Desensitisation question...

[ShadownINja]

I was thinking... if you get into enough embarrassing situations, do you become less embarrassed? Could you push the limits of what it'd take for you to become embarrassed? Or would you still get the same flush-faced feeling?

[Loki660]

ShadownINja said:

I was thinking... if you get into enough embarrassing situations, do you become less embarrassed? Could you push the limits of what it'd take for you to become embarrassed? Or would you still get the same flush-faced feeling?

Why are you thinking of getting kinky in public?

[louiebaby]

[ShadownINja]

swerni said:

coming out the closest at last?

As the weather gets better, it is getting stuffy in here.

[Somewhatfoolish]

ShadownINja said:

I was thinking... if you get into enough embarrassing situations, do you become less embarrassed? Could you push the limits of what it'd take for you to become embarrassed? Or would you still get the same flush-faced feeling?

You can get desensitized to pretty much anything... that doesn't necessarily mean you won't still be very easily embarrassed by some other thing.

[Pesty]

Just getting older does it.

I find these days there are a lot of things that would have mortified me when younger I really don't give a st about now.

[DrTre]

Gripping too hard certainly desensit...right, yeah, embarrassing situations is what you were talking about...I see..yeah...

[clonmult]

swerni said:

coming out the closest at last?

Closest? Thats not something you come out of, is it???

[NDA]

clonmult said:

swerni said:

coming out the closest at last?

Closest? Thats not something you come out of, is it???

Depends how close you are.

[ShadownINja]

Somewhatfoolish said:

ShadownINja said:

I was thinking... if you get into enough embarrassing situations, do you become less embarrassed? Could you push the limits of what it'd take for you to become embarrassed? Or would you still get the same flush-faced feeling?

You can get desensitized to pretty much anything... that doesn't necessarily mean you won't still be very easily embarrassed by some other thing.

But is that really true? As per the example above, if you always pissed yourself when away from toilets for over an hour, would you get used to it?

[Cock Womble]

ShadownINja said:

I was thinking... if you get into enough embarrassing situations, do you become less embarrassed? Could you push the limits of what it'd take for you to become embarrassed? Or would you still get the same flush-faced feeling?

I think desensitising to embarrassment comes with age.

[13th]

Cock Womble said:

ShadownINja said:

I was thinking... if you get into enough embarrassing situations, do you become less embarrassed? Could you push the limits of what it'd take for you to become embarrassed? Or would you still get the same flush-faced feeling?

I think desensitising to embarrassment comes with age.

I agree. Things that would have made me want the ground to open up and swallow me, even just a year ago, I just no longer care about but that's because I've decided upon the people I really care about and whose opinion matters and no longer give a flying monkeys what the rest of the world thinks. I'll be polite to people as long as they are polite to me otherwise, don't care...........

[Cock Womble]

13th said:

Things that would have made me want the ground to open up and swallow me, even just a year ago, I just no longer care about

Same here.

A case in point; when I was with the ex a couple of years ago, she was a bugger for making her frustration known when we were in a shop queue and there were insufficient staff on hand to cope with the ever-growing queue.

"Oh brilliant" she'd say, "the busiest time of day and they've got one person on the till", in a slightly too loud voice. I wanted to run away and totally disassociate myself from her. I gave it the "calm down, darling, it's not their fault".

These days, in the same situation, I am at the "tutting" stage and may progress further.

Perhaps with a flame-thrower.

[13th]

Cock Womble said:

Perhaps with a flame-thrower.

Well it appears you threw that flame hahaha

No please don't humour me, remember I don't care

[GTIR]

As I get older the less red faced episodes I have.

However

I'm now sitting in Mcdonalds on my laptop and it's new so just going through my files and navigating around (its a Mac) to get used to it and I clicked on a video, I couldn't get it shut quick enough!

It was a phone video of an ex girlfriend, and for once she wasn't talking!

I was so red, couldn't look around for 10 mins just in case I was being glared at!

[Somewhatfoolish]

ShadownINja said:

Somewhatfoolish said:

ShadownINja said:

I was thinking... if you get into enough embarrassing situations, do you become less embarrassed? Could you push the limits of what it'd take for you to become embarrassed? Or would you still get the same flush-faced feeling?

You can get desensitized to pretty much anything... that doesn't necessarily mean you won't still be very easily embarrassed by some other thing.

But is that really true? As per the example above, if you always pissed yourself when away from toilets for over an hour, would you get used to it?

To a certain extent, definitely. In fact, having occasionally pissed myself due to excessive imbibing, after the first hundred yards or so you get used to the stares...

[ShadownINja]

GTIR said:

As I get older the less red faced episodes I have.

However

I'm now sitting in Mcdonalds on my laptop and it's new so just going through my files and navigating around (its a Mac) to get used to it and I clicked on a video, I couldn't get it shut quick enough!

It was a phone video of an ex girlfriend, and for once she wasn't talking!

I was so red, couldn't look around for 10 mins just in case I was being glared at!

Do it again. And again. Now do it again, turn round and see who's looking. And again. Do you feel less embarrassed with each go?

Edited by ShadownINja on Wednesday 7th April 18:10

[ShadownINja]

Somewhatfoolish said:

ShadownINja said:

Somewhatfoolish said:

ShadownINja said:

I was thinking... if you get into enough embarrassing situations, do you become less embarrassed? Could you push the limits of what it'd take for you to become embarrassed? Or would you still get the same flush-faced feeling?

You can get desensitized to pretty much anything... that doesn't necessarily mean you won't still be very easily embarrassed by some other thing.

But is that really true? As per the example above, if you always pissed yourself when away from toilets for over an hour, would you get used to it?

To a certain extent, definitely. In fact, having occasionally pissed myself due to excessive imbibing, after the first hundred yards or so you get used to the stares...

Ah, I guess that's similar.

[Lord Flathead]

Loki660 said:

ShadownINja said:

I was thinking... if you get into enough embarrassing situations, do you become less embarrassed? Could you push the limits of what it'd take for you to become embarrassed? Or would you still get the same flush-faced feeling?

Why are you thinking of getting kinky in public?

I think he might object

[ShadownINja]

The reason for this thread is not so bad as the above examples. I mean, I wouldn't be seen dead with a Macbook in McDonalds, ffs.

Sometimes, I'm waiting in a queue in Tesco or at a bus stop (SW London so not some cheery village where everyone knows everybody else) and there's a stranger standing next to me for 10 minutes... I just wonder if I should strike up a conversation or not.