Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

I know I can, but I feel like I'm making things more complicated and confusing for them if I'm not using their sanctioned terminology

I'm afraid I'm going to slip up and order a medium at Wendy's where maybe they still use medium as medium when what I really wanted was a small.

Having worked there, it can throw off your rhythm if someone says "large"; you get used to the register buttons, and suddenly you have to stop for a second and think, right, large=Venti. Not a big deal, but it added a tiny bit of stress during morning shifts on the drive-thru.

xp

I honestly don't know the sizes off the top of my head. Forcing customers to describe their desired volume of beverage by using unfamiliar words is an interesting edict, I'll give them that.

oh god I just remembered the worst irrationally embarrassing thing that happened last month at Target

I was standing in line and a woman started putting up her stuff on the conveyor belt & she leaned over and said 'VG? Oh wow hiiii!!!!' and she turned out to be a person who had worked in my office 10 years ago. Who I thought was kinda weird back then because she dressed like a tapdancer and I never knew how to talk to her because she seemed like that kind of manic happy on the verge of tears beauty pageant kinda crazy and she was very sincerely nice and tried so hard but I always pictured her crying in the bathroom somehow and it was v unnerving

and she's still kinda the same, SUPER scary pleasant and chatty and this checkout line became the worlds slowest line right at that moment, the ppl ahead of me were paying with a $100 and the cashier didn't have change and her register was fucking up and I am trapped making smalltalk with this woman and she's asking about people she remembered from the office and ohhhh god I wanted to die

I hate running into people who no longer work in my office

i hate it even more when they come in to visit

it's just all awful and I don't know why but I hate it

i bet leonardo di caprio feels something like that if he bumps into kirk cameron at a pinkberry.

lol

Hey that's a good reason to use their wacky terminology-- I'll remember that

joygoat which college did u go to did u go to my college or was it msu or are there other schools with dairys i only know about those 2

penn st has one too

maybe it's a common thing in agri/land-grant schools

This would be the large land grant state university in the eastern part of Washington. We've got the dairy here and the University of Idaho is 8 miles east where they have the wonderful and amazing Vandal Meats.

I looked up Cold Stone's size phrases. I wonder if you have to say TM when ordering.

Like It™ - approximately 5 oz.
Love It™ - approximately 8 oz.
Gotta Have It™ - approximately 12 oz.

I'm Here Under Duress™ - 2 oz
Fine, I'll Order Something Just Please Don't Sing™ - 2.5 oz
I Wish I Were Dead™ - 25 oz

Lol
I would love to see them attempt this shit in, say, Macclesfield

I Wish I Were Dead™ - 25 oz

would order

xxp looooooool

i think it's aziz ansari who has a whole bit about the cold stone size names

- just accidentally sent out some internal faculty emails to my 600-person external list
- not actually that big a deal as it was just forwarding on event listings, people will presumably click on thinking little of it
- but still
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There's a guy whose house backs on to the railway station car park in our town who each time there's an election on drapes a huge VOTE UKIP poster over his back wall. It's the first thing people see when they get out the station and it fills me with horror. It's too high up to reach and there are security cameras all over that area. A colleague whose new girlfriend grew up in the area came to visit the town and came back with some very negative impressions of the place. Is there anything I can do to deface it or get it taken down?

a slingshot with eggs?

paintballs?

yeah i was thinking about egging it under cover of night. technically he's not doing anything illegal as it's his property, but the thing makes me sick and only goes to perpetuate the town's 'Little England' reputation. Ironically, it's only since we saw an influx of city workers coming to lived here that the town lost a lot of its ethnic communities as they were pushed out of the housing market. We get a lot of Londoners remarking on how white and middle-class the place is and it takes a lot for me not to go 'b-b-b-but it's you lot that made it like this!'.

i don't know how many levels of 'coming over here, taking away our diversity' that was, haha

i wonder if it is actually legal, if it's abutting 'public space' in that way

i am an over-deliberate grocery shopper but i get very annoyed at other classes of over-deliberate grocery shopper in a way i probably can't justify. i did spend ten minutes thinking about yoghurt the other day.

i did spend ten minutes thinking about yoghurt the other day.
you should feel embarrassed about that imo

i felt a kind of sadness and loss of control that i don't think is quite the same thing

people who use their trolleys to block off access to the fridge they are looking at really bug me. particularly on the short date stuff. that's more of an anger thing. when i find myself standing around waiting for the supermarket guy to reduce the short date stuff, that's an embarrassment thing, but i think it's quite rational, actually.

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, April 17, 2013 5:19 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

FOUND IT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2g2EeTXz_k

Those faucets with with sensors make me more IA than the woman dancing makes me IE.

there's this thing that people who are used to being right do when they touch on an unfamiliar subject and purposefully mispronounce it in order to ridicule it to make it obvious that it's not worth their time. like:

"you shouldn't jump from one building roof to another, unless you're into that... parkay? whatever."

http://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/1351127170_parkay.jpg

That commercial is embarrassing.

I tried to listen to "All About That Bass" and I couldn't make it past 30 seconds because I was so embarrassed. The sass, the platitudes, the internal joke of using upright bass on a song about "bass," I just can't take it.

Ugh yeah that song is super embarrassing.

*cringe*

when I saw it mentioned on ilx I figured it was some one-off novelty horseshit that people would share on the web. no, it's actually played on the radio. often.

i watched about 65 seconds of it before bailing in disgust
it's like a shitty old navy commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3itEiUcZ6E

basically all musicals and showtunes make me feels super embarrassed. my in-laws gave tickets for "mamma mia" to my wife and i when we first starting dating. we felt bad not going since it was gift. they really fucking love this musical. i just feel sickly embarrassed for everyone involved. me, the audience, the actors, it's so bad

I'm pretty sure the majority of commercials these days are deliberately going for the cringe factor. Anything that gets attention and plops a brand into your head. Jack n The Box ads are especially aggressive in their ability to render embarrassment and misanthropy.

there's this thing that people who are used to being right do when they touch on an unfamiliar subject and purposefully mispronounce it in order to ridicule it to make it obvious that it's not worth their time. like:

"you shouldn't jump from one building roof to another, unless you're into that... parkay? whatever."

― clouds, Friday, September 12, 2014 4:14 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i've written about this extensively (blogged about it once) i coined it "the pejorative mispronunciation"

i consider less "not worth their time" and more "already embarrassed to know thing exists and do not want to be associated with it", different shades of the same idea.

there was a commercial years ago where a stern male voiceover is talking about... something manly, in relation to other things that are not manly, such as "(scoff) SADOOKIE or whatever" (pans over image of a sudoku game). kids calling pokemon "pokeyman" in middle/high school was a thing.

that's just a hop, skip, and a jump away from the nose bored

'Jamarocky'

I asked the waiter who chose the music at a restaurant and was told it was pandora. Filled with shame.

Yeah all about that bass is the worst.

Super interested in the pejorative mispronunciation, zachlyon what is your blog would resd

Wait url can not be found. That is some bull shit

lol i literally wrote about it when i first got a tumblr in 2009 i was in college and v stupid and didn't know what tumblr was for (rage)

goddammit did you google it i have statcounter u know