Most embarrassing thing you've done in public

[Lord Vhazen]

I grew up in California, but I'm Danish by descent. My parents are Danish as well and were raised in Denmark, so they tend to default to Danish when speaking. I spoke both languages while I was a kid, but for a long time, I was fluent in neither and as a result, misunderstandings could occur quite easily. One in particular amuses me, though it doesn't really embarrass me that much.

I think I would have been around 7 or 8 when this happened, attending elementary school. There was this girl I knew, called Olivia. I had met her in pre-school, so even though we weren't in the same class, we knew each other well enough to speak casual conversation. One day, it ends up being that she and I are walking the same way home from school (normally not the case). Conversation starts and somehow, she pulls out the line "You know I have a crush on you, right?"

I didn't know what a crush was. So I tried to fill in the blank. I figured, crush means to destroy or harm, therefore she must be trying to say she can crush me, implying she's stronger than me. So, my reply was: "Well, I'm pretty strong."

I don't think that's quite what she wanted to hear.

So if you ever think you're oblivious to other people's advances, just remember that I once practically challenged a girl to a fight because she said she had a crush on me. The best part is that I didn't realize this until I was about 21, where I suddenly remembered it and realized how badly I had misunderstood what she was talking about.

"I have a crush on you">>>"I want to smash you"
Sounds about right to be totally honest.

[Lord Vhazen]

Sorry for the double post, I'm trying to figure out how to delete this one....


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Okay am I being stupid? I can't for the life of me figure out how to delete this comment. The edit button is titled "Edit/Delete Comment" but I can't figure out how to actually delete an accidental post...do I need an admin to help?

Edit: "If you accidentally multiple post, edit your posts to make this clear so a moderator can merge or delete them." - OWF Rules.... Okay so please mr moderator help me k thnx bye you can punish me as hard as you want i sorri

17th edit: I wish I were dead :u

[Nate]

I'm just going to leave Lord Vhazen's post there so he's got something else to post about.

Oddey: Have you ever seen her again since you realised the mistake?

Oddey's post reminded me of a story that definitely wasn't the most embarrassing moment, but it's the first to come to mind. I was in the staff room at university, chatting to another postgrad student. He had a strong Russian accent and I'd had to ask him several times to repeat himself. I felt bad about that, so when I asked him how his work was going and he mumbled something like 'next few months', I made a few assumptions and replied cheerfully 'Oh, that's good!' He gave me a super dirty look and to this day I wonder what horrible thing I was actually replying to.

[Lord Vhazen]

I'm just going to leave Lord Vhazen's post there so he's got something else to post about.

That Russian guy saw through your soul that day.

[Alf Shall Rise]

Pissed myself once while in a supermarket.

[Oddey]

Oddey: Have you ever seen her again since you realised the mistake?

Not since I realized it, no. To my knowledge, she still lives in the US and I moved when I was 12. Why do you ask?

Incidentally, I can relate all too well to Russian friends being difficult to understand. More than once, I've had to play the role of interpreter with a guy called Vlad, because of heavy his accent is and how convoluted his formulations can be. At one point he was asking "vhere de elfs dey are come from?" What he wanted to know was what part of the world folklore about elves originated, but everyone continued to answer forests.

[Crashpunk]

Done the classic walk into a lampost. Twice in a few days.

It was the same lampost.

[Lord Vhazen]

Done the classic walk into a lampost. Twice in a few days.

It was the same lampost.

I broke my glasses doing that once.

[Nate]

Not since I realized it, no. To my knowledge, she still lives in the US and I moved when I was 12. Why do you ask?

Just curious about how it would have played out.

Today at work a co-worker pointed out that I was doing something in a horribly inefficient way, such that with his advice I was able to make one method in my code go from taking 10 minutes to run to less than a second. That was pretty embarrassing.

[Nepsotic]

once right i walked to my sister's and when I got there I realised id had a massive nose bleed

shit was crazy

[Lord Vhazen]

This one time I walked in on my sister and I had a massive nose bleed

shit was crazy

What I read

[RoryF]

was there any sausage involved or nah?

[Nepsotic]

i had some sausages when I got there actually

[Slog Bait]

Oho, I bet you did you sly dog

[Gunnr]

I got walked in on by my roomates brother after a shower( the door lock didn't work right). Still. Dude should learn to knock, rude ):\

[Munch is now!]

cuz you ain't hot

[Lord Vhazen]

cuz you ain't hot

Congratulations on your first post.

[Gunnr]

Congratulations on your first post.

I guess I've been buurned?

Congrats on your 3RD post

[Lord Vhazen]

I guess I've been buurned?

Congrats on your 3RD post

Whose third post? When I said that, the forums literally said that was his first post ever. Now he's got 2.

Edit: By the odds! There is a few minutes of delay! He's multiplying!

[Gunnr]

Whose third post? When I said that, the forums literally said that was his first post ever. Now he's got 2.

Edit: By the odds! There is a few minutes of delay! He's multiplying!

Yes was his 3rd post but how about you stay on topic in your own thread and talk about something embarassing lol

[Lord Vhazen]

Yes was his 3rd post but why we argue? Stay on topic in your own thread and talk about something embarassing lol

Yeah Nate's probably waiting for a reason to lock this thread, so I guess I'll tell you guys another story while I'm thinking of it. Although, upon closer inspection it looks like this kid's gonna be the one to get banned first.

It's another super market thing, oddly enough.... A few years ago I was with my mom and we eventually separated because I was starving and I wanted to go grab something from the deli to eat immediately when we got home. I was like 19 or so, and when I went back to the checkout to look for our cart I got a bit confused because I couldn't see which line she must have pulled up to. So there I was, a gullible and confused looking fat man holding a box of chicken nuggets and fries, starring blankly at the checkout lines. Naturally, an employee walked up to me and started trying to guide me like I was mentally handicapped.

She seemed to honestly think I was retarded, but she wasn't being mean or anything. She was talking in a soft voice like I was a fuckin' 4 year old like "Are you ready to go home?" and started guiding me. I explained I was just looking for someone, and she understood - but I was a bit confused why she was talking to me like that. Then it hit me after a minute or two. I looked like a lost child.

[Gunnr]

Oh wait I remember another one.

So the person I was dating and I were at my house watching a movie when I dozed off on the couch. Then I farted so loud it woke me up to find my date was rofl about it

A truly embarrassing moment in my younger life xp

[Sybil Ant]

A guy I was friends with asked me out in a Pret and started crying loudly when I said no.

[moxco]

Last year some time I was at Hungry Jack's and after being handed my order I stepped backwards... right onto some poor woman's foot. She said she was fine yet was obviously in pain. She's likely forgotten about the incident entirely, whereas I can't help but keep replaying the event in my mind.

Today at work a co-worker pointed out that I was doing something in a horribly inefficient way, such that with his advice I was able to make one method in my code go from taking 10 minutes to run to less than a second. That was pretty embarrassing.

You should (break your NDA) and show us the code, we can see who here can get the best time complexity.

[Nate]

You should (break your NDA) and show us the code, we can see who here can get the best time complexity.

Okay, here goes (for one part of it, at least):

def findCentroid(docMatrix):
    valArrayTransposed = getArray(docMatrix).transpose()
    return asarray([mean(row) for row in valArrayTransposed]

vs

def findCentroid(docMatrix):
    return docMatrix.sum(axis=0)/docMatrix.shape[0]

As you can see, it's less to do with algorithmic complexity and more to do with understanding how scipy matrixes operate.

[Varrok]

I bet you have stories that are more embarassing than this one.

[Vexen]

once right i walked to my sister's and when I got there I realised id had a massive nose bleed

shit was crazy

What about subway?

[Lord Vhazen]

What about subway?

Bleed Fresh?