Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

When (on TV or in a big crowd) people start clapping along with the music on each beat. It's so flipping dorky.

People who misspell fairly comman words in Craigslist postings. Especially those using "rod iron" for "wrought iron." Chihuahua also gets a lot of misspellings, but they're usually funny ("Chiwawa").

Chester drawers.

Bedroom suit.

definatly

I grew up amidst an entire county of people who said bedroom suit, such that I just now had to go to the internet to determine why that was wrong and what it should actually be. (I have avoided embarrassment by saying "bedroom furniture.")

maybe 'bedroom suit' is like 'birthday suit', describing nudity w/a different purpose (sex)

Bedroom eyes, peering out of your bedroom suit.

bedroom suit + tails = furries

People who misspell fairly comman words

ALWAYS HAPPENS.

Is there a name for the rule that says "whenever you write a post criticising someone's spelling or grammar, you will make a mistake yourself"?

Haha, and I made sure I spelled "misspell" correctly (one "s" or two?).

And yes, chester drawers is another favorite.

And I swear I've seen colder sack for cul de sac.

these are eggcorns iirc?

poke-a-dotted is the one i've seen most recently

Is there a name for the rule that says "whenever you write a post criticising someone's spelling or grammar, you will make a mistake yourself"?

― emil.y, Friday, March 15, 2013 6:13 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Muphry's Law

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Wow, I had never heard/seen "bedroom suit" before!

People pronouncing "cache" as "cachet" though...

I hate when I over Frenchify words. IE-maker for sure.

Though not so much when it's ridiculously Anglicized place names we have around here (Des Plaines/Dezz Plains, DuPage/DooPage).

One that I hated was Calliope Street in New Orleans. "Cally-ope." And Chartres/Charters.

I'm IE about the opposite:

West of town, we've got Shinall Mountain, where all the radio towers are.

When the developers came into that area during the early 80s, they renamed the streets and neighborhood Chenal Valley.

when it gets to be ~9pm pacific and ilxor-east coast is all abed and I'm still posting and I end up with more than one of the top few "last post by"s on ILE I feel like I'm talking too much

You and me both, sister.

i hear u cluckin' big chicken

I feel that way about late friday afternoon posts, as it becomes clear that everyone has left work and now has either gone out or at least has something better to do on friday evening

I keep thinking about some really ill advised submission letter stunts back when I was a youngin' with dreams of poetry and fiction publication, which for some reason is make me want to puke with embarrassment 16 years later wtf.

Just about everything Rock Hardy ever posted embarrasses the hell out of me when I come across it.

I still have a journalish notebook from high school in which there is some terrible stuff about the LA riots in the 90s and I'm deadlocked between painful embarrassment/never wanting anyone to read that stuff (including me) and wanting to preserve it forever.

Nothing irrational about being embarrassed by our naive teen enthusiasms! We all did it.

Brushing my teeth. Some people seem to be able to do it in public, blithely wandering around while scrubbing away, even chatting at the same time. I can't stop my mouth becoming a dribbling mess of toothpaste foam and saliva so have to do it hunched over a sink, hiding my hideousness behind a closed bathroom door, heaven forbid I should have to do it in a public washroom.

Eating salad at my desk.

I feel like an animal eating out of a trough at the zoo. Totally humiliating.

with big springy leaves you can't pick up properly or fit in your mouth gracefully - otm

sometimes it feels like i'm embarrassed by everything

I was hunched over the plastic container I was eating from like a monkey shoveling ants from a log. It was extremely undignified.

Feed me

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp8qrzh1gv1qj1n4jo1_r2_500.jpg

i've thought about making a thread called "innocuous things that make you irrationally uncomfortable" but i'm worried there are too many threads like this and irrationally embarrassed to admit it

What do you mean? Like sitting in a chair that makes you squirm like a kid, even when everybody else in the room is relaxed and focused on matters at hand.

Or like, pants that look good?

Glasses that you had professionally fitted at the optometrist, but now it's a week later and they're sliding off your goddamn face.

noooo i erased "uneasy" and wrote "uncomfortable" cause i thought it should be more vague, but i guess i really just mean "uneasy" or "queasy" or "things that give you a visceral sense of discomfort for no good reason"

i have a lot of them. maybe there's a thread already

Interesting! What sort of things would uneasy entail that embarrassed doesn't cover? Like, more dread than anxiety type stuff?

I would like to add to my list: dress shirts that have come partially untucked.

that's why i mention it here, i don't know if they could jsut go under "embarrassed". and i started thinking about them after whoever it was started posting about having to skip the pre-movie productions bits, but i don't know if that's more "phobia" than my idea.

for me the two biggest examples are:

1. closeups of disembodied lips, ie dairy queen commercials or rocky horror. i absolutely have to change the channel for DQ commercials.
2. something that also p much only happens in commercials -- whenever a completely normal-dressed person is dancing while doing [whatever the product is], or if they're just sort of moving in a highly choreographed way and they almost always do it with a blank, satan-like smile on their face. biggest problem lately is this one commercial i can't find on yt, it's a woman doing a weird pop-and-lock routine while she does her dishes. and THIS, especially at the end. and a recent southwest commercial where i businessman is walking down a hallway and breaks into some horrible little demon dance at the end. i don't change the channel for these but i sort of endure them with fascination and maybe masochism, like torture porn?

like in that vaseline commercial from 0:14 to 0:15 i start to feel like i might throw up

omg the lips thing. otm!

lips: makes me vaguely uncomfortable, as a word

Watching/hearing ppl brushing their teeth, on tv or real life, is like nails down a blackboard to me - I *always* break out in goosebumps and shudder

I sort of get all the lip talk. Like this bothers me a little: http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/ab227/PhallusCooper/1324355977580.gif (sfw)

I hate close-ups of eyes on TV, especially Visine commercials.

lol that's creepy but not what i mean

it's possible that every part of the human face is made a lot creepier by being removed from the context of the rest of the face, but lips will always make me squirm and possibly forget to breathe