Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

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.

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

You and me both, sister.

i hear u cluckin' big chicken

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

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.

Just about everything Rock Hardy ever posted embarrasses the hell out of me when I come across it.

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.

Nothing irrational about being embarrassed by our naive teen enthusiasms! We all did it.

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.

Eating salad at my desk.

I feel like an animal eating out of a trough at the zoo. Totally humiliating.

with big springy leaves you can't pick up properly or fit in your mouth gracefully - otm

sometimes it feels like i'm embarrassed by everything

I was hunched over the plastic container I was eating from like a monkey shoveling ants from a log. It was extremely undignified.

Feed me

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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

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.

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.

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

Interesting! What sort of things would uneasy entail that embarrassed doesn't cover? Like, more dread than anxiety type stuff?

I would like to add to my list: dress shirts that have come partially untucked.

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?

like in that vaseline commercial from 0:14 to 0:15 i start to feel like i might throw up

omg the lips thing. otm!

lips: makes me vaguely uncomfortable, as a word

Watching/hearing ppl brushing their teeth, on tv or real life, is like nails down a blackboard to me - I *always* break out in goosebumps and shudder

I sort of get all the lip talk. Like this bothers me a little: http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/ab227/PhallusCooper/1324355977580.gif (sfw)

I hate close-ups of eyes on TV, especially Visine commercials.

lol that's creepy but not what i mean

it's possible that every part of the human face is made a lot creepier by being removed from the context of the rest of the face, but lips will always make me squirm and possibly forget to breathe

Any discussion of teeth

But seriously, these are "neuroses" right?

Chobani was on sale this week for $1 so I bought 3 :-/

Appalled and disgusted with myself tbrr

aww

I bought four or five when it was on sale. Is Chobani embarassing? :(

lips will always make me squirm and possibly forget to breathe

This is why I think lip-jobs are by far the grossest of cosmetic procedures..."quit trying to get me to look at those things!"

Chobani is the most humiliating of yogurts.

what about Fage?

that's ok

no shame for gogurt?

I have no desire whatsoever to eat gogurt. My chobani problem is only a problem because I can't stop eating it.

There are zillions of products I find repulsive and embarrassing -- I don't use or buy them. It's my cruel mistress Lady Chobani that I just can't give up.

have you tried making yogurt using a chobani starter culture?

Ha, I bought a bunch of $1 Chobanis too. This week, they were 4/$5.00 and I was all, you can't hook me in, Chobani.

did we discuss how 'chobani' is like 'choad' crossed with 'bonnie'

listen, once i get my housing situation stabilized (really soon!) i am going to look into making my own goddamned passion fruit flavor packets
it's the passion fruit pulp that i can't live without, not the yogurt itself!

Don Rickles's face gives me that uneasy feeling.

i started thinking about them after whoever it was started posting about having to skip the pre-movie productions bits

What are pre-movie production bits?

Zach, w/r/t the dance thing, is it an uncanny valley thing?

er the pre-opening-credits studio logos, i never know what to call them

"uncanny valley" is actually a term that came to mind when i was writing that post, but i can't really explain why. at least with the pop-locking dishes lady there's no reason to think they're attempting to mimic anything in reality. with the vaseline commercial though, up until that point midway you're not totally sure if there's an element of choreography to it, and in that moment she suddenly looks like a murderous cyborg

Years from now, they'll be studying Blade Runner's effects on this generation.