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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People Share Painful Tales of Their Worst Job Interviews
There’s no way around it: job interviews are usually challenging experiences that can lead to great embarrassment, total humiliation, excessive perspiration, and a whole lot of anxiety. When I interview for a job I sweat like it’s 100 degrees out and I’ve just run a marathon. I look like George Costanza after a few bites …
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A Load More Cringe Because People Never Stop Embarrassing Themselves
I dream the impossible dream that one day, we will never have to deal with the feeling of shame ever again. That when we are doing things that are just harmlessly embarrassing, we kill the part of us that cringes, not the part that is the cringe. We’ll be free to express ourselves as we …
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Cringeworthy Moments That Prove Cringe is Eternal
Nothing in this life is truly immortal. We all die eventually, and any legacy we leave inevitably fades over the passage of time. Even the most famous among us get resigned to history after a long enough period of time, but it’s a difficult thing for many of us to conceptualize. When we’re out here …
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Embarrassing People Who Should Log Off Immediately
We definitely don’t need to tell you that the internet is full of cringe. As hard as you might try to look away, as long as you are online, the cringe will follow you. We may not be able to force those embarrassing people who consistently flaunt their worst qualities online to log off, but at …
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