!
― ledge, Monday, 10 December 2012 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
this can be so unbearably tense. often a quick distant acknowledgement, followed by the realisation that some strange etiquette will dictate another, proximate acknowledgement, which often makes both parties feel forced and insincere. it's a tricky balance between maintaining just enough eye contact to be courteous, but not so much as to make the other person uncomfortable/skeeved out, all the while acting as if the awkward steps until follow-up acknowledgement are occupied by something other than the painful endurance of having to fulfil an obligation. It can give rise to such hollow feelings, especially when you're given a perfunctory acknowledgement for what you're trying hard not to project as a self-conscious, automatic gesture. It's as if you're being confronted with a kind of diluted unspontaneity, and you're in a Tati scene, and you feel as if you're stretching a moment out far longer than any human being should ever have to endure.
― bed raggled (qiqing), Monday, 10 December 2012 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
People only run in corridors when they think nobody's looking though; the rest of the time they do an embarrassing fast-walk thing, with occasional trot for a few steps until someone else homes into view.
A wild-haired professor at uni is the only person I can recall who would run around openly.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 10 December 2012 12:35 (eleven years ago) link
When I was younger, I used to get so embarassed for people on television shows who were about to get in trouble. I can't think of any concrete examples, but like, if the Fresh Prince was doing something he wasn't supposed to, like snooping in someone else's stuff or something, and we in the audience were clued in to the fact that he was about to get busted for it. I would get beet-red flushed to the point where I'd have to turn off the TV or leave the room.
― how's life, Monday, 10 December 2012 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
tbh I still repeat to myself "it's only a show, it's only a show"
― ledge, Monday, 10 December 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
90% of sketch comedy that involves singing, especially SNL monologues and the Whose Line is it Anyway songs
― on a clear 乒乓 can see forever (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 10 December 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
I rarely get to do it, but running fast down a corridor is an excellent thing to do. I dunno why, maybe the air currents and echoes are all different, but it's so different to doing it in an open space.― Ismael Klata, Monday, 10 December 2012 12:27 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 10 December 2012 12:27 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah totally - sometimes I feel like I could jump and just float down the corridor.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Monday, 10 December 2012 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
Josie Lawrence: "I know what you mean, about those songs, they seem very obvious and not very long..."
― Mark G, Monday, 10 December 2012 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
- when people point out a joke after someone else has told it.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Monday, 10 December 2012 14:23 (eleven years ago) link
― silverfish, Wednesday, December 5, 2012 1:48 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah I'm totally like this and what's worse is that gf is not at all and always just wants to look around places so we'll have mini-arguments where I'm like "no we can't go in that place! we aren't gonna buy anything, it's not polite, that person inside is gonna get their hopes up" and she's like "wtf nobody cares"
― iatee, Monday, 10 December 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
Toys/books/general kid material that’s designed to get children into programming. Actually probably not innocuous but I’m not sure where else this fits.
― circa1916, Saturday, 5 August 2023 22:14 (eight months ago) link
If that's actually what it's doing I don't mind it; it's more the games and things that slap on STEM and CODING on the box because they have to follow a rule or use the most basic bit of logic that annoy me.
― kinder, Sunday, 6 August 2023 13:47 (eight months ago) link
when my lighter is the same color as my pack of cigarettes
― budo jeru, Friday, 18 August 2023 19:30 (eight months ago) link
i saw someone post pictures from an instagram-optimized bookstore that made me irrationally embarrassed. really, i feel irrationally embarrassed by any sort of irl business that is designed for people to take pictures for social media there.
― circles, Thursday, 7 September 2023 14:10 (seven months ago) link
haha oh man
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 September 2023 15:27 (seven months ago) link
Oh dear. At least they actually sell books. There's a whole chain of places (Selfie WRLD) where literally all they sell is the opportunity to take pictures of yourself with your own camera against various moderately compelling backgrounds. It's only $25 an hour!
Gift link: https://wapo.st/463hPn8
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 7 September 2023 15:34 (seven months ago) link
the poster for Taylor Swift's tour movie looks like her farting into a microphone and I can't unsee it.
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 September 2023 16:56 (seven months ago) link
Seeing this thread bumped and worrying it's about something I said or did
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Thursday, 7 September 2023 16:59 (seven months ago) link
Ooh I've got a good one:
There's a barbershop in the shopping area of town that has the words "Men's Crêche" stuck in large letters on the front window
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Thursday, 7 September 2023 17:00 (seven months ago) link
the poster for Taylor Swift's tour movie looks like her farting into a microphone and I can't unsee it.― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Thursday, September 7, 2023 12:56 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Thursday, September 7, 2023 12:56 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Wasn't that a Sarah Silverman bit?
― peace, man, Thursday, 7 September 2023 17:23 (seven months ago) link
I keep getting TikToks of impressionists doing celebrity impressions to the celebrity. Like “Paul Giamatti meets ‘Paul Giamatti’”
I haven’t actually watched any of them because the concept seems excruciating
― na (NA), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 01:11 (three months ago) link
Imagine someone doing an impression of you to you and having someone else film it while it’s happening
― na (NA), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 01:12 (three months ago) link
God damn it LOL
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 01:13 (three months ago) link
I keep getting TikToks of impressionists doing celebrity impressions to the celebrity. Like “Paul Giamatti meets ‘Paul Giamatti’”I haven’t actually watched any of them because the concept seems excruciating― na (NA), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 01:11 (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― na (NA), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 01:11 (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I was once at a formal conference dinner where part of the 'entertainment' was a guy who came round to the table and drew caricatures of guests. Some people were clearly uncomfortable with the way they were portrayed, but had to sit with the thing on the table until the end of the evening when they could leave and throw it away.
― fetter, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 11:48 (three months ago) link
i have this habit of writing posts here, finishing them, seeing something I don't like in the first paragraph and fixing it, and forgetting to re-read the second paragraph to make sure the rewrites don't completely ruin the transition from one paragraph to another.
then requiring a follow-up post clearing up what I meant when I realize it now looks like gibberish
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 17:00 (three months ago) link
never apologize, that's my steez.
folks will say, pplains is so profound, half the time I don't even know what he's talking about. goes right over my head.
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 17:32 (three months ago) link
I say this all the time
― Esteemed character actress (sunny successor), Thursday, 1 February 2024 16:50 (two months ago) link
In this modern age, I feel like I have to look at my phone while waiting for my to-go order/coffee drink or else I’ll look impatient.
― brimstead, Sunday, 18 February 2024 22:14 (two months ago) link
omg me too
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 18 February 2024 22:36 (two months ago) link