Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

i dunno, i find 'i'll let you go' pretty socially awkward

that's why you say "i have to go" instead. it's better for everyone involved. it's like saying, "I'd love to chat all day, but unfortunately some outside condition that's out of my control is preventing me. If I could change it, I would, but I can't. So I'll talk to you later." It puts the blame on some external factor, not the feelings of the people on the phone.

I agree! But attributing a feeling to someone else rather than own up to having that feeling yourself out of an assumption that the other person will be sad if you own up to that feeling is kind of my family's super power. Sometimes I think I'm the only person who wants to talk to her grandmother on the phone more than she wants to talk to me. I can usually get about five minutes before she's not wanting to run up my bill.

this is when we're both happy to let the conversation meander w/ no other pressure or boredom & yet during every lull there is an awareness that it will have to end at some point & this is nice but i suppose it could be now? maybe that's what he's thinking? and often the conversation restarts but sooner or later there will be the abrupt goodbye.

phones, man

skype4eva

I have a strict "use your words" policy when interacting with speech-capable humans. I hate that shit.

this is way more IA than IE but YES. i hear your obviously-voluntary laughter that wouldn't exist if someone else wasn't in the room. no, i'm not going to ask "what's so funny." i am willing to let this nip this interaction in the bud right now, no matter how awkward it is.

*willing to nip this

ok actual IE: screwing up or seeing someone else screw up a text entry in a way that lets everyone else see how they were originally going to phrase it before editing

The fact that the consent form for my forthcoming vasectomy was printed in jolly Comic Sans

Well, the "Sans" part makes sense.

sans deferens

Work caption competitions and the winning results. One tiny dark photo of a meeting where someone is accidentally pulling a slightly wacky face + one assortment of Movember photos = painful absence of lols, to be repeated at least once yearly in the Christmas newsletter

airline pilot intercom "humorous banter"

Employees singing Happy Birthday to a cake inscribed with half a dozen names.

Bonus points if my own is on there as well.

i used to get embarrassed when my dad would ramble on and never listen to the person trying to talk to him but now i don't care. i'm just glad he's still alive so i just watch him and smile. its like watching a big demented baby talk to people. who is hard of hearing. and who listens to jazz all day long and reads the wall street journal. okay, that's a really weird baby...

― scott seward, Monday, 26 November 2012 16:59 (1 month ago) Permalink

scott this is one of the best/sweetest things ever posted on here, thank u much bro

what i could never deal with was movies where the protagonist is blamed for/suspected of doing something wrong/evil/criminal/morally indefensible, but you, the viewer, are the only one who knows they are innocent/being framed/mistaken for someone else.

― the oral history of (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, December 10, 2012 2:51 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what i hate though is when someone is being blamed for something they didn't do, and yet for some reason they don't do anything to explain their innocence.

― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Monday, December 10, 2012 2:54 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ALL-TIME CARTOON PET PEEVES

(CYE was mentioned upthread, but I feel like Arrested Development was another show that deliberately played with the uncomfortableness of this dramatic device)

40 Days and 40 Nights did this in the worst way possible, the main character literally gets raped and then broken up with because she thinks that he cheated on her and he never says "hey I was actually raped"

Wasn't "Curb yr Enthus" all about that as well?

Customer service talk on the HMV thread reminds me:

I went to my building society the other day and the cashier was super cheery and helpful and THEN he said "and there's a chance you may be phoned later on today by our customer service quality control reps, so if you feel you could vote ten out of ten for your service today..."

I felt so bad for that guy having to ask. Also cz I would've voted 10/10 without being asked but being asked to immediately made me think of reasons not to.

Nobody phoned anyway.

any type of performance that requires being HAPPY! in a really showy way (which means i can't watch any singing/dancing-based reality show)

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, November 26, 2012 10:33 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

given this i probably should not have watched the movie 'pitch perfect' at all but there's a part in the movie where the acapella groups are having a "riff off" where one group starts a song and then another group interrupts with a different song and it's full of attitude and then anna kendrick runs in and starts doing the rap from "no diggity" (because she's an edgy dj) but she's doing it in her anna kendrick voice and i got so embarrassed that i literally had to hide under a blanket

Haha oh no! Anna Kendrick rapping "No Diggity" sounds truly terrible.

oh shit it's on youtube. it's hard for me think of anything more excruciating than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q573_hDhTbE

what i could never deal with was movies where the protagonist is blamed for/suspected of doing something wrong/evil/criminal/morally indefensible, but you, the viewer, are the only one who knows they are innocent/being framed/mistaken for someone else.
― the oral history of (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, December 10, 2012 2:51 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what i hate though is when someone is being blamed for something they didn't do, and yet for some reason they don't do anything to explain their innocence.

― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Monday, December 10, 2012 2:54 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha I feel like the entire character of bates in downton abbey is premised on this

Arrrrrrggghhhhhh that video made me want to die before the first ten seconds were over. Why are they having a sing-off in an abandoned pool, anyway?

uh it's a RIFF OFF

You know, I have seen and LOVED every Step It Up movie where they do fucking ridiculous things like have dance offs in parking garages but for some reason, the same concept applied to a capella singing groups embarrasses me.

honestly after sitting through Pitch Perfect that was kind of the high point --- everytime they started singing I died of embarrassment tbh

i call that "'good' singing"

the shame of chobani (brand) passion fruit (flavor) yogurt is doubled because i get one light wave of embarrassment when i buy it, and another bonus one when i eat it.

still, it's so tasty that i keep enduring this cycle of shame once every two weeks or so.

I had a pretty serious addiction to raspberry chobani for a while

If there were another way to get passion fruit pulp into my yogurt, I would do it. But aside from making little squeeze tubes from frozen Goya pre-sweetened passion fruit pulp (maracuya) and plastic sandwich bags, I can't see that happening. I don't see fresh passion fruits being sold anywhere.

Also the frozen Goya stuff doesn't have the seeds, and I like the seeds.

Doomed to eating this yogurt and feeling ashamed about it ;_;

my parents used to grow them, ubiquitous in every austrlalian garden. I wonder if they grow here? They must, surely. I never see them grown though, or even really sold anywhere.

v easy to grow iirc

Really!? I guess I've only seen them in the southern hemisphere now that I think about it. I would like to grow some passion fruits.

They are in my local grocery store! (run by Peruvians).

I only see pomegranates, no passion fruits. Maybe I should look around a little more! But therein lies the shame of Chobani -- why look around for anything when the chobani passion fruit is right in front of me.

I bet you could grow it indoors -- they don't mind the cold but I don't think they stand up to frosts/snow very well.

wait is this brand of yogurt supposed to be embarrassing why?

because it's dumb-sounding

i would think squeeze tube "gogurt" to be the 9/11 of shame.

It's probably way too cold (or warm for too short a time) to grow passion fruit in Chicago. It's basically frost or snow between late November and, oh, April. (Which is why "localvore" never made any sense to me in Chicago, but that's for another thread.)

I got a couple of fresh passionfruit on my last trip to Atlanta -- the most amazing flavor ever. I need to find that yogurt or the frozen Goya pulp and get some of that embarrassment.

Chobani yogurt is an Anglicized spelling of the Persian chob-ban, meaning "shepherd" (literally he who carries a stick –-- something that shepherds traditionally do).

one of the grossest sentences i've heard was from an acquaintance who said "papa needs his chobani"

Humiliating

LOL

it sounds like a derivate of choad. 'that dude was a total chobani'