# Things That Are Embarrassing To Share...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 9, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265 "2015-02-09T23:08:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/21 "2015-02-10T15:14:28Z")
> [@Inna\_Minnit](#):
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> Which brings up an oft asked question… Perhaps it needs a poll. Do you (men) actually use the flap in front?
Flap? What flap? There’s a fly, just like any other men’s underwear.
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### Author:  [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/22 "2015-02-10T15:31:33Z")
> [@kopek](#):
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> Wear your underwear on the outside of your clothes all day and then you got something to :eek: over!
I assume you know this from personal experience, right?
🙂
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### Author:  [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2015, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/23 "2015-02-10T15:33:27Z")
> [@Inna\_Minnit](#):
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> Which brings up an oft asked question… Perhaps it needs a poll. Do you (men) actually use the flap in front?
Not me. Too much trouble to do so. That’s why I didn’t notice until the end of the day.
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### Author:  [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2015, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/24 "2015-02-10T15:37:19Z")
> [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](#):
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> Uh, I do this occasionally. And does it suck to go for the first slash of the work day only to find out yer gotchies are on backward.
I learned two (2 I tells ya!) words today.
Slash (as in I assume for take leak), and gotchies.
I consider myself educated now. Somewhat. 😃
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/25 "2015-02-10T15:59:52Z")
This happened many years ago, but still embarrassing, so I’ll share. One day I had worn this sort of fleece pullover kind of shirt to work, with pockets in the sides. At some point during the day I was standing there talking to a female coworker and had my hands in the pockets when I felt a small lump. I reached up under my shirt to pull it out, thinking it was a dryer sheet that had gotten lost in there when doing laundry. Nope, it was a pair of my wife’s undies!
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/26 "2015-02-10T16:34:25Z")
Embarrassing thing to share: I passed 30 people driving in the past week with their fingers dug so far up their nose, it looking like they were either picking their ears or rooting around for brains!
I have a dashcam & am Very tempted to post pictures (and possibly plate numbers). They were the full spectrum, from young pretty girls to heavyset knuckle-draggers to old men in Mercedes. Seriously, wtf? 😃
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/27 "2015-02-10T17:02:59Z")
> [@Inna\_Minnit](#):
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> Which brings up an oft asked question… Perhaps it needs a poll. Do you (men) actually use the flap in front?
Back when I was playing in a brass quintet and the uniform of the day was a tux with a cummerbund, yes. Too many clasps & closures & garments to get out of the way to do it any other way.
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### Author:  [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2015, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/28 "2015-02-10T18:30:38Z")
I voted for Reagan in '84.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/29 "2015-02-10T22:54:18Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> Just remembered another one. Bear in mind that I was \*very \*naive way back then - I had no idea how sheltered I’d been.
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> When I was in the Navy, I was talking with a guy in one of my classes about bootcamp experiences. He told me about the time he was caught by his company commander choking the chicken in the CC’s office. I asked him how he got a chicken in bootcamp. He stared at me a bit before informing me that boys were born with them.
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> I probably blushed real good…
Hee. Speaking of naive, my friend knew of the term blowjob so when she was down there the first time, she blew on the guy’s penis like you’d blow on hot food.
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### Author:  [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/30 "2015-02-10T23:38:46Z")
Not too embarrassing, but I pronounced Hermione’s name as “her me own” for the entire Harry Potter book series
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/31 "2015-02-11T04:28:42Z")
> [@BaldDude](#):
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> Not too embarrassing, but I pronounced Hermione’s name as “her me own” for the entire Harry Potter book series
That is the epi tome of embarrassing. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/32 "2015-02-11T09:10:09Z")
Okay, this is embarrassing: How _do_ you pronounce Hermione?
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### Author:  [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/33 "2015-02-11T10:28:56Z")
My wife and I had done a short romantic getaway the previous weekend and I had carried just my backpack with a few essentials. The next week I was back at work in a big meeting around the boardroom table. I was fumbling in the same backpack for a pen or something, and out fell… a condom…
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/34 "2015-02-11T12:02:10Z")
> [@Orville\_mogul](#):
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> I was fumbling in the same backpack for a pen or something, and out fell… a condom…
_BEEP_ Hazmat Level 3 Emergency _BEEP_
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/35 "2015-02-11T12:46:37Z")
Q: …was it a ‘Safety’ meeting? 😃
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/36 "2015-02-11T12:51:50Z")
> [@Orville\_mogul](#):
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> and out fell… a condom…
Still in its package, I would hope. Had it been a used one, \*that \*would have been more disgusting than embarrassing… :eek:
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/37 "2015-02-11T13:42:18Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> Still in its package, I would hope. Had it been a used one, \*that \*would have been more disgusting than embarrassing… :eek:
He re-uses. Its how he saved enough to be a Mogul. (j/k) 😃
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/38 "2015-02-11T13:45:45Z")
> [@Senegoid](#):
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> Okay, this is embarrassing: How _do_ you pronounce Hermione?
her-MY-oh-nee. AKA how they pronounce it in the movies…
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### Author:  [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/39 "2015-02-11T14:28:22Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#):
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> Embarrassing thing to share: I passed 30 people driving in the past week with their fingers dug so far up their nose, it looking like they were either picking their ears or rooting around for brains!
When I was very little my parents told me that I could pick my nose all I wanted in the privacy of the bathroom or my own bedroom but never where anybody else could see because nobody wants to see that shit.
My contribution to the thread: I had a UTI once and peed my pants at work. I was in my 20’s.
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### Author:  [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/40 "2015-02-11T22:48:45Z")
Heh. I should have started this thread last week, the day I realized (just as I was about to go home from work) that I’d been wearing mismatched shoes all day. No, not mismatched socks–mismatched shoes.
Not a subtle mismatch, either; the only thing they had in common was they were both black, and both New Balance brand. One was a standard low-quarter black walking shoe, mostly smooth leather; the other was more of a lightweight hiking boot with a mesh upper, red trim and gray laces.
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