Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

that happens to me too! i just feel repulsed that my personal rhythm is in sync with a repellent song, not embarrassed necessarily.

i did feel very irrationally embarrassed yesterday carrying my passion fruit chobani yogurt to the fridge at work.

How's life's way is not a highway.

I've got Life is a Highway stuck in my head. I really regret clicking on this thread.

Lech - I thought of you because there's this giant high-end deli/steamtable/ramen/smoothie/everything place near my office that has this ridiculous selection of yogurt, including flavors of Chobani I've never seen as well as all these small-batch brands that look like they were jarred by goat-herders in the himalayas, and we joked that they carry "limited edition yogurts."

lol -- yogurts is like waters
i thought of you recently bc i was hanging out with your friends! i did not feel embarrassed about it though.

It is embarrassing that people call the singer Bruce Springsteen "the boss"

what have you got against the proletariat

xp was it DW and/or BR?

both! carpooled with B, ran into D at the show :)

junior high-aged boys who are shit at skateboarding

entertainment reporters

Adults throwing temper tantrums, when no one wants to say anything and the tantrum-haver obviously isn't too embarrassed to behave like a toddler in public.

is this natalie portman - jonathan safran foer thing as painfully awful as i imagine y/n

i don't even know what thing you're talking about, but how could it NOT be?

y y y

I've come to the brink of clicking links to that like 4-5 times and have not been able to do it.

And my standards for clicking things are really low.

can someone give me a one sentence summary of what you're talking about?

Safran-Foer and Natalie Portman re-write the world in sepia-vomited emails and cast themselves as every character in Russian literature and it's full of contempt for children

also safran foer reportedly left his wife because of his unrequited love for portman

so they were florid pen pals and it ruined his marriage?
contempt for children?

i can't imagine the horror of my personal emails being made public
did they publish them on purpose?

nm i looked it up
now he is dating michelle williams? yikes. dude sounds like a jackass, she deserves better.

Oh no, not Michelle Williams! Agreed, she definitely deserves better.

i met a guy in a pub before who said he worked on a movie with natalie portman, like he was in some minor technical role and she was acting in it. and one day he decided to ask her out, and he did, and she said yes, and they dated for a while. then she kept turning up at his house at odd hours and his fairytale story just became an odd thing he wanted to end.

end of vaguely related anecdote.

i feel like would only not like Natalie Portman turning up at my house at odd hours if i hadn't tidied up recently

i hear a lot of those stories in los angeles localgarda

they dont embarrass me

theyre p funny actually like cute funny

o i worked w this dancer she worked with britney
yeeeaah i kno her we worked on that movie with george

translation

i took a 12 dollar dance class taught by someone who rehearsed w britney and was placed all the way in the back where no one can see her/him

and

i did a bit if production assistance ie i was a gopher when filming this movie

haha

either way this email thing is not innocuous
publishing private correspondence is gross imo
not embarrassing

like my reaction is ew not cringe

watching adults play pokemon go

Thinking the world needs to read your amazing private correspondence is a thing that should pass by the time you're like 22.

[chatz-era ilx]

It should pass before it happens!

It reminds me somehow of the IE moment I recently remembered, when I and a few other musically disinclined friends started a band in my apartment and recorded our practices on a minicassette recorder and were impressed enough by the mostly discordant racket we were making that I somehow talked another friend into letting me play like thirty shitty seconds of white noise through a mic onstage before his much beloved local band played to give the nonplussed audience a preview of what they could look forward to in the near future. We never actually played out anywhere. I was like 22. I sure wish that had passed before it happened.

You were confident, I'll give ya that

The chronicles of Young Lunch

lol this reminds me of two small press writers i know who have published TWO collections of their performative, pretentious, wordy, correspondence. so much secondhand embarrassment.

every porn star is an intellectual now?

Are you embarrassed that people think that, or embarrassed because it's true?

Was showing my bus pass to the driver this morning, when I heard that my phone has turned on in my pocket and the podcast app has started playing. At this point it was really an indistinct murmur, but I felt compelled to fumble it out of my pocket and try to shut it off. Instead, I managed to turn the volume up to full blast and a nasal voice erupted out of my phone "Well, if they are Muslims, Muslims aren't allowed to drink!"

I manage to shut it off at that point and slink back to a seat to figure out just what sort of conversation I was listening in on.

My embarrassment: irrational or rational?

In context, at 58:41
http://nerdist.com/nerdist-podcast-max-brooks/

Rational

Thanks for confirming that.

the degree to which I obsess over my new phone purchase decision

if I unplug my headphones from my phone, the music I've been listening to automatically switches off. Since the last update it's got into the habit of suddenly starting up again about 3 minutes later. This is especially great when I've been listening to offensive metal and hip hop on my lunch break and have a client meeting in the afternoon

my gregarious new coworker, when he started a couple months ago, was like "hey what you listening to?" and wanted me to pass him my headphones

sorry, religious friendly family man in his 50s, I am not going to bond with you that way at work. we can talk about work stuff.

Like maybe two weeks ago at work, the headphone jack on my phone somehow failed to notice that I had plugged headphones in, which led to me accidentally blasting this at full volume in my quiet office:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44MyrH4jwOQ

sorry, religious friendly family man in his 50s, I am not going to bond with you that way at work.
irl lol

this reminds me of the time i was on the plane home from CA and i was watching girls season 5 (i haven't seen 3 or 4 but figured it would be entertaining nonetheless) and there was a ~70 year old grandpa* next to me. his wife was across the aisle. there was no small amount of nudity and sexual activity on my screen. he may have been giving me disdainful looks, but i wouldn't know because i wasn't monitoring his reaction. on a whim i decided to look over at what he was doing on his screen. he was listening to the children's radio channel, where a woman who looked a little like reba mcentire was singing "the wheels on the bus". he was staring into space. it's like that scene from troll 2 where they're in the car and they're like "let's sing that song you love so much" and launch into a round of "row row row your boat"

o_O

*I knew he was a grandpa because he was talking with his wife across the aisle about their grandkids

amazing

I wonder if he just had it tuned to something randomly for background noise, or if he found the children's channel very pleasing

Awww maybe he was learning some kid songs so he'd be able to sing them with his grandkids.

my concept of grandfatherly behavior is so off that i would never have thought of that
maybe!