Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

embarrassingly irrational I suppose. listening to someone come out with this stuff fills me with a sort of deep dread, partly the panic of feeling that a windbag positivist might be lurking nearby listening with relish as they power up for battle

Unless it's a trained speaker, I really hate hearing people read aloud. At first I thought it was only in cases where someone else is reading from my own writing (which is totally yeeeeech!) but my friend insisted on reading me some lyrics from a song he liked the other day and I just had to put up with it in cringey silence.

oh god, we have a homeopath at work. I think I mentioned elsewhere that he was giving a talk about it at work during a 'green week' type event. Anyway even though I'm sure I'd argue with him on the internet about it I wouldn't want to bring it up irl as I hardly know him.
But I would just totally tense up when I could hear this 'Mr Rational' type guy at work come up and try to talk reasonably about it, asking 'friendly' questions etc. Just could not stand it.

That "OOOOH RA OOOOH RA" thing that army dudes do.

People who make a habit of writing "meaningful" and "touching" Facebook status updates.

I've always felt i embarrassed about being served by others, like in restaurants and barber's shops.
When I was very little I saw a cartoon or a picture of a man sitting down to dinner and having an enormous napkin tied round his neck by a waiter. Since then I've harboured an irrational fear that this would some day happen to me.
At children's parties, I avoided having my face painted; not because I didn't want face paint on me, but more to do with the idea of servitude on behalf of the painter unto me.
These days I always get my haircut by the same person - a friend who runs his own place - because it feels less like I'm paying a stranger for their time to treat me.
I also hate it when I'm at a restaurant with a group of people and no one thanks the waiting staff when they deliver dishes/cutlery or act like they're not there at all.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/28/greece-europe-imf-democracy

Did that make the rounds already?

That "OOOOH RA OOOOH RA" thing that army dudes do.

― just1n3, Wednesday, July 1, 2015 3:44 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg, Marines are not little army men. SEMPER FI.

(sorry, just had a flashback.)

Haha I couldn't which thing it was, it's always in soldier movies

*remember

i stopped at this farmstand on the way to work and i generally love this little place, it is very quaint rural new england even though it is in boston, it is in this old barn and has great produce, honey, milk, eggs, and cheese and specialty products from small farms in MA but when i walked in this morning they were playing that bon iver song "skinny love" which it just too much for me in general but combined with the cute rustic vibe of this farmstand i just felt so fucking embarrassed like i was in a commercial with ukuleles or something praising the benefits of "eating fresh, eating local" and i starting cringing and had to leave immediately without buying anything

btw here is the song if you have not already been bombarded with it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssdgFoHLwnk

bon iver makes any potentially embarrassing situation veer directly into blood-vessel burstingly embarrassing

The field-trip t-shirts my kids wear this summer at daycare say "It's A [Daycare Name] Thing – You Wouldn't Understand."

totally rational imo

marcos I think your mortification was because you suddenly found yourself in the Chobani yogurt cow commercial.

yes it totally had that vibe!!! it was too much

glad i don't know what chobani yogurt cow is

The field-trip t-shirts my kids wear this summer at daycare say "It's A [Daycare Name] Thing – You Wouldn't Understand."

― pplains, Wednesday, July 1, 2015 9:54 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is not embarrassing, it's hilarious.

Can you get me one in an adult L please

You could probably wear one of the kids shirts. They definitely bet on oversized rather than too small this year.

Must've looked like a group of Fry Guys walking into the zoo yesterday.

marcos, watch at your own risk of irrational embarassment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQpQuGV_gMA

SORRY dog latin, not marcos. I'm IE!!!!

chobani is the root of all quiet seething humiliation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=65&v=l6LNBlHpLRs

er:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6LNBlHpLRs

wait, in orbit, why are you embarrassed by the guardian article?

what's with the one that says 'it's your mom's birthday'? how would they know that?

I like to think that somewhere there is a list of words you can't have “Rippled” onto a latte, a la words you can't have printed on the back of an nfl jacket

the 'it's your mom's birthday' latte seems to have a facebook logo on it as well, so the machine pulled the information from facebook I guess?

used a curling iron today, felt searing humiliation
(it's fairly rational embarrassment imo but the degree is definitely out of proportion to the act)

Are you sure the searing embarrassment wasn't actual searing?

No, it came from inside the house.

facebook discussions/debates that pull in friends from completely disparate parts of my life, like when some high school friend jumps in with the college friend and the co-worker and the random neighborhood playground friend and they're like not even on the same discursive planet let alone page.

this has happened with people i am on nodding terms with around town and prominent SJ-savvy ilxors. it did not end well.

facebook discussions/debates that pull in friends from completely disparate parts of my life, like when some high school friend jumps in with the college friend and the co-worker and the random neighborhood playground friend and they're like not even on the same discursive planet let alone page.

― five six and (man alive), Wednesday, July 22, 2015 10:13 AM (5 minutes ago)

huh, this gives me a mix of irrationally happy & embarrassed

yeah it depends on the mixture

Yeah I kind of love that especially when you get to see like PhDs in econ or biology arguing with mouthbreating ADAM AND EVE NOT ADAM AND STEVE rednecks or whatever.

i kinda like it

except when my super idiotic unfollowed friends chime in & then i'm like (facepalm)

posting on facebook at all makes me feel embarrassed but i do it from time to time anyway to let ppl know i'm still alive

i used the curling iron because i had to get my dl renewed and i'm 99% sure i was embarrassed about my vanity/embarrassed at how little the curling iron did to improve things

taking pictures with famous people

Sometimes it results in uncomfortable political conversations, other times it's just like one person not keyed in at all to some kind of inside-jokey humor sensibility like "Wait, are you guys serious right now?!!!"

are you embarrassed to know these people or embarrassed on their behalf?

I don't know, I'm sort of simultaneously embarrassed from all sides.

i still can't say the sizes at starbucks, all i know is "tall"

for everything else i just say medium or large, i really can't

― surm, Friday, July 24, 2015 12:15 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol me too

― marcos, Friday, July 24, 2015 12:41 PM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This exchange from the coffee thread reminded me that having to say the coffee sizes at Starbucks is a deeply embarrassing and shame-ridden exercise. Whether you use the special Starbucks' terminology or just s/m/l, you lose either way.

One thing I often found fairly drinkable and satisfying was a "Double Tall Two Pump Mocha" -- i.e. a tall mocha with an extra shot and less chocolate syrup, and of course no whipped cream. I also like the "short" size because you get a better proportion of espresso to milk.

― five six and (man alive), Friday, July 24, 2015 12:49 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Double Tall" is the weirdest fucking way to phrase it, but that's exactly what they call it. Also I think there's an order that they call something like "Iced Tall Unsweetened Iced Coffee" -- they actually say "iced" twice!

not to be all trenchant but the best answer there is don't go to starbucks

lmao