Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

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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.

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.

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.

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)

are they dignified-looking little pieces of paper or are they a bunch of old tat.

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.

coupons are great fuck the haters

lolll @ shobani

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.

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.

feel like i might have to try chobani now

Catch it when it's on sale for a buck. Not worth $1.25.

Pineapple is the way to go, imho.

stuff is kind of pricey iirc, also half of them have RUSTIC CHUNKS OF CHOCOLATE on the front. chobani more like menopausi

sorry

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

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.

estella humblebraging re biking while eating ice cream imo

Sorry, only one l, phone corrected.

i don't mind.

I promise I didn't smirk even a little, even on the inside.

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.

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

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?

also probably old-person to reference Fight Club I guess

i just felt a wave of embarrassment for you

thanks!

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.

oh yeah I totally have that embarrassment about social media thing. Actually if I ever tell someone about something from ILX, I usually make up some bullshit about where it came from

ha yeah. i have so many friends who tell me so many interesting things, i really do.

Dropping anything at a social gathering that shouldn't fall, like food or even a photo that someone is passing around
Cutting up a cake wrong in front of people
Serving myself from a table at a party or gathering, however big or small, and spilling it, having to use my fingers or using the wrong utensil
Spilling anything from buffet to plate or being stuck without a serving utensil and having to think fast...I just walk away now

I don't spill a lot of food at parties but I sweat buckets serving myself...

Accidentally replicating a post on ILX

FYI for La Lechera: in this week's "food issue" of the New Yorker, there's a pretty interesting profile of the guy who founded the Chobani yogurt company. It's behind the subscriber paywall online, unfortunately.

Can someone summarize this for me? I've now received 2 notifications about it and do not have subscription. I haven't had pf chobani yog in over a month, thank goodness.

i included this chobani commercial in my persuasion prezi as an example of "people enjoy feeling satisfied and competent"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxqaFt74mRU

People who publicly complain about customer service on Twitter while @-ing the corporate account. I realize this is an acceptable thing to do and often the easiest way to reach a company but I still find it embarrassing (irrationally).

That's like 25% of my tweets!

I KNEW you would respond to this! Like I said, it's irrational. I know it gets results.

It can always be worse.

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My dislike/mild phobia of going to the cinema or watching movies with others makes me kinda IE. Does anyone else get this? I just hate the idea of committing to two hours of silence with a friend, I'd rather speak to them. Also I am quite likely to turn something off, if watching at home alone and it's bad, I find it a major waste of time to have to sit through something. Then there's discussing it afterwards... don't enjoy that either.

How you feel about people clapping at movies for director who isn't there?

Startles me to death.

My sister attributing everything she sees and does to what a [OUR SURNAME] would do.

"Ah, your son smiles when he laughs. He's definitely a Smith!"

"Enjoying some egg nog this morning, the Jones way of starting Thanksgiving!"

the clapping at the end of movies thing is really weird. I've only witnessed it twice. Once was for Bowling for Columbine which I sort of get in a "I am clapping because I agree with the statement this movie is making" kind of way, but the other time was for Star Trek, which just made me embarrassed to be in the same movie theater as these people.

Ha, last time I was in a theater that clapped at the end was for Fahrenheit 911.

the only time i've seen clapping in a cinema was one guy who seemingly really really enjoyed mars attacks and wanted the world to know.

Maybe he was tryin to turn the light on

the other time was for Star Trek

me too!

and it DESERVED IT