There's a different vibe to it when you work in an office park where visiting would require a special trip. That may be part of why I would feel okay visiting my last job, too. It's in a big, central public building with lots of public services and a train station so it wouldn't be weird for me to pop in.
― carl agatha, Friday, 22 February 2013 13:21 (eleven years ago) link
Clicking on the profile of someone who leaves a comment on your meetup group. Seeing they are a member of many naturist groups. Reading the posts on their profile page. Seeing the thumbnails of the people who wrote the posts.
― ledge, Friday, 22 February 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
not irrational!
― goole, Friday, 22 February 2013 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
ha no, was just taking this as a catch-all thread like the anger one.
― ledge, Saturday, 23 February 2013 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
When (on TV or in a big crowd) people start clapping along with the music on each beat. It's so flipping dorky.
― dog latin, Saturday, 23 February 2013 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
People who misspell fairly comman words in Craigslist postings. Especially those using "rod iron" for "wrought iron." Chihuahua also gets a lot of misspellings, but they're usually funny ("Chiwawa").
― nickn, Friday, 15 March 2013 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
Chester drawers.
Bedroom suit.
― pplains, Friday, 15 March 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
definatly
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 15 March 2013 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
I grew up amidst an entire county of people who said bedroom suit, such that I just now had to go to the internet to determine why that was wrong and what it should actually be. (I have avoided embarrassment by saying "bedroom furniture.")
― carl agatha, Friday, 15 March 2013 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
maybe 'bedroom suit' is like 'birthday suit', describing nudity w/a different purpose (sex)
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 15 March 2013 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
Bedroom eyes, peering out of your bedroom suit.
― carl agatha, Friday, 15 March 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
bedroom suit + tails = furries
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 March 2013 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
People who misspell fairly comman words
ALWAYS HAPPENS.
― emil.y, Friday, 15 March 2013 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
Is there a name for the rule that says "whenever you write a post criticising someone's spelling or grammar, you will make a mistake yourself"?
― emil.y, Friday, 15 March 2013 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
Haha, and I made sure I spelled "misspell" correctly (one "s" or two?).
And yes, chester drawers is another favorite.
― nickn, Friday, 15 March 2013 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
And I swear I've seen colder sack for cul de sac.
these are eggcorns iirc?
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 15 March 2013 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
poke-a-dotted is the one i've seen most recently
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 15 March 2013 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
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Muphry's Law
― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Friday, 15 March 2013 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
chiwaughwaugh
― discreet, Friday, 15 March 2013 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, I had never heard/seen "bedroom suit" before!
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Saturday, 16 March 2013 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
People pronouncing "cache" as "cachet" though...
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Saturday, 16 March 2013 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
I hate when I over Frenchify words. IE-maker for sure.
Though not so much when it's ridiculously Anglicized place names we have around here (Des Plaines/Dezz Plains, DuPage/DooPage).
― Je55e, Saturday, 16 March 2013 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
One that I hated was Calliope Street in New Orleans. "Cally-ope." And Chartres/Charters.
― Je55e, Saturday, 16 March 2013 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
I'm IE about the opposite:
West of town, we've got Shinall Mountain, where all the radio towers are.
When the developers came into that area during the early 80s, they renamed the streets and neighborhood Chenal Valley.
― pplains, Saturday, 16 March 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
when it gets to be ~9pm pacific and ilxor-east coast is all abed and I'm still posting and I end up with more than one of the top few "last post by"s on ILE I feel like I'm talking too much
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Thursday, 21 March 2013 04:35 (eleven years ago) link
You and me both, sister.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Thursday, 21 March 2013 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
i hear u cluckin' big chicken
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 March 2013 04:41 (eleven years ago) link
I feel that way about late friday afternoon posts, as it becomes clear that everyone has left work and now has either gone out or at least has something better to do on friday evening
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Thursday, 21 March 2013 12:54 (eleven years ago) link
I keep thinking about some really ill advised submission letter stunts back when I was a youngin' with dreams of poetry and fiction publication, which for some reason is make me want to puke with embarrassment 16 years later wtf.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 30 March 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
Just about everything Rock Hardy ever posted embarrasses the hell out of me when I come across it.
― The Complete Afterbirth of the Cool (WilliamC), Saturday, 30 March 2013 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
I still have a journalish notebook from high school in which there is some terrible stuff about the LA riots in the 90s and I'm deadlocked between painful embarrassment/never wanting anyone to read that stuff (including me) and wanting to preserve it forever.
― Je55e, Saturday, 30 March 2013 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
Nothing irrational about being embarrassed by our naive teen enthusiasms! We all did it.
― It is like ganging up on Enya (Trayce), Sunday, 31 March 2013 07:59 (eleven years ago) link
Brushing my teeth. Some people seem to be able to do it in public, blithely wandering around while scrubbing away, even chatting at the same time. I can't stop my mouth becoming a dribbling mess of toothpaste foam and saliva so have to do it hunched over a sink, hiding my hideousness behind a closed bathroom door, heaven forbid I should have to do it in a public washroom.
― check your privy (ledge), Monday, 15 April 2013 09:18 (eleven years ago) link
Eating salad at my desk.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like an animal eating out of a trough at the zoo. Totally humiliating.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
with big springy leaves you can't pick up properly or fit in your mouth gracefully - otm
― kinder, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
sometimes it feels like i'm embarrassed by everything
― ampersand cooper black (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
I was hunched over the plastic container I was eating from like a monkey shoveling ants from a log. It was extremely undignified.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
Feed me
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp8qrzh1gv1qj1n4jo1_r2_500.jpg
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
i've thought about making a thread called "innocuous things that make you irrationally uncomfortable" but i'm worried there are too many threads like this and irrationally embarrassed to admit it
― infirm neophytic child (zachlyon), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
What do you mean? Like sitting in a chair that makes you squirm like a kid, even when everybody else in the room is relaxed and focused on matters at hand.
― how's life, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
Or like, pants that look good?
Glasses that you had professionally fitted at the optometrist, but now it's a week later and they're sliding off your goddamn face.
― how's life, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
noooo i erased "uneasy" and wrote "uncomfortable" cause i thought it should be more vague, but i guess i really just mean "uneasy" or "queasy" or "things that give you a visceral sense of discomfort for no good reason"
i have a lot of them. maybe there's a thread already
― infirm neophytic child (zachlyon), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
Interesting! What sort of things would uneasy entail that embarrassed doesn't cover? Like, more dread than anxiety type stuff?
― how's life, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
I would like to add to my list: dress shirts that have come partially untucked.
― how's life, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
that's why i mention it here, i don't know if they could jsut go under "embarrassed". and i started thinking about them after whoever it was started posting about having to skip the pre-movie productions bits, but i don't know if that's more "phobia" than my idea.
for me the two biggest examples are:
1. closeups of disembodied lips, ie dairy queen commercials or rocky horror. i absolutely have to change the channel for DQ commercials.2. something that also p much only happens in commercials -- whenever a completely normal-dressed person is dancing while doing [whatever the product is], or if they're just sort of moving in a highly choreographed way and they almost always do it with a blank, satan-like smile on their face. biggest problem lately is this one commercial i can't find on yt, it's a woman doing a weird pop-and-lock routine while she does her dishes. and THIS, especially at the end. and a recent southwest commercial where i businessman is walking down a hallway and breaks into some horrible little demon dance at the end. i don't change the channel for these but i sort of endure them with fascination and maybe masochism, like torture porn?
― infirm neophytic child (zachlyon), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
like in that vaseline commercial from 0:14 to 0:15 i start to feel like i might throw up
― infirm neophytic child (zachlyon), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
omg the lips thing. otm!
― The description of my page is: Gargoyles Swimsuit Special (Matt P), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:22 (eleven years ago) link