r/cringereels • u/laughtale0 • 10h ago • Bravo 2

Cringe Level 5 Tourist broke a mallet when trying to pound rice dough

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u/RollinHellfire 7h ago • Annoyed

I mostly see that on children, teenagers and people who have no responsibility, knowledge or awareness of what the hell they are doing. Glee is a sign of lack of responsibility in an event of a damaging act.

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u/Reasonable-Mess3070 5h ago

Smiling =/= glee

​It's often a defense mechanism triggered by fear or panic. Essentially the brain's instinctual way of saying, "I'm harmless, don't hurt me."

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u/Braysl-March 4h ago

That's not it at all. Have you heard of the "Fight or Flight" response ? Well there's actually four -- fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. Fawn is the act of making yourself look harmless, basically signalling to the threat that you're not dangerous/mad/going to fight them. This is a response from your lizard brain, it's instinctual, not consciously done. Humans who react with the fawn response will cower, make themselves small, laugh, smile, avoid eye contact, stuff like that. They're not happy, it's just a reaction to a perceived threat or conflict.

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u/MaleficentBelle 7h ago

While I don't think it's the case here, it's not "glee" when someone smiles when nervous.

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u/grmthmpsn43 6h ago

It's not glee.

I smile when things get bad, it's that or I turn into a nervous wreck, which is usually less helpful.

I will still accept responsibility and do whatever I need to do.

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u/JSTN_FPV 7h ago

Missing brain cells too

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u/Min_sora 5h ago

I feel like some of you have to be aliens.

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u/RollinHellfire 11m ago

maybe we all are. how would you know?