Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

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yeah fyi i'd be up for a hug with an ilxor

hug sug

I think I hugged je55e last week when it was oppressively hot and I was kind of drunk after a conversation about glory holes.

iirc I have hugged carl

Chilxors are the huggiest ilxors in my experience.

theyre cold is why

don't get me wrong - who doesn't love hugs? (apart from my brother) it's the whole stranger in a strange land/professional acquaintance thing that can wrongfoot me.

I prefer loving punches over hugs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-VIpTAKQ58

iirc I have hugged carl

It was hot as fuck too so now you know how much I like you.

theyre cold is why

Would hug VG

you better! :D

I've become a hugger since I've been going to the dreaded Burning Man. Not so much before.

greetings in general make me feel awkward and embarrassed, if i don't know the person.

otoh i get really annoyed when a man will shake ytth's hand and just sort of head-nod at me or something.

I prefer loving punches over hugs.

― Jeff, Saturday, July 25, 2015 4:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol this reminds me of a dude I know who was bonding with a woman at some party (turns out she worked for h1gh t1m3s!) and somehow they ended up thinking it was cool to give each other black eyes

that sounds like displaced sexual energy
hugs are different!!

I go straight for a snuggle, all-in or nothing

dayo, fyi, is not a snuggle and now I know that

I think I hugged je55e last week when it was oppressively hot and I was kind of drunk after a conversation about glory holes.

This shouldn't be overlooked.

i've adopted a hugging policy to be done once and for all with the usual british uncertainties about it, but still when anyone greets me with more than one kiss it feels like i've been thrown into a particularly fiendish spatial reasoning puzzle

(somewhat rational embarrassment - accidentally posting this in the velvet underground albums thread)

Maybe this should go in one of the many phrases you dislike threads but I am embarrassed by and for anyone who has ever said the words "easy tiger"

they are trying to indicate you are in the presence of an extraterrestrial iirc

The spoken part and subsequent cheerleader rap in "Shake It Off"

I only really have one opinion about Taylor Swift and it's really more of an indisputable fact than an opinion, and that is that every spoken aside in a Taylor Swift song is corny and bad

― o.m.g. lol @ hurt butt (wins), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:11 (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sex scenes in R rated movies
yes, still

singers who *make themselves laugh* in the middle of a song, especially when the laughter is obviously rehearsed/overdubbed and the preceding line wasn't particularly funny, ex. Taylor's "go on too many dates--huh huh" Terence Trent D'Arby's "a riverboat gambler--hahaha" and Lorde's giggly "and you can watch from your window"

the word 'stoush' which stuff.co.nz uses in too many headlines.

IA @ the woman who parked her car sideways across two handicapped spaces and sat in the driver's seat talking on her cellphone. I honked my horn at her 4 times, but I don't think she got the idea. she probably thought she was doing nothing wrong because she was inside the car and she could move if anyone needed the spaces. gtfo.

oops, wrong 'irrationally' thread

I'm IE for you, bro.

In a web meeting, hearing other people make sounds when they don't realize their mics are on. :(

Saying "Thanks!" inappropriately at the end of a conversation.

Oh totally :-(

Listening to non-Australians attempt an Australian accent

otm but replace with nz accent

also people repeating what i say back to me in that same bad accent

And thinking themselves utterly hilarious too, probably

always. i don't know how people who do this aren't embarrassed for themselves

Saying "Thanks!" inappropriately at the end of a conversation.

― Je55e, Tuesday, September 1, 2015 8:42 PM (Yesterday)

Lol I work with customer support, and a few times a day I finish a phone conversation awkwardly by saying thanks inappropriately, embarrassing stuff

I had a bad habit for a while of saying "Sounds good!" whenever I was finishing a conversation with a higher-up about work. Like, higher-up: "I think we should do x, y and z, can you get started on it?" Me: "Sounds good!" Sometimes it would just be really inappropriate, like at the end of a conversation about bad news.

Yeh, it's my customer service background and current work trying to make surly court clerks like me.

Yesterday it happened w/ a woman from the office upstairs while we were in the elevator. We were chatting about the full spectrum lamp she was carrying: Me: Nice lamp.
Her: Yes, it's very useful for difficult jigsaw puzzles. You can really tell the difference in colors.
Me: That makes sense. Incandescent bulbs are so orange.... Okay, thanks!

I wish I would just accidentally say "I love you" instead of "Thanks!" b/c at least it would be fresh.

I make an ass of myself in this way regularly, feel yr pain. I've even said thanks for talking with me :-/

my best friend is a well-liked, charming guy, and he likes to say "darling", but a few times out of habit, he's called me it by mistake, then been embarrassed. the faux pas is funny, even kinda cute, but him getting embarrassed then makes me embarrassed about it!

jesse that doesn't sound too weird to me. But in my land we say 'cheers then' as a way of saying goodbye and it also means thanks I guess?

haha that elevator dialogue is priceless

That olde english fiddle-di-dee accent that folky busker types put on when they sing. I guess they think it gives their music more authenticity, but it just sounds forced most of the time,

got an example?

innocuous thing that makes me irrationally embarrassed - SECRET SANTA AT WORK. i can perform on a stage in front of strangers but the thought of buying a gift for a colleague or receiving one fills me with dread.

people talking at concerts

sort of agree, but people getting annoyed by people talking at concerts is part of same issue.

maybe just "concerts".

haha yeah, "concerts" will do