Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

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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

lips: makes me vaguely uncomfortable, as a word

The description of my page is: Gargoyles Swimsuit Special (Matt P), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:23 (eleven years ago) link

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

kinder, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:23 (eleven years ago) link

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.

pplains, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:36 (eleven years ago) link

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

infirm neophytic child (zachlyon), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link

Any discussion of teeth

But seriously, these are "neuroses" right?

and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link

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

and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:42 (eleven years ago) link

Appalled and disgusted with myself tbrr

and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:42 (eleven years ago) link

aww

mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:43 (eleven years ago) link

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

Dr. Adorbius (mh), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:43 (eleven years ago) link

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!"

Thirty-Six Views of ILX, by Mari3sa (WilliamC), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:44 (eleven years ago) link

Chobani is the most humiliating of yogurts.

and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link

what about Fage?

Dr. Adorbius (mh), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link

that's ok

and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:58 (eleven years ago) link

no shame for gogurt?

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 22:02 (eleven years ago) link

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

and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 22:04 (eleven years ago) link

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.

and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 22:05 (eleven years ago) link

have you tried making yogurt using a chobani starter culture?

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 22:06 (eleven years ago) link

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.

pplains, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link

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

The description of my page is: Gargoyles Swimsuit Special (Matt P), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link

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!

and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link

Don Rickles's face gives me that uneasy feeling.

carl agatha, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 22:12 (eleven years ago) link

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?

Je55e, Thursday, 18 April 2013 04:19 (eleven years ago) link

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

infirm neophytic child (zachlyon), Thursday, 18 April 2013 05:19 (eleven years ago) link

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

pplains, Thursday, 18 April 2013 13:30 (eleven years ago) link

Not to derail too much but...

I've tried to like the Chobani yogurt, but it hasn't worked, especially not the Passion Fruit because I can't stand the gross seeds in it. I'm a much bigger fan of the Yoplait Greek yogurt, especially the cherry-pomegranate and coconut flavors.

Moodles, Thursday, 18 April 2013 13:38 (eleven years ago) link

myself, whilst drunk/drinking

onceihadapinkumbrella (boy_slayer), Friday, 19 April 2013 01:34 (eleven years ago) link

That part of Price Is Right where the contestant stares wide-eyed into the audience as people shout out numbers to her. And then when Bob would say "Loretta, we need an answer...."

Fuck, I can't handle that kind of pressure. That 15 seconds is almost worse than 30 minutes of Frasier with two dinner dates.

pplains, Thursday, 25 April 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link

2) yogurt is for woman

I didn't know this was a thing, but

People who comment on the food I am eating, or have just ordered.

Keeps happening to me (a man) when I bring yogurt into work with my lunch, and now I know it is a thing.

Walter Galt, Thursday, 25 April 2013 16:03 (ten years ago) link

the yoplait greek yogurt has most favorable ratio of protein:sugars of commonly available supermarket single-serving greek yogurt cups fyi

adam, Thursday, 25 April 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link

I saw one called Yopa

so embarrassing

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 April 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link

gonna get a job making up horrible yogurt names

resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link

YoGurl

resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link

YoGina

resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link

Yulva

resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link

Yolposcopy

resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link

Yorgasm?

resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link

yulva is spectacular

The description of my page is: Gargoyles Swimsuit Special (Matt P), Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link

Yonigurt -- nourishment for the powerful inner you

and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link

Yolposcopy

― resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Thursday, April 25, 2013 7:18 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lololololol

carl agatha, Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:31 (ten years ago) link

Yogina made me lol

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link

Yoworries

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link

Yoproblems

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link

Yonergy

ljubljana, Thursday, 25 April 2013 20:00 (ten years ago) link


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