It's kind of like Peep Show, where the writers tried to engineer the most awkward social situations, only without the jokes.

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chrisweekly 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Tangent: if you like cringey social awkwardness comedy (not my usual cup of tea, but in this case it's extraordinary, and hilarious), try "I Think You Should Leave".

"Brian's Hat" is the 1st one I saw and maybe the best: https://youtu.be/LO2k-BNySLI?si=qEX7STkSOeCVZtK-

Also "Hot Dog Car" https://youtu.be/WLfAf8oHrMo?si=jz5EKwjJZm1UMZau

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pixelpoet 2 days ago | parent [-]

Nathan for You is almost physically painful to watch, the cringe is so intense I can only take a few seconds at a time.

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ojbyrne 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Canadians do it best. https://youtu.be/tXgfzxXUVsc?si=vBXu20TewUldSBJB

	▲	ChoGGi 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		That he certainly is good at, but I loved his interview with Fabio, also that Monica Lewinsky one.

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twoodfin 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Nathan Fielder is a genius.

The Rehearsal is less in-the-moment cringe and more soul-soaking cringe. Amazing stuff.

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trevithick 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Also a tangent, but Microsoft was the OG for corporate cringe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ

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roryirvine 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It goes back waaay further than that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLuC4yZk7us

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monocasa 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Everyone forgets about this cringe from Microsoft, but it is oddly endearing to me too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zww2ivWdLas

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fzzzy 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Developers developers developers developers!

	▲	all2 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		One of the best mashups on youtube came from this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE Enjoy. :)

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dreamcompiler 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Oh my god.

How strong does a company's reality distortion field have to be for people to think your friends are going to want to come over to play with a new version of Windows?

I mean, why not "Let's all have wine and cheese and do root canals on each other!"?

	▲	Ancapistani a day ago \| parent [-]
		It was a different time. I honestly was excited about Windows 95. Win98 was underwhelming, and WinME was a joke that I never bothered to install on my own machines. Win2K brought back some of the excitement, but not much. Then Vista came out, and it was a total flop at first. Win7 fixed most of those mistakes, but the damage was done. Vista basically killed any chance Microsoft had at building excitement for an OS. FWIW, I think the last macOS version that I was really looking forward to was High Sierra.