Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

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

ahaha i've been making all my old posts private cause they're embarrassing

u got punked

Haha

It's the same principle as getting someone's name wrong on purpose, or intentionally misspelling it in correspondence.

e.g. m. night shyamalan

Pharisees and Sadookies

talking to someone while walking on a footpath which is slightly too narrow for two people. do i lag behind a bit and make conversation harder, walk uncomfortably close to them or walk on the grass? each way presents its own problems, and why is it always me who has to alter trajectories and feel like i'm being judged for walking weird?

Oh yeah, I dislike that. Always feel like I'm on the losing side of a game of chicken. Right by my work I end up hoping up on a small curb that separates the sidewalk from the grass in order to avoid collisions with slower-moving groups of people. Don't see anyone else doing that much. Makes me feel a bit like a little kid. But what would I do - walk right into them? See also cutting across grass in order to take a corner instead of following the sidewalk along at a right angle. Do these people not want to get places 10-15 seconds earlier though? Right angles are for rubes and yokels.

People who call the president "NObama." There's got to be a better critical play on his name.

Obummer

Obama fama fee fi fofama.

ok seriously glasgow webcache wtf

At the beginning of Nelson's "(Can't Live Without Your) Love And Affection" video, when Matthew and Gunnar sing the first line in unison and then look around in wonderment like "where'd that come from?"...man, I'm so embarrassed for them I can't even tell you.

Wow it's been yonks since I've seen that video so I just watched it and everything about it is embarrassing!

"Gun. Can we do this?"

;_;

It's hard to imagine that one day we would be looking back at a Nelson video in embarrassment but here we are.

hahaha

Although the part towards the beginning when the model "Gun" is pining for randomly gets up from her beach chair and starts twirling across the front of the band is so embarrassing it almost comes back around to sublime.

You are not helping me resist the nigh-inexorable impulse to watch music videos from 1990 in lieu of working.

I will get u started

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

Weekly coupon emails from EAT24 that have this cutesy tone and always have to reference "what's going on this week" e.g.

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ugh
honey bourbon of words

Her name's Honey Boo Boo, don't be fresh

The back entrance to our office is approached via a wheelchair ramp which switchbacks several times to get up to the height of the back door. For some reason I feel like a fool whenever anyone sees me zigzagging back and forth on it for ages in order to cover a distance of 3 metres. (Don't get me wrong, I'm pleased the ramp is there for people who need it, it's just that using it makes me irrationally embarrassed.)

Ha. Felt the same way when I got to the bank the other day as it opened.

TELLER: I can help you over here!

18 seconds later

PP: Phew, thanks. Just need to make a withdrawal.

when friends' kids call me 'uncle [mookieproof]'

Not gonna turn this into an ILPM thread, but that one's right up there for me too.

Some of the teachers call themselves Ms. Johnson while others call themselves Ms. Trish. I think it's ok for the kids to address adults with a Mr or Ms instead of going, "Hey, Jason, what's up," to their friend's dad.

But I can't stand the sound of Mr. Tre. I'd be even more irrationally embarrassed for anyone named Ed. But I don't want to be an ass and insist on being called Mr. Baker at every instance either.

I am so accustomed to Ms Lechera that I kinda like it. Mrs Mysurname though, no
esp when my DAD says it
that's just humiliating

It's common around our neighborhood for the kids to refer to adults as "hey ______'s dad". I would prefer Mr. Lastname to Mr. Firstname though.

Mr. Mike sounds worse than Mr. Tre imo, so... no

when i was little i wrote a thank-you note to my widowed great aunt, addressed to mrs. her name. she informed me that it should have been to mrs. her dead husband's name

so i guess uncle me isn't as weird as it could be

Mr. Mike sounds worse than Mr. Tre imo, so... no

Hmmmm.

http://hotoffpress.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/mrmike1.jpg

At work I get Dear Firstname Lastname from students all the time and it's always bugged me. It happens so much that I wonder if it's maybe taught in school now.

Like if my name was Lindsay or Jude or something then fine, but if you're writing to a Paul you're probably pretty safe to address that person as Mr..

when i was little i wrote a thank-you note to my widowed great aunt, addressed to mrs. her name. she informed me that it should have been to mrs. her dead husband's name

I have seen it argued that Mrs. Her First Name is appropriate for widows.

The women who work in our Florida stores always address us (in New York) as Miss Firstname when they call us which I am not sure how I feel about.

Where I grew up, Mr. or Mrs. Last Name was the formal address while Mr. or Miss First Name is the respectful informal address. So the former for teachers, visiting dignitaries, old people you don't know and the latter for parents' friends, neighbors, baby sitters. I tend to follow that formula for people I introduce Ivy to, except she can call our friends by their first names as long as they don't mind.

Ivy can call me whatever she wants tbh

halloween music that is overtly "about" halloween and is really "silly" and "wacky"

I follow certain friends on Spotify and sometimes I see someone listened to something and go "Oh, I wanna listen to that" but then I get all afraid that they're going to notice I'm listening to the thing they just listened to and that I'm aping them. This seems like a really stupid thing to be embarrassed about.

Hide your profile temporarily.

I would feel embarrassed to do that, even though no one would notice

classic irrational embarrassment
i know the feeling