Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

i included this chobani commercial in my persuasion prezi as an example of "people enjoy feeling satisfied and competent"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxqaFt74mRU

People who publicly complain about customer service on Twitter while @-ing the corporate account. I realize this is an acceptable thing to do and often the easiest way to reach a company but I still find it embarrassing (irrationally).

That's like 25% of my tweets!

I KNEW you would respond to this! Like I said, it's irrational. I know it gets results.

It can always be worse.

http://i.imgur.com/xGBgZW0.png

My dislike/mild phobia of going to the cinema or watching movies with others makes me kinda IE. Does anyone else get this? I just hate the idea of committing to two hours of silence with a friend, I'd rather speak to them. Also I am quite likely to turn something off, if watching at home alone and it's bad, I find it a major waste of time to have to sit through something. Then there's discussing it afterwards... don't enjoy that either.

How you feel about people clapping at movies for director who isn't there?

Startles me to death.

My sister attributing everything she sees and does to what a [OUR SURNAME] would do.

"Ah, your son smiles when he laughs. He's definitely a Smith!"

"Enjoying some egg nog this morning, the Jones way of starting Thanksgiving!"

the clapping at the end of movies thing is really weird. I've only witnessed it twice. Once was for Bowling for Columbine which I sort of get in a "I am clapping because I agree with the statement this movie is making" kind of way, but the other time was for Star Trek, which just made me embarrassed to be in the same movie theater as these people.

Ha, last time I was in a theater that clapped at the end was for Fahrenheit 911.

the only time i've seen clapping in a cinema was one guy who seemingly really really enjoyed mars attacks and wanted the world to know.

Maybe he was tryin to turn the light on

the other time was for Star Trek

me too!

and it DESERVED IT

Most of the audience clapped at the end of Thor 2 last week -- surprised the hell out of me.

Any time I hear two people older than, say, 14, talking in any detail about a video game, like actually having a conversation about specific things one does or has done in a video game, or analyzing the finer points of a games strengths and weaknesses.

― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Thursday, October 10, 2013 8:44 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Man, there was this dude on the subway tonight, maybe late 20s, and this woman who seemed to be going somewhere with him but not his gf, and the dude was fucking playing video games on his phone while talking to her, like a grown man was doing this. And he was commenting on the game, like "Argh, I really thought I was going to get a better sword from that elf. Well that's disappointing." And she was actually being really sweet and asking him questions about the game, and he was responding in that sort of mansplainy but also just pathetically dorky tone like "That's a kitanitzu -- it's a half-wolf female spirit. You can gain skills from them but you have to use three magic points -- NOT exactly a bargain in my opinion." And the whole thing just made me sad, but moreso just embarrassed.

noises my tummy makes

parody songs set to "carol of the bells"

these faces:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSUFzC6_fp8

momentary disquiet of everyone processing the same "there's delicious FOOD on the back table" email at once.

tis the season for those emails, assuming you mean the office table

getting a christmas card from someone you haven't sent a christmas card to

these faces:

is there something about singing a capella that makes people involuntarily pull these kind of faces, or is it an aesthetic choice, or a combination of the two?

(not taking a swipe btw, I love a capella singing and a lot Penatonix's videos are pretty great if you don't look at their awful faces)

loving Hurting's video game story

I can't remember the last time I sent a christmas card.

every christmas card i get is from someone i have not sent a christmas card to
this year i have received 3

I enjoy the Christmas cards we still get for the people who previously lived at this address. There's this one Mormon family from some place like Judeh Mount, Utah, that always includes an updated family portrait. The mom and the daughters are pretty in that blond, starry-eyed, gonna-get-a-new-planet-when-I-die way, but the dad and the three sons all look like they've been hit in the face with a shovel.

loving Hurting's video game story

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, December 17, 2013 7:18 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That poor girl.

That blonde dude with the giant head eye-fucking the camera in the video zachlyon posted will haunt me until I die.

"NOT exactly a bargain in my opinion" chortle chortle

She was kind of cute too, and he wasn't a bad looking guy either, looked like he could otherwise dress and take care of himself etc. I was like "Dude, you are blowing it! And by "it" I don't just mean this moment, but life in general!"

JFTR not that I'm defending anyone or anything here but there are plenty of women who are just as hardcore/tendentious/choose yr adjective about gaming. I obvs wan't there but wouldn't take for granted that she wasn't genuinely interested.

I know there are, but it was pretty clear that this wasn't one of those cases

Everyone has witnessed a variation on this scene at some point in their lives, right? I have clear memories of being in the Manchester HMV and catching part of lecture about various sub-genres of prog rock that this guy was delivering to a girl he was with.

Uh huh.

If by "witnessed" you mean "lived...over and over and over."

yeah, duh!
lol "witnessed"

amen, every aspect of pedantic music trivia conversations tend to make me feel embarrassed, whether I'm part of the conversation or just an unwilling witness

I'm only willing to engage in this way if I feel comfortable that the other people in the conversation are equally excited about music nerdery

Yeah, part of what's embarrassing is the immaturity of it, and part of it is as a subset of the larger trait of being oblivious to what would or wouldn't be interesting to the person you're talking to.

If by "witnessed" you mean "lived...over and over and over."

― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Tuesday, December 17, 2013 11:48 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol, I'm so sorry, I feel like I finally understand now

:D

** makes mental note not to talk about Star Wars if he ever attends a FAP **

I feel like terror of being one these people is a big part of what puts me off having conversations with people/socialising.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kjoUjOHjPI#t=18

I'm an overexplainer myself and I like to learn things, so early on with someone sometimes I'm like, "Keep going. I may or may not be kind of laughing at you but it's nice to see you feeling smart/in your element" which tbh is how I would like my over-explaining to be perceived by a loved one: fondly. But over time you see that it never goes both ways.

From my perspective it's fine as long as you can catch and laugh at yourself! And accept being laughed at when you misstep, and join in, and also let it be the other person's turn too.

That family video is horrifying. Jesus.