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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Everything.

I live in Morocco yet I have immense trouble fitting in with Moroccan society. I don't like the customs, most of the food is pretty mid, our music scene is hot garbage, I'm literally queer (just saying that in front of everyone could get me in prison), everyone is obsessed with football and I'm sick of it, I could go on.

I don't know if I'm just a rare and strange breed, or if it's simply a case of "nationality dysphoria", but I think literally existing in a space like this is embarrassing enough to give me conspiracies to leave. Problem is, there is Moroccan diaspora everywhere, especially in the country I'm interested in (which is Belgium, I just love how wild they are), and locals are sick of us, not to mention... visas, motherf***er. I am basically trapped here, in constant threat of weird looks at best, and literal death at worst. Yeah, this is indeed the most embarrassing thing about me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When I get crazy stressed at work I sometimes flip the fuck out. I scream and curse things like motherfucking cocksucker piece of shit where people can hear me. I'm a contractor so those people don't know me or are just there at the place I'm working on. Occasionally I break shit when I get this fucked up.

I just came off two forced 80 hour work weeks no days off so it was pretty bad. I'm off now. I'm at peace.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

There’s a certain high in that lashing out that’s tough to let go of. I feel you.

I wish that I could explain how I came to handle that stuff better, truth is I haven’t a clue. I just knew I’d come too far to risk losing what I have over anger of all things.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm 6'3" and look like I'd rip someone's throat out for coughing wrong.

I cry really easily when in conflict 😅

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

No shade, that’s cool. IDGAF what you look like once I know you, and that you are in tune with the emotion of the situation.

Paraphrasing a folk singer I respect here, but “I used to cry when needed, I can’t cry for the life of me anymore as an adult.”

Tears communicate that either I’ve fucked up, or there’s something I legit misunderstood, and I need to take a step back.

In some ways, I envy your ability to do that. Professional me doesn’t scree around, personal me rather wishes I could cry it out once in a while.

I’ve spent a lifetime fixing my inclination to escalate at the first sign of conflict, and…. It’s been brutal. I’m thrilled to mostly be gentle these days, but it still requires work.

You never gave into the BS.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Being in a bad relationship because of money. Noooooooobody understands.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"Why don't you just leave?"

I don't know, because I don't have any fucking money or help or anywhere to go, and he'd torture me to the ends of the earth if I did?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That’s a bullshit question, and distance can help with the stalking.

M here, carefully manipulated by an F abuser, so I understand at least some of it. Not your lived exp of course, but no one is immune.

The only women who should be hit are the women who actively consent to it, and the language surrounding it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

I have 3 testicles, but 0 boyfriends

😔

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe TMI but hygiene. When I'm too sad to clean up then obviously I don't do it, but when I'm doing really good I get so caught up in my work that I forget to clean up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Ahh the old depression adhd combo, a classic

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

My parents.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

The only thing that I find genuinely embarrassing about myself is NSFW related, and this isn't an anon account, so, yeah. Big one, though.

Other than that, I've just done a lot of particularly embarrassing things that I remember in my sleep that everyone else has probably forgotten about by now. I was immature for a long time. It's normal.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I met my wife because I was flirting with this woman and then she left and my wife showed up and in my drunken state I thought she was the same girl I was talking to before so rizz was exceptional and I ended up keeping her after that night.

10 years later we got married last year! Woo! Embarrassment!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I met my wife because she actively lied on the internet about a thing that was important, but the die was cast.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

What did she lie about?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm too embarrassed to tell you. I'll give you a freebie, though: I bought Mega Man X7 for the PlayStation 2. Unironically. On purpose. Having enjoyed the previous Mega Man X games, I didn't think for a second it would be bad.

It was bad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

It was bad.

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I'd totally get in Austin power's Shaguar.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You know that scene with the guy on the castle wall in Monty Python and the Holy Grail that farts in your general direction?
Yeah, I giggled.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

A fellow man of culture

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Aside from relationship surprises and having the full Bruce Lee package, the first one that comes to mind is my mum wanted to reuse my grandpa's unisex name and named me after him despite the gender difference. Despite him being my favorite family member, it feels awkward whenever I'm at gatherings.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Haha. The Honeymooners nose is funny as fuck and as as a fellow ace is can't imagine how annoying it must be. The universe truly plays mean pranks at times

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Not embarrassing, weird maybe?

I secretly enjoy weird combination of foods (sometimes too exotic)

  • milkshake and broccoli (or any veggie)

  • watermelon and salt

  • tortillas with papaya and whole lot of chilly pepper

I could go on..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Are you alternating? Or combining?

Watermelon and salt sounds perfectly sane to me because chemistry.

Tortillas, fruit, and chili doesn’t make sense to me, but I’ve appropriated a ton of foods that “just work” to me so…. I get it nonetheless.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

watermelon and salt is one of those things that sounds strange in theory, then you try it and you regret that you could ever think that way

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

This is not even uncommon. Watermelon with chamoy powder is essentially the same but with some spice added.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Honestly based. Once I have eaten a choco rolls with green onions as a breakfast in HS. Milkshake and broccoli doesn't sound that bad tbh.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

milkshake and broccoli (or any veggie)

this one actually disgusted me

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I'm happy for you :)

How did you come to like that? When was the first time you tried it?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I've never learnt to dance

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The life I live is not aligned with my principles.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

God damn, I though were being light hearted here. Now I got to go find a dark corner of shame.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

I was desperate enough to have sex with your mother.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

And I comment and upvote on Lemmy! Nothing to be ashamed of.

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