Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

if I'm in the apartment alone yes (and if I'm just showering or whatever also yes). the door in my bathroom now is a sliding door (space saving measure because my apartment is tiny) which he can open, but when i had a normal door i would tend to let him in anyway before going to the bathroom because otherwise he would scratch at the door

Do all of y’all just go to the bathroom with the door open? Or perhaps you have cats with opposable thumbs?

yes (if i'm home alone), and it is related to a cat. my cat has a big issue with closed doors of any kind. he cannot resist clawing and scratching at them. this is unnerving when using the bathroom by myself, so i usually crack the door so that my eye can maintain weird eye contact with me.

(when someone else is home, he usually doesn't freak out about the doors. he's a weird cat.)

my eye cat can maintain weird eye contact with me.

My cat rushes in if he's given more than a split second. If he gets stuck outside he'll sit there and meow very loudly.

Dogs always need to watch, because turnabout is fair play: most dogs never have a crap without being supervised.

i'm fine with that, but i wish my dog would clean up after me too

and perhaps pat my head

my workplace has a new sponsorship deal with supercuts

this is being celebrated with the offer of a free haircut, on site, for every employee, today

it is being called 'tour de cuts'

Sounds like a trick to cut the hair of some particularly shaggy/unfashionable person without embarrassing them.

RE: Tour de Cuts

We are now offering a $20 cash bonus to anyone in Finance who will take advantage of the free haircut offer. Particularly those who sit on the 4th floor's North suite.

fuck being told to get a haircut in such a passive aggressive way
that would make me want a free haircut even less than i did before

I would take the convenient bang trim tbh

I'd bring in my dog.

haircuts in general make me IE - having to tell the barber what I want, giving my opinion on it once it's finished. once a month for the past 35 years and i still don't really know what to say. i don't even like having it done in places where I'm visible from the street; in the office is almost too much to bear.

omg it's only turkish hairdressers round here, i've been to two different ones and despite only wanting a #3 all over and saying 'make it quick i'm on my lunch break' i've been subjected to the full hot towel treatment, head massage, multiple products needlessly rubbed into my barely there anymore hair; once i mistakenly asked for a shave too and for some reason this meant i also got to have my face covered in clay before being swaddled and then ignored for five minutes. absolutely mortifying, never again.

haircuts in general make me IE - having to tell the barber what I want, giving my opinion on it once it's finished. once a month for the past 35 years and i still don't really know what to say. i don't even like having it done in places where I'm visible from the streetp

this is why my hair is horribly unkempt right now, don't even wanna have to talk to a barber, don't wanna be rude just don't have it in me

just been in Aldi and the staff were in super cheery friendly mood and i'm in my head like "that's great, everybody's enjoying themselves, please don't talk to me please don't talk to me"

haircuts make me IE.

most barbershops (serving white clientele) make me RA.

just back from lunchtime haircut (my own pate obv not requiring much attn bar clearing scrub) and it was grand rly

i like the physical bit of it tbf

I usually let my hair grow long, like shoulder-length, then buzz it to about a quarter inch. its such a weird physical sensation stepping outside for the first time afterwards

haircuts in general make me IE - having to tell the barber what I want, giving my opinion on it once it's finished. once a month for the past 35 years and i still don't really know what to say. i don't even like having it done in places where I'm visible from the street; in the office is almost too much to bear.

― fetter, Thursday, September 19, 2019 2:35 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Never had a clue either, and it was trial and error but I finally found a woman who understands "short but not too short" exactly the way I mean it.

Then again I only have to go once every 6 months or so. My fresh short do will evolve into an ok longer-ish do over the course of six months.

The most IE feeling of all time is definitely that moment when the haircut is finished and you have to look in the mirror and the give your judgment as the haircutter smiles at you in the mirror

It’s like “get meeeee outta here!” yeeeeek

When he wasn’t ranting on a public platform, Enoch Powell was a man of few words. Asked by Stephen, the notoriously gabby House of Commons barber, how he’d like to have his hair cut, the ice-cold Tory replied: “In silence.”

haircuts are definitely embarrassing. the worst was the couple of times i went to this hipster revival barbershop with heavily bearded dudes with slicked-back hair talking about game of thrones while they cut your hair in a room covered in vintage cigarette ads and motorcycle paraphernalia.

Incidentally I had a haircut just last week, and again noticed how awful and IE I find it to look into a barbershop mirror. It's like they're completely different and way more warped (or way closer to the 'truth' :-/) than other mirrors. You'd expect those mirror to be 'nicer' to look in, but the contrary applies. ymmv

truth bomb

really nothing worse at the end of a haircut than giving the barber a little wink-wink while unbutting your pants before realizing it's not *that* kind of barbershop

.. what?

you heard me

for a second I was wondering why your barber gave you pants in addition to the cape

Large groups of adults playing ukuleles in unison

Being given tasters by enthusiastic barstaff, shopkeepers etc. It's to do with having to give an opinion again, I suppose. Can anyone really tell how much they will enjoy a pint of beer by trying a thimbleful of it first? I can't.

Being sold anything can be vaguely embarrassing if you let it

xxp Ukuleles have become inherently embarrassing and are only acceptable when played by Labi Siffre or actual Hawaiians

Not just hold on a minute there...

http://photos.geni.com/p13/b6/05/e9/74/53444839fb6b4fb9/tiny-tim_original.jpg

oh yeah TT goes without saying

and Magnetic Fields are good for a grandfather clause

It's not the ukes, it's the people that sing in an affected, breathy, pseudo-30s jazz club voice while playing them

^this

Would like to hear some uke in Dirty South rap

Careful what you ask for!

uke aren't handle the truth

O ye who wish to exonerate ukuleles, look no further than the 'Deep Water' -> 'Machine Gun' sequence on Portishead's Third.

haircuts are definitely embarrassing. the worst was the couple of times i went to this hipster revival barbershop with heavily bearded dudes with slicked-back hair talking about game of thrones while they cut your hair in a room covered in vintage cigarette ads and motorcycle paraphernalia.

― na (NA), Thursday, September 19, 2019 7:21 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

was this some Floyd's Barbershop type joint?

Taste of peepee on his lips

haircuts are definitely embarrassing. the worst was the couple of times i went to this hipster revival barbershop with heavily bearded dudes with slicked-back hair talking about game of thrones while they cut your hair in a room covered in vintage cigarette ads and motorcycle paraphernalia.

― na (NA), Thursday, September 19, 2019 7:21 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

was this some Floyd's Barbershop type joint?

― omar little, Friday, September 20, 2019 1:07 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

irving park barbershop (which i think has moved across the street since i went there), but basically yeah

I was all, what the hell are they talking about? Looked it up and fuckall, someone had to go and ruin the Andy Griffith Show for me.

When a podcaster or radio host (or even a cheap documentary presenter) starts reading a quote and switches their tone from "informative but casual and friendly" to "dramatic movie scene voice" - it really makes me wince whenever I hear it and I hope they can please all stop doing it immediately, even Dan Carlin's horrible "QUOTE... ...ENDQUOTE" is better.