Cringe!Chickenlady winces, "I told a Hugh Grant/Divine Brown joke to my dad, pretending that Ms Brown was chewing gum so she'd be more American. Instead I just appeared to be still giving the blow-job. Even as I'm writing this I'm cringing inside."
Tell us your cringeworthy stories of embarrassment. Go on, you're amongst friends here...
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chthonic, Thu 27 Nov 2008, 18:58)
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JAFFA CAKESSomeone close to me works in a field where she has to often chair or present to very large meetings.
Often there are people with disabilities present which is fine and how it should be but one such event saw a guy with severe physical disabilities put his hand up during the Q&A. Obviously he had to be taken. His words were exceptionally hard to make out - and his questions I am genuinely assured sounded like "Jaffa Cakes Jaffa Cakes Jaffa Cakes" to our herone.
She politely asked him to say it again but still all she could make out was what seemed like a request for more chocolate spongy delights filled with orange tangy jelly.
At a loss to answer the no doubt perfectly apposite and insightful question she turned to look for help from the person's carer on the assumption that the carer would be used to the speech impediment. The carer shook his head very slightly at her look of query and looked away to avoid being brought into the awkward situation. Slowly the horror of her plight dawned on our presenter - she was entirely on her own in front of a 200 strong audience who together collectively were desperate to see how she would respond to the question without offending anyone.
A moments pause then she spoke
"Thank you, for making an important and often forgotten point. I agree housing retention for vulnerable adults is an area of concern. The demographic is one which should cause us to consider various factors." And so on.
She cringes about this even today but it was probably the only thing to do - and after all no one could be really sure he wasn't asking about housing policy for adults at risk.
And if he was only asking for a Jaffa Cake well the tea break was immediately after the session and he wouldn't have long to wait.
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JAFFA CAKESJaffa cakes; jaffa cakes, jaffa cakes.
For some reason this is the funniest thing in the world to me.
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Grokthought wouldn't pay that for Chinese 5-Spice, Mon 1 Dec 2008, 9:15,
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lol, that must've taken alot of bottlejaffacake,jaffacake
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Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Mon 1 Dec 2008, 9:41,
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