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tuckerx78 , Andrea Piacquadio / Pexels Report

30 Cringy Things People Did That Gave Off Second-Hand Embarrassment For Those Around Bless my ex gf. She was a waitress, and we were out to dinner with my parents. My mother pulls the "trying to use an expired coupon" move on the waiter. She simply refused to accept that time is a thing and that the written date had passed.

While I zone out and wait for my mom to either win or be escorted out by management, my ex was apparently slowly losing her mind. She suddenly snatches the dollar bill sized coupon from my mother's hand and eats it. Literally tore it and shoved the pieces in her mouth. She says that since there's no more coupon, there's no deal.

It was nice, having the crazy chick be crazy on the staffs behalf for a change.

Final score:

324points

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Mark 4 months ago

Modern problems require modern solutions

137points

CaptValentine , Rafael Cosquiere / Pexels Report

30 Cringy Things People Did That Gave Off Second-Hand Embarrassment For Those Around Wasn't there personally, BUT it has since become a bit of a legend at the school.

I went to and worked at a fairly large flight school attached to a university. We had a couple thousand people enrolled in the program that went all the way from 0 hour student pilot to Multi Engine Flight Instructor, and on clear calm days you can guarantee that there would be a handful of student pilots doing their first solo flight. One student, having completed his two landings by himself, taxied off the runway and switched over to ground control and asked for clearance to taxi back to the ramp and complete his first solo flight. Ground obliged, gave him clearance and congratulated him on a solo well done. Solo student read back the instructions but for some reason *forgot to take his finger off the microphone button.* Anyone tuned into ground control could not only hear but could do nothing to interrupt or stop him as he *sang a song of his own invention about how much he loved the aircraft he was driving.* For three whole minutes, this poor bastard serenaded the 50 or so pilots, ramp workers, air traffic controllers and flight supervisors with "I love you Cessna, I love you Cessna" as he taxied back to the ramp. Eventually he realized he was on the air, took his finger off the button, enabling ground control got back on the frequency and, over the howls of the tower cab crew laughing so hard it hurt, the controller thanked him for the song and would pass along the compliment at the next opportunity.

Final score:

292points

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Judes 4 months ago

This one's kind of cute.

180points

No_Difficulty_3203 , Ivan Samkov / Pexels Report

30 Cringy Things People Did That Gave Off Second-Hand Embarrassment For Those Around I was selling some kettlebells on Facebook marketplace and a woman, early 40’s maybe, bought them.

She came to pick them up and as I handed them over to her, she obviously wasn’t expecting them to be as heavy as they were, and as she suddenly strained to counter the weight, she ripped the most extreme of farts you have ever heard. It was gargantuan. I was shocked, but also proud.

I’m usually pretty good at making light of any situation but I found myself speechless for the first time in my life. If I could, I would’ve returned serve but even on my best day I don’t believe I could create such a symphony.

We both kind of stared into each other’s eyes and she said “well…” and turned around and walked off.

I think about her often.

Final score:

223points

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Zephyr 4 months ago

"returned serve" lmfao

113points

Was going down an escalator at the mall of Georgia when the 90 something year old guy in front of me very suddenly s**t his pants. We were about 500 feet from a bathroom and he was wearing shorts. I felt so bad for him. My dad gave him his hoodie to wrap around his waist. I was very proud he was my dad in that moment and still am.

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Final score:

208points

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merlin 4 months ago (edited)

That's terribly sad. Good for the dad though.

112points

BriGuy1965 , RDNE Stock project / Pexels Report

30 Cringy Things People Did That Gave Off Second-Hand Embarrassment For Those Around I saw a friend, who was upset that his girlfriend corrected his grammar, throw himself on a couch and kick his feet and pound his fists, while he cried out, "Don't correct me. You're not my mom!"

She kicked him out of her apartment and broke up with him. I wondered how she lasted so long.

Final score:

189points

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Zephyr 4 months ago

She should have asked him to spell "man-child"

96points

Legitimate_Bird_5712 Report

I was at my Aunt Brenda's funeral, the priest called her "Mary" throughout the eulogy. Eventually my Uncle Hank yelled "Her name is BRENDA, A*****E!" as my Uncle Bob (the widower) burst into tears.

Final score:

162points

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DennyS (denzoren) 4 months ago

Like I get it, he shouldn't have, but I get it.

66points

SteveSaudade , Kindel Media / Pexels Report

30 Cringy Things People Did That Gave Off Second-Hand Embarrassment For Those Around A long time ago I worked at an airport where we had an office with a big glass tinted window through which we could watch the passengers and arrival hall goings on.

Three of us were sitting at the window doing paperwork, we were all so extremely tired after a long shift when one of the guys I worked with took a glance out and spotted one of our co-workers he didn't like through the window. He proceeded to tell us the most vicious rant...' Look at that fat so and so, etc. etc, looks like a warthog, just on and on with the most descriptive insults.

Turns out, I guess bring so tired, he had spotted her reflection in the window and she was actually standing behind us. It was just us three and her in the room. I beep beep beeped reversed out of that room so quick.

Final score:

159points

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Kari Panda 4 months ago (edited)

Another one. It’s fine if you don’t like someone and if you stand up to them during a disagreement or if they harrass you. But calling someone names and shaming their appearance? No sympathy from me. Someone should have called you out on that AH behaviour as it is.

113points

Danobing , Andrea Piacquadio / Pexels Report

30 Cringy Things People Did That Gave Off Second-Hand Embarrassment For Those Around I'm sure everyone felt this for me, I walked into work one day and everyone was standing around and I was like "what happened some one die?!?!"

Yep guy I worked with took his life. .

Final score:

143points

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LAWLAWLAW 4 months ago

Yeah I did pretty much exactly the same in a bar and the bar tenders mum had just died

60points

#10

When I was 18 (20 years ago) I worked at Starbucks as a Barista and I loved it! During the summer of 2004 my Grandfather passed away unexpectedly from a heart attack. I was working when it happened and my Mom came in to give me the news and I left.

A few days later I’m back at work and it’s a full crew there that day and we were busy. Right before I hit the floor my manager called me into the back to check in on me and to also tell me that she had gotten feedback from her district manager that I crushed the interview I had with him for a shift supervisor position at a new store opening up. I was super jazzed and hit the floor ready to go. That day I was working drive with Jax (Jacki) and she could be a ball of energy! Whenever we worked together she would make these double shot slammers that had 4 pumps of white mocha, 4 raw sugar packets and topped with whipped cream. So essentially you were left with two cranked up baristas making drinks, sweating and heart palpitating.

During the shift it was announced that I was being promoted so everyone was really happy for me. They were also really sweet about my Grandfather passing as well. It was a bitter sweet day. As I’m making some drinks at the bar I notice a card being passed around and it’s not making it to me so I figured it was a condolences card for the loss of my Grandfather. At one point I see Jax grab it and write a message and hand it to my manager. At the end of my shift they gave it to me and it was full of sweet sympathy messages from everyone. But then my eye is drawn to a message that says, “Get it B***H! Congrats! I’m so proud of you! You better not be a stranger around here or you’ll be DEAD TO ME” - Jax . Her being hyped up on caffeine and in a rush thought that it was a congratulations card for my promotion. I started laughing when realizing what she did and another coworker read it and in front of everyone clocked her on it! Jax was mortified and took it really hard. I told her that I thought it was funny as hell and to not even stress it. She spent the rest of her shift embarrassed and took it really hard, profusely apologizing for the rest of the day. Needless to say, she probably reads the group card now before she signs it!

CosmicAndAwake Report

Final score:

132points

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Shark Lady 4 months ago

Similar thing happened to a colleague of mine, she wrote "Happy birthday" in a condolences card. Luckily it was spotted before the intended recipient received it. Colleague had to go and buy a new card and spend most of the morning taking it around for everyone to sign it.

45points

Beneficial-Salt-6773 , fauxels / Pexels Report

#11

30 Cringy Things People Did That Gave Off Second-Hand Embarrassment For Those Around Was at dinner party when my friend’s mother in law asked another one of our friends when her baby was due. She wasn’t pregnant. Anyway, MIL should have simply apologized, but instead doubles down with something to the effect of “it sure looks like you’re pregnant”.

Final score:

130points

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C.O. Shea 4 months ago

Karma has a special place for these sorts of Karens.

87points

Outrageous_Emu8503 , Louis Hansel / Unsplash Report

#12

30 Cringy Things People Did That Gave Off Second-Hand Embarrassment For Those Around I was a server at an Americana restaurant and a family came in and the mother was berating everyone. She yelled at the server and complained about the food not being the right temperature and then she thought it was too salty, etc. She really had it in for the 17 year old server. He was fine-- but the customer wanted to pick at someone. Her husband and teenaged children looked embarrassed. She had been like this before.

There is a sign on the door that said we reserved the right to refuse service to anyone, and management decided that this lady shouldn't eat with us again so the manager went over and comped the meals and told them to leave and not come back. The woman was upset and left mean feedback.

In response the feedback, a regular posted with a picture of the woman and her family. She quickly took down her bad feed back. She deserved the public upbraiding, but I was embarrassed for her family.

Final score:

129points

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Tamra 4 months ago

Sorry, but I wouldn't just sit in silence if a family member was acting like an a$$ like that.

15points

#13

I embarrass myself enough on my own. One situation that comes to mind from years ago that haunts me.

I was 9 months pregnant, bored out of my mind on a Saturday morning and decided to go look for garage sales to pass time. I was also super young and poor and needed things for a house my ex and I had just rented.

I went to a few and then turned into a small neighborhood I had not been in before. I see a house with tons and tons of things in garage and a few tables in driveway. I started picking through things, carrying some items, making a pile at one point. I’d say about 10 minutes go by and an elderly woman came out the house and asked me how she could help me, and I replied I was just looking and would let her know if I needed anything. She looked at me really confused. My big dumb pregnant a*s started going through some curtains and things when it dawned on me to ask prices on what I had already put aside.

I asked her if she could give me some prices. She replied: “Oh honey, I’ve been looking for whatever died in that garage but if you need some things I can help you out.”

I declined and waddled to my car.

Pick_My_Peppers Report

Final score:

125points

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ano nym 4 months ago

to be honest, that's a really cute story - I feel for you, but it's still very sweet :)

60points

Halt_the_Ranger27 , Startup Stock Photos Pexels Report

#14

30 Cringy Things People Did That Gave Off Second-Hand Embarrassment For Those Around Sitting at a desk at my new job with 4 other new hires. It was like our 4th day and a new guy was there, all we heard was that his wife had been having a baby so he started a couple days late. One guy asks him if it’s a boy or girl. He says it was a boy. Asks how he’s doing. The guy says actually the baby didn’t make it. Got real quiet after that.

Final score:

123points

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Zephyr 4 months ago

I once congratulated a friend of mine on his new baby didn't know the baby died weeks ago.......funny how no one gets to fall into a sinkhole when you need to

112points

othybear , Pavel Danilyuk / Pexels Report

#15

30 Cringy Things People Did That Gave Off Second-Hand Embarrassment For Those Around Does third hand embarrassment count? My uncle died midway through a contentious divorce from my aunt. Nobody on our side of the family liked the guy and we were happy she had finally dropped him. Turns out nobody on his side of the family liked the guy either, his adult children and parents included, and didn’t seem phased at his death. My mom went to the funeral to support her sister and said it was the most awkward funeral she’d ever been to. There were only about 10 people who actually attended, and the pastor running the thing had set aside 30 minutes for people to come up and share their positive memories of the guy. No one moved. Nobody was willing to say a good word about him. Instead the pastor awkwardly tried to fill the space with some general “everyone has value” stuff, and then gave up and ended the service after 10 minutes total. No one in the family bothered to go to the graveside service either. Apparently they decided to go to a bar instead to get sh**faced and trash talk the dead guy.

Final score:

119points

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Marianne 4 months ago

This might be a reminder to all of us to live our lives in a way that people will have to say something good about us at our graveside.

98points

#16

My ex had a massive ego and one of the things he had an ego about was football, even though his team was an incredibly low division and had never won. One day I drove him to his game and as we approached the field he goes "ooft yesssss, these guys are total middle aged losers, we're gonna beat them for sure" and kept going on about how some of them were fat, ugly, balding, probably only playing to get away from their wives and s****y home lives, etc. I stayed mostly quiet during this (I hate when people insult others based on looks, something I'd told him off for multiple times) and simply told him good luck.

They lost 7-nil. Not just that, but this game pushed them to be knocked down into the next lowest division because they'd lost by too much. At the time I felt massive second hand embarrassment for him but now I just think "lmao karma.".

ThrowRARAw Report

Final score:

109points

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GottaGo 4 months ago

A good lesson for all bodyshamers. Welldone fat, ugly bald guys!

73points

Sweeper1985 , LOGAN WEAVER | @LGNWVR / Unsplash Report

#17

30 Cringy Things People Did That Gave Off Second-Hand Embarrassment For Those Around Well, many many years ago, when I was a kid, I was on holiday with my family in a remote location in Indonesia. It was NYE and there was a little party in the hotel restaurant, about half tourists and about half locals. Everyone had some food and a few drinks, and it was all going nicely.

Then a guy gets up and taps his glass. He tells the entire gathering that, as a proud West Virginian man, he would like to share something very special to him from his culture.

He proceeds to sing "Take me home, country road" by John Denver. Earnestly. A capella. With tears in his eyes.

My father is a rather blunt kind of Australian man. He absolutely could NOT reel it in. I think he tried for about 30 seconds but eventually just lost it and began laughing hysterically. So hard he cried. So hard everyone else near him began laughing too, just because it was contagious.

In the background, the guy is still singing, "West Virginiaaaaa, Mountain Mamaaaaaa...".

Final score:

106points

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Mark 4 months ago

Mountain Llamaaaaa 🦙

76points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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#18

30 Cringy Things People Did That Gave Off Second-Hand Embarrassment For Those Around A girl graduating from college falling down repeatedly on the stage. She fell at least three or four times and it was like something invisible was sweeping her leg out from under her. Even she had a WTF expression on her face.

Smile_Terrible , Fares Hamouche / Unsplash Report

Final score:

103points

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3 Otters 🦦 4 months ago

I laughed because yeah, some days are like that.

49points

Nadine Debard 4 months ago

Could be a disease, like MS for example

18points

Carrie 4 months ago

I have MS. My first alarming symptom was falling down repeatedly.

8points

Lo Kindred 4 months ago

Reminds me of the girls in high school wearing heels to graduation without ever having worn heels before.

10points

Themoonprincess 4 months ago

Plot twist: she's the main character and the invisible alien she befriended was just messing with her even though she repeatedly told him to stay home.

9points

Cat Chat 4 months ago

I was at a theater once where the guy behind me was talking to his invincible alien the whole time (seriously, that's what he called it). So I believe this as a possibility.

1point

LaserBrain 4 months ago

I was drunk at my high school graduation, so...

5points

wowbagger 4 months ago

I fell at my college graduation. Tripped and fell towards the president, almost knocking him over, but he managed to catch me and stay upright. Thank God it was before cellphones were a thing!

4points

Robert T 4 months ago

Some days everything just wants to fall on the floor. I'm sure gravity must be stronger on those days.

4points

BookFanatic 4 months ago

I wore flats for just this reason. I still tripped. Twice.

3points

BrunoVI 4 months ago (edited)

Dammit. I thought I'd seen this on YouTube, but when I typed in "Graduate falls four times," YouTube serves me nothing but dozens of videos about Biden and Trump. WTH do they have to do with anything?

2points

Queeqec 4 months ago

Use VPN, go via Europe, Africa, Asia, whatever server you can reach OUTSIDE the Biden-Trump warzone. It will be totally different results.

3points

Frozengeckolover 3 months ago (edited)

I was helping a girl friend (a couple of years younger than me) get ready for her high school graduation. She showed me her dress and shoes. I asked if she was sure she wanted to wear such high heels. I reminded her she never wore heels at all, and it would be especially hard to walk in really high ones if you aren't used to it. She got an atitude and assured me she had been practicing walking around the house. The only problem was, she lived in a flat house; no stairs. You can probably guess what happened. She fell going up the stairs at graduation, and ripped her gown. Then she was so embarrassed, and nervous, she fell again as she was receiving her diploma. It was so hard not to laugh, and it was even harder to not say, "I told you so!" afterwards. Please listen to your bestie when they try to warn you about stuff.

1point

Seadog 4 months ago

Someone stick a couple thumbtacks in the sole or heel of her shoe for amusement?

1point

Steve Hall 4 months ago

Well, I hope that was only due to poor shoe choice and not something more serious.

1point

Fuzzyturtles09 3 months ago

Oof, I was valedictorian, fell off the stage after receiving the paper (gr. 8 not as fancy as gr.12 or college)

0points

Lori Stout 4 months ago

This happened to me one night while out on the town and everyone thought I was drunk. As it turns out, I had a very significant piece of glass stuck in the bottom of my stiletto, ball of foot area that made me "bambi on ice."

0points

Nicky Shrimps 4 months ago

The Ghost of Failed Tests - Passed

0points

KnightOwl 4 months ago

My head teacher was presenting our schools annual award ceremony, she started the night off by walking across the stage, tripping over thin air and doing a weird backflip- belly flop off the stage. Funniest thing I've ever seen, the entire crowd of about 2,000 people reacted with stunned silence followed by shock and hysterical laughter. Even the people who ran to help couldn't stop laughing. The aftermath wasn't so funny, turns out our 60+ head teacher had broken both legs in multiple places and shattered her pelvis. She was in a wheelchair for about 3yrs, had multiple operations, when she started walking again she had to use a cane and had a obvious limp. Don't think she ever truly recovered physically or mentally from the fall.

0points

Belandriel 4 months ago

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0points

Mike F 4 months ago

Invisible ninja from Fail Blog?

0points

David Hopkins 4 months ago

The gown might have been too long or she sought some chemical assistance to take the edge off her nerves.

0points

The Shark Premium 4 months ago

... was she sick or injured? Or simply unaccustomed to walking in heels and turned into a baby deer...

0points

Ronald Robin 4 months ago

Sounds like something from a sitcom.

0points

Sue 4 months ago

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God of Sarcasm 4 months ago (edited)

I read and reread the post and nowhere does it say what she was wearing. Unless you were actually there. Were you there Sue? Were you in the audience? Were you graduating when this happened? Did you work there? Or was this actually you and you're chastising your past actions? Huh Sue? Huh?

5points

whatsnewpikachu , Kampus Production / Pexels Report

#19

30 Cringy Things People Did That Gave Off Second-Hand Embarrassment For Those Around I went to an open house and there was this older realtor helping the listing agent. He was excitedly walking around this empty house talking about features while looking back at my husband and I and he ran head first into the chandelier that would be positioned over a dining room table had one been there. It happened so quick we couldn’t even warn him.

He got tangled in it and ripped it down as he fell face first to the ground, cutting himself up badly in the process.

We both still cringe thinking about it. We saw him out at the supermarket recently and both whispered “oh nooooooo”.

Final score:

101points

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Sava Hax 4 months ago

Did he recover well?? One more line in this post would've been helpful. 🤨

66points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#20

That lady who took out like half the Tour de France pelaton with her stupid sign.

I only saw it on TV but that second hand embarrassment reverberated across the world for me. If that was me I would be looking into planetary relocation... I can't imagine it. I still think back on it and feel a sense of relief that I have never f****d up _that_ badly before.

LemmeLaroo Report

Final score:

98points

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Mark 4 months ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=18&v=MH-bDtGKA0I

64points

#21

I didn't even have to be alive to be embarrassed for my mom dating in her twenties. Apparently she was on a date with a guy she really liked and she ordered a salad bc she didn't want to get anything in her teeth. Then mid conversation, she bit into a cherry tomato and it exploded and squirted across the table and blew out the candle in the middle of the table.

I die every time I think about this.

bbennett106 Report

Final score:

97points

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Kristal 4 months ago (edited)

Lol that sounds hilarious! I would laugh if I were in either position (the date or the person biting the tomato) lol. Haha omg, depending on the company, maybe even a squirting joke XD

50points

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#22

30 Cringy Things People Did That Gave Off Second-Hand Embarrassment For Those Around I worked retail during COVID. This family would come in, normal looking , mom in her forties, two middle school kids. Except for the dad, who wore a Halloween Mike Myers mask with tape over the mouth and SLAVE written in "blood" across the forehead. Then they would just...shop...but his wife and kids looked like they wanted the sweet release of death every second. Edit: I should have been more clear: this is when mask mandates were in effect.

catalfalque , Egon Eagle Report

Final score:

94points

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BoredPossum 4 months ago

Corona definitely made many people stupid, even before they got ill. Or, at least exposed who they were.

97points

laneb71 , Marcus Herzberg / Pexels Report

#23

30 Cringy Things People Did That Gave Off Second-Hand Embarrassment For Those Around I was ringing a girl and her bf up and she was a few dollars short on hertransaction. Bf then got in my face and insisted her redbulls were BOGO, it is true they *were* BOGO but the promo had ended months earlier. This man proceeds to yell and scream at me for five minutes about how she deserves these drinks and how dare I Yada Yada. This whole time his gf was trying to disappear into the chip display like Homer sliding into that bush, just dying of embarrassment. Eventually after I threatened to trespass him he gave me the biggest eye roll I have ever received and spat on the floor and told his gf "let's get out of here this f****t clearly gets off on denying beautiful women what they need". His exact words.

Final score:

93points

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Danni 4 months ago

Ew. Toxic masculinity at its finest.

90points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#24

A new guy started at work and a couple of us were standing around just bulls***ting. A lady that also works there who is fairly rough around the edges walks by and the new guy looks at other guy we were chatting with and states “Damn. I feel bad for her husband”. It was her husband we were talking to.

Mitzeras Report

Final score:

92points

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C.O. Shea 4 months ago

😬

33points

#25

I worked at a retail store and my manager was a super try hard, dorky kind of guy. He loved the sales manager and was obsessed with him like to the point of adopting phrases and mannerisms. Anyways one night we all went out for karaoke and he, completely sober btw, went up, said he was dedicating a song to the sales manager, and sang that foo fighters there goes my hero song. I literally had to walk outside I couldn't handle it.

paidjannie Report

Final score:

87points

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FrogMan 4 months ago

Great song, though…

15points

LittleBitOdd , Chris Montgomery / Unsplash Report

#26

30 Cringy Things People Did That Gave Off Second-Hand Embarrassment For Those Around When a colleague accidentally unmuted himself in a meeting and said something snarky about someone on the call. That particular call was being recorded too.

Not me directly, but I had a colleague tell me he'd been moderating a work-related townhall meeting on Teams, and the meeting was being recorded for publishing on the website. Some poor sod didn't realise his camera was on, and took his laptop into the bathroom with him to continue listening while he took a dump. Since most people had their cameras off, his video popped up beside the presenter's on Teams. Needless to say, the recording was quietly lost.

Final score:

82points

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Kari Panda 4 months ago

Yeah, don’t bad mouth people, simple as that.

26points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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#27

30 Cringy Things People Did That Gave Off Second-Hand Embarrassment For Those Around That time my old roommate told a table full of his family that “AIDS and Cancer are the same thing.” Just after talking about how much he’s been learning from his night classes. Those classes were being paid for by his parents and *Spoiler* *Alert* he wasn’t attending any classes. They realized it by the time dinner was over.

CptMurphy27 , August de Richelieu / Pexels Report

Final score:

80points

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Zephyr 4 months ago

Sometimes it's better to keep quiet and let people think you're stupid than to talk and confirm it

119points

#28

I was out for dinner with my family, and my brother was a wheelchair user, he would’ve been a teenager at the time. A drunk woman came up to us, looked at him, then turned to my mum and asked “is he like that famous astrologer?”

She meant Stephen Hawking.

saint_aura Report

Final score:

78points

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Gary 4 months ago

We walked past a guy in a wheelchair in a shop when my kid was about 5, and he asked me loudly of course if he was dead.

32points

#29

30 Cringy Things People Did That Gave Off Second-Hand Embarrassment For Those Around This was years ago. Met a lady (40ish) who had a piercing in an unusual spot; upper lip, about half an inch away from the nose and more towards the cheek. It was a plain circular piercing.

My friend (M 20s) who knew the lady, sort of reached out to touch it, saying sorry you've got something on your face. She gently recoiled. He tried again. This was with others in the vicinity.

I died a bit that day.

CakesForLife , GorillaWarfare Report

Final score:

62points

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Hphizzle 4 months ago

I think it’s called a Monroe piercing. Supposed to look like Marilyn Monroe’s iconic mole.

32points

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#30

I went to school for software development. Very difficult program, high fail rate.

First day of second semester we're hanging out chatting and a guy I know from the program chats with us. Now, in first semester, he struggled. We all knew he struggled. I was kind of surprised to see him.

We were talking about grades and he says "Oh wow, you guys saw your grades? How?" Yes, he'd got through the semester and never checked his grades.

We pull up the school website and he logs in and we point him to the grades section. And he says "What do these W's mean?"

I look over and he's got a W in 3 classes, which is basically a grade lower than F. It's like a "Did not complete."

I'm like, "Uh, that means you can't really be here right now. You should go talk to the registrar's office."

He's honestly more confused than anything, he wanders off and we never see him again.

shaidyn Report

Final score:

57points

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ElfVibratorGlitter 4 months ago (edited)

Okay, a W isn't worse than an F. It stands for withdrawn. Meaning that class doesn't effect your GPA, at all. It's like you never took the class (no credit given good or bad).

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What is the worst second hand embarrassment you've ever felt?

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BrunoVI 4 months ago

Worst I ever saw personally was a guy who lost a TON of weight before a board meeting dinner. He drank before the diner, and his body could no longer tolerate nearly as much alcohol. He threw up at the dinner, drowning a round table for 20 in vomit, clear from end to end. Worse than Family Guy. I might've saved his career by deliberately putting into the CEO's and other key people's ear the effect massive weight loss has on alcohol metabolism.

15points

Frozengeckolover 3 months ago

Good on you for trying to help. I'm sure he was super embarrassed. My ex husband was a recovering alcoholic. I just gave up alcohol all together, and I didn't start again when we split up. But I was out with family one night, several years later, and they pressured me to have a drink with them. I ordered a small cocktail and didn't finish it, but it was enough to make me ill. I didn't vomit on the table, but I was too sick to go shopping with them after dinner. Their comments were not kind. I realized my family were a-holes then; for pressuring me to drink when I didn't want too, and making fun of me for not being able to "hold my liquor".

2points

SirWriteALot 4 months ago

I'm always embarrassed when they pick members from the audience and bring them up on the stage ... or when the circus clown is not funny

13points

ElfVibratorGlitter 4 months ago

Ohh! I stupidly sat in the first row at a standup comedy show. I was just fodder for every dumb joke. Was funny maybe the first time. After that I was just embarrassed.

9points

Frozengeckolover 3 months ago

It's especially awkward when they pick an audience member to come on stage, and then don't really do anything with them. I had a magician call me up on stage to assist him once. All he did was hand me his wand while he set up the next trick, then he took the wand back, did the trick, and thanked me for my assistance. I just stared at him for a minute and said, "You made me come up here for THAT? Geez, dude! Learn to multitask!" Everyone laughed for a solid minute. I felt guilty because I had embarrassed him, so I made a joke about him just wanting a pretty lady to touch his "wand". He laughed and made a joke back about not being good with his hands. Honestly, I think he would have made a better comedian than magician.

2points

Bored Trash Panda 4 months ago

OMG this happened to me at a Lūʻau in Hawaii. I absolutely HATE having attention on me and they pulled me up on stage with a few other people from the crowd. I wanted to throw up.

0points

Liz 4 months ago

Years ago, when I was a teenager, my friend frantically called me and yelled at me to take down my post on Hyves (was something like Facebook and very popular in the Netherlands). I wrote on the page of this guy I always ran into when going out but not that Weekend: he how are you? Did you survive the weekend xD .. yeah, he died that weekend.

9points

Mike F 4 months ago

Apparently the answer was no.

3points

Rocket Surgeon 4 months ago

My wife and I were helping non-techie acquaintances (I barely knew them, friend-of-a-friend types) set up their home wi-fi. They were kind of poor and lived in a shoddy rental house. We were getting along just fine until I asked them what they wanted the wi-fi to be named. They looked at each other, one of them said "The hicks?" The other nodded and told me definitively, "Yeah, the hicks." I was like, "that's awesome. Embrace it, am I right?" They were noticeably less friendly for the rest of the time I was there, and I couldn't figure out why until on the drive home my wife finally told me. "Their last name is Hicks."

5points

Frozengeckolover 3 months ago

Haha!

2points

B Jones 4 months ago

If you would like to experience some 2nd hand embarrassment I'll tell you some of the things from my past......young teen, with my friend at his dad's country club for the brunch buffet. I have a plate loaded with bacon. I decided to do that maneuver where holding a plate from the bottom you rotate the plate in a full circle below your arm then above without it turning over. Hard to describe but some know. Anyway half way through my hand tilts and all the bacon spilled onto the carpet, my friend breaks out in loud laughter so if course everyone now looks over.

3points

B Jones 4 months ago

Don't ban me for this, While at work, and it was an open workspace some coworker had brought on fudge. We all have some and another coworker who is gay goes for more. So the one who brought the fudge is like "you're really packing the fudge away" and the office goes dead silent, except for m gay coworker who just starts cracking up, the we all started laughing. Except for the one that brought the fidge is like what? What's so funny? She had no clue. ( and yes it really happened)

5points

B Jones 4 months ago

Another is in P.E. class in highschool. We were doing or end of tem physical tests like sit-ups pushups etc .. well we're partnered off so we can count each other's sets. So it's my turn to do sit-ups and my partner is holding my feet and counting, about half way through... sit-up...toot... sit-up toot...I start to falter.gym teacher is like "keep going", so I do several more and fart each time...the guy holding my feet is making quite the face. I was embarrassed but laughing at the end because, well, farts are funny.

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B Jones 4 months ago

There was also the time we decided to play cards against humanity with my mom and some of her friends (I'm like 30 by then). I forget the question but my mom and the word queer. So of course we call her out trying to embarrass and go by the rule you have to know what it means or can't play it or whatever and she say no...so we tell her and then she comes back with "oh, so thays what it's called" and now my sister and i are embarrassed. Fun times.

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Nadine Debard 4 months ago

The worse second-hand embarrassment I felt was on a bus. There were children (8-10 yo) going on a field trip and there was this kind 9yo girl in a wheelchair. An obviously drunken man made comments about how it was so sad and couldn't she try and walk? I felt so sorry that I brought myself in and softly made him leave (remember he's drunk and maybe on drùgs), then I talked to her chaperone and told in front of the girl how the man was an @ss and how much it was a shocking behavior.

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somnomania (she/her, queer) 4 months ago

thank you for doing that, the girl probably got enough grief from her peers for being in a wheelchair

2points

Red_panda 4 months ago

When I was newly pregnant with my oldest (like found out the day before newly), we visited some cousins/aunts. I used their bathroom, as I had done many times prior. But somehow forgot they have a step out of their front door; and fell right on my butt. Surrounded by a bunch of women who just found out I was pregnant.

2points

Ionescu Popa 4 months ago

there are three main categories here: bad luck, karens and cruel, unforgiving audiences.

1point

jue dududu 4 months ago

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Mike F 4 months ago

September can't get here fast enough.

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BrunoVI 4 months ago

15points

Frozengeckolover 3 months ago

2points

SirWriteALot 4 months ago

I'm always embarrassed when they pick members from the audience and bring them up on the stage ... or when the circus clown is not funny

13points

ElfVibratorGlitter 4 months ago

Ohh! I stupidly sat in the first row at a standup comedy show. I was just fodder for every dumb joke. Was funny maybe the first time. After that I was just embarrassed.

9points

Frozengeckolover 3 months ago

2points

Bored Trash Panda 4 months ago

OMG this happened to me at a Lūʻau in Hawaii. I absolutely HATE having attention on me and they pulled me up on stage with a few other people from the crowd. I wanted to throw up.

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Liz 4 months ago

9points

Mike F 4 months ago

Apparently the answer was no.

3points

Rocket Surgeon 4 months ago

5points

Frozengeckolover 3 months ago

Haha!

2points

B Jones 4 months ago

3points

B Jones 4 months ago

5points

B Jones 4 months ago

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B Jones 4 months ago

1point

Nadine Debard 4 months ago

2points

somnomania (she/her, queer) 4 months ago

thank you for doing that, the girl probably got enough grief from her peers for being in a wheelchair

2points

Red_panda 4 months ago

2points

Ionescu Popa 4 months ago

there are three main categories here: bad luck, karens and cruel, unforgiving audiences.

1point

jue dududu 4 months ago

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Mike F 4 months ago

September can't get here fast enough.

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