Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

any show of emotion from me at all

when people clap at the end of a movie in the theater. not like at a premiere, just a regular viewing at the multiplex

a very american thing

(although i experienced it once in britain, opening night of snakes on a plane at the UGC in glasgow)

people in other countries save their claps for when a plane lands

i hadn't experienced the clapping for a movie in a long time but it happened at the showing of once upon a time in hollywood i went to last night. same guy was SHRIEKING with laughter anytime anything remotely humorous happened. and when brad pitt insulted bruce lee he went OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH. so maybe i'm more just embarrassed about that dude.

i went to see there's something about mary in l.a. when it came out and the applause was thunderous (i mean i definitely joined in, i was 13 at the time and thought it was a cinematic masterpiece)

conversely, I heard some redneck yell "PIECE O' SHEEEEEEEEEEEIT" at the end of No Country for Old Men

haha

"...and then I woke up."

beat, beat

"PIECE O' SHEEEEEEEEEEEIT!"

I'm lmao over here

He thought it was hilarious too.

xp my experience seeing films in theaters in LA is that people treat every film as a masterpiece. I used to be a little embarrassed by it but now I really like it

the more i think about it i don't know if i have anything against that whole thing

So far the only thing to register as genuinely embarrassing is the songs named after people. I remember being lightly embarrassed for Mick Jagger after he appeared in that Kesha song but that was also possibly bc I was super stressed out and the song was painfully stuck in my head. I think maybe I don’t feel truly irrationally embarrassed unless I’m eating a Chobani.

Performative driving-your-car-out-of-the-way when there's an ambulance or police car coming and you weren't even slightly in the way in the first place.

Isn’t that a law, though?

See. that's why when I hear sirens, I flick on the hazards, speed up to about 60 and lean on the horn, screaming out the window EVERYONE OUT OF THE WAY, AMBULANCE COMING THROUGH.

And if it turns out there really was no ambulance, well, I'm too far down the road to really feel embarrassed about anything.

Performative driving-your-car-out-of-the-way when there's an ambulance or police car coming and you weren't even slightly in the way in the first place.

I can't for the life of me see why this would embarrass you, so it clearly is the kind of highly irrational response this thread solicits. I can't even figure out if its you or another driver who is pulling over, so even your description has a whiff of irrationality to it.

I think this post may set a new standard for the rest of us to aim at.

When i am sitting on the toilet and the dog follows me in and looks at me

One of my cats is obsessed with going into the bathroom with me. I don't exactly find it embarrassing, but it certainly is weird.

If you live in a city, your dog will never crap unobserved by you, so when they find you enthroned on the can it is merely fair-play turnabout.

Just to be clear, moving out of the way of ambulances is fine and good, obviously. Driving your car across the cycle lane and onto the verge when there is already loads of room for it to get through, as if this is some sort of competition as to who can get most out of the way, this is embarrassing.

I doubt they’re thinking about how they look to other drivers

deep state, deepfakes, deep web. I feel like an edgelord referencing these things

a local theater is running the original Matrix, and I'm remembering just how into this movie a certain time of person was in the early 2000s

*type

One of my cats is obsessed with going into the bathroom with me. I don't exactly find it embarrassing, but it certainly is weird.

When I was sitting down on the toilet, our old cat used to wander in and curl up in my lowered underpants, which was unhelpful.

loool

It was probably so warm and snuggly for your cat though

my best beloved and dearly departed lyle

https://i.imgur.com/aD2nNDO.jpg

sorry for your loss, but lol

Have had the orange cat, have had the blue and white tiles, even have had a few pairs of the Hanes.

lyle looks cozy as hell down there

Somebody's asking for a teabagging...

will never unsee

<3 Lyle (and also sorry for your loss), but those must have been some itchy boxers with all the cat hair.

There's a new café near my work; it seemed nice and I know it's hard to get business in the spot they're in so I said I'd bring some flyers into work. The flyers say "Formally <previous name of business or business in same location>" rather than "formerly" and I feel weirdly like if I'd seen that before I talked to the café lady I'd never have volunteered to bring them round.

Which is weird because it doesn't really matter, and it's not like I have anything to do with the café or its advertising.

(For max irony value I am not 100% sure whether "flyer" or "flier" is correct, so it will also be embarrassing if that's wrong! I did check the OED, which prefers "flyer", but also talks like it's some obscure American word that nobody ever said outside US crime novels of the 1960s, so, eh.)

my orange cat does that same thing fairly frequently. he also usually accompanies me into the bathroom in the morning and sits on the bathmat while i shower

Do all of y’all just go to the bathroom with the door open? Or perhaps you have cats with opposable thumbs?

if I'm in the apartment alone yes (and if I'm just showering or whatever also yes). the door in my bathroom now is a sliding door (space saving measure because my apartment is tiny) which he can open, but when i had a normal door i would tend to let him in anyway before going to the bathroom because otherwise he would scratch at the door

Do all of y’all just go to the bathroom with the door open? Or perhaps you have cats with opposable thumbs?

yes (if i'm home alone), and it is related to a cat. my cat has a big issue with closed doors of any kind. he cannot resist clawing and scratching at them. this is unnerving when using the bathroom by myself, so i usually crack the door so that my eye can maintain weird eye contact with me.

(when someone else is home, he usually doesn't freak out about the doors. he's a weird cat.)

my eye cat can maintain weird eye contact with me.

My cat rushes in if he's given more than a split second. If he gets stuck outside he'll sit there and meow very loudly.

Dogs always need to watch, because turnabout is fair play: most dogs never have a crap without being supervised.

i'm fine with that, but i wish my dog would clean up after me too

and perhaps pat my head

my workplace has a new sponsorship deal with supercuts

this is being celebrated with the offer of a free haircut, on site, for every employee, today

it is being called 'tour de cuts'

Sounds like a trick to cut the hair of some particularly shaggy/unfashionable person without embarrassing them.

RE: Tour de Cuts

We are now offering a $20 cash bonus to anyone in Finance who will take advantage of the free haircut offer. Particularly those who sit on the 4th floor's North suite.

fuck being told to get a haircut in such a passive aggressive way
that would make me want a free haircut even less than i did before

I would take the convenient bang trim tbh