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[–] 33 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

What if you actually can distinctly remember other people's embarassing moments?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    I still clearly remember others' embarrassing, cringey moments from my high school years, and I'm in my 40s now. I shudder thinking about who still remembers the embarrassing things I said/did way back in my childhood.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Sonder - the profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.

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    Or Main Character Syndrome, which is the other side of things. The default is somewhere in the middle, varying with the individual. It's probably harder to not see yourself as central most of the time (but not necessarily Main Character), simply because of being trapped in that viewpoint.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I knew a guy who got caught masturbating in his car in a public parking lot

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  • There was a kid in middle school same year as me. Can't remember his real name. He got caught paddling the school canoe in the little boys room. Like three times. Everyone called him "Sticky" after that. He dropped out, tried to convince his family to move. His brother was cool tho.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I feel 3rd party embarassement (I am embarassed seeing someone else do something cringey) more than 1st party (feeling embarassed by my own cringe) so I know this ain't true. I think about how embarassing YOU are all the time.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    As a child, told my mom I'd didn't like Laverne and Shirley because I was embarrassed for them, for their antics. Apparently I had loads of empathy, then and now. Doesn't mean I haven't done evil shit! The evil shit is what makes me feel awful. I can hadle being embarrassed. All I can do is try to put more good in the world than evil.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    As you get older, something else happens. The people that were present at that cringy moment of yours die off. You may find yourself the only living person witness to the event. It helps. Not as much as it should but it does help.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.

    About the only embarrassing moments I can recall of other people's actions, they didn't know, at the time, that they should have been embarrassed.

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  • I definitely have some other people's cringe moments living rent free in my mind for years

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I fucking do. Now what?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I like turtles.
    I can accept that now.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This meme is definitely not true.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Donald Trump pooped his pants on live TV and drag remembered

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