Welcome to the Embarrassing Moments Forum. Here you can share your own most embarrassing true stories.

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POSTING GUIDELINES:

1. Quality over quantity - Feel free to comment under someone else’s embarrassing story, but please don’t post a bazillion pointless comments, full of one syllable replies or just a bunch of smileys. Occasional smiley comments are ok, but no more “Smiley Wars” please, with page after page of repeating smileys. Before you write a comment, think about it for a minute, and ask yourself: If someone else wrote this, would I find it interesting or annoying? It’s no fun to have to wade through hundreds of dumb comments to find one or two interesting ones. I think Most Embarrassing Moments will be a lot more interesting, and more fun for all of us, if the stories and comments here are actually worth reading.

2. Stay on topic - It gets annoying when every comment section turns into the same pointless chit chatty mush. Although conversations may occasionally stray, please try to avoid jumping all over the place in a comment thread. Try to stay on topic. If you want to talk about something else, create a new story in the Chit Chat section.

3. Don’t create duplicate stories - Please don’t create a dozen story pages about the same thing. Before you write a new story, please take a minute and see if someone else hasn’t already written a story about this topic. Then you can simply add a comment about that topic under the original story. Keeping all related comments in one topic makes it easier to find and read for people who are interested in that topic.

4. Treat others with respect - Don’t be a jerk, troll, or bully. We’re trying to make MEM a fun place to visit. A site we can all enjoy, so don’t come here and shit all over the carpet. It’s not very enjoyable to have to deal with bullies who attack newbies for posting in an old story thread. To a newbie even an old story is still new, because it’s the first time the newbie sees it. So give newbies a break, and give them a chance to get used to the site. Treat others the way you would like to be treated. Don’t be a troll and try to instigate trouble. As much as some people enjoy provoking people into arguments, most people don’t like having to read page after page of childish bickering. If you want to get into a personal fight with someone, take it to private email. Don’t annoy the rest of the people on the site with it.

5. Parental discretion is advised - This site contains mature subject matter. Don’t complain about how “offended” you are by this or that story or comment. Embarrassing mishaps often include sexual situations, nudity, or certain body functions that can be gross and disgusting. If you can’t handle that, this probably isn’t the right site for you.

6. Don’t post porn - Although this blog contains mature subject matter, it is NOT a porn blog, so please don’t post porn. It’s not cute and it’s not cool. We all know how to use Google and find porn on our own. We don’t need you to post it here. There are plenty of other sites on the web for that.

7. Don’t post made-up bullshit - This forum is dedicated to embarrassing true stories. Emphasis on TRUE. So please don’t post made up nonsense or your sexual fantasies about having sex with your mom while your sister is watching. Nobody will believe your made up story anyway, so don’t waste your time, or ours. As I said above in Rule 2, it’s no fun having to read through hundreds of garbage stories to find a real embarrassing mishap.

5. Post in the right category - If you would like to post an embarrassing true story that happened to you, please choose the most appropriate category. If it happened in school or college, post it in the School section. If it happened at work, post it in the Work section, and so on. If your story fits into more than one category (if you got caught having sex at work for example) you may select up to 2 fitting categories.

6. Don’t post off-topic stories in the embarrassing moments categories - If you write a new story, it must be an embarrassing true story. The following comments and discussion can go in many different directions, so comments to embrassing stories can be off-topic at times, but the first post in a thread must be an embarrassing true story.

7. Keep the chit-chat in the Chit Chat section - The Chit Chat section is the area where you can write any and all off-topic posts. You can start a topic here about anything you like… yourself, your hobbies, politics, the weather, music, TV, movies, whatever… but please make sure there isn’t already a similar thread - see Rule 3.

8. No spam. No advertising. Please don’t post links to other blogs or forums, and don’t put your own site’s link in your message footer. We all know that it’s difficult to spread the word about your own site, and we all love to get some free publicity by posting your own link on other people’s forums, but it’s getting out of hand. We spend a lot of time and money to make this blog successful and a fun place to hang out. If you’re only here to lure people away from here to your own site, you’re not welcome. You can add the URL to your own site in your profile (the WWW button) but don’t start topics like “Come to my forum” and don’t send members of this blog messages inviting them to your site, etc.

9. Complaints - To report a post that violates one of these rules, or if you have any other questions, complaints, or suggestions, please send a private message to either Stan, Divides, Wake Rider, Debbie or Oliver. Thanks!

There you have it… The 9 golden rules. Now behave yourselves.

Addendum:

THE HITCHHIKERS’ GUIDE TO NEWBIES

If someone wrote a story about farting in church, and the same thing happened to you, it’s a good idea to write a comment below his or her story, like: “That same thing happened to me, too! I went to church, sat in the back and…”

One of the problems with embarrassing stories is that there are only so many things that can happen to you that are embarrassing, so if you hang around this site for a while, you’ll start to see similar stories show up again and again. These things seem to happen most often: Getting caught making out, get caught farting, making a mess while menstruating, and accidentally flashing someone.

Newbies obviously haven’t read all the old stories yet, otherwise they wouldn’t be newbies. So if a newbie posts a story about farting in church, older MEM members shouldn’t jump down his/her throat and make him/her feel bad for posting a story that other members may not find all that embarrassing anymore after having read a dozen similar stories in the past.

What veteran MEM users need to remember is that the story is no less embarrassing to the newbie it happened to, just because veteran users have heard a similar story before.

This bullying of newbies gives them the feeling they’re not welcome. That’s not good. Newbies should feel welcome, because the more people we have here, the more new friends you’ll meet, and the more fun we’ll all have together.

I’ve noticed this bullying of newbies for a while. I don’t think the veteran MEM members are intentionally mean, but I think sometimes they get a bit carried away with the way they gang up and bully new members.

It doesn’t make the site very inviting for new users, if they have to be afraid they’ll get attacked by a mob of veteran users if they say the wrong thing.

I think we should cut new users some slack and make them feel welcome. If they have an embarrassing moment to share, they should feel comfortable to post it here. If they feel it’s a brand new story, they can start a new topic, without fear of being attacked. Or if they read an old story and add a comment like “that was funny” or “that happened to me, too” - that’s ok, too.

The 2 two things that annoy me the most are complete bullshit stories like “My teacher asked to have sex with me, and my dad walked in, and then we had a threesome while my sister made out with my mom.” You know, that sort of deranged sexual fantasy. Those people need psychiatric help, not a website where they can live out their sick fantasies.

Anyway, please never be afraid to post anything, as long as you follow the rules. This place is here for all of us, because everyone of us has had an embarrassing mishap or two and it’s fun to talk about them. I’ve found that the only way for me to get over some of the embarrassing things that happened to me, was to talk about it, and be able to laugh about it with other people, instead of trying to keep the mishap a secret, for fear others would make fun of me.

That’s the whole point of an “embarrassing” mishap. It’s humiliating. It makes you the butt of the joke. It can be hard to talk about, so the last thing we need is to make people who share their embarrassing moments feel unwelcome.