she has my vote
― infirm neophytic child (zachlyon), Thursday, 25 April 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
eating ramen in public. there's this delicious ramen place that i would eat at every day if i could, but i cannot get it into my mouth in a dignified fashion. it's mortifying. i could get it to-go, but they charge a buck for the take-out container and it's just more plastic waste i'd end up throwing away.
― a sentimental knife (reddening), Saturday, 27 April 2013 07:42 (eleven years ago) link
listening to a phrasebook-style teach-yourself-German podcast, and even the English phrases are really enunciated with wild pitch swings and strange pauses, and it is agonising. it's like a very bad radio play, and I sometimes get this same feeling even from not-so-bad radio plays.
(I get that it's probably done to cater to EFL people who know more English than German and are using this in the absence of one in their own language. I wonder if the German sounds as horrible to a native speaker as the English does to me?)
― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
In an Amazon review of a window fan, a reviewer wrote that the fan made a noise that bothered them like fingernails on a chalkboard...for us old folks who can remember chalk boards :)
UGH;a;sdlfkj
― Je55e, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
re: ramen, is it just ramen or any noodles?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
right now i am sat in a restaurant eating nasi goreng, and every time i dig in with my chopsticks the plate spins. this will not do.
― mistah WRIGHT! WHAT you doin'? (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 May 2013 09:09 (eleven years ago) link
the weezer song "el scorcho." they have lots of embarrassing songs but most of them are also good and the embarrassing aspects come from awkward emotional places. but that one is musically embarrassing. the pseudo-rapping, the lite "funkiness" ugh
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 6 May 2013 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
that kind of "funkiness" generally makes me irrationally embarrassed, yes
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Monday, 6 May 2013 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
being up late on the US west coast and having the last answer on the top 6 or 7 ILE threads. And worrying that I posted this same one already
― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 06:43 (eleven years ago) link
Any time I hear two people older than, say, 14, talking in any detail about a video game, like actually having a conversation about specific things one does or has done in a video game, or analyzing the finer points of a games strengths and weaknesses.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Friday, 11 October 2013 00:44 (ten years ago) link
i am having #chobanitime RIGHT NOWfeeling no shame though, for some reason
― Untt (La Lechera), Friday, 11 October 2013 01:14 (ten years ago) link
lol @ #chobanitime
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Friday, 11 October 2013 01:16 (ten years ago) link
whenever i notice the chobani at the market it reminds me of you, ll, and then i have a little think about if it's embarrassing or not and I always conclude it's not in any way I can grasp and then sometimes I will go on to ponder my own deficiencies.
― estela, Friday, 11 October 2013 02:20 (ten years ago) link
Costco has big variety packs of both Chobani and Fage :)Both of them are the 0% fat kind :(
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Friday, 11 October 2013 03:36 (ten years ago) link
estela, have you ever tried to say it out loud? that might help you understand the shame.
― Untt (La Lechera), Friday, 11 October 2013 03:40 (ten years ago) link
"Funny" sexual innuendos that aren't funny. I used to see someone who did this all the time and when I didn't laugh or played along, she would always complain about me "not getting it" ...then I pretended to agree, of course, cause the alternative would be tell her it was neither sexy not funny :/
― daavid, Friday, 11 October 2013 05:19 (ten years ago) link
xp i have ll, and i can never be sure if it starts with a ch or a sh sound (i've never heard it being advertised) so yes, that is slightly embarrassing.
i had thought it was the product itself that was the source of your mortification.
― estela, Friday, 11 October 2013 06:13 (ten years ago) link
it's everythingit's the fact that i purchase it, the name (which i always thought was pronounced like /tʃ/ as in 'change'), the fact that i can't stop eating (relishing!) yogurt that is "passion fruit" flavored
the whole enterprise makes me look at myself and wonder how things could have gone so wrongand yogurt isn't supposed to do that
― Untt (La Lechera), Friday, 11 October 2013 13:25 (ten years ago) link
would always complain about me "not getting it"
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/1203864/that-s-what-she-said-o.gif
― pplains, Friday, 11 October 2013 13:57 (ten years ago) link
anytime I'm waiting in line and I catch the eye of the employee that's helping someone else, because they invariably say "I'll be with you in a moment sir" as if they think I'm looking at them impatiently and then I feel bad because really my eyes were just wandering around the room, and I looked at them by chance.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 11 October 2013 14:00 (ten years ago) link
ah yeah me too, also "sorry for the wait" because I have bitchy resting face so they think I'm really pissed off while I'm just standing there
― kinder, Friday, 11 October 2013 16:32 (ten years ago) link
http://flavorwire.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/uncle-leo.jpg
― nickn, Friday, 11 October 2013 21:24 (ten years ago) link
I have signed up to the Guardian subscription thing where you pay by direct debit and they send you a booklet of coupons that you exchange for the Guardian in newsagents, but feel irrationally embarrassed every time I leave a shop with a newspaper having given the assistant a piece of paper rather than actual money.
― it was discovered that there's no rule that a dog cannot play basketball (bends), Friday, 11 October 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
xp passionfruit chobani is also my favourite chobani of all. maybe it seems unshameful to me because i have a defiant vanilla rice pudding habit which has been going on daily for some years now and which i can't see me stopping ever.
― estela, Friday, 11 October 2013 23:10 (ten years ago) link
See, that's the one I don't like not because of taste (it tastes great), but because of the seeds.
That Guardian thing sounds like all of the hassle of using a coupon without the benefits of a coupon.
― pplains, Friday, 11 October 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
Well, it's cheaper than it would otherwise be. But I always think that everyone who sees me paying for the newspaper with the coupon immediately hates me for it, maybe that's me being paranoid (or maybe they already hated you anyway etc)
― it was discovered that there's no rule that a dog cannot play basketball (bends), Friday, 11 October 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link
are they dignified-looking little pieces of paper or are they a bunch of old tat.
― estela, Friday, 11 October 2013 23:23 (ten years ago) link
At my work they are running a promotion in the canteen where you can download a code on you mobile phone to get a discount off your purchase, which has the effect of making every transaction take twice as long as it otherwise would as people search for their phones in their bag/waive their phone around trying to get a signal etc and I get so mad at these people making me late off my break when I only want to buy a mars bar because they're spending 5 hours dicking around with their mobile so they can get 30p off their fucking baked potato or whatever, and I'm concerned this is what the other people in the newsagents feel towards me, but maybe other people are not as irritable as I am.
― it was discovered that there's no rule that a dog cannot play basketball (bends), Friday, 11 October 2013 23:28 (ten years ago) link
coupons are great fuck the haters
― swmp thing (wins), Friday, 11 October 2013 23:30 (ten years ago) link
lolll @ shobani
― anonymous jazz majors (Matt P), Friday, 11 October 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link
They are quite dignified looking I suppose. They have my name printed on them which I also find embarrassing, I don't want the newsagent to know my name. If I use one of them in a newsagent any distance from my home town I feel vaguely worried that someone could be using them to track my movements, but there is no plausible reason why anyone should want to do this even if they could, this is probably more 'innocuous things that make you irrationally paranoid' I suppose.
― it was discovered that there's no rule that a dog cannot play basketball (bends), Friday, 11 October 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link
I feel just like such a feeb rooting around in my bag, taking out my little booklet of coupons, carefully tearing the coupon out so the sides don't get ragged and passing it too the newsagent, I feel like I look like exactly the kind of person who would do something like that and I'm just confirming everyone's first impression of me.If I was watching a movie where the cool, glamorous lead bought a newspaper they would not pay for it with a coupon from a booklet.
― it was discovered that there's no rule that a dog cannot play basketball (bends), Friday, 11 October 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
feel like i might have to try chobani now
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 October 2013 23:36 (ten years ago) link
Catch it when it's on sale for a buck. Not worth $1.25.
― pplains, Friday, 11 October 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
Pineapple is the way to go, imho.
― carl agatha, Friday, 11 October 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link
stuff is kind of pricey iirc, also half of them have RUSTIC CHUNKS OF CHOCOLATE on the front. chobani more like menopausi
― anonymous jazz majors (Matt P), Friday, 11 October 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
sorry
― anonymous jazz majors (Matt P), Friday, 11 October 2013 23:46 (ten years ago) link
lol/otm/shame @ menopausi
If you really want the full yogurt experience though, try mixing some rose petal jam into vanilla yog of your choice. No shame in that floral-dairy game. It's delicious.
I feel like I look like exactly the kind of person who would do something like that and I'm just confirming everyone's first impression of me.this is at the heart of this thread imo
― Untt (La Lechera), Friday, 11 October 2013 23:46 (ten years ago) link
i worked in a bakery when i was at high school and one day my boss's wife came in and said to me, 'i saw you biking home yesterday, gosh you were really enjoying that icecream you were eating!' and i almost died of horror which turned swiftly into a burning hatred of her and her smirky face.
― estela, Friday, 11 October 2013 23:57 (ten years ago) link
estella humblebraging re biking while eating ice cream imo
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, 12 October 2013 00:07 (ten years ago) link
Sorry, only one l, phone corrected.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, 12 October 2013 00:08 (ten years ago) link
i don't mind.
― estela, Saturday, 12 October 2013 00:29 (ten years ago) link
I promise I didn't smirk even a little, even on the inside.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, 12 October 2013 00:53 (ten years ago) link
Podcasts that are like "radio plays." Nightvale is the most recent one I tried. People love it, it makes me cringe, and I think it's the medium rather than that one specific podcast.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
i almost died of horror which turned swiftly into a burning hatred of her and her smirky face.
were you eating icrecream while thinking all this bet you were
― unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
almost any internet/real life crossover - if somebody quotes a funny Tweet, or tells a story that they posted on Facebook, or complains about something a mutual friend put up on Facebook or quotes a funny text somebody sent them.
is it really old-person to still feel like social media is like Fight Club?
― brio, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 16:39 (ten years ago) link
also probably old-person to reference Fight Club I guess
― brio, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 16:42 (ten years ago) link
i just felt a wave of embarrassment for you
― Untt (La Lechera), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
thanks!
― brio, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah. My wife wanted me to find out more information about a local police incident that occurred, and the was nothing in the news, so I hit them up on twitter. Then I had to be all like "OK, so I tweeted at the cops and they tweeted back...." I didn't feel comfortable talking out loud about the whole exchange though. I probably should have just taken a screen cap and posted it on her facebook I don't know.
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 20:06 (ten years ago) link