Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

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'

Don't really get the chobani embarrassment but I don't eat yogurt

papa needs his little stick-carrier.

It's embarrassing to say (choBAni yoMAma emBARRassed)
overly focus-grouped (speakers of many languages will be able to pronounce it!)
sounds like choad
is a name for yogurt and yogurt is
a) hard to eat in a dignified way
b) gross to watch someone else eat
c) a bunch of gross white shit with fruit in it
d) called "yogurt"

I could go on, but why. Clearly I have made my case. The fact that I have all of these feelings about yogurt yet continue to eat it is a sign of my willingness - even eagerness! - to humiliate myself.

Don't really get the chobani embarrassment but I don't eat yogurt

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, February 18, 2013 9:09 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Why, are you ashamed?

your secret yogurt shame

also i thought this was a thread for irrational embarrassment
you don't have to get it

I think yogurt has been cast as ladyfood or diet food or food for people with IBS, so there's definitely a gendered/medicalized/both aura about it, too. Also those horrendous commercials with bridesmaids eating yogurt and talking about how good it is compared to various tedious events in their lives.

i sometimes eat dannon fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt and am unembarrassed

i believe this is the only milieu in which i have encountered the boysenberry

it's like the cheesy poofs of yogurt

I've disliked watching ppl eat yogurt since childhood. It peaked in the college cafeteria when I saw a friend eating a giant jiggly bowl of blueberry yog.

I avoided sitting with him. Yogurt requires no chewing,Iike baby food.

is the eating of ice cream easier to witness?

One of my most-remembered bits from One Day at a Time is Ms. Romano complaining about yogurt and how even saying it is unappealing. "Yo-GURT... yo-GURT!"

Moderately, it's less jiggly.

Maybe that's why I'm ashamed of yogurt!! All I remember abt that show is the abundance of plants.

I remember the many plants too.

Also I just realized, 'Ms. Romano' = a dairy product complaining about another dairy product...

I mostly remember the high-waisted trousers and enviably winged hair.

And the damn theme song, the words to which are taking up valuable space in my brain where Jeff's social security number and work phone should go.

My supermarket sells passion fruit, but they're like $3 EACH and not ripe at all. There's a farmers market close to work that has been known to sell nice ripe ones for much cheaper. I looked into growing them myself, but it sounded kind of tricky and the plants take a couple of years to bear fruit.

Next time I see them I'll send some to you, LL - pf is probably my favorite fruit.

Also I just realized, 'Ms. Romano' = a dairy product complaining about another dairy product...

is this why la lechera is complaining too?

anyway: people who can't control the volume of their voice. I'm sure I do this sometimes & I get embarrassed if I noticed but when other people do it & don't notice I'm kinda mortified although there's no reason i should even care

people yelling in public/talking loud enough that other can hear from a distance freak me out, i have a pavolovian reaction to it that sends a chill up my spine. i was so glad to move out of my old neighborhood cuz yelling down streets is basically how everyone there communicates.

as someone who often finds himself continuing phone conversations in my building's elevator and politely lowering my volume so as to not bother anyone else, I'm annoyed and embarrassed for people who don't do the same (it'd be a cliche to think they're doing it because they're trying to impress others around them, but it sometimes seems that way...but then again that might just be bc I live in L.A.)