Which is more embarrassing?

Situation 1: Admitting to somebody you haven't met before, that you are an 'anarchist'.

Situation 2: Getting caught wanking by your mum.

Which is more embarrasing? which would you prefer?

i voted the 'get caught wanking' option, coz at least wanking is fun.

Lol!

It's a toughie for sure...

But your poll question is this: Which is more embarrassing?

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getting busted wanking would be pretty bad...

I told my housemate I was into anarchism and all that the other day. He seemed to respect it.. But yeah it does sound embarassing.

get caught wanking is embarrassing, but at least the wanking part is fun. calling yourself an anarchist is embarrassing, but where is the fun part?

It's not so much the embarrassment as people never being able to take your politics seriously and reminding you jokingly that you need to leave the molotov at home before coming out somewhere with them.

You tell total strangers you're an anarchist??

Yeah but that makes the wanking mum one better - not more embarrassing, no?

There's nothing as bad a catching your mum wanking. Nothing.

yeah i fucked up my vote didnt i? oh well

saii, you know how it is, you are talking to somebody you dont know, it gets on to politics, and after awhile they seem a bit interested by what you are talking about, so they ask "what do you call that?" or "what are your politics?"

the correct answer would be anarcho-communist, but what kind of image does that conjure up in someones mind, 'its like the ussr, but with added chaos'

thats why i am never gonna use the word anarchist again if i can help it.

I told my workmates I'm an anarchosyndicalist. Don't sound too bad...

You could always just take the easy way out and say you're into libertarian socialism.

haha, i like that, "the easy way out", ie not wanting to sound like a complete nutter, yeah i am a complete sell out. 8)

semtex or stfu!! lol

I tell people I'm an anarchist, but only if I'm directly asked or if it comes up. I think it sounds OK. There is a growing awareness that it don't just mean "chaos". To explain quickly it I just say something like "it's basically socialism without government".

I would talk to someone a lot about my politics, and -- more importantly -- listen to them talk about theirs, before I threw the -word into the conversation.

This said, the last person who asked me flat out what my politics were was a work colleague I don't know all that well, who clocked my badge. And, yes, it was kind of embarassing.

Most of my "political" conversations are either with work colleagues, where I don't label my politics to start with, just talk about workplace issues, the value of sticking together, not needing to go through "official channels" to get what you want, or with post-grad students, 'cause my partner's doing a PhD. I think I persuaded a guy the other night in the pub to check out enrager, so best behaviour, now........

Except when they start quoting Monty Python at you. Bloody peasant!

If it comes up in a conversation, I'll happily say that I'm an anarchist. However, if I am in especially ignorant company, I'll call myself a libertarian instead, knowing that half the group will be thinking that I like sorting books and the other half won't have a clue what it means and so will just nod and say "ah". After a few pints no-one cares anyway.

I like Glasgow. I just tell people I'm a socialist who wants direct democracy. Admittedly you then have to explain that no you're not in a party and if they're a community type activist then persuade them that you're not planning to take their organisation over as a recruitment front, but you do get respect for saying you're a socialist.