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How to reveal your ‘Oh F***’ moment in public

Do it with poetry and wit… at the ABSOLUT Fringe 2012 festival. (We’ll tell you ours if you tell us yours…)

The 'renovation' (right) of the Ecce Homo fresco in Spain was presumably one of those awkward moments...
The 'renovation' (right) of the Ecce Homo fresco in Spain was presumably one of those awkward moments...
Image: AP Photo/Centro de estudios Borjanos

SORRY FOR THE asterisks but we didn’t want to shock you off your supper.

If it’s okay with you – tender souls, look away now – we’ll give a show in the ABSOLUT Fringe festival its full title: The Oh Fuck Moment. The show won the Edinburgh Fringe First award last year for its candid examination of those moments in life where you know something has gone very, very wrong.

It is now coming to ABSOLUT Fringe in Dublin – playing at Filmbase in Temple Bar from Sunday, 16 September to Saturday, 22 September. Writers Hannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe bare their most cringeworthy moments through a mix of poetry and conversation (which, according to this Guardian review of the show at Edinburgh, encourages the audience to do likewise).

Walker and Thorpe reckon you should see the show “if you’ve every stood on a rake. Or accidentally made party cocktails with bleach. Or locked yourself in a shed… Or put your tongue in the wrong person’s mouth. Or put your tongue in what you thought was the right person’s mouth and it turned out to be the wrong person’s mouth”.

We’re sure you could add your own worst moments to that list (I know we can – they often seem to involve sending a text to the person the text is about).

We’d love to hear yours… leave in the comments section – if you dare.

See what else is going on at ABSOLUT Fringe at fringefest.com They have a handy free iPhone app available to download here.

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Comments (32 Comments)

  • I once sent a card to a friend who had a bereavement , and one to another who had a baby…….you can guess the rest,……it’s an awful feeling.

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  • German friend of my brother was over to visit. We were in the kitchen, she was trying to light the gas hob using matches which just wouldn’t light. All the while, the gas was on. Me ” Are you trying to gas us all or what?” Yeah, awkward doesn’t really begin to describe it.

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  • School sports day. Bully lost his shorts. Stole mine. Went home on co-ed school bus in underpants….. Later, bully’s Mum pulled him by the ear to our house, in his underpants, my shorts in his guilty paw. Justice, Ha!

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  • Chatting to a couple in a pub, ask him did him did he bring his mother out for a drink often, told me she was his wife

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  • Congratulated a girl at work for wing pregnant except she wasn’t. Oops.

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  • Getting caught by a parent mid-servicing yourself (in the comfort of your own bed)… Cringeworthy teenage moments in general!

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  • Sending a text message or email giving out about your boss……….. And accidentally sending it to said boss :facepalm:

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  • Once when I was young, I worked as a petrol attendance & I put a petrol into a diesel car & the car stopped in the middle of the road….I thought to myself oh sh*t. Luckily I wasn’t sacked thanks to this driver’s big heart.

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  • Talking to my boss while looking at my wife across the table and just as I hang up I say “Talk to you later, love you”! Morto! Had to follow-up with an apology text.

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  • Friend of mine made a comment in the pub to a relation of mine…”who’s the very large lady dressed in all leather good Jaysis” my relation “that’s my wife”

    wishing the ground would open and swallow him.

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  • dave 05/09/12 #

    Collecting a woman in hospital, show up with the wheel chair an ask the old dear how she is on her feet to move into the chair. Open mouthed nurse pulls back the covers to reveal a very recent amputation of the right foot. Gave the old dear a giggle though.

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  • Last week end I made a beautiful white sauce from poteen by accident , it was after all in a wine bottle…..still ate it…

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  • Telling the new mom in the bed next to me that I was so glad my baby didn’t have foxy hair as it was in the family. Next day curtains went back and mom, baby and her visiting kids were all bright orange haired

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  • Never proof read that last one, oh f@ck.

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  • Friend of mine with is back to the door in the open plan office, was singing into his pen for the benefit of the rest of the office, to then turn around and find the MD and most of the board of Directors standing behind him… Oh F***

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  • curiosity kill the cat: Early in the morning, the office is empty. I decide to give a try on one of the giratory armchairs in the video conference room. after my third spin I notice a lunch of Chinese executives staring at me from a 60 inches screen on the wall.

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  • Met a friend of my wife in a local shopping centre. Knowing she recently had had a baby, and seeing the mite in the buggy, said ” congratulations, isn’t he a fine lump of a chap “, what did you call him “, she turns to her mother and then turns to me and says, ” eh, Molly “! F@@@@@k. That was bad enough, shouldn’t have told my wife what happened, ” you never listen to me, I told you she had a girl, nag nag nag blah blah”, well, that’s what I heard!!!!

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  • Asking a female work colleague where she got her wash, cut and blow job…

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  • wrong spelling BUNCH..Not LUNCH….

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  • telling my friend if his sister was my sister i wouldnt let her near her boyfriend

    said sister and boyfriend right behind me

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  • *made* ( stupid false nails again) lol

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  • Sending a raunchy text to my new boyfriend, but stupid false nails mad me press the wrong name. Went to my ex boyfriends father!!!!
    Ohhhhh f@@k :)

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  • A friend of mine was installing software in the server room of a major Irish bank. He’s on the phone, leans against something, swiftly followed by the sound of servers all round him powering down. Trading floor was out for a couple of hours. We had to go for a stiff drink

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  • Sham 05/09/12 #

    My oh f**k moment has to be when I decided to offer a blanket guarantee over the whole Irish banking system. OOPS.

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    • Sam 05/09/12 #

      F**k sake give it a break!

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    • Jonno 06/09/12 #

      anyway…

      Its about 12:00 at night, I’m really tired, so I just go straight to bed not locking any of my doors or putting on my security alarm. I wake up to hear a huge crash in the kitchen, like a falling plate or something. I get out of bed and lock my door because im sure theres robbers in the house. I look through the small crack under my door and my houses lights are all on. Then I hear tons of footsteps, and small whispers of 3-4 people in the other room. I go to call 911 on my cell, its DEAD. But then I remember about my home phone that I have set up on my computer desk, I pick up that, dial 911, hit call, and I just hear a ringing sound. They had cut my phone lines. At this point, im freaking out. I hide under my bed like the scardy cat I am, practically on the verge of craping my pants. Then i hear a twist on my door handle. Oh boy was I freaking scared. The door handle stopped twisting, and I hear a guy yell “HE’S IN HERE!” I went into panic mode. I think about all the wonderful times I’ve had in life. I think about my friends, my family, my gf. Tears start running down my cheek as I hear footsteps appraoching my door. I here the same man tell the others “Lets kick it down”. Large thuds of a kick continually crack my door. I sit there, under my bed, practically accepting death. Then it hits me: All my life, I’ve just been that pushover kinda guy. I was never some outstanding student, an amazing athlete, or the life of my friends. I’ve always just been “that guy” Well not this time, I think to myself. If I’m going down, im going to give these robbers hell. I squeeze myself out from under my bed, and start searching frantically for some type of weapon. Suddenly, I hear this huge crack on my door. The door is practically off the hinges, I knew that they had about 1-3 good kicks until that door was about to bust off the hinges. Im sifting through all this useless stuff in my drawers and on my floor, when there I see it. A freakin BASEBALL BAT that I had randomly laying on my floor under tons of dirty clothes. I picked up the bat, and gave it a swing in the air. I decide that Im going to get the upper hand and burst through my door, and swing for my life. with a baseball bat gripped in my hand, I open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur.

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    • Sorry coco, I liked ur story but ur to green thumbs were both me, on phone and laptop

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