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
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
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 21:55 (ten years ago) link
ha yeah. i have so many friends who tell me so many interesting things, i really do.
― opie dead eyed piece of shit (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
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 peopleServing 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 utensilSpilling 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...
― *tera, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 04:10 (ten years ago) link
Accidentally replicating a post on ILX
― *tera, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 04:12 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 31 October 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
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.
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Thursday, 31 October 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
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
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Thursday, 31 October 2013 20:46 (ten years ago) link
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).
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 21 November 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link
That's like 25% of my tweets!
― Jeff, Thursday, 21 November 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
I KNEW you would respond to this! Like I said, it's irrational. I know it gets results.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 21 November 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
It can always be worse.
http://i.imgur.com/xGBgZW0.png
― pplains, Thursday, 21 November 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Thursday, 28 November 2013 15:37 (ten years ago) link
How you feel about people clapping at movies for director who isn't there?
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 28 November 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link
Startles me to death.
― pplains, Thursday, 28 November 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
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!"
― pplains, Thursday, 28 November 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
"Enjoying some egg nog this morning, the Jones way of starting Thanksgiving!"
― pplains, Thursday, 28 November 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
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.
― silverfish, Thursday, 28 November 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
Ha, last time I was in a theater that clapped at the end was for Fahrenheit 911.
― pplains, Thursday, 28 November 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 28 November 2013 21:01 (ten years ago) link
Maybe he was tryin to turn the light on
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 November 2013 21:14 (ten years ago) link
the other time was for Star Trek
me too!
and it DESERVED IT
― j., Thursday, 28 November 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link
Most of the audience clapped at the end of Thor 2 last week -- surprised the hell out of me.
― Servings Per Container: 736 (WilliamC), Thursday, 28 November 2013 23:32 (ten 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), Thursday, October 10, 2013 8:44 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Man, there was this dude on the subway tonight, maybe late 20s, and this woman who seemed to be going somewhere with him but not his gf, and the dude was fucking playing video games on his phone while talking to her, like a grown man was doing this. And he was commenting on the game, like "Argh, I really thought I was going to get a better sword from that elf. Well that's disappointing." And she was actually being really sweet and asking him questions about the game, and he was responding in that sort of mansplainy but also just pathetically dorky tone like "That's a kitanitzu -- it's a half-wolf female spirit. You can gain skills from them but you have to use three magic points -- NOT exactly a bargain in my opinion." And the whole thing just made me sad, but moreso just embarrassed.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Saturday, 14 December 2013 05:29 (ten years ago) link
noises my tummy makes
― *tera, Saturday, 14 December 2013 06:32 (ten years ago) link
parody songs set to "carol of the bells"
― my whole family is catholic so look at the pickle i'm in (zachlyon), Saturday, 14 December 2013 21:47 (ten years ago) link
these faces:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSUFzC6_fp8
momentary disquiet of everyone processing the same "there's delicious FOOD on the back table" email at once.
― From the Album No Baby for You! (Matt P), Monday, 16 December 2013 22:26 (ten years ago) link
tis the season for those emails, assuming you mean the office table
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 02:48 (ten years ago) link
getting a christmas card from someone you haven't sent a christmas card to
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 09:33 (ten years ago) link
is there something about singing a capella that makes people involuntarily pull these kind of faces, or is it an aesthetic choice, or a combination of the two?
(not taking a swipe btw, I love a capella singing and a lot Penatonix's videos are pretty great if you don't look at their awful faces)
― wooting does not count as being active. (soref), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 12:13 (ten years ago) link