Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

towards the nocuous end of the rational embarrassment spectrum

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/9748511/SantaCon-2012-thousands-invade-London-hot-spots-to-mark-Christmas.html

Requiring a poo just after bathing
Grr

Wrong thread

Requiring a bath just after pooing

requiring a poo bath

when people in the movie theater applaud at the end of the movie.

also, this train conductor on BART who, at every station, says, "this is a richmond train, richmond, richmond train, richmond train, richmond, richmond train, this is a richmond train, richmond, richmond train." or, more accurately, "this is a richmond train? richmond? richmond train. richmond train. richmond? richmond train. this is a richmond train? richmond? richmond train."

lol

Those kids are 23, 17 and 15 now and it makes me cringe to hear people that age referring to my mother as "mimi."

Haha when I was a kid we had the same thing with the next door neighbours. For reasons I dont recall anymore, when we were too little to wrap our head round peoples full names (I guess), I'd referred to Mrs X as Morning because she's always chip "morning!' over the fence to my mum. I'd apparently also named Mr X as Trousers, and I dont know why.

Both names stuck fast and right up til our teens me and my brothers referred to Morning and Trousers next door and thought nothing of it. Until I'd have to explain it to a random visitng friend who'd hear us refer to them that way and smirk bemusedly and say "WHAT did you just call them?"

I feel weird now relaying this story because it occurs to me it was completely utterly normal to me at the time, and only now I realise how not normal it was.

This thread is making me realize how often I must do innocuous things that (for some reason unknown to me) make other people feel irrationally embarrassed. Every time I walk out the door I'm probably making someone quietly weep with shame on my behalf.

posting that ^^^ was probably humiliating, for instance

didn't even have to leave home!

their prob imo

i hope they enjoy those salty droplets of barely concealed disgust

anyone calling their SO "babe" or "baby" ever

dudes standing behind their girlfriends and rubbing them during rock concerts.

Patting their heads and rubbing their stomachs?

I would have put that on the angry thread tbh /bitteroldman

i'll rub my babe anywhere i like, deal

"ironic" "racism" : yes I understand you are probably mocking attitudes you do not hold yourself whilst also enjoying the trangressive naughtiness but STOP NOW.

hold on, yeah I know that's neither innocuous or irrational.

otm about comedy improv, i tried to watch video of asssscat, the upright citizen's brigade thing and made it like 8 minutes, I was shrouding my face with my fingers like it was castration footage eventually.

looking at posed photos of people smiling in social situations

being in a store less than 30 minutes before it closes, especially any kind of food service

cashiers remembering me for any reason

seeing people explicitly trying to "network" in social situations

being reminded that i actually exist to other people as a living being and that my words and actions are being interpreted

robert de niro doing comedy acting

applying for food stamps

being reminded that i actually exist to other people as a living being and that my words and actions are being interpreted

anyone calling their SO "babe" or "baby" ever

― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (zachlyon), Tuesday, December 18, 2012 12:34 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is hilarious when it's Jeff and Hayley on "American Dad," though.

eating in a restaurant that has great food, but is nearly empty and the owners/wait staff are way too friendly. seems to coincide with restaurants that are already a little awkward -- 20 page menu, weird specials, hovering waiter who brings out a free appetizer you didn't ask for.

eating alone

i'll be honest, i've even been embarrassed by the act of chewing.

there have been some good ones lately

i like the ones where people are embarrassed to even exist -- like "why am i here and why won't you stop looking at me"
those are the ones i identify with

embarrassment that I have done things on this thread that embarrass others to witness

chewing is tough it's true. and i chew v slowly so i often have an awkward dinner thing of having to make the choice between speaking with my mouth full or making people wait for what feels like three forevers for me to reply to them.

Trying on clothes in public. I went to purchase a couple of new suits recently, and just trying them on, having the tailor measure and mark up everything, the whole process is weirdly embarrassing.

xp see, the ones where someone else is embarrassing to you are quite different imo
several times this week i have been the older woman blasting various types of music, possibly including gangnam style, out of her car and singing
with verve!

basically, having a body is embarrassing

I was thinking more about rock concert grinding and calling women "baby"

oh god what have I admitted

some guy i didn't know tried to do that to me (from behind!) at a dinosaur jr show in the 90s
at least you're not that guy

Dinosaur Jr! Was it during "Freak Scene"?

brb gotta burn my time machine and destroy evidence

It started about 1/3 of the way into the show -- can't remember what song was playing when I noticed it -- and for a while I was like wtf is going on back there and then I remember just turning around and being like "what are you doing?" and he stopped. I thought it might have been an accident, but he looked pretty embarrassed. It's extremely unfortunate that what I remember about that show is not the music, but this guy's boner. Oh well.

:(

embarrassed for humanity now

Hey at least I remember something. It was post Green Mind, so the place was pretty packed and I was toward the front -- there were lots and lots of people behind me, including people who only clearly only knew (and clapped for) the radio singles. I think this guy was one of those. That is the end of my story.

I think I acted in an inappropriate way in my younger years in such situations but that's a rational embarrassment

LL I had that happened to me once as well! ugh. gross. Except I just elbowed him in the stomach because it was in the middle of a song I liked and I really, really didn't want to see his face.

A friend of mine ended up making out with a girl at a Fugazi show in the 90s once - I don't believe either of them was being gross or creepy, it just ended up happening. He was mostly embarrassed because Fugazi is not the kind of band you generally end up making out with a stranger to.

i get embarrassed whenever straight guys discuss girls in front of me as if i am privy to the conversation

Same here, and I'm straight.

i am almost always embarrassed when we have functions at work with guest speakers. i think I'm just embarrassed for people who have to talk to a room full of strangers, even if they are good at it I feel embarrassed by the ~situation~

i get embarrassed when i hear my own teacher voice or if i have to raise my voice, but other than that, speaking in front of a group is no big thang
don't cry for me argentina

I hate hearing my own voice recorded and played back!

not me! i like it. i used to hate it, but then i decided that i sound alright. it's part of my "get over yourself" mission.

you and your darned rational thought and self-actualization