Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

ps I wouldn't think it was creepy at all fwiw, but I don't know if I follow you so I don't think I noticed. I will now though, creep!

Look for me under my username "Ned Raggett".

That joke only gets funnier with every passing year.

When I get a notice that anyone has followed me on spotify I always feel embarrassed that they're about to discover I only use it for Girls Aloud and Chvrches and some Scottish fiddle music.

90% of my Spotify listening is me listening to things people* I follow just listened to. The other 10% is Led Zeppelin. I assume if the people I follow even notice they would be flattered.

*and a lot of playlists from N/A, jaymc, DJP, maura, and Baltimore music critic Al Shipley.

Panoptify

I was kinda disappointed that jaymc didn't have a bunch of playlists that were all "Songs Titles With At Least 12 Letters But Without The Letter 'E'".

Or "PPlains' favorite songs of 1998"

"The Song That's In Your Head Right Now" - Fuck! How'd he know?

I take my daughter to daycare every morning, about a 20 minute bus ride. I carry her facing out so she interacts with a lot of the other commuters. The other day, she was doing this thing where she just leaned over playfully to one side, then back up. An old lady across the aisle saw her do this and then started mimicking. Dramatically leaning over, almost lying down in the seat and then quickly back up. They both continued this for the entire bus ride.

I was trying to tell this young dude exiting the library that he dropped his newspaper. Not only did I call him "sir" for some reason, but he was wearing earbuds so he couldn't hear me anyway. Also it was a free newspaper of which he was carrying at least one other copy, so it's not like he would've cared.

LL should release a yogurt-themed drum record call chobanitime

Your expectations of me are way too low. I deserve better!!

selling my used games to gamestop

Your expectations of me are way too low. I deserve better!!

― vigetable (La Lechera), Tuesday, December 23, 2014 4:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IDK it seemed to bring it all together: your love of chobani, "time" in the sense of drumming (as used by Yogi(urt?) Horton), horrible 70s album titles, etc.

i think you have misunderstood my feelings about chobani
(but not about yogi horton, may he RIP)

follow-up record "She's Just Not That Into Cho"

:(

selling my used games to gamestop

― slam dunk, Tuesday, December 23, 2014 5:14 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what does this have to do with yogurt

a man goes to sell his used games to gamestop and mango is a chobani yoghurt flavour, that's what.

Pressing the button at a pedestrian crossing and by the time the walk light comes on there is only one car for miles around which you are holding up for no reason whatsoever

avoiding pressing the button just and waiting for a gap in traffic to circumvent the above situation, but then another pedestrian arrives at the crossing and doesn't realise at first that you haven't pressed the button and gives you a funny look when they eventually reach past you to press the button

stop i am getting secondhand embarrassment just reading this

I make cars stop even if I'm not crossing the street.

Pressing the button at a pedestrian crossing and by the time the walk light comes on there is only one car for miles around which you are holding up for no reason whatsoever

Well there is a reason - so you can safely cross the street. Just because somebody is in a car doesn't mean their time or safety is more valuable than yours. #bancars

I've got a left-turn light that will keep me stopped every morning when there's no traffic coming, but turns green as soon as the cars from the light down the street start arriving.

Dumbass light.

Standing ovations

and partial-standing ovations.

people who believe the button at the traffic signal actually does anything

It does at some.

yup. It's used sometimes at intersections with lots of traffic and infrequent crossers. Looks like you should feel rationally embarrassed, Phil D.

I made my choice.

There's one of those lots of traffic with infrequent crossers lights here and it has one of those magnet sensors which my motorcycle won't trigger.

I've gotten stuck there before and have had to get off and push the crosswalk button in order to get the light to change.

more so than standing ovations, people applauding at a slight break when the song isn't over

and maybe it's me being rationally embarassed, but going to a concert where you're not overly familiar with the bands, arriving during a band's set and not being sure if they're the first opener, the second opener, or the headliner

I think at least once I've said "huh, I liked them more than I thought" referring to the headliner only to realize it was the last opener I just saw and the headliner is just about to take the stage

I hate the convention in jazz of applauding after every solo, it breaks the continuity of the music and makes the whole thing seem like a big soloing contest.

Really, applause in general. Can't we just tweet @ the band our appreciation. Applause is so manual and archaic.

man alive just deciphered jazz

That's why I like applauding! So pleasingly basic.

I hate how you can't like whistle or yell "FUUUUUCK YEAAAAH" and throw up devil horns during a bitchin' jazz solo without a bunch of turtlenecked grumps turning around and glaring at you.

also applause is a group activity -- we all make this noise at the same time because we all feel the same feeling of appreciation. tweeting at the band feels like i'm saying that my opinion is v important and it's not. i actually find tweeting very embarrassing in general.

sometimes when i'm clapping i look at my hands and step back for a moment internally and think how ridiculous it is to slap my damn hands together to show appreciation for something

yeah but then you go clapclapclap and it feels good
visceral pleasure of clapping >>> the embarrassment it causes imo

yeah i mean clapping is great, it's just something i sometimes think about

another thing i get embarrassed by is when i say goodbye to someone and they don't hear me and don't acknowledge it. this is embarrassing even when there's no one else around.

xp
They should have "like" buttons at the seats, with a display of the total that both the audience and performers could see.

another thing i get embarrassed by is when i say goodbye to someone and they don't hear me and don't acknowledge it. this is embarrassing even when there's no one else around.

^^^^^^^^

when i was about 4 i was diagnosed with juvenile arithritis, and had something done to my leg that required a cast. when i was finally let out of hospital, they tried to give me wooden crutches with sheepskin on the top (instead of the regular metal ones) and i was overcome with horrific irrational embarrassment and refused to use them. they wouldn't give my mum the regular metal ones for me, nor would they provide a wheelchair, so she had to push me around in a stroller till the cast came off.

and maybe it's me being rationally embarassed, but going to a concert where you're not overly familiar with the bands, arriving during a band's set and not being sure if they're the first opener, the second opener, or the headliner

I think at least once I've said "huh, I liked them more than I thought" referring to the headliner only to realize it was the last opener I just saw and the headliner is just about to take the stage

I once went to see Autechre at a free outdoor show, only having heard a few songs and really knowing nothing about them. The show started, I got bored after about 15 minutes, and decided to walk around the town for a while. Came back an hour later in the middle of Autechre's set and felt dumb for being driven away by the opening solo act who I thought was Autechre.

Standing ovations

I read an interview where an actor(?) said that the he was taken aback at the ubiquity of standing ovations in the USA and how I where he was from (England?) standing ovations were practically like winning an Oscar. Or a Tony, I guess. Anyway, they have lost a lot of value b/c I'm not sure if I can remember being at a performance that didn't end with one.

I was at a fundraising performance for an arts academy where the S3mi-Preci0u5 W3@p0n5 played. Besides their getting a fucking standing ovation, I was horribly irrationally embarrassed by their performance and their whole shtick, being panderingly shocking, hollering "Are you bitches having a good time?! I can't fucking hear you!" at the mostly older, uptight crowd.