The day that people stop being idiots is the day that we stop being human. The day that we all stop being idiots for attention is the day that hell freezes over. In the meantime, we are left with ample opportunity to embarrass ourselves in front of others — and boy, do we take every …
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Facepalm-Filled Moments From the Stupidest Side of Humanity
I often wonder if social media is making people stupider or if it’s just exposing the stupidity that was there all along. I’m inclined to believe the latter is true, but one thing is for sure—Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram aren’t raising any IQs. And this isn’t to say that I’m better than anyone else. On …
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A Healthy Helping of Heinously Cringeworthy Moments
All of us embarrass ourselves sometimes. Even if we think we’re the coolest person in the world, we can make slipups that there are no coming back from. Even worse, there’s probably a load of times where we have managed to make a fool or ourselves without realizing at all. As if that wasn’t enough, …
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A Cringeworthy Closet Packed With Undeniable Cringe
Being weird, uncomfortable, embarrassing: in this age of engagement bait and attention seeking, these things come as naturally to some people as breathing. While our natural urge might be to recoil at these kinds of behaviors, they’re also a normal part of being human. This is even more true in the times we live in …
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Cringey Subway Performance Sparks Roasts and Ridicule
The New York City subway may seem like a luxurious convenience to residents of cities with a lack of public transportation, but the convenience is nearly outweighed by the unpleasantries that come with it. There are constant signal malfunctions and delays that make a person perpetually late to their destination. Then there are the rats …
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Wedding Guest Gets Judged for Accidentally Cutting Wedding Cake Before Bride and Groom
The rules of being a standard wedding guest are pretty simple. The brief is not much more than turning up on time, being nice, and getting something from the gift list. However, there are plenty of factors that can contribute to screwing this up. From long held resentments to one too many glasses of wine, …
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An All-Consuming Collection of Cringe
Embarrassment is never fun, but it serves an important function for us. We’ve got to have some kind of system to figure out how to do what is best for us, and cringing at other people can help show us the way sometimes. While arguably, we know better than to do many of the things …
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A Platter of the Finest Squirm-Worthy Cringe
The great paradox of all cringeworthy things is that the more that we hate them, the harder it is to stop looking. The spectacle that comes with the public embarrassment of others seems to flick some kind of switch in our heads that means we can’t help but turn around and look. In this hopelessly …
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Awful Cringe That Really Sucks
Some people need to be sat down and talked to. They are far past the point of «are you OK?» and veer dangerously into «please, just stop doing this» territory. There are as many reasons for us to do embarrassing things as there are stars in the sky, and that’s probably why many produce such …
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An Embarrasment of Cringe That Refuses to Stop Cringing
In the society we all live in today, humiliation is just as inevitable as something like death or taxes. Cringe comes for us all at one point or another, no matter how savvy we like to think that we are at spotting it. As an inescapable part of being a person, many of both fear …
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