When the meter starts going off it begins with a feeling like I need to wash my hands, maybe a shower (not a cold one), then I feel the need to wash my sheets, perhaps set off a bug bomb. With each passing lie, my Cringe-O-Meter edges past 50%, heading quickly up to 75%, then maybe steam starts coming out the backside closer to 100% - sparks out of the electrical outlet. I'm holding my stomach wondering why oh why do people have to lie like this so publicly involving their spouse and families, their young kids (in some cases or maybe their young kids from several wives or husbands)? What is the lesson that needs to be learned at age 30-something that we couldn't have gotten out of the way at let's say, age 10? With the lies about a mystery hack and a refusal to state whether the body part in the photo was his or not, Congressman Weiner just could not back off of his made (maid??)-up story. (I'll bet he felt about 10 years old!) I'll be the first person to claims my own cringiness. If I took a photo of one of my body parts, I'd recognize it. Especially if I took photos of my creepy toes. There'd be no mistaking those toes.
When you're creating a big ole fat cringe-athon, my advice is to fess-up early, say you're sorry and take your lumps or it's gonna come back to haunt. This string of reaction to your action never seems to fail. Don't keep digging a hole with lies because you'll get tangled in that web and end up looking like a lying schmuck. People won't trust you any longer. Trust is a big deal.
If you're a public figure and I'm watching you on MSNBC or Rachel Maddow or gawd forbid CNN or worse, and you are lying to your spouse about the affairs with the janitor, your toe-tapping behavior in airport bathrooms, your 276 sets of twins you've had that you didn't pay child support for, the public is going to find out because otherwise a lot of reporters would be out of jobs. Please stop lying. Please if possible, stop cheating & stealing. Stop being a schmuck. That way I don't have to deal with my own feelings of schmuckdom that your actions caused to stir up inside of me.
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This whole episode has been cringe-worthy, and I now know a who lot more about this man than I ever needed to. *shudder*
Gee, I think I'm glad I'm Canadian right now - I've missed this whole shmuck-show.
On the other hand, some of the stunts Canadian politicians have pulled lately are pretty cringe-worthy, too.
(wv - cheatfl..... full of cheating?)
Schmuck doesn't even cover it. What a weiner. I'm so glad he was grilled by the media. And thanks to that same medial he will get to cringe over and over again for years to come.
It's sad to say but I've lost my sense of surprise when this stuff hits the air. When it came out about Tiger and everyone was aghast I think all I did was raise one eyebrow, lol. And Spitzer, Arnold, Weiner....they're all the same. They're all human with serious flaws and creepiness working in the wrong positions to be exercising such creepiness. Weiner didn't even get a raised eyebrow from me...I think I gave him an eyeroll instead, lol.
Very creative perspective on an age old problem, Janell. In some ways it reminds me of construction workers yelling at passing women. Does that stuff ever work? I mean when the kid asks, "Mom, how did you meet dad?" I doubt "he sent me a naked picture of himself on the Internet" will be a popular answer!
I SO agree. When things like this happen I want to run and hide from the shame of it! But no doubt he will go/is in rehab for sex addiction and will emerge truly newly reborn... until next time. Why do men (it does seem to happen more often to men than to women) think they can get away with it!!!!
PS the word verification is "harim" LOL!
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