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« on: January 20, 2012, 05:41:07 AM » |
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Things That Make You Cringe
I just finished watching "About a Boy."
I've seen it before, and I enjoyed it.
Hugh Grant seems to make some Englishmen cringe.
I'm OK with Hugh most of the time.
The film Australia had a pretty high cringe value for me, what's with putting the countries name on a film, shouldn't we have all seen it first and had the chance to withhold our name? Hugh and Nicole are normally cool.
My dictionary didn't really agree with concept of cringe "Draw back, as with fear or pain." There's a drawing back but its not pain of the normal sort. There's possibly some embarrassment, certainly discomfort is involved.
If you don't have an association with some thing you can turn away, but if a silly stereotype of a group you belong to is portrayed a cringe may be in store. But then some comic actors I don't share anything with besides an ape ancestry can make me cringe, Jerry Lewis used to do it.
What makes you cringe?
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« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2012, 05:44:11 AM » |
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Creationists and YECs in particular. Sorry! (TV series) |
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« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2012, 05:47:14 AM » |
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Severed limbs and needles. Tried giving blood once and ended up passing out before they even stuck me. XD
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« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2012, 06:06:53 AM » |
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People eating with their mouths open.
Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Michele Bachman, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin...
Bad coffee
Text language, jst cuz
snapping gum
Total obvious stupidity.
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« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2012, 07:53:54 AM » |
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People who think themselves the ultra warriors but actually have no idea about how imbecilic they look. I feel a mix of feeling embarrassed for them, eye rolling and cringing.
This old woman I know's fingers. There's just something odd about them.
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« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2012, 11:53:56 AM » |
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Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Nancy Grace, Jim Cramer, People who won't shutup and never say anything funny, Baptists, People who question the bible until you tell them they have to believe every word then they all of a sudden believe every word, Tim Tebow, anything from Detroit, and chocolate covered insects.
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« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2012, 02:17:43 PM » |
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People having their heads up their asses without even knowing it... And jealous significant others. I do have a big fucking problem with those. There is more, but nothing really makes me cringe noticeably unless it involves someone inflicting some REAL pain on someone else and me watching it for fun. Those cringes then are of glee, not repulsion, symbolising "Ooh, your ass got OWNED!" Yes.  |
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« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2012, 02:36:29 PM » |
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Reality TV shows
That guy who played Borat
Celebrities and politicians apologizing incessently (some things require an apology, but rarely get a real one; other things get 10 apologies in as many minutes and didn't even need one)
The Republican party's slide into the lunatic fringe
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« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2012, 05:00:17 PM » |
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Forum sycophancy
My own dancing and song lyrics
Lady Gaga
Louis Walsh
George Bush
Boris Johnson
Conan films
False modesty
Public drunks
People who don't drink "because they don't need it to have a good time"....Urgh.
Americans
Wingeing footballers
Rap music
fat kids
other peoples children
English weather
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« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2012, 05:43:10 PM » |
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Scooby doo cop shows
The excessive use of apostrophes
The word "swag"
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« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2012, 06:03:06 PM » |
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Xenophobia
Superiority Complexes
Nationalism
Stereotypes
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« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2012, 06:40:53 PM » |
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« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2012, 06:41:28 PM » |
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basically any grammar mistake
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« Reply #13 on: January 21, 2012, 08:28:58 PM » |
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Lots of things annoy me, but one of the few things that will make my physically cringe is watching movies or TV where people get their faces injured. Seeing someone stabbed or shot in the gut is unpleasant, but something about watching someone get stabbed in the eye or burned on their face squicks me out big time in a way that other injuries don't.
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« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2012, 09:13:38 PM » |
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The word "swag"
Oh dear, so you don't like jolly swagmen? Are you OK with billabongs? That's where bunyips live. Coolabah trees, I've heard some Americans object to eucalypts. But an English person should be OK with a billy of tea, if it's done right. |
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