Embrace the cringe

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21 Comments

Rooskie91@discuss.online · 59 pts · 1y

"Sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something"

Jake the Dog, Adventure Time

TabbsTheBat@pawb.social · 45 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I love being cringe :3

spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y (3 replies)

That's pretty cool of you!

TabbsTheBat@pawb.social · 18 pts · 1y (2 replies)

😎

Fr tho, I'd rather be cringe and myself than surround myself with people who wouldn't like the real me :3

AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I find it amusing that this is like the epitome of cool. This means that if a person's goal was to become cool, their surest path there would be to forsake their quest of coolness and learn how to be unabashedly themselves

Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y

I think it's only cringe though, when you try being something/someone you are not. Just "trying" something isn't cringe in itself.

If I went to a skate park and tried to learn the skateboard I would definitely suck but it wouldn't be cringe, imagine a middle aged man with knee protection falling on his ass.

It would be cringe if I went there all dressed up in the latest skate fashion trying to blend in with the cool kids, throwing some skate jargon around.

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y (4 replies)

In order to be cool you first have to be cringe.

lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Then explain Elon.

SpraynardKruger@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 1y

His version looks more like this.

kamenlady@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

He's a void

sunbytes@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

First you get the ideas, then you get the cringe, then you get the cool vase.

-- me

Comtief@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y

cringe makes the vase gold?

Maeve@kbin.earth · 9 pts · 1y

It's true.

Matriks404@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Give me 3 beers and I won't be cringe.

RQG@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

No. Be cringe. Embrace the cringe. Become the cringe.

Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

My kids all call me cringe.

I don’t care because their behaviour is all round awesome.

Means I’m getting parenting results baby!

P1k1e@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)

If cool is gas and cringe is solid, what's liquid?

dvoraqs@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y

Probably crime

socsa@piefed.social · 3 pts · 1y

Waking up before noon

scbasteve7@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

Being an asshole.

M137@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

This implies that the result will also be cringe.

danc4498@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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