Embarassment.

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What was the last thing you did that made you feel awkward or embarassed? Anything from the slapstick hilarity of stapling your hand to your knee to the social awkwardness of forgetting someones name.

Awkward Silence 1-I was at the shops yesterday and I there's this guy we know who works there. Let's call him Mr Y. And while I used to be good friends with him, he never comes out anymore, yet I still know him well enough to not merit a simple "hello". So he was there stacking shelves or something and the conversation went "what are you doing tonight Ronan". "oh....I'm going to Jon Carter". "Oh right, is he a DJ". "Yes he is". And then I went to say something and I said "yeah it......I have to get some lunch ok seeyoulater". Urgh.

Awkward Silence 2-I'm on the bus home last night, minding my own business and it's full of annoying dickheads who are screaming and stuff, so I'm just looking at my shoes tapping my feet happily. And then one of them offers me some of a joint, and I didn't want it, so I look up and go "no thanks", and the minute I look up he just screams "YOU ARE OFF YOUR ROCKER", and I wasn't really, I just have big pupils. And everyone looked around and was like "YEAH 'RAVE ON' MAAAAAAN, WOODSTOCK FOREVER" and all the other kind of incongruous shite people use when they're trying to make a shit joke. Urgh, public attention focussed on me. It was almost as bad as the time in the Chipper when some guy accused me of looking like Jamie Oliver and everyone stared at me.

Awkward Situation 3-Taking praise. I can't take praise very well at all, I mean from friends about an article or something. People go "oh I saw your thing" and I get so embarassed, I'm like "...........yeah....i just eh wrote it you know? yeah". I'm not shy really so this is odd.

Anyway go forth and recount your tales of embarassment and awkwardness. (I have a fear I may have done a similar thread to this, or even the same one, but no matter, there are current stories to be told I'm sure).

― Ronan, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

IT HAS 2 R'S RONAN.

Sorry but last week we had a row in the curry house about how many r's and I stuck to my guns in the face of great hating and was proved right by my friend the dictionary.

― Emma, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How embarrrrrrassing for me. Two rs is crazy talk. My head might be a bit all over the place today but I am 100 percent sure that I am right here. Unless you mean you were the one saying it only has one R.

― Ronan, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

no way man. it's 2 rs "embarrassment". i am certain!

― katie, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This feels like that joke where you say "oh they took gullible out of the dictionary". In a minute you're all going to scream and laugh in my embarrassed face.

― Ronan, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

aww Ronan, me and Emma are wuvvly and wouldn't do that to you! here is proof:

http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=embarrassment

― katie, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would laugh. As it is I am merely shaking my head in dismay at Young People Today who refuse to pay attention to their elders.

― Emma, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Shut up and give me your handbag.

― Ronan, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually while I'm embarrassing myself, let me ask something. Are there public urinals in London that are just in the middle of the street, like open air type deal??

I maintain that there are, however my friend just says I pissed against a wall. I'm sure though, they were grey and kind of circled round a post. About 5 of them. If there aren't there should be, it seems like such a good idea.

― Ronan, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There are. They are situated in Londons Trendy West End and also Londons Horrible West as far as I can see. But the whole of West London is a pisshole anyway so why making extra space for it should change anything I haf no idea.

― Sarah, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sarah is OTM um though i think she just criticised my place of residence hem hem. the one in Shepherds Bush they have put in the middle!!! of the road crossing!!! outside the Underground!!! i mean... urgh. the ones in Piss Alley next to the Empire tho are a great idea, if only ppl didn't use them as rubbish bins first. actually Sarah is right, W london is a shithole, ppl just piss and litter all over it. am grumpy now :(

― katie, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What a city. Such technological and social advances can only be dreamed about in Ireland.

― Ronan, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hmm i dunno Ronan. seems to me that if people piss IN THE LOO and put rubbish IN THE BINS ie. everything in its right place, you're streets ahead of W12!

― katie, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No people piss on the streets here too. Mainly because the only people in the public toilets are the ones with wads of 20 pound notes and tubs of vaseline. I can't think of a safe public toilet in Dublin.

― Ronan, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The four way grey pissoires whioch you get in central London (and certainly outside Waxy O'Connors) are an initiative by the evilest council in the world Westminster to stop people dissolving the National Gallery with pish. They are put there early Friday and Saturday evenings by a man in a van whose job must make him the envy of the man who has to pick'em up the next morning.

― Pete, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aw shit I was hoping they were there 24/7, like imagine just stopping and using them during rush hour, or at lunch hour on a working day. Talk about making people feel uncomfortable. You could have like, a locker room mens talk on the street while pissing, "yeah so what about that girl walking by", "OH YEAH YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT".

And Waxy O'Connors found us, we didn't find it. I'd say it was a warzone yesterday, full of dirty hurling fans from Carlow or somewhere with sweat patches under their arms.

― Ronan, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If I woke up this morning having been to Waxy's and found stumbling the streets with a St Pat's Hat I would feel fucking embarressed. Hooray for Samuel Smith and his pubs wot don't sell Guinness.

― Pete, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jesus I saw so many of those hats yesterday. grrrr. The question is do Sam Smiths pubs have A TREE inside? I think not. Waxys is fuckin huge, it's like catacombs down there. How many people have they hidden over the years? We can only speculate.

― Ronan, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

there are hobbits living in Waxy's. Pubs where people queue to get in = madness. Pubs where you have to shout to be heard = unpleasant. Hence Waxy's = unpleasant madness.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hobbits? I like Hobbits. Can we go to Waxy O'Connors please? I do like hobbits and all, you see.

― Sarah, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Starts with embarrassment, ends in a pub, I like this thread.

For as long as I can remember, I take really embarrassing moments hard. Others who were there likely don't think about it or barely remember it, but I can remember incidents burned into my brain that are two decades old and then some now. I usually don't think about them in the slightest, but then something will prompt a memory and I'll be stuck in there again.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

People go "oh I saw your thing" and I get so embarassed

Aw, Ronan, it's ok.

― Sean, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For the love of god!

― Ronan, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, I just got home from the movies and I opened my front gate and somehow I did it so it hit me in the head. I've now got a bump that I'm applying ice to as I write. If this is still there in the morning, and anyone asks about the bump, I'm going to be embarrassed. Or a liar.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

10th grade, I was getting outside tutoring for my math....taiwanese college girl, the stylish kind whose english is still kind of sketchy but who rocks DKNY sneaks and dyed hair, fuckable......my mom knew her mom from church.......whenever she came over I was always dressed pretty nice, you know how I do.........this one session, I had gas....mad gassssss......but I was sitting on the hard kitchen chair and all my life at dinner on that chair I've been doing this sphincter control thing with smaller farts where you clamp down on the chair, let it go hard but carefully, and it absorbs it back into my body somehow.....I think only I can do this......it's the perfect delay tactic so I can go upstairs and fart at will later......so anyways I'm sitting there, being all chummy with this girl, successfully reversing all my farts, and then I misjudge this monster one and when you fuck up the chair technique, you FUCK IT UP GOOD....its all or nothing.....the thing just SQUEEEEEEEALED out my ass just like a bottle rocket, SO damn loud due to no escape room......I just sat there and kept poker faced.....she did too.....for about 5 seconds, then she lost it, doing that stifled kmrrrgh....krrrmmmgmgmhhhh.....laugh shit which is worse than all out laughter cuz of the dead space.....eyes watering....that was the last session of tutoring I ever recieved.....still get nightmares about that shit...

― Ramosi, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Poor Ramosi. Putting yr body in reverse has its consequences, after all.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

DO NOT play dancehall tapes loudly at your place of work if you they are recently purchased and you are as yet unaware of their lyrical content. That is all.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

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