The Shame Thread.

[LMNO]

I flirt too much. Even if I mean nothing by it.

Wait, that's shameful?

[Doktor Howl]

I AM A JANITOR. 

A JANITOR

Where's the shame in that?

[LMNO]

This is turning into the First World Problems thread, isn't it?

[Freeky]

True shame:

I AM NOT ASHAMED TO FART IN PUBLIC.

[Suu]

I flirt too much. Even if I mean nothing by it.

Wait, that's shameful?

Oh wait, nevermind. I'm not married to Herbert anymore.


...So uh...how YOU doin'?

[Richter]

I flirt too much. Even if I mean nothing by it.

Wait, that's shameful?

It's a somewhere between a form of flattery and a sport, IMHO.  Just like all gladiator fights weren't necessarily to the death, all flirting doesn't necessarily mean explicit intent.

[Jasper]

I AM A JANITOR. 

A JANITOR

Where's the shame in that?

Clearly, I am meant for Better Things^TM.  I have dreams, dammit.   

Ok, it really ain't that bad.  At least I have a reason not to sleep in every damn day now.  That was getting out of hand.

[NWC]

I don't drink so much, but if I go to the store to buy some beer, I always have to buy something with it, otherwise I feel people will judge me as an alcoholic. I often end of buying many small things, pasta, rice, milk, ect., to make it look like my beer was an afterthought.

[NWC]

WHEN I WAS 12 I PEED MY PANTS IN CLASS CAUSE I DIDNT WANT TO GO TO THE TOILET AND DIDNT WANT TO MISS CLASS

same thing except younger and poop

[LMNO]

I don't drink so much, but if I go to the store to buy some beer, I always have to buy something with it, otherwise I feel people will judge me as an alcoholic. I often end of buying many small things, pasta, rice, milk, ect., to make it look like my beer was an afterthought.

ok, yeah. That's shameful.

[Triple Zero]

I don't drink so much, but if I go to the store to buy some beer, I always have to buy something with it, otherwise I feel people will judge me as an alcoholic. I often end of buying many small things, pasta, rice, milk, ect., to make it look like my beer was an afterthought.

But you live in Belgium. Over here, everybody (just about everybody) feels they need to make up an excuse if they want a drink before 18h. Like "oh, it's 16h now, and we're at a sort of party right, so yeah I think I can start on a beer now, hm?".

It's one of the things foreign people are taught when they get inburgeringscursus ("dutch culture class", sort of), along with such social oddities as how to properly congratulate your neighbour on having a baby (I think you are supposed to drop them a card, cause just ringing them up might be stressfull to the new mother or so--I forget, I'm not that well burgered myself) ("burger" is Dutch for citizen btw).

A liquid lunch in a public place like LMNO does sometimes would probably get you looks, here. Unless maybe you're a construction worker or so, but even then.

[NWC]

Yeah I know it's not so weird, but I still feel self-conscious. I live here but I didn't grow up here, it still feels weird that my girlfriend's parents always offer me a beer with dinner, and ask if I want another afterward(to which I always answer no).

Btw I love that the Dutch word for citizen is burger, I was in Ghent recently with some friends who taught me that after I saw a sign that said weltburger, and had a bunch of pictures of people, which I said must have been an advertisement for a cannibal restaurant.

[Jasper]

I don't drink so much, but if I go to the store to buy some beer, I always have to buy something with it, otherwise I feel people will judge me as an alcoholic. I often end of buying many small things, pasta, rice, milk, ect., to make it look like my beer was an afterthought.

But you live in Belgium. Over here, everybody (just about everybody) feels they need to make up an excuse if they want a drink before 18h. Like "oh, it's 16h now, and we're at a sort of party right, so yeah I think I can start on a beer now, hm?".

It's one of the things foreign people are taught when they get inburgeringscursus ("dutch culture class", sort of), along with such social oddities as how to properly congratulate your neighbour on having a baby (I think you are supposed to drop them a card, cause just ringing them up might be stressfull to the new mother or so--I forget, I'm not that well burgered myself) ("burger" is Dutch for citizen btw).

A liquid lunch in a public place like LMNO does sometimes would probably get you looks, here. Unless maybe you're a construction worker or so, but even then.

Bugger that.  I prefer the convention in Key West.  Their motto is:  It's five o'clock somewhere, right?  I'll have a beer.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't drink so much, but if I go to the store to buy some beer, I always have to buy something with it, otherwise I feel people will judge me as an alcoholic. I often end of buying many small things, pasta, rice, milk, ect., to make it look like my beer was an afterthought.

No shit

there is one store that I pretty much only go to for beer or wine, it never occurs to me to buy anything else with it. Of course, in Portland it is culturally appropriate to have beer for breakfast, so...

[Elder Iptuous]

I JUST TOOK DOWN MY CHRISTMAS LIGHTS!!!!