Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

using the term 'lede'

you'd prefer they bury it

The UK has the marginally less irritating term 'standfirst' instead of lede.

adults who cosplay

imagine if you will that your older brother was such an adult and the attendant embarrassment that comes along with such a filial connection

sort of related, anyone over the age of 10 who wears hats like this:
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everytime i see a movie trying to depict a made-up video game or viral video or merely "the internet", it's embarrassing.

observing bad job interviews. people making bad jokes during job interviews. we interviewed a donor relations/development person and during her presentation she made a joke about how alcohol is key to fundraising and it was kind of funny but by the end of the presentation she ended up making two more alcohol jokes and it reflected poorly. i felt very embarrassed for her

when people show videos they did not create as a filler during a job interview presentation

people showing video clips during presentations in general is usually bad

good: "here is our new marketing promotional video"

bad: "here is a video I made with my coworkers that is goofy and shows we are a team"

super bad: "so here we are in this all day session. I am going to show you a TED talk video"

i dunno... it gives me a chance to recover from the crippling embarrassment of actually giving the presentation myself

oh i see - yeah i wouldn't show a ted talk, shit no

People are showing video presentations in job interviews now? I AM SO FUCKED

those twitter essays people link to and say "thread", how people start replying straight away and the person ignores all of them and just barrels on because they have 40 more tweets prepared, makes for a v awkward and embarrassing reading experience

I know that twitter convos will often involve some talking past people anyway but this reads particularly badly, it's partly the fault of the people who should know not to chime in mid-lecture but mostly the fault of the people who didn't say to themselves "hmm I guess it's not really an essay platform is it"

Twitter

I think in 2017 it is unfortunately no longer appropriate to keep twitter in a bag labeled innocuous

I mean it's 2017, look around, who can afford to get embarrassed about anything? I don't think I feel this anymore.

Threads on Twitter are annoying. Please write a paragraph and don't bother getting mad at the one boob who replied while the manifesto is getting blorped* out one sentence at a time.

* thanks for this word VG

yeah twitter blogging is def embarrassing

I'm never rapt, waiting for the next precious blorp. I'm sure they are trying to get people's attention in whatever way works but I think it has a short shelf life in terms of actual utility as a mode of communication.

It's tough to make a compelling argument when every sentence has to be a cliffhanger.

I've found myself responding in a really half-assed manner (and thinking "why did i say that") when i'm getting immediate feedback on twitter. the fact someone is responding makes me want to fill the space in the conversation, and the notification that a new reply is there gives a little pavlovian boost

i really think massive tweetstormers and getting that boost from replying to themselves

tweet blogging jfc, jj mcnabb who is kinda the final word on cliven bundy & sovereign land movt is doing a threaded tweet on Bundy & she's up to #41

lady you are great & informative but get a goddamn blog ffs

What Do Stupid People Talk About?

:)

walking down the street

Feeling you, Flappy.

everytime i see a movie trying to depict a made-up video game or viral video or merely "the internet", it's embarrassing.

Totally. I dunno why these people thing every single element on the screen has to be moving at once. You see this in TV shows all the time, someone logs in to look something up and there are windows popping up all over the place full of scrolling text in a 6-point font. Why do they spend so much time on this.

Or the other extreme where text being printed on the screen comes out one character every half second or so, accompanied by an audible beep.

That my family uses twice as many spoons than we do forks.

Really? I love that tbh. Ever since I'm with a Kurdish woman, forks have been non-existent, w/ her and her family, and now us, too. And I *get* it, now. A spoon and a knife are enough, forks have no function anymore and have been effectively rendered wholly obsolete and useless. This satisfies greatly for some reason.

(sorry forksclovetofu, but it's true :-( )

Can a spoon throw a lump of clay on a wheel and make a gorgeous pot out of it?

A spoon can do anything, kind sir.

*starts throwing lumps of clay*

forks have no function anymore and have been effectively rendered wholly obsolete and useless

the tines they are a-changin

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WHAT?

You can't eat steak with a spoon! It's awkward to hold the food down with a spoon while you're cutting it. How else are you going to eat exactly three peas?

wine tasting in front of the winemaker. I dunno why but I get super embarrassed about tasting something that I'm not sure that I'll like in front of the person who made it

I wish they just had an empty room with cups where I could taste them privately and no-one watches my face to see how i'm reacting

Pplains otm about the peas :'-(

A spoon and a knife are enough

Of the canonical western utensil triumvirate of knife, fork and spoon, it was the fork that was the last to arrive. Hands were used a lot more directly before forks were interpolated between one's hand and one's food.

How else are you going to eat exactly three peas?

Nothing simpler! Place your spoon's edge resting upon your plate near the peas you are stalking, with the hollow of the spoon slightly tilted from the horizontal and ready to accept three peas. Take your knife, a convenient bit of bread, or your index finger and coax exactly three peas onto your spoon. Lift the spoon to your mouth, being careful not to spill the peas out of the spoon's concavity as you do so. Place the spoon in your mouth, close your lips upon it, and slide the spoon out of your mouth, using your lips to prevent the peas from exiting your mouth. Chew and swallow them. Don't choke.

Or for the francophones among us, I offer Google's translation of the above:

Rien de plus simple! Placez le bord de votre cuisse appuyé sur votre assiette près des pois vous êtes en train de traquer, avec le creux de la cuillère légèrement incliné de l'horizontale et prêt à accepter trois pois. Prenez votre couteau, un morceau de pain pratique, ou votre index et coaxiez exactement trois pois sur votre cuillère. Soulevez la cuillère à votre bouche, en faisant attention de ne pas renverser les pois de la concavité de la cuillère que vous le faites. Placez la cuillère dans votre bouche, fermez vos lèvres dessus et glissez la cuillère hors de votre bouche, en utilisant vos lèvres pour éviter que les pois ne sort de votre bouche. Chew et avalez-les. Ne pas étouffer.

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People acting within, say, 10 feet of me. I can't handle front row seats at a play. And the thought of going to a Ren Fair makes my skin crawl.

i was at a quiet yet not uncrowded store recently and there were a couple of dudes talking sincerely and fanboyishly in that way that's a little too loud and self-impressed about superhero movies, like the meaning and minutiae of The Dark Knight Rises and something about the last Avengers movie and going on about Spiderman...it was a conversation everyone in the store overheard and it was irrationally embarrassing.

Young people being very serious and impassioned (I'm an asshole).

xpost oh that makes me think of a big one for me: self identifying as a "gamer" and making it a big part of one's identity. I've played a lot of video games in my life--probably more than average--but the idea of being a "gamer" is just gross and depressing

You guys could just lump this all together and say Reddit's core user base.

Young people being very serious and impassioned

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when I sit down next to someone and they glance in my direction at the same time as I glance in theirs and then I can't decide whether to acknowledge them with a "hello" or not.