Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

I think there are enough really picky high maintenance customers that restaurant people just do that as a default. ... I am irrationally embarrassed when I observe customers who actually do get upset and require mollification.

oh yeah me too

"give me the CEO's name, the CFO's name.....get the local news on the line"

i wonder how these people were raised and/or how they came to be the way they are ... basically I am rationally embarrassed for their parents (and often kids).

I once contacted corporate to tell them if they got a complaint for xxxx store from a couple at xxxx time on xxxx date to ignore it because I was there and they started everything.

they told me that couple did complain and gave me a free lunch lol

snitches get fries

truffle fries ftw

i wonder how these people were raised and/or how they came to be the way they are ... basically I am rationally embarrassed for their parents (and often kids).

― sarahell, Monday, February 15, 2021 10:06 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

you mean, like, did their parents use words like "awesomesauce" too?

i'm just going to blame my great great grandfather who was lobotomized in his 30s

the thing about awesomesauce is that annoying as that phrase is, almost everybody I know got tired of saying it back in 2009, and even if they did say it, it wasn't like a frequent go-to phrase of theirs.

whereas I have a co-worker who in 2021 actually says it every 5 minutes, 20 times a day, and I'm just like "no, this is bullshitsauce"

you mean, like, did their parents use words like "awesomesauce" too?

― brimstead, Monday, February 15, 2021 11:24 AM (one hour ago)

no, lol, I was referring to the people that flip out at restaurants when the server tells them they are out of alien cheese

oh geez yeah... argh i... those people challenge my pacifism lol

I always want to tell those people they can go elsewhere.

Once, when we had just started dating, my partner and I had a run in with a police in SF, and he said to us, 'you boys are lucky I have some place to be,' and my partner said, 'then go there,' and that might have been the moment where I really fell in love

lmao that is sweet and hilarious

xp - omg seriously, that is beautiful - totally should be a romantic scene in a movie or something

whenever i get something in my inbox about a "phishing attempt" or a "smishing attempt" i die a little inside

can't they just lock up that goddamn Trey Anastasio once and for all?

Split screen videos where the same person plays all the instruments in their little bedroom studio, even when they are pretty good.

That's a good one.

I watch some bass ones every now and then, and it's embarrassing when they don't turn down the original track. Like, you're playing bass man. How can I tell what's yours and what's Tony Levin.

i think the only time i've seen this was a pomplamoose "video song." those were the days, huh . . .

How can I tell what's yours and what's Tony Levin.

LOL these guys always do Levin/Pastorius/Karn/Claypool.

I have to say I'm kind of happy these exist when I'm trying to figure out how to play something.

Well yeah.

I wish they'd flip the mirror mode, so they appeared left-handed (if they're IRL right-handed.)

I've probably had more fun playing along with Paul McCartney than anyone else, not so much just because he's an above-average bassist, but because I can follow along with him like I'm looking into a mirror.

I don't really get embarrassed by music instructional videos or even necessarily playing, there's just something specifically about those same dude/chick playing all the instruments overdubbed that gets me, like you're watching an adult compete in a school talent show or something. I mean I can't really talk shit about it because I post bullshit clips of me noodling on guitar to instagram and they're probably even more embarrassing.

It's not 100%-cringe free, that's for sure.

Worst ones are when the same person wears different shirts for each instrument.

"signature model" musical instruments. I paid a premium to play a guitar that was custom-designed for someone else.

look man if it's good enough for dimebag darrell it's good enough for you

Author bios written in the third person by the author themselves

If you're ever asked to write a bio in third-person, just say "XXX is a writer who lives in blahblah. In his spare time, he enjoys tennis." Don't even think about using the term "brain-crush".

Even if you don't play tennis.

― pplains, Thursday, June 14, 2012 8:59 AM

they make us do that for theatre bios. I hate them. i usually write something self-deprecating and then thank a random celebrity

"Neanderthal has acted in 21 plays at the ~theater~ and has been a performer in central Florida for over 20 years. In his spare time, he enjoys tennis."

There. Just add to the numbers and you don't have to worry about it anymore.

also said I was ranked #1 globally, I think I went a bridge too far.

Well yeah. I've never even seen you at Wimbledon.

Yes. Plain fact bios in the third person are fine, but "quirky" ones make me wanna die from embarrassment

Wasn’t it Tim Rice who never changed his, in the more contemporary programme for Evita, whereas ALW updated and lengthened his?

when the local weather service says "on tap," as in "another cold night on tap." it's such a silly metaphor!

the heat’s gonna tap out on Wednesday

people going "LET'S GOOOOO" in social media comments. you're posting online, it isn't a fucking action movie.

i feel like it's time to call this thread what it deserves to be called -- thread for cringe

mid- and post-credits scenes

LL otm

saying "let's gooooo" in the fashion implied here is a terrible thing that's happened to the english language

kamala harris

I don't really get embarrassed by music instructional videos

There is only one music instructional video that I need in my life and it is this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_8iD5xS1hI

lol lol lol lol / lol lol lol lol lol / lol lol lol lol

I actually was seriously thinking about this, like, is he gonna suggest you subdivide into three measures - 4, 5, 4 or 4, 4, 5 or ... years back I was in this experimental rock orchestra piece where the composer (who was self-taught) had a movement in 11/4 and it didn't really work out the way he intended. It was actually hilarious tbh ... because musicians in different sections cleverly suggested that we subdivide into 3, 4, and 4 ... but then couldn't agree whether it should be 3, 4, 4 or 4, 3, 4 ... based on how their section's part was written.

Yeah, realistically, if given a piece like that I won't be counting, I will just be memorizing the tune and playing something that goes with it.

Back when I played jazz, people would give me advice about how to count a five or seven or thirteen or whatever and I'd nod sagely, say "yeah, got it." When the music started I would just do some amorphous brushing until the pulse became clear, then suss out some kind of ostinato that worked.

My college band played "Take Five" for years and I confess I never once counted to five. I'd just be singing "doo doot-doot-doodly-doodly doo doo" silently in my head the whole time.

yeah, I think that's the smart way to go with those jazz gigs tbh ... I got nerdy enough about it to be able to count to five if needed, but musically, it would often sound stronger and tighter if I broke 5 out into 3 and 2. ... unless the piece was something where it would go from 6/8 to 5/8 ... but that was really just 1-and-2-and-3-and so ...

I bow to your superior nerdery, sarahell.

Nowadays I am mostly on mandolin; everything's a multiple of four. When I try to break it down and explain it to someone, it just gets mushy. It is mostly a matter of finding the pulse, then putting accents where they make sense. If you're counting, you're probably lost.

I'm so cringey I got hospitalised for it. I was put on the awk ward

the phrase "you got this!" / "i got this!" makes me want to commit seppuku

agree