MetaFilter posts tagged with embarrassment

Moby Dick? Middlemarch? Jane Eyre?

fiercecupcake — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:28:19 -0800

Humiliation: Which book are you most embarrassed to admit that you have never read? Several "respectable" authors answer the question at the Ways With Words festival. (single-link Telegraph post)

London mayor suspended

atticus — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:34:26 -0800

London's mayor suspended for four weeks for comparing a Jewish journalist to a concentration camp guard.

It Can't Taste THAT Bad

fenriq — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:39:07 -0800

Tons of British Food for Katrina Victims to be Incinerated (link to Mirror article)
More red ta pe embarrassment for the Katrina relief effort. This time, tons of food donated by the UK is set to be incinerated rather than delivered to hungry evacuees. The FDA recalled the food rations, which had been loaded onto trucks and sent out for distribution, because they had been "condemned as unfit for human consumption". Never mind the glaring fact that these are the same food rations being eaten by British soldiers in Iraq right now.

Star Wars Kid

malphigian — Fri, 02 May 2003 08:57:17 -0800

Step one: record an embarrassing video of yourself (WMV link). Step two: Let the video fall into the hands of the internet masses, and become the hero you've dreamed of(also WMV).