Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

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

xxpost LL I wouldn't be embarrassed for you anyway bcz teaching somehow doesn't fall under my embarrassment umbrella

except me being embarrassed about trying to teach many years ago, lol

I get embarrassed when someone mishears a question from someone else, even when it's innocuous. The classic example being where/when:
Person 1: "Where's your birthday party?"
Person 2: "Oh, Friday night at 8."
<brief pause where Person 1 knows they were misheard, doesn't want to make Person 2 awkward>
Person 1: "Um, cool. And (over-enunciating) where are you having the party?"

Blech. Don't think that classes as empathy, as Person 2 never seems to notice, or care even if they do.

Walking into a single-occupancy public restroom that someone just stank up and knowing that the person after you will assume you were the culprit.

Being stricken with a sudden bout of food poisoning or somesuch the first time you're over at a new friend's place, where the bathroom is right next to the room where everyone else is and knowing that they all know What You're Doing In There.

Also: pretty much everything single-occupancy-bathroom- and/or poo-related. Wholly irrational but deeply embarrassing.

ppl clapping between movements at classical music concerts

i like that

u can just ~feel~ the consternation from the sort of uptight 60 yr olds who comprise 80% of classical concert audiences

Irrational fear of buying toilet paper, especially in high quantities. It's never Happened, but I keep fearing the store clerk that will wrinkle his brow, look at me with a broad grin, and ask "So, Poopin tonight, eh?".

ppl clapping between movements at classical music concerts

― clouds, Wednesday, December 19, 2012 11:09 AM (7 minutes ago)

OTM. Also, applause for soloists in the middle of jazz shows, before the song is over.

concert etiquette in general is embarrassing to me

why are u standing and clapping

yeah

it was kind of embarasing comparing the dutiful applause for berg's violin concerto to the riotous hollering for ravel's relatively minor 'la valse'

it's funny if you listen to a long enough applause you start to think how weird the sound is. the sound of slapping flesh.

haha I've done that! Jesse and I went to see an admittedly amazing performance of Elektra at the Lyric Opera and Jesus H. people clapped for one million years and it only look like two minutes for me to start thinking "Why do we clap? It's such a weird thing. We're just slapping our hands together, making this noise, what a weird thing to do. We're all just monkeys, really, slapping our hands together because we like something. This is actually kind of stupid."*

*No, I was not high.

i do it all the time!

I guess I feel embarrassed for people who clap at the wrong time during symphonies or operas, but that's just because I know there are judgmental people thinking bad things about them just because they haven't penetrated the esoteric world of performing arts etiquette. I'm pretty populist when it comes to that stuff, probably because I flipping love opera and I think more people would like it if it didn't have such a rep for being a snooty thing for old snoots.

At rock concerts (among other types of live musical performances) it is also typical for audiences to scream or sometimes whistle in appreciation of a performance. People also sometimes begin to move their bodies rhythmically with the music, which is sometimes known as dancing. Customs are weird! I think you notice it more at a classical performance because that's all the audience is allowed to do!

I like at the opera when people yell "BRAVA!" after the aria because it feels kind of old school, plus a good aria is transcendent and sometimes you just gotta yell about it.